Oniisama graduated from high school and entered university, while I entered Year 6.168Please respect copyright.PENANA4tA7Q4I41t
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.168Please respect copyright.PENANAfntdJWOK8q
The Zui’ran high school uniform really is so cool!168Please respect copyright.PENANAtxh9InWqRu
I asked him to wear it occasionally at home, but he refused…168Please respect copyright.PENANAmiJfo30H8A
Isn’t it fine if it’s just in the house~?168Please respect copyright.PENANAs2rvDMVZ7a
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.168Please respect copyright.PENANAAJWX59DPco
I mean, a love between a primary schooler and high schooler is just impossible, right~?168Please respect copyright.PENANABJqK5EBcQC
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.168Please respect copyright.PENANAVYhPxeFmle
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.168Please respect copyright.PENANAZxIiHKX0uA
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.168Please respect copyright.PENANABOV4BBr67N
My home teacher is Ousaka Karin-sensei and she goes to a national university.168Please respect copyright.PENANArm8dEBWqgC
She comes over twice a week.168Please respect copyright.PENANA38fGWyHs36
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.168Please respect copyright.PENANAUHgyMem044
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.168Please respect copyright.PENANAKETJpXB8RI
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.”168Please respect copyright.PENANAzFXSrmjwKi
Karin-sensei often says stuff like that to praise me.168Please respect copyright.PENANAQ7dVupdC6N
Apparently she’s the type who praises people to get them to try harder.168Please respect copyright.PENANAjKyQZPfXTk
And I’m the type that gets fired up when I’m praised or flattered, so we have pretty good compatibility, I think.168Please respect copyright.PENANAOyOh034p7b
Ever since that day in winter, I’ve been sitting with Akizawa-kun and Fukioka-san in my Maths and Japanese cram classes.168Please respect copyright.PENANA3szqF3HbMf
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.168Please respect copyright.PENANAzvw0DgJA2V
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.168Please respect copyright.PENANAUZtYkEIFUe
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.168Please respect copyright.PENANAw14iqWrdi3
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.168Please respect copyright.PENANAeHQeu4bMXM
Oniisama also said “Making one like last year would taste good.”168Please respect copyright.PENANAAx2EpiEEsk
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.”…168Please respect copyright.PENANAuZj9LbzPV5
“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!168Please respect copyright.PENANALmXFybUukK
When I told her that in complaint, she ended up replying “Apologise to Belgium”…168Please respect copyright.PENANAPDkkUdWdsq
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.168Please respect copyright.PENANA931gw7RlLy
In my mind, Fukioka-san is under the ‘cannot make into an enemy’ category.168Please respect copyright.PENANAq7qptMnUy0
Apparently she’s learning to cook to prepare for her future as Akizawa-kun’s wife.168Please respect copyright.PENANALJaG9Cb4pI
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.168Please respect copyright.PENANAyfj2ccr4AN
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.168Please respect copyright.PENANAj06QBphvGH
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.168Please respect copyright.PENANAo4nDP13Anr
When I get into middle school, maybe I really should start learning…168Please respect copyright.PENANAuAHkVuLMma
Right now, Aoi-chan is my Soothing Friend.168Please respect copyright.PENANATFMVPfjZug
She’s docile and seems withdrawn, but once you’re closer with her, she starts laughing a lot.168Please respect copyright.PENANAhwmjOepzZZ
She would definitely never say something like “the taste is lacking”. What a good girl.168Please respect copyright.PENANA2Dtv9AaHWK
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!168Please respect copyright.PENANAYuSK0zjYpi
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.168Please respect copyright.PENANAgeRNGZbfgl
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.168Please respect copyright.PENANAnnSCw1fsgC
And shocking! For the holidays in spring, she got me region-exclusive potato chips!168Please respect copyright.PENANAF4oU0keRnl
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!168Please respect copyright.PENANAfD9SCBVSZP
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.168Please respect copyright.PENANAOtisnTIxwU
So nostalgic. My body trembled from the cheap taste.168Please respect copyright.PENANAshxseXo0uN
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”.168Please respect copyright.PENANANErVvbeFQo
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?”.168Please respect copyright.PENANAPYpQMo9fvY
It’s hard to find a chance to start things like this, isn’t it?168Please respect copyright.PENANA1Z3q69Of5G
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.168Please respect copyright.PENANAyzbPiO1TJP
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.168Please respect copyright.PENANA9VItwdG4wg
Teacher swindled me using that ‘ask big first, then go for small’ trick.168Please respect copyright.PENANAVHAk9yb2lI
I got totally fooled. In the end, I was stuck as the odd job girl again.168Please respect copyright.PENANAv14gQCN3RP
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.168Please respect copyright.PENANAieMINY9uvA
Collecting forms was easy too, since the scary army of girls behind me made everybody cooperative.168Please respect copyright.PENANAKTftLPFde1
Class Rep even said, “As expected of Kisshouin-san”. I don’t think he was praising me though.168Please respect copyright.PENANAQx09kizrvD
It was like I was the bodyguard of some debt collector.168Please respect copyright.PENANAue8BUpoQuH
This is weird. This isn’t how things were supposed to be. I get the feeling that recently I’ve been losing my elegance.