Oniisama graduated from high school and entered university, while I entered Year 6.155Please respect copyright.PENANAaZixz21yOP
Once I considered that I wouldn’t see Oniisama in uniform anymore, I felt a little lonely, so I took a few photos of him.155Please respect copyright.PENANABVv2TRYQmL
The Zui’ran high school uniform really is so cool!155Please respect copyright.PENANAEfcFQKQKAE
I asked him to wear it occasionally at home, but he refused…155Please respect copyright.PENANAolmIe49Dbr
Isn’t it fine if it’s just in the house~?155Please respect copyright.PENANAgzIwQc5FkX
Yurie-sama and Aira-sama also graduated from middle school and entered the high school section, and Emperor Kaburagi got depressed that he was stuck in primary and the gap was even wider now.155Please respect copyright.PENANArt6zoe4btd
I mean, a love between a primary schooler and high schooler is just impossible, right~?155Please respect copyright.PENANAfDE6Y749XG
I think he should just give up already, but this first love of his is supposed to continue until high school, so I guess there’s no reason he’ll give up now.155Please respect copyright.PENANAuOPx4h61Qt
According to Aira-sama Intelligence, Kaburagi isn’t stalking Yurie-sama, but because they don’t get to meet often, he’s expressing his feelings by letter. It worked last time, so it looks like he’s encouraged because of it.155Please respect copyright.PENANAQt5raFCliN
Since I also became a 6th Grader, next year I’ll be riding the escalator system into middle school. Having said that though, I’m preparing for our internal examinations, so I ended up getting a home tutor.155Please respect copyright.PENANAZVqsNAMaL3
My home teacher is Ousaka Karin-sensei and she goes to a national university.155Please respect copyright.PENANAkhLdNFlZ5r
She comes over twice a week.155Please respect copyright.PENANAtmy6bQw1jh
In my cram school exams, I rose in the rankings from upper-middle to lower-upper. I thought I made a good effort amongst all these kids from prep schools, but I really do wonder how I’m supposed to feel when I can’t even get first place amongst primary schoolers.155Please respect copyright.PENANA759bvSSR22
Once I enter middle school, maths and arithmetic are going to turn into a monster. I need to try hard while I still can.
Karin-sensei’s explanations are easy to understand and I make progress studying with her. Even if I don’t get it the first time when I see it at cram school, it really helps that I can have her follow up.155Please respect copyright.PENANACkLcgPgmVQ
For a while now, sometimes Oniisama teaches me as well, but the feeling of tension is different. I just keep spoiling myself with him since he’s family.
“You learn quickly, don’t you, Reika-san. Really, well done for getting this far.”155Please respect copyright.PENANAqG6LXiynzl
Karin-sensei often says stuff like that to praise me.155Please respect copyright.PENANAHHG10s58Pf
Apparently she’s the type who praises people to get them to try harder.155Please respect copyright.PENANA3JpFboStoG
And I’m the type that gets fired up when I’m praised or flattered, so we have pretty good compatibility, I think.155Please respect copyright.PENANADPPf2jesG7
Ever since that day in winter, I’ve been sitting with Akizawa-kun and Fukioka-san in my Maths and Japanese cram classes.155Please respect copyright.PENANApLICWaO6tZ
Fukioka-san sits right in the middle, with Akizawa-kun and I to her sides. Fukioka-san wouldn’t let Akizawa-kun sit in the middle, you see.155Please respect copyright.PENANAht6BpwhERu
I also exchanged mail addresses with Fukioka-san, and we’ve gotten quite a bit closer.
Contrary to her appearance as a Japanese-style beauty, Fukioka-san has quite the venomous tongue.
On Valentines Day that year, I gave my hand-made chocolates to Aoi-chan and Fukioka-san.155Please respect copyright.PENANAdaYRgZZ9Lz
At Zui’ran we expect that Valentines chocolates are better quality than even high-class stores, so it’s my first time giving hand-made chocolates to anybody but my family.155Please respect copyright.PENANAV67Xxw38QG
Last year Aira-sama taught me how to make them, and Otousama even said “This is the best one you’ve made so far.”, but this year Aira-sama was also busy with exam prep, so I tried using the recipe that she taught me last year to make it.155Please respect copyright.PENANA0YGarYr3A0
Oniisama also said “Making one like last year would taste good.”155Please respect copyright.PENANAXlIDgpo0Pv
So I handed them over to them filled with confidence.
Aoi-chan told me “It was yummy.” but Fukioka-san said “It’s not very good.”…155Please respect copyright.PENANAdIod7T8xKK
“It’s not bad, but the taste is kind of lacking. Did you use cheap chocolate to make this?” she said. So rude! I used chocolate from Belgium!155Please respect copyright.PENANA5ZQo02C432
When I told her that in complaint, she ended up replying “Apologise to Belgium”…155Please respect copyright.PENANA9vMExkwU3J
Fukioka-san, the gap between your appearance and inside is too huge…
Incidentally, I didn’t give one to Akizawa-kun. Whether it’s a friendship chocolate or a courtesy chocolate, Fukioka-san would probably get mad regardless.155Please respect copyright.PENANAnM2QF9ethK
In my mind, Fukioka-san is under the ‘cannot make into an enemy’ category.155Please respect copyright.PENANADcXPkwELPH
Apparently she’s learning to cook to prepare for her future as Akizawa-kun’s wife.155Please respect copyright.PENANATosKiZA3ei
How amazing. She’s got a much better idea of her future than I do. She’s actually planned so much that it’s even a little scary.155Please respect copyright.PENANADFRBuB2Mm1
And you know, Akizawa-kun, it’s impossible for you to escape now. I’m scared of Fukioka-san too, so I’m afraid I can’t help you. Forgive your cowardly friend!
And so, Fukioka-san asked me, “What if you learnt as well?” but I’ll probably be busy with the internal exams this year, so I turned her invitation down.155Please respect copyright.PENANAPQNnk6RTpR
When I got home, I told Oniisama “My friend told me the taste was lacking.” and he replied “The person’s feelings are more important than the taste in situations like this.” and I wasn’t sure how to feel about that.155Please respect copyright.PENANAI9NsmBGZYK
When I get into middle school, maybe I really should start learning…155Please respect copyright.PENANALFsMPP1xnV
Right now, Aoi-chan is my Soothing Friend.155Please respect copyright.PENANAfGC00sRGDW
She’s docile and seems withdrawn, but once you’re closer with her, she starts laughing a lot.155Please respect copyright.PENANAd8uJeC7iSh
She would definitely never say something like “the taste is lacking”. What a good girl.155Please respect copyright.PENANAnPo1rN68s2
And what’s more, shockingly! Aoi-chan told me that she went to visit her grandpa on New Years! She got me a Tarow the Taro plush keychain! I’m so happy!155Please respect copyright.PENANALG3iqMGHF3
When I got home, I immediately put house keys on it. There’s always a maid around and somebody chauffeurs me places and back, so to begin with I’ve never used a key before. But I do carry one around just in case.155Please respect copyright.PENANAwANYKjWyLS
And my keys were now hanging from Tarow. His pathetic face is really cute.
Aoi-chan has amazing sense for souvenirs. She totally knew what I wanted.155Please respect copyright.PENANA239FWMimbF
And shocking! For the holidays in spring, she got me region-exclusive potato chips!155Please respect copyright.PENANAtAjEFi7dBV
Aoi-chan said stuff like “Although I’m not sure if you would even eat this sort of stuff…” in embarrassment, but I’ll eat it, you know! Or rather, it’s my favourite! I’ve wanted to eat potato chips for six years now, you know!155Please respect copyright.PENANAxsE4hoFz2d
The potato chips were in a souvenir bag, and I carefully snuck it into my room so that Okaasama wouldn’t see. It was late at night when I sneakily ate it.155Please respect copyright.PENANAEfY4xEtwmY
So nostalgic. My body trembled from the cheap taste.155Please respect copyright.PENANAy87GHNNXId
It would be a shame to eat it all in one go, so I decided to treasure it and eat it little by little, but the next day I cried when I found it soggy.
Incidentally, I call Aoi-chan ‘Aoi-chan’ in my mind, but in front of the girl herself it’s “Yorino-san”.155Please respect copyright.PENANAYJvWpcE7xQ
I don’t have the courage to use her first name. I mean, I’d hate it if she went “Eh-? What’s with that all of a sudden?”.155Please respect copyright.PENANASqUX5DC1nD
It’s hard to find a chance to start things like this, isn’t it?155Please respect copyright.PENANA9Gp478ESfb
My homeroom teacher wanted me to be class rep. It sounded troublesome so I said that I sucked at management and refused, but they pressed me and said that vice rep was fine, and in the end I became vice rep… or rather I got stuck with it.155Please respect copyright.PENANAUKdcFACqOi
That was probably the plan from the beginning. After all, the position of class rep went to this boy who had done it a bunch of times already.155Please respect copyright.PENANAVk93YoNk4z
Teacher swindled me using that ‘ask big first, then go for small’ trick.155Please respect copyright.PENANAglAV8GPmGE
I got totally fooled. In the end, I was stuck as the odd job girl again.155Please respect copyright.PENANAHCUebiDqtr
Though it’s true that my thimbles still lie sleeping in my pencilcase though.
But this time it’s just within my class, so without my natural enemies here, things went smoothly.155Please respect copyright.PENANAVTIZTnt0Hz
Collecting forms was easy too, since the scary army of girls behind me made everybody cooperative.155Please respect copyright.PENANAsxAdblWu0v
Class Rep even said, “As expected of Kisshouin-san”. I don’t think he was praising me though.155Please respect copyright.PENANA42OclyZGvM
It was like I was the bodyguard of some debt collector.155Please respect copyright.PENANAQAl9VKzD8w
This is weird. This isn’t how things were supposed to be. I get the feeling that recently I’ve been losing my elegance.