Chapter 302 Try harder

After enjoying their lunch boxes with Amamiya Iori on the rooftop, there was still some time left before the lunch break was over.

Taking advantage of this time, Shimizu Mi helped Amamiya Iori look at the speech she had prepared last night for the student union president election at her request.

In fact, just two days ago, when people heard that Amamiya Iori was going to run for student council president, not only did almost all of her classmates fully support her, but many students from the next class also expressed their intention to vote for her.

As a result, the joint recommendation that was originally required only for thirty people far exceeded expectations, and suddenly there were as many as eighty people's real-name recommendations.

Seeing Amemiya Iori working so hard, Shimizu Mi naturally felt happy.

In his opinion, Amamiya Iori would be the most suitable person to take over the job of student council president from Ayase Kotone.

However, some of her campaign slogans seemed a little extreme.

Amemiya Iori asked Shimizu to help her look at the first draft of the speech she wrote, hoping that he could give her some advice.

But after reading it, Qingshuijian found that in addition to several relatively common and reasonable suggestions for the school, her manuscript also stated that if she was able to take office, all students in the school would be able to interact freely, and as long as both parties liked each other, neither teachers nor the principal could interfere.

It is clear that Amamiya Iori's campaign manifesto focuses on freedom of love. She has previously mentioned that she wants to abolish school rules that prohibit students from dating.

However, Qingshui heard that this school rule has been in place since the school was founded, and it has been several decades now, so it is a bit too fantastic to want to abolish it.

At first, Shimizu Mi thought that Amemiya Iori's declaration was outrageous enough, but after a few days, several candidates for student council president came out. After learning about their propositions and declarations, Shimizu Mi realized that Amemiya Iori was already considered a conservative.

There are many unrealistic declarations, such as "As long as I become the student union president, there will be no homework after school, holiday homework will be reduced by half, and group outings will be held regularly every month."

Declarations like this are nothing but empty promises. Although Shimizu Mi also hopes that things like reducing homework by half can be achieved, the school will never approve such a thing even if he really succeeds in becoming the student council president.

In this comparison, Amamiya Iori's declaration is more pragmatic and realistic.

Therefore, after the first student council president election speech contest a few days later, Amamiya Iori's beautiful speech caused the number of votes supporting her to surge, and she opened up a considerable gap with the other candidates.

In addition, apart from a small number of students who have given up their voting rights, there is still a large number of students who have not voted yet, so the voting campaign period will be extended for a while.

It was Friday, and when school was over, Amamiya Iori had to deliver a document about her participation in the student union president election to the student union office, but since it was her turn on duty today, she couldn't spare the time.

So, Qingshuijian had to make the trip for her.

After arriving at the student council room, Shimizu knocked on the door gently, only to find that it was ajar.

When he pushed the door open and walked in, the first thing Shimizu saw was Sakurai Haruka sitting at the student council president's desk.

Apart from her, the entire student union room was silent and empty.

At this time, Sakurai Haruka frowned and stared at the exercise book on the table, as if she was worried about not being able to solve the questions in it.

The only sound in the silent meeting room was the curtains swaying gently in the wind, so much so that she didn't even notice that Shimizu Mi had walked behind Sakurai Haruka.

Perhaps because she couldn't solve the problem, Sakurai Haruka pursed her lips slightly, sometimes muttering to herself, and sometimes letting out a soft sigh.

Out of curiosity, Qingshui glanced at the questions in the exercise book behind her, and was immediately dumbfounded.

She couldn't even solve the first problem.

[A, B, and C have a total of 2,150 yuan. A has 120 yuan more than B. Assuming C gives two-fifths of the money to B, then B will have 220 yuan more than A. How much money did A have at the beginning? ]

This was a problem involving a system of simultaneous equations, and Shimizu seemed to have learned this knowledge in his first year of high school.

Logically speaking, as a senior high school student, Sakurai Haruka should be able to solve such a simple problem, but this question unexpectedly stumped her.

After secretly watching her do a few questions from behind, Shimizu Mi was certain that although Sakurai Haruka was now in her third year of high school, she probably hadn't even fully mastered the basic knowledge from her freshman year.

But this can't be blamed on her, after all, she is not very good at studying.

After struggling with this question for a few minutes, Sakurai Haruka tapped the table with her fingers in annoyance. Finally, she skipped this question and turned to the next page.

"The person who wrote the Midou Kanpakuki is..."

Sakurai Haruka supported one of her cheeks and whispered the questions in the exercise book.

"Fujiwara Michinaga."

"what?!"

Sakurai Haruka was startled and looked up at Shimizu Ken who suddenly spoke behind her.

"This is what I learned in my second year of high school."

Shimizu moved a chair and sat down next to Sakurai Haruka.

"I, of course I know... I just didn't remember it for the moment."

Sakurai Haruka pouted and wrote down the answer.

In fact, the reason why Sakurai Haruka appeared here was the decision made by Ayase Kotone.

According to the original plan, they were going to take time out on weekends for tutoring, but when Ayase Kotone prepared a basic test paper for Sakurai Haruka and she finished it, she found that Sakurai Haruka's knowledge of various subjects was much lower than she expected.

So there was no choice but for Ayase Kotone to change her original plan.

If she only relied on tutoring time on weekends, even she would find it difficult to quickly help Sakurai Haruka fill the knowledge gaps in the short term.

That's why Ayase Kotone decided to add an extra time period after school every day on top of the weekend tutoring, and invite Sakurai Haruka to the Student Union Room for one-on-one targeted tutoring.

As far as Shimizu Mi knew, the two of them had started tutoring after school two days ago, but it seemed that Ayase Kotone had not come yet.

"Haruka, where's the president?"

Since he had to hand over the documents given by Amamiya Iori to Ayase Kotone, Shimizu Mi directly asked Sakurai Haruka.

"Why, do you miss her so much when you see her?"

Sakurai Haruka put down the writing in her hand, the corners of her mouth unconsciously turned down slightly, her eyes revealed a strong jealousy, and it continued to emanate from the air around them.

"…I just have a document to give her."

"is it?"

"it is true."

Shimizu Mitsuki brought the document to the table, but Sakurai Haruka still held on to the jar of vinegar.

"Huh, it's great to have two girlfriends."

Sakurai Haruka deliberately teased Shimizu Mi like this.

If he counted correctly, this was the thirty-seventh time that Shimizu had heard her say this this week.

As expected, Sakurai Haruka still had a lot of opinions about this.

After that, Shimizu continued to watch Sakurai Haruka do a few questions, but her accuracy rate was still zero.

Perhaps because she couldn't solve the problem, Sakurai Haruka felt a little stuffy due to irritability, so she took off her uniform jacket and put it on the table.

A few minutes later, Qingshuijian got up from his seat because he suddenly felt like going to the bathroom.

However, just as he was about to reach the door, footsteps were heard outside the Student Union.

When Shimizu walked to the door, he happened to run into Ayase Kotone who was walking into the student council room. "Ki... Shimizu-san?!"

Fortunately, there was no head-on collision, but after meeting Shimizu Miki's eyes, Ayase Kotone was stunned for a moment, then turned around and tried to run away.

Qing Shuijian subconsciously reached out and grabbed her arm.

"Why did the president run away?"

Am I scary today?
"Sorry to bother you guys..."

Ayase Kotone looked into the meeting room somewhat shyly.

"us?"

Shimizu looked into the meeting room at Sakurai Haruka, who was also looking over here. Feeling stuffy, she pulled at the collar of her thin short-sleeved shirt and fanned it gently, and the proud cleavage on her chest was faintly visible as the collar was pulled.

"President, we are just doing the questions."

Ayase Kotone probably misunderstood. This is the student council room, and no matter what, it is impossible for Shimizu Mi to do something weird here with Sakurai Haruka.

"Sorry... I'm still not used to it."

"Not used to what?"

Shimizu asked curiously.

Ayase Kotone lowered her head, looked up, and shyly glanced at Shimizu: "I'm not used to... being Shimizu-san's girlfriend."

So to speak, Shimizu Mi and Ayase Kotone were just ordinary classmates before this. Such a huge change suddenly happened in just a few days. For Ayase Kotone, it might be a bit too fast and she needs some time to adapt.

However, for Shimizu Mi, the two had already been dating last episode, so to be honest, such a relationship not only does not make him feel unfamiliar, but it is even more like a bit of nostalgia.

"I'm really not suitable to be Shimizu-san's girlfriend..."

Looking at the arm held by Shimizumi, Ayase Kotone's eyes were a little timid, and she didn't dare to raise her head and look at him.

Sakurai Haruka, who had been sitting there and looking at this side, frowned when she heard this and walked over.

"What are you talking about all of a sudden?"

"Sakurai-san..."

Ayase Kotone raised her head in surprise and looked at Sakurai Haruka who walked up to her.

"President Ayase, have you forgotten that I have already said that I agree? Since it is a decision I made myself, I can't take it back."

"..."

Ayase Kotone didn't say anything.

"Although it's my turn today as it's Friday, President Ayase should at least have some awareness of being your girlfriend."

"Shimizu-san's girlfriend..."

Ayase Kotone lowered her head again, staring closely at the arm that was held by Shimizumi, and her previously timid eyes were gradually filled with a different kind of emotion.

I really want to... use more force.

Perhaps Shimizu was afraid of hurting her, so he held her very gently, but deep down, Ayase Kotone longed for Shimizu to hold her tighter and harder.

It was the first time that such a thought occurred to Ayase Kotone, and when she realized it, she was even a little surprised.

At this time, Sakurai Haruka brought the exercise book to Ayase Kotone and continued:

"But on the other hand, the prerequisite for everything is that you must tutor me well. Otherwise, if there is no way for Jian and I to be admitted to the same university, I promise that I will never let you get close to Jian again."

"No, that kind of thing..."

Just by imagining it, Ayase Kotone felt as if the sky was falling.

It took her so much time to finally find Shimizumi, and Ayase Kotone would not want to let her leave like this no matter what.

Three years have passed since then. If this is fate, Ayase Kotone will try to believe it without reservation this time.

"If you don't want that to happen, start studying today as soon as possible."

Sakurai Haruka urged Ayase Kotone to start today's tutoring as soon as possible.

To be honest, this was the first time that Shimizu had seen her so motivated in her studies.

"If I can improve my grades sooner, I won't need President Ayase's help sooner, and I won't need to date her sooner."

It turns out that this was her plan.

But if that's the case, Ayase Kotone would be too pitiful...

Moreover, Shimizu Mi was not dating Ayase Kotone just because she was willing to help Sakurai Haruka with her studies.

In fact, although Shimizu Mi didn't tell anyone, he always felt a little guilty towards Ayase Kotone in his heart.

Although I didn't think so much at that time, if I hadn't given Ayase Kotone the eraser, Ayase Kotone probably wouldn't have abandoned her life in Fukuoka, and she wouldn't have abandoned her best friend Ichinose Shiki, and came all the way to Tokyo alone.

Ayase Kotone's feelings are certainly much heavier than those of an ordinary girl, but it is also because of her feelings that she attracted Shimizu Mi.

Whether it was Ayase Kotone, whom he dated last episode, or her in this episode, even without the memory of last episode, Ayase Kotone's feelings for Shimizu Miki have never changed.

Perhaps it was because when Shimizu was thinking about these things, his eyes were always on Ayase Kotone, and Sakurai Haruka next to her puffed up one cheek with an obviously dissatisfied expression.

To be honest, Sakurai Haruka hasn't changed her mind yet, and is still reluctant to let Ayase Kotone become Shimizu Mi's girlfriend.

But there was no other way. He needed Ayase Kotone to help him with his homework now. Otherwise, if he couldn't get into the same university as Shimizu Mi in the future, who knows how many temptations would be around him when he went to university.

For this reason, Sakurai Haruka must, and absolutely must, be admitted to the same university as Shimizu Mi.

After that, Shimizu gave the documents that Amemiya Iori wanted to give to Ayase Kotone, and did not intend to disturb them from studying anymore.

"Then I won't disturb you."

"Where are you going?"

"bar."

Because today is Friday, the bar is open as usual, so Shimizu must rush there before the store opens.

Hearing this, Sakurai Haruka's eyes suddenly became sharp.

"You are not allowed to flirt with that sneaky cat behind my back. I will come find you after I finish my tutoring here."

"…But Zhixi said she's going back tonight."

"Huh? Tonight?"

Ayase Kotone's words made Sakurai Haruka slightly surprised.

(End of this chapter)