After deciding to give up, I became popular

If we keep chatting like this, it feels no different from how I interact with my friends on a daily basis, but he's only meeting this junior for the first time today.

Is this the power of a true social butterfly? How terrifying.

"Ehh~, can't it just be that I wanted to stroll around campus with my senior?" Iroha Isshiki said coquettishly.

Fortunately, she didn't go so far as to hug Kanade Natsukawa's arm right away, or else there would be another hot topic on campus news tomorrow.

"..." Kanade Natsukawa didn't reply, just quietly looked at her.

So Iroha Isshiki gave in, mumbled something, and then said softly, "Actually, I wanted to say to you, senior..."

"..."

"Say..."

"..."

"Please teach me how to become the student council president!"

Her determined look almost made Kanade Natsukawa think she wanted him to teach her how to play basketball.

"...?" Kanade Natsukawa looked at her again, then slowly opened his mouth.

"The election speech hasn't even taken place yet, isn't it a bit much to directly make a victory declaration..."

"That's not it! What are you thinking, senior?!" Iroha Isshiki glared at Kanade Natsukawa and explained, "It's not a victory declaration! It's just in case, in case senior wants to hand over the presidency to me..."

"That's impossible, give up on that idea early."

"Senior, don't interrupt! In, in short, I just want senior to teach me how to be a good president! It's, it's a precautionary measure! Compared to senior, I'm definitely unqualified, so I need to learn from senior... Yes, that's it!" Iroha Isshiki nodded emphatically, then put on a pitiful expression.

"Senior wouldn't refuse, would you? It's just teaching, anyway, with senior's ability, you can definitely defeat me, right? Or does senior not have confidence in yourself..."

"..." A very poor provocation, but it did have some effect on Kanade Natsukawa.

"Okay, I agree." Kanade Natsukawa replied expressionlessly.

As a second-year veteran, how could he be ridden on by a mere junior?

There's no hesitation about this kind of thing, he definitely has to punish her severely!

You want to learn how to be a good student council president? Prepare to work 36 hours a day!

Of course, he doesn't completely want to take the opportunity to retaliate against her, it's just a coincidence that he's very busy this week, and since the junior is willing, then let her share some of the burden.

As for whether he's helping the enemy by agreeing to teach her—it's just improving some personal business skills, which is useless for 'becoming' the student council president, at most it will help her get familiar with the business faster after 'becoming' the student council president.

When the time comes, if she really loses to the other person... No, there's absolutely no way that will happen!

Being ridden on by an arrogant junior, this will never happen!

058. Kaguya Shinomiya Wants Allies

The next day was a beautiful, sunny day.

Kaguya Shinomiya's mood, however, was not very good.

First, her own poor actions lost her the opportunity to launch an attack on the president, and then there was a foxy junior who popped up out of nowhere and was fawning over the president...

She was only away from the president's side for a single evening, and suddenly a junior rival appeared?!

The world is changing too fast!

"President, I heard you met with a first-year candidate yesterday? Is there a problem... with the public opinion and stuff?" Kaguya Shinomiya handed over the freshly brewed black tea, pretending to be nonchalant.

In reality, she couldn't wait to dig out all the details of the conversation between the president and the junior yesterday.

"It spread so quickly?" Kanade Natsukawa was stunned, not expecting the news department to be even faster than he had anticipated, completing it the next day.

Don't they ever rest? Even after school, they're still thinking about getting big news...

"So it wasn't a coincidence..." Kaguya Shinomiya's eyes narrowed, and her expression began to become serious, "Do you need me to take care of it?"

A mere first-year junior, and she dares to compete with them, the seniors, for a man? Seniors have no face?!

And those paparazzi babies in the news department are really ignorant. They should be reporting her sweet daily life with the president, right? What's so good about reporting a meeting between candidates? It's not interesting at all, and they deliberately took such ambiguous photos... Be careful of being kidnapped on the street!

Fortunately, she believes in the president, believing that he wouldn't do anything 'cheating'.

Thinking about it carefully, the president must want to personally investigate the enemy's information, right? That must be it! The president is really too much, it's just a small matter, just leave it to her, she will definitely complete the task perfectly...

"No need, just leave it alone, it can also add some heat to the election." Kanade Natsukawa shook his head slightly. This was a predictable result, but he didn't know how it would affect his approval rating.

He also knew a little about the people in the news department. They don't have any clear political stance, they just want to get things that attract attention, doing whatever is interesting.

Although they do this, they never get into trouble, because they are very smart—they never spread rumors or slander, they only say ambiguous things to confuse the line of sight, which can be regarded as using the technique of 'leaving blank' to the extreme.

Becoming the protagonist in their pen will of course stand on the cusp of the storm, but it's not all bad. Sometimes traffic represents everything. For those who don't care much about this kind of thing, they will support whoever is more famous, and he will be able to get a part of the approval rating.

What's more, Iroha Isshiki's side... is a reward, Kanade Natsukawa also learned from Iroha Isshiki the list of supporters who have recently expressed goodwill to her for no reason...

The deal is very cost-effective.

He picked up the teacup and took a light sip, and the rich tea fragrance diffused in his mouth, clearing his mind and nourishing his spirit, and even the fatigue caused by continuously processing official duties was cleared away.

"Speaking of which, it's almost time..."

"Hmm? What..." Kaguya Shinomiya asked suspiciously, before she could finish speaking, there was a crisp knock on the door outside.

"Dudu du..."

The same as yesterday.

"Come in." Kanade Natsukawa responded.

So the door of the student council room opened, and the heroine of the morning's hot news made a grand appearance—it was Iroha Isshiki.

Kaguya Shinomiya: "...?"

"Let me introduce you, this is Iroha Isshiki, one of this year's candidates. This week, she will be working with us as an external member of the student council for a period of time. Let's welcome her." Kanade Natsukawa stood up and announced.

So all the other members, including Kaguya Shinomiya, applauded softly, and the reason why she didn't welcome her was not because she rejected the other party, but because she was stunned.

What made her even more confused was that her good girlfriend, Chika Fujiwara, suddenly jumped up and started sticking with her.

"Iroha-chan, welcome to the student council." As she said, she rubbed her face against her face.

"Chika-senpai, long time no see." Iroha Isshiki also responded to her kindly, cooperating with her.

The beautiful friendship between the girls infected everyone in the student council at once, and everyone showed kind smiles—except for Kaguya Shinomiya.

You not only want to steal her important president, but you don't even let go of the unimportant Fujiwara??? Too much! Retribution, there must be retribution!

Just as Kaguya Shinomiya's face was uncertain, thinking about how to teach this ignorant junior a lesson, the other party suddenly gave up sticking with Chika Fujiwara and trotted towards her.

"Vice President Shinomiya, I have always admired you! It's great to be able to work with you! I will definitely work hard like you and become President-senpai's right-hand man!" she said.

So Kaguya Shinomiya was overjoyed all of a sudden.

She said I am the president's right-hand man! She also said that I am the appointed vice president! She is saying that I am a match made in heaven with the president! (← Brain makes up brains)

She's a good kid!

Now Kaguya Shinomiya was relieved.

It turned out that the other party didn't come for the president, but just wanted to enter the student council because she admired her, so she must take good care of this child!

"Isshiki-san's ability is still good, but she's just not familiar with the business, please take care of her." Kanade Natsukawa reminded, then turned to Kaguya Shinomiya and asked.

"Can I trouble you to guide her for a while, Shinomiya?"

"Of course, no problem, leave it to me, President." Kaguya Shinomiya happily agreed.

For a long time, she has been fighting alone in the student council.

Hayasaka can't come in, Fujiwara is useless, Ishigami is a little afraid of her for some reason, and Shirogane is a 'love rival'... She can't even develop an eyeliner at all. Now it's good, she suddenly sent her a firm ally, how could she not be happy.

So she wants to train the other party well, until Isshiki-san becomes a loyal 'Kaguya-Kanade party'!

So in the following days, Kaguya Shinomiya patiently taught this new junior, cultivated her feelings, guided her business ability, and from time to time hinted in front of her that the president is an excellent person, who is a good match for her, a senior who is equally excellent.

Expecting that one day Iroha Isshiki will become her loyal follower...

That's how it should have been—

"Isshiki, hand me the file over there..."

"Isshiki-san, the data here needs to be changed..."

"Iroha-chan, let's go have lunch together!"

"Isshiki..."

"..."

???

Why?

Why does everyone like Iroha Isshiki so much? Even the president likes to order her to work, when she used to do those things...

Although, although her purpose was indeed to cultivate Iroha-san into an eyeliner who can get close to everyone, but this is too much, right?

It always feels like...

A feeling of being replaced...

059. Each With Their Own Thoughts

"Young lady, have you been a little lazy lately?" Ai Hayasaka took the towel and looked at Kaguya Shinomiya sitting on the bed with some concern.

The young lady with a silly look every day is certainly silly, but Kaguya who doesn't say a word makes her even more worried. Moreover, the current young lady is not the calm and composed look she used to be, but a feeling full of worries.

It will be bad to hold it in like this.

"Eh? No, I haven't been in terms of studying..."

"I mean in terms of young master Kanade." Ai Hayasaka reminded.

The evidence is that Kaguya hasn't discussed various things with her for several days, and she has therefore slept a lot.

After all, with the level of success of Miss Kaguya, the love tricks she came up with are probably the kind that even elementary school students don't like.

"..." Kaguya Shinomiya suddenly fell silent, then raised her head to look at Ai Hayasaka after a while, pitifully saying, "Hayasaka, what should I do..."

Then she told her what had happened recently in detail.

"Is young lady worried about being replaced by Iroha Isshiki?" Ai Hayasaka knew her young lady too well, even if Miss Kaguya didn't say it clearly, she could guess some of the other party's thoughts.

"Yeah." Kaguya Shinomiya nodded weakly, not only afraid of being replaced, but also afraid that the president would no longer rely on her in the future.

"You don't have to worry about this, young lady's existence is unique, and young master Kanade will never abandon you no matter what." Ai Hayasaka comforted her softly.

If it were the talented Kaguya-sama of the past, she would not have such an idea at all. With the background of their Shinomiya Group, young master Kanade would not abandon Kaguya Shinomiya no matter what, as long as he still wants to secure his position as student council president.

However, the current Kaguya is just a girl troubled by love, and what she thinks about every day is not the adult things like you use me, I control you, but constantly gains and loses in love trivial matters.

"If you are really worried, you can just ask young master Kanade in person." Ai Hayasaka suggested, and even picked up her mobile phone, indicating that Kaguya could ask via text message.

In Hayasaka's view, whether Kanade Natsukawa wants to continue to use the prestige of the Shinomiya family or something else, he can't let go of Miss Kaguya so easily, especially since he may take Miss Kaguya as a stepping stone to approach himself...

"No way! Wouldn't that make the president misunderstand? If the president thinks I like him..." Although she was full of thoughts, Miss Kaguya was as useless as ever, subconsciously denying her feelings.

So Ai Hayasaka threatened her: "But if you don't take action, young master Kanade will really leave you."

"He will hug other girls and be lovey-dovey, and then young lady can only fantasize about replacing that girl while shedding tears..."

"!!! Of course I know! But, but..." Kaguya Shinomiya slammed the bed, but then became delicate again, "I can't do it..."

Want her to express her feelings first? She can't do that at all.

"..." Ai Hayasaka sighed, as expected, the current Miss Kaguya still can't break through her own obstacles.

"Then why not start with Iroha Isshiki? Coercion and inducement or something."

"Of course not! The president asked me to take care of her, how can I let the president down!" Kaguya Shinomiya was very firm this time.