It’s autumn again, and the athletics meet came around once more.
Now that we’re the seniors in primary school, it’s become our turn to act as the executive committee.107Please respect copyright.PENANARS8s8BnaaY
And for some reason I was nominated as the female executive from our class.107Please respect copyright.PENANAno3G3U1dps
I’m not particularly good at sports, and my planning ability and dynamism isn’t anything to write home about either, so why me? Or so I was wondering at first, but apparently the teacher secretly decided that it would be better to have somebody with enough authority to handle the underclassmen smoothly.
Honestly speaking, it’s a damn hassle…107Please respect copyright.PENANAIQq8Op6pOB
We’re still primary schoolers so it’s not like the executive committee actually does anything important.107Please respect copyright.PENANAvsDs0rc573
Just stuff like collecting the participation lists from each class, or doing odd jobs for the teachers, or well, small stuff like that.107Please respect copyright.PENANA6bytzIhJxz
And also, on the day of the athletics carnival, we’re supposed to stand in our tent and make sure everything comes along.107Please respect copyright.PENANAHxBuS2z7Kj
The executives from 5th and 6th grades gathered before the real preparations for the athletics carnival, and we introduced ourselves.107Please respect copyright.PENANAUF85S0sYel
Amongst these people, I spotted Enjou Shuusuke.107Please respect copyright.PENANAE0a3EsQsCT
The girls here were all excited about it. Apparently they hadn’t expected that Enjou would be an executive committee member. I didn’t either.107Please respect copyright.PENANAzWx6ROmAMj
I looked at everybody else too, but concluded that Enjou was probably chosen for the same reason as me.107Please respect copyright.PENANALVp1bbwB3Y
The two of us are the only Pivoine members.107Please respect copyright.PENANARMMNbZqBwP
But unlike me, I would have thought that Enjou would have been able to refuse.107Please respect copyright.PENANAmpHaumRWp7
Maybe he’s a surprisingly cooperative guy.107Please respect copyright.PENANA3xlLXuzWJw
Speaking of which, in Kimidol, Enjou was like the mediator between Emperor and everybody else, wasn’t he.
After the introductions and the explanation of our duties, we were about to begin our work when a problem occurred.107Please respect copyright.PENANAwEzjZ2wO3v
The girls were swarming about Enjou and didn’t look like they were going to do anything.107Please respect copyright.PENANAHFF6Rz5Yrn
Enjou himself was doing stuff like printing out the printouts or organising the numbers, and properly doing what he was supposed to, but the girls around him were just talking to him and not working at all.107Please respect copyright.PENANAwoMVg1l58V
Even when the boys in the committee gave them a warning, they would declare “I’m helping Enjou-sama!” and far from doing work, would actually look down on the boys by saying “Are you sure you aren’t just jealous because you boys aren’t popular~?” and so the boys couldn’t say anything more.107Please respect copyright.PENANACiXeBISWfG
Enjou warned them as well, and they did start to work, but the moment they left his side, their hands would completely stop.107Please respect copyright.PENANACAIooSbzNa
This was a total mistake in personnel selection…
While all this was happening, I was quietly sitting away from the trouble and folding the programmes.107Please respect copyright.PENANASibguEVnkL
Thanks to the Enjou Harem, I’m missing a lot of help and it’s terrible.107Please respect copyright.PENANAMJIjkcOs0W
These programmes were ordered from elsewhere, but for some reason the task of folding them in two was left to the executive committee.107Please respect copyright.PENANA35mJBxMvdl
If you’re going to order them from some shop, can’t you just have them finish the job? I don’t really get it.107Please respect copyright.PENANAE38BLi3iEB
The paper was stealing the moisture from my hands, and I had trouble picking up one at a time.107Please respect copyright.PENANAkLVAyjwCkv
This is hard… It’d be great if there was a thimble but…107Please respect copyright.PENANASrfvoRPiVE
Looking around, I couldn’t find one, but I did find a rubber band instead.107Please respect copyright.PENANAw3RNCVUhwG
I wrapped it around my thumb.107Please respect copyright.PENANAiGwSVNtsom
Then I tried picking up a page.107Please respect copyright.PENANAGa15PERYXk
Oooh! It’s easier!107Please respect copyright.PENANAwyGPjP1cPA
Here we go, here we go.107Please respect copyright.PENANAicdEHssRh7
Take and fold, take and fold. Like a machine, I continued to repeat this. Like I was possessed by a mother working a side-job from home, I worked single-mindedly.107Please respect copyright.PENANA5pmhxyPxzm
Boys walking past exclaimed “Eh-, rubber band!?” beneath their breaths, but I won’t pay any mind. Like a worn-out housewife, I prioritised efficiency.
The happy voices of the harem were audible from where I was. Work, damn you.107Please respect copyright.PENANA3TeNQ7a4OJ
Even after that, the girls of the committee continued to orbit Enjou, and basically did no work at all.107Please respect copyright.PENANANaCy7R6cBA
Apparently the boys in the committee had long given up on trying to make them.107Please respect copyright.PENANAviCElWMlAo
And as time went on, more and more odd jobs got pushed my way.107Please respect copyright.PENANATkDJydli66
From the next day onwards, I provided thimbles. I was also equipped with odourless muscle ointment for sore shoulders.107Please respect copyright.PENANAGiSkdq6RkO
I’m completely used to clerical work now.107Please respect copyright.PENANAPtZT8wbdFa
Using the copy machine has become my specialty. I’m good with shrinking, magnifying, and double-sided copying too.107Please respect copyright.PENANA0ylF643cSl
The Year 6 boys all praised me and said “As expected of Kisshouin-san” and pushed more odd jobs onto me.107Please respect copyright.PENANAffGkDpqr0A
Do you really think I’ll be fooled with such obvious flattery?107Please respect copyright.PENANAwTlsQzW6Cl
But I couldn’t refuse, so from copying to printing to stapling, just everything, everything, everything got pushed onto me.107Please respect copyright.PENANA4qXPRHHlwl
Hm? That’s weird.107Please respect copyright.PENANA9hU5Y2jPn9
I’m part of the elite Pivoine, and I’m supposed to be in the top caste amongst the girls, but before I knew it, I became the number one gopher.107Please respect copyright.PENANAOSeFn3u0m0
Could it be that Side-Job Reika has gotten too powerful due to her talent?107Please respect copyright.PENANAx9ENBgqS2M
I actually get the feeling that I’m doing every single job that was assigned to the Enjou Harem.
Dammmiiiitt! Work, you lot!
At one point, we realised that one of the underclassman classes had an overlap in their event selections, so I ended up heading there to warn them directly.107Please respect copyright.PENANAEr4KBFGlUM
It was for times like this that Enjou and I were meant to use our authority as Pivoine members, but if Enjou moved then his harem would move, and we didn’t need a whole damn court procession so I went by myself.
The Year 3 class in question was having a break, so the boys in particular wouldn’t listen to what I was saying.107Please respect copyright.PENANAW9YQdsZ7yP
Because of the stress from the committee lately, I was starting to really sulk in my heart.
‘You lot, do you know who I am!? I’m Kisshouin Reika-sama!! The one and only!!’ I screamed in my heart.
I didn’t have the courage to actually say it aloud.107Please respect copyright.PENANAF4NcE5Ezee
Dammmiittttt! Every last one of them is…!107Please respect copyright.PENANACev73i4QH6
Thankfully the girls properly listened to me, and tried to help me out, but a number of the boys just wouldn’t listen.107Please respect copyright.PENANAAxruejaTyp
Or rather, isn’t that kid the one that had the overlaps!? Listen, damn you!
“As I said, you cannot participate in both of these events. Choose one, and let other students have a go at the other.”
“Ehhhhhhhh, but then we’re not gunna win!”
Like I care, retard.
“At any rate, you cannot participate in both. This event will begin immediately after the other, and you will not make it in time.”
“Then I’ll run.”
“That is not the problem here.”
What’s with this idiot? Is he really a student at Zui’ran?107Please respect copyright.PENANAuiQdoE8m40
He brings to mind the boys from the public school in my old life.
“Hey, listen to what Reika-sama says!”
“Hah? Who?”
What did you say?107Please respect copyright.PENANAfUGP8s25Yg
Don’t think I won’t punish you!
Before long, the girls and boys ignored me and started arguing by themselves.107Please respect copyright.PENANAaWGBpf2UJl
Aah, it’s beyond my control now.
“Okay, enough.”
Enjou clapped his hands together as he entered the class.
“Katsuragi, could you perhaps cause a little less trouble for Kisshouin-san? Just hurry up and fix your event entries already.”
Apparently the naughty kid was acquainted with Enjou, and immediately turned obedient.107Please respect copyright.PENANAVNwCd0aQNC
Even the noisy class instantly began to behave, and the girls were entranced by Enjou’s show of leadership.107Please respect copyright.PENANAAWVTQXfing
Dammnnnn ittttt, is this the difference between a leader and a faker!?
With Enjou’s arrival, the problems were resolved in an instant, and the two of us returned to the committee room.
“Kisshouin-san, if you were going to go, you could have told me too.”
“It seemed busy around you, so I supposed that you were busy.”
I made sure to prick at him.
“Ahh, that huh? I’m troubled about it too. It looks like quite a bit’s been left to you. I’ll help out too.”
You’re going to come along with useless extras, so no thank you.
“I will be fine. Please do your own work, Enjou-sama.”
“I see.”
When we got back, the women of the harem swarmed around their lord.
“Enjou-sama, we wanted to go too.”
“We completed the work that you left us, Enjou-sama!”
I reported the corrections that the senpais made, and then gathering up the remaining documents, I headed to the staff room.
Aahh, I need soothing…107Please respect copyright.PENANAEE0IMpyUM6
“Don’t think I won’t punish you!”107Please respect copyright.PENANAYD99khgszA
Actually, “I’ll subject you to the sour plum (force feeding) punishment!”
“Take and fold, take and fold. Like a machine, I continued to repeat this. Like I was possessed by a mother working a side-job from home, I single-mindedly worked.”107Please respect copyright.PENANAXoI5SnddEs
In Japan, there are some side-jobs that you can do from home. Basically they send you like… well, it’s hard to explain, but it’s basically odd jobs like folding things, or sewing things, and you can work from home.
“and we don’t need a whole damn court procession so I went by myself.”107Please respect copyright.PENANATNk6hViBt9
Rather than ‘court procession’, the term used actually refers to members of the inner palace (i.e. harem) lining up in two columns on each side to greet their husband.
“Dammnnnn ittttt, is this the difference between a leader and a faker!?”107Please respect copyright.PENANAsvN0Asw9iE
Is this the difference between a real charismatic person, and a papier mache?