I’ve been over the moon since falling for Romeo-senpai.80Please respect copyright.PENANAH6y9tM3eKl
So over the moon that I can’t do a thing about it. Awake, asleep, my mind is always filled with Romeo-senpai.80Please respect copyright.PENANACOO4rMCX41
I’ve been doing things like checking his class schedule to see if I ever have a chance to pass by him, or staring hard out the window to see him during P.E. class.80Please respect copyright.PENANAXbc3XW80Vm
Even when I get home, before I know it I’m thinking about Romeo-senpai, and end up picking at flower petals.80Please respect copyright.PENANAkdxgoiadGo
My the results of my urara flower divinations was unfavourable. But using the flower with my name, I’ll break through with guts and willpower!
Anyhow, as I was spending my days like that, my ranking fell on the end-of-term tests. Hard.80Please respect copyright.PENANAQ1IEfzoQT8
Of course it did. I pretty much never studied, after all. I was too busy being happy.80Please respect copyright.PENANAkMxyj75r0D
And honestly, even I didn’t think I would fall this badly.
When I realised my name wasn’t on the published list, the girls around me said stuff like “What a shame~” but I thought that I’d fallen only 2 or 3 places at most.80Please respect copyright.PENANA4h39KG2L8W
But when I looked at my slip, I had fallen over thirty ranks.80Please respect copyright.PENANAiueYzSlIZ2
This is a critical moment. Critical like trying to keep my balance on the point of a cliff. “As expected of Reika-sama” is in the past now. It was incredibly short-lived.80Please respect copyright.PENANADPuFxGhvo6
Honestly, these marks are just horrible…
Or so I was thinking to myself, depressed, when my homeroom teacher suddenly called for me. And to the student counselling room, no less.80Please respect copyright.PENANANAyGLbjql8
I’ve got a terrible, terrible feeling about this.80Please respect copyright.PENANAIE3zfZGCB5
I wondered what she was going to say as I headed there in depression. When I arrived, my homeroom teacher asked me for my thoughts on my term-end results.80Please respect copyright.PENANAJNZ8KbKTbB
Well, even if they ask me that, I’m so shocked by my ranking drop that I honestly don’t know what to say. What should I say?80Please respect copyright.PENANAfnDmvg5hJa
Or so I was wondering in a daze, when she made a difficult expression and looked at me.
“Honestly speaking, it was completely unexpected that you would fall this far, Kisshouin-san. I’ve seen your grades in primary school, and they were exceptional. I asked all the other teachers as well, and they all told me that you took your lessons seriously, your exams results were splendid, and that you were an excellent, model student. I thought so too. As a teacher, I had almost no worries about you.”
“And yet,” she continued, “how do you explain this drop in results? If something happened, please speak to me about it.”
Well, even if she asks me how, it’s simply that I fell in love and didn’t study, so I definitely can’t tell her the truth.
“I believe that I was simply lacking in effort this time. I truly apologise.”
“You know, things have become a problem. It isn’t just your results. Lately your attitude in class has been an issue as well. A number of teachers have told me that in class you simply sit there in a daze, without really trying. And the result can be seen in your grades. Just what on earth happened, I wonder.”
Eh-, it’s become this big of a deal? Just because my marks fell!?80Please respect copyright.PENANAePffsx6sbk
Or rather, isn’t this the kind of thing you say to problem students!?80Please respect copyright.PENANA3BWKLNeHD4
Far from “as expected of Reika-sama”, I’ve turned into one of those problem children that get called in to the counselling room!
“You know, Kisshouin-san, could it be that some bad boy is tricking you?”
“Hah?”
What’s this all of a sudden?
“When it comes to girls worsening their behaviour, most of the time a boy is involved. That the diligent model student that you were has changed this much… Could it be that you have begun dating some strange man?”
Sensei leaned forward as she asked this.80Please respect copyright.PENANAQz8bYRbMHt
In other words, I began dating some bad man, and I fell onto the path of a delinquent?80Please respect copyright.PENANANcq3DKg4bl
Oh my gosh.80Please respect copyright.PENANAc0up67xPSj
To think that while I was being over the moon, I almost got the label of ‘delinquent girl’ attached to me!
“No, absolutely not.”
Far from a bad boy, he’s the esteemed Student Council President, famous as a model student, and loved by all the teachers.80Please respect copyright.PENANAO5hAPbk19J
And far from dating him, I haven’t even had a chance to talk properly before.80Please respect copyright.PENANA517ozhWpnN
All that I did was go “Guhuhu, Romeo-senpai~” and roll about in my room.80Please respect copyright.PENANArKmpyLug3Y
Even though this is all just because I accidentally lost control of my lazy side, the situation turned into a surprisingly huge matter!
“It has reached the point where we believe it would be best to try contacting your guardians.”
EEHH!? IT’S THAT BAD!?80Please respect copyright.PENANA9FjJnVppC5
And I’m even being brought up as an issue at your staff meetings!?80Please respect copyright.PENANAtvp054QEes
Aren’t there plenty of girls with way worse grades than me!? Why am I the only one being portrayed like I’m on the straight road to delinquency!?
“Umm, it truly is not big deal. I simply became a little too relaxed this time. I am reflecting on it, and will try my best next time.”
“…The staff here has great trust in you, Kisshouin-san. The shock we received from this was not small, you know. Also, would you consider taking summer remedials?”
“Remedials?”
In the middle school section, they have remedial classes during the summer break for kids with bad grades. Kids that are particularly studious also attend them, but they’re in the minority.80Please respect copyright.PENANA21i3DVogLl
Remedials… “As-Expected-of” Reika-sama going to remedials…80Please respect copyright.PENANASXSOHeZVn3
But going to those remedials also serves as a way for them to keep an eye on my behaviour.80Please respect copyright.PENANA5GXi240YpE
After all, sometimes there are kids who undergo shocking changes during the summer break. That’s exactly when kids start making bad friends.80Please respect copyright.PENANADsg338cAQj
But Sensei, far from bad friends, I barely have any normal friends. I have almost no friends who will play with me outside of school…80Please respect copyright.PENANAkeKSR9iUBR
Just how on earth am I supposed to turn into a delinquent if I’m just sitting at home all day?
Well, can’t be helped. You reap what you sow.80Please respect copyright.PENANA0ZzrlF3DA9
Now that it’s come to this, all I can do is repair my reputation.
“I understand. I shall attend the remedials.”
My first summer break as a middle school student, turned into quite a tearful event.80Please respect copyright.PENANAwoQt9GpISH
On the first day of remedials, I headed for school.
After I came out to my family about going to remedials, they were in shock.80Please respect copyright.PENANA9uNsGQjOH1
Okaasama was bewildered, saying “With grades like this, must you go to remedials?”, but I think it’s more about the drop in my rankings that’s shocked the teachers.80Please respect copyright.PENANAtKfo757GAg
But if I went with a stupidly honest reply like, “The teachers think I’m being tricked by a bad man.” things would really blow up, so I didn’t say a thing though.80Please respect copyright.PENANAAgyn3rEx1d
As for Oniisama, he fell into thought as he looked at my report card.80Please respect copyright.PENANAv96jEfIZJ4
I’m sorry for being a disappointing sister.
But I really have reflected a lot, this time.80Please respect copyright.PENANAs0qNEMJAKD
Although it was pretty shocking that just a drop in grades turned into such a huge matter.80Please respect copyright.PENANASCrBKiyxHj
Still, I’ll admit that my lifestyle turned quite lazy.80Please respect copyright.PENANA2Wc7jxZFB9
I also inconvenienced a lot of people, and caused them to worry too.80Please respect copyright.PENANAeDjKMkH5b8
My home tutor, Karin-sensei, became a little depressed because she thought it was the fault of her teaching style.
And also, becoming fatter because of my idle lifestyle is actually the biggest issue here.80Please respect copyright.PENANAYk5gfcFoXi
I used to have these clear dimples when I smiled, but lately they’ve become harder to see because of the meat.80Please respect copyright.PENANAPjFm4pRlJ9
I’ve been ignoring it as just my imagination, but my big tummy was yelling at me, “This is your reality!”80Please respect copyright.PENANAfW2HZ2OrhA
This won’t do. I like A-line dresses, but an A-line figure is definitely a no.80Please respect copyright.PENANA7lw6YqnWQZ
This rounded tanuki stomach is definitely a no!
I’ve decided that this summer break, I’m going to turn over a new leaf and try my best.80Please respect copyright.PENANActLnKoq2Dt
The remedial lessons weren’t arranged in classes, and instead each grade would be grouped together in one room.80Please respect copyright.PENANAvddzBOiB7e
When I entered the classroom, the students already in there looked at me in shock.80Please respect copyright.PENANAQsAbwwHNlC
Gokigen’yoh, everyone.80Please respect copyright.PENANA9QW0IdhMoR
Even though I was supposed to have put on a friendly smile, all of them averted their eyes. Why.
Almost all the kids in the room were those with bad grades, and not only that, the ones that didn’t stand out at school. Well, I suppose you could say that they’re the bottom caste in the school hierarchy.80Please respect copyright.PENANAHqn3AvwigC
Even the kids here out of enthusiasm are all just swots and hardcore crammers.80Please respect copyright.PENANAwR57HsRQ9c
Not a single person from my caste was here.80Please respect copyright.PENANAZRoIDndXyT
Even within my very own group, there are kids with grades worse than mine, but those girls all have a private tutor, or go to cram school, and would never go to remedials.80Please respect copyright.PENANAOstdZBqNH6
And neither would any of the more rebellious kids come.80Please respect copyright.PENANAlcjA7cOquu
Pretty much everybody here belongs to the harmless, docile type, and they’re all the type that quietly live out their lives at school.80Please respect copyright.PENANATBZwgul132
When I took a seat at the back of the classroom, one of the students sitting near me, slooowly moved to another seat.80Please respect copyright.PENANAwfDhJAsQgy
Some of the kids with friends were forming small islands, but I was stuck living on a deserted one.
When I looked out the window, oh my? Was that a mirage just now? The scenery swayed.80Please respect copyright.PENANAdR0GI26c3D
…I’m definitely not crying or anything.80Please respect copyright.PENANAwsazGG5t0q
The recompense for being over the moon about love, turned out to be quite large.80Please respect copyright.PENANAUmXnnXWssl
This heartrendingly lonely remedial lifestyle, was only just beginning.