My Childhood Friend, a Cool, Beautiful Girl With a Pure Face, Is a Monopolising Yandere
Our high school’s cultural festival is held at the beginning of October.It is a school with a rather large number of students in Tokyo, so the scale of the festival is large.
The content of the class presentation is already decided before the summer vacation.
We will make a poster presentation and offer handmade cookies.
The students are supposed to choose a theme related to some social issue or biology and put up posters in the classroom.
There were many other ideas, such as a maid cafรฉ and takoyaki
โItโs a bit difficult to run a food stall where you cook on the day. Itโs a lot of work to apply in advance and maintain hygiene. If you want to do it, do it next year when you become a second-year student. Iโm not saying itโs bad.โ
The teacher’s advice was to stop that
Since many of the students participate in the club activities, the burden of the poster presentation is probably just right for them.
Cookies can be made in advance, and if they are made and packaged in advance, they can just be left on the table.
The sophomores and juniors are going to do some serious planning. Some classes will put on a play on the stage in the gymnasium, while others will put on a haunted house.
They were busy with preparations during the summer vacation, but I can make it even after the start of the second semester if I only need to make posters.
Since I am not in any club activities and have time, I thought I would be a member of the classroom decoration team, which takes a lot of time and effort. โฆโฆ
โYuto, let’s hurry up and make the posters.”
“โฆโฆ yeah.โ
For some reason, as usual, I was assigned to the Poster C group with Ran.
“Hey, Ran. Why is it just me and Ran in poster group C when there are three or four in the other poster groups?”
It’s not that I don’t like being alone with her, but as expected, it must be hard to make the production โฆโฆ.
“That’s because I’m the one who pressured the festival committee membersโ”
Eh?
What?
“The result of the adjustment of the number of people. The decoration and cookie groups need more people, and the poster group will inevitably be smaller. Let’s just the two of us do our best.”
I see.
If it’s a matter of the number of people, it can’t be helped.
“What about the theme?ใI hope the posters will be ready by the day of the event, but it will take time because they will be handwritten. We can’t just put random information on the poster, so we have to do some preliminary research.”
We are an ordinary school, so we don’t have a printing machine that can print large posters.
For a small drawing, you could probably just put an A4 sheet of paper, but for anything else, you would have to write directly on the paper with a makie or something.
“The theme should be โThe Marine Ecosystem of Tokyo Bay”. Don’t worry about the preliminary research, I have the knowledge. I have done personal research on the subject, so just write what you know.”
I see.
That would save me a lot of time and effort.
โPlease take care of the content and the text. Leave the making of the poster to me
I said this with the intention of helping Ran, but her reaction was not good.
โYou’re going to write it โฆโฆ? Your handwriting isn’t very good, is it?”
“Ugh.โ
She hit me right where it hurts.
It is true that I am not a good calligrapher. When I was in elementary school, I was forced to learn calligraphy, but I never got good at it.
Ran also attended the same calligraphy class, but Ran, who joined later, quickly overtook me and became a second dan or third dan.
Ran is basically a high spec.
“Well, then we could do it half by half, split up โฆโฆ”
โIt would be probably be more reasonable if we did it all together. If we work like that, the design might be off, and it’s too much trouble to manage the paper width.โ
The reasons are too righteous to say anything.
Considering Ran’s precision, splitting up the work halfway might interfere โฆโฆ with the process.
“But that would leave me with nothing to do.”
“No, that’s not true. Come on, Let’s get on with it.”
And so we came to the library.
โLibrary? Is there something you want to use?”
“There is no such specialized literature in a high school library. We simply have a large desk where we can write on posters.”
I had not been to the library since the first semester when I was studying for a test.
Come to think of it, I was with Ran that time as well.
The other classmates seemed to be still busy with their own preparations, and there was hardly a soul to be seen inside. Just the librarian sitting at the counter working on her computer.
Ran, carrying several large sheets of imitation paper and a writing utensil, takes up a table at the back of the room in advance. On a piece of paper so large that it completely covered the desk when spread out, he began to lightly pencil in a few lines for a rough draft.
โโฆโฆOh, it’s bigger than I thought it would be.”
“I’d like to at least decide on the content and layout by the end of the day.โ
It seems that she has already determined an efficient workflow in her mind.
I sat down quietly at the edge of the room.
At the top of the page, I write โMarine Ecosystem of Tokyo Bayโ in large letters, followed by subheadings and graphs.
Ran’s fingers are as calm and precise as a professional architect’s as she silently designs with a mechanical pencil and a ruler.
โW-Wow. The lines aren’t crooked at all. โฆโฆ”
“Of course not. The foundation is the most important thing.”
Ran answered in a whisper and ran the pencil silently again.
Ran was in full concentration mode.
The serious profile is breathtakingly beautiful.
It is probably best not to talk to her at a time like this.
After waiting for a while, Ran reached out her hand and glanced at me.
“What’s wrong โฆโฆ?”
“Yuto, go get the black and blue Marker. Also, get the masking tape”
My role seemed to be to โgo get the tools.”
But, I can’t replace Ran, so it would be more rational for me to take action.
It was not so bad to watch Ran looking so serious, but I had to do my own work.