Kenkyo, Kenjitsu o Motto ni Ikite Orimasu

Would like to remind you of Mats...o...b..shou who I first introduced to you in . Hes written a number of famous poems on cicadas, for example:

yagate shinukeshiki wa miezusemi no koeThe cry of the cicadaGives us no signThat presently it will die.~ translated by William George Aston

shizukasa yaiwa ni shimiirusemi no koeSuch stillnessThe cries of the cicadasSink into the rocks.~ translated by Donald Keen

Hi guys! Final note before we get into the chapter, just a heads up to anybody who used to follow our that Komorebi bugged me into getting things running again, so expect fortnightly releases.

came out about a week ago, and translations/redrawing/cleaning is complete for Chapter 13, so expect it soon.

I suppose you have to thank for all this.

It was a bit of a waste that the firefly only had the lifespan of a week. I couldnt bring myself to have it spend the rest of its life in a cage so I decided to let it out in the Suiran Forest. To be honest I had actually wanted to show it to Mao-chan. Ah well, I was sure there would be another opportunity.

Anyhow, that was how I found myself at school during the summer holiday. I opened the cage and I thought it was going to fly away, but it just landed on a nearby bit of gra.s.s and stopped moving.

Dont tell it was it dying already!?

I picked up a stick and poked at it only for it to fly off and land on another blade of gra.s.s. Apparently it wasnt dying, it was just taking a rest. Die well, firefly!

I left the forest after cheering it on in my heart.

Places with vegetation really were cooler, it seems. The moment I left the forest I was a.s.saulted by a wave of heat. Shielded from the glare by my parasol I lightly jogged for the school building. Those athletics clubs members really impressed me with how they trained in this heat. I hoped they watched out for heat stroke.

After entering the school I was cooling down in the hallway when Cla.s.s Rep and Iwamuro-kun came along.

Oh? Kisshouin-san, youre here today? Cla.s.s Rep asked.

I had an errand. Are the two of you here for the remedial?

Mhm.

The school ran remedial cla.s.ses for those who were interested. Unlike my time in middle school where I was going because of my grades dropping, these remedials were special cla.s.ses for those willing to study more.

I recall that you said Honda-san would be taking them as well? I asked quietly.

After checking that n.o.body was around, Cla.s.s Rep happily affirmed nodded.

Were even in the same cla.s.s. Since Iwamuro-kun is in the cla.s.s cla.s.s too, together with Nonose-san, the four of us are studying together.

My.

It looks like the remedials are working out for you after all, Cla.s.s Rep. Arent you making a lot of progress this summer?

They came over and commented that the two of us seemed close with you, Kisshouin-san. Somehow it all feels like its thanks to you.

Ohh? Thanks to me, is it? I didnt actually do anything though.

If I was of at least some help to you, then I am glad.

Youre my Love Guru. And Iwamuro-kun as well. The two of us get along strangely well. Right, Iwamuro-kun?

Guess we do.

I see, I said, I had always thought you two would.

At first glance, Iwamuro-kun and Cla.s.s Rep didnt seem to have any similarities at all, but in truth the two were both members of the Maidens Society.

At that moment, something flew in through the window and hit me in the back of the head.

Oww!

Eh!? What!? Did somebody throw a rock at me!? But I could feel something on my head.

Suddenly a piercing noise like an alarm clock came from the left side of my head. Eh!? This sound was! Dont tell me!

Kisshouin-san, theres a cicada on your head!

Aaaaah!

I knew it!

I knew it! Gross! Scary! Noisy!

The noisy cicada on the side of my head continued to sing. I didnt want to touch it, just from the size alone! Dragonflies might be one thing but not cicadas!

Having lost his cool as well, Cla.s.s Rep reached out for my head but he stopped when the cicada threatened him with its wings. I was frantically shaking my head left and right as well but it wouldnt let go. In fact I caught a glimpse of it during the process, which just gave me gooseb.u.mps. Gross! Scary! Noisy! Gyaaaah!

By now I had completely lost my mind and only cared about getting rid of it. I was shaking my head back and forth like a half-crazed rock star. Leggooo!

Please hold still for a bit! said Iwamuro-kun before adding, Sorry if this hurts.

Tall as he was, he reached around me and smacked the cicada off my head with the back of his hand!

You did it, Iwamuro-kun! Kisshouin-san, its gone!

Ueeh!?

I was dizzy from all the shaking but I caught sight of the cicada on the ground, lying on its back.

Maybe the smack had rendered it unconscious or something, but after laying still for a while longer it go up and flew out the window.

Are you okay, Kisshouin-san? asked Iwamuro-kun.

You dont look well. Shall we go to the nurses office? asked Cla.s.s Rep.

Thank you, you two. Sorry for panicking and scaring you

The cicada had scared me so much that I had been screaming without thinking. Ill never be good enough to understand how Bashou-sensei can find that noise poetic Aah, that really scared me.

Ah! Kisshouin-san, theres a broken cicada leg in your

Gyaaaaaaaaaaaaahgh!

After the nightmare with the cicada I immediately booked a shampoo at my hair salon for right after. I didnt explain to them why. I just asked them to give my hair a thorough washing.

After Iwamuro-kun and Cla.s.s Rep got rid of the leg for me I had them make sure nothing else was weird about my hair, and asked them to keep the whole thing a secret.

In Southern France they say that a cicada is good luck. I bet something great is going to happen! they said to cheer me up. Do you really think so?

Then while Cla.s.s Rep continued checking my hair, Iwamuro-kun said,

If you find a reversed curl, there might be good luck for your too, causing Cla.s.s Rep to search more fervently.

Apparently he even found one. Good for him

A few days later I visited Sakura-chans house for the first time in a while. Since it was summer I brought her ice cream from a chocolate chain famous around the world. The strawberry flavour was rich and delicious! And the chocolate chips inside were great too!

The two of us were hanging in her room and just enjoying our ice cream as we told each other about how we were doing.

Is Akizawa-kun not here today? Oh, club activities?

Yeah. Training camp, and practice matches, hes just been really busy. And hes got a summer cla.s.s at cram school too. Even though its summer break I dont have much time with him.

I see~

And speaking of Track Club! Hey, do you know that 1st year who became the manager for the club?

Eh? Nope. I didnt even know our track club even had a manager.

You do. You need to pay attention to that girl for me. Managers have ulterior motives. They always do.

Uwah, what the heck is this bias.

Think about it. At an all-girls school like mine none of the athletics clubs have managers. At Suiran the Track Club for both the boys and the girls shares the same Manager position, but pretty much all the girls who take it act as the Manager for the boys athletics clubs. n.o.bodys even heard of a girl doing it because she just loves the sport. I need to go cheer for Tak.u.mi at their next meet to stop this girl. I cant wait for the next School Festival.

Ah well, give it your all~

Sakura-chans Akizawa-kun-defences were rock solid as always.

You dont seem to care at all. Well, whatever. How about you, Reika? Anything happen recently?

Hmm~ Not really? Oh, I guess Maihama-san picked a few fights with me.

Maihama? Did she do something to you?

Not really. At worst she badmouthed me a little, or started a row with me. For some reason she sees me a rival for Suirans Emperor.

Oh. Speaking of which, a little while ago I happened to overhear her talking about some girls at Suiran being eyesores and loitering around the Emperor. Dont tell me she was talking about you?

Huh? I dont recall ever loitering around the Emperor, but

But that probably was me she was talking about. I mean, considering the way she glared at me

So whats this about Maihama-san being the Queen of Yurinomiya?

She just pretends to be one. She doesnt have the ability.

I see~

Are you really okay, though? If she gets too bad Ill help.

Thanks, Sakura-chan. But its totally fine. I mean, sorry to her, but Ive never found her scary. Like at all. I do find her annoying though.

Thats fine then.

But Maihama-san, huh~ Kaburagi doesnt seem to be interested at all, but I guess he cant reject her too harshly thanks to Yurie-sama. Whatever happened to Yurie-sama. She wasnt there at the firefly-catching party, and I never heard anything about her.

I wondered how things between her and Kaburagi turned out. Was Kaburagi over it yet?

He hadnt made any progress with Wakaba-chan yet. He wasnt going to have one more relapse into Yurie-sama was he? But then Yurie-sama was slated to go to America after she graduated from university. Hmmm

Ah well, not like other peoples romances were anything to do with me Tomorrow I needed to go to the library again. Sometimes Id sit next to him and have delusions in my mind about being a high schooler couple.

This summer I had, without even realising, become a fine stalker in the making.

I was shaking my head back and forth like a half-crazed rock star.was literally,I was shaking my head back and forth like I was performing the Renjishi.

The Renjishi is a kabuki lion dance.

Since it was summer I brought her ice cream from a chocolate chain famous around the world. The strawberry flavour was rich and delicious! And the chocolate chips inside were great too!

I figure it was inspired by this.