Oniisama graduated from high school and entered university, while I entered Year 6.171Please respect copyright.PENANA6iPU49Bl16
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.171Please respect copyright.PENANAsoPZ0HkCLf
The Zui’ran high school uniform really is so cool!171Please respect copyright.PENANA96qGj3V5yd
I asked him to wear it occasionally at home, but he refused…171Please respect copyright.PENANAPk5WqsJhqE
Isn’t it fine if it’s just in the house~?171Please respect copyright.PENANAFArfCg77MG
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.171Please respect copyright.PENANAaCT9i7LVMA
I mean, a love between a primary schooler and high schooler is just impossible, right~?171Please respect copyright.PENANAos0CWnK50O
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.171Please respect copyright.PENANAgeSSZUjMlX
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.171Please respect copyright.PENANAQGOZOKhPPz
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.171Please respect copyright.PENANATSZoKVWeJV
My home teacher is Ousaka Karin-sensei and she goes to a national university.171Please respect copyright.PENANA120EBIWeOn
She comes over twice a week.171Please respect copyright.PENANA3DPghZ9s26
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.171Please respect copyright.PENANA7o3ak6BwBa
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.171Please respect copyright.PENANAzV8noPT4X4
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.”171Please respect copyright.PENANAGquuPUKO56
Karin-sensei often says stuff like that to praise me.171Please respect copyright.PENANAVQDe1VWN8E
Apparently she’s the type who praises people to get them to try harder.171Please respect copyright.PENANAZ4tzRDNAzj
And I’m the type that gets fired up when I’m praised or flattered, so we have pretty good compatibility, I think.171Please respect copyright.PENANAetcCqB1bYf
Ever since that day in winter, I’ve been sitting with Akizawa-kun and Fukioka-san in my Maths and Japanese cram classes.171Please respect copyright.PENANAOcreSHpg5Q
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.171Please respect copyright.PENANAiFSyVCzCdm
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.171Please respect copyright.PENANAFGyr9cIUNc
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.171Please respect copyright.PENANAf5TRKww3BI
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.171Please respect copyright.PENANA6t31IxCw3H
Oniisama also said “Making one like last year would taste good.”171Please respect copyright.PENANAlDYTGt9XvN
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.”…171Please respect copyright.PENANATQMek57Tyb
“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!171Please respect copyright.PENANAlaieigyU0E
When I told her that in complaint, she ended up replying “Apologise to Belgium”…171Please respect copyright.PENANAcduKOJoTrC
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.171Please respect copyright.PENANAL1VSj7L2bA
In my mind, Fukioka-san is under the ‘cannot make into an enemy’ category.171Please respect copyright.PENANAWNBAhiNcWg
Apparently she’s learning to cook to prepare for her future as Akizawa-kun’s wife.171Please respect copyright.PENANAfCHPxfBMZD
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.171Please respect copyright.PENANAc5pG5G3C4S
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.171Please respect copyright.PENANA6ZWzzizDM3
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.171Please respect copyright.PENANA6X1M8JdrU8
When I get into middle school, maybe I really should start learning…171Please respect copyright.PENANAyGCJt4JIpV
Right now, Aoi-chan is my Soothing Friend.171Please respect copyright.PENANA5ivjoRthQh
She’s docile and seems withdrawn, but once you’re closer with her, she starts laughing a lot.171Please respect copyright.PENANAAchQN5LMXU
She would definitely never say something like “the taste is lacking”. What a good girl.171Please respect copyright.PENANAZGdVGRCzhl
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!171Please respect copyright.PENANAFzGPFYOyq4
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.171Please respect copyright.PENANAhi4glSdpOS
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.171Please respect copyright.PENANA5EM8Dpgifk
And shocking! For the holidays in spring, she got me region-exclusive potato chips!171Please respect copyright.PENANA95uyzLGfGl
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!171Please respect copyright.PENANAjneHvzI408
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.171Please respect copyright.PENANA2v1Xdfm8Rp
So nostalgic. My body trembled from the cheap taste.171Please respect copyright.PENANAY4NvlD9RbX
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”.171Please respect copyright.PENANAQPCkWeFkxn
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?”.171Please respect copyright.PENANA4jxZqdW3wk
It’s hard to find a chance to start things like this, isn’t it?171Please respect copyright.PENANAvD4SZ6jyUE
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.171Please respect copyright.PENANA9TGfIgTe6P
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.171Please respect copyright.PENANAoDEIyhQbmv
Teacher swindled me using that ‘ask big first, then go for small’ trick.171Please respect copyright.PENANAxgz6vv0sqA
I got totally fooled. In the end, I was stuck as the odd job girl again.171Please respect copyright.PENANAsKobvtP19g
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.171Please respect copyright.PENANAe3WaKtRPEg
Collecting forms was easy too, since the scary army of girls behind me made everybody cooperative.171Please respect copyright.PENANA35oveolpCq
Class Rep even said, “As expected of Kisshouin-san”. I don’t think he was praising me though.171Please respect copyright.PENANA1JtR2tJBGH
It was like I was the bodyguard of some debt collector.171Please respect copyright.PENANAdi84s5phcx
This is weird. This isn’t how things were supposed to be. I get the feeling that recently I’ve been losing my elegance.