Chapter 71: Literature Club 1
Before Shishio and Nana came to the clubroom of the literature club, Miu came first and thought to clean up the clubroom so Shishio would join her club without hesitation, after all, he hadn't said anything whether he was going to join or not.
Miu knew that the literature club was on the verge of being disbanded since she was the only member after all the members of this club graduated and it was because of the teacher advisor of this club that this club would stay without being disbanded, even though it only had one member, but she knew that she couldn't let it continue like this and she needed to invite a new member to enter this club or else, this club would really be disbanded.
Miu had told the advisor teacher that there would be a new student that she knew would join the club which made the teacher greatly surprised and told her that he would also come to the clubroom after the class.
Miu was full of spirit and after the class ended, she came directly to the clubroom and thought that it was a bit messy so she decided to clean up, but she didn't expect that the books would fall down and crush her to the ground. It might sound a bit exaggerated, but as a girl, her power was relatively weak, and the number of books that fell on top of her was quite a lot.
"Ouch!"
Miu felt her head was a bit painful and she wanted to ask for help, but there was no one in this clubroom so she waited for a while until someone came, but she didn't expect that the one who helped her would be Shishio and another girl that she didn't know.
Shishio and Nana quickly helped Miu, who was buried under a lot of books on the ground.
"Ashihara-senpai, are you alright?" Shishio asked.
"Thank you, Oga-kun," Miu said while caressing her head since it was still painful.
Shishio noticed that Miu's panties were still shown, but he didn't say anything since he was going to avoid the embarrassing situation since he knew that Miu was very shy, and at the same time, he wanted to take a look more, but when he noticed Nana glanced at him, he quickly looked away, helping to clean up the book.
"Senpai, your panties are shown," Nana said directly after she glanced at Shishio since she realized that this guy was a pervert, but after all, he was a man, and she couldn't help but blush when she remembered what she told him before.
"Eh!" Miu quickly closed her skirt with a blush on her face.
"Oh, you're all here now?"
Miu, Nana, and Shishio turned toward the door and saw a man in his 30's was looking at them with a smile.
"I heard that there was going to be a new member that was going to join the club from Ashihara-san so I came early, but I didn't expect that there would be two members at the same time," the man said with a smile, feeling happy that his student seemed to be grown up since Miu didn't feel shy and dared to invite the freshman to join the club.
"..."
Shishio and Nana looked at each other and said, "We haven't decided to join the club yet."
"...."
Somehow the warm atmosphere turned awkward all of sudden.
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After they cleaned up the clubroom, they sat down together to have a chat so they could get to know each other better.
The advisor teacher also wouldn't let both Shishio and Nana go out so easily since the literature club was really desperate at this moment and needed more members.
"Let me introduce myself." The male teacher smiled warmly and said, "My name is Reiji Kiriya, and I teach Modern Japanese for the 2nd grade and the 3rd grade so you two might not know me well."
Kiriya is a handsome man with shoulder-length light-purple hair that has a few strands hanging over his face and empty dark-colored eyes.
Shishio had to admit that Kiriya was a bit similar to him, though, he was more handsome than Kiriya and his purple hair was darker than Kiriya, but enough of that since he also needed to introduce himself.
"My name is Oga Shishio, I am a freshman this year, nice to meet you, Kiriya-sensei," Shishio said.
Kiriya was a bit surprised and asked, "You're that Oga-kun?"
"Do you know me Kiriya-sensei?" Shishio asked.
Kiriya then let out a chuckle and said, "I think that every teacher in this school knows your name, especially after you have caused trouble earlier."
"..."
Shishio was speechless, but he only shrugged his shoulders and didn't think too much.
"However, I didn't expect Ashihara-kun to know the smartest boy in first grade, how did you know each other?" Kiriya asked curiously at Miu.
"Um..." Miu blushed and she wasn't sure how to answer Kiriya's question since her meeting with Shishio was like the meeting of the heroine and the protagonist in the romance novel, however, when everyone saw Miu's reaction, their expression started to change.
Kiriya showed an amused expression and a bit of curiosity, but on the other hand, Nana stared at Shishio, wondering how many beautiful girls that he knew.
"Sensei, if you were wondering how we met each other, we met at the bookstore last Sunday," Shishio said directly so there wouldn't be any misunderstanding between them since he had to admit Miu's reaction easily caused a misunderstanding.
"Oh? In the bookstore?" Kiriya was even more curious.
Miu was a bit shy, but she nodded. "I didn't have enough money to buy a novel last time and Oga-kun had helped me to pay for the book."
"..."
Kiriya and Nana, who heard Miu's story, felt like the meeting between Shishio and Miu was like a meeting between a heroine and protagonist in a romance novel.
Starting by coincidence, the protagonist helped the heroine, who was in plight, then the heroine unable to forget the protagonist, then by another accident, they encountered each other and they happened to be a student at the same school, then by another accident, a lot of things happened and both of them became a couple.
It was the most cliche of cliche romance story plot, but it happened in reality, which somehow made Kiriya and Nana feel speechless for some reason, but depending on how the future plot, this kind of romance story was quite interesting.
"Cough! Cough!" Shishio then coughed to gather their attention and introduced the beautiful girl beside him. "Let me introduce her, she's my classmate, her name is..."
"My name is Sunohara Nana, nice to meet you." Nana introduced herself with a gyaru style and saluted cutely toward everyone. "I have heard that Shishio is going to visit a club so I came to visit too, is that alright?"
"Yes, it is alright, you're all welcome here." Miu nodded with a smile and said, "Um... if I'm not wrong, are you Sunohara Nana, who was the student council president in the middle school and also the rank 1 on the entire grade in the middle school too?"
"Yes, that's me." Nana was a bit surprised and asked, "How did you know me, Senpai?" After all, her appearance was a "gyaru" and it was a bit hard for someone to think of her as a smart student so she was quite surprised when Miu suddenly asked whether she was that top student without showing prejudice on her face which made her have quite a good impression on Miu.
Kiriya, on the other hand, looked at the three of them thoughtfully and knew that two girls might have feelings toward Shishio, but rather than showing jealousy or envy, he felt very happy. He felt happy that he could watch the most interesting love story between the three of them from the front seat. He then looked at Shishio and wondered whether there would be more girls that would join this group and at the same time, he had to admit that Shishio was very handsome.
Kiriya wasn't gay, but he could appreciate someone who was handsome, and at the same time, he believed that love could transcend age, gender, as well as social norms and status, whether Shishio would become a scumbag in the future or not, he wasn't sure nor he thought too much since it was part of the growth and as their teacher, he would watch over them, but he hoped that they wouldn't make a mistake.
Shishio looked at Nana and Miu and didn't expect that both of them could become friends with each other so quickly, but he also had to admit that Nana's communication skill was quite good and Miu wasn't someone that would judge someone by appearance or rumor.
"Cough!"
Kiriya gathered everyone's attention and said, "I know that you two are still hesitant whether you're going to enter the club or not, but let me ask you, do you like books?" But, in truth, whether they liked a book or not, he was going to let them join the club no matter what.