Chapter 78: I Wonder Why? [side Yukari Tomonaga]
※ This is Yukari's chapter, please keep comments gentle w
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I'm Yukari Tomonaga, also known as Miss Hokusho, Cinderella Girl, and the Miracle of One Summer ☆
As a popular girl, everyone was jealous of me? I was in quite a pinch.
In class, I got expelled from the top clique over a small mistake...
※ It's because I started a rebellion.
Tanaka-kun from the film club had feelings for me, but since I started dating Kuzu-kun, he got jealous? He complained about Miss Hokusho?
※ After that treatment to my best friend Kousuke, Tanaka-kun is furious.
Someone slipped photos of me and Kuzu-kun entering and leaving a love hotel into Osada-san's desk?
(I managed to retrieve them! Thank goodness!)
※ If the originals exist, they can print as many copies as they want.
Osada-san is trying to scare me by saying some weird rumor is spreading... but I'm Miss Hokusho, you know?
Can something that's already been decided be changed so easily?
After all, I didn't do anything dishonest.
To begin with, I haven't done anything to be ashamed of.
I've never done anything that would make people point fingers behind my back!
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And yet...!
Friday, after school in the student council room.
Ichinose "That's how it is, Tomonaga-san. Miss Hokusho will have no recipient this year. I'm sorry, but we'll have to ask you to return the Miss Hokusho commemorative items and other related things. As a consolation, you'll be awarded Miss First-Year, congratulations."
This person is Ichinose-senpai, a second-year. He's the student council secretary and is almost guaranteed to become student council president in next month's election—a well-known figure.
Handsome, calm, and composed, excelling academically. He's got this noble prince-like elegance that makes him super popular with the girls, a cool and beautiful young man.
I try to resist a little,
"I swear I didn't cheat or break any rules. Isn't it awful to invalidate an award after it's been given?"
I look up at him with pleading eyes, okay? Please!
"We fully understand that. However, it became unfair to the other beauty contest participants, and there was a strong complaint from the film club itself. The film club's work was also slated for an award, but they've withdrawn it, issued an apology to the beauty contest participants, and will destroy the work. ...So, this time... If you're willing, we'd be happy to have you participate again next year. We promise to judge fairly with new regulations."
In the end, even after arguing, the decision wasn't overturned. At next week's general morning assembly during the department awards, the cancellation of Miss Hokusho and the awarding of the Miss First-Year title will be announced...!
I left the school and met up with Kuzu-kun,
I cried, got angry, and took it out on him just a little.
※ It was super annoying and clingy.
Kuzu-kun listened to me with nods, and gently hugged me ♡
Kuzu-kun is, as always, obsessed with boobs...
After we loved each other plenty, I still had lingering feelings, so,
"Cancelling Miss Hokusho is so cruel, isn't it...?"
I complained like that,
Kuzu "You're not gonna be Miss Hokusho anymore?!"
He seemed surprised. That part of him is cute, isn't it?
※ He wasn't really listening to Yukari's story.
In the end, Miss First-Year, huh.
Well, my initial goal was Miss First-Year anyway.
Thinking about it that way... but I still can't let go of the regret...
And then, the following week.
During the general morning assembly, there was an announcement from the student council, and our class won the Best Award for the mock store.
My Miss Hokusho title was revoked, and my Miss First-Year award was announced.
Our class...
Have they forgotten my contribution to drawing in customers?
I worked so hard to help, and once it succeeded, they just tossed me aside?
I worked so hard for free... saying all those nice things to my face...
That kind of betrayal... I really question their humanity?
※ Is this self-introduction?
Even Osada-san, just for one small mistake, just once... isn't expulsion too harsh?
※ The fact that she could write a line like "I'll write real stuff and get you expelled!" was memorable.
I have no place in the class, people whisper about me from a distance, and I have no friends.
It's because I became pretty and got results in the beauty contest that they're jealous of me.
That's what I tell myself to stop caring.
※ This is the only part where her mentality is strong w
After the general morning assembly, Osada-san came to me.
We haven't interacted even once since that day. No matter how much you bow your head now, it's not coming back!
Osada "This Best Award for the mock store is largely thanks to Tomonaga. ...So just once, if you're in trouble, I'll help you out just once. It might not get through, but [humbly and modestly]. That's the path to saving yourself, okay?"
"..."
I didn't reply,
Just watch! I'm definitely not going to let it end like this!
I'll make them go "Ah!" in surprise!
Even so, being alone is lonely.
Kuzu-kun also suddenly got busy? or something.
That day and the next, he had things to do and we couldn't meet.
After school,
Teacher "Tomonaga-san?"
"Yes?"
I was called by the homeroom teacher. The guidance office?
I'm free today, so it's fine, but what could it be? I can't think of anything.
※...
Teacher "Tomonaga-san, these photos were submitted to the student council room's suggestion box."
"Ah!"
I lined up every word I could think of, pleading that it was baseless.
Fabrication! They're jealous of me! A prank! Slander!
But the teacher said,
Teacher "The dates are different, but there are several days' worth, entering and leaving. I'll ask Kuzu-kun about the situation as well, but..."
Everything went dark before my eyes.
The next day, I skipped school.
The day after, I was summoned and went straight to the guidance office.
...Kuzu-kun and I were given a 10-day suspension for improper relations with the opposite sex...
A small relief in this misfortune is that with 10 days... I can still take the final exams.
Why is it always me...?
What did I even do!
※ It's improper relations with the opposite sex.
If I'm out for two weeks, I won't be able to catch up with my studies!
I was completely at a loss.
Kuzu-kun doesn't seem to be very smart, so I couldn't rely on him much for studying.
※ Well, he's probably not very smart...