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Chapter 80 Part 1

Sairei Student Council’s Visitation! (1) ~Visitors~

Saturday, the day after the June school event, the inter-class ball game competition – moreover this year, for the first time, all boys participated in the event – had ended without incident.

After the classes, which were only held half a day, were over, Sairyou Academy welcomed the after-school period as usual, but the school building was willed with giddy buzz, perhaps feeling a sense of liberation as the weekend was upon them.

However, the state of the student council office was the complete opposite, as they were about to welcome a moment of tension.

「T, they’re here!」

The one who shouted so as she violently opened the door with a bang was the second-year student serving as treasurer and secretary, Ishikawa Eimi.

Under normal circumstances, Hanmura Riko, the vice president, would have rebuked such ill-mannerism, but she merely sighed heavily as if to say that what was to come had arrived.

The student council president, Komatsu Sayaka, stood up and looked out the window.

Close to entering the rainy season, the sky was gloomy and cloudy, looking as if it would start raining at any given moment.

She could not see it from the window of the student council office since the school building was blocking the view, but two blackened luxury sedans had already been parked in the visitor parking space near the entrance to the administration building.

And Eimi had ascertained that girls in school uniforms had gotten off one after another from the rear doors, which were opened by the black-suited chauffeurs, and headed in their direction.

Likewise, Riko stood beside her and looked out.

「What about the welcoming?」

「Their president has been here before, so….」

「I see.」

「At least it will let them know that they are not welcome here.」

「Fufufu. You sure are stubborn, aren’t you, Sayaka?」

「I mean, you get it, don’t you?!」

「Yeah. I know. They should be aware that they are uninvited guests, yet they came nonetheless.」

Watching the two from behind with an anxious expression on her face was Eimi.

「As expected… Are they influential people? Umm… The people in the student council of Sairei Academy, I mean.」

Riko turned around and shook her head.

「No. I believe they are just regular high school students like us. Some of them seem to be a part of high society or have some biased ideology, though. It has been ten years since a friction occurred due to the coeducation-related matter, and although as sister schools, we have distanced ourselves from each other a little, we have a very normal relationship. It is just that, the problem is when boys are involved….」

Riko, the vice president that was originally in charge of public relations, had met them last year.

Sayaka, the president, also seemed to have a personal acquaintance among them, but right now, she continued to maintain her silence.

The two’s gazes were pointed in the direction of the waiting room.

At that moment, Yuu was in the waiting room.

Having heard that the student council of the sister school, Sairei Academy, was coming today, he was interested in them, but at the request of Sayaka and Riko, it had been decided that he would only listen to the talk from the waiting room.

Apparently, they did not want to let them meet Yuu.

This, too, was probably due to the unsavory rumors he had heard before about the student council of Sairei Academy.

A few minutes later, a calm and mature female voice could be heard, but it seemed that she was not a member of the student council, but someone who had come to inform them that they would be arriving shortly.

Upon hearing this, Sayaka and the others, however, did not go outside but waited in the student council office.

After a few more minutes passed, they could hear the voices of several girls drawing closer, exchanging words in a whisper all the while.

「Good day. It has been a while, isn’t it, Sayaka-san?」

「Mm.」

「Still… For you to not even welcome us even though we had taken the trouble to send a herald, how rude of you. Do the people of Sairyou not know what etiquette is?」

「It is your side that has come uninvited even though it would have been fine even if you didn’t come, no?」

Yuu, who was in the waiting room, could hear the sound of footsteps as people came in one after another.

They were about 5 or 6 in number.

The one who made snide remarks in a somewhat high-pitched voice was a member of the student council of Sairei Academy who had come to visit, and the one who responded in a low voice was Sayaka. Maybe she was her personal acquaintance?

Before their side could give them permission to sit down, he could hear the sound of chairs being pulled out without permission.

They certainly seem like pushy people; Yuu thought as he listened from his hiding place.

「Are there only the three of you?」

「Yeah, a certain situation arose last winter and two members ended up quitting, you see. Since then, the three of us have been managing somehow.」

「Hmm? But according to what we heard….」

「Anyway! Let’s get on with the talk at once!」

As things stood, they probably already knew about Yuu, but Riko seemed to have cut off her words of suspicion.

First of all, Sairyou’s side completed a brief self-introduction.

Next was Sairei’s side.

「I am the one serving as the student council president of Sairei Academy High School, Mitsuse Rinne. Nice to meet you. Though, I have met Sayaka-san many times before, and… the vice-president, Hanmura-san? We have met once, have we not?」

「Yes, we have.」

She spoke in a kind of noble daughter-like manner.

It was the first time for Yuu to hear that manner of speaking in real life, not in fiction.

「Ni hao. I am the vice president, Li Weifei, a third-year student. Nice to meet you.」

「Hello~. I’m Oomori Norika, also vice president. Thank you for having me today~.」

One of the vice presidents seemed to be of Chinese descent, judging from her greeting and name. The other one had a somewhat slow manner of speaking.

The treasurer and secretary, who introduced themselves after the president and vice-president, gave off a very ordinary impression.

The president and vice president seemed to be in their third year, and the treasurer and secretary in their second year.

Just as Yuu thought that was the end of it, 「Actually, she is still a first-year, but there is a student who is helping us as a candidate for the next student council officer. It is a great opportunity, so I have brought her along.」

She must have been prompted to do so.

Along with a rattling sound, the sound of someone getting up from their seat could be heard.

「Hello, my name is Kate Grimwood. Please take care of me.」

She introduced herself in English in a clear voice, followed by some words in broken Japanese.

A foreigner who was studying abroad… no, if she was a candidate for the next officer of the student council, maybe she was a foreigner who was naturalized not too long ago.

However, when Yuu replaced the name that he had heard, 『Kate Grimwood』, with the alphabet in his mind, he felt that he had seen it before.

He believed that was….

「There is another member, a boy, in your student council, is there not?」

Just as the self-introductions seemed to be over, someone from Seirei seemed to speak her mind.

「Huh… No, he’s… umm, he’s just someone we’re employing as a temporary helper.」

「No way that is true. From what we have heard, he has been actively participating in meetings for boys-girls exchange events.」

「Just who in the world have you heard such a thing from….」

True enough, Yuu joined the student council mid-April, and since May he had been showing up at meetings with the club representatives and meetings with the event executive committee.

Ever since they knew that Yuu would be participating, the participation rate had gone up bizarrely, which made Sayaka and the others smile wryly.

As they were by no means keeping it a secret, it was not surprising that one of them had leaked the information outside the school.