This is my Christmas present to you, and Iâd be really glad if you gifted me back with a review on novelupdates! Incidentally, Reika graduates from primary school soon, so letâs have one chapter every 15 minutes until she does.
Oniisama graduated from high school and entered university, while I entered Year 6. Once I considered that I wouldnât see Oniisama in uniform anymore, I felt a little lonely, so I took a few photos of him. The Suiran high school uniform really is so cool! I asked him to wear it occasionally at home, but he refused&h.e.l.lip; Isnât it fine if itâs just in the house~?
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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. I mean, a love between a primary schooler and high schooler is just impossible, right~? I think he should just give up already, but this first love of his is supposed to continue until high school, so I guess thereâs no reason heâll give up now. According to Aira-sama Intelligence, Kaburagi isnât stalking Yurie-sama, but because they donât get to meet often, heâs expressing his feelings by letter. It worked last time, so it looks like heâs encouraged because of it.
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Since I also became a 6th Grader, next year Iâll be riding the escalator system into middle school. Having said that though, Iâm preparing for our internal examinations, so I ended up getting a home tutor. My home teacher is Ousaka Karin-sensei and she goes to a national university. She comes over twice a week. 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 Iâm supposed to feel when I canât even get first place amongst primary schoolers. 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-senseiâs explanations are easy to understand and I make progress studying with her. Even if I donât get it the first time when I see it at cram school, it really helps that I can have her follow up. 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 heâs family.
âYou learn quickly, donât you, Reika-san. Really, well done for getting this far.â Karin-sensei often says stuff like that to praise me. Apparently sheâs the type who praises people to get them to try harder. And Iâm the type that gets fired up when Iâm praised or flattered, so we have pretty good compatibility, I think.
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Ever since that day in winter, Iâve been sitting with Akizawa-kun and f.u.kioka-san in my Maths and j.a.panese cram cla.s.ses. f.u.kioka-san sits right in the middle, with Akizawa-kun and I to her sides. f.u.kioka-san wouldnât let Akizawa-kun sit in the middle, you see. I also exchanged mail addresses with f.u.kioka-san, and weâve gotten quite a bit closer.
Contrary to her appearance as a j.a.panese-style beauty, f.u.kioka-san has quite the venomous tongue.
On Valentines Day that year, I gave my hand-made chocolates to Aoi-chan and f.u.kioka-san. At Suiran we expect that Valentines chocolates are better quality than even high-cla.s.s stores, so itâs my first time giving hand-made chocolates to anybody but my family. Last year Aira-sama taught me how to make them, and Otousama even said âThis is the best one youâve made so far.â, 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. Oniisama also said âMaking one like last year would taste good.â So I handed them over to them filled with confidence.
Aoi-chan told me âIt was yummy.â but f.u.kioka-san said âItâs not very good.â&h.e.l.lip; âItâs not bad, but the taste is kind of lacking. Did you use cheap chocolate to make this?â she said. So rude! I used chocolate from Belgium! When I told her that in complaint, she ended up replying âApologise to Belgiumâ&h.e.l.lip; f.u.kioka-san, the gap between your appearance and inside is too huge&h.e.l.lip;
Incidentally, I didnât give one to Akizawa-kun. Whether itâs a friendship chocolate or a courtesy chocolate, f.u.kioka-san would probably get mad regardless. In my mind, f.u.kioka-san is under the âcannot make into an enemyâ category. Apparently sheâs learning to cook to prepare for her future as Akizawa-kunâs wife. How amazing. Sheâs got a much better idea of her future than I do. Sheâs actually planned so much that itâs even a little scary. And you know, Akizawa-kun, itâs impossible for you to escape now. Iâm scared of f.u.kioka-san too, so Iâm afraid I canât help you. Forgive your cowardly friend!
And so, f.u.kioka-san asked me, âWhat if you learnt as well?â but Iâll probably be busy with the internal exams this year, so I turned her invitation down. When I got home, I told Oniisama âMy friend told me the taste was lacking.â and he replied âThe personâs feelings are more important than the taste in situations like this.â and I wasnât sure how to feel about that. When I get into middle school, maybe I really should start learning&h.e.l.lip;
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Right now, Aoi-chan is my Soothing Friend. Sheâs docile and seems withdrawn, but once youâre closer with her, she starts laughing a lot. She would definitely never say something like âthe taste is lackingâ. What a good girl. And whatâs 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! Iâm so happy! When I got home, I immediately put house keys on it. Thereâs always a maid around and somebody chauffeurs me places and back, so to begin with Iâve never used a key before. But I do carry one around just in case. 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. And shocking! For the holidays in spring, she got me region-exclusive potato chips! Aoi-chan said stuff like âAlthough Iâm not sure if you would even eat this sort of stuff&h.e.l.lip;â in embarra.s.sment, but Iâll eat it, you know! Or rather, itâs my favourite! Iâve wanted to eat potato chips for six years now, you know! The potato chips were in a souvenir bag, and I carefully snuck it into my room so that Okaasama wouldnât see. It was late at night when I sneakily ate it. So nostalgic. My body trembled from the cheap taste. 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 âAoi-chanâ in my mind, but in front of the girl herself itâs âYorino-sanâ. I donât have the courage to use her first name. I mean, Iâd hate it if she went âEh-? Whatâs with that all of a sudden?â. Itâs hard to find a chance to start things like this, isnât it?
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My homeroom teacher wanted me to be cla.s.s 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&h.e.l.lip; or rather I got stuck with it. That was probably the plan from the beginning. After all, the position of cla.s.s rep went to this boy who had done it a bunch of times already. Teacher swindled me using that âask big first, then go for smallâ trick. I got totally fooled. In the end, I was stuck as the odd job girl again. Though itâs true that my thimbles still lie sleeping in my pencilcase though.
But this time itâs just within my cla.s.s, so without my natural enemies here, things went smoothly. Collecting forms was easy too, since the scary army of girls behind me made everybody cooperative. Cla.s.s Rep even said, âAs expected of Kisshouin-sanâ. I donât think he was praising me though. It was like I was the bodyguard of some debt collector. This is weird. This isnât how things were supposed to be. I get the feeling that recently Iâve been losing my elegance.