Seitokai no Ichizon: Volume 1 Chapter 3

“People grow through meeting and arguing with others!”

As always Kaichou puffed out her tiny chest and confidently stated some line she had gotten out of some book.

“What do you mean?”

I didn’t know what she was getting at so I asked. Squeek, squeek, Kaichou wrote today’s agenda on the white board and hit it shouting “This!”.

“Hmm… a radio broadcast?”

That was what was written on the board, but as it was still a little hard to understand all I could do was cock my head.

I looked to the side to see Chizuru-senpai and the Shiina sisters looking lost as well.

Kaichou puffed out her chest and continued to speak.

“Yes! We’re going to do a broadcast from the council room right now!”

“Ra-radio…”

The weak and shy Mafuyu-chan seemed to get a bad vibe and asked in a frightened tone.

“Hmm, you mean a radio broadcast? As in one where there’s music and talks…..”

“Yes, that radio.”

“…..Well, but, hmm…. Why are we doing it here? Mafuyu thinks that that’s something that the broadcasting club should do….”

Mafuyu-chan, you’re right. Everyone else thinks that too. But there just one, just one person with no common sense here.

“What are you saying! A student body council is a governing body! We have to do radio speeches like presidents from time to time!”

“Oh my, you know things like radio speeches. Aka-chan, yes, that’s good, good girl.”

Chizuru-senpai stroked Kaichou’s head as if she were treating a small child. Kaichou closed her eyes happily but shouted “Ah!” as she came back to her senses and pushed Chizuru-senpai’s hand away shouting “Ugaa!”

“I know things like radio speeches! Don’t treat me like a kid!”

“You’re right. Sorry Aka-chan.”

“Ju-just don’t forget.”

“Hmm, now I think about it, the quiz program yesterday had ‘radio speeches’ as its theme….. no, its nothing.”

“……..A-anyway! Radio speech!”

It seems that my guess was right. She must have watched the quiz program and people motivated.

But if Kaichou thinks of something, she never listens to anyone else. Minatsu let out a sigh next to me.

“Well, you’ll do it if we complain or not… but why radio? Isn’t it better to do it with a screen?”

“I thought that too but when I rushed into the broadcast club they said ‘This is all we can lend you right now…..’ while crying. So radio.”

As she said that Kaichou got everything ready. I don’t know if she made the broadcast club do it but it seemed that all the wires and things had already been prepared. Kaichou put a mic in front of each one of us.

….. poor broadcast club.

“E-everything is already set up….”

Mafuyu-chan became despondent. Hmm, well she never liked ‘sticking out’, poor girl.

Nobody was all that into it but just gave themselves up to the flow. Kaichou was the only one who was brimming full of energy and started talking.

“There’s a lot of radios that do voice actors. Even if a bunch of pretty girls come on and talk everyone’s so happy that they don’t’ know what to do.”

“Kaichou, are you looking down on the MC, voice actors, and the listeners?”

I threw a tsukomi. But Kaichou was still going ahead with it.

“If we just talk with cute voices all those stupid guys will come over to us.”

“Apologize! Apologize to all the males besides me right now!”

“Sugisaki really does come over… well, if five of us talk there’s no danger of there being any pauses, it’s fine, it’s fine. We can just talk like we always do.”

“Even if you say that…”

“Ah, Sugisaki shouldn’t talk much. Your existence isn’t good for the broadcast.”

“No way!”

Well, it’s not as if I don’t understand. If I act as I always do and say perverted things it’s sort of dangerous. Not that I’m going to stay quiet.

As we argued back and forth the preparations were complete. A laptop was running in the room, and it seemed that it was recording us. In other words this isn’t a live broadcast but a recorded one. That’s a relief. We can fix things up if anything bad happens.

Mafuyu-chan didn’t look too happy but it seemed as if she’d given up. She tapped the mic with an unmotivated expression.

Chizuru-senpai on the other hand coughed slightly going “Ahem” and was checking the state of her voice. Since she’d decided to do it, it seemed that she was going to do it properly. It was very like her.

Minatsu had her arms crossed and was relaxing on the chair. Not too surprising, she was always talking as the center of attention in class. There’s no way she’d get nervous with something like a school broadcast.

“Well, we’re starting!”

Kaichou shouted and pressed a bunch of switches.

Whew, well nothing for it. If we’re doing it, might as well give it a shot.

ON AIR

Kaichou: "Sakurano Kurimu's! ALL NIGHT ANY WHERE ANY TIME BROADCAST!"

Sugisaki: "What a wide broadcasting range!"

~OPENING BGM~

Kaichou: "Let's begin. Sakurano Kurimu's ALL NIGHT ANY WHERE ANY TIME BROADCAST."

Chizuru: "It's not really being broadcast at night."

Kaichou: "This program is solely brought to you by the Fujimi Fantasia Bunko."

Minatsu: "What is wrong with Fujimi Fantasia Bunko......This investment is such a waste of money......"

Kaichou: "Though they're the sole sponsor, but they don't have to do anything since they're not paying us any money to be on air, and since all the equipment and broadcast overhead costs are zero."

Mafuyu: "Then why are they the sponsors......"

Kaichou: "It sounds nicer like this. Hmm, we really do sound like a real radio programme right now."

Mafuyu: "......Hmm. Whatever makes you happy."

Kaichou: "Hey, Mafuyu-chan! You have to be more enthusiastic! What the audience desires is the lively conversation of teenage girls!"

Mafuyu: "Is, Is that so......"

Kaichou: "Yes. That's true with all male listeners."

Sugisaki: "Hey hey hey hey! Why must you belittle our audience in such a way? Are you trying to pick a fight with the student population?"

Kaichou: "There will only be an audience if there's a radio host."

Sugisaki: "Shouldn't it be the other way round!"

Minatsu: "Oh oh, Ken made an extremely correct point! That's great! That's the power of live radio broadcasts!"

Kaichou: "......You're right. Sugisaki, I made a mistake."

Sugisaki: "It's good that you've admitted your mistake, so......"

Kaichou: "That's right. But it'll still be to our benefit to exude some form of feminine charm. Mm, I am so mature."

Sugisaki: "I say, you can't say such things on air!"

Kaichou: "On to the 'letters from listeners' segment!"

Sugisaki: "You dare ignore me?! We're having a radio broadcast and you reject having an exchange of verbal communication?!"

Chizuru: "This is Aka-chan's style."

Sugisaki: "Why do you only speak at such moments! Show more leadership!"

Chizuru: ".................."

Sugisaki: "Don't keep quiet during a radio broadcast!"

Kaichou: "Alright, for our first letter."

Sugisaki: "So you place emphasis on the continuation of the show and not on constructive discussion!"

Kaichou: " 'Good eebening~, members of the student council!' Mm, Good eebening~!"

Sugisaki: "Eh? What's with that embarrassing greeting!? Is that the norm!?

Female student council members: "Good eebening!"

Sugisaki: "Is this some kind of telepathic network that I'm not part off?!"

Kaichou: " 'I've always been a listener of ALL NIGHT ANY TIME' Thank you for your support."

Sugisaki: "It's a lie! This is our first broadcast!"

Kaichou: "The right chronology of time is merely a small blip on our radar, Sugisaki. It's always been like that on this show."

Sugisaki: "No wonder it's called 'ANY TIME'!"

Kaichou: "Oh, and I forgot to mention that this is a live broadcast. But there shouldn't be a lot of people tuning in right now, so we'll broadcast this again tomorrow during the lunch break."

Sugisaki: "No wonder there are letters coming in! Please pay attention to the first letter!"

Kaichou: "Yes, yes. I shall now continue to read the letter. 'Umm, I have a question for everyone, would you be happy to receive a confession of love? I'm in love right now, but I don't know how to confess my feelings. Kuri-neechan, please give me some suggestions' "

Sugisaki: "You've been referred to as 'Kuri-neechan' even though you're a loli!"

Kaichou: "About your question.....It sure isn't an easy one. But coming from the extremely experienced Sakurano Kurimu---"

Sugisaki: "Even though she's never even held hands with a guy before......"

Kaichou: "I think that a normal confession would do."

Sugisaki: "She made an extremely patronising suggestion-----!"

Kaichou: "Chizuru, what do you think?"

Chizuru: "About this......just do whatever you feel like doing. It's none of my business."

Sugisaki: "What an inhumane radio host!"

Kaichou: "Mafuyu-chan, what about you?"

Mafuyu: "Eh? Erm, about this......Hmm......Mafuyu......Doesn't know what to do."

Sugisaki: "She actually said that she 'doesn't know what to do'!"

Kaichou: "Minatsu?"

Minatsu: "Sacrifice yourself even if you don't succeed!" (Chinese/Japanese saying. Basically means to sacrifice one's life in order to achieve a noble purpose, even if one doesn't succeed.)

Sugisaki: "Please be more sensitive to the feelings of our audience!"

Kaichou: "On to our next letter. 'Your sister is in my hands. If you want her back, then you'll have to wire money to the bank account written below------'......Hmm? Huh? This letter isn't addressed to our radio show. Hey, background crew, concentrate on your work!......Well, on we go to the next letter."

Sugisaki: "You just ignored it? Do you seriously think that you can just ignore the contents of that letter?"

Kaichou: "Good evening, members of the student council' Good evening!"

Female student council members: "Good evening!"

Sugisaki: "I say, why is it that this is the only thing that everyone does in perfect synchronization?! When did you guys discuss this?!"

Kaichou: " 'Kiri-neechan. What should I do, I urgently need money......This is because my sister's been kidnapped, my parents are already trying to raise money, but it's still extremely hard......What should I do.' "

Sugisaki: "What a tragedy! You should have contacted the police if you had the time to write this letter! And this letter is obviously related to the previous one!"

Kaichou: "Hmm......Right, I know what to do. The Fujimi Fantasia Bunko will send the 'ransom' to the writer of this letter, 'family of the victim'! Please wait patiently."

Sugisaki: "Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!? You're preparing the ransom! And you even promised the ransom without consulting our sponsors! Would this be alright!"

Kaichou: "Everything depends on what Fujimi Fantasia Bunko decides to do."

Sugisaki: "Why do you have that smug look on your face!"

Kaichou: "Alright, it's time for a song break. Please enjoy this new single that I recently recorded, <<Your sister's not coming back>>."

Sugisaki: "Be more sensitive to the situation---------------------!"

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