The Heroines Want to Confess

Chapter 461 461: Forever the Student Council. (END)

The beach.

After listening to Sakurai Saki's story, Fujiwara Chika tilted her head.

How strange.

"So after that, Saki-kun, you just liked me right away?"

Isn't that too casual? It was only the first meeting.

"I liked you… if not, then why would I take the initiative to talk to you?" Sakurai Saki didn't dare look at her. Saying such words out loud himself made him extremely embarrassed.

"Love at first sight?" Fujiwara Chika smiled slyly and leaned her face close to his.

"Umu."

The other party's smile was very captivating… Sakurai Saki was seeing her like this for the first time, and very quickly fell into it.

"Ara, Saki-kun clearly liked me for a long time, yet still refused to confess… was it because you were embarrassed?" Fujiwara Chika immediately became so smug she practically floated. It wasn't really her fault either—she had thought she was the one who lost the most miserably, but now it seemed… she had won big?

Among the girls around here, was there anyone who could receive an主动 confession from Sakurai Saki?

Sorry, there wasn't.

You people won and won and won—now you lose and lose and lose! Hehe~

"Chika."

"Mm."

Fujiwara Chika slightly rose onto her tiptoes, wrapped her arms around his neck, and slowly leaned in.

"I love you."

Sakurai Saki bent down and kissed her lips.

...

After returning from the island vacation.

The new semester quickly began, time passed, and once again it was the day of the student council election.

Under the dark support… ah no, under the wholehearted support of Sakurai Saki and Shinomiya Kaguya, Iino Miko smoothly overcame all opposing opinions and was elected with an astonishing 571 votes, being regarded as the darkest day in Shuchiin's history. Judging from the state of the other candidates, it seemed they had all withdrawn voluntarily.

…The paragraph above was just a joke.

At present, Iino Miko's reputation at Shuchiin was soaring. Just the prestige she had accumulated since last year was already more than enough.

There was absolutely no need for Shinomiya Kaguya to manipulate things behind the scenes—this was the will of the people, and moreover it was pure, not mixed. The position of student council president was something she could easily sit firmly in.

Oh right, Fujiwara Chika also participated in the campaign activities, acting as a cheerleader for Makihara Kozue, that is, a member of the board game club. She stepped onto the stage… and then got so nervous she couldn't say a single sentence.

Only afterward did Sakurai Saki learn that this was a punishment in a game...

Late September.

During the Monday morning assembly, while the principal was giving a speech.

Below, among the students, four sisters with very similar faces were huddled together whispering.

"Lately studying for review is really exhausting."

Nino rubbed the corner of her eyes; she hadn't slept well last night. Aside from the few days she spent going out with Sakurai Saki, she had used the rest of her time entirely for studying.

"There's no other way, after all, everyone decided to take the exams on their own."

Yotsuba also felt the future was bleak.

But she had already promised Sakurai Saki that she wouldn't apply to a sports university, and would instead work hard to get into a regular university.

"Saki-kun will help everyone with tutoring." Miku trusted him unconditionally.

"Help with tutoring, my ass."

Itsuki adjusted the star-shaped hairpin on her head and said angrily, "He's a heartless bastard, he's already forgotten about us."

"Adding up the whole summer vacation, he only spent two weeks with us."

You might be curious—where is Nakano Ichika? …Because she had taken a leave of absence, after the semester started, she no longer came to school.

Another corner of the hall.

Shinomiya Kaguya sat together with Hayasaka Ai, looking toward a certain spot and speaking softly.

"Hayasaka, don't you think Fujiwara-san has been going a bit too far lately?" Kaguya hadn't really noticed at first, but recently Fujiwara Chika didn't even bother pretending anymore. Only then did she realize that during the summer trip, Sakurai Saki and Chika had already done everything that needed to be done.

Just look—over there on the other row of seats, those two were sitting shoulder to shoulder, lacking only hugging and kissing on the spot.

Wasn't that way too blatant?

"…Even without her, there are still others." Ai-chan was silent for a few seconds, then gently shook her head.

In her heart, the people in the student council had long since been tied to Sakurai Saki; there was nothing to be jealous about.

The time ahead was still very long.

After graduating from high school there would still be university, after graduating from university there would still be work…

According to Sakurai Saki's way of thinking, he probably wouldn't get married early either.

The battle for marriage proposals was still far away.

"Hayasaka, your heart is really broad—be careful or your house will get stolen." Shinomiya Kaguya reminded her, then changed the topic. "By the way, is Iino ready? Don't tell me she's nervous again?"

Today, there was an arranged segment for the new student council president to give a speech.

Kaguya couldn't help feeling worried, recalling last year's student council election, when Iino Miko stood on the stage so nervous that she stuttered badly.

"Kaguya-sama, Miko-chan has grown up already." Hayasaka Ai said in a tone like an old mother evaluating her daughter.

The Iino Miko of the past, who still needed her and Sakurai Saki to stand at the school gate every day teasing her, was no longer afraid of communication, and had become a student council president capable of shouldering everything on her own.

It was truly gratifying.

At this moment, the principal spoke.

"Next, please welcome the 69th student council, student council president Iino Miko, to give her speech."

Amid warm applause.

Iino Miko slowly stepped onto the stage from a corner of the hall.

She walked straight up to the podium, her gaze slightly lowered as it swept around once.

"Hello, fellow students. I am the 68th student council Auditor, and now the 69th student council president, Iino Miko."

After bowing.

She began her speech.

"Thinking back to last spring, I was just like all of you, sitting below, watching General Affairs Sakurai give a speech on behalf of the sick President Shirogane as a senior student. His imposing figure made me admire him deeply, and at that time I thought, when would I also be able to gain everyone's recognition and become someone like that, someone who draws attention."

"I did it. Thanks to the support of all of you, I won the student council election. Please allow me to express my sincere thanks once again."

She bowed again.

"I am very stubborn and don't know how to be flexible. Once I decide on something, I will see it through to the end. Last year, I caught 159 cases of rule violations in the school. My memory is very good, and most of them did not reoffend—except for two familiar faces."

At this point, Iino Miko glanced at Sakurai Saki and Hayasaka Ai.

"I won't name those two here. I hope they can take this as a lesson."

She continued:

"Compared to President Shirogane Miyuki's gentle style, I may be stricter and will set some troublesome rules. But I will still humbly listen to everyone's opinions and strive to find ways to make Shuchiin better. I will do my utmost to enhance its image and improve its evaluations, so that Shuchiin will no longer see incidents like being unable to light a bonfire at the festival."

...

The speech ended.

In the student council room.

Everyone gathered together.

"Miko-chan~ that speech was so good!! Boo hoo hoo~"

Fujiwara Chika hugged Iino Miko tightly, so moved that tears kept streaming down.

"Hey, Fujiwara-senpai, your expression is a bit too much."

Ishigami Yuu was speechless.

"Um… could someone please take me off this screen?"

Shirogane Miyuki's face appeared on the large LCD screen in the student council room. He covered his face.

Who would have thought that even all the way in America, he still couldn't escape the fate of being implicated.

"Alright everyone, get ready to take a group photo."

Shinomiya Kaguya held the camera and tripod, setting it up in front of the president's chair.

"It feels kind of sad."

Ishigami Yuu was rarely melancholic. "The 68th student council has really ended."

Sakurai Saki stood at the bottom of the large screen. "Alright, don't be sad anymore, come over here."

"Take the picture, take the picture, hic."

Fujiwara Chika rubbed her eyes and wiped away her tears.

Shinomiya Kaguya smiled helplessly. After setting the timer, she walked over to everyone and stood close to Sakurai Saki's left side.

Fujiwara Chika stood on the other side, while Miko-chan ran over to stand in front of Sakurai Saki.

Ishigami Yuu sighed. "So where should I stand?"

"Ishigami-kun can stand anywhere."

"I'm telling you, Fujiwara-senpai, you're really annoying at times like this. Can't you care a bit more about your juniors—"

Before Ishigami Yuu could finish speaking, the camera let out a click.

Time froze at this moment.

(The Heroines Want to Confess - END)

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Note for readers: so this fanfic has finally ended after 7 months. This is the first time I've completely translated a fanfic from beginning to end without dropping it halfway or running out of raw chapters. Although the ending of the story isn't very good, the feeling of completing it in full is pretty great, kakaka.

Anw, now I'll start reading mtl to look for a new fanfic, bye.