The Klutzy Class Monitor and the Girl with the Short Skirt
During summer break,
Poem-chan and the others went to the beach together.
Grape Juice
Want to go right now?
Just the two of us?
My chest... hurts?
What is this emotion?
You know, Enoshima's shrine is a famous power spot for relationships.
Her Kohinata Poem
I wanted to go.
I really wanted to go!
It would seem that...
I love you.
I love you too!
So want to start dating?
And now...
Komazawa Festival
Preparing for the Culture Festival with the Klutzes
The cultural festival, huh?
Now that you mention it, it is that time of year.
Our manga study club is scrambling to get ready too.
Shiriusu
They're producing that for the cultural festival?
Cultural Festival
Ah, the long-awaited culture festival!
And we're finally on the hosting side of it this year!
Oh, yeah. You went to lots of cultural festivals when we were in middle school.
But speaking of cultural festivals, in this school, we'll have another one...
A cultural festival executive!
K
We're not going to have to deal with another weirdo, are we?
The Klutzy 3!
If you know, there's no point hiding it.
Huh?
What is it, Akina?
Peel, peel, peel!
What was that sound effect for?!
Yes! Allow me to come clean!
The cultural festival executive is me!
32nd Cultural Festival Class Planning Meeting
So that's the twist!
This is bad.
She's a beast, free to run wild!
There's a good chance she'll use her authority
as the executive to make the festival her own!
Now, let's get started on choosing what our class will put on!
Since I'll be leading it,
we're going to give everyone the best memories and romance we can!
Not too original, but how about a café?
A haunted house!
Takoyaki!
What about an escape room?
A fortune teller!
Mhmm, mhmm, mhmm.
A maid café!
I see, I see, I see.
Tranquil...
Be quiet, amateurs.
What do you mean, "amateurs"?!
32nd Annual Cultural Festival Class
Are you a professional?!
Quit chattering! Quit chattering!
In middle school, I studied countless cultural festivals,
and according to my analysis, a cultural festival is...
the greatest opportunity for love in our high school lives!
The number of couples formed during cultural festivals dwarfs other events!
Everyone wants a chance to ride this big wave!
Which is why I propose that we put on this!
Prom Dance Party
A prom dance party!
A prom?
I think I've seen that in movies!
The party hosted at the end of the year in American high schools.
Where men ask women out, cast ballots after the dance,
and declare a prom king and queen!
Huh? The guys have to do the asking?
That's a tough hurdle, yeah?
Fear not!
It's possible for both men and women to ask each other to this party!
We'll hand out cards like these to all the people participating!
Wears Glasses
Taller Than 165cm
Then as they go around the festival,
they'll look for a partner matching the trait on their card,
then invite them to the prom!
Then they'll hold hands with the partner fate has led them to,
dance together, and the sparks of love will ignite!
Furthermore!
Prom King & Queen
The couple voted prom king and queen at the end
will win a luxury prize!
Um...
What happens if there's already someone we want to ask to it,
but they don't match the trait written on our card?
Trading these cards is allowed!
So just exchange cards with someone who has a trait that fits them!
However, I'll keep this trump card for myself!
Wears A White Coat
Prom Dance Party
Are there any other questions or opinions?
Well? What do you think, Poe-chan?
Huh? Me?
Well, I just think this is too big for one class to do ourselves.
It won't work unless we get enough people involved,
and it's still unclear how we'll get this luxury prize.
I have heard your plight!
This prom party sounds entertaining!
P-President?!
These past few years, cultural festivals have been a bit routine and uninspiring!
So I wanted something to serve as the main event!
Akina-kun, this is a nice idea!
Thank you for the praise.
The student council will take responsibility
for distributing the trait cards to all the students!
O-Oh?
It might even be worth inviting a few professional dancers
to perform at the dance party. What do you think?
Y-You're exactly right.
You can leave the prize for the prom king and queen to the student council too!
A-As you command!
Wow! All the vague elements got solidified one after another!
So it kept growing into an even bigger deal
until the prom party became the cultural festival's main event,
and Akina was placed in charge of it.
Sounds like a lot of work.
Well, she's excited to do it,
and she'll be okay since Tasaki and I will help out where we can.
You really do care for your friends, Poem-san.
I'm rooting for you. Good luck with it!
A prom dance party, huh?
I can't even imagine it.
Is it something like a ballroom dance party?
I'm not really sure,
but it does involve guys and girls holding hands
dancing with their bodies close together.
So it'll probably make hearts race.
That reminds me...
I've shook his hand, punched him, and kicked him,
but I haven't held his hand.
I wonder if he would consider hand-holding a case of an "illicit" relationship?
But maybe it'd be okay if we held hands at the cultural festival event?
Poem-san?
It would be a school event, after all.
Poem-san?
What's the matter?
Huh?
Oh, no, nothing!
Th-That reminds me. What did your class decide to put on, Togo?
We're doing a "library café" apparently.
The girls in my class
are excited to make Tsukishima serve customers in a butler outfit.
That's a nice one!
Oh. Will you be serving customers as a butler too, then?
Discipline
No, I have my duties as a class monitor, so I have to patrol the school.
I see.
So you won't have very much free time, then?
No, I'll make time.
Let's go around the cultural festival together.
I'm really looking forward to it.
To seeing a festival with someone I love for the first time.
Oh. Right.
Me too.
What?! You couldn't find her?!
I've searched every corner of the local area,
but sadly, I couldn't find the woman you described—
Not even with the power of the Kogori family?!
What am I even doing?!
My third year of high school is an important time,
and I'm letting myself chase after some woman's tail!
Forget about that woman already!
Besides, what would you even do if you saw her again, Kogori Kaoru?!
You're the vice president!
You're in no position to ever pursue an illicit relationship!
If it's going to be this painful, this sad,
then I don't need love!
What?!
A prom dance party?!
The president made the decision.
Curse her!
That woman's acting on her own again!
Proms are rife with intimate contact!
There's no doubt it'll be a breeding ground for illicit relationships!
No Unauthorized Personnel Beyond This Point!!
So?
Why do I need to help you out with this prom or whatever?
Well, we all went to the beach together as friends, right?
Please!
I'll help out after finishing my manuscript too.
Like I said, why me?
Is this the right place for the prom party planning headquarters?
Togo—
That's right.
What? Were you called in to help too?
No, I wasn't.
Um...
This is extremely difficult for me to say,
but the vice president believes the prom party
will incite illicit relationships,
so he has demanded that the class monitors regulate it.
Huh?
Oh, no, he's not suggesting that you cancel it.
He just wants you to reconsider parts of it.
Oh, yeah? Then try listing them.
Right.
Uh, first of all...
He wants to prohibit close bodily contact during the dancing.
He says close contact with the opposite sex may lead to illicit relationships,
so everyone should maintain "student distancing" of at least two meters.
Student distancing?!
Good afternoon.
Hello, good afternoon.
Furthermore, since extended conversation with the opposite sex also carries a risk
What are your hobbies?
One of my hobbies is dancing.
of illicit relationships through droplet transmission,
Is that so?
What about you?
he wishes to minimize this...
by prohibiting the planned use of the gymnasium
and reducing its scale to some smaller, empty classrooms.
He wants all of this done to prevent the spread of illicit relationships.
What does he think illicit relationships are?
Isn't that a bit harsh, Sakuradaimon-kun?
Yeah, yeah!
There's no way love can bloom under those conditions!
Still, these are the new guidelines issued by the vice president.
Do you think that what we're planning to do counts as illicit relationships?
I-I, well...
Listen, you class monitors!
Your most important duty
is to crack down on those working to encourage illicit relationships
during the cultural festival!
Illicit relationships are impure acts that harm the healthy growth of young men!
Sir! Yes, sir!
The cultural festival is a school event,
and attempting to use it to seek rendezvous between the sexes is...
It's preposterous, sir!
Is arbitrarily touching the skin of the opposite sex with ulterior motives
impure or not?!
It's impure!
The proponents of that prom party are your friends, right?
Sir! Yes, sir!
Good!
Then you'll take responsibility for guiding them!
Got it?!
Sir! Yes, sir!
I am a class monitor,
so if there's a potential for disrupting moral order,
then I have to crack down on it.
I see.
It's very clear now.
Then you're our enemy.
You're planning to hinder us, so you're our enemy!
No trespassing! Keep out!!
Poem-san!
Please wait!
Poem-san!
Poem-san...
Don't call me...
by my first name!
P-Poem-san...
I-I don't want to hinder you at all!
Hey, are you sure, Poe?
Huh? It's fine.
I don't care.
You really do care for your friends, Poem-san.
I'll be rooting for you. Good luck with it!
Not after you told me that.
You stupid overzealous klutzy ramen-headed Togo!
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Prep Week
Hey, coming through!
It's really lively after school now.
I wonder if it'll be like this until the day of the event.
It's Togo's class.
Welcome home, young lady.
I-I'll show you to your seat.
Your movements are stiff, Tsukishima-kun!
When the time comes, you'll be doing that with a butler uniform on top!
B-But how am I supposed to...
Tsk. We'll need to make more improvements.
You're absolutely toying with me and violating my human rights!
Women really are absolute shit.
Sounds like he has it tough too.
Oh, thank you, Sakuradaimon-kun.
No, it really was nothing at all.
Sakuradaimon-kun, I always thought you were strict and scarier,
but you're totally funny.
What's wrong?
Oh, no, it's nothing.
Bad timing, Sakuradaimon-kun.
We're back.
We bought refreshments—
You're both late!
What? I was intentionally giving you two some alone time.
We couldn't keep the conversation going at all, and it was just awkward!
Though we really did get a lot of work done, thanks to that!
That's good then.
Honestly, why do I have to do all of this, huh?!
So good! Those decorations are so good!
This guy's the most skilled one here.
Snip
We were supposed to use the student council's facilities and staff
to get it all done quickly, but...
Not much you can do about it. Not with the vice president watching us.
He should have prep for his own class's event to do too.
Hey! It's off over there! Come on!
Follow the line properly and cut it straight.
This guy's surprisingly nit-picky too.
Still, I won't give in to the pressure of authority!
I'm on the side of every young boy and girl working up the courage
to look for love at the cultural festival!
Nice resolve! That's wonderful!
Would you let me join your side too?
Oh, President! Hello!
What's up?
I thought you might be facing difficulties, thanks to Kaoru-kun.
Allow me to offer what little help I can.
Huh?! You personally?!
Tsk.
Snip
I'm sorry about Vice President Kaoru-kun...
No, you don't need to apologize for him!
That damn vice president!
Even though we hung out at the beach together, he's being heartless!
He's just desperate to make the cultural festival better in his own way.
For our year, this is our last job as the student council.
Oh, yeah, that's right.
I could use my authority to make Kaoru-kun rescind his orders,
but I'd rather make this a festival that he can accept too.
I know it'll mean trouble for all of you for a while,
but I promise to convince him.
Can I ask you to have faith in me and give me time?
Well, sure, but...
Well, yeah?
Hm? What? What is it?
Well, we noticed it when we were at the beach, but...
Snip
When it comes to the vice president, you're kind of... you know?
Makes us wonder if... you know?
Oh, I see. That's what you mean.
I've never thought about it, but when you point it out...
Hm, you're right. He's not bad.
Snip
Huh?! Really?!
Still, it seems like Kaoru-kun doesn't see me as a woman.
He didn't show a hint of a reaction to your swimsuit either.
Oh, speaking of which, Poe and Sakuradaimon-kun
started dating after the beach!
Hey, what?! That has nothing to do with the current topic!
Really? That's a surprise.
Congratulations!
What's wrong with all of you, huh?!
Who's the one mass-producing this crappy work?!
Oh, sorry, that's me.
I'm not very dexterous.
Oh! Yeah, yeah, that reminds me!
You two have known each for a while, right?!
Don't try to change the topic.
We heard about that story, remember?
About the president wiping out Izubuchi's group of delinquents in middle school!
Huh?!
Indeed.
After that incident, he reformed into an upstanding health representative.
You think I'll take that lying down, you gorilla?!
Huh? What? So she didn't actually beat you up?
She wrecked me.
Right? I beat you good, didn't I?
Huh? Then tell us the truth!
Right, Akina?!
Sure, I'll tell you.
Three years ago, I was fearless.
Yesterday, a guy from our class got shaken down by the guys from Kamikita Middle.
They've been getting real full of themselves lately.
Those scumbags.
Izubuchi-kun.
Huh?!
I was quick to start fights, so people feared me as the "mad dog."
Let's go! Come on!
Yeah!
If someone pissed me off,
it didn't matter where or when, I'd go punch them.
But on that day...
Huh?! What?!
Who—
...I was forced to learn to my lesson.
My whole body hurts.
My vision's gone fuzzy too.
I'm going to die, at this rate!
Dying after getting beat up by a girl wouldn't even be funny!
Move, body!
Don't fall asleep!
If you fall asleep, you'll die!
Are you okay, young boy?
Who's that?
You got pummeled rather hard.
Kids these days sure don't know restraint. Honestly.
Anyway, I've called an ambulance.
So let's wait here patiently while I give you some first aid.
Yeah. Thanks.
When I woke up, I was on a bed in the hospital.
I still don't know who that man in the white coat was. But...
It's easy to break things.
Anyone can do it.
But saving them...
This white coat is a symbol of what I aspire to!
I wanted to be like that man,
so I quit being a delinquent and became a health rep!
It certainly wasn't your doing!
Oh, that was why?
Still, I was indirectly responsible, so you could say you owe me too!
Nothing's changed!
I don't feel indebted to you and I never will!
What a lovely story!
Though what kind of person was that, wandering around in a white coat
on a weekday afternoon?
That's not exactly normal, is it?
Shut it! You're the weirdest one here!
I'm perfectly normal though.
What am I supposed to do?
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You don't need to come!
What are you talking about, Po-chan?
The whole family's coming.
Right, Papa?
Yeah, of course.
Even if I concede and let you come,
you better not come peek in on our class, okay?!
Why not?
What would we be coming to see if not your class's production?
The cultural festival, huh?
Will Kikuka-san be going too?
Are you going to their school's cultural festival?
Yes!
I plan on going with my mother and father!
Komazawa Festival
And then, it finally arrived.