Chapter 1

Excuse me~ ♪

Pardon us. …Sir, it’s impolite to slam the door when you open or close it.

Oh c’mon, you’re such a nag, Yuzuru!

Anyway, Eichi-sama! Take a look at this! I made a new proposal!

I was thinking fine could do something alongside SS… ♪

Fufu, I welcome any and all of your proposals, my adorable Tori.

However, we’ll be overwhelmed with work for the student council during SS, so I doubt we’ll have much time to do anything.

I’d be fine leaving it all to Keito, but he looks like he’s going to die from overwork any day now, so I don’t want to push him too hard.

There’s no winning if I get sued in that scenario, is there?

Fufun~ Sure we can; it’s just a matter of coming up with the right idea!

I’ve been thinking up a bunch of ideas to help us keep standing out even though we’re so busy ♪

C’mon, check it out! They’re all in the proposal I made!

I even made sure the formatting was easier to read, and I added illustrations where they were needed ♪

Oh yes, having illustrations does make it easier to understand.

Every time Anzu-chan writes up a proposal, it always looks like a cute little picture book; it’s quite soothing. Keito always complains how messy and unorganized the drawings are, though.

Oh yeah, where is the vice prez today?

Apesara’s in Trickstar, so obviously he’s gonna be busy with SS right around the corner, focusing on lessons and stuff, but…?

It’s “Isara-senpai,” sir. Not “Apesara.”

Now, now… Being called a nickname is a sign of friendship, isn’t it? I find it charming. Actually, I’d even say I’m jealous.

But regardless, Keito said he’d be giving Mao some private instruction—something about secret techniques and methods. Maybe he’s teaching him some special moves he can use at SS?

Trickstar did once again earn the right to represent Yumenosaki Academy at Star Fes yesterday, after all.

We all ought to do what we can to help them win SS.

Fufu, Wataru—Maybe you should follow Keito’s example and teach Hokuto some secret techniques? That kind of thing is still necessary in these decisive battles… ♪

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Yikes…! How long have you been there, Rapunzel?! I didn’t even see you ‘cause you were so weirdly quiet!

I–is something the matter, Hibiki-sama? You seem rather dispirited…?

I don’t know the reason, but please cheer up. Such a gloomy face doesn’t suit you ♪

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Hey, was the Hokuto-kun from yesterday a hallucination only I could see…?

I saw him on the train on our way to school this morning, so I got excited and called out to him…

But no matter how much I goaded him in hopes of getting a funny reaction out of him… he just told me to be quiet because I was keeping him from what he was reading. He didn’t even look up…

I kept pushing, though, practically begging for him to pull something out…

But then he just looked at me as if I were bothering him and did that classic trick where he pretends his thumb had been cut off…

It wasn’t funny at all…! H–how could this be…? I thought you’d grown up, Hokuto-kun, to the point where you could finally touch my heart with Amazing…!

Fufu, don’t rush things so much. People don’t grow so quickly that you can see them change, you know.

We grow slowly, day after day, cell division by cell division, over and over.

Our cute Tori is a prime example. This proposal, too, is much more well-written than the first one…

It’s shocking how quickly children grow up, isn’t it? But that’s what makes life so fun.

Finally, I can go to bed every night eagerly awaiting the next day.

Ah, our future looks so bright… ♪