Oniisama graduated from high school and entered university, while I entered Year 6.158Please respect copyright.PENANAExvrsEocut
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.158Please respect copyright.PENANAb0z337n169
The Zui’ran high school uniform really is so cool!158Please respect copyright.PENANAYN7CHOxJpC
I asked him to wear it occasionally at home, but he refused…158Please respect copyright.PENANADtlCUDbjCM
Isn’t it fine if it’s just in the house~?158Please respect copyright.PENANAmQq4EY7g7b
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.158Please respect copyright.PENANAgnAuM2K6Y7
I mean, a love between a primary schooler and high schooler is just impossible, right~?158Please respect copyright.PENANAvqJoSvb3EW
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.158Please respect copyright.PENANAbMf23UNokP
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.158Please respect copyright.PENANA4pKZwEAZDO
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.158Please respect copyright.PENANApdNM3x5mmT
My home teacher is Ousaka Karin-sensei and she goes to a national university.158Please respect copyright.PENANA713RKOFPA3
She comes over twice a week.158Please respect copyright.PENANA9UdzKBSLTz
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.158Please respect copyright.PENANAe8BpRsM36R
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.158Please respect copyright.PENANAnFNhDi2txQ
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.”158Please respect copyright.PENANAzFJR4St9eq
Karin-sensei often says stuff like that to praise me.158Please respect copyright.PENANAzJiN5yrrvM
Apparently she’s the type who praises people to get them to try harder.158Please respect copyright.PENANAa8myIplHcw
And I’m the type that gets fired up when I’m praised or flattered, so we have pretty good compatibility, I think.158Please respect copyright.PENANAAtq9Xn6jdx
Ever since that day in winter, I’ve been sitting with Akizawa-kun and Fukioka-san in my Maths and Japanese cram classes.158Please respect copyright.PENANAxCDPXkSCfF
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.158Please respect copyright.PENANAstBqS3Nhhk
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.158Please respect copyright.PENANA8xIlYFnlIr
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.158Please respect copyright.PENANAyfSF17OJtp
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.158Please respect copyright.PENANAbBcxIfUJU2
Oniisama also said “Making one like last year would taste good.”158Please respect copyright.PENANAVyMAl2nvOy
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.”…158Please respect copyright.PENANAcAoCIDZTWe
“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!158Please respect copyright.PENANAmizdSuLHAQ
When I told her that in complaint, she ended up replying “Apologise to Belgium”…158Please respect copyright.PENANAE5Ur3B7tZs
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.158Please respect copyright.PENANAhfMBUm7XOL
In my mind, Fukioka-san is under the ‘cannot make into an enemy’ category.158Please respect copyright.PENANAPMbBFhFG1s
Apparently she’s learning to cook to prepare for her future as Akizawa-kun’s wife.158Please respect copyright.PENANAw3rWiK9ikJ
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.158Please respect copyright.PENANALKyYq8QrE9
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.158Please respect copyright.PENANAobSY4cdjH6
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.158Please respect copyright.PENANAJ1rMG9runL
When I get into middle school, maybe I really should start learning…158Please respect copyright.PENANAPnC431xj5B
Right now, Aoi-chan is my Soothing Friend.158Please respect copyright.PENANAMjPpCbzUYl
She’s docile and seems withdrawn, but once you’re closer with her, she starts laughing a lot.158Please respect copyright.PENANA7BVNeH0xC9
She would definitely never say something like “the taste is lacking”. What a good girl.158Please respect copyright.PENANAznIF3yvXEJ
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!158Please respect copyright.PENANAM4hlUecX5c
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.158Please respect copyright.PENANAPf8c2aj40N
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.158Please respect copyright.PENANA4sAvou1Cng
And shocking! For the holidays in spring, she got me region-exclusive potato chips!158Please respect copyright.PENANALSYiVSas1F
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!158Please respect copyright.PENANAGubfegN7C6
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.158Please respect copyright.PENANAZIW3Xc3CLo
So nostalgic. My body trembled from the cheap taste.158Please respect copyright.PENANAeTtmA5yNV6
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”.158Please respect copyright.PENANAyUOiVfSHvM
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?”.158Please respect copyright.PENANAyzk6HQsgdj
It’s hard to find a chance to start things like this, isn’t it?158Please respect copyright.PENANAtphQmN4iZt
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.158Please respect copyright.PENANAzsrkCa6riv
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.158Please respect copyright.PENANATTmEaawpK7
Teacher swindled me using that ‘ask big first, then go for small’ trick.158Please respect copyright.PENANAkcRKt6lfFI
I got totally fooled. In the end, I was stuck as the odd job girl again.158Please respect copyright.PENANAibavodoFAn
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.158Please respect copyright.PENANA3JS7NlhF3f
Collecting forms was easy too, since the scary army of girls behind me made everybody cooperative.158Please respect copyright.PENANAIW6nwiLfSm
Class Rep even said, “As expected of Kisshouin-san”. I don’t think he was praising me though.158Please respect copyright.PENANAlEZ6mWG535
It was like I was the bodyguard of some debt collector.158Please respect copyright.PENANAQHGMszWZLf
This is weird. This isn’t how things were supposed to be. I get the feeling that recently I’ve been losing my elegance.