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It’s April and the first day of school.
I wondered which class I’ll be in, and which class my friends will be in,
I was looking at the bulletin board when suddenly I was grabbed by the arm.
“E~y ! Kingo is in class 3 with me. C’mon, let’s go.”
It was Ohori Naoyuki, the soccer team’s member.
“Hey, wait a minute !”
He dragged me into class 3, and it turned out that Ohori was the only classmate in class 3 !
Seriously !
I went on line to gather information !
[I’m in class 3. Where is everyone?]
[Too bad ! Me, Yuika, and Yuri are in class 7 !]
[Why am I the only one !]
[You’re a science student. We’re humanities. You knew that, didn’t you?]
[I forgot. Right. I was expecting to be in the same class as everyone else…]
[Idiot.]
[Idiot.]
[Idiot.]
As I stared at my phone, I heard a refreshing greeting.
“Good morning, everyone ! Looking forward to working with you from now on !”
Matsukubo Takuma, with a fresh smile on his face, walked in alone,
The girls cheered, and I was taken aback to see him again.
As it turned out, Ohori Naoyuki and Matsukubo Takuma were the only two students from Class 1-3 in my Class 2-3.
Well, Naoyuki and I have been friends for half a year now.
On Wednesday, Yutaro, Yuri, and Yuka invited me to visit Class 2-7 with my lunch.
Four desks were combined and Yutaro, Yuri, and Yuka were sitting there, but there was one more boy sitting there, putting his lunch box on the desk !
Who? Why? What am I supposed to do?
I was puzzled, when Yuri noticed me.
“Kingo, over here !”
“….Oh !”
I was confused, so I slowly approached her.
“Hey, hurry up and leave !”
Yutaro made a grumbling sound, and the boys who had been sitting down stood up reluctantly.
“I’d like to be a part of this group, but… you’re so petty.”
Hey, don’t you think?”
He looked me in the eye and said.
“……Hm? I don’t know.”
The guy was about 6 feet tall, pencil thin.
He wore glasses and was a serious, good-looking guy.
“Hurry up and make friends in your class.”
He returned to his seat with a sarcastic whisper to me.
“…..What was that?”
“Oh, that’s Umetani Koichi, the ace high jumper on the track team and the top student in our grade.
…..He seems to want to be in our group.
Anyway, I told him not today, but he won’t listen to me.”
“Kingo, you’d better come running next week ! Faster !”
After school, Yutaro called me in.
It was a fresh feeling that this is what happens when you are in different classes.
“Hey, Umeya is after Yuri.”
“Eh?”
“Yuri is cute and she doesn’t have a boyfriend. So what are you gonna do?”
Yutaro looked at me with cold eyes.
“….Even if you ask me. It’s up to Yuri to decide, right?”
“Hmph ! I don’t care what happens.”
I was puzzled, but I mumbled the same answer as before,
Yutaro spat out one word and left.
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The results of the competency test conducted early in the new semester have come back,
I met up with Yuri at the usual convenience store.
In the first year, there were six tests: midterm, final, and achievement, resulting in three wins and three losses.
Anyway, I paid for the Hagen fee, and we sat down to eat,
we compared the report cards.
I was 19th, and Yuri was 25th.
“I did it ! I won !”
“No way ! 19th place is great !”
“Well !”
There are less than 300 students in a grade, and at the beginning of the year, we were about in 80th,
But we finally made it to the top 20 !
“What university is Kingo aiming for?”
“Well, Shindai, I guess. I don’t think it’s possible.”
“It seems impossible, but you still wanna go there. I understand.”
“I wonder if anyone from this school goes there.”
“I heard there’s only one or two, including a year held back.”
“So you’re saying you have to be the overwhelming number one.”
“Umetani, who was in my class, was the overwhelming number one”.
Is it that guy who was after Yuri the other day?
“Erm, was he the high jumper?”
“Yeah, that’s right. He’s also after the student council president.”
Let’s just shout in our hearts, fall down~!
“…Heh, really?”
“Yeah. I guess it’s because it’s advantageous for recommendation.
By the way, Haruko also said she’s gonna run for student council, aiming for recommendation.”
“I didn’t know that. By the way, where can you go with a recommendation?”
“I heard that one student goes to Kansai University every year.”
“Seriously ! I didn’t know that !”
“Me neither. Umetani kun told me a lot of things during lunch break,
if you’re not the head of a club or a student council member, it’s hard to get in.
So he asked me to join the student council…..”
He’s coming on pretty strong.
And Yuri doesn’t seem to mind.
“….What are you gonna do?”
“Well, the recommendation is tempting, but I don’t really wanna join the student council…”
“I see…”
A black cloud of anxiety was swelling.
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