Chapter 3: The Friendly Classmates Circle
After leaving the teacher's office, Ren followed Nagi's instructions and went straight to the unused music club room. It was common knowledge for all the students and teachers, that the music club had disappeared years ago, some people said that the club ceased it's activities because the advisor got fired, others said that it was because of how expensive was to maintain the club, between buying new instruments and repairing the old ones, it was said that the club budget couldn't cover their own expenses, but that's another story.
"Oh, there it is." Ren muttered to himself when he saw the sign, it says 'Music Club'. After looking at the door for several minutes, he decided to knock.
*knock, knock*
"Pardon my intrusion." Ren entered the room without wasting time.
"Oh my, oh my good afternoon." Said a girl with a curious look on her face, she was apparently reading a book until she noticed his presence.
Ren took a look at the room, it may be the music club room, but he couldn't see anything that resembled an instrument, he only saw a large table with several steel folding chairs, a big window at one side of the room, while on the other side, there was a big bookshelf with tons of different books, you could see a big variety, from light novels to scientific books, it was what you could call 'variation', though it looked a little out of place, something like this should be at the school library, not the music room. There was also a big whiteboard with red and blue markers resting on the edge of said board, together with an eraser, the board was clean and the markers looked brand new, it was obvious that both things were never used before.
"Oh um, excuse me, nice to meet you, my name is Kanzaki Ren, a second-year." Ren greeted the girl with a soft smile. He looked at her uniform, and judging by the color of her tie, she was probably a third-year.
"Oh, good afternoon Kanzaki-san, nice to make your acquaintance, my name is Arisaka Michiru and I am a third-year student." With a deep bow, an elegant way of talking and a wide smile, the girl introduced herself to Ren.
The girl who introduced herself as Arisaka Michiru, a senior, is well-known between her classmates for being a kind and gentle person, always smiling happily at everyone, but at the same time, she is a very active person, really caring and a role model student. Michiru is also loved by a big population of guys because of her beauty, and it was no exaggeration that people resembled her with a "Yamato Nadeshiko" (the ideal Japanese girl), she has long black hair arranged in a 'Hime cut', gorgeous but gentle black eyes that could absorbe you into them if you stared at them, pretty pearl-skin, she is tall compared to the rest of the girls in her class, and has REALLY big breasts, some of her classmates rumored that she is an E-cup.
"Yeah, likewise." Although he already greeted her once, he felt the need to greet her again and bowed at the same angle as her.
"I don't want to sound rude but could I know the reason of your visit? However you are free to come every time you want." Michiru asked Ren with soft eyes and a little smile on her face while closing her book.
"Ah yeah, forgot about that—Ren scratched the back of his head with an awkward smile—Arisaka-senpai, is Kanasuke-sensei your club advisor?" Michiru looked at him with surprised eyes.
"Yes, that is correct, do you need something from sensei perhaps?" She asked with a curious face while making her way to where Ren was standing with small steps, Ren could only think that she looked like a child even though she is her senior.
"Umm no, that's not it exactly, actually Kanasuke-sensei asked me if I could help with your club activities instead of her, because she has too much work, you know." Ren explained to Michiru the reason of his visit, and waited to receive a reply.
"Oh my, that would be simply marvelous!" Michiru joined her hands together, and made a joyful reply, looks like I did good to accept sensei's request.
"Y-Yeah, I'll be in your care Arisaka-senpai." Michiru smiled at him like saying 'leave it to me!' with a happy face, while Ren was just awkwardly smiling too.
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"Now that we are going to work together, let me introduce myself once more." Ren, who now was sitting on one of the chairs, nodded to Michiru's words.
"Nice to meet you Kanzaki Ren-san, my name is Arisaka Michiru, and I'm the president and only member of the 'Friendly Classmates Circle', a pleasure to work with you!" Michiru bowed once more after presenting herself again.
Ren took an interest in the name, 'Friendly Classmates Circle'?, what the hell? It sounded really strange for a high school club, no, "circle" was the correct word. Indeed, like the name suggests, the club itself isn't a "club", because to become a club, you need at least 5 members, that way, you become an official club and your club receives 'club budget', but apparently that wasn't needed here, because the name didn't talk about the activities.
Basically, the budget a club receives is based on the activities that the club itself does. For example, the soccer club, like the names says, "plays soccer", so what is the budget for? Soccer balls, first aid kids, bandages, ointments, sprays, and training gear like cones and the likes. But because the name of Michiru's circle "Friendly Classmates Circle", Ren didn't have a remote idea of what kind of things they will be doing, it was a mistery, but he couldn't say 'no' after seeing Michiru's beaming smile, all men are simple at heart.
"Yeah, again, I look forward to work with you, Arisaka-senpai." Ren bowed once again like Michiru, after raising his head, Ren saw Michiru getting close to him until she was a few centimeters from distance, then she raised her hand.
"Likewise, Kanzaki-san." Ren understood what she wanted to do, and after taking a glance at her happy face, he shook hands with Michiru while lightly smiling.
'Senpai looks like a good person, this could be interesting.' Thought Ren to himself as he watched Michiru.
"So, what do you need help with senpai?" Ren wanted to know what kind of activities the circle does, so he couldn't help but ask her.
"Umm, let's see..." Michiru put one hand on her cheek and started thinking, after a couple of seconds, she replied:
"Ah! I know!" Recovering her trademark gentle smile, Michiru turned to face Ren once again.
"Great, and that would be..?" Ren continued watching her in a curious manner.
"It may sound presumptuous but, do you know Mikagi Sora-san, right Kanzaki-san?" When Ren heard the name 'Mikagi Sora', he quickly nodded and waited for Michiru to elaborate.
"That's great, well the thing is..." Michiru started telling Ren the problem.
In a nutshell, from the point of view of Michiru, Sora doesn't have a SINGLE friend. When Ren asked her how did she knew that, Michiru said that she knew because when she spots Sora, she is always alone, during lunch break, during class breaks, in her clasroom, even when she goes home, she is alone. This was news for Ren, because he always thought that, with her popularity, Sora would have tons of friends and acquaintances, but looks like he was wrong.
Now, what does Michiru wanted to do with Sora? Simple, to make her join the circle.
"Um senpai, I'm not trying to sound like a wet blanket but, what does her not having any friends have to do with her joining the circle?" He was being honest, Ren would be overjoyed if he could know more about Sora, but what he didn't understood was, 'why does Arisaka-senpai wants her to join?'.
"Fufu, that's right, Kanzaki-san?" Michiru looked really proud of herself and threw a question at Ren.
"Ah, yeah?" Ren didn't know what he was supposed to say, so he just asked himself.
"The Friendly Classmates Circle has only one goal, do you know what is it?" She looked at Ren with gentle eyes at the same time she said asked him that question.
"No I don't, what would it be?" Ren was mesmerized for a brief moment, until he gave up and asked Michiru about said goal.
"That is, to make the students happy." Ren was astonished for several seconds, various thoughts ran through his head like 'why would she want to do something like that?' or 'does she obtain some kind of profit from it?', Ren was trying to find a reason for Michiru's 'goal' while looking at her face, but he could only tell one thing from her behavior:
It was not a lie.
"...That's a really noble purpose senpai, how exactly do you plan to 'make the students happy'?" Ren decided that it was best to not ask all those things that were on his head, because he couldn't get a grasp of Michiru's motives, but he could only say one thing about her, she really is a good person. That's exactly why Ren asked her how did she intended to do something like that.
"That's exactly why I decided to create this circle, Kanzaki-san." Michiru replied with a smile.
"Huh?" Ren didn't know what she meant by that. Judging by his face he was utterly confused, so Michiru continued:
"I've been here for almost three years, and during those years, I always enjoyed every day of my school life, but I cannot say the same thing for every single student in school. Sadly this is my last year here, so I decided that I wanted to make everyone happy. Those who are already happy, I want them to be happier, and for those who are not, I want to give them a reason to smile and enjoy what little time they have here at school, that's why." Ren just stared at Michiru's face while processing what he heard, when Michiru saw him, she giggled.
"Fufu, does it answer your question, Kanzaki-san?" When Ren saw Michiru smile gently at him, he started smiling himself. He didn't know if it was possible for her to accomplish that goal, but Ren thought that it would be interesting to watch her try.
"...Yeah, it does senpai." He replied with a smile of his own.
"All right! Now, would you help me to make a plan to help with Mikagi-san's problem?" She looked at him with eyes full of hope.
"Of course, I told you that I would help you didn't I?" Ren said while scratching the back of his head.
"Thank you very much, Kanzaki-san! Now then, let's think of something." Michiru shout loudly, earning an awkward smile from Ren.
'She is really lively, she could get along with Sakagami-san... Wait.' Ren thought of something while he was having an inner talk with himself.
"Senpai, would it be okay if a get help from another person?" Ren asked Michiru with a serious face.
"By all means, three heads think better than just two." Ren couldn't help but think 'that's not how the saying goes but, oh well' and shortly after receiving Michiru's reply, he made his way to his own classroom.
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(Maybe tomorrow I'll be posting chapter 4? Who knows.)
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