Shinohara Kazuki can't take a break!

As I stand behind the backstage, I take a peek just to see hundreds of students gathered in the academy’s gigantic gymnasium. “I really can’t help but feel nervous whenever I look at that huge crowd of students waiting." Shinohara stood still at the backstage, I couldn’t even bear to take a step in-front of that huge crowd of students but I really have no choice since I’m the school’s representative, Counseling Club President and the appointed Student Council President. “Feeling nervous, aren’t you? Don’t worry. I get that feeling alot.” My tense body suddenly loosened up after feeling a hand gently touch my shoulders, I look behind me and as we make eye contact, I realize that it’s the school’s chairman. “I’m pretty sure any normal person would be nervous being in-front of hundreds of students in a single enclosed space, Sasaki-sensei” I said to the chairman who is standing beside me, I can’t really tell if she’s trying to sympathize with me or just plain making fun of me since she’s the person that’s putting me all through this agony. Let’s go back to where I was 30 minutes ago, Shall we?

“Sasaki-sensei, I’ll tell you this as many times...” “ISN’T THIS TOO MUCH RESPONSIBILITY?!” I complained and slammed the desk while standing up in shock at the amount of responsibility given to me by the school chairman. “How many times do I have to tell you, Shinohara-kun, It’s the only choice you have in order to continue studying here in Ryukoku Academy and to live in the academy premises without a problem.” Sasaki replies to Shinohara’s argument, Completely leaving him speechless. Shinohara counts in his fingers the responsibilities he has and what has been added and just sighs in defeat and takes a seat “Hah... So let’s sum it up... You want me to be the Club President of a new club you just formed” I say to Sasaki-sensei while counting in my finger, “Then you want me to be the Student Council President.” I put another finger up and Sasaki-sensei just stares at me while smiling mischievously. “And then you’re putting me as the school’s representative...” “That’s all right..?” I didn’t even bother putting another finger up and just facepalmed since the school year has just started and I already have three bothersome school responsibilities... How am I even gonna explain this to my boss in my part-time work... I might get laid off because of this...Sasaki stood up from her chair to walk beside Shinohara to pat Shinohara’s head to atleast in some way console him since he was just given so much responsibilities to a 16 year old student that a normal student can’t handle, let alone one big responsibility. But Sasaki knew that Shinohara could do it since afterall, She knew he wasn’t a normal teenage boy. He excelled in his studies, He has lived alone since middle-school and worked tirelessly in his part-time job to sustain himself.I calmed myself down and let out a breathe after taking my time to process the information I just received from the chairman. “I understand.. I’ll accept. Afterall, I have no choice since I was already appointed the moment I got accepted into the academy, Right?” Shinohara said. As Sasaki heard what he said, She couldn’t help but be surprised as to how he somehow knew that information. She just smiled and shrugged her head. “Off you go now, Shinohara-kun. You still have a speech to give to the students of the Ryukoku Academy in 20 minutes.” Crap. I forgot that I still have to do that stupid speech, All these responsibilities suddenly dropped onto me suddenly made me forget that. “Ah right.” Shinohara quickly got up and ran towards the door and before going off into the backstage, He faced towards the chairman and gave her a quick bow before closing the door.

Fast forward to now, Here we are in the backstage.. I’m about to step in the huge crowd in 5 minutes after the Vice Chairman finishes his message. The Vice Chairman finally finished his speech and he told everyone before being dismissed to stay since Shinohara still had a speech to gives for all the students. “Before we dismiss everyone, Our new school representative would like an extra few minutes of your time to give us a short message.” The students exclaimed in disbelief thinking that they would already be dismissed. Ahhh.. This is such a pain. Let’s just get this over with. I’ll just follow the script they gave me, It’s a pain in the ass to Ad-lib this.

It’s finally Shinohara’s turn to speak as the Vice Chairman walked into the backstage giving Shinohara the approval to walk towards the podium and finally deliver his speech.It took me a minute of breathing in and out due to my nervousness but eventually I just let it all go and walked firmly towards the podium, My footsteps echo around the stage and as I make my way to the podium I start to hear murmurs and mutters all around the gymnasium. As big as the gymnasium was, It almost felt like I could every single word that the students are saying from the large amount of students talking towards one another. “Is that him?” “That’s our school representative?” “He looks pretty average doesn’t he?” “You think so? I think he looks abit decent.” I finally reached the podium and the students talking towards one another still lingers around, As soon as I reached the podium, The pressure gets to me as I find myself standing infront alot of students. I take another deep breath and clear my throat “M-Mhm.” The moment Shinohara cleared his throat the noise stopped immediately and so he finally found the voice to speak the moment the gymnasium quieted down. “Goodmorning everyone, I’ll keep this short. As you’ve all heard from the vice principal, I am Shinohara Kazuki. I am the Ryukoku Academy’s school representative. I’ll keep this as short as I could.” “Ryukoku Academy students are all unique and talented individuals, So with that in mind, Let’s all do our best to strive for even better knowledge and continuous growth both physically and mentally.” “That’s all I have to say. May Ryukoku Academy and it’s students continue to prosper.” I step down from the podium and walked beside the podium to give the students a formal bow before walking back to the backstage. “He seemed to act pretty decent didn’t he?” Another student said to their friend as Shinohara was walking back to exit the stage. In the midst of the pressure, I ended up not using the script Sasaki-sensei gave me and just ended up ad-libbing the whole speech...Shinohara facepalmed himself as he finally got back into the backstage releasing a sigh of relief that his speech is finally over. “Shinohara-kun.” I turned my head to look at who called me and it was the vice principal. “You called, Vice Principal?” I replied. “Right, Shinohara-kun, The Principal is calling for your presence once again in her office.” “I’ll let your homeroom teacher that you’ll be running a little bit late for your homeroom.” I nod to what the vice principal said, “I see, Thank you for letting me know Vice Principal. I’ll head to her office right now.” I bow my head to the principal and he gave me a gentle smile in return as he walked towards the stairs to go to the Faculty Office. After 10 minutes of walking towards the principal’s office, Shinohara couldn’t help but complain because of how far the principal’s office is. “Ugh... Why is the principal’s office so far anyways.” I kept walking and I finally reach the glassed hallways which tells me that I am close to the principal’s office, I stopped abit to admire the view, I glanced over the ground floor looking at the students going about their own ways to get to their own classes. “As expected of a prestigious academy.” “Not only it’s in it’s own gigantic island, It’s where all the students reside.” As I spoke those words I suddenly felt a finger poke me two times and a feminine voice speaks behind me. “And it’s also residing on the prosperous city of Sakurazaka.” I realized the voice speaking and I turn around it’s who as I expected, It’s the principal. “Aren’t you supposed to be in your office, Sasaki-Sensei?” I scratched my head and looked at Sasaki-sensei who’s just smiling innocently while also staring at the view of the students walking around the school premises. “Don’t blame me, Shinohara-kun~ You made a young maiden like me wait for you for over 10 minutes~” I felt my face make a disgusted look the moment I heard Sasaki’s words. “Aren’t you a little old to be saying things like that..?” Shinohara replied to Sasaki and Sasaki just pouted like a child because of what Shinohara said. “Anyhow, Sensei, What did you call me for in your office?” Sasaki immediately got rid of her pouting face and returned to her professional demeanor. “Right, Let’s go inside my office first.” After speaking, They both walk inside the office and Sasaki takes a seat. “I called you here to inform you about your club.” Shinohara nodded and asked her “Yes? What about it?” “Since this club is one of a kind, You’ll be it’s only member.” As I process what sensei just told me, I just realized that my job essentially being a guidance counselor... “I see, I understand.” The principal was signing papers as Shinohara listened and replied to her words and puts her pen down after signing one more paper. “With that said Shinohara-kun, You’ll still have a club advisor. You’ll find out who it is when your homeroom teacher lets you all to apply for clubs later.” I nodded my head once again in understanding since I have no choice but to comply to all her requests to me anyways. “That’ll be all Shinohara-kun, You may head back to your classroom now~” I gave my gratitude to the principal before leaving the office and I walk back another 15 minutes just to get to my classroom. It’s currently 7:55am. Homeroom has probably already started. “Already late on the first day of the school, What a pain” I said to myself while making my way towards my classroom. After a couple of minutes I finally made my way to my room, Before opening the sliding door I took a peek inside the classroom and just as I thought they’re already doing introductions and what-not so I just decided to come in. “Goodmorning everyone, I’m sorry I’m late.” “Oh and we have one more student to do their introductions.” The student that just finished introducing themselves took a sit and at the same time that Shinohara opened the door and spoke, The teacher also spoke about a student being late causing to talk at the same time. “Ah--” What perfect timing, I just arrived in time assuming I’m that late student our new homeroom teacher is describing. “Ara~~What timing, Ya must be the late student the Sacchi told me about?” “Sacchi?” I replied to the teacher unknowingly. “Ah, Sorry-Sorry, I meant the principal, Forget about that hehe~” “Anywho, Come here and introduce yourself. You’re the only one that hasn’t introduced themselves~” For some reason I’m getting a bad feeling from the way this homeroom teacher speaks, She’s looks like a gyaru but dresses with formal clothes at the same time trying to stop herself from speaking slang in order to look professional. I decided to not to think about it any further and just walked towards my teacher. I cleared my throat before speaking up. “Once again, Goodmorning everyone. My name is Shinohara Kazuki. I’m looking forward to being in this class with all of you, Please take good care of me.” Shinohara gave the students a polite bow and after speaking, He can feel some glares and stares from his classmates and some were even muttering comments about confirming that it was him that did the speech in the gym. It didn’t really bother him at all since Shinohara was more or less used to it. “Well then, Shinohara-kun you can sit at the open seat at the back beside Aoki-san~” The teacher gently clasped her hands as she told Shinohara where he can take a seat. I nodded and proceeded to walk towards my seat and as I walk towards my seat, I see this beautiful girl with her stunning purple eyes that’s being illuminated by the sunlight from the windows beside her. The energy she emitted around her felt like waves that crashed onto me as I make my way closer to the seat beside her. I couldn’t help but stare a little and she catches me staring at her. “Tch, What are you looking at?” Aoki clearly set her boundaries with Shinohara and Shinohara couldn’t really do anything as he was caught staring at her afterall so he laid down his bag and set it aside and finally took a seat. Yeesh, She clearly has an attitude but I guess I can kind of understand her since I don’t anyone would like being stared at by a person they just met.Shinohara took a seat and just as he finally took a seat and relax after all the walking he did. ”By the way class~~We’ll be electing our vice president for our class today too~” One of the students raised their hand in question “Uhm Akase-sensei, Why are we only electing vice president? Shouldn’t we also elect a president?” So her name is Akase, I couldn’t figure it out until now since I was late to her introducing herself. I barely know anyone’s name in here. But it is indeed weird. Why only nominate a vice president? Did she perhaps make a mistake? “About that~~Due to special circumstances Class B already has a president set in papers so we’re only gonna be nominating a vice president~~” Everyone wondered who the president that was already set before the classes even started. Shinohara for some reason couldn’t help but get a bad feeling from what Akase just said. “Then if there’s already a president, Who are they?” The same student asked Akase once again. “Class B’s president is Shinohara Kazucchi~” The whole class let out an “Eh?” and the classroom starts to get noisy from all the chatters. I knew it... It must be that damn principal’s doing. Shinohara can see inside his imagination The principal--Sasaki making a smiling face with her tongue out while making a peace sign. He felt irritated inside since he was just given another responsibility that he didn’t need but was dropped onto him. “Are you kidding me..?” This academy will really be the end of me. And what’s with the “Kazucchi” She just met me just now and she already has a nickname from me... At this point I might have to resign from my part time job at Tokyo and find a new one here at Sakurazaka.. Hopefully I get lucky... “With that said Kazucchi get back here infront~~” I stood up again, Barely being able to relax in my seat not even for a minute. And so I make my way in front of the class once again standing still and Akase-sensei finally speaks once again to shut the class’ useless chatter. “Alright guys quiet down~” With one sentence Akase-sensei managed to shut the class’ noise down with one sentence. Despite her unserious demeanor she for sure knows how to handle a class. I can only imagine what more if she spoke seriously to all of us. “So does anyone have a person they want to nominate for class president?” The class stayed in silent after Akase spoke and from all the way to the back, A person raised their hand. The beautiful student that sat beside Shinohara seemed to have raised her hand. “Ara~Yes, Aoki-chan? Do you have someone you want to nominate?” Akase asked Aoki. Aoki then stood up from her seat before answering Akase’s question. “Yes sensei. I want to nominate myself as vice president.” Aoki answered. Shinohara turned his head to Aoki who was now standing up and just as he turned his head to look at her, They make eye contact and Aoki just glared daggers at him. Yikes. Talk about being so unfriendly... Does she hate me that much despite meeting me for the first time..? “Wow~Does anyone want to nominate themselves? Then~~If no one wants to nominate themselves too then we’ll have Yuumi Aokicchi as our vice president alongside our class president, Shinohara Kazucchi” I’m starting to get the feeling that she just gives the “cchi” nickname to everyone she fancies giving it too... “Please step forward first Aokicchi before setting everything in stone~” Aoki nodded and proceeded to stand beside Shinohara. Akase once asked the class to confirm if theres anyone one that wants to nominate themselves or others and the class stayed in silent giving Akase to go and confirm Aoki Yuumi as Class B’s Vice President. “Alrighty~If no one wants to nominate themselves or others then we’ll offically set Aokicchi as our class vice president”