Oniisama graduated from high school and entered university, while I entered Year 6.165Please respect copyright.PENANAwjGyOF7sR9
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.165Please respect copyright.PENANATr4Rb0dUWb
The Zui’ran high school uniform really is so cool!165Please respect copyright.PENANAHN95DPiTnN
I asked him to wear it occasionally at home, but he refused…165Please respect copyright.PENANAHLYHQ759v2
Isn’t it fine if it’s just in the house~?165Please respect copyright.PENANAOXQM9QyZjB
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.165Please respect copyright.PENANAs71Czly8h5
I mean, a love between a primary schooler and high schooler is just impossible, right~?165Please respect copyright.PENANAYZJrUVfwwC
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.165Please respect copyright.PENANAsbqeH5BjwF
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.165Please respect copyright.PENANAPAdKOUAhks
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.165Please respect copyright.PENANAMbp07Uplz7
My home teacher is Ousaka Karin-sensei and she goes to a national university.165Please respect copyright.PENANAAY5BG1Izye
She comes over twice a week.165Please respect copyright.PENANAPvdxbKCGOy
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.165Please respect copyright.PENANA892bKghCCC
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.165Please respect copyright.PENANAgJf8h1JTHB
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.”165Please respect copyright.PENANA05magtZt7Q
Karin-sensei often says stuff like that to praise me.165Please respect copyright.PENANANZ9iyNiawo
Apparently she’s the type who praises people to get them to try harder.165Please respect copyright.PENANAzJL5af3zvg
And I’m the type that gets fired up when I’m praised or flattered, so we have pretty good compatibility, I think.165Please respect copyright.PENANA3MMIGi3Aol
Ever since that day in winter, I’ve been sitting with Akizawa-kun and Fukioka-san in my Maths and Japanese cram classes.165Please respect copyright.PENANAWhHc7eSA4M
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.165Please respect copyright.PENANA0BenDQovcs
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.165Please respect copyright.PENANAibf0YAeuzx
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.165Please respect copyright.PENANAZ8JGiW4G3m
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.165Please respect copyright.PENANA34hzrIvS8b
Oniisama also said “Making one like last year would taste good.”165Please respect copyright.PENANAKE0Q2KGYwC
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.”…165Please respect copyright.PENANAip5NrHddtW
“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!165Please respect copyright.PENANA0XTaH8lPCc
When I told her that in complaint, she ended up replying “Apologise to Belgium”…165Please respect copyright.PENANAEoaiN9HVXb
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.165Please respect copyright.PENANA6l876VC3rK
In my mind, Fukioka-san is under the ‘cannot make into an enemy’ category.165Please respect copyright.PENANAv9uozTQ6UU
Apparently she’s learning to cook to prepare for her future as Akizawa-kun’s wife.165Please respect copyright.PENANAuY7r0EZ5cw
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.165Please respect copyright.PENANAlhSTWnKO7I
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.165Please respect copyright.PENANAHgheHhgYPY
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.165Please respect copyright.PENANAoqwJhayGLD
When I get into middle school, maybe I really should start learning…165Please respect copyright.PENANAGrU3Igwjv5
Right now, Aoi-chan is my Soothing Friend.165Please respect copyright.PENANAod7nUj03PF
She’s docile and seems withdrawn, but once you’re closer with her, she starts laughing a lot.165Please respect copyright.PENANAaDoTZp2Ja1
She would definitely never say something like “the taste is lacking”. What a good girl.165Please respect copyright.PENANAmMl9bmjj4Y
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!165Please respect copyright.PENANAjpPF6V8Kpw
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.165Please respect copyright.PENANAaTFpfd5FEy
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.165Please respect copyright.PENANA22z5RiuD0e
And shocking! For the holidays in spring, she got me region-exclusive potato chips!165Please respect copyright.PENANABDCmv5BgGl
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!165Please respect copyright.PENANA8XRiBuTM9Z
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.165Please respect copyright.PENANAS9Bg18hIWd
So nostalgic. My body trembled from the cheap taste.165Please respect copyright.PENANAstu4rPzDLw
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”.165Please respect copyright.PENANAI14gr75fNu
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?”.165Please respect copyright.PENANAGIiJ0zxAjB
It’s hard to find a chance to start things like this, isn’t it?165Please respect copyright.PENANAXJ45zpsJfE
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.165Please respect copyright.PENANAq8JfTDyX6u
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.165Please respect copyright.PENANAJS2bC0bogK
Teacher swindled me using that ‘ask big first, then go for small’ trick.165Please respect copyright.PENANAPLdmf2a5pe
I got totally fooled. In the end, I was stuck as the odd job girl again.165Please respect copyright.PENANAE2Ngg1vByc
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.165Please respect copyright.PENANASykMFx4d5X
Collecting forms was easy too, since the scary army of girls behind me made everybody cooperative.165Please respect copyright.PENANAkwQylblNof
Class Rep even said, “As expected of Kisshouin-san”. I don’t think he was praising me though.165Please respect copyright.PENANAP1pqZRjGpO
It was like I was the bodyguard of some debt collector.165Please respect copyright.PENANAI9pP5EUR0X
This is weird. This isn’t how things were supposed to be. I get the feeling that recently I’ve been losing my elegance.