The season changed and the number on the calendar marked a double-digit October.
At Sakura no Hill School, where the festival's enthusiasm has not cooled, the next event has been imminent to this day.
In a classroom mixed with tension and anticipation, it was Shiraishi Red Leaf, chairman of the Cherry Blossom Festival Executive Committee, who opened the fire.
"We will now begin a meeting on the Cultural Festival, the second edition of the Cherry Blossom Festival"
At an Executive Committee meeting held in an audiovisual room set up on the second floor of a building, white stone stands on the stage where faculty usually stand.
The blackboard at the back says "About the Cultural Festival," and the students listen as they move their gaze to the material at hand and the white stone.
A total of 38 delegates from each class will gather two student council officers, as well as three additional students: Yudo Ohara, Shizukushi Kanzaki, and Toshio Kirasaka.
The general students sit in front of the audiovisual room, and the student council and Shizukuda sit behind them.
I sit back at the rearmost of them, watching the whole thing.
After all, I can't see any students who are only selected as Executive Committee members to bicker if the meeting starts.
Shiraishi also made sure there were no extra stories before he started introducing himself.
"It's Shiraishi Red Leaf, chairman of the Cherry Blossom Festival Executive Committee, this year's Cultural Festival...... I'll call it the Cherry Blossom Festival in the future, but it's also the biggest student event of the year. Thank you for your cooperation."
The students applaud Shiraishi for finishing their greeting, although the formal introduction has already ended with a prior face-to-face and self-introduction at the sports festival.
Where the applause has stopped ringing, Shiraishi lists the prints distributed to the Executive Committee members.
"The sports festival that took place the other day, if I say so, is a kind of recreation. Take a look at this print based on the assumption that the goal is to deepen the interaction between students and transfer their feelings to a real cherry blossom festival."
Shiraishi's inherently strong posture is alive and well, telling upper classmates to be clear while in freshman year.
In my personal opinion, Shiraishi should unfortunately demonstrate his abilities when it comes to organizing meetings and organizing operations.
Determine the major points of the story and anticipate its reaction.
Answers close to exemplary answers can be prepared in advance to respond to student inquiries.
In the unlikely event of unforeseen circumstances, there is time to think about them if they are problems that do not require immediate answers.
Unlike at the time of the election, it should be comforting for her to also refrain from facing the student council behind.
... I don't know what they think of me.
But I also agree with the idea that sports festivals are a form of recreation... just a front seat for improved performance.
That's fine with the average student.
Because it's definitely a fun youth event to hang hands with.
However, it is the students who represent each class who are here.
Whether the cherry blossom festival succeeds or fails, it is difficult for students in a responsible position directly connected to the results to stay in the festive mood forever.
If you want to make the event a success as an executive committee member, you have to accept that fact first and then move on.
If there are students who view White Stone negatively to the chairman of the executive committee because they have different grades, they are not worthy of this occasion.
You also have to think about starting over.
……
……
A serious first-year student, and together with the words of White Stone, chairman of the executive committee, push silence.
Fortunately, the fact that there were no students complaining about White Stone is good as a slip out.
"This is last year's survey of visitors and prospective enrollments, naturally, but this year the biggest goal will be to bring together a number of people who will win this number."
First, if you are relieved by the white stone standing behavior that presents clear goals for all students, your gaze will be directed to the seats at the student council.
"Ever... is there anything the chairman would like to tell you before we move on to the subject?
"No, today is our first meeting for the Cherry Blossom Festival. I'm not going to pinch words because I just want to keep track of Executive Committee members' policies as a student council."
The chairman shook his head sideways at the question thrown.
He replied without ever getting up, just to the extent that all students could hear him.
Only the Student Council is in a position to monitor the activities of the Executive Committee, and whether the policy is correct.
And if necessary, the main activities will be to provide manpower, talk to faculty, etc.
But even if there was an executive committee, the student council's voice is significant.
No... it would be Shushi's voice, not the student council.
Assuming that the Chairman gives a negative opinion, even if it is a draft submitted to the Executive Committee in general terms, that alone will force it to be reconsidered.
Even if the Student Council is a separate organization from the Executive Committee, it is not one that can be ignored.
It's not a committee that runs cherry blossom festivals, so you can color events as you like.
Pros and cons, the onus is on the students who present the cons to the school to convince them.
Regardless, the student council has the same responsibility.
So, we don't leave everything to ourselves, we share the work in the right place.
But if you return the back, it also means that there is so much trust from the students.
Every year, the Cherry Blossom Festival ends in success.
The vast majority of students should be expecting a lot of excitement this year.
"Third graders are busy taking exams and so on, so areas with a lot of work will be contracted out in first or second graders. Accounting, accounting, Senior Kirasaka from the Executive Committee, and Senior Miura from the Student Council."
Miura lowered her head and thanked her for gathering her gaze after being briefed by Shiraishi.
Meanwhile, Kirasaka had dropped her gaze on the material without being slightly mobile even when it came to the topic.
"And Mr. Ohara and Senior Kanzaki will be represented by Executive Committee members for negotiations with students, and Senior Koizumi will be represented by the Student Council"
The next two people whose names come up hear a small but cheering voice.
Especially the female students have a keen eye for Yudo.
... No way, no student would have joined the Executive Committee members with the aim of Yudo joining them, what a worry came to mind in the student council.
Shizuku also smiles and bows with a nickel and exchanges silent greetings with the students.
As we had met beforehand, the meeting proceeded while reviewing the organisational chart.
If we make it an organizational operation focusing on third graders, we can do a stable operation from experience, but on the other hand, we will devote time to further education and job placement.
Typically, juniors are expected to take the lead on support, advice, and their class offerings in the third grade, and take responsibility for major tasks, etc.
... Be aware that the information I didn't know until I joined the student council is top-secret to me.
Not because I wasn't interested, because I didn't get a chance.
... Yeah, that's right.
The agenda moves on when each representative in charge stands up and completes the face-to-face meeting in a moment.
Too little time has been set aside to proceed with the event within the limited time available.
"See page two of the handout, we have a vote that pulled out the budget for the current year and past budgets"
……
The sound of paper rubbing in the classroom rings.
I've heard people who are sound fetish and like the sound of paper, but I scroll through the pages as well, thinking it's a strange thing to like.
I was just a little stunned when I saw the paper with the approximate budget this year, last year, and every year.
The amount was different from the pennies and shopping I know.
My monthly allowance would give me a few extra years. That's what it said there.
"Based on this budget, this year's cherry blossom festival will be run… and on the next page there will be a budget ratio from each class's hopes and past data -"
The white stone words that were going smoothly so far are interrupted.
Because of the difficult look on my face, I also pointed my gaze at you, but I knew immediately why.
Next to the column where the overall budget was written, the costs that would have been incurred had they proceeded as desired were listed in red.
After adding the cost of purchasing the equipment, the cost of renting it, and if it is an ingredient, the sales that would go up and down due to weather, temperature, etc., are calculated and written individually.
Honestly, I didn't even think I was calculating according to the weather and the conditions up to the temperature, but this would have been put out by Miura and Kirosaka.
Those two would do so much anticipation and calculation pale.
The main point as a result is the deficit, and now where how much cherry blossom festival has flourished, the evaluation from the faculty ends in failure.
"What exactly was the problem...?
"Right..."
Asking Kirasaka, who was sitting in the previous seat, she takes out the red pen and draws a line to a particular number.
When Shizukuishi next door also looks at the considerable number of lines drawn, she is handed back to Kirasaka, who looked back.
"Although each class calculates the budget more overall, is it around here that we have a particular problem?
……
Shizuku also drops his gaze on the paper as he climbs out of the front seat.
I'm just wondering if the good smell of fluffiness and fragrance is shampoo!
Thoughts have gone in irrelevant directions, but we modify directions and turn our attention to numbers.
Indeed, it is also doubtful that the amount of coffee shops and the classes they are applying for is close to the amount of classes they are applying for in food, but what stands out more than that is that the out-of-pocket framework for departmental activities, which are less expensive, was squeezing the budget more than expected.
"What is this... a cosplay match"
It doesn't make sense what the baseball club was submitting.
Cosplay in a game, what do these guys want?
"They're going to play in different colors of maid clothes for each team."
"What torture is that?"
The athletics department may have played games on the ground last year as well, but since I buy the costume for it, is it submitted at the upper limit...
Or maid clothes were choices that truly represented bad nori in the baseball club.
With a shudder and zero sigh, I heard the door behind the classroom open when I thought I needed to take Yudo and the others here to think about changing the proposal.
Confirming who came in, Dr. Sudo, the student council advisor, was there.
He stopped next to the chairman, wondering if he had come to confirm the meeting.
Shu, I need to talk to you for a second.
"Is it a story...... it would be helpful if you could spare some time after the meeting. It's our first meeting."
The chairman answers the strong side of Sudo, but the wish was never fulfilled.
"No, it has to do with the Cherry Blossom Festival, Koizumi and Miura do have an important role to play even in the Executive Committee...... then Makoto, you come too"
"I'm starting to feel like I have a lot of roles to play too..."
"There's no way"
Instinct refuses to take him on a suddenly pointed white feather arrow, although he has not received a particularly important role.
I totally don't like it. I said seeping through the aura, but it doesn't work for faculty.
This is the real instant answer.
Relentless words hurt tiny pride.
The chairman also silently obeys the way he turns his heel back and goes back to the classroom door like he doesn't even care about me.
When one is on his face without hiding his grump, the chairman is forced to take him by grabbing the sleeve of his uniform at a different moment next to him.
"Cha-jun..."
"Bad...... let me hear what you have to say later"
When I briefly told Shizukuishi and Kirasaka, who looked at this one worryingly, I followed the chairman after the classroom without protesting.
Well... I know from the rules of thumb that visiting after this is not a good development.
I prayed for a low level of trouble inside as I silently proceeded down the hallway.