Unspared applause is sent by the students to Yudo, who rises on the stage.
Illuminated by the lights, standing in front of the microphone gradually the entire gym is engulfed in silence.
"It's Yudo Ohara for two years and three sets, thank you for making this time today."
After a short greeting, bow your head small.
And when I raise my gaze up, I move my gaze to the right and left to look around the entire gym.
"I looked back at my days from school as I ran for this election, and I was filled with fun memories of cultural festivals, sports festivals, and long breaks."
Yudo's expression with a smile is shown on a screen that hangs behind him through a camera installed at the edge of the stage.
Students sitting in a step back listening to words without uttering a word.
Even as I watched from the back of the stage, I could see the students taking a serious look.
'So if I could take this fun high school life in a better direction... that's what I thought'
It was as if, in the past and now, it was different.
The gaze that should have been directed at the students from the altar is also directed in my direction, turning to the side and holding back.
"I should be able to share the sentiment that it's fun, even if it's a lot smaller... I was so mistaken"
The gymnasium shrugs slightly at words like admonition.
The students don't understand what Yudo wants to say or what he's trying to tell them.
I guess the mistake is referring to a word I told you in the after-school classroom where Yudo and I declared our candidacy for each other.
"Before I tell you about the student council I aspire to, I want to tell you something."
Turn your gaze to the side again towards the students in front of you.
With a serious expression of readiness, Yudo told the students the following words:
"If you are thinking of voting according to the opinions around you, not your own will, because you choose Ogihara around you, don't vote for me"
The gymnasium was even more deliberate.
In this, perhaps because the majority of students were applicable.
There are many students who want to vote because Yudo himself is popular and liked.
But since we're friends in voting, we're all choosing, so let's vote for him... that sentiment must have been there for some of the students.
That's not the wrong choice for those students who don't want to be the only ones who are different with their stride around them.
Later on, if a relationship could break, it's one option to leave yourself to the flow.
But Yudo denied it.
'Cause I think maybe my friends would say the same thing if they were in a similar situation... just listen to me and the true good words that follow and make your own decisions'
From the end of the words, I felt consideration for this side.
Instead of a popular vote, listen to the words and choose which one you deserve, as if he wanted that too.
"My goal is to make it a school that my students can truly enjoy, and it doesn't matter how they see it, I just want to make it a school that they can feel somewhere in their hearts that it's fun."
Turning back to the story about the student council board election, Yudo begins talking about the student council he aims for.
A school for students to enjoy, that's certainly a great idea.
It is simple and clear to the students and motivates them to vote.
"Of course, there are many challenges, we will have to review the content of the event, reselect the content of the school event, clarify the dissatisfaction we feel from the eyes of the students, etc., and resolve them in consultation with the school side as well."
Regardless, I guess that's not all.
The more inexplicable the problem, the harder the goal sounds in terms of creating a school for students to enjoy.
That is definitely impossible to achieve without enough temper to have a dialogue with all the school students.
'Maybe now is the best time for the most fun students to feel a little bored...... but I still think it's important for everyone to feel a little fun somewhere in their mind'
Just a little, cloud your expression with sorrow.
But at the end of the day, I gave him the brightest smiling look of the day and told him to all the school students.
"I'm going to change the school from an organization called the Student Union, and I think I can change it, so if you like, please vote for Yudo Ohara!
After saying it out of clarity, Yudo bows his head deeply.
From within the gym, more applause than at the beginning was given to Yudo.
Then, with his heels back, Yudo disappears from the stage.
Until the end, the applause never stopped ringing.
"... annoying"
"Thanks...... ha"
I spoke only one word to Yudo, who moved behind the scenes.
Whether being released from tension caused fatigue, he sits back and exhales heavily the breath he was accumulating.
I thought I'd hang up some words, but I decided to leave when I saw a female student rushing over who was making a backup speech.
It's my turn next. Not if you're worried about someone else.
Make a final check in front of the mirror and make sure the name is called in the announcement before proceeding toward the stage.
"Come on... be yourself"
I heard Yudo from behind.
I could imagine the expression without having to look back.
Must have a look like when you distort your mouth and make fun of people.
I raised my hand to him like that and walked out toward the altar that would be illuminated by proof if I returned it appropriately.
"Two years, three pairs of truly good ones."
The applause subsided, and when it became quiet, I introduced myself and said my name.
And thank you small.
Putting your head back on top broadens the view of all school students, but the eye of expectation has not been directed from the time of Yudo.
Conversely, I was relieved that it was difficult to do even with excessive expectations.
"I want to be the first to tell you about my aiming assistant chairman."
Speaking of goals after a roundabout of explanations, I decided to be the first to tell you how to hold the position of my ideal assistant so that the foreground wouldn't be too long and difficult to understand.
'As the word goes, assisting the chairman… that's it'
... Yes, that's it.
This was the answer to the purely contemplated result, not because I lost my hand or because the explanation was cumbersome.
I don't have an exemplary speech or anything like that available to 10,000 people from the start.
Students can look suspicious, but this is nothing more than getting rid of it now.
'I think Ogihara is definitely Ogihara if what Ogihara says is honest and he asks me if I or he are thinking about making the school better. School Making That Everyone Thinks It's Fun... The Ideal Way To Be a Student Council Officer'
Ideal and close to student aspirations if you ask me to.
I feel something similar to the stereotype that he could do.
"... I'm not good at anything special, so I can assure you I can't change the school."
Yeah, I can't change anything.
I am not a person who pushes for change, either capably or thoughtfully.
I'm aware of it, and I'm sure it looks that way from around.
After all, I can't stand on the table and I don't want to.
Being thorough on the back should suit your nature.
"But I'm going to have a clear answer for myself if asked why I can assure you... that the next student chairman is Shoichi Koizumi and the vice chairman is Shiraishi Red Leaf"
Indeed, Yudo is good at standing and leading in front of the students.
But he's not the one who should do it. It is Koizumi, the next student chairman chosen by the students, and Shiraishi, vice chairman.
"The two of you are more serious about the future school than anyone else, and we are the students who supported them... I wonder if believing and supporting their thoughts is what” aides ”should do."
Students see it as right and common sense that someone with the ability to take the initiative regardless of their position or position.
There may be more of that thinking in this school than in the other high school students.
Because there are too many capable students.
Originally, there was one or no talent on campus, and this school had as many as three in a school year.
The idea that if you leave it to them, even if it's not you, is all over you.
"Since Yudo Ogiwara is now an assistant, it's not like the school is going to get better... unless we take the hard work and action to make it better ourselves, we'll never have fun in high school life for that person"
Making a school that you can think of as fun for all the students Yudo is not something you can personally change.
I leave it to others. At the end of the day, I get dissatisfied and even throw out the blame.
From such reality, we must not allow ourselves to turn away.
"There's a great guy named Senior Shuxi, and if you choose Yudo Ohara next time, even Koizumi and the others should be able to create more schools than last year... if you're such a selfish delusion, you'd better throw it away right away"
With a slightly lowering voice, a cold voice came out of the bottom of his belly.
I'm sure the eyes that are directed at the students are getting colder too.
"There's nothing easier than creating a fun environment for others, but we can never do what we want... because this school with so many talented students affirms the push for responsibility in the name of abandoning and leaving to ourselves to think"
This is also a word for myself.
Until now, I have escaped responsibility compared to my talents and theirs.
It was essentially no different from the students surrounding Yudo.
So this is a step in my own change.
'We need to change ourselves... so I say again, the position I ran for is to support Koizumi, assistant student chairman... it's the only job I can do to help build a school that the head of our chosen student believes in'
Finally, I bow my head deeper than I did at the beginning of the speech.
With the attitude as it was, he spinned words directed at all school students.
'We rely too much on them... we have to graduate from that environment. So... please'
"That concludes the student council board election. Students should return to the classroom and vote as soon as the time is specified -"
The chairman makes the closing announcement and the students leave the gym one after the other.
This is the last time in a true sense.
I can't send anything out to the students anymore.
Just wait for the vote to end and accept the results.
Honestly, I don't know which one dominates me or Yudo, and it would be a waste of effort just to think about it.
After I dropped him off from the gym until the last one, I finally felt my shoulder lose strength.
Sit back in the chair where the student sat until earlier in a sudden sense of liberation and fatigue visited.
"Good day, the results are going to be after school, just like the chairman's race...... do we all wait for the results together?
"No, I'm going to hear the results in a quiet place. Then we'll go to the student club room."
That's what the chairman asked me when he showed his face to peek in from behind.
I had a desire to wait for the results with all the student councils who were helping me, but I also want to be in a quiet place in the sense of accepting them.
In that mood, I refuse the Chairman's offer and take a seat.
After the gym with heavy footsteps, I honestly don't remember much beyond.
I went back to class and just waited for the after-school chime to ring.
I feel I have consumed enough effort, energy, to be considered the biggest in my life in this short period of time.
Whether that recoil came out, thoughts had completely stopped.
What I noticed was when he uttered the word to tighten HR.
The students in the class immediately flock to gather around Yudo, and I leave the classroom alone for the routine rooftop.
When the stairs were done, I felt long and the rooftop door was only heavy on my heart.
……
Enter the shadow of the building, lower your hips and then look up into the sky.
After a while, I heard two footsteps from the road I came to and found myself sitting next to him without uttering a word.
Shizukuishi was smiling quietly as she turned to the side, and next to her was Kirasaka opening her manuscript as usual.
Only quiet time will spread to the three of us on the roof.
And the sound of announcing the on-campus announcement rings to block that silence.
"We are pleased to announce the results of the student council election, the vote of the assistant chairman"
As Shizukuru prays with his hands together, Kirasaka also closes the book he had in his hand and quietly closes his eyes.
I just didn't move, I looked up at the sky and waited for the words to follow.
"As a result of the invoicing, the student council assistant was decided by three sets of Mr. Makoto for two years."