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.113Please respect copyright.PENANAaEuOgQZQSG
And for some reason I was nominated as the female executive from our class.113Please respect copyright.PENANApXoQXrWanl
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…113Please respect copyright.PENANAGVj2DDh3Pw
We’re still primary schoolers so it’s not like the executive committee actually does anything important.113Please respect copyright.PENANALw71WTk9Ee
Just stuff like collecting the participation lists from each class, or doing odd jobs for the teachers, or well, small stuff like that.113Please respect copyright.PENANAAekWAkMd2J
And also, on the day of the athletics carnival, we’re supposed to stand in our tent and make sure everything comes along.113Please respect copyright.PENANAobPAAyqxZ1
The executives from 5th and 6th grades gathered before the real preparations for the athletics carnival, and we introduced ourselves.113Please respect copyright.PENANAnQ9Ri4APgf
Amongst these people, I spotted Enjou Shuusuke.113Please respect copyright.PENANAMv37Cn9SJ3
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.113Please respect copyright.PENANATaupSXBgF1
I looked at everybody else too, but concluded that Enjou was probably chosen for the same reason as me.113Please respect copyright.PENANAyLa0iVK6KV
The two of us are the only Pivoine members.113Please respect copyright.PENANAYOa9jjWXvI
But unlike me, I would have thought that Enjou would have been able to refuse.113Please respect copyright.PENANA5fOC7xcA9s
Maybe he’s a surprisingly cooperative guy.113Please respect copyright.PENANALUXkpvKRyt
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.113Please respect copyright.PENANAvBqoj9kWlC
The girls were swarming about Enjou and didn’t look like they were going to do anything.113Please respect copyright.PENANAKQzXF3mSnC
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.113Please respect copyright.PENANAVTd12jLO28
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.113Please respect copyright.PENANAqJcKtQ06tl
Enjou warned them as well, and they did start to work, but the moment they left his side, their hands would completely stop.113Please respect copyright.PENANABTJSlQo1aw
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.113Please respect copyright.PENANAWjAyK6zL02
Thanks to the Enjou Harem, I’m missing a lot of help and it’s terrible.113Please respect copyright.PENANAJnf8XdKQsI
These programmes were ordered from elsewhere, but for some reason the task of folding them in two was left to the executive committee.113Please respect copyright.PENANAaQqiHlctKf
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.113Please respect copyright.PENANA2EzLrn8ug7
The paper was stealing the moisture from my hands, and I had trouble picking up one at a time.113Please respect copyright.PENANAntAxGZvKcr
This is hard… It’d be great if there was a thimble but…113Please respect copyright.PENANARSPb3aAVgT
Looking around, I couldn’t find one, but I did find a rubber band instead.113Please respect copyright.PENANASJQl8BsOVM
I wrapped it around my thumb.113Please respect copyright.PENANAVqJR9uewS0
Then I tried picking up a page.113Please respect copyright.PENANAJgw5eaIDPa
Oooh! It’s easier!113Please respect copyright.PENANAktXuIiOBjQ
Here we go, here we go.113Please respect copyright.PENANALN2pY6arJb
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.113Please respect copyright.PENANAx1jhXuKgUh
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.113Please respect copyright.PENANAdPxaRVBEM4
Even after that, the girls of the committee continued to orbit Enjou, and basically did no work at all.113Please respect copyright.PENANAEeYtCBn5G3
Apparently the boys in the committee had long given up on trying to make them.113Please respect copyright.PENANApdYj0XYd8u
And as time went on, more and more odd jobs got pushed my way.113Please respect copyright.PENANAZvvD1SxdWK
From the next day onwards, I provided thimbles. I was also equipped with odourless muscle ointment for sore shoulders.113Please respect copyright.PENANAZeiHgQpma9
I’m completely used to clerical work now.113Please respect copyright.PENANABM5h38aPak
Using the copy machine has become my specialty. I’m good with shrinking, magnifying, and double-sided copying too.113Please respect copyright.PENANAkGtkkOgekM
The Year 6 boys all praised me and said “As expected of Kisshouin-san” and pushed more odd jobs onto me.113Please respect copyright.PENANAPjgoSm8uIt
Do you really think I’ll be fooled with such obvious flattery?113Please respect copyright.PENANAhEQvx8kzR8
But I couldn’t refuse, so from copying to printing to stapling, just everything, everything, everything got pushed onto me.113Please respect copyright.PENANADPSMrvUF5V
Hm? That’s weird.113Please respect copyright.PENANAx6RcKe1B0B
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.113Please respect copyright.PENANABDZgElbTOV
Could it be that Side-Job Reika has gotten too powerful due to her talent?113Please respect copyright.PENANAD3y4nRjsRu
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.113Please respect copyright.PENANAho64q3nHZw
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.113Please respect copyright.PENANABO3fJGa0m8
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.113Please respect copyright.PENANAVML11YoawI
Dammmiittttt! Every last one of them is…!113Please respect copyright.PENANA5o1zFIs3XM
Thankfully the girls properly listened to me, and tried to help me out, but a number of the boys just wouldn’t listen.113Please respect copyright.PENANA7AeWkis2Mq
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?113Please respect copyright.PENANAFur9wzn4gl
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?113Please respect copyright.PENANAJLpEjgZXe0
Don’t think I won’t punish you!
Before long, the girls and boys ignored me and started arguing by themselves.113Please respect copyright.PENANAWPcKqjdS09
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.113Please respect copyright.PENANAbY4EkGRMno
Even the noisy class instantly began to behave, and the girls were entranced by Enjou’s show of leadership.113Please respect copyright.PENANASjkgJz2GZv
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…113Please respect copyright.PENANAp7CTjanHp4
“Don’t think I won’t punish you!”113Please respect copyright.PENANAp6MNYh2PgI
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.”113Please respect copyright.PENANARzXVfUeVsC
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.”113Please respect copyright.PENANATKPSBTATbl
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!?”113Please respect copyright.PENANAOiQZ8vtQSS
Is this the difference between a real charismatic person, and a papier mache?