185 Id Like Some Peace and Quie (1/2)

Seiji’s cheek twitched violently.

Why did this all seem so abnormal to him?

He recalled when he first arrived at school…

The first thing he saw were all the students busy with the school festival preparations. It was a lively and bustling atmosphere.

There were no traces anywhere to be found of the fierce battle from last night. All the holes left in the ground and everything else had completely vanished.

The ground had returned to its original state, with not a single blemish to be found. At the very least, the students didn’t notice anything wrong.

Those…”Cleaners” were too amazing! Just how did they do it!? In such a short time…

Seiji was rather astonished.

This ability to wipe all traces seemed almost on par with turning back time.

If it wasn’t for the fact that he personally experienced it, he never would have imagined what had happened here last night. Seeing how everything was normal at school, with all the students ignorant of what had happened, he almost felt as if last night had been nothing more than a dream.

Of course his expression didn't betray his thoughts.

Seiji arrived at his shoe locker and opened it.

A huge pile of envelopes tumbled out from his locker.

Seiji was rendered speechless by this situation.

Although he somewhat expected it, seeing this ”explosion of love letters” that he had only seen before in anime and manga still gave him an impact!

”They’ve been accumulating for so many days, so it’s only natural there’d be this many.” Mika’s eyes were cold and distant.

”Oh my, Harano-kun is so popular.” Kaede smiled faintly. ”I can almost feel the passion emanating from those love letters~”

Seiji couldn’t find any words to answer them with.

It wouldn’t be easy to take all those letters with him… He should have brought his backpack. There weren’t any classes during the school festival, which was why he hadn’t brought his backpack. That was a mistake.

He was still lacking in experience. Just what was he supposed to do?

‘Let’s just not take them and leave them in the locker until later.’ In the end, that was the idea Seiji came up with.

Having decided to leave the letters, he changed his shoes, stuffed all the letters back into the locker, and closed it again.

Kaede left after saying, ”If you get tired from playing around at the school festival, you’re welcome to rest in the infirmary at any time.”

Seiji and Mika walked together to class and discovered a wild Chiaki standing outside the room. She was chuckling while holding her hand over her mouth.

Seiji and Mika were mystified at this.

”Ah… Seigo!” Chiaki saw the two of them and waved. ”You’ve finally come to school again! It’s been so long!”

”I just feel like it’s so interesting… Hehe…” Chiaki continued laughing as she pointed inside the classroom.

Just what could be inside?

Seiji and Mika walked to the classroom door and peered inside.

The preparations were already complete.

Most of the tables and chairs had been moved to the back of the classroom and stacked up to make space. The remaining tables had been put together with ”Honey Candy Girl” tablecloths on top, making them seem like lunch tables. They were also outfitted with stylish borrowed chairs to make the seem like a real café.

Anime posters were plastered on the walls, and anime accessories were also everywhere to be seen. Character figurines were placed in appropriate locations, and some character balloons and ribbons were hanging from the ceiling to help give this place the atmosphere of a cosplay café.

The blackboard and the area at the front of the classroom was cut off from the other areas with plastic and was turned into a temporary kitchen where they would prepare the food.

While this wasn’t a perfect café by any means, Seiji felt that it was good enough already. There didn’t seem to be any obvious problems that he could find.

The students acting as the servers were all wearing cosplay uniforms. All these uniforms and everything else related to the anime ”Honey Candy Girl” had either been borrowed from the Divine Taste confectionery shop or through its connection to Peach-sensei.

The student servers and cooks as well as some students from other classes were all attentively listening to a beautiful blue-haired girl wearing a cardigan and a lace miniskirt.

'Wait a moment!'

A blue-haired ”girl?”

Seiji’s sealed memories of a dark history resurfaced as he looked at that figure!

”He was asked by the confectionery store's owner to oversee our cultural festival café's progress, and to tell us everything we needed to know… But the way I see it, his main goal was to meet you again.” Chiaki couldn’t stop laughing as she explained the 'girl's' presence. ”The reason why he’s dressed like that is because his own class is doing a ‘crossdressing’ coffee shop—all the boys are dressed like girls, and the girls are dressed like boys. The moment he arrived at class this morning, he was pressed into changing his clothes and applying some makeup, so he could only come over here looking like this.”

”Everyone in our class... none of our classmates know about his real gender! And as for all the boys’ reactions… Haha, it’s so funny!”

The tomboy was unable to talk anymore as she broke out into yet another fit of laughter and had to cover her mouth.

Seiji and Mika couldn’t find any words to say.