Chapter 62: Get Set, Go! (1)

“Ugh…it’s finally starting…”

“That’s right…for me, it’s an event that I can’t get rid of my disappointment, but…I like it very much.”

After going through many eventful days, and Trinity and Gehenna being in danger of chaos…and even experiencing being pierced through the body,

I stubbornly endured and endured, and at the end of the end, the Great Athletics Festival finally started without any problems.

As time passed slowly, the relationship between me and the people around me changed little by little, but I liked it very much…and…

even if it’s a relationship that may seem a little strange, it’s a happy relationship for us, so I was just waiting for the opening ceremony to end with an excited heart and a swollen sense of happiness.

“Haha…but you came to see it today?”

“There’s also a reason for admission…Sora, I just came to see you.”

Seia-onee-chan is inherently weak, so she doesn’t show a very positive attitude towards events or activities that involve moving the body, including this Great Athletics Festival.

Nevertheless, Seia-onee-chan is an existence that is in charge of one of the leaders of a large school called Trinity, so she can’t leave her seat, so it seems that Seia-onee-chan doesn’t like this event very much.

“But…what is this, a private room? It looks like a lounge, but there’s no one here?”

“It’s not a private room, it’s a waiting room and lounge for the executive committee, but right now, when the opening ceremony is in progress, the person who will rest here is…a special case like me.”

As Seia-onee-chan said, now that the opening ceremony is in progress, the main event of the Great Athletics Festival is just around the corner, so it’s not the time for other executive committee members to rest in the lounge.

If there is a person with a special health problem like Seia-onee-chan, they would not participate in the Great Athletics Festival or would be separately taken care of by the medical team, so it is even more so.

I…am a participant, but I was dragged in by Onee-chan.

“…Pfft…if anyone sees it, it’s like the relationship between senpai and junior is reversed, no, are we not even senpai and junior?”

“Fufu…so what, Sora, rather, Sora being the Onee-chan is…quite a sight to see.”

Seia-onee-chan was lying on her lap, just like I did to Mika-onee-chan someday.

No, is it a little different from back then?

She’s completely lying down and her head is entrusted to me, and now Seia-onee-chan is properly conscious, so it can be said that the form is different from back then.

-Swish swish….

The tip of the tail that tickles the tip of my nose is comfortable, as if it has no resistance, weakly, but not without energy, it tickles the tip of my nose.

The well-groomed tail is soft enough to not feel unpleasant…and it evokes a complicated feeling that is difficult to explain.

In a peaceful time where the sound of the TV is not a disturbance, a short silence continues, but interestingly, it was also the TV that broke that silence.

“Ah. Speaking of which, the athlete representatives are entering the podium to take the oath of the Great Athletics Festival, which is the last turn of the opening ceremony!”

“Ah, it’s starting.”

“That’s right…then let’s get up slowly.”

In fact, the news that the opening ceremony is coming to an end is heard from Chronos’ broadcast, which shows a near-monopoly of the broadcasting station pie in Kivotos.

Slowly Seia-onee-chan gets up and sits next to me and turns her gaze to the TV.

…A broadcast from Chronos, and a broadcast from the news department, every time I see it…I wonder if that student Shinon’s outfit is really okay to be broadcast on TV…but this time, that thought is instantly blown away from my head.

“The athlete representatives for this Great Athletics Festival are….’Okusora’ Ayane’ from Abydos High School and ‘Urawa Hanako’ from Trinity General School.”

Wait, what?

“It’s Urawa Hanako.”

My mind went blank for a moment at the shocking statement.

“Please…please pick it up…!”

“Hmm…? Sora, what’s wrong?”

I urgently take out my smartphone and call Nagisa-onee-chan, who is probably in the core of the executive committee.

Seia-onee-chan asks with a question…I’m really…very sorry, but this has become a serious matter.

“Huh? Sora? What’s wrong? Aren’t you supposed to be busy preparing for the competition right now?”

“Onee-chan…! Stop the opening ceremony right now!! No, at least pull Urawa Hanako! Pull that woman down!!!”

It must be stopped.

Urawa Hanako, she will surely…make lewd remarks at the opening ceremony of the Great Athletics Festival, where almost all schools in Kivotos gather, in front of the cameras broadcasting throughout Kivotos, in front of the eyes of the leaders of many schools!!!

“Yes? What do you mean…”

“Ah…it’s too late.”

“…So that’s what it meant…”

…Maybe Onee-chan didn’t think that Hanako would go up as the student representative, or maybe she didn’t think that even she would make lewd remarks even in such a place…maybe it’s the latter…

‘Isn’t it no different?”

“Wh, what do you…j, just a moment, Hanako-san! Besides, the microphone is still on?!”

“Don’t worry. Anyway, the opponent beyond this is just a carrot or a cucumber.”

“I’ve often thought about it before. Hitting each other’s bodies and sharing fellowship, isn’t the Great Athletics Festival quite an obscene festival…fufu.”

-Pick-

“…Sora, I’m sorry…but I have one more ear besides the upper ear..?”

“And…Sora, I’m older than you…?”

I reflexively turned off the TV and covered Seia-onee-chan’s ears…but unfortunately, in Kivotos, it was easy to see people with a total of two pairs of ears, including ears like those of animals…and Seia-onee-chan was one of them…

The subsequent words of Onee-chan pierced the decisive blow, and in the awkward air, only the voice of Nagisa-onee-chan, who was still on the phone, was quietly echoing from the smartphone that was urgently thrown.

.The screen is cracked.

Why didn’t the executives of Pandemonium Society come to this Great Athletics Festival?

“Well…I expected it…”

“Ugh…I have nothing to say…”

The Great Athletics Festival, the Great Athletics Festival’s executive committee meeting room was honestly…a mess.

First of all, the first, Gehenna’s Prefect Team’s senior administrative officer, Amau Ako, saw the huge bomb that Hanako dropped at the opening ceremony of the Great Athletics Festival, and said that Trinity is still unreliable,

and that they always cause accidents at important points, and then she made eye contact with Nagisa, who came in late, and the air became awkward…

and then she couldn’t open her mouth when she saw Seia, who came in even later.

On top of that, right now, only two top executives of the Tea Party participated as executive committee members in Trinity, but Gehenna didn’t participate in the Pandemonium Society,

let alone the top executives of the Pandemonium Society, but rather the Prefect Team, and even a few administrators, not the president, were put in, so the Great Athletics Festival itself is a place of harmony,

and it’s not an event just for Gehenna and Trinity, so it’s a good thing, if it wasn’t…maybe it would have been a political problem.

[Haha…Ako is also having a hard time…]

..Certainly…even during the Eden Treaty…Makoto, because of her, I often thought about overturning it…”

“Ugh…those raccoons…sigh…I thought I couldn’t empathize with Trinity…but if you work with those raccoon guys even for a short time, you can form a bond of empathy…”

If we didn’t see the Prefect Team leader, we would still be seriously worry about how Gehenna is maintained and empathize…maybe there will be…

Well…Ako saying bad things about Trinity in front of Nagisa was just bad timing…and I don’t know why she can’t make eye contact with Seia, but if I guess from Nagisa’s words,

it would be better to stop thinking that something was done to Seia because of Makoto during the Eden Treaty. Anyway, if you think about it, excluding these parts,

it’s just that Makoto, who is almost annihilated in terms of cooperation, even Ako, has formed a bond of empathy with the executives of the Tea Party…

“…What kind of person is she to get such a reaction…?”

[Haha…but at first, I thought I would be working in a bad atmosphere throughout the Great Athletics Festival…isn’t it rather a good thing?]

“Is that okay…?”

Yuuka, who is unfamiliar with this situation, said as if she was tired…but what can I do, they are such people…

Is that really a bad thing? I don’t think so, and this kind of banter didn’t last long, but working with people who have a bond of empathy…I don’t know if that bond of empathy is something to be happy about…

How much time has passed like that, the meeting itself went more smoothly than expected, so maybe that’s why?

Time passed quickly, and after the meeting, it seemed like they were moving to their respective areas, so I also planned to spend the remaining time wandering around nearby.

“Everyone. Sanhaegyeong’s specialty, Genbu Commerce, has come directly to the Great Athletics Festival! Enjoy the delicacies that you can usually only taste in Sanhaegyeong with the games of the Great Athletics Festival!”

“It’s a traveling sale from Byakuya-do! How about watching the game while drinking the newly released cherry blossom soda?”

[Genbu Commerce…and even Byakuya-do…everyone is working hard…]

The Great Athletics Festival is one of the biggest events in Kivotos, so it was easy to see famous restaurants or shops setting up stores, so I could feel that time passed quickly just by wandering around.

Of course, as many people gathered, it was also a place where small disturbances often occurred.

-Clatter-

“Now that I’ve filled my stomach, shall we move to another place?”

“There, wait a minute!”

-Munch munch-

“Uh, huh? The vice-president of the Justice Task Force and…ugh…the knight of the Tea Party…”

“You have to throw away the trash that comes from eating food in the trash can properly. If you throw it away anywhere, the streets that other students have worked hard to decorate will get dirty.”

-Munch munch…-

“I, I’m sorry!!!”

From afar, I hear a familiar voice and two pairs of wings that stand out even from afar.

If it’s a student with uniquely huge wings, even in Trinity, at least there are only one or two people I know.

[Hasumi, Sora!]

-Munch munch-

“Oh, Sensei?”

[What are you doing here? Patrolling on a day like this?]

-Nod nod-

“Yes, even at an event like this, there are definitely delinquent students, so the Justice Task Force or…Gehenna’s Prefect Team is also included in the executive committee.”

It’s a rare combination if it’s rare…no, come to think of it, the children who came from Trinity on the day I first came to Kivotos were Sora and Hasumi, so I think it might be a meaningful combination.

However, unlike Hasumi, who is forced to continue working even here because of her position, Sora seems to be enjoying this festival properly.

Look, the appearance of constantly munching on takoyaki while maintaining a happy expression for some reason next to Hasumi is quite unlike her usual self, and it’s like a proper child, so it makes me feel a little relieved.

In fact, Sora has always shown a look of trying to take care of others rather than herself, to the point where she even feels like she’s looking at an adult…so it seems like she’s trying to enjoy herself properly on a day like this.

-Gulp-

“It’s been a while? Sensei? Are you enjoying the festival?”

[It’s been a while, thanks to you, there are many things to see and it’s fun, Sora, are you patrolling with Hasumi?]

“No, I’m a member of the Tea Party, but today I’m just a participant.”

It’s not like being a member of the executive committee restricts participation in the competition, but it seems that not all manpower has been put in,

as Millennium and other small and medium-sized schools besides Gehenna and Trinity are also working hard for the successful execution of the Great Athletics Festival under the name of the executive committee.

However, I thought that Sora would just be working somewhere with the executive committee name tag on this time too, but I think it’s unexpected.

“You look unexpected, Sensei.”

[Ah Hasumi, honestly…Sora feels a bit like a workaholic?]

“Are you saying that in front of the person involved…?”

To Sora…I’m sorry, but what can I do, it’s the truth. Hasumi also couldn’t deny this, so she had a meaningful expression.

“What’s with that expression…Hanekawa-senpai…”

“Fufu…I’m sorry. Sora, but I can’t deny the Sensei’s words.”

“Ugh…”

So in the continuing banter…perhaps the voice furthest from peace was heard.

“Oh my, to meet you in a place like this. It’s a coincidence.”

“Ugh…this voice…”

Seeing Sora’s reaction being sharp and Hasumi’s eyes narrowing…maybe the owner of the voice I heard is definitely the person I think it is.

“Ah, it’s Sensei.”

“Hello, Sensei!”

[The Gourmet Research Society came too…]

Well…if you look at the surrounding scenery, I was roughly expecting it.

The Great Athletics Festival, the Great Athletics Festival is one of the biggest events and festivals in Kivotos, so many restaurants gather…so it could be said that the Gourmet Research Society’s coming was also confirmed.

As expected, the members of the Gourmet Research Society quickly began to unleash their expectations for the food they were holding at this festival.

In the meantime, just one of Haruna’s mentions, maybe even I was a little interested in, came out.

If it’s a technology, Millennium’s high-molecular compound technology can extract or maximize a specific taste…foods made with new technology will bring a new era to the rigid world of gourmet food.”

Sora’s eyes became serious.

Come to think of it, I heard that Sora is quite greedy when it comes to eating.

It’s mostly content that I heard from Mika or Haruna, and when Sora’s name first came out of Haruna’s mouth, I was embarrassed.

If it’s Sora as I’ve seen and heard, she’ll refuse Haruna…but she’ll be interested in that story, but that thought and interest didn’t last long.

“But…grilled corn with plenty of sugar and cheese…if you eat it like this, it’s a little calories…no, I don’t dislike it as a snack, but…isn’t it a little heavy?”

“Were you worried about calories? There’s no need to worry. You can easily consume this much calories by lightly running, fufu.”

The conversation between the two continued while I was thinking about Sora…and if you think about Haruna’s usual hobby? and Haruna’s appearance, the content that I roughly expected began to flow out of Haruna’s mouth.

“Rather, considering that you’ll keep moving during the Great Athletics Festival, shouldn’t you worry about losing weight?”

“Worrying about losing weight….?”

“Wait…a minute…Haruna…? No, Haruna-san?!”

…Haruna is sometimes…no, quite often, she causes huge trouble around her and quietly disappears.

That’s as much as Hasumi’s role as a cautionary figure, and Haruna…just stepped on it.

But Haruna was a child who thought it was more important to express her opinion than the atmosphere around her…and she did so this time too.

Naturally, this was enough to put Hasumi in deep anger…and Sora also realized this and tried to stop Haruna’s mouth, but…it was already too late.

“Absolutely….absolutely….absolutely….”

“Ah…it’s too late…”

[Haha…Haruna…run away!]

“I can never forgive you, Gehenna!!!!”

…For a while, Sora and I had to spend a long time soothing Hasumi.