I Was Supposed to Be Giving Love Advice on the School Radio, but Before I Knew It, the Beautiful Girls at School Were Hitting on Me
July.
The relentless sun is shining these days. In a climate that is too hot to cool down, the maximum temperature on the TV seems to be in the tens of degrees, it makes me feel sick.
It has long been lamented that youngsters these days don’t play outside, and it is the most dangerous month of the year to be able to proudly say that this is risk management.
However, there is an event awaiting us high school students in July that will make us get excited.
Yes, it is summer vacation.
This event has naturally arrived at our ordinary high school, Akihito High School, and the excitement in the classrooms is even greater than the temperature.
Swimming pools, beaches, summer festivals, etc……
“Where shall we go this summer?”
“I want to see both the cherry blossoms in spring and the ocean in summer with you !”
I can hear such conversations from everywhere in the classroom.
Let’s leave that kind of wild talk out of it. Anyway, what I want to say is that summer vacation is a very important event for us high school students.
In the classrooms, where people are excited about such a big event, I—Kageyama Shogo…….
“Um……”
I groaned as I looked at the pile of letters on my desk.
“Summer vacation is almost here, but you still look gloomy.”
“Kitahara……”
The girl glancing over at me while reading a book is Kitahara Yuzuha.
Although she has the cold nickname “Lady of the North Wind,” she doesn’t seem particularly nervous in the classroom. Her long, lustrous black hair is not messed up in the slightest, and not a single drop of sweat runs down her forehead.
She’s still the perfect cool, neat and beautiful girl.
She glanced at my desk, then turned her attention back to her book.
“I probably don’t need to ask, but is it the radio thing that’s bothering you?”
“You guessed right…….”
I nodded one emphatically, and Kitahara narrowed her eyes curiously.
“What’s wrong? You get more letters than usual. What are you so unhappy about?”
“No, I’m not unhappy.”
It’s more that I’m having trouble right now because of all the letters I’m getting……
I gave a small sigh and Kitahara gave a small coughing fit as she looked down at her book.
“I’ll listen if you want. I’m a long-time listener after all.”
Kitahara spoke, a little at a loss for words.
Yes, my noon broadcast now has a growing number of listeners, and my desk is now filled with letters, but in the past, the club was on the verge of being discontinued.
I recently found out that Kitahara has been one of my listeners since those early days.
Frankly speaking, her suggestion is very warm. I know it’s probably not a good idea to talk to listeners like this, but I felt compelled to put my trust in her words and complain about my problems.
“As you can see, we’ve had a dramatic increase in the number of letters right before the summer vacation…..”
“Yeah. As I said before, isn’t that a good thing?”
“Actually, it’s the content that’s the problem……”
I take out a thin piece of paper so Kitahara can’t see.
“How should I put it…maybe it’s because summer is approaching, well, the topics everyone is discussing are starting to get heated…”
To put it simply, it’s about how much I should encourage her relationship with her boyfriend during the summer? There’s no way I can talk about this on the radio !
If you broadcast such a message to the entire school, you are sure to get a ban, regardless of your popularity.
I tried to cover it up, but Kitahara, with his excellent grades, was right there. Kitahara, who has excellent grades, seemed to understand what I was trying to say from my facial expression and gave a small nod.
“I see, that certainly gives you a stern look.”
“Right? What kind of advice am I supposed to give…..?”
I don’t think anyone at that level will complain if you ignore them, but the problem is with the letters that are a little further forward, such as, what are your favorite places to go on a date during the summer vacation?
I would tell them to look on the Internet, but it’s against my policy to make a single sledgehammer attack on someone who is relying on me.
But going out with girls during summer vacation is such an event, and as someone who could only manage to get my sister with me, I’d like to know how you managed to get that far !
……Now I’m starting to feel empty when I say it.
“I’ve never been on a date, to be honest……”
“……Eh?”
I had my head on the desk and tried to mutter something quietly so that no one could hear, but a cold voice came from above.
I quickly looked up in a panic and saw Kitahara looking at me with a big smile.
“You’ve put me through so much lately, and yet you say something like that?”
“Oh, no ! That’s not what I meant……”
I desperately waved my hands to cover it up. Kitahara was smiling broadly, but it was a plastered smile. Damn, her eyes weren’t smiling.
“Well, to be honest, it was just for my own satisfaction, I don’t think I was able to satisfy Kitahara, and calling it a date, I feel bad for Kitahara..…”
I mumbled and said uncool things. I felt like I was trying to look cool when we went out, but when I got home and calmed down, I was embarrassed and wondered what I had done.
But Kitahara turned her face away.
“You called it a date back then……”
“Eh? What?”
I thought I mumbled something small, but I couldn’t hear her voice clearly.
“It’s nothing. It was obvious from the beginning that you were that kind of person.”
“O-oh, is that so……?”
Kitahara sighed, thinking that it couldn’t be helped. However, although there was a sense of exasperation, there didn’t seem to be any disappointment. …Perhaps.
“So, what are you gonna do with that letter after all? Are you gonna get through it without reading it all?”
“I’d love to, but there are just so many of them…… I guess I’ll just have to be honest and prepare myself for disappointment.”
“You are a master of love, you have a lot of experience.”
“Don’t be ridiculous.”
However, as Kitahara said, I have been doing love advice projects for the past few months so I have gained some experience.
The more we hear from our listeners, the more knowledge I have accumulated about various situations in love.
……Don’t tell me I’m like that guy who’s always first in practice, but when put into action I’m a total loser. I know it myself.
I’m not good today, all I do is think to myself and get depressed on my own.
“Anyway, I wish I had a little more experience…..”
“Experience…..”
Next to me, Kitahara repeated the phrase softly, almost as if she was talking to herself.
“I wonder if Kageyama kun would like to gain experience……?”
For some reason, Kitahara speaks in a stuttering tone. I answered honestly.
“Well, from a radio perspective, it’s probably a problem if the person being consulted doesn’t know anything…”
Also, I simply want to enjoy my youth, as a high school boy I truly want to. I won’t say this to Kitahara, who has always been devoted to radio, because it would be embarrassing.
“Y-you’re right. As a radio person, you have to know that…”
Hearing this, Kitahara’s cheeks flushed and her body shook. I could tell she was gripping the book tighter.
“T-then, Kageyama kun. I have one proposal for you……”
“Hm? What is it?”
“I-if you don’t mind, this summer vacation……”
Ding dong bing bong.
Just as Kitahara was about to say something, the bell rang to start class.
She was startled by the sound of the bell and stopped what she was about to say.
“Hey Kitahara, what did you…….”
“Alright guys, let’s start class. This is Mashiro sensei’s world history class.”
Just as I was about to hear what Kitahara had to say, the door slammed open and a tall female teacher strode into the classroom.
She usually comes to class late, but that’s unusual…..
The teacher then put her hands on the table with a thud.
“You may be all excited about the upcoming summer, but if I hear any of you whispering sweet nothings, I’m going to deduct five points from each of your exams at the beginning of the second semester.”
The classroom is instantly filled with a sense of tension at the sudden change of the advisor of the broadcasting club, who is close to the same age as the students and has a reputation for friendliness.
No matter how you look at it, it’s a 100% personal grudge, but there’s no one here who can point that out. After watching us with our mouths tied in a straight line, the teacher nodded her head in satisfaction.
“Well then, let’s begin, today we’ll start with the Mongol Empire.”
As I stared at the teacher’s writing on the board, which was written with more force than usual, the two character ‘han’ was listed in my notebook.
Maitoshi