Term 2 is busy.86Please respect copyright.PENANAIxYZ6gMgWB
Right after the Athletics Carnival is the School Festival.86Please respect copyright.PENANAIhQXnNlnDi
As usual, I only participated in the events where I wouldn’t hold back my class.86Please respect copyright.PENANArT9e2Cso6l
On the other hand, all the gyaru-type girls eagerly signed up for the relays.86Please respect copyright.PENANA62XApTToEO
Speaking of which, Mochida-san ended up bullied last year because she messed up during the Athletics Carnival, didn’t she.86Please respect copyright.PENANAKHITVegmp0
Well, I doubt that even I would end up bullied, but I’d better be careful regardless.86Please respect copyright.PENANA2H5BrwDX9z
Enjou signed on for the relays, but apparently not the cavalry battle. How surprising. I would’ve thought he’d be as excited for it as the Emperor.86Please respect copyright.PENANAc3NYLixqsd
But thinking about it, I didn’t see him in it last year either. Although if he did join, everyone would be even more excited, wouldn’t they.86Please respect copyright.PENANA4fZE8ZIBGL
When I told him this, he replied with a laugh,
“Unlike Masaya, I don’t really have much zeal for the cavalry battle. When I see him all eager from up close, it really makes me want to avoid it.”
Eventually we decided that the sacrifices would be chosen by rock-paper-scissors, and the unlucky candidates would try to increase their meagre chances of survival through training. It was around that time that Enjou dropped the bombshell,
“Apparently he’s been really frustrated ever since that close game with the Stuco President last year. He’s even reading books on war strategy now,”
sending the already depressed boys into further depression. Thank goodness I was born a girl.
As usual, the girls were drunk on Enjou during practice, so I encouraged them to cheer for the other boys a little more. Those guys are working hard for our class too, so the earlier treatment was a little too pitiful.86Please respect copyright.PENANAjKNCMZUA6s
I’ve never been in either of their classes before, so I was shocked by the fervour. I remember my peaceful days last year. How nostalgic.86Please respect copyright.PENANA8WbIy2lVP3
But apparently my class isn’t even that bad. Maiden Class Rep who’s in Kaburagi’s class already looks exhausted, and the Athletics Carnival hasn’t even started yet. And with the girls cheering for Kaburagi in stuff like the baton relays too, all the boys competing with him were being pressured like crazy. I’d hate to be in their place.86Please respect copyright.PENANAdUPjEkUrpr
Thank goodness Enjou isn’t the hot-blooded type…
In the end, an External from the Student Council survived to the end, but now that Kaburagi had learnt war strategy as well, he wasn’t a match for him.86Please respect copyright.PENANAijt4J4l1ju
I wonder if Kaburagi is going to try even harder for next year. Well, good luck, Silver Hair-kun.86Please respect copyright.PENANA8Gp8iUZqt0
After the Athletics Carnival was the midterms. And after the midterms was the Cultural Festival. So busy.86Please respect copyright.PENANA9eAn41NqPW
It was only optional for classes to get involved, but apparently mine was. There were the options for a haunted house or a refreshment booth, but to begin with, none of these kids had ever had takoyaki or pancakes or the like, so we couldn’t come up with any good ideas.86Please respect copyright.PENANAyO4zvsjYrB
Somebody suggested a café as well, but all the girls were like, “but it’s our Enjou-sama” and quickly shut down the possibility of him being taken by girls in other classes.86Please respect copyright.PENANATIpFk335aV
In the end, that only left a handmade candle store.
Together, we made stuff like aromatic candles, gel candles, mosaic candles, flower candles, just lots of candles.86Please respect copyright.PENANAsjG2kuCBtW
Nobody was ever thinking of making a profit, so we used all sorts of good materials and I think we ended up with fairly good products considering a bunch of middle schoolers made them.86Please respect copyright.PENANASgHR3QRO6n
Enjou’s candles already have preorders.86Please respect copyright.PENANAUZwzSFmjiG
I got involved too, and melted hot wax to make small flower-shaped candles.86Please respect copyright.PENANApr4dRU0Bdx
They had some pink to them, and were pretty cute. I mixed some blended aroma oils in as well. Isn’t this pretty good for something Reika-made?86Please respect copyright.PENANAB5XCOHwbcG
Before long, some of the girls started mixing in perfumes and stuff too, and because there were so many smells in the classroom, some people started complaining of headaches and we had to ventilate the area.
Once we all finished our quotas, we were ready for the day of the Cultural Festival.86Please respect copyright.PENANAHtJoA0eArX
Apparently we sold quite well.86Please respect copyright.PENANAAJYK2Z9b8w
The customers were people like other students, fathers, brothers, “old girl” alumni as well. To prevent crime, Zuiran’s guests are carefully selected, so most of the people who came were relatives and the like.86Please respect copyright.PENANAri2hSwZYFM
Eventually people started bidding for the Enjou candles but since the prices skyrocketed――which was ridiculous for candles――that was eventually put a stop to, and there was a lottery instead.86Please respect copyright.PENANA5WL6Iz90hk
When I nervously glanced over to see how my candles were selling, I gave a quiet sigh of relief when I saw that a few people had bought some. What was shocking though was that one of them was Ririna, who had brought along her underlings too.86Please respect copyright.PENANAo9cVnXr0bg
Since we only needed a few people there to take care of the sales, everybody else went to other classes, or their clubs, or just the refreshment booths and exhibits.86Please respect copyright.PENANALNQYBnrtQf
I decided to tour the place with my friends as well.86Please respect copyright.PENANAZhdyVjO5jg
Since we didn’t know where to start, we sat down in a café with high class French tea and helped ourselves to cookies and tea as we read a pamphlet.86Please respect copyright.PENANAkYPWaJodhX
Wow. There’s a bunch. They’re all pretty plain though.86Please respect copyright.PENANACm5F9WuhVf
It was all stuff like flower arrangement exhibitions that only middle-aged women would go to.86Please respect copyright.PENANA5fvddgAWHw
In the end we all decided to give everywhere a once over, and maybe see what was most popular.86Please respect copyright.PENANAa8AxPc7a5l
When we walked past the literature club, I remembered that Class Rep was in it, so I decided to go in and have a look.86Please respect copyright.PENANAT3qJIquVny
It was stuff like book reviews, or student-written novels, haikus and poems.86Please respect copyright.PENANAZ71l9vPLg9
As I was having a casual look through them, my eyes became nailed to something shocking.
On a light blue postcard with a drawing of the sea were the words,
“My ashen grey world was painted with vivid colours. I see. So I’ve fallen in love.”
CLAAAAAAASSS REPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!
Class Rep, what the heck are you doing! Are you okay!? What went through your head!?
His name was written clearly underneath the love poem.86Please respect copyright.PENANAAVACZKcrie
I was so shocked that I staggered.86Please respect copyright.PENANAMHDVNm1Bat
I-, I see. So this is what people meant by “that incurable illness that you contract in eighth grade”.86Please respect copyright.PENANAprqYFq8tp7
Class Rep, you sure are bold for a guy who couldn’t even confess.86Please respect copyright.PENANA7TrOvOSXnc
So after talking about how you were afraid of being rejected, you go and announce your unrequited love to the masses?86Please respect copyright.PENANAfbpG9LrXdg
Is he tired? It must have been rough taking care of the Kaburagi class through both the Athletics Carnival and Cultural Festival.
“My, isn’t this that Class Rep’s entry? He fell in love!? With whom!?”
“That serious-looking Class Rep huh~”
“How shocking… Does anybody have any idea which girl it is?”
My friends began growing noisy. My heart was noisy too.86Please respect copyright.PENANAJJwK4OprCr
Class Rep. I really admire your courage. So go use that courage to freaking confess already.86Please respect copyright.PENANApYJWaI78u2
With just this, I really don’t think Miharu-chan is going to realise, you know…?86Please respect copyright.PENANA0tsfISdlfb
Or could it be that you never meant to let her know to begin with? Did you just want to express your poet’s soul?86Please respect copyright.PENANAExtE7HQ80P
Aaah, Class Rep… You really gave a shock to little old me.