Kenkyo Kenjitsu

Reika-sama – 104

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It was just starting to become cold when the snow began.
I had been excitedly hoping that with all this snow school would be cancelled, but alas, no such announcement came and so I had no choice but prepare to head out.

It was probably quite hard on those who were commuting by train but I was fine and dandy in my car.
Honestly, there wasn’t anything more dangerous than wearing loafers on a snowy day. And it got into your shoes too. Times were hard back in my old life as a commoner.
Only primary schoolers would feel happy about snow.

As I was watching from the comfort of my car, I saw a number of people slip on the snow. It sure was dangerous.

Most students of Zui’ran were driven, but a few of the ones that lived close-by would walk with friends. I caught a few of them here and there. The loafers were sinking into the snow so they were having a hard time of walking.
Despite that, there was a student walking properly through it.

It was Wakaba-chan. Wakaba-chan was wearing rain boots.

Not the plain ones that fishmongers wore. On the side of her boots were flower patterns.

Still, I could respect that she chose practicality over fashion. Just what you’d expect from her.

Wakaba-chan’s nose was all red, and her face was buried in her muffler.

Mufflers…

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I had the sudden urge to knit a muffler.
I was almost always dropped off by car so there really wasn’t much reason to own one. Except as fashion, that is.
I immediately headed to the Handicrafts Club with some yarn.

Knitting was popular here in winter, so plenty of them were sitting around with knitting needles.
It sure looked fun. I wasn’t very skilled so my knitting was loose or crooked in places.

“Knitting, Reika-sama? Could it be that you had a tangle again?” asked the senpai who became the new Club President.

“No, I was simply thinking of trying a muffler this time.”

“My, a muffler. For your own use? Or were you thinking of giving it as a present to somebody?”

“I had not truly considered it… I just wanted to make one.”

I’m pretty sure even Oniisama or Otousama would be bothered if I foisted one of my mufflers onto them. I had bought some of the softest wool, so I planned to just unravel it at home later.

“Ummm… Speaking of which, Reika-sama, I need to speak to you about something.”

“What might the matter be?”

The Club President seemed like she had a hard time finding the words. I had a bad feeling. Everybody else seemed to be glancing this way too. The feeling was getting worse and worse.

“You’ve really been coming to our club a lot, Reika-sama…”

“Yes…”

Uohhnn, was it finally time? After a year of nonchalantly coming here, it was about time that somebody asked what the heck I was doing here. Despite her gentle face, it seemed the Club President could deal with conflict.
What was I going to do? Huh. What if when she evicted me, I just pretended not to hear…

“Reika-sama, would you like to join our club?”

“Eh!?”

The President gently handed me an application form.

“Last year on the last day of club activities, all of us discussed it. You seem to love handicrafts, and you helped us with the bouquet for the school festival, didn’t you? So we wondered why not have you join us officially.”

They were talking about that during that tea party I wasn’t invited to!?

“May I truly join the club?”

“Yes, of course.”

“…But did you not find me a bother at first?”

“No, not at all!”

The President’s eyes were swimming. I knew it…

“Um, we would be happy too if you joined us, Reika-sama,” one of the members spoke up.

Really? I looked around, only to find the other members nodding with smiles.

After a whole year, I finally got in! I could get rid of the ‘Provisional’ now!

I gripped the application form tightly in my hands.

“I shall join the Handicrafts Club!” I declared.

Everybody clapped in welcome.

Happy! So happy!

My mood suddenly sky-rocketed. So happy I was that before I knew it I had stood up and placed my hands on my hips.

“Then as an official member, I shall spare no effort in working for the club. My first act will be to negotiate with the student council, claim the budget that we deserve, and guarantee a larger and better club room for us!”

“Eh-, nobody really asked for that…”

“Leave it to me, everybody! The most conspicuous location shall be allocated to us, next school festival!”

“Reika-sama, we’re happy the way we are!”

“And being somewhere too eye-catching is a little…”

“Please, Reika-sama! Please quit this…”

My new club members stopped me in a panic.

Oops. The happiness almost ran to my head. The new Club President was already half pulling at my application form. What are you doing? I won’t return it now. I’ll bring it back tomorrow with the stamps on it. Accept it without crushing it, okay?
And to that last girl, you weren’t telling me to quit this club, were you? I’m not leaving this place until graduation.

Today, Kisshouin Reika became a full member of the Handicrafts Club. Uhohooi!

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I texted Aoi-chan and Sakura-chan about my acceptance into the Handicrafts Club.

‘I’m so happy for you! I knew they would see what a good person you were!’ came Aoi-chan’s heart-warming reply.

‘After silently pressuring them for so long, no wonder they folded. As always, stubborn persistence will win the day,’ said Sakura-chan. Sharp-tongued as always.

After that, Sakura-chan mailed me about Maihama-san’s situation. Apparently at Yurinomiya she was all but boasting that she was Emperor’s girlfriend. She told everybody about how Emperor’s mother, and the woman he idolised as an older sister had already approved of her.

“Uheeh~”

Maihama-san sure was running her mouth, just because she went to a different school. Had this happened at Zui’ran she would have been lynched in a day.

Even though she had only come to pick him up from Zui’ran the one time, according to Sakura-chan’s information, she had gone to the Kaburagi house a number of times.

Anyhow, maybe thanks to Enjou’s encouragement, Kaburagi was slowly getting better. The damage still seemed quite deep though because he hadn’t taken care of Maihama-san yet.

Being perfectly honest, I think the best way to get him his energy back would be to hold a snowball tournament.
It wouldn’t be surprising, considering the way he treated cavalry battles. I could already see him gathering an army of follows, and shouting “Left and right wings, flank them!”
I doubted that the school would organise a snowball tournament just for his sake though.

Going back to Maihama-san though, she was kind of like a mini Kimidol-Kisshouin Reika, wasn’t she.

*

After officially joining the club I wanted to be a model member, so I made sure to come each day and furiously knitted away. Thanks to that my scarf had become oddly long and was kind of a weird shape, so I converted it into a lap blanket instead.
Once it was done though it wasn’t very good, so I gave it to Otousama.
Of course, the tanuki got ahead of himself, and said “Reika is such a daddy’s girl,” pissing me off.
And then I heard from his secretary Sasajima-san about how he was running around showing the thing off, so right now I was in the middle of deep, profound regret…

By the way, a reminder that they used emails with their phones over there. Like, they never used SMS texting, it was always a changeable email-address registered to the phone number.

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61 thoughts on “Reika-sama – 104”

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  2. Haha, Reika gets overexcited and starts acting like the original Kisshouin Reika with the handicrafts club.

    Kaburagi got beat by Reika in the exams. Pfffff. Though it looks like Reika, and probably even the author didn’t notice it.

    Reika’s relationship with her father sure has changed.

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    1. I bet the author noticed it. It’s part of the show. Or maybe I’m reading too deep into it… But it’s just too juicy not to be intentional!

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  7. Pride as a Kishouin? Pivoine’s honor and dignity? Eh it’s fine as long as I do the bare minimum necessary right?

    Uppity girl cliques trying to usurp her position? It’s scary so let them do what they want… Ok they’re crossing the line now stressing me out so much I got stomach pains and white hairs, time to sort them out. Uggh I really don’t want to do this….

    At long last officially admitted into Handicrafts Club?
    Full-throttle domineering authoritative super Ojou-sama mode engaged!
    For knitting!!

    Lol
    P.s Kaburagi? Shoo shoo, go contemplate the universe and the meaning of life elsewhere. Preferably somewhere far away.

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    1. Ooh, and who would be prime candidate for that??
      Kisshouin Reika ! Again !
      And the worst is her family would be ecstatic with the idea too, even if Onii-chan suddenly found the urge to strangling someone.

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  9. I love Sakura’s reply 😂😂😂…and I really thought they’d be using Line or KKT. Knowing Reika I could just imagine her making a small group chat with Sakura and Aoi. And have those customize Reika-emojis (hoooow I’d love to have one💕)

    And lol. It’s crazy how the readers seems to think about the things you could never realize. Heck, I just came from this forum (not NUF) talking about Reika and the people there are crazy hilarious.

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        1. If you’ve read Steins;Gate and Steins;Gate 0, the original game (2010) relies on a mailing system while the new one (2015) uses LINE exclusively with stickers.

          Oh, and there are plenty of SoL anime that have characters with smart phones, so it’s on the rise, if nothing else.

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          1. It might even be around the same time MariMite seems to be set.

            I don’t think computers have ever been featured in Reika-sama thus far, though I seem to remember reading *something* that places the time period ‘relatively’ close to the early-late 2000s.

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              1. Huh. Most of my experience with Japanese culture is through anime, manga, light novels, web novels, though come to think of it, I never really saw many characters just sitting down with a laptop. In fact, when I scrub through my memories, the only ones that come to mind are Chaos;HEAd and Steins;Gate.

                Molester Man probably should have clued me into that, actually…

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  11. Phew, Reika-sama has grown a long way from when she was just a glutton social inept that scared sh*tless of emperor and the other main character from manga.

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  15. I will make the Handicrafts Club great again, claim the budget that we deserve, create a larger and better club room for us and student council is going to pay for it!

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    1. That’s it? We just gonna ignore Kaburagi heartbroken problem? I mean even now he’s already off screen..

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  18. i read ahead a lil bit and no spoilers but i’ll probably skip reading about the handicrafts club activities

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  19. Mind if I do some backseat editing?

    “Most students are Suiran were driven” – > “Most students at Suiran were driven” / “Most students who attended Suiran were driven”

    “Knitting was popular here in winter, so plenty of them were sitting around with knitting needles.” – > Consider Replacing ‘them’ with ‘the members’

    “asked the senpai who became the new Club President.” – > “had become”

    “So happy I was that before I knew it I had stood up and placed my hands on my hips.” – > “So happy I was, that before I knew it, I had stood up and placed my hands on my hips.” (I think it improves the pacing)

    “It wouldn’t be surprisingly, considering the way he treated cavalry battles.” – > “It wouldn’t be surprising”

    “I could already see him gathering an army of follows” -> “I could already see him gathering an army of followers”

    “After officially joining the club I wanted to be a model member, so I made sure to come each day and furious knitted away. “ – > “furiously knitted away”

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    Thanks for the chapter!

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      1. Isn’t that just delaying punishment though?
        Since that siscon would definitely still swallow it down. ;)

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  24. Thank you so much for the chapter xD
    I’m so happy I have Reika-sama everyday

    I wonder what Kaburagi-mama thinks if she knows Kisshouin Reika suggested her son to monkhood and the world of roses lol
    Perhaps she would laugh her ass off

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  26. Aoi-chan and Sakura-chan is like the angel and the devil on your shoulders huh?

    I wonder which version of events was the correct one?

    Tanukiiii!!!

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  27. So happy for Reika! She’s finally a club member!

    I wanna see the snowball fight. She should’ve siggested that first before the convent and temples.

    Thanks for the chapter! Made my day!

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  28. Lol. The part where she finally joins the handcrafts club is so silly and cute. Reika is so dead set on joining the club. Reika is just a tsundere to her dad. So much improvement.

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  30. Lol! Sakura’s comment is a giant stab into Reika’s behavior. XD And wow. I didn’t notice that Reika beat Kaburagi in the exams too. Go Reika!
    Thanks for the new chapter!

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  34. “It was Wakaba-chan. Wakaba-chan was wearing rain boots.

    Not the plain ones that fishmongers wore. On the side of her boots were flower patterns.

    Still, I could respect that she chose practicality over fashion. Just what you’d expect from her.”
    ===
    Damn you Wakaba! Why must you be so practical?
    You headed off the event where Reika flags the driver over and gives you a ride, giving Reika the much needed pretense of friending you!

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  35. To all you people worried about Kaburagi pursuing Reika just remeber two things: Familiarity breeds contempt and the love formula of closeness over time spent together. Both of these ensure that they are never EVER getting together.

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    1. I think at this point, she’s raised the “childhood friend” flag.
      Which by the way, is not as good as you think. Because IRL, that usually means “bratty sibling who annoys the piss out of me.”

      Kaburagi could mature away all his character flaws and Reika will only ever remember him as a cavalry battle maniac who is a marvelous stalker.

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  37. Holy crap I am remember reading this and last chapter lmao.
    PFFT MONKHOOD OMFG I DIED LAUGHING. AND DIED EVEN MORE WHEN I REMEMBERED WHEN I READ IT lol
    Holy crap, rereading was a good option.
    Woohoo!

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  38. Congratulations Reika-sama! Both for finally becoming an official member of the Handicrafts Club and putting Kaburagi in his rightful place! Hmph

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