Chapter 5: Extras visit the club.

“…Guys, do you know that this week is the deadline for club applications? Don’t get dragged to the teacher in charge because you’re late, and decide on time, okay? Then, let’s end today’s homeroom here. Class president.”

When the homeroom teacher called the class president, the class president, who was sitting in the front row, calmly stood up.

“Attention, salute to the teacher.”

“””Thank you for today.”””

After the homeroom ended earlier than usual, the classmates each packed their necessary belongings and left the classroom.

Those who have clubs will go to their respective clubs, and those who will experience clubs will go to their desired clubs.

However, the four of us haven’t left the classroom yet.

“Where should we go first…”

The reason is that we haven’t decided which club to experience yet.

If the clubs were small, less than 10 like in my past life’s school, it would be fine, but the academy I’m attending now has a lot of detailed clubs as much as the site is large.

Major clubs such as soccer, basketball, and table tennis had so many people that they had to divide into teams to use the court, and there were even cooking clubs and even clubs that made robots.

It was a sight that could only be seen in college, but Aria Academy had facilities comparable to that.

Where does the operating cost come from? Since a princess is openly attending the academy, you can probably guess, but apart from the expensive tuition, the country was fully supporting it for the purpose of fostering talent.

Not only Aria Academy, but also other academies were supported by the country, and in the case of men, there was another academy comparable to Aria Academy, but it ended with an explanation in the comic and never appeared until the end.

‘Boys in yuri comics are taboo, or something…’

That’s what my younger sister who lent me the comic said.

When I asked if there might be a scenario where a male student from another academy would appear someday, she immediately got angry and said, ‘In yuri, boys shouldn’t get involved with the main characters more than necessary!’ She sat me down and talked about it.

I pretended to understand and was barely released.

That was also a memory now.

‘…Come to think of it, I’m a girl now.’

Thinking of the words that only girls can be next to the main character of a yuri comic, I became unnecessarily conscious of Yoon Sejeong sitting next to me.

Sejeong was diligently reading the table where the clubs were organized.

She was marking with a red pen, probably organizing the clubs she liked.

‘My body is completely female…’

Small hands.

Soft body.

Silky hair.

And, the bulging chest and the empty bottom.

All of this said that I was a woman, but the unnaturalness I felt every time I moved made me feel like I was a man, which was troubling.

It’s like a Möbius strip, so to speak.

Perhaps, this is a problem that I have to solve for the rest of my life as Kim Hayeon.

It was a type that could not be solved in any way right now.

“Hayeon-ah, how about here?”

Jia, who was looking at the club map at my desk by turning her chair, called me.

She was pointing to the cooking club.

Looking at the detailed photos next to it, there were quite a lot of cooking facilities, starting with an oven.

“If you join here, you can eat delicious food and it might be pretty good, right? They even say they only do activities twice a week.”

“Oh… twice a week?”

The number of club activities was pretty good.

There were clubs that had to attend the club every day, but those were excluded from consideration.

Most of the sports clubs were like that.

And, in my experience, those types will often come into close contact with seniors, and I wasn’t confident that I could get along well, which was one of the reasons.

I’d probably leave before long.

In that case, it was right to choose another club.

“…But I’m not very good at cooking.”

The cooking club was good, but the problem was that my cooking skills were terrible.

In my past life, I only cooked cup noodles, and in my present life, I rarely cooked at all.

-Hayeon, just bringing the plate is doing everything.

-Sis, I’ll cook, so just set the table.

When my mom was home, she always took care of our house’s kitchen, and after the two of them went abroad, my younger sister took charge of the meals.

I’ve thought about trying to cook once.

However, my sister stopped me, saying that I could do something other than cooking, and the plan was canceled.

“Isn’t it okay? They’ll teach you all the recipes anyway… Look, it says beginners are always welcome. I’ll help you next to you.”

Seeing Jia speaking with sparkling eyes, it seems that Jia is already set on the cooking club.

She always uploads photos to the group chat when she makes something delicious, so it suited her hobby.

“It’s good.”

“I think this place is good!”

Sohee, who was looking next to Jia, held out a page of a book to me, and it contained information about board games.

“Board game club?”

There were separate clubs for chess and Go, and this was a place where games that could be seen in a board game cafe were gathered.

The meeting was three times, one day more than the cooking club.

The activity was all about playing board games.

“It looks fun?”

“Right!?”

I sometimes went to a board game cafe after school and played with the kids, so it looked more fun than I thought.

‘…Huh?’

So I was reading through the club description, and I saw a familiar face.

‘This person, was she in here?’

The face of the president I saw in the morning, Lee Seorin, was there.

It was playfully decorated with words like [President, sometimes appears.], but I thought that this alone would make many people not go.

I didn’t want to see her because of what happened in the morning, but the president’s popularity in the academy was enormous.

“…A place with the president is a bit.”

“I heard that she rarely participates. She’s busy with the student council, so she just puts her name on other clubs.”

“Really? Then let’s go to the cooking club and here. There’s only one left.”

Time was limited, so we could only experience about three places in the allotted time.

“Hayeon-ah, how about here?”

Lastly, the club that Sejeong showed me was the cafe club.

It said that the main activities were learning how to brew coffee or black tea, and making simple desserts that go with it.

It seems that they also enjoy tea time, but it seemed that it was okay to do it with anyone you like.

‘…Here.’

It really felt like a club at a lady’s school.

First of all, all the utensils, from the teapot to the cups, looked luxurious.

There was also a picture of the members gathered at an outdoor table, and even though they were wearing the same school uniform, the people in the picture looked like ladies who just came out of a comic.

“Hmm…”

It was subtle, but Sejeong wanted it, and I liked that the number of meetings was once a week.

And the activities didn’t seem that difficult.

This was, well, within the acceptable range.

“Then, we’ll go around three places including here.”

The earliest experience was the cooking practice of the cooking club.

The board game club was a little later, and the cafe club was a free viewing type, so it was okay to go anytime.

“Hayeon-ah, don’t you have a club you want to go to?”

As I was about to organize that, Sejeong asked me.

“I, well, not really?”

To be honest, I didn’t want to go to all three.

It’s annoying.

If the academy didn’t force me to join a club, I wouldn’t have joined a club for 3 years in high school unless there was a special reason.

“If you’ve packed everything, let’s go to the cooking club first. It’s E04, so we have to go a bit.”

There are two 3-story buildings for the club, and each floor is divided into (A, B, C) and (D, E, F).

The building with A, B, and C is called Camellia Hall, and it was 5 minutes away from here.

The building with D, E, and F is called Peony Hall, and it was 5 minutes further from there, closer to middle school than high school.

So, E04, where the cooking club experience is, was located on the 2nd floor of Peony Hall.

“Ugh… E means we have to walk for 10 minutes.”

“What can we do? Still, endure it because all the clubs we’re seeing are in one building.”

Listening to Sohee’s complaints, we left the classroom.

“Hello! Are you here for the experience? You can sit at that table over there.”

When I was guided inside, there was a kitchen that was more wonderful than the photo.

“It’s sparkling.”

“I know, right. How much did they wipe it?”

“I saw it in the introductory book, but the facilities at Aria Academy are really amazing. Our academy couldn’t even dream of such facilities in the club…”

Sohee and I were impressed that the table was polished to a shine without any oil, and Sejeong seemed to be impressed by the overall facilities.

And Jia…

“Wow, this is the new light wave oven that came out this year? It was a different oven in the photo, but you already got it… Senpai, are you linking this?”

“Of course. This is oven number 1, so… it’s probably linked to the president’s phone. President!”

She was impressed when she saw the oven, and the three of them, including the senior who seemed to be the cooking club president, were talking enthusiastically.

‘She’s more serious about cooking than I thought.’

While the three of them were talking, we put on the aprons that another senior brought us.

‘Hmm, it’s pretty.’

Looking in the mirror, the navy blue apron looked better than I thought.

“Hayeon, can you tie the back for me?”

“Just a moment… Done.”

“Tie mine too.”

“Okay.”

After fulfilling the requests of the two, I waited for Jia to come, and she finished her talk just before the experience time.

“Sorry, when I saw the oven, I suddenly had a lot of questions… Actually, I was wondering whether to put one in our house or not.”

“An oven? Jia’s house is well off, so shouldn’t you just buy it?”

At Sohee’s question, Jia, who had finished tying her apron, sat down and spread two fingers.

“There are already 2 ovens… Dad usually buys me what I want, but Mom told me last time not to buy things like ovens often.”

‘That’s a bit true.’

There was also an oven in our house, but it took up more space than I thought, and my sister didn’t use it very often except for baking fish.

It was understandable to worry about putting in 3.

“There are 2 ovens. It’s amazing because there’s no oven in our house.”

Sejeong said in amazement.

“Really? Then how do you cook things like steak?”

“…I’ve never eaten anything other than pork at home.”

‘…Ah.’

I knew, so it was okay, but the two of them looked shocked.

From their point of view, things like ovens and steak would be everyday life.

I also lived similarly to the two of them, or even better, in my present life, but I knew well because I had never even tasted such things in my past life.

The types of meat eaten at the orphanage were always cheap pork shoulder.

In the case of beef, the hamburgers I ate outside were the maximum.

‘…Huh?’

I, was poorer than the main character.

“I, I’m sorry… I didn’t mean to do that…”

While I was shocked by the unexpected fact, Jia apologized to Sejeong in a fluster.

There is a big difference between words with malice in advance and words without.

If she had malice in the original work, she would have asked, ‘Then how did you get into the academy?’, but now she couldn’t even make eye contact with me because of her apology.
It really must be just happening.

I hope that the two of them can become friends.

“Then, let’s start the cooking club experience!”

It was a simple sandwich making for the experience.

The ingredients were moderately divided in advance, so you just had to bake the ham, put the vegetables on top, and wrap it in plastic.

‘It’s delicious.’

The sandwich made for the experience was more delicious than I thought.

I, maybe I have a talent for cooking.