Publishedat 6th of August 2019 05:57:34 AMChapter 67

Home Economics Club Activities – Second Part

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“……Ah, made a mistake . Have to redo this part again…”

After school the next day, Kanata and I were both in the home economics room absorbed in working on making misangas . If we were on a radio broadcast, then incident must have occurred, since there was no conversation between us .

Every once in a while, she would take a glance at me, then return her eyes back to her hands . Kanata might not mind it, but it felt slightly awkward…

“KKanata, have you decided on what you want to do in the future?”

She shook her head slightly to indicate a no .

“I see . ”

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Ku, this atmosphere is heavy… Even if I wanted to summon Sana, she had already gone straight home .

“Do you have an interest in… game companies?”

“Games?”

Oh . I finally got a reaction .

“Yeah, that’s right . Since you like games, have you ever thought of making one before…?”

“… Liking something and working is different . ”

She said something so reasonable!? Isn’t this the person who’s supposed to be Sana’s senior at a game company in the future?

Sana probably went home to work on her misanga, and Hiiragi-chan was probably going home after work to work on it as well .

“I will definitely win!!”

Yesterday, Hiiragi-chan was so enthusiastic when she called at night . She’s twenty-four years old, and is completely serious in competing with high school students .

“Sensei will properly teach them the severity of such a compet.i.tion . I’ll teach them how real this is!”

Hiiragi-chan didn’t even hold a fragment of maturity .

“… Seiji-kun… can I get your arm for a bit?”

“Arm?”

Kanata grabbed onto my left arm and started touching it .

“What is it?”

“Size… You’re the same as Sana, pale… and thin . ”

Well I don’t really do any sports or anything . It isn’t white enough to call pale, but I don’t really go outside and I don’t really do any exercise, so my arms stay untanned and thin all year round .

Funi funi, Kanata was absorbed in touching my arm .

“Are you done?”

“… Can you make a fist?”

“Eh? Like this?”

As I gripped my palms, Kanata began tracing the muscle lines that formed on my arm .

“… It isn’t strong, but it’s pretty… And a little obscene . ”

“What are you imagining when all I’m doing is this?”

I would like you to stop looking at my arm as if it was something obscene .

After that, Kanata repeatedly touched my arm .

“… I got it . ”

What did you get?

As usual, the model student Kanata still had a lot of mysterious parts to her . When I asked Sana about what type of person Kanata was, I was given the reply of, “Kanchan is a normal girl?” Rather, it seemed like Sana was making me out to be the weird person for asking such a question .

With me being me, producing the misanga took me about two days before I finally finished .

And then, three days later . After school, we gathered at the home economics club and presented the misangas that we made .

“Nii-san, in order for you to not know who made which one, turn and face the other way . ”

“Okay, okay . ”

I turned around and faced my back towards Hiiragi-chan, Sana, and Kanata .

Well, I did see Sana while she was making it, so I can probably easily tell which one is her’s . The same for Kanata . Which means, by process of elimination I can also figure out which one is Hiiragi-chan’s . Is there really a meaning in turning around?

“Sana’s is this! It’s perfect!”

“Sanchan, you worked hard . ”

“Hehen . That’s right, Sana worked really hard—Wait, Sensei, you were just making fun of me right weren’t you!?”

“…I don’t think she was making fun of you, just treating you like a child . ”

“Kanchan . Please don’t a.n.a.lyze the disrespect directed at Sana . Rather, how did Sensei’s turn out anyways?”

“Hiiragi-sensei’s is this one!”

“Eh!? This, it’s cheating!”

“I didn’t cheat . Please don’t say bad things about other people . ”

Cheating? What did you do, Hiiragi-chan”?

“Then, is it fine now?”

As I was given the okay, I turned around to face the three of them .

On the left, was Sana’s red, white, and blue French misanga . [1] Even if it looked a little bit awkward, it was well made . As I picked it up, Sana began to fidget, her eyes were swimming left and right . She’s easy to understand… The one in the middle was Kanata’s . It was made carefully with the blue, white, and black colors that I had picked .

And, finally…

… No matter how I think of it, it’s Hiiragi-chan’s…

While fidgeting, Hiiragi-chan was looking at my reaction .

“Sowa sowa . Sowa sowa…” [2]

She’s saying that out loud!?

“Sanadkun . Pick one out of the three that you like the most, and then we’ll exchange, okay?”

With a composed expression, Hiiragi-chan spoke . Essentially, Hiiragi-chan’s misanaga was well, one, two, three… twenty in total . How much did you want my misanga?! If you make twenty, then of course there would be one or two that I would like!?

She’s not mature at all . She was planning on dominating the battlefield with overwhelming numbers…

“Look, even Nii-san is drawing back . Making so much is cheating . ”

“It’s not cheating . No one said you could only make one . ”

Are you a child?

However, since numbers were not brought up, there was reasonable logic behind it .

Hiiragi-chan’s face had her pride written all over her face .

“… You said, there was only three days for making them…?”

“Mufufu, did you notice? This was Sensei’s plan for complete victory ♪”

“Somehow, it’s so serious that it’s a little bit disgusting…”

“… Yeah, a little bit disgusting . ”

“Sensei, how about you pick on as a representative?”

“Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeh!?”

“Ah . That sounds good . ”

“… Yeah, that’s reasonable . ”

Reluctantly, Hiiragi-chan picked her favorite one out of them as a representative .

“Nii-san, pick . No matter which you pick no complaints… complaints might be brought up but we will do our best . ”

As Sana said that, Hiiragi-chan and Kanata nodded .

“Then…”

I picked up Sana’s misanga .

“Eh? Ssana’s? You’re fine with that one!?”

“Yeah . Exchange with me . ”

I handed her Sana’s misanga from within my pocket .

“I-I’m happy… Wait . Nii-san, you can actually make it pretty well . ”

Sana was carefully looking at the misanga held in the palms of both her hands .

Even at a time like this, she doesn’t forget to say rude words .

It was made mainly out of orange in order to match Sana’s image .

This time, I grabbed Kanata’s .

“… Didn’t you exchange with Sanchan…?”

“Isn’t it fine to make multiple?”

I handed Kanata one that was made mainly out of green .

“… Th-thank you… I’ll treasure it . ”

“Eh, eh? Then that means…!?”

The eyes of the dispirited Hiiragi-chan began to shine .

“I also have one for Sensei . Here . ”

“Thank you… Sensei will also treasure it…”

While being thrilled, Hiiragi-chan stared closely at the misanga in her hand .

“Everyone seemed to want one, so I thought it would be nice to make three . And so…”

Everyone was busy trying to put it on their arms and adjusting the length . None of them were listening at all . But, since they look happy, I’m glad that I worked hard to make them .

“Nii-san, by the way, who is first place…?”

“Eh? First place? … Sensei for enthusiasm . Sana for effort . Kanata for degree of perfection… so a draw . ”

“““Well, it’s fine I guess…”””

Seeming like they gave up on a decision, the three of them looked at the misanga on their arms in satisfaction .

TN:

Just for clarification… the colors represent the French flag . Normally I would say blue, white, and red, but since it’s j.a.panese we go right to left  This is the sound effect for fidgeting . I normally translate it fully since it’s used interchangeably as the sound effect and the verb but I thought it would be better to leave this one as is .

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