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There will be the sport festival very soon.
Sakuragaoka academy has a sport festival too.
Since I"m not really good at sports, I"ll only partic.i.p.ate in the ball tossing game to not be a dead weight on my cla.s.s.
And then just do the skipping rope and tug of war that everyone in cla.s.s has to partic.i.p.ate in.
In exchange for not partic.i.p.ating much on the games, I"ve become an executive committee member.
The executive committee members are really busy with various tasks before the sport festival. Like meeting, writing the names of the people registered in games, or like, deciding on everyone’s duties for that day.
I did catch sight of faces in the executive committee that I know, but I feigned ignorance.
While being chased by work, in an instant, the crucial day came.
My role in this day was being the person in charge of recording the scores.
I had to say out the records written on the papers, a simple but important duty. By punctually and quickly writing them, I avoided making mistakes.
After finishing writing the records I headed to the headquarters tent. And here, for some reason I was entrusted to do the point calculations. I wonder why.
I calculated with one hand on the calculator on the other side of the headquarters, under the shade of a tree, to not stand out. While groaning ‘un un’ I filled in the total scores on the papers.
Somehow I feel like the surrounding is looking at me with dull eyes.
Well I don’t care. I don’t want to stand out.
And then, when I was quietly doing the calculations, Hasumi happen to pa.s.s by.
When he looked at me with one hand on the calculator and the other holding my head, he ‘pff’ laughed and pa.s.sed through like that.
What"s with that fellow? He p.i.s.ses me off every single time.
Finished with all my duties, last is the cla.s.s selection relay.
It seems like this is the most exciting game every year.
It"s a game that has nothing to do with a non-athletic person like me but I"m interested.
I"ll watch the relay with my friends.
The selection relay is a mixed one with both guys and girls.
However, it was decided that the guys will be before the girls.
If you mixed the guys with the girls, that would be disadvantageous for the girls. It was for fairness sake.
It seems like the players selected for the relay are the prince and Hasumi.
They were anchors that competed with each other for the 1st and 2nd places since middle school, and it looks like they unfolded an incandescent battle.
Iyaa, setting the prince aside, I never thought Hasumi would have such an aspect.
When the selection relay started. The track and field advisor stole the mic from the broadcasting member, and began to do a live commentary. What on earth is this teacher doing. Just how much vigor are you putting in?
As if we didn’t hear him, we all looked at the relay.
It seems like my cla.s.s is really fighting bravely. Continue like this.
When everyone was watching over the relay, people in the first years were excited about ‘who will win between the prince and Hasumi?’.
A small battle broke out, in the first years, between the prince faction and Hasumi faction.
“This year Tojo-sama will surely win.”
“What might you be talking about? It"s obvious that this year Hasumi-sama will win.”
“Oh my, do you not have eyes?”
“Aren"t yours the ones that have gone bad? I wonder if it’s not better for you to go to the hospital.”
Disputes between women are scary. I quickly evacuated to not get involved.
Honestly, whoever wins, it doesn"t change anything for me.
Because it"s unrelated to me.
Un…...related?
Are? Somehow, I feel like I am forgetting something…...I wonder what?
I feel like it was something important…..?
While I was worrying over this, the relay moved to the anchor over the baton.
Right now, the prince"s and Hasumi"s cla.s.s where 1st.
The baton was handed to them almost at the same time.
Or so I thought, but it looks like the guy in Hasumi"s cla.s.s failed to pa.s.s it to him, and ended up dropping it.
I could see, even at this distance, that the guy that dropped the baton was trembling.
In the time it took for Hasumi to pick up the baton, he got overtaken and fell to the 5th position.
Hasumi with a calm face, patted the shoulder of the guy that dropped the baton as if encouraging him, and ran.
From there on it was fast.
Hasumi steadily overtook the others and finally caught up with the prince.
Anchors have to run a longer distance than the other runners. That must be how he was able to catch up to him.
The goal was about 50 metres ahead.
I watched the fight of those two contestants with throbbing.
The one that won the game was Hasumi.
He must have ran with all his strength. Even though he usually takes it easy, right now he’s sitting and was trying to catch his breath.
Looking at such a Hasumi, the guy that dropped the baton approached him. Probably, he wanted to apologize. Hasumi shook his head. He should have said ‘don"t mind it’. And showed him his service smile. That guy, from the neck up, become bright red.
Aah, are Hasumi"s believers going to increase? Don"t be deceived, the only good thing about him is his face, his personality is bad you know.
Looking at Hasumi like this, the prince got near and presented his hand.
Hasumi took his hand and stood up.
It appears like the two of them are saying something.
Probably, along the lines of ‘I won"t lose next time’.
I could hear the sound of applause here and there, a storm of clapping hands was aroused on the whole sports grounds, in each department.
In the perimeter, you could see the prince faction and the Hasumi faction holding each others hands and crying. Even when just a moment ago they were quarrelling. Are they moved because those two look like they are getting along? I can"t quite understand the mentality of a believer.
However, it was truly an incandescent selection relay.
I inadvertently ended up seriously looking at it.
Un, both the prince and Hasumi did good.
I too, mixed within the crowd, silently clapped my hand.
Like this, the sports festival safely ended.
In the manga the sports festival wasn"t really mentioned, I enjoyed this part where I didn"t know the result.
The awarding ceremony was held, and the prince’s cla.s.s won this year. The cla.s.s representative, the prince, received the flag of championship. And that again, it irritatingly matched him well. I have no more words to say but ‘as expected’.
And on the conclusion of this years sports festival, the student that played an active role, as MVP, should I say ‘as expected?’ Hasumi was awarded.
Well you know that, just the relay was conspicuous…...
Hasumi didn’t really look to be happy and received it with his usual unsociable expression.
Ah-, it ended. Now I only have to clean up and then I can go home.
I cleaned up the place I was a.s.signed to and helped tidying other places too.
And doing this, I was thinking that I might have forgot something, but then I decided that it was just an impression. I mean, I can"t remember
Finished cleaning up, when I was turning on the right to return, I ended up encountering a face I know.
“Kaguragi.”
“Asukkun…...what is it?”
This person, Asuka Touma is a character expected to become the student council president in the manga.
He is serious and a gentleman. A refreshing type of ikemen. He was drawn with a different kind of charisma beside the prince in the manga. The prince has a high impression with the girls but, Asuka impression on both guys and girls is high.
Such a person unfortunately fall in love with Rinka. And he is a poor guy burdened by the fate of battling the prince as a stalking horse.
However, different from the prince, he doesn"t fall for Rinka at first sight, since he has the setting of coming to like her while being in contact with her, the fact that he isn’t a character I have to absolutely avoid is a relief.
It"s okay as long as I don’t make him fall for me. The reason Asuka fell for Rinka is, because he comes to want to protect Rinka"s weak side. But my personality is different from Rinka"s, and I hate other people seeing my weak points. That’s why, I"ll surely be okay.
But even when I think I"ll be alright, just to be sure, I avoided making too much contact with him.
However, by no means did I think that we would become executive committee members together.
“Have you forgotten? You are the person in charge of interviewing the MVP right? Have you interviewed them?”
Ah.
I inadvertently showed my surprise on my face.
Looking at such an expression, Asuka smiled wryly.
“Ah, just as I thought. You looked to be doing fine but then was careless.”
“I"m sorry. When is the deadline?”
“Next Monday. You"ll have to have done it by then, you know.”
“I understand.”
I nodded vigorously and excusing myself from Asuka, I left.
Aah, what I seemed to have forgot was this, mh?
I heard that the anchors that got 1st place in the cla.s.s selection relay are mostly chosen as MVP
Thank G.o.d, Hasumi won. What would I have done if it was the prince…..? Why have I been appointed this personality, me.
But I wonder if Hasumi will properly respond to the interview questions.
I feel a bit uneasy.
Tn:Naoriel
Ed:Aeternatrix