Monday, the day students hate the most. And in this period nearing the midterm exams, not only academics, but even extracurricular clubs have begun to get competitive.
Like the kendo club, judo club, baseball club, and so on, they are all preparing for the national competition. In this summer, they are about to shed the sweat of so-called youth.
Uchiha Ryo, however, said, what does this have to do with me? Isn't it nice to enjoy the air conditioning in the clubroom?
So compared to those sports clubs that can win glory for the school, literary clubs like the Classic Literature Club, although they also have to prepare a summary of the semester, are much easier to do.
For example, the Astronomy Club. Ryuju Momo plans to record a little something with a telescope, then check some relevant information online and hand it in.
Or the Board Game Club. They have to submit a newly developed game.
The semester review for each club is basically approved by the student council, and the club's budget for the next semester will be adjusted according to the results.
"So, what is our Classic Literature Club going to do?"
As the vice president, Uchiha Ryo looked at the idle Amakusa Shino.
Amakusa Shino: "Well.... our club usually writes articles and publishes them in cooperation with the Newspaper Club. But the biggest problem right now is that the Newspaper Club has run off to follow and report on the sports clubs because of Kojima from the kendo club and Kondo from the judo club."
Chitanda sighed. "I asked Kino Karen-san from the Newspaper Club. They rejected all the literary clubs and want to follow the sports clubs to report the latest news."
Hayasaka Ai rested her chin on her hand, spinning her pen boredly with the other.
"I heard that the club semester review work was handed over to the general affairs manager by President Shirogane...."
Yukinoshita: "I will treat every club fairly and justly."
Amakusa Shino showed a slightly disappointed expression. It seemed that going through the back door was impossible. But!
"Although we don't have the Newspaper Club's school journal, another club approached me hoping we could cooperate to complete the semester task."
Amakusa Shino smiled brightly. "Everyone, you should have heard of the Drama Club, right!"
Uchiha Ryo: "Don't know."
Hayasaka Ai: "Haven't paid attention."
Yukinoshita: "Don't know much."
Chitanda: "It sounds interesting. What do we have to do?"
Amakusa Shino looked at everyone helplessly. "It's like this. The Drama Club wants to perform a play in the school gymnasium next week, and this is their semester task. But they are currently missing half of the script."
Chitanda heard the key word. "Excuse me, why is it half?"
"I heard that the person responsible for writing the script got sick, but the script was only half finished. And they only have one week, which means they don't have time to change the script and practice...."
Yukinoshita nodded. "I understand. In other words, they need our help to complete the script, right?"
Correct! Amakusa Shino explained.
"The president of the Drama Club has already agreed with me. As long as we help them complete the script, then this play will count as a collaborative project between our Classic Literature Club and the Drama Club."
Uchiha Ryo said "Oh." "Completing the semester task just by writing a script, that's not bad."
Amakusa Shino: "Since everyone agrees, then let's meet at the Third Gymnasium after school today!"
After school.... Hayasaka Ai's expression stiffened, but then immediately returned to normal. Everyone else was free after school, but she had to escort the young lady home.
But this was a rare opportunity to work with Uchiha-kun. If she didn't make a move, what if Yukinoshita and Chitanda overtook her!
That's right, Lady Kaguya seemed to have a bet with her that she could take one day off a week.... Hehe, then let the young lady go home by herself today~
Shinomiya Kaguya from the Archery Club sneezed. She was also very tired recently because of the double work of the club and the student council. Should she go home and ask Hayasaka Ai to give her a massage....
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Time quickly passed to four o'clock in the afternoon. When the bell for the last class rang, Shirogane Miyuki breathed a sigh of relief.
"Sorry, Uchiha. You guys are going to prepare for the club task, right? I have to be absent again."
Uchiha Ryo turned to look at this mentally and physically exhausted student council president, part-time worker, and king of academic competition.
"It's fine. We're just going to help the Drama Club write a script. It won't be tiring."
You guys aren't tired, but I am!! Shirogane Miyuki's dark circles were getting heavier recently. Lately, he was either processing documents in the student council office or preparing for midterms, and he couldn't forget his part-time job on weekends.
Sigh... born to toil. He also wanted to accompany his club members to the gymnasium to watch a play, think about scripts, and play games together on the weekend.
"Uchiha, sometimes I really envy geniuses like you.... People like me with no talent can only chase with constant effort, but in the end, I may not be able to catch up."
Uchiha Ryo stopped.
"Envy? Actually, geniuses, even if they yearn for it, cannot have the ordinary life of normal people."
"Sometimes, the word 'genius' can easily kill a person. Genius and stupidity are just like good and evil...."
If a great philanthropist accidentally does a bad deed, he might be said to be falling into the abyss and depravity. If a villain does a good deed and is seen by everyone, everyone will say he turned over a new leaf and is worth his weight in gold.
Your simple sentence, saying I'm a genius.... little do you know that it has already detached me from the life that ordinary people can enjoy.
Shirogane Miyuki was thoughtful.
"You're right. In this world, it's hard to be a genius too.... Geniuses may also have pain we can't imagine."
Uchiha Ryo patted Shirogane Miyuki on the shoulder, showing an expression that said 'this child is teachable'.
"That's right. Is a genius necessarily as happy as you imagine? You're wrong.... You can't imagine the happiness of a genius~"
Shirogane Miyuki: "???"
Uchiha Ryo laughed, then followed Chitanda out of the classroom towards the school gymnasium.
When all members of the Classic Literature Club except Shirogane Miyuki had arrived, Amakusa Shino pushed open the door to the gymnasium.
At this time, the interior of the gymnasium was extremely dim. Under the shielded skylights, curtains blocked the summer sun. A girl who seemed to know Amakusa Shino suddenly stepped forward and made a hushing gesture.
"Sorry to trouble everyone from the Classic Literature Club today. I am Irisu Fuyumi, the person in charge of the Drama Club."
"Please watch our Drama Club's test performance first, although it's only the first half."
Under Irisu Fuyumi's guidance, the group sat below the stage in the gymnasium, watching the Drama Club members practicing the script.
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