NTR Kousuke

Chapter 39

It's October, and the class's maid café preparations are super busy!

I actually have beauty contest preparations, so I want to focus on that! I want to refuse, but I'm preparing with everyone.

I really don't have time for this, but as a girl in the top clique, if I slack off on class events, my standing will waver.

It's all behind-the-scenes work, like preparing menus and interiors.

Kageno-chan, I wish you'd consider my position when assigning tasks.

When I said that, she complained, "You're not always participating in cultural festival preparations, so it'll be a one-off behind-the-scenes job, right?!"

It seems like the maid costume preparations will somehow work out unexpectedly.

But it seems impossible for me to be the only one with a flashy one.

Was I told to make it flashy myself if I wanted to? Isn't that terrible?

I'm the ace of the class, aren't I?

Kageno: "You're getting them made through a connection of a connection, so you can't be selfish, can you!"

Also, she said they're not just for me, and that classmates will reuse them when I'm not around.

What's that? I'm dissatisfied!

Kageno: "Four outfits are the most we can do within the budget! We can't just leave them idle when Satsuki isn't here!"

Kageno-chan seems busy, lol.

But I'm also working hard on my diet for the beauty contest.

By the way, five maid cafés applied from all grades, and our Class 5 won one of the two available slots through a lottery, lol.

I got it, lol.

Huh? The other class is Class 6 next door?

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In mid-October, while preparing, after school.

Osada: "Ah, you're Class 6 next door, right?"

Osada-san from the class next door suddenly came to our class?

As the representative of this class, I'll handle it.

"What do you want? We're busy here, you know?"

Osada-san said, observing us with a faint smile,

Osada: "Our class and? Class 5? Our events overlap, don't they? Maid cafés? Mishima has been kind of making fun of us, right? We're getting pissed off, you know? So, let's have a match?"

Huh? Why? With Class 6?

Mishima-san? What are you doing? A match?

The lower ranks are murmuring and looking at me with accusing eyes.

Huh? But Osada-san talks like a gyaru or a yankee, you know?

The story about the fat girl in her class confessing to the school's top handsome guy, Kuzu-kun, and self-destructing—I heard it from Kuzu-kun himself, and it's true that I made fun of her, so?

Ah, did I make fun of her too much? Lol.

Kageno-chan from my group quickly came over,

Kageno: "...Hey, Satsuki? We don't know if we can win, isn't it better to stop?"

I'm here too, so it's not that disadvantageous, is it?

"Hmm? But I think we can win, right?"

Kageno-chan said, flustered,

Kageno: "When we're even worried about how our maid outfits will turn out?! She must have thought she had some chance of winning to challenge us!"

Even Akino from the second-tier came,

Akino: "...Mishima-san, they must have some confidence, right? Some reason why they think they can win. Osada-san might seem like a yankee, but she's a calculating person."

Huh? Does that mean she calculated and thought she could beat Class 5, which includes me?

...If the conditions are the same, Class 5 is at an advantage because I, the cute one, am here, right?!

Don't mess with me!!

Okay, okay, I said, stopping the two with my hands, and declared to Osada-san,

"A match, then? Fine!"

Osada-san grinned. Is she seriously planning to win?

Kageno-san and Akino let out a surprised, "Eh?!"

Osada: "So, what should we do? Is it okay if the class with higher maid café sales wins?"

"Okay."

Osada: "Then, how about the losing side speaks to the winning side with honorifics for the rest of the year? And priority use of the washroom."

"Okay."

There's a restroom and a washroom in the hallway between Class 5 and Class 6.

Regardless of boys, girls often fight for washroom space for makeup and such.

The other toilets are quite far, so I don't want to walk that far.

It's a game with moderate stakes, where winning or losing won't cause death-level trouble.

However, honorifics are humiliating... if I lose...

I just need to win, right? There aren't any cute girls like that in Osada's Class 6, right?

There's no way I'll lose! I'll encourage myself!

I'm different now from when I was called a plain beauty, lol, and felt stifled!

I've learned many things, and I've even lost my virginity; I won't lose to anyone anymore!

I accepted the challenge.

I thought the conversation was over, but,

Osada: "How about you and I bet on honorifics until the school year changes?"

Huh?

In poker, is that a raise? Does it mean raising the stakes?

That's something you do when you know you can win, right? A bluff?

Haaah?! You're underestimating me!

With Osada-san's looks...!

"Okay? An additional bet on the maid café match?"

Osada: "You're entering the beauty contest, right? If you win Miss First-Year, you win; if you don't, you lose. How about that?"

It seems like I'm at a disadvantage, but... Miss Hokusho might be tough in terms of recognition? Is it okay?

No, if Nagase isn't participating, there aren't any exceptionally famous beauties in the first year...!

"Miss First-Year, right? Okay."

I said, trying not to show any agitation.

This is a match between me and Osada-san.

"Don't try to interfere, okay? Or are you participating?"

Osada: "I'm not participating. I actually respect you for being so confident! And no, I won't interfere. Even if I won that way, you wouldn't admit defeat, would you?"

Osada-san bet on [me losing] rather than [her winning], even raising the stakes, lol.

There's no way I'll lose to someone with that kind of mentality!

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Class 5 vs. Class 6

Mishima vs. Osada

Two matches began without Tomonaga-san's knowledge, lol.