Volume 6 Chapter 2 (1/2)

shi+rohara Ren had served as Megutono

Acadeh the previous year

At the time, she had been known as

History’s Greatest President

She got excellent grades and was skilled at

sports She was the lacrosse team’s ace and she was beautiful to boot That

alone would have been enough to make her the school’s most prized student

But her excellence as President had come

from another talent: her superb leadershi+p

Herpeople into shape Her naturally lofty aura filled people with tension

She could be a little hardheaded herself

Whenever sothy

lecture about how a student should be focused on their studies, so she could be

inflexible She gave off a strict atmosphere, but that did not seem like a bad

thing unless you were truly up to no good

Everyone had sensed a slight disturbance of

the public

She was of course incredibly popular

Her light brown hair and bright white skin

gave her an al depth

Her small face was perfect, from the

outline to the distribution of facial features The long refined bridge of her

nose, her lips, and her strong-willed eyebrows all possessed a certain

elegance

And she also had a body very unlike a

japanese one Her beautiful breasts swelled out as much as possible without

detracting froance, her waist was skinny in contrast, and her butt

was cutely plus made her

look tall even though she was only about 160 cm And that helped add to her

reliable charisma

The entire school had been shaken ord

had arrived that she was leaving It ell known that 20 of the students

had written in her na for the current year’s Student Council

election

It was also still unknohy she had left

the school She had said nothing and not even the teachers had been informed

It was only speculation, but there were

rumors that she had heart problems Several people had seen her occasionally

holding her chest, so they wondered if she had transferred elsewhere to undergo

surgery

At any rate, she was soutono

Acadeet in only 4 months

…And the same was true for Mutsuki

Fifth period ended and school was let out

From the start of the second term until the

cultural festival at the end of September, the final class was a homeroom used

for s and preparations For today, they had just finished changing into

their gym clothes in the locker rooms

Mutsuki was a little late, so he started

back toward the classroom in a bit of a rush

And on the way…

“President shi+rohara is so great”

“…”

He just about came to a stop when he heard

that name

He had passed by some boys form the

adjacent class They were likely fans because they were discussing the famous

and beautiful President shi+rohara Ren on the way back to their own classroom

They said that she was good-looking, that

she had a nice body, and that her refined atmosphere was best of all

He wanted to stop and listen in, but he

continued on to his classroom instead And…

“Oops”

“Oh, sorry, Niki-san”

“Yeah, no biggie”

He ran across a girl exiting the classroom,

so he quickly moved aside

Niki Hozumi had nearly run into him, but

she was not a delinquent and she politely nodded to him when he let her past

She had returned her hair to brown and it bounced

as she moved

He ended up watching her leave as he walked

to his seat The cultural festival in Hozumi and

others participating with their clubs had left, but everyone else was seated

“…”

The return of the “most skilled president”

at the beginning of the 2nd tere to the entire

school

No matter where one went, people were

talking about her

That was norh since she had the

public position of Student Council President, but her mysterious departure and

return had also produced est theory was that she had

left to be treated for a heart disease, but others claimed she had tried and

failed to skip ahead to a high school elsewhere

The biggest change was the tense atmosphere

throughout the school

Everyone worked extra hard at their studies

and athletics and the students corrected their public morals even without the

teachers or Student Council doing anything

Even taking into account that it was the

start of the new term, the number of tardy students had drastically reduced,

and Niki Hozumi had returned her hair color to normal after only 3 days Some

had taken on more permanent new looks such as tanned skin or pierced ears, but

they were unable to flaunt it and aardly took their lessons as “somewhat

flashy but normal students”

A week had passed since the 2nd teran

The annoying subject tests were over and it

was ti event at the end of Septeutono

Academy’s cultural festival It was a little strict, but their school life was

mostly comfortable

“…Sigh”

Mutsuki rested his cheek in his hand and

sighed quietly as he listened to the bell for 6th period

He always feltabout Ren lately

It had been a week since the new term

began, but he still had not had a chance to speak with her

His relationshi+p at school with shi+rohara

Ren was the same as it had been the previous year They had met once, but they

had no connection beyond that Mutsuki knew her, but she showed no interest in

a normal student like him It was hardly a surprise that they had not spoken

during the past week

But the actual situation was different

Mutsuki was targeted by FeTUS because he

had the Serpent’s Eye

And she was a FeTUS agent known as FeTUS

Witches Miss B

But he had discovered that at the summer

break ca trip half a an,

she had not made any kind of move

He had discussed it with Ange and Micha,

but FeTUS and the angels were currently passive enemies, and their stalemateuntil FeTUS did He had tried asking FeTUS,

but Machina and Katsue-sensei had refused to tell hi

In the end, he had no idea what to do and

simply felt jealous

“…”

Also

There was one more reason for his

melancholy…

“Mutsuki!”

“Eh!?”

The boy had been zoning out, so he nearly

fell out of his chair when his name was called

He heard his class Class Rep

Sakae had apparently called his na the cultural

festival

“C’mon now, bestie There’s already way too

many people who refuse to listen to me, the

center of the class I don’t need you joining them too”

Sakae stood at the lectern and shrugged

“Sorry, sorry,” apologized Mutsuki with a bitter smile

Sakae wrote on the blackboard with messy

handwriting: “Cultural Festival Roles” In the corner, he added: “hell yeah!

Cultural Festival!”

“Okay, let’s get started For the cultural

festival, all the 2nd years are putting on a traffic safety play for the

elementary school”

He gestured grandly as he spoke He was an

eternal opti the scene came naturally to him

“Our class will be playing 5 roles, so we

need to decide ill be doing that”

“Ehhhhh!?”

About 70 of the class began booing

That was hardly surprising They had to

ith the other 2nd year classes for this And it was a play More than

just that 70 thought this sounded like a pain in the ass

But as casual as he could be, Sakae always

made sure to do his job as the class rep

“Yes, yes Settle down This was decided

for us, so there’s no helping it”

He clapped his hands

None of his class

to trouble their cheerful class rep, so they soon quieted down For one thing,

frightening Katsue-sensei atching them from a corner of the classroom

“Don’t worry As the undefeated rock-paper-scissors champion, I beat all the other

classes and got us all the easiest roles”

“Ohhhh~~”

This time, the class erupted into cheers and

applause

This childhood friend had natural talent at

entertaining everyone around him Mutsuki smiled and joined the applause even

though he had not joined the booing

“First, we’ll decide 3 to be in charge of

props and 1 to be in charge of the spotlight

The props require some hard work,

but you share it between several people The spotlight is only needed during

the rehearsal the day before and during the performance on the day of, so it

should be easy”

Sakae puffed his chest out proudly

Everyone seemed to accept that Those were

some easy jobs If they had been determined by rock-paper-scissors, he had some

decent luck

But…

“And? That’s 4, but what about the last

one?”

Saya raised her hand and spoke for the

class as a whole They had 5 roles, but Sakae had only revealed 4

“Well, about that last one…”

His behavior changed entirely and he

scratched at his head

“The lead Someone from our class will be

playing the lead”

“…”

The classroo

this time

Katsue-sensei ultiry and the

homeroom became truly unpleasant

A traffic safety play

Those were often put on at the police

station to teach s the crosswalk

and wearing your yellow hat

At a utono Academy,

the cultural festival was e interaction between school years,

so the assigned events were often targeted toward another year like this It

could be a choir or a play A those, Mutsuki’s middle school 2nd year had

been assigned a play for the lower elementary school years

It was an incredibly simple play

The lead girl had properly raised her hand

and used the crosshile in kindergarten But at her elementary school entrance

ceremony, she decides she is an adult and crosses somewhere other than the

crosswalk She gets hit by a car and injured, preventing her fro to the entrance

ceremony In the end, she promises a police officer and her mother that she

will never break the traffic rules again

It was an incredibly simple play that only

lasted about 20 irl, her mother, and the

police officer

But their class rep had drawn the short

straw in that small framework

“Ahh, ahh To think this would happen to

me, the rock-paper-scissors demon…”

“Sakae, you’ve always been unbeatable until

it actually matters Then you lose every time”

“Really?”

“In lunch rock-paper-scissors, you would

win the strawberry ”

“And the one who stole the pudding from me

was always you, bestie Oh, dammit I should’ve sent you in instead when

playing for the roles”

The homeroom continued, but they were free

to get up frohts Sakae and Saya naturally

gathered at Mutsuki’s desk

A so over the classroom

Especially over the girls

The play’s lead was a girl That meant only

the girls were at risk here

Taking part in a play was not a big deal

Students at this school would have to do that at some point, no matter what

year they were in And if it came to that, they would obediently help with the

props or spotlight They had enough courage to play the mother or police

officer if they had to

But they could not help but hesitate when

it came to the lead

Thatmore lines, but

so else orse

The costume

“Don’t we have soood

in this?”

Sakae pulled out what he had been given

It was the play’s costu and

some props such as the cast for after the accident

This hy the lead was restricted to

being a “girl” and not just a “child”

Since the same traffic safety play was done

every year, the costume was already decided

It was a dress with a large ribbon and a

brand-new red child’s backpack That kind of lolita design was not so a

girl Mutsuki’s age could wear This one felt like a punishment, especially when

coht

“Hmm~ A play sounds like fun, but a kid’s

backpack?”

Even ever-cheerful Saya looked unsure

“You don’t need to worry about it,

Kurikara I’onna ask you”

“Why not?”

“Well, these clothes are for an elementary

school girl”

“?”

“So it’s way too small for-…o!

Don’t pinch! Don’t pinch!”

Sakae fled as she pulled on the inside of his upper arm (a human weak point)

“That’s not what I meant! An elementary

school size wouldn’t ith someone as tall as you!”

“Oh, I get it now Sorry, sorry”

“God, what a violent girl Whoever said

someone with a round face has a round heart had no idea what they were-…o,

ow!”

Saya was really mad now, so Sakae fled with

her in pursuit

Mutsuki stared at the costumes and backpack

left on his desk

(Yeah, wearing this at our age would be a

bit much…)

He could not help but think that even

though he was not at risk as a boy

There were two costuarten

version and the entrance ceremony version They were both meant for kids

The entrance ceremony one was not too bad

It was a dress with finely folded frills adorning the neck, sleeves, and skirt

With just the one ribbon, it was not too fancy, but it did have an elegant,

gothic lolita design

However, the kindergarten outfit was

precisely that: a kindergarten unifore-ish yellow smock with

short sleeves and a long skirt

It would be asking a lot for a girl their

age to wear one, even as a joke

And as Sakae had pointed out, it was a

sirl would do

And just as he wondered who could wear it…

“Hey, hey Mutsuki-kun”

“Hm?”

Lucia poked at his back from the seat behind

him

“This is my first cultural festival, but is

putting on this play all we do?”

“No There’s plenty more This just means

we only need 5 people for the play our entire year is doing”

“Hmm”

The entire school took part in the cultural

festival, so how they participated differed between years

The elementary and middle school sections

generally enjoyed the festival while the high school section ran the festival

The younger you were, the less work you had to do and the more you could walk

around and have fun The older you were, the more you had to run refreshment

stands and stage productions Of course, the clubs and individuals also had

their own booths

“Then it doesn’t sound like there’s much we

can do together”

Lucia sounded disappointed, but he leaned

forward and rested his chin on Mutsuki’s shoulder He seemed to want to do

so in his first cultural festival, but he also did not seem interested

if it was not with Mutsuki

That hen their homeroom teacher

checked the clock

“Tomono, it’s about time”

“Oh, right”

And she instructed the class rep to get

going

Sakae returned to the lectern, so Saya, who

had been lightly pu him, and everyone else returned to their seats

“Okay, I’ll gather everyone’s opinions Any

volunteers to play the lead!?”

He raised his hand Unsurprisingly, no one

else did

“Okay, that’s 0 volunteers Any

recommendations?”

He continued just as everyone had expected

“Personally, I think we do have someone

who’s perfect for this role”

“Eh?”

He scratched his chin like he had trouble

saying it

He had seemed so worried before, so Mutsuki

tilted his head If they had someone perfect for the role, wasn’t it the class

rep’s duty to ask them to do it?

As he thought that, Sakae suddenly looked

his way

No, not at Mutsuki but diagonally behind

him

Everyone in the classroom naturally looked

in the sa Mutsuki, Lucia, and Machina

The only one who did not was the person who

had stared blankly out theinstead of taking part in the homeroom

discussion

“Eh? What?”

When she noticed everyone focused on her,

she followed their gazes diagonally behind her, but only found a

After about 3 seconds, she realized they

were looking at her

“Huh!?”

She kicked her chair back and stood up

“Me!? Y-you want me to play the lead!?”

“Yeah”

Sakae nodded Half the classmates looked

like they had expected this and the other half looked like they thought it was

a good idea

“Jiyuuni would look good on the stage”

“Ange-chan is cute”

“And e-chan

wearing a kiddie backpack!”

Ignoring Saya’s final comment, they all

praised the idea

She was so small that the costume size

would not be an issue She ht always look sullen, but she had the perfect

beauty for playing the lead role

“Wha-? Wait…”

Ange was simply confused

Since she naturally disliked humans and was

far from sociable, only Mutsuki and people like Saya would talk to her, so she

had never expected to be singled out here

“Ah ha ha ha Go for it, go for it It’s

the perfect part for you”

Lucia was immediately on board when he saw

Ange looking so troubled

Katsue-sensei said nothing as a teacher,

but she secretly grinned at seeing her enemy in a situation like this The

classroo on this answer

“D-don’t be ridiculous!”

Sensing that, Ange shouted angrily

“Don’t even try with this nonsense Why

should I have to do that?”

“Ehh? But I want to see you in a kiddie

backpack”

“So do I”

“Gh…”

Being friends could be a problem at times

like this, so while the rest of the class withered in front of the angry girl,

Saya doubled down As did Lucia who just wanted to cause trouble for the angel

“I-I said…”

She was too strong-willed to just go with

the flow, but when the entire class was looking her way, she had trouble

looking the no

Her eyes wandered in search of escape, but

she found no one, not even Mutsuki, to take her side

Her eyes finally stopped on the seat in

front of her

“I-Ibekusa should do it!”

“?”

“I bet she would be good atlines Ibekusa, you do it”

She tried to rope someone else into it

“…”

Machina looked taken aback at being dragged

in as a scapegoat

But that selection surprised everyone else

as well

“Ibekusa…”

“Ibekusa-san…?”

“Wow, that would work too! Machi-nyan in a

kiddie backpack! I so wanna see that!”

Saya’s exciteh the

classroo they wanted to see it too

Machina kept to herself so much that most

of the class had never heard her speak, but since spring, everyone had learned

how good looking she was

That cute girl tended to blend into the

background, so ould happen if she stood on the stage? Of course everyone

wanted to see that

Machina seemed hesitant, but she also

seemed to sense what everyone wanted

She briefly looked Mutsuki in the eye

While he did not say it out loud, the look on his face clearly said he wanted

to see it too

“If no one else is suitable, I can do it”

She stood up just like Ange had

“See!? That settles it Ibekusa will do it”

Ange immediately sat back down

Now everyone in the class was looking

Machina’s way

Mutsuki wondered if he should help her get

out of this, but he could not tell if the expressionless girl was opposed to

this idea She did not see, so would this settle it?

But then…

“Can Machi-nyan fit in the costume?”

Saya had wanted to see her in the backpack

more than anyone, but she still voiced her doubts

Mutsuki looked at the costumes Sakae had

left on his desk They were fairly se perfectly, but

Machina was ht for the class

Machina hesitated a moment

“I will try it on”

She took the costume from Mutsuki’s desk

She started with the glove-like cast since

it was the easiest to try on She had so with it on, but it

was not much of a problem

Next she tried another one of the props

“Nn…”

She put on the red backpack

“…Ohh”

Half the class gasped

Half the boys looked away and the other

half plus the girls blushed

Oblivious, Machina tested her range of

movement But…

“…They’re so plump”

Everyone nodded in agreement with Saya

This was out of the question

The shoulder straps were meant for an

elementary school kid, so they were too small for Machina and were much too

tight around her shoulders and sides This pulled her clothing back

“???”

Machina looked confused by their reaction

Gym clothes + a backpack would be

h on a norht

crirown-up body

The shi+rt was pulled tightly back against

the weighty mounds on the front And when your eyes focused on the sensual

outline of her breasts, you naturally continued down to the raw and sexual

lines of her hips visible through her bloomers

“…”

Mutsuki felt a bit like her bust belonged

to him, so he wordlessly took the backpack from her

“Ahem”

Sensing an odd mood in the classroom, Sakae

cleared his throat to gather attention

“Jiyuuni? Um, is there no way you can do

it?”

He looked to Ange once more

She blushed a little and seemed convinced

that Machina could not do it, but she still stubbornly shook her head

She refused to let them continue, so Sakae

sighed

“Fine, then We don’t have time, so we’ll

only figure out the prop and light people today …Mutsuki”

“Eh?”

“I have so to ask you”

Mutsuki never iined his week of

equilibrium would be broken by this

“Come in”

After nervously knocking at the door, a

familiar voice answered

Entering the Student Council Room was

enough to make any normal student nervous

But it was even worse for Mutsuki

“Hm?”

It was 6th period, so an officer would

definitely be there to receive cultural festival petitions

Only Student Council President shi+rohara

Ren was there She welco table

“Do you need so?”

“Y-yes I am from Class 2-1 We would like

to ask for an extension on deciding our roles for the play”

“Oh, that would be this form Write your

year, class nu an

extension”

She passed him a folded piece of paper and

a pen His heart pounded as he took them and filled out the indicated fields

Since they could not decide on someone for

the lead today, they had to submit this request to the Student Council Class

Rep Sakae was still running the homeroom, so he had asked his friend Mutsuki to

take care of this

Mutsuki had been unable to refuse, but he

had not expected to be alone with Ren

His hand trembled as he tried to write

Ren did not seeanized some

kind of paperwork

As far as he could see, she was no more

than a diligent student While he did sense the skilled aura of a charismatic

Student Council President, he could not see anything other than that

There was no sign that she was FeTUS

Witches Miss B

“Are you done?”

“Eh? Oh, yes”

He suddenly looked up and their eyes met He

felt his heart leap in his chest and handed her the filled-out form

She barely looked at it before sta it,

tearing it along the fold, and handing him back half

That completed the process He could take

back that half

Ren returned to her ithout saying a

word That implicitly told him he could leave and he just about turned his back

But he could not just leave here

He had wanted a chance to speak with her

this entire week…no, since the cah summer break And