The Smile Of A Devil

the cultural festival is coming soon so the literature club decided to hold a meeting

"it's the first time I join you in the activities"

Emma is just as excited as always, but it's true since she joined the club but never attended the activities yet

"T-Thank you for joining the club Watanabe-san"

Suzuki is really shy when talking to strangers she didn't even say anything but her red face is telling me how embarrassed she is. Chi-senpai being the one who asked us to come started talking to save her junior

"Uhm, you know why did I ask everyone to come here right?"

"it's about the cultural festival right?"

"Yes, it's the only chance for the literature club to shine!"

of course we can do nothing about sports festival since it's has nothing to do with literature, but now we have the topic on our side

"so? what's are we doing?"

Chi-senpai smiled confidentially as she pointed at Makoto

"Makocchi was working hard until now so it's time to show off his book!"

"huh?"

the guy looked confused as it seems that they didn't agree to do this beforehand

"I thought we agreed it wasn't good enough!"

"that's why I asked everyone to come! six heads are better than three!"

for about a month now, Makoto was trying to write a novel with the help of Suzuki and Chi-senpai.

"it's embarrassing... but I guess I have to do it"

he handed us a laptop to read on it

just by reading a bit of it I can see how much work it took him to write something like this even though he never tried it before.

"isn't the idea too generic?"said Emma

she's not wrong, it's a mystery novel about a serial killer in a closed mansion. Chi-senpai nodded and answered

"for a first time, I don't think Makocchi can do anything fancy or very original so it's better to avoid it for now until he practices a bit"

"Umm...I think that generic ideas can be better than original ones if the execution is good"

Suzuki too explained the reason they didn't do anything out of the ordinary, the focus should be on the characters I guess?

we continued our discussion until Emma's time to go.

"Sorry everyone, I have private lessons now"

"I'll go with you"

since I have to make sure she gets into the car safely I'm going to leave the meeting too, after that Chi-senpai said

"it's already late what about we stop it here for now? I have to go home too"

"I guess it's fine..."

she didn't want Emma to feel bad so she made it seem like it was going to end now anyway, Chi-senpai is really a kind person

after saying goodbye everyone returned to their home

***

in the night I received a call from Chi-senpai, she could always use messages so I wonder why would she call?

"do you need anything?"

"I just wanted to hear your voice"

I hang up and decided to sleep but Chi-senpai called me again

"why did you do that? that's rude!"

"you're the one who started spitting bullshit"

"it's just a joking dude no need to react like this"

"so? what do you need"

"so cold~"

"I'm hanging up"

"No no wait! It's something important!"

after some seconds of silence Senpai started talking

"did you notice anything weird about Hikari-chan today?"

"Hiragi-senpai? I didn't notice her at all today why?"

"That's it Arucchi! she didn't talk at all!"

"that's the usual though?"

Hiragi-senpai isn't the kind to talk when it's nit necessary so it's not unusual for her to not talk

"I know that! but there's something different about her today, she seems to think about something else"

"that can be true, but what do I do about it?"

If we're talking about Hiragi-senpai, Chi-senpai is way closer with her than me

"I thought you would know something but it seems that I overestimated you"

"sorry for not being an esper"

"yeah you should be!"

I hung up seriously this time and decided to sleep

"Hiragi-senpai huh? I guess I will try asking her tomorrow"

***

in the next morning Suzuki started talking to the class as the president

"we have to finish deciding what are we going to do in the festival"

I was thinking about the club so much that I forgot we have to do something as a class too.

the discussion is meaningless though, because I already know what's the decision is

"23 votes for the maid café"

exactly as I thought, the boys were talking about it for a while now so it's obvious it would win, unlike me Suzuki is surprised by the result

"If e-everyone is fine with it then we should go with the m-maid café"

it's embarrassing to wear the maid outfit so I won't feel bad if the girls refused to do so, but I already have a good strategy to stop them.

yes, I want to see the girls in maid outfits too don't look at me like this!

"I'm excited to try a maid costume!"

Watanabe Emma is the type of girl that's going to do anything new, I just told her that the "maid café" is something important in our culture.

"Eh? are you going to wear one Watanabe-san?"

Suzuki is still hesitant, but that's easy to take care of,I turned into Makoto who wasn't paying attention to the class at all

"Don't you think Suzuki would look great on a maid outfit?"

"hmm? oh yes I kinda want to see it"

she definitely head us, her ears are totally red

"w-we will do it!"

if Suzuki and Emma agreed to it this hard, there's no way the other girls can say no.

"it's hard sometimes to be this smart"

***

Hiragi-senpai visited our class in the lunch break, this is tge first time I see her coming to the first year Classes

"if you're searching for Makoto he's eating lunch with Kiriyama today"

"No, I wanted to talk to you Sawano Aru"

Chi-senpai said that there's something weird about Hiragi-senpai, maybe she want to talk about it?

I checked Emma to make sure she's not alone and then accompanied Hiragi-senpai to the rooftop

"it's always empty even though it's such a good place"

as usual she didn't respond to small talk, that's fine I don't really dislike it. honestly I like this about her

"you can talk whenever you're ready"

the last time I talked to her like this was when she accepted her love for Makoto

"My class is going to do a play in the cultural festival"

"romance?"

"yes"

"and you are the main girl?"

"yes"

so she was thinking about it all the time and couldn't think about the club

"why would you ask me for help? I think Chi-senpai can help you more"

"I need a male"

a male? that's a weird way to put it

"I don't know what to do, but I'm fine with it, just tell me what do you need and I'll help you"

"thank you"

fuck he smile is so fucking cute I nearly died from the overdose, I'll do anything to protect this smile!

"then please, memorize the script so you can help me practice"

she handed me a lot of papers to read...

"I just need to read the main dude's lines right?"

"all the males"

I see, her smile didn't change at all but the way I look at it now is different

it's the smile of a devil.