Although She's a Beautiful Student Council President Who Maintains Her Coolness Towards Everyone, She Wants to Act Spoiled and Lovesick Around Him, Who is Misunderstood by Everyone as a Delinquent - Chapter 1: What You Keep Hidden From Everyone.

“K-Kaichou! You look beautiful today as well. ……!”

“Thank you.”

Shizuku Kujo, the student council president, was not embarrassed by such words from a male student at the school’s main gate, but rather thanked him with a beautiful bow.

“Shi-shi-shi-Shizuku-senpai! Would please shake hands with me!?”

“…Yes, certainly”

In the hallway on the way to the classroom, a younger female student asked for a handshake and she responded honestly. She had a faintly happy smile on her face.

“Kaichou……. Please help me with homework that’s due today!”

“First of all, calm down, okay? What part of it you don’t understand?”

Once inside the classroom, one female student came crying to Shizuku with homework due today.

Pulling out a mechanical pencil from her breast pocket, Shizuku taught her classmate the problem in a step-by-step, easy-to-understand manner.

“O-Oh…I got it!”

“You’ve got the basics down, so just calm down and look over the questions. Do you understand?”

“Thank you, Kaichou! Now, I’m off to turn in my homework!!”

“No running in the hallway.”

“Yes!”

And so, just as she finished solving the problem,…. three female students gathered around Shizuku’s desk.

“Shizuku-san! Are you dating someone!?”

“Um…Why you ask?”

Shizuku frowned her thin, well-rounded eyebrows and returned a puzzled look.

“B-Because! You dumped Yano-kun, the captain of the baseball team, yesterday! He’s a good-looking guy with excellent grades, and has been selected as a national team player!”

“He’s number one in the popularity ranking among boys, and his parents are doctors!”

“There’s no reason to reject him!!”

The talk of love and romance came out of nowhere. But Shizuku was not upset.

“Where are you getting that information from… I haven’t told anyone.”

Shizuku tilted her head in front of the three female students who leaned forward with momentum and said the reason.

“…… I have someone I’m in love with. I’m glad he feels that way, but it’s a good enough reason for me to turn down his confession.”

This is what she tells all the boys before rejecting them. This was not information that was hidden.

“Isn’t that a lie…?”

“Yeah, that’s what we heard.”

“It’s an excuse to reduce the number of confessions..”

“I’ve been in love at least once in my life.”

“Then who is that person!?”

“Is it someone we know?”

“I’m curious …!!!”

Shizuku was not the kind of person who could be indifferent to three girls looking at her with sparkling eyes. No… she had a little desire to boast.

“If I had to give you one hint, it would be the one boy….. who helped me when I was little.”

Narrowing her eyes, Shizuku thought of the person she was talking about.

In her mind’s eye, she saw a boy with dark hair that had lost some of its pigmentation. His eyes were crisp and his eyebrows were set. When he smiles happily, his strong face turns friendly. He was that kind of person.

“If Kaichou likes him, then he must be a cool guy!”

“Enough to make her reject Yano-kun? Definitely”

“To make Shizuku-san fall in love, an outrageous person…”

The conversation took a little detour from that “outrageous”

“If There’s a person who fits the description of “outrageous” perfectly, the delinquent who represents this school.”

“S-Stop it! You’ll get hit!”

“He’ll take your money!”

The moment such a topic came up, the atmosphere around them changed from sweet to bleak. However, there was one person among them who secretly drifted into discontent.

(……They’re only saying that because they don’t know. Riku-kun is not that kind of person. He’s actually a gentle person……)

Her discontent was showing on her face”

“Last time I heard, he took a book from a female student in the library. ……:

“I heard that he took 40,000 yen from a student through blackmail. ……:

“A-Anyway, let’s get this over with! Be careful, Shizuku-san! Oh, and if that thing targets you, it’s all over…!”

“Yes, I know.”

As they talked, the time passed and it was time for the …… morning extracurricular activity. The three girls around Shizuku had returned to their classrooms and were hurriedly getting ready for their morning extracurricular activities.

Shizuku, who had already finished preparing for morning extracurricular activities, had a thought as she looked out the window.

(But I wonder if it’s better to have this rumor… Since in this situation, there is no one who would target Riku-kun…)

Thinking of that person again, Shizuku  placed her hands on her cheeks to her pink cheeks.

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Break time for the first period. Riku Takenaka, who was rumored to be delinquent, was having a conversation with his friend Kenta while sitting on a chair.

“Riku. What do you think of Shizuku-senpai?”

“I think she’s a normal and popular senpai. …… what’s up suddenly?”

Kenta was a friend he made after entering high school, and although he had only been involved with him for about six months, they had developed a close enough relationship that they could complain to each other.

“I’m going to become Shizuku-senpai’s boyfriend.”

“Won’t that be difficult…?”

“I’m thinking I should just go talk to her and confess.”

“What’s that? Rumor has it that your wish won’t come true either.”

“Oh… come to think of it, she just said ‘I have someone I like. I’m sorry,’ and left.”

What happens if you confess? …… That’s what dozens of boys who have confessed to the president and been torn up have testified. Their testimonies were not wrong word for word.

And recently, there’s even a situation where people confess just because they want to hear the words ‘I have someone I like. I’m sorry,’ Or they confess their feelings in order to get involved.. Such moves have also emerged.

“Really, Shizuku-senpai is cool. ….”

“I agree.”

“Oh man, if only I were older than Shizuku-senpai, I could make a move on her. It’s hard to be a younger guy….”

Kenta placed his hands on the back of his head and recalled the president speaking proudly at the school assembly.

Silver hair that extended to her back. Large cherry-blue eyes and small lips. Her slender body has a feminine flare that can be seen even over her clothes.

Her unique atmosphere and appearance attracted everyone, and there was no one in the school who did not know her. Kenta mentioned that Shizuku was currently in her second year, and Riku and his classmates were in their first year. The age difference between the two was a big obstacle.

“But …. It’s really a shame, isn’t it?. She’s so beautiful, she should just smile more. Personally, I think a shy expression is the best, but…”

“I don’t know about a shy expression, but you’ve seen her smile before, haven’t you? At the assembly.”

“I don’t mean that. I mean all her expressions are fake. Like she’s barely managing to put on the minimum expression.”

Kenta’s words were correct. Kujou Shizuku, the student council president, was actually “creating” facial expressions. To show only to someone.

“Oh yeah,……? She’s been like that since elementary school.”

“Huh!? What do you mean since elementary school! That’s new to me!”

Riku and Shizuku, the student council president, have been following the same path from elementary school to this point. However, this information was not public knowledge.

“I mean, we’re just friends. We’ve only said hello to each other since we entered this school.”

“What? If you had been friends for a long time, you would have had a chance to become girlfriend with such a beautiful woman! What a waste!”

“As long as there are rumors that I’m a delinquent, I can’t have a girlfriend. My reputation is ruined because of this.”

” ……I can only say that it was a disaster. You showed a stranger the way, and in return he gave you money …. and then there were rumors that you were ‘extorting’ him.. I don’t think there’s a single student in this school who doesn’t know about you, but in a bad way.”

“I really wish they’d stop. ……”

Right, there is no one in this school who doesn’t know Riku, the delinquent.

It all started, as Kenta said, when a student at his school saw the uncle handing over the money with his head down …… as a result of showing the uncle the way, and was forced to hand over the money as a thank-you, they mistakenly thought that Riku was ‘blackmailing’ him.

From there, the bad rumors never stopped… and before long, he had risen to a position where students at this school would be robbed of their money just by speaking to him.

“…… It’s cruel.”

“……Indeed”

“Well, hang in there. I pray that one day the rumors will go away.”

“Thanks …….”

Riku expressed his gratitude in a depressed voice. Riku expresses his gratitude in a depressed voice. All he could think of was how grateful he was to Kenta for being his friend even after all these rumors had come out.