CH 75

I Heard That Wearing a Nursery School Uniform is the Most Popular

I’ve been spoiling Alice like a toddler, but as soon as she left the house to go to school, she tightened her expression.

And as of now, she’s walking dashingly next to me.

She was depressed after witnessing Yurizono’s rapid growth, but she seems to have nourished her energy by indulged by me.

“Alice?”

I stopped and called out to Alice.

“Hmm?”

She stopped and tilted her head when I stopped her.

“The ribbon is bent.”

I reached out my hands to Alice’s neck and pretended to fix the ribbon.

Yes, a pretense. The ribbon is not bent.

As I pretended to fix the ribbon, I put my mouth to Alice’s ear.

“When we get home, onee-chan is only for Alice.”

I whispered this and smiled at Alice.

“Here we go. Yes, pretty.”

Then I took my hand away from Alice’s ribbon.

Alice, who was in a daze with dyed cheeks, gave a huff and a thumbs up.

Good, good, she seems to have gotten into the spirit.

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When I arrived at the school, there was a crowd of people at the school gate.

I wondered if Yurizono-san was doing something.

That’s what I thought, so I approached the crowd.

“It’s Amane-san!”

“The real one is here!”

A student noticed me and shouted, and the crowd broke up.

I almost blinked when I saw “it” appeared as the crowd broke up.

It was me, standing there.

To be more precise, there was a life-size panel of me standing next to the school gate.

I’m wearing a uniform, smiling, and there’s a speech bubble on it.

The sign read, “Good morning. Let’s work hard all day today.”

It must have been Yurizono-san’s work, but how did she make this? The quality is unnecessarily high.

“I want that panel.”

“If I put that panel in my room, I can get energy from Amane-san every morning.”

“I’d like to have it, but it’s so big that if I tried to take it home, they’d find it.”

“There’s going to be some hard-core boys.”

“We have to stop them from doing that. Even if it’s just a panel, we don’t want Amane-san to be defiled, do we?”

The girls were whispering to each other, and the boys were up to their ears in red and shaking with fear.

I certainly wouldn’t like it if the boys took that panel home and used it for something weird.

“Kuu, I want some of that…”

Alice, who is standing next to me, grunts and mutters in frustration.

Alice, we can’t have a panel like that in our house.

I mean, you have a monopoly on the real thing, so don’t even think about wanting a panel like that.

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Leaving the life-size panel next to the school gate, I pulled Alice’s hand and headed for the gate exit.

I don’t want someone to take it and use it for something weird, but that doesn’t mean I want to take it home with me.

Alice didn’t want to leave the panel unattended, but I forced her to come with me before she could complain about taking it home.

If I left something like that at home, people would think I was a narcissist.

I’m sure the school discipline committee will do something about it even if I leave it alone.

“Hmm?”

I had a bad feeling when I saw a crowd of people by the gate.

That premonition turned out to be right on the money.

There was another life-size panel of me next to the entrance.

And this time it was me, dressed up as a nursery school teacher.

And once again, there was a speech bubble that said, “I’m Mama Amane-onee-chan, let’s work hard together.”

“Mama…”

“Mama Amane-onee-chan…”

“Aah, aaahh, aaaahh…!”

The crowd of students staring at the panel of me in my nursery school costume was screaming as if they were having a fever.

I’m scared.

I mean, there’s a real person here, and they’re all freaked out by the panel.

“I can’t leave that! I can’t leave that thing alone!”

I hugged Alice from behind as she tried to run away after shouting that.

You can’t take that thing home with you, you know.

“No! Not that one! I’m taking that one with me!”

Alice was screaming and running around.

Unlike the panel next to the school gate, this time Alice has lost her mind.

If we don’t do something, she’s going to take it with her.

I can’t let that happen.

I don’t have a choice. If this happens――.

“I-I’ll dress up as nanny when we get home. Then I’ll clean your ears while you’re lay on my lap.”

I whispered in Alice’s ear.

She stopped moving and grinned, her ears turn red.

Fuunnn, looks like we’re getting somewhere.

But Yurizono-san has also created something troublesome.

It might be a good idea to ask the head of the public morals committee to take care of it as soon as possible.

Before that, we should stop Yurizono-san to prevent more panels from being created.

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I pulled Alice’s hand, who was smiling wryly, and headed to Yurizono-san’s class.

I tried to make a call on my phone, but it seemed to be turned off.

She must have anticipated that I would call her when I saw the panel and turned it off beforehand.

I hope she is in the classroom, but if not, I don’t know where to look for her.

That’s what I thought, and I was sighing――.

“… Hey, hey.”

A large number of students filled the hallway.

It seems that not only the second-year students but also the first and third-year students have gathered.

Did Yurizono-san set up the panel again? But judging from the commotion, what kind of panel did she set up this time?

With a very bad premonition, I walked through the crowd, pulling Alice’s hand, and headed towards the center of the commotion.

The place that seemed to be the center of the commotion was my class.

I could hear it humming.

In the middle of a classroom crowded with students, I saw Yurizono-san in an open space.

She was humming to herself as she set up the panels.

The students were keeping a certain distance from her, watching her with red faces.

Yurizono-san is setting up three panels.

Alice with her arms crossed and a pouting look on her face, and Yurizono-san with a big smile on her face and a piece of her face. And me smiling at her. It was a panel of the three of us.

And what’s more. All three of them were wearing swimsuits.

Alice was wearing a white school swimsuit, Yurizono-san was wearing a dark blue school swimsuit, and I was wearing a swimsuit with a pareo.

Does she take this picture when we went to the beach?

But I must have been wearing a hoodie the whole time.

Maybe it was when I bought the swimsuit. Did they take the picture when I was trying it on?

Anyway, a panel of me in a swimsuit would be a bad idea.

I looked around, but there was no sign of Takanashi-san and the others.

Either they hadn’t arrived at school yet, or they had arrived but couldn’t get to their classrooms due to too many students.

Either way, I’m glad they didn’t see me.

I mean, Alice is turning bright red and shaking. And the extremely thick blood vessels on her temples.

This is not good. She’s about to lose her temper.

“Wa――.”

“Please let me through.”

Just as I was about to stop Yurizono-san, I heard a soft yet dignified sounding voice.

I turned around.

The vice president was making his way through the crowd. The student council president walks up behind him.

“Yurizono Arisu-san, what are you doing?”

The chairman stopped next to me and asked Yurizono-san in a lower voice than usual.

When the president called out to her, Yurizono-san looked at her with a big smile on her face.

“I’ve prepared this to cheer everyone up!”

Yurizono-san answered innocently.

The President let out a sigh.

“That’s enough!”

Her expression and voice were filled with anger, far removed from her usual soft impression.

Shaking with fear, Yurizono-san’s face turned pale and a twitching smile appeared on her face.

“It’s not that bad――Mugu!”

Alice tried to raise her voice after the chairman, but I place my hand over her mouth.

Alice doesn’t seem to notice, but this is――.

“Yurizono Arisu-san. I’ve warned you many times before, but it seems that warning alone is meaningless.”

Hearing the quiet but angry words of the president, I’m convinced.

This is Yurizono-san’s plan.

The plan was that she would help the student council with their work as punishment for all the trouble she had caused.

To make the plan even more perfect, Yurizono-san created a reason for the president to lose her patience.

“You need to be punished. You will be monitored and assisted with the work of the student council.”

At the president’s words, Yurizono-san panicked. Then, the president glanced at me with a sideways glance.

It was a signal from the chairman.

“Alice, this is Yurizono-san’s plan.”

When I whispered that in Alice’s ear, she huffed.

“Wait a minute!”

Removing my hand from Alice’s mouth, I stood with my back to Yurizono-san and faced the president.

I wish you would have told me in advance if you were going to launch the operation, but I guess I just have to do it.

“I’m sorry! It’s my fault that I didn’t remind her properly! I’ll make sure to tell her properly from now on, so can you please forgive her just this once?”

When I raised my voice to the president, she let out a sigh.

“I have warned her many times, but she has shown no signs of reflecting. For her sake, the student council will take responsibility for guiding her.”

The president persuaded me to stop her.

“If that’s the case, I’ll take the punishment along with her! It’s also because I’m too lenient! Then I’ll be punished alongside her!”

The president closed her eyes at my words. She let out a sigh, opened her eyes, and looked at me.

“I understand. Then please come to the student council room with Yurizono-san later.”

The president turned on her heel.

“Please return to your respective classrooms!”

The vice president, who had been silent until then, raised his voice and the president walked out. She’s followed by the vice president, and the two walked out of the classroom.

“I-I’m sorry…”

When Yurizono-san came up to me, she apologized apologetically.

When I looked at Alice while patting Yurizono-san’s head, I saw that her cheeks were puffed out.

Alice is a bit angry, but somehow it worked out… I guess.

As I was thinking this, my phone vibrated in my uniform pocket.

When I checked it, it was a message from the president.

――I was surprised by the sudden launch of the operation. I would have liked to have heard about it beforehand if possible. But I’m glad it worked out.

I was surprised to see the contents of the message.

I had thought that the president and Yurizono-san had a meeting, but I guess the president didn’t know about it either.

And that’s where I realized.

Yurizono-san had created a commotion on her own without telling anyone.

We didn’t know about it.

Does Yurizono-san start the commotion to take all the responsibility, just in case something happened?

If that’s the case, then――.

“You idiot.”

I knocked on Yurizono-san’s head.

In her way, Yurizono-san is trying to protect everyone.

Even if she hid it, we can’t let Yurizono-san be the only one responsible for it, would we?

It’s better to know so you can deal properly with things, so say it, at least.

Later, when the panels were being taken down, there was a theft of my panel in uniform, my panel in a nursery school uniform, and my panel in a swimsuit.

The culprit was soon caught and the panels were recovered safely, but it seems that the reason the culprit was caught was that several boys fought for my panel and it was found after a fight broke out.

I heard that the competition for the panel of me in a nursery school uniform was particularly fierce.

There were also panels of Alice and Yurizono-san in swimsuits, so why were they fighting over my panel?

I don’t understand.