With the summer break over, I entered term two and began going to cram school like I had hoped.96Please respect copyright.PENANANpIw7Gj2qz
Oniisama used to go here so it should be quite good. Apparently it’s a really high level cram school, filled with students from private schools and high level national schools.96Please respect copyright.PENANALG24zbsL2e
Completely different from the cram school I went to in my old life, which had but flyers going for it…
At the moment we’re only learning Japanese and arithmetic so following the lessons is no problem at all. Rather, this feeling of invincibility is amazing.96Please respect copyright.PENANAvovwInk9Vk
Well, it’s just Year 1 work after all. It would be a problem if I didn’t understand.96Please respect copyright.PENANALbN1W0jbpR
One of the reasons I wanted to go to cram school was of course in preparation for my future, but it was the other reason that was the important one.
Eating sweets.
I do go to a few different lessons, but the Kisshouin chauffeur takes me to all of them.96Please respect copyright.PENANAbGmokoWfwc
They drop me off in front of the classroom before the lessons begin, and pick me up in front of the classroom when the lesson ends.96Please respect copyright.PENANAaoKuO5fWIz
Indeed! I have no time to move about freely!96Please respect copyright.PENANAi1Cr9OxyG2
To begin with, I can’t even walk outside alone. Somebody is always by my side.96Please respect copyright.PENANAIe37fhIRg1
But that’s troubling.96Please respect copyright.PENANAfzqUMCBewG
Why it’s troubling is because I can’t buy sweets to eat.
If you want to laugh at me for my gluttony, go ahead and laugh.96Please respect copyright.PENANAnFnzrLiXW8
However! Each and every day, the sweets I get are all high class, and even my meals are always a menu like some high class restaurant’s.96Please respect copyright.PENANAuzNq0f8C8s
I am thankful, you know? It really is delicious, you know?96Please respect copyright.PENANA2tMQ0ZqyNO
But this commoner’s tongue from my old life wants junky snack food. It wants to eat simple stuff like tsukemono on plain rice. It wants to eat leftovers baked into bread!
And so I started thinking.96Please respect copyright.PENANAvvAbog0M3B
‘Wouldn’t it just be fine if I just went to a lesson where I didn’t have an attendant?’96Please respect copyright.PENANATkHCsKuR1r
Cram school has a Japanese class, and then an arithmetic class; between those two classes is breaktime, you see.96Please respect copyright.PENANAoxUzGAGocN
‘Couldn’t I use that time to sneak out and secretly buy snacks?’ I thought.
If possible, I wanted the cram school to be close to a convenience store.96Please respect copyright.PENANAraIXIgP9Fn
If I sneak out too often, the teachers at cram school might find it a problem and report it to my parents, so I need to be careful when doing so.96Please respect copyright.PENANA5Oxhml8I3c
I’ll only buy things small enough to fit between my cram textbooks and into my bag. No way will I ever get greedy and try buying something as big as potato chips. Even small packets are bulky because of the air in them.96Please respect copyright.PENANAv5H99ykKUE
And one day I’ll buy onigiri too.
Whenever I started daydreaming about that, it became impossible to stop.96Please respect copyright.PENANA8aqNOvbKb3
That’s why I wanted to go to cram school no matter what.
There was a convenience store about 2 or 3 minutes walk from the cram school that Oniisama used to go to.96Please respect copyright.PENANApapx3QJRCi
How splendid.96Please respect copyright.PENANARnKIrTnO0L
I was a newcomer, and on top of that a student from the famous Zui’ran, so I couldn’t slip out due to the attention at first.
I go to cram school once a week now, and it was two months since I started attending that I was able to somehow sneak out to the convenience store──
The first thing I bought were two Tirolian chocolates and caramel.96Please respect copyright.PENANAVUHy6MXDdE
I obviously couldn’t leave the cram school with my bag, so I was limited to buying things that I could fit into my pockets.96Please respect copyright.PENANAQ7cIQ0WmXA
We only get fifteen minutes break, so I had to hurry back.96Please respect copyright.PENANAX8h2aVCCtA
The following 2 hour lesson didn’t sink in at all.
When I returned home, the Tirolian chocolate that I secretly ate in my room tasted so nostalgic that I cried.96Please respect copyright.PENANAm5xgqsuXzk
I took care to slowly enjoy the other Tirolian chocolate and 8 caramel pieces as well.
Cheap food, banzai.
In autumn we have stuff like the athletics carnival or the Zui’ran presentation day so it’s busy. As for my private life, I have a piano recital as well. It’s so hectic.
Naturally, the two tops of our grade, Kaburagi and Enjou flourished at the athletics carnival. They even overwhelmed some upperclassmen. Thanks to that, their fans increased, in the upper grades as well.96Please respect copyright.PENANAHwUyS1K84m
Unfortunately I couldn’t become our class’ hero. I’ll try my best in other fields.
The Zui’ran presentation day is something like a cultural festival, so the place will be decorated with artwork created by the students, and we’ll have a choir contest and a bazaar and stuff too.96Please respect copyright.PENANAeAhSe6y9sN
It was much harder to prepare for presentation day than the athletics carnival, and so in order to replenish my body, I would eat snacks at the Petite Pivoine in between preparations.96Please respect copyright.PENANAmanMRUcU3J
Being able to eat sweets on school grounds really is a special privilege.
Lately at the salon, it’s all been talk about the choir programme or the artwork that each class has been creating.96Please respect copyright.PENANAZrWh1qwqzo
The class artwork becomes harder as you go up a grade, so it’s tough. Apparently in the upper years of the primary section, they even create dioramas and stuff.
“Reika-san, today we have Pierre Evan macarons, you know. Will you eat some?”
“Gosh. I definitely shall.”
This person is an Oneesama in Year 5, Minazuki Aira-sama.96Please respect copyright.PENANAYZzLCYYTdG
Unique for a girl in Zui’ran, she has short hair and a bit of a boyish appearance, and gives the impression of growing up to be the lead male-role actor in an all-female theatre troupe somewhere.96Please respect copyright.PENANAzfkcxX83kG
Ever since Aira-sama saw me waltz with Oniisama at the summer party, she’s been on good terms with me.96Please respect copyright.PENANAeHHd6VOIHr
Apparently seeing me try my very best to dance was cute. I’m thankful that she feels that way.96Please respect copyright.PENANAsbWwz6Sr5b
She said stuff like “You have such a kind Oniisama. I sure am jealous.” and although I didn’t know where she got it from, she gave me a picture of Oniisama and I ringing the bell as a present.96Please respect copyright.PENANAs8uAOplQkG
As it turns out, apparently an acquaintance of Aira-sama had been there to take the picture.96Please respect copyright.PENANAt7EhVsAqxU
“They were a lovely couple, so I wanted to give them a picture later.” apparently.96Please respect copyright.PENANAxQWD2eVfXi
Oniisama, they’ve decided we’re a couple, you know?96Please respect copyright.PENANAtNujyuGyOp
I had thought it was a needless and huge embarrassment in front of Kaburagi Masaya and Enjou Shuusuke, but when one door shuts, another opens, huh.
──But there’s just one very big problem with Aira-sama. That is…
“Yurie. This limited-time macaron is delicious, you know.”
Right. Aira-sama is that Yurie-sama’s good friend.
“Mn, then perhaps I’ll have just one more. What about you two, Masaya, Shuusuke?”
“I’ll have one.”
“Hmm, I think I’ll pass.”
The spot next to Yurie-sama is almost always occupied by ‘I ♥ YURIE’ Kaburagi. And Yurie-sama and Aira-sama are close friends. And recently, there’s been this underclassman that Aira-sama has taking a liking to; me.
I’m in a pretty dangerous position.
Lord Emperor basically pays no attention to anybody but the people he has an interest in, so up until now he’s been completely disregarding me.96Please respect copyright.PENANAAKdGjSrij3
But one time when Enjou Shuusuke said “Oh, aren’t you the girl from the summer party who did the waltz in the middle of the dance floor?” and Emperor went “Ah… That time.” and looked my way.96Please respect copyright.PENANAFpj1IlGejK
Enjou Shuusuke, don’t say unnecessary things!
“Masaya, are you making sure to properly help with your class’ presentation?”
“…Well, I get around.”
“That’s no good. You have to do it properly.”
“Aahh… Mn.”
“What’s with that response? I’m going to see you all the way to class. You know what to do, right?”
“I get it, already. You sure are noisy, Yurie.”
“What was that!?”
“Joking. Geez, sorry. You get angry so easily.”
I sneakily watched them as I munched on a macaron.96Please respect copyright.PENANAbvE6PbOQ2U
Despite his abusive tongue, he looks quite happy, doesn’t he. I see, I see. So that’s what you like?96Please respect copyright.PENANAzXA5v6SlsZ
Emperor is always smiling when he talks to Yurie-sama. Plenty of expressions, like a completely different person from that bored-looking and expressionless Emperor everywhere else.96Please respect copyright.PENANA9Q9vgoHByt
Geez, look, isn’t he blushing too? Hey, your love is leaking outside, you know?96Please respect copyright.PENANAZhXSWHWCks
While I was observing this incredibly funny Emperor, I met eyes with Enjou.96Please respect copyright.PENANAlkcGBCSRoa
I’m sorry, I won’t look anymore. I’ll still be eavesdropping on their flirting though.
Anyway, while all that was happening, my busy, but peaceful, autumn passed by.
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