Vol 1 Chapter 5 (1/2)
5: Light Music is Mayhem
The next day, during lunch break time
While eating lunch, I narrated in great detail what happened yesterday Kaoru stared with his eyes wide open
”Oh, that’s really an unexpected development”
Kaoru was right
The fact that I got a girlfriend was a ridiculously abnormal event
Yet I would've never thought that I, fa club activities…
”Do you knoho the advisor is? If there isn't one, it isn't possible to do any club activities, right?”
“She’s the Classical lesson's teacher Itotani[1]-sensei Last year she was the instructor of the tea cereraduated, the club was shut down We heard she wasn’t very busy, and it worked out that our club could take over the tea ceremony club”
”Then how did you explain the club activities to the teacher?”
”For the purpose of re-discovering the true appearance of the japanese nified, pure, upright, and beautiful girls, learning etiquette or maybe courtesy, etc”
I had listened to Masuzu explaining this to the teacher, but I was completely bewildered
Well, forget it It was just a spectacle of words
”Our club activities will have the purpose ofeveryone, fuhuhuhu~tehe☆ ”, Now that certainly wasn’t a proper thing to say
Besides, there was also a more important unresolved issue: Whether my notebook would be leaked to Chiwa or not
I later asked Masuzu why she had to bring in all this nonsense—
'No special reason It's justthat way'
'This diary is full of very interesting subjects I can clearly sense Eita’s extraordinary talentAura'
'But do not worry, I will neither disclose the contents of the diary to Harusaki-san, nor will I let her know that this is in fact your personal diary'
'I promise you, in case this should ever happen, I will lift you from your role of 'boyfriend'Fake'
Well, since she said so, there was no har that for now
But it was i unease
”Having said that, Natsukawa-san’s initiative is really a, yeah”
”Yeah, I was actually surprised”
In fact, in merely one day spent she found an advisor, applied and settled a club, furtherroup I didn’t expect such power from an ojou-sama
Incidentally, Masuzu still wasn't in the classrooo to the student cafeteria So, where was she eating lunch?
”Oh, right, what about Chihuahua-chan[2]?”
”It looks as if she is truly burning with fighting spirit”
Even though it seees, Chiwa had coht for dinner
The dish was ginger roast pork, and she continuously refilled her rice bowl three times
”Even though it's really irritating to be lectured by that woood”
”I want to steal the secret, I want to be more popular than Natsukawa I will absolutely show you!”
Chiwa splattered rice while talking excitedly, looking very happy
It was probably that:
Ever since she had been unable to practice Kendo, I think she had tooto be spent
Moreover, she often said she was 'looking for new things to get into'
Hehe
”Doesn't Eita soht now?”
”Don’t say stupid things She forced ”
However, the expression on my face had answered differently
In fact, Kaoru was coht I was a little bit happy
Yet, it's not because I was taking part in a new club
Rather, watching Chiwa repeatedly try her hardest —It didn’t feel bad
”Having said that, being sandwiched in between two girls is very hard, too” Kaoru said with a wry smile
”Yeah, only you can understand me”
”Of course, because we’re best friends”
This kind of e I also want to reach with irlfriend' and 'childhood friend'
I eagerly look forward to it!
♦
After school—
There was a hanging-scroll written in calligraphy by Masuzu hanging in front of the clubroom door
Our Jien-Otsu Club was finally ready to start activities
”Harusaki-san, are you ready?”, Masuzu asked
Masuzu earing snohite clothes as a cloak, which she mysteriously obtained fro as if she was a teacher This kind of dress was utterly well-suited for her As expected, beauties could do things like that
”Young maidens’ self-recreation, let’s start!”
Chiwa muttered with discontent, but nevertheless knelt onto a seat cushi+on Like a true experienced kendo practitioner, her back was diligently straight, and her posture was excellent
I followed and sat cross-legged on a folding chair, not far froirls
”To start, let’s agree on a goal”
”Goal?”
”First, we target the person you want as your boyfriend To put it simply, 'who do you want to take down[3]'?”
”Beco popular without that isn't possible?”
”I believe setting a goal will ”
”But even if you want me to suddenly pick someone”
She said, then Chiwa briefly glanced towards me
What is it?
Is she going to ask for my advice about it?
”That’s right, it’s a rather good thing to have a goal Well, do you have anyone you're troubled by?”
”Ah… How could I have… uh?”
Chied her head
Ehhhhh…
She doesn’t like any boy in particular, yet she still wants to be popular?
This totally exhausts the point of having a goal
”Don’t think too hard, it’s alright to start with those you think of as friends”
Chiwa bent her head down for a while and said,
”Well”
She then looked up and continued,
”Sakata froirls in our class discussing how handsome he is”
Sakata?
Does the men's basketball club have a senpai with that name?
”Do you ami-senpai? The third-year?”
”Ah, r-right, that’s him”
So it turned out to be that senior?
If it’s really hi to participate in the High School Inter-High Sports Coh School’s basketball tea, and is definitely considered 'the' popular' male senior
”But he's practically an unattainable flower, isn't that a problem?”
”Yeah, I definitely don’t recouely
I was a bit surprised
I thought she would say, 'aood”
”No wait, actually this is very convenient”
She went on as if putting aside her earlier hesitation She wildly nodded and said: ”Sakagaht be easier to use him to introduce yourself”
”Maybe you can even get hiirl' in his class”
Even after all the trouble of finally picking a target, Chiwa’s expression still looked particularly unhappy
”Well, I guess I can settle for the Sakashi+ta-senpai as a goal”
”You ht?”
”Ah, right, it’s Sakagami-senpai”
How did her enthusiasm suddenly disappear?
Just yesterday, she was so vigorously spirited
”Well, since we’ve agreed on a goal —we’ll begin the first day of the lecture”
Masuzu stood in front of a whiteboard (which she got from who knohere), and said:
”First we’ll read aloud 'his' diary, so please pay attention and listen”
Huh?
I couldn’t help but be taken aback Yet, Masuzu’s eyes glanced at me with a smile and told me 'don't you worry'
Well, I’ll believe you for now
May 28th - Clear
I want to introduce uitar and Western music, as well as the rhythm of the soul
Today, I carried my partners out with me
They are o, pass them away, nor substitute them with false avatars
It is the 'GUITAR'[4]! It's engraved as my soul partner
When I carry the guitar, I look precisely like an artist
The eyes of people passing on the street look at me differently
That’s because they see an artist's eyes - looking forward to only what's in front of him
Exposed to this ardent gaze,fire, hot, hot
But my expression has always been 'KOOL'[5]
Because— no, it’s not like that
KOOL face × HAT soul[6] = ∞
If it’s not like that, you can’t make real music—
C' the prelude of a live performance!
Let the dispirited school —heat up now!
”Ku— oooooooooooouuuu—”
This is
T-This is sooo
Masuzu really did follow our agree specific terms, so one couldn’t tell that I wrote that diary
She did it very well, and I wanted to praise her
B-But
But…
Aaaaaaaaaggghhhhhhhhhhh…
”Hey, hey, Ei-kun! Are you okay?”
I found Chiwa shaking my shoulder
”Yeah, I’? You look so surprised”
”Because you suddenly started banging your head on the wall! Eh! You… You’re bleeding!”
Chiwa quickly took out a red disinfectant fluid and a gauze fro first-aid since participating in the kendo club She was very experienced and skilled with treating injuries
“Would Ei-kun like to go to the infirmary?”
Masuzu was also surprisingly caring
—Oh wait, wasn’t she the one guilty for this?!
damn
I never i the notebook in front of others would have such great destructive power
It really exceeded my expectations
Maybe it really will affect my life
I have to hurry and make Chiwa popular, and then stop the club activities, otherwise
”S-Sorry, I’”
Masuzu nodded, and stood again in front of the whiteboard
”The point of this diary entry is – 'people who are in a band, are popular'! In particular: The guitar In fact, ninety-seven percent of high school boys who start to learn playing guitar do so to becoation data is very clear; in other words: The guitar has a very good effect on popularity Of course, this also applies to high school girls”
Although Masuzu calree that her claih she inverted the reasoning
People who played in bands were really popular But was this because 'bands make people popular' or just because 'popular people play in bands'? Which of these, I am not quite sure
”But what if I can’t play the guitar?”
”Then what can you play?”
Chiwa tilted her head to the side and said:
”Ehhh the shi+nai?”
”The shi+nai is not a musical instrument”
”Eh? But they make a sound when you are hit by them”
”What kind of pitch is that?”
”Face hit ♪ Face hit ♪[7]”
”How can you say that so casually?!”
Masuzu tapped her baton on the whiteboard and said:
”It's alright even if you can’t play”
”Eh?”
”You just have to look as if you kno to play You’ll have no chance to perfor school anyways ”
”That’s right”
”For a while, the 'air guitar'[8] was really fashi+onable, right? That’s the best evidence that if you want to be popular, you don’t actually need to be able to make music”
Masuzu pulled out a guitar case from behind the whiteboard
It was a huge, hard, black-colored case
”Here, this is for you”
Chiwa took the box, flipped it around and rolled her eyes
”There’s no guitar in here?”
Masuzu shrugged, as if to uage She asked: ”If we put it in, wouldn’t it be too heavy?”
”[]”
”Please carry this case with you As a guitar player would say, a guitar is the equivalent of one’s own body, right, Eita-kun?”
”S-Sure”
In the notebook, it ritten like that
Though in reality, I knew nothing about the guitar
My diary entry was entirely based on the idea, 'If I could play the guitar' You could say it was a type of psychological preparation or vision for the future or well… maybe a kind of ideal dream narrative
Ugh
No
”Waaahhhhhhhhh! If you jump from that , you’ll be killed!”
”What's wrong with you?! Calm down, Ei-kun!”
I finally gave up on the idea of suicide with Chiwa’s attempts to calm me
Masuzu cleared her throat and said:
”If anyone wants to touch this case, just angrily rebuke theo with your dirty hands!', characteristic irritability is a distinctive trait of a guitarist”
That was a seriously prejudiced stereotype
”But the inside's eht?”
”Well, if you put a guitar in, won’t it be too heavy?”