The Story Of How I, A Gloomy Guy, Ended Up Surrounded By the Top-Tier Beautiful Girls In Class After A Seat Change - Chapter 223

Chapter 223: Student Council Starts Up. The New Shadow of a Woman

The new student council had finally been announced.

The student council president was the perfect superhuman Miss Perfect herself, Kuroki Rui.

The vice president was the super perverted harem introvert (virgin) me, Ryota Izumiya.

The secretary general was the returnee kid and promising new star, Nozomi Himesaki.

Up to this point, even I could have predicted it.

The problem was…

The accounting, public relations, and digital chief position had gone to my best friend who had the full negative triple threat of being an introverted fujoshi loner—Kanade Tanaka. She’d been handpicked for it.

What the hell even is “accounting, public relations, and digital chief” anyway!

I wanted to throw in a comeback, but the fact that Kanade of all people had been chosen was so ridiculously confusing that I couldn’t even get the words out.

The moment the whole-school morning assembly ended, I pushed against the wave of students heading back to the classrooms and ran over to Rui, who was still on the stage.

When I got there, Himesaki and Kanade were already chatting happily with Rui on the stage.

“Rui-senpai! Thank you so much for choosing me as secretary general!”

“Same here. Looking forward to working with you, Himesaki-san.”

“Wow, I didn’t expect Himesaki-san to get picked too, but yeah, it makes total sense, right?”

“Hold on!! Hey!!”

I couldn’t help but cut in.

“Hey, why are you talking like it’s the most natural thing in the world! Whether Himesaki getting picked makes sense or not, the real irregularity is you getting chosen!”

“What kind of way is that to talk! That’s so mean, Ryota-kun! I’m the only second-year who stood up to that Kuroki Rui, you know! It totally makes sense!”

Well, yeah, she did put up a fight that was so hopeless it was almost heroic…

“No matter what, there should still be some suitability for the role. Plus it’s this super long title: accounting, public relations, and digital chief.”

“If we’re talking about suitability, then you’ve got way bigger problems, Ryota-kun! Can you really handle being vice president?”

“I-it’s not about whether I can or can’t! I decided I’m gonna do it! I’ve been telling Rui that since summer!”

Besides, I had to psych myself up so much just to ask Rui and barely managed to become vice president, while Kanade gets in just because she turned into some random Vtuber? No way that feels right!

“You told her? Is that true, Kuroki-san?”

“It’s true. That day in midsummer, under the blazing sun… I still remember Ryota-kun’s confession even now.”

“W-wait! Ryota-kun! What do you mean confession! There’s no way a lifelong virgin like Ryota-kun could confess to anyone!”

“No, it wasn’t a confession! And Rui, stop dramatizing it like you’re proud of it!”

“Aaah, come on! Everyone, please calm down!!”

While we were arguing back and forth, Himesaki jumped in, sounding a little fed up.
Himesaki got mad!!

“Since the four of us are going to be running the student council as the new team, let’s all get along! Ryota-senpai, are you really doubting the choices Rui-senpai made?”

“But that’s…”

“No buts! And Tanaka-senpai, if you’re friends with Ryota-senpai, you should be supporting him even more as vice president. Ryota-senpai is kind, he has good judgment, and even back when I was being a bit mean, he still stayed by my side, listened to my worries, and he’s the one and only person who taught me what super perverted really means! So I absolutely won’t allow anyone to make fun of Ryota-senpai!”

“Um, isn’t your defense of Ryota-kun a little too strong?”

I thought I was just a regular friend to Himesaki, but she actually thinks this much of me.
Guess having a super perverted side really pays off.

“Ryota-kun? We’ll have a little interrogation later about you teaching Himesaki-san what ‘super perverted’ means behind my back, so be ready, okay?”

Rui said it with a straight face.
Yeah, being super perverted really is the worst, for real.

“Got it, Himesaki. I’ll stop complaining about Kanade, but can you tell me why you gave her that long title of accounting, public relations, and digital chief?”

“The reason I gave Tanaka-san that position? Well, it’s kind of complicated.”

Complicated? What’s complicated about picking Kanade?

“Tanaka-san’s grades are second only to mine, but she skips class sometimes, right?”

“Eek… t-that’s…”

“So in exchange for the teachers looking the other way on her skipping, she’s going to work like a horse for the student council. That’s why she got the long title. From now on she’ll handle accounting, public relations, and all the digital stuff, so be ready to give it everything you’ve got for the student council, okay, Tanaka-san?”

“Uwaaa!! Don’t bully Tanaka!!”

The relaxed vibe from earlier vanished from her face, and Kanade, suddenly thrown into a black-company situation, let out a voice straight out of an internet meme.
It was seriously not cute at all.

“Also, there’s one more person related to the student council I need to introduce to you three tomorrow.”

“Someone you need to introduce?”

“The teacher in charge of the student council. The previous one went on maternity leave, and a new teacher is coming in this autumn to take over. Apparently that teacher starts tomorrow.”

Putting a substitute teacher who just arrived in autumn in charge of the student council?
Even with the teacher shortage these days, is that really okay?

Since it’s the student council run by the perfect superhuman Kuroki Rui, there’s almost nothing for the teacher to do anyway. Maybe they trust us… but still.

I wonder what kind of teacher it’ll be.