Kenkyo Kenjitsu

Reika-sama – 080

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I intend to translate more these next few weeks. The brainwashing of the Clinton News Network caused me to focus my time on other things, but now that Trump has freed me I will dedicate myself to Making Novels Great Again.

After the excursion comes the mid-term exams.
Because of all the smart External Students that flooded into my school, I need to study harder than ever.
Actually, I’ve been taking it easy these days so I haven’t enrolled in a new cram school for high school yet. Right now I’ve only got a home tutor.

Before the exams began I decided to increase my lessons with her.

“Reika-san, you just always seem to struggle with maths, don’t you. I think you can improve if you keep up the practice though, so keep trying.”

“Yes.”

But that’s the hard part. I hate doing these questions…
If I don’t though I might get called in for remedials again. I’ll pass on those days of isolation again. And even though I’m really just some small fry I want everybody to keep saying “As expected of Reika-sama”!
For the sake of this petty pride I continued to battle with these baffling equations.

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For the upcoming exams, this time I got my hands on some energy drinks. After all, I normally sleep 7 hours a night. If I get any less I start wobbling with sleepiness.
But when I was in the store seeing them priced at over 1,000 Yen each, they suddenly seemed like a bit much to drink casually. These felt more like something you’d buy for desperate cramming.
Thanks to that I decided to just buy a three-pack of the popular stuff to start off with.
Hm, the taste was pretty nostalgic. I did drink it from time to time in my old life after all.
I’m not sure if it helped at all but I used them to study as hard as I could so I’m feeling pretty satisfied.
Although, when Okaasama saw my empty bottles in the bin she started worrying about me and said,

“You’re a girl so you really needn’t push yourself too far.”

She gave me a lot of scarily expensive beauty drinks so I drank those too.
Well whatever. Come at me whenever, mid-terms!

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So, about those mid-terms that I drank a bunch of energy drinks to study for… Well, it was still me doing the tests after all…
Anyway, Okaasama dragged me to beauty and hair salons after the exams ended. She really is fussy about how I look, isn’t she. Totally fixated on making sure I look like her image of an ‘ojousama’. Thank goodness said image wasn’t dressed in goth loli or something.
Oh, and that random white hair seemed to be gone now. I never want to experience that tragedy again. That’s why from now on I’m going to make sure to get full workovers more often at salons.
A few days after those treatments left my skin and hair sparkling, the results of the mid-terms were posted.

At Zui’ran, only the top 30 are posted. Since we have roughly 300 students it’s absolutely impossible for me.
…But although I say ‘absolutely’, I still can’t help but hope somewhere in my heart. Why is that?
Even though I’m wearing this modest expression that says I can’t imagine being up there, I’m still going to check it out.
I looked up nervously, but yep, wasn’t there.
Still, there sure were a lot of new names up there. They had to be all the Externals. As expected of them.
And at the very top, shining brilliantly were two names:

1. Kaburagi Masaya
2. Enjou Shuusuke

Just how crazy are these guys. Their cumulative result was pretty much full-marks. Just what do they have there inside their heads. I’m so jealous. Since middle school they’ve always been unshaken in the top two places. Well, the two of them would swap positions though.
Also, although 1st and 2nd place were these two, 3rd place was Wakaba-chan! And her marks were super close to theirs as well. Isn’t it completely possible for her to overtake them next time!?
The girl herself was staring dumbly up at the board with unruly hair as always. I just can’t see her as smart… Wakaba-chan, your mouth is hanging open! You look ridiculous, so please close it already!
The students around me were murmuring about the identity of this mysterious ‘Takamichi Wakaba’ but I can’t imagine anybody would connect that name with the spaced out girl in front of me. I guess she’s like the perfect example of that saying about a capable eagle hiding its talons.
On another note, Stalking Horse managed to grab 5th place despite all these new Externals. That’s amazing, Stalking Horse! As a fellow stalking horse, I’m proud of you!
Anyway, when Wakaba-chan noticed her name up there, relief flooded her expression. I guess this is pretty much life or death for a scholarship student. Congratulations.

It was around that moment that Kaburagi and Enjou came along. They normally don’t care at all about these but I guess they’re here this time because of all the new students?
As they came sauntering down, the students all parted left and right for them.
After confirming their own names at the top, Kaburagi muttered,

“Who’s this Takamichi Wakaba?”

Some of the students heard him and pointed her out to him.
After taking one look at her, he simply left with Enjou. Although Kaburagi was expressionless as always, Enjou had a faint look of interest on his face.
The moment they left the crowd grew noisy. It felt a little dangerous, actually. One phrase I managed to catch was “…knowing her place” though…

Nobody was mad enough to publicly attack her, but it seemed like there were a lot of people quietly dissatisfied with her threatening the pair’s dominance on the rankings. The fact that she was poor and stuck out like a sore thumb certainly didn’t help.
But wow, even if they say that, Wakaba-chan is a scholarship student, you know? She has to get good marks. And if you’re worried about people threatening those two, why didn’t you complain when Stalking Horse took 3rd place all of middle school.
When I asked out of curiosity they told me, “Mizusaki-kun is different.”
What the heck. Is it his face? Is it because his face looks good?
Not only that, but according to the others, Stalking Horse had a charm that both the boys and girls were drawn in by. Well, I guess that’s not really surprising since he made it to StuCo President.
That doesn’t mean that you can blame your own shortcomings on some innocent External girl though.

“The External Students entered only after passing some very rigorous tests after all. That they have good grades is a given. Instead we should be marvelling at how Kaburagi-sama and Enjou-sama defeated them all despite that,” I commented.

“Truly! As expected of those two!”

It’s almost never a mistake to use the names of those two when dealing with girls. The atmosphere was filled with their delighted squealing now.

When I got my report card handed to me, it listed my rank as 73. Hmmm… Should I be feeling happy about this rank?

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Recently I’ve found a new method of stress relief. It’s called needle felting.
You’ve got this ball of wool and you poke at it with needles. It’s actually weirdly fun. I’ve been following the instructions in the textbook, and my latest creation is a snowman. Well, it’s basically just two white balls and two dots for eyes though.
Also when I get too into it my eyes start to hurt so I have to pay attention to the time. MY EYES-! MY EYEEEES-!

I usually do this in my room, but occasionally I camp out in the living room too.
Today I’m making a Tarow the Taro. I’m using brown felt this time.

-poke poke poke…-

When Oniichan saw me after a late night at work he asked me,

“Who’s the target!?”

It’s not a voodoo doll…

*

Geez. I wish I had some friends in the arts and crafts to understand my feelings. I wanna join the Handicrafts Club…
Should I pretend to be socially oblivious and just force my way in?
But if I do that I’ll just end up isolated in the room again. Uuu, these tears are just because I’m straining my eyes, okay?

“MY EYES-! MY EYEEEES-!”

is a reference to the typical stereotypical chuunibyou phrase,

“My eye-! My eyeeee-!”

when their left eye goes red and they unleash their power or whatever.

Japanese has no plurals, so Reika’s line is exactly the same as the above.

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76 thoughts on “Reika-sama – 080”

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  2. Thanks for the update! You know, I really appreciate that you take the time to provide quality translations; I never realized how good they were until recently.

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      1. You are perfect.
        Your divine-quality translation are what makes us strive through our harsh live.
        Ô esteemed sheep rabbit, you are an incarnated god for us.

        Is that enough praise?

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      4. Awesome translations for an impressive number of awesome series. Thanks for your continuing work to provide us with entertainment in man’s ultimate struggle against boredom.

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  3. “when Okaasama say my empty bottles”
    -> saw my empty bottles

    Reika is protecting Wakaba by redirecting jealousy into admiration for the Duo.
    And she is as cute as ever <3

    Thanks for the chapter :)

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  8. Thanks for the chapter! Reika is back! I nearly forgot this series. Ha, ha. I wonder when Reika will be actually talking with Wakaba-chan…. Do your best, Reika! 😁

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  10. “who’s the target?!” LMAO. Oniisama misunderstands Reika again. And ganbatte~ reika on studying. thanks for the chapter!

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    1. It would have been nice if Reika could have quietly said a word of congratulations. Maybe Wakaba would be less likely to fear her.

      Forgive my ignorance, but I joined late. Does this world conspire to force the villainess role onto Reika? With the missed opportunity and all, I’m wondering.

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      2. Reika suddenly saying congratulations to her would be weird. They never talked expect for that confrontation and there shouldn’t be any reason for her to even know her name.

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        1. It’s actually less weird less weird the more that I think about it.
          Wakaba is listed third place, so it isn’t that strange to take notice of her, especially once other students point her out. Reika congratulating with people watching would actually be a pretty nice gesture of goodwill.

          Mostly because it fits her growing reputation as one of the more reliable and generous Pivoine members and would take some of the heat off Wakaba. Nobody can really second guess Reika if that’s what she wants to do.

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          1. Hmm, you say it’ll take more heat off Wakaba, and that might be true, but it’ll probably transfer onto Reika instead, since it’d seem like she, as a Pivoine member, is congratulating a girl who’s threatening the tops spots occupied by the school idols Katsuragi and Enjou. And it’ll probably blow up the whole thing more overall… And on tops of that, it’d affect her reputation as a Pivoine member as well, seeing as their group has that superiority complex and all, they probably won’t be too happy about one of their own acknowledging an External like that. So it wouldn’t actually make much sense for Reika to congratulate her if she wants to stay out of trouble

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      1. I’m more worried about how the mc managed to be so stupid considering even if she doesn’t remember stuff taught in her previous life she would still have the mentality and reasoning skills of an adult fresh out of school

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  16. Thanks you forthe chapter! I saw another translation of Reika-sama but hands down, you’re the best! 😋 MY EYES!!!!!! Ahhh~ Will this mis understanding fuel her brothers former trauma?

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    1. Next Oniisama POV: Today I witnessed my sister laughing to herself with an “Ufufufufu” and stabbing a poppet over and over with needles. She was muttering to herself as well, “MY EYE! MY EYEEEEE!!!” I tried to quietly retreat… but in the end I couldn’t help but ask who had offended her so…

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      1. Note that Japanese often remove the first person pronoun so what Reika actually said there was probably “Me ga! Me ga~!” which could also mean “The eye! The eye~!”

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  19. Meatbun Delivery~
    Thank you for the chapter ( ●w●)

    *buys neddles and lots of wool balls*
    *poke* *poke* *poke*
    … ? *poke* *poke*
    hmm.. *poke* aha!
    *poke* ouch! I got a boo boo.. :(

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  21. Reika-mama…. terrifying… Reika-san funny as usual!!! Wakaba-chan, log as usual. Ani-ue, Shining Splediferiousness of Amazeballsness AS USUAL!!!!

    Thanks so much for all your hard work!!!!

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    1. She’s doing her best okay!! Her body is dumb and she still struggles okay! Have some respect for this poor ganbariya-san forced to be villainess, sheesh!

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  31. Thank you for the chapter~ I’ve been looking at a lot of other translation websites lately and I too have noticed that yours are particularly good. <3 I wonder if Reika-sama could have made it to the top 30 if it weren't for the externals..?

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  34. Thank you for all your hard work translating! It really shows you love the authors work by putting that much effort and detail when translating and sharing it to the world.

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  40. Rank 73 is pretty good, no?
    or Reika isn´t as stupid as she looks or these rich kids are just a bunch of small fry…

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    1. Yeah it’s probably pretty good. I’m guess a significant minority of them go to cram school. And I’d be surprised if most of them aren’t at least average intelligence. Sure, the higher class girls around Reika are probably mostly useless airheads, but there’s probably a group like that in any school, plus your share of slice-of-life “delinquent” types.

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  41. The more the heroine gets described, the more I see her as not heroine material.. LOL (or maybe im being baised and she can never match up to Reika-chan). Many thanks Fluffy-Sama!

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  42. Many thanks for your superb translations. Always looking forward to them. 🌈🌈🌈🌈❄❄❄❄⭐⭐

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  43. Happy that “that guy” might be redirected onto Wakaba.

    By the way, what kind of grades was she getting before? Only the first 30 were posted so I suppose she got her “as expected of Reika-sama” by getting in the first 30?

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    1. I kind of vaguely remember her being in the 20’s and 30’s range. How they posted rankings might’ve been different back in primary and middle school.

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  44. Just read through all 80 chapters. This story is so cute, fluffy and funny! Thank you for translating this gem, and keeping it at such a good quality. I’m looking forward to more. I love the gap between her ‘Ojou-sama’ side and her relaxed state.

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  48. Thanks for everything, Translator-sama! Your work is top quality, and is making a lot of people happy (me included) as we wouldn’t be able to read this story if not for you!
    *
    ““Who’s the target!?”
    It’s not a voodoo doll…”

    Seriously, I’ve been keeping quiet since a dozen of chapters back but… The voodoo target should be Kaburagi and Enjou! They treat the MC so badly! What sort of sloppy apology was that after having forced her to be class rep? What about the time they forced her to be their spy-slave in Primary school? So unforgivable!
    Seriously, I also think it’s unrealistic of those other stories where the reincarnated MC gets a full harem of men in love with her, but here in this novel there’s no one there – I repeat NO ONE – for Reika-sama! That’s too sad! Where’s the fluffy romance? ಥ_ಥ

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