Chapter 5

i am sorry for making you carry the Fish tank, anzu-san. are you all right? it is not too heavy, is it?

we are getting a lot of new Friends, and so we need to Add more fish tanks.

eh? yes~ i was going to Carry them by myself. i do not want to Work souma too hard.

souma is still Recovering from his cold. and as usual, kaoru is nowhere to be seen.¹

do you think so? i am a very Strong person, after all.

however, there are a lot of them, so i appreciate that you are helping me, anzu-san. this way, i do not have to make any more Trips back and forth.

so thank you ♪

fufufu. that is right, anzu-san is also very strong, yes?

Oh? Shinkai-senpai, anego, wassup~ ☆

hello~ tetora and midori, and even Bluebird-san. you are all together again~?

As thanks for yesterday, I’m helping Nagumo-kun and Takamine-kun make snowboards.

We were just heading to the garden terrace to get the materials.

But hey, Shinkai-senpai and anego’re carrying some giant packages there, why’s that? What is it? Fish tanks?

Oh, anego. Lemme give you a hand carrying that! No need to hold back!

Anzu-san, I’ll get this one here, too… Shouldn’t you leave this kind of thing to the boys?

Righto! Eh? We had something we were doing?

Oh, it’s fine. The cardboard isn’t gonna get up and run away, so there’s no rush. We can go get it from the garden terrace after we help you and Shinkai-senpai out.

you were going to the Garden terrace to get Cardboard? hm.

tetora, midori, Bluebird-san. if you will help with carrying the Fish tanks to the Club room—

then in return, i will give you all of the leftover Cardboard. does that sound okay?

i do not mind if you make your Boards while you are in the Club room, either.

Huh?! Is that really okay with you, Shinkai-senpai? Thanks sooo much! We were gonna help out anyway, but!

Since you’re giving us your cardboard, we’ll work a million times harder!

It’s good with me, too. Or maybe I should say it works out perfectly…? It’s easier if you can get everything you need all in one place… ♪

If you two are fine with it, then I don’t mind, either. Shinkai-kun, do you need this tank carried, too?

yes~ thank you, everyone ♪ let us head off to the Club room, then~ ♪

And… there. Phew~ Fish tanks sure are heavy.

For reals? I didn’t even break a sweat.

Oh, to be young and lively. I envy you. My back starts creaking whenever I do manual labor lately. Ow, ow…

Now you’re starting to sound like an old man. You’re only, like, two years older than me, right?

If your back’s hurting, then I’d suggest you train up your inner core.

Ahaha. I’ll take it into account.

thank you, everyone~ ♪ we were able to carry all of them in one Trip.

tetora, you can use this Cardboard and that Cardboard.

because it had a Fish tank in it, it should be Big and Durable.

I can really have this many? Thanks, Shinkai-senpai!

of course~ i would have just thrown them away~ so really, you are saving me some trouble ♪

Nn? What’s up, anego?

Oh, right! We’re gonna make snowboards outta these and use ‘em to slide down the ski slope we made.

Huh? Sounds fun? You want in?

We’ve got a whole lotta cardboard here, so we should have enough to make boards for everyone, right?

Um, Anzu-san, you can say no if you don’t want to do it, you know…? What I mean is, maybe we can get out of it together…?

Oh. Saying you wanna try it with that big smile on your face…

This is the worst… I thought you’d take my side, Anzu-san… Everyone in this world is my enemy…

Don’t be like that~ Aren’t I your ally, Midori-kun?

Huh… I can’t think of many times you were on my side though…?

Well I’m sure not on the side of pessimism, but other than that I’m definitely your ally!

Sigh… How am I supposed to accept that, I’m so depressed…