The school prince (♀) is only close to me (♂)

Chapter 46

(A/N Notes: This is not even close of today's quota)

All the classrooms of Yama high were already starting to get everything organized for the cultural festival. A few days had already passed since all the classrooms decided what they would be doing during the event, and Yuriko's classroom was no different as everyone was already working for the event

"Yuriko-sama, here's the script for the play"

"Thank you, ojou-sama *Take a quick look at the script* Hmmm... This is pretty different from the original"

"Yes! I wanted to make it more interesting so that the audience wouldn't get bored!"

"I see, good job, ojou-sama"

And Yuriko patted the girl's head from her great job

"Fuaaaaaaaa..."

And the girl melted from the happiness of getting a headpat from Yuriko, then another girl called for Yuriko

"Yuriko-sama! What do you think of this design for the prince's clothes? I wanted to make it look as cool as possible!"

"Let me take a look, ohime-sama *analyses the initial sketches for her prince clothes* Hmmm... For now, all I can say is that it would be better if the clothing was black"

"Black? Why?"

"Because... Don't you find black clothes cooler, ohime-sama?"

"..."

At hearing that, the girl's mind filled with images of Yuriko wearing all sorts of clothes with black clothing, from black suits to the ornamented 19th-century military uniforms, and from black elegant dresses to black Chinese dresses

"Bugooohh!!"

Then she suffered from an intense nosebleed with blood coughing, which surprised everyone around her

"!? Are you okay, ohime-sama!?"

Yuriko held the girl with worry on her face

"I... Have... No regrets... If... I die... Like this..."

The girl's body lost any remaining willpower it had to stay up, and her head fell and leaned to the side as she had a bloodied serene expression

"Ohime-sama!"

Yuriko showed a sad face worthy of an Oscar, as she and the girls shouted for their fallen comrade... The girl was taken to the infirmary, she had just passed out of too much excitement, she is completely safe

After that minor setback, everyone was back on working on the culture festival

"Yuriko-sama!"

"Yuriko-sama..."

"Yuriko-sama!!"

"Yuriko-samaaaaaa!!!"

And obviously, Yuriko was at the center of everything, because of how reliable she was, but also because she was a girl, who had a beautiful face, that also looked quite handsome too, so the girls were relying on her on most things, instead of the boys because of obvious reasons. And also because all the girls were having the chance to talk with Yuriko their morale was sky high

And talking about the boys...

"Here's the script... Tch"

A girl handed a script to Daichi who was responsible for acting as a side character with a few lines, and her mood was the complete opposite from when she did the same thing to Yuriko

"Yes, thank you..."

Daichi morale was at the bottom as so was the rest of the boys as they could only observe all the girls flocking around Yuriko... But the fact that all the girls were paying attention to Yuriko for the most part, means that they could do other things while they did the preparations for the boys part

"Hey, Kimura-kun. Here are the initial sketches for your character"

"Ah! Thanks... Hm?"

When Mitsuto held the notebook with the sketches, he felt a loose paper hidden under the notebook, he moved the loose paper to the border of the notebook, and he saw a silver hair, then he moved more and saw that it was a photo of Yuriko changing her clothes

"!?"

He got really surprised and looked at the person who passed the notebook to him, it was Yamada, who was giving him a stealthy thumbs up. Mitsuto closed his eyes and acted as if he didn't see anything

"Hm. Yes, it's looking good, maybe a few more ornaments here and here, change the blazer color to a red color"

And he passed the notebook back to Yamada after giving him his feedback

"Sure, hm?"

Then he noticed that the feeling from the paper hidden under the notebook felt different from before, so he moved the paper to the border and saw that it was a single note of fat cash

"..."

Yamada who had more experience at doing this was able to hide his surprise as he looked back at Mitsuto, who was giving him a stealth thumbs up as he sneakily hid the perverted photo of Yuriko he received from Yamada, now a super rare relic from a once glorious past of 5 months ago (A/N Notes: ... ... ... Only five months have passed since all that!?!?!?)

At Takeru's classroom

"..."

"Good job, Tanaka-kun. So far you're the only one who didn't make a mess, though we could do something about your face"

"... I'll take care of it on the day"

"You will? Okay, then you're free to go, as for the rest... Do you even call yourselves a butler!?"

The girl who had suggested the butler cafe was an avid butler otaku, so she was being pretty strict about how the boys were conducting themselves, and Takeru was the only one with an advantage because he was way better at maintaining a poker face and acting than the rest of the class, something he unwillingly got from his older siblings chunnibyou phase and his friends from his past school... Who were just like his siblings... As in, they all had chunnibyou. Remember all of this, because it may come in handy soon later

After school

"Takeru!"

"Ah! Yuriko"

Once again Yuriko cheerfully greeted him at the shoe locker area, after two weeks the two were finally able to go back on talking and looking normally at each other, and since she was missing really much him, she couldn't help but tightly hug him, to which he hugged her back. She put on her outdoor shoes, and the two walked back home together

"So what's your classroom going to do for the culture festival, Takeru?"

"A butler café... And what about you, Yuriko?"

"A theatre play, we already managed to put our play in the schedule of the school's stage, and right now we're working on finishing the costumes sketches"

"I see, good luck to you"

"Thank you, good luck for you too... By the way, could you help me with some things?"

"Hm? Sure. What do you need help with?"

"I just want your opinion for my costume and your help with my acting"

"... *Sigh* Sure, I'm pretty confident in my acting skills, though I can't say the same for my opinion with the costume"

"Thank you! And don't worry, I'll be doing the prince"

"... Oh... Oh! Yeah... That role suits you well... In that case, I might be able to give some opinion about the costume"

"*Giggles*"

And Yuriko hugged his arm as they walked together

(A/N Notes: You know when the story is good when even the author doesn't know what is going on anymore)