Reika-sama – 149

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There I was, in the middle of biting into it. There Wakaba-chan was, staring at me in shock.

“Ummmmm…”

She was the first one to say anything, but she was obviously at a loss for words.

I was in a worse state, having fallen into complete panic in my mind. My heart was beating uncontrollably.

What was I going to do. Why. I had always been so careful not to let anybody I knew spot me.
Why had I assumed it was impossible for any Zui’ran student to be at this tiny festival. Any other time I would have taken care to eat it somewhere nobody would see me.
I had been stupid beyond words. What was I going to do. Somebody from Zui’ran had seen me!

“Ummm…. What a coincidence?” she said a little awkwardly.

“…Indeed …it is.”

An ojousama frozen in the middle of biting into ikayaki? I must have looked so unbelievably stupid! Aaaahh! Why did you lose to your gluttony, Reika! You were too caught up in nostalgia, you idiot!

One by one, I could see the faces of the students at Zui’ran. Serika-chan, Kikuno-chan, Ayame-chan, Ru’ne-chan… All the members of the Pivoine. The President. Ahh! If Youko-sama found out about this I was done for! The shame of the Pivoine! Images of an enraged Youko-sama flashed before my eyes…

“Umm, are you okay?” she hesitantly called out while I was drowning in negativity. Oh right! I had to silence her!

Takamichi-san!

“Yes!?”

Wakaba-chan immediately stood at attention.

“Could you, perhaps, keep quiet about this…?”

“By ‘this’ you mean what happened today?”

Yeah, that we met today, or rather about how you caught me biting into stick of ikayaki…

“Ummm… Just, everything in general…”

“…Mmm, I don’t really understand but… okay. Got it. I won’t tell a soul about what happened today!”

“Eh-, truly!?”

Really!? She really wouldn’t tell anyone!?

“Yeah! It’s a promise!” she nodded firmly.

“Thank you! It’s really a promise, okay? I’m believing in you!” I stepped forward towards her.

“Y-Yeah,” she back-pedalled in the face of my intensity.

Still, she gave me another nod.

Alright! If she was anything like the manga’s Wakaba-chan then I really could trust her! Definitely! Probably! Or more like I’d have to trust her if I ever wanted a good night’s sleep again.

“Well then, please excuse me,” I said.

For now I just wanted to get away. I was keenly aware that she was not going to forget the sight of the ojousama fleeing with the half-eaten ikayaki in her hand. I was more than ready to forget about reality.

After forcing myself to smile at her, I was about to leave when she stopped me.

“Wait, Kisshouin-san. Are you going to go home looking like that?”

“Eh?”

Looking like what?

“Uwah!”

The sauce from the ikayaki was all over the breast of my white dress! Gyaah! And there were even specks of it on the skirt!?

“Nooo, what is this! Aahh! What am I going to do!?”

I hurriedly took out a handkerchief from my bag but it was hopeless. Maybe I could soak it in water. Or better yet, buy some bleach… God, I had some on my hands too! And everything was made even harder because I was still holding the damned ikayaki. Aah, I wanted to cry…

“…Um, Kisshouin-san. How about you come to my house? I think we can get rid of the stains if we’re quick…”

Eh-!? Wakaba-chan’s house!? Ah, no, that couldn’t be a good idea, could it?

“No, it is no problem, thank you. I will take a taxi home,” I turned her down with a veneer of fake calm.

But I’d be in trouble if I came home looking like this. Okaasama and the rest of my family would find out about my gluttony today…

“It doesn’t look like no problem to me… It’ll be really quick, so how about we just give it a wash and then you can go home. Okay?”

“But-”

“We can still get the stains out if we go now. Okay?”

Under Wakaba-chan’s strong persuasion I ended up going after all. How did this happen… So much had happened that I just didn’t want to think about it anymore…

Apparently Wakaba-chan had been on the way home from somewhere and just happened to pass through there. Some girl in a white dress had been looking like the very picture of a rich girl, so naturallyit caught her eye. And that girl had turned out to be me…

“Was I very noticeable…?”

“You could say that~”

Holy crap… Don’t tell me that other people had noticed me too? I thought my clothes were pretty casual for a dress.

Wakaba-chan was kind enough to walk in front of me, in order to hide the stains. I was still quietly wondering what to do with this ikayaki in my hand.

After walking for a little while longer, Wakaba-chan turned her head to me.

“We’re here~”

Her house was your everyday cake shop.

Not the fancy pâtisseries that the kids of Zui’ran frequented. Just your normal, average cake shop. With things like strawberry shortcakes, chocolate cakes, mont blancs and the like at 200~300 yen each and even cream puffs for 150 yen it was the very picture of a cake shop for commoners.

The only difference was that the taste of the cakes was a well-known 10/10.

When I read the Kimidol manga I often wanted to try the cakes from this cake shop. They were just drawn so beautifully after all. And right now that cake store of my dreams was right before my eyes!

“The entrance is at the back.”

I circled around the back with her and she opened the door to let me in. I was idling while she was busy with that and happened to look to the side. Sitting there was a bicycle with the front half completely bent out of shape.

Huh? Wasn’t this the bicycle that Wakaba-chan rode to school that one time? Ehh…? What the heck happened to it!? Was she okay!?

Wakaba-chan noticed what I was looking at and smiled.

“Ah, that,” she laughed, “During the summer break Kaburagi-sama’s car bumped into me and it broke, haha.”

“Eeehh!?”

She got hit by Kaburagi’s car!?

“Bumped…? Were you okay!? Were you injured!?”

“I was fine~ I was trying to pull over to the curb when the car hit from the side. It sent me flying away with my bike but I jumped off so I got away with just some bruises and scrapes.”

“That sounds like a huge deal to me.”

I mean, just look at the shape the bicycle was in…

Wakaba-chan just laughed and welcomed me in.

“Please excuse the intrusion…”

“Yes, yes, come in~ I suppose getting out of those clothes should come first, huh. I’ll go grab a change of clothes, so could you head to the laundry room to change first? Ah, what are you going to do with that?”

Wakaba-chan pointed at the ikayaki in my hand. What indeed.

“Well, for now I’ll just hold onto it for you. You can wash your hands over here. Ummm, right, clothes, clothes…”

Wakaba-chan ran off further into the house with my half-eaten ikayaki and came right back with clothes for me.

“Just tell me when you’re done changing. I’ll give your clothes a wash when you’re done.”

“Thank you.”

I accepted the clothes with a bow, but at that very instant my stomach growled!

“…”

Just let me disappear already.

“It’s already 3 isn’t it. Have you eaten lunch yet? I could make you some yakisoba or something?”

“No! You have been so much help already!”

“I haven’t had lunch either so why don’t you eat with me while we wait for your clothes? Oh, I suppose you don’t eat stuff like yakisoba, huh…”

“No, I do!”

I loved that stuff. I had actually planned on eating some after I finished with that ikayaki.

“I’ll go make some then! What were you going to do with that ikayaki? What if I cut it up and put it in?”

“Please take care of it…”

“Got it~” she smiled brightly before clothing the door to the laundry room.

I changed into the T-shirt and elastic waist shorts.

It was funny.

I was here in the house of Kimidol’s protagonist. It somehow didn’t feel real. My knowledge of her was one-sided and before today we had hardly exchanged a word.

“Doesn’t suit me…” I muttered as I looked in the mirror.

The horrible combination of the T-shirt, shorts, and ringlets just depressed me.

When I left the room and called out hesitantly, Wakaba-chan came running.

“I’ll take care of those stains then.”

“Eh-, are you using the washing machine for just one piece of clothing!? Think of the electricity and water bills!”

It was so wasteful! And I felt really bad for imposing too! Just running the stains under the tap would do!

“Electricity? Ummm, the sauce is pretty much everywhere though, so I thought washing the whole thing would be better. Would that damage the dress though?”

“I honestly do not care about that…”

“Then I’ll just stick it in the wash. Don’t worry! I’ll use the dryer too!”

With practised hands, Wakaba-chan sprinkled stain remover on the stains before putting the dress in a net and starting up the washing machine.

“Let’s eat while we wait.”

“I truly am sorry for causing you trouble…”

“Ahaha, it’s fine, it’s fine~”

I followed her into the dining room and then was treated to Wakaba-chan’s homemade yakisoba.

“Sorry for not having anything better. I’m not sure that it’ll suit the tastes of an ojousama like you.”

“Goodness, that isn’t true! I shall be helping myself then.”

“Eat up.”

I could see the sliced up ikayaki in it. Thank you, Wakaba-chan.

I took a bite of the food. Oh, this taste!

“Is it okay? Think you can eat it…?”

“It is delicious,” I answered her as I gobbled it down.

The taste reminded me of the cheap 3-pack yakisoba that I often bought in my old life. So nostalgic.

This would definitely never appear on the Kisshouin dinner table. Even if we did have yakisoba by some chance, it would definitely be some sort of refined dish from a high class Chinese restaurant. God, I loved this sauce so much!

In the blink of an eye it was gone. Hahh, thanks for the meal. Afterwards I gulped down the barley tea that Wakaba-chan gave me. So nostalgic…

“It seems you ended up taking care of me from start to finish…”

“Don’t worry about it.”

Wakaba-chan cheerfully sipped her own barley tea.

For a while we were silent.

“Um, Takamichi-san…”

“Yes?”

I voiced the thought that had been bothering me all this time.

“Um, how… do you think of school?”

It might have been a weird way of putting it, but I couldn’t exactly say ‘Are you being bullied?’ now could I.

“How? Um, what do you mean?”

Yep. It really was a vague question.”

“Ummm… I suppose that I am asking what you think of your life at Zui’ran.”

“It’s pretty great I guess?”

“Eh-, really!?”

I mean, don’t you get badmouthed and tripped and soaked with water every day!?

Was she just answering that way to avoid worrying me? She wasn’t just acting tough was she?

“Yes. I’m really lucky to have gotten into Zui’ran.”

“Lucky…”

I had thought for a moment that she might have been making a jab at me, but Wakaba-chan smiled without any deeper meaning.

“Isn’t it though? I get to use those amazing facilities and take high-level lessons, all for free, right? Not only that but to even get paid scholarship money for getting high marks… Uku-”

Wakaba-chan’s mouth curved into a grin.

“For the mock-trials the other day, I got the best results I ever had. Just between you and me, the bonus money that they gave me for that…”

Wakaba-chan brought her hand to her mouth to stifle the laughter. …Apparently it was quite a lot.

“A school that pays you money just for studying. It’s the best school ever.

I honestly thought it was the worst school ever for buying good grades with money, but whatever.

“I mean, even I think it’s impossible to hit the digits that I want before graduation, but if I tried hard enough, maybe half of it would be… Ukukukukuku!”

Wakaba-chan couldn’t control herself anymore and began laughing uproariously.

Digits!? How many digits did she mean?! Just how much money was Zui’ran paying scholarship students?

“Umm, but… are there not other matters…? For example, the badmouthing…” I asked awkwardly.

“Oh, I don’t really mind it,” she answered without missing a beat.

“Eh-, you do not really mind it?”

“Yes. I mean, it’s nothing physical, right?”

Um, but it totally was. Like they physically splashed water onto her and hit her with balls and stuff.

“Does it not hurt? Being treated that way…”

“Hmmm…”

It was only now that Wakaba-chan looked like she needed to think about it.

Wakaba-chan was even bolder, and even more shameless than I could have ever imagined──

“Then, just one more question. About being hit by Kaburagi-sama…”

I finally asked what I had been wondering since I got here.


“I’ll go grab a change of clothes, so could you head to the laundry room to change first? Ah, what are you going to do with that?”

Usually I’d put this stuff at the top but coming out of a cliff-hanger this time, it wasn’t appropriate. The laundry room she was talking about was actually the changing room in front of the bathroom.

“Japanese housing typically has multiple rooms for what in Western housing is the bathroom. Separate rooms for the Japanese toilet, sink, and ofuro (bathing room) are common. Small apartments, however, frequently contain a tiny single bathroom called a unit bath that contains all three fixtures. A small sink may also be built into the top of the toilet tank – there is a tap, with the top of the tank forming the sink, and the water draining into the tank – which runs during the flush cycle; this is particularly common in mid-20th century buildings. The room with the sink, which is called a clothes changing room, usually includes a space for a clothes-washing machine. The room containing the bathtub is waterproof with a space for washing, and often for showering, adjacent to (rather than in) the tub. As a result, bathwater is neither soapy nor dirty, and can be reused. Many washing machines in Japan come with an extension pipe to draw water from the tub for the wash.”


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112 thoughts on “Reika-sama – 149”

      1. Hey Sheeprabbit-sama, may I ask if you read this in advance and if yes is always about cheap food and the mc being fat? I already can’t understand much the plot. Lolz sorry for the question

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          1. What do you call something like Game of Thrones? Which meanders like a drunken elephant crashing hither and thither from multiple POV’s?

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  1. Thanks for the chapter! Ooh~ so it’s the Wakaba friendship arc! Surprisingly, Wakaba is more thick-headed than I thought she originally was…haha those simple responses lol.

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      1. If I had gone to school there, I would have been a straight A student. LOL
        That one time my parents told me they’ll fine me for low grades and give me money for high grades… I placed among the top 5. My teachers were as surprised as my parents.

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      1. Noooooooooo don’t!! 😱
        I’d probably sink into a pool of stress if there’s no Reika-sama dose.
        Uuh I’m so sorry…for being ungrateful.

        It just felt weird for the author to stop at that part though~

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      2. I’m at the point where I’m always ten chapters behind. I’d be scrolling through my feed and see :”Oh look chapter 149? Yeah I think I read that two days ago.” Only to realize what I read was 139 and you somehow translated that many chapters without me noticing..

        This translation started out as a hype train how’d it derail into a nonconsensual train?! Slow down 5th holy sheeprabbit, kilimanjaro estellion sharlulu asheel vinchance celenalia di ef falufiluu’luufilaafee (the 35th) da ne!

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    1. Nah, she’s definitely a Bakarina, only she has brains.
      Haruhi would have kicked the crap out of those ojousama and been their leader inside the month.

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          1. Wakaba is basically Ouran’s Haruhi isn’t it?

            -Join the school for the scholarship and doesn’t care about her own treatment (remember what she was like in the first episode?)
            -Run into an egotistic rich kid who drags her around, with his own calculating best friend/potential rival in tow.
            -A natural. (in various meanings)

            It’s just that Wakaba looks/acts like actual girl instead of Haruhi’s androgynous nature that made the act possible.

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    1. now that i’ve read ~~
      I loved Wakaba-chan!!! such a nice girl… i want the Wakaba ship to sail now.
      I hope this will finally make Reika move to help her when those bullies attack her again

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  2. Omg
    First actual interaction with Wakaba, things are getting really interesting :D
    Looking foward to the next chapter !! Ty!! \(>\\\<)/
    Ps: sometimes I pity Reika, she seems lonely most of the time

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  3. What was that cliffhanger-like feeling at the end!!😱😱 maaaaaan, I’m also curious about the whole bumping into the bicycle. Sheesh, Bakaburagi!!!!

    “A school that pays you money just for studying. It’s the best school ever.”–and true enough. If school will only pay students for studying (and getting high remarks) I would have study my ass off and wouldn’t just opt for some laid back attitude (though recently, I heard a university Bought one of its students a brand new car for topping the bar😂😂😂)

    I’d really hope that Wakaba and Reika-sama will be friends~

    Thaaaank you so much for the chapter!!😆

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  4. Oh man… An older brother, a little kid, and now a woman. My ships are certainly getting less and less likely. Wakaba-chan seems like a really kind and cute girl though! I hope they become good friends :’)

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      1. The side that get things done instead of whining for 90% of the time over who you actually love when you could just go harem and get your behind kicked.

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  5. Lol how unrealistic, is she an alien? if she were a regular human, there would be so much resentment, especially with those moody bratty teen hormones creating havoc, theres no way someone would be this pure, the money grub part is reasonable, but being treated like shit leaves stains.

    If anything Id like her character more if she had resentment or feelings of revenge, although being able to rub shoulders with the fangirl faves Baka and creep, then it must be some form of vengeance in that act alone I suppose, but that isnt what I mean, I want puerile humanity coming out of this goody goody. We get to peep into Reikas inner most thoughts all the time, so Im looking forward to her PoV, I hope its not rainbows and unicorns.

    Wakaba PoV
    Today I was drenched in water by those girls who constantly harass me, yes make it memorable, I will etch all your names deep into my heart, when I graduate I will use that hate and resentment to fuel my empire!, I will hound your family into the ground and make you taste what it is like to be a commoner, I will take everything you ever did to me and multiply that a thousandfold, you will regret the moment you ever crossed my path. I am patient, look forward to it.

    And you all thought it was Bakas doing that Reika fell into despair! ho ho ho!!

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      1. She’s like Arya Stark where she whispers the name of all the people she’s going to kill at night before going to bed.

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    1. I don’t think Vengeful Wakaba will succeed. Reika has Onii-sama to make things right lol She also has Otou-sama who definitely won’t mess up and do illegal things because his daughter will be upset.

      Reika has powerful backings, even more so than Wakaba even with Kaburagi as Wakaba’s “husband”.

      I can see Kaburagi failing to establish good rapport with corporate customers and the like since he is brimming with arrogance to the point that he is akin to a dictator. He has high IQ, abysmal EQ.

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  6. Thank you for the chapter!
    This chapter hace me some insights into Wakaba-chan, she seems to be the happy-go-lucky.
    Reika-sama has just entered the Wakaba-chan route.

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  7. Wakaba is suprisingly easy going. Where exactly is the manga depression and drama about this?

    Reika’s lack of self-awareness strikes again!

    Reika is worried about her apperance when it comes to eating low class food but isn’t bothered wearing silly costumes? Perhaps it’s because the food thing is something she was worried about since primary school.

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    1. Reika: It’s okay! It’s for the class so it’s totally okay! Yes, there is no way I would use something like a mice costume. No, really. If I don’t wear it the class may lose, so I will sacrifice myself. What a magnanimous peraon I am. Now where are those gloves~

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  8. You go earn that money, Wakaba-chan. You’re going to need it once you become the new owner of a Kisshouin Reika. That breed eats a lot!

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      1. Haha yes! But seriously, am I the only one visualizing this chapter as Wakaba coaxing a lost fluffy white Persian cat (who got dirt on her coat) into her home?

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  9. Yay! Private talk with Wakaba-chan! Lol! Well I guess that means Wakaba’s main love will be money for the time being. XD
    Amazing system to get paid heavily for good grades. I wouldn’t give a damn either until they start beating me up physically.

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  10. its fine, :) from the rate of how reika-sama series is heing updated i have no complains…. and here i was worried when’s the next update.

    thank you for the update..

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  11. Wait hold up. If Wakaba-chan likes money that much… Could it be possible that she was able to get compensation from Kaburgi after being hit?
    Many thanks!

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    1. i don’t think so, it doesn’t look like she’s the type to accept compensation like that. but that’s just my guess.

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  12. “Under Wakaba-chan’s strong persuasion I ended up going after all. How did this happen… So much had happened that I just didn’t want to think about it anymore…”

    REIKA JUST GOT OUT-REIKA’D

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  13. Reika-sama is so snarky “I think it’s a bad school because they’re using money to buy grades but whatever. To each his own…”
    I love her <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

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  14. our heroine’s personality is so cute, why doesn’t anybody like her? author please stop trolling us and give her a love interest already. It’s killing me here!!!!!!

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  15. News flash:
    Fans shocked that lead shoujo girl is bubbly ray of sunshine that adversity cannot bring down.
    You know, despite seeing her hop-scotch over the people trying to trip her.

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  16. Thinking about it, Wakaba could be the unofficial rep of a third fraction – scholarship students and minor externals. While she isn’t friends with them, they are on friendly enough grounds that they warn her of potential faux pas.

    Second fraction bullies them, most prominently to Wakaba and Reika only notices it happening to Wakaba because well… it is most prominent and she’s actively looking for it.

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      1. Ahahaha this is why you don’t type in the middle of spreadsheeting and budgets. Everything turns into ratios and percentages.

        Wakaba is on the Student Council (and hasn’t been mobbed off it), other students warn her, she is involved in class activities and her classmates speak to her.

        Of course there would be External girls jealous and bullying her (Tsuruhana and her group are externals) but the External Faction is large enough that it would have sub-factions much like Reika’s own group and it is unlikely that Tsuruhana’s group encompasses the majority of the externals. Hell there could even be a group that would and were the ones bullied before Wakaba became the target of the month.

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  17. That Bakaburabagi is a criminal now! Hitting someone with a car! Not just anyone but the Kimidol protag?! Shameful!

    Thanks for the chapter.

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  18. Wakaba is smart, so she as probably figured out that it was Reika who wrote the letter. She is a Pivione member who warned her about the seats. Also Reika does not participate in the bullying, is known to have supported the Romeo-Julliet romance of the former Student Council President and another Pivione member, and has a reputation of taking care of others. A direct incident plus indirect evidence give the clues, but not the motive.

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    1. Knowing Reika, she probably overthought the whole thing so much that she gave away her identity via a very important clue (the stationary may have been embossed with her family crest, she accidentally left her name in the footer/header of the letter).

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  19. Thanks for the chapter. Cliff is here again! Like a cursed doll lingering and walking around at Reika-sama’s room.

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  20. After these favors you’ve got, now you have no escape from protecting Wakaba-chan upfront, Reika-chan. Prepare lots of anti-acid medicines from now on.

    It is really a trap.

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  21. Reika all this time thought that Wakaba is really poor, turns out she’s just stingy with money lol.
    (Not that I blame her. Looks like her chosen university is unbelievably expensive)

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  22. Reika, you’ve really lost to food…-_-|||

    And wow, I did not expect the original heroine would be so thick-skinned and money-loving. o.0

    Thank you again!

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  23. Thanks 4 the chapter!

    Wakaba opened the secret yuri route!!! Too bad the original was a manga, so there aren’t any routes like games.

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  24. Been following this since you picked it up

    Aside from the erratic release schedule, i thank you for continuing the translation even though you have a life of your own.

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  25. The sauce from the ikayaki was all over the breast of my white dress!
    (The sauce was all over the breast)
    Gyaah! And there were even specks of it on the skirt!?

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  26. Reika, Reika, Reika, my dear, what was your 3rd rule again? Something about not getting involved with the protagonist? Yet you just let her conquer you in a couple of hours! Oh, Reika-chan, if you get the bad end then I’m sure it’s gonna be because of that stomach of yours! * shakes head *

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  27. thnx for the chapter

    i could see that the old personality of reika was dead when i read this “Oh right! I had to silence her!”, well at least she still like(?) food and is a bit lazy

    and really wakaba is a good person and she is strong in mind, but she seems weak to some social pressure(in that sense she and reika are alike)

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  28. Hmmm, I guess I kinda figured that it’d be this kind of meeting between them, ya know, that ordinary girl finds ojousama indulging in “unrefined hobbies” type of thing. I mean, what better way to meet could there be?
    Well, not that I don’t enjoy that sorta thing, haha
    *Ahem* But anyway, so they finally get to interact for real~ Bonding time now? Interested to see where this goes~

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  29. Finally, Wakaba-chan’s here! And Reika-sama’s already forgot her own self-imposed rules, huh… Well, at least they do seem to be able to get along.

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