Classroom Of The Elite Year 2 Volume 9

Chapter 2: The New Student Council Members

While preparing for the second term's final special test, Horikita has a problem that she must solve.

The work to take over after Student Council President Nagumo resigns.

It looks like she decided to start working on it the very next day after being left with the role of the new Student Council President.

The person in question was discussing some things with her classmates.

The Student Council is also something she needs to handle, but she has to think about the countermeasures to the new special test too.

She'll make me repay it in double if I ignore her now.

I'd like to avoid that.

After around 10 minutes of thinking about that, I approached her without bothering to apologize.

"Should we go somewhere else now, then?"

"Is the strategy meeting over already?"

"I discussed things thoroughly with Hirata-kun and the others yesterday. I only asked for a progress report today. Fortunately, most of our classmates are very motivated. They're being positive even though they hate studying. The rise of Sudou, who was at the bottom in grades, the psychological pressure of Sakura-san dropping out, and the point difference and confrontation with A Class, who are now in the shooting range for us. It's all proof that things are headed in a better way."

Just for a moment, Horikita looked to be checking for my reaction when she said out loud the name of Sakura Airi.

"Do you still feel bad?"

"I'm not callous enough to not feel bad. Even if it's true."

"That's no good. There's nothing for you to be ashamed of."

Horikita should be getting a better understanding as time passes. As I started walking, Horikita followed me while looking slightly disconcerted.

"I felt very reassured when I heard from Nagumo-senpai that you would be cooperating with me."

"Of course he said that. I just want you to understand that I didn't want this in the least."

Things get hard later when there are disagreements because of the problem of a difference in motivation.

Well, I'm sure she already understands all this without me saying it.

"That's obvious. You didn't even tell me that he told you to help me out. You were just going to feign ignorance*3 if I never spoke out to you, right?"

[*3TL Note 3 : 知らぬ存ぜぬ Shiranu Zonzenu ; expression, "if I don't know about it, then it doesn't exist." ]

It seems that she already knew about it and was trying to incite me on purpose.

"Maybe you should have just let it go, considering that it's me." 

"No way." 

My attempts to find a way out of the situation were dashed by the immediate response.

Recently, the way she's been dealing with me has been getting more and more rough, in a good way, or even in a bad way too.

"Don't worry, though. I'm not going to bother gathering all the Student Council members together. I found some candidates throughout yesterday, so I'm going to make the decision today. The Student Council is important too, but I need to focus on the Special Test right now."

At least she wants to solve this quickly, so that's a relief.

"One person from year-two and one person from year-one, right?"