Chapter 67: An Attempted Discussion on Not Being Dismissed
Among the three conditions, the simplest one is naturally to achieve results in official competitions.
With the abilities of Kiyono Rin and Watanabe Toru, if they wanted to, all they needed was a competition that happened to be held at that time.
However, perhaps many people have forgotten, and it is necessary to reiterate the purpose of the Human Observation Department:
As the name suggests, the Human Observation Club, founded by Rin Kiyono, is mainly focused on observing the changes or reactions of humans in certain situations.
Three activities have been carried out so far.
Deliberately provoking the Arts Department;
Help students who need to make up for the exam and increase the deviation value by 40 points in a short period of time;
And how Vice Minister Watanabe managed to resist falling in love with Minister Kiyono despite all his strategies and techniques.
…
I have absolutely no idea what the meaning of the activity is.
Although there are many organizations with unclear meanings, there are even more societies that are not what they seem.
For example, there is the light music club that always drinks tea, the classical literature club that is obsessed with solving puzzles, the modern culture research club that only reads comics and light novels, and the servant club that pursues the real thing.
However, these clubs either carry out club activities that are in line with the campus spirit, or simply indirectly control the power of the student union.
The Human Observation Department does not meet the requirements in any way.
Then the only option is to increase the number of people.
"How about recruiting two more members?" Toru Watanabe suggested.
"If it's worth observing, I have no objection," replied Rin Kiyono.
This is where the difficulty comes in.
"Anyway, let's put up the recruitment flyer first. Given the popularity of the Human Observation Department, there will definitely be a lot of people who want to join, right? We can select them slowly when the time comes."
"In order to meet the school's requirements for establishing a club, I have been recruiting new members, but you are the only qualified person." Kiyono Rin sighed helplessly, seeming disappointed with Kamikawa High School.
She continued, "What's worse is that there used to be people coming for interviews here and there, but since the midterm exams, no one has come anymore."
"Did you do anything perverted to them?"
"Watanabe-san, use your brain to think before you speak. It will make you look less ignorant. It will also be good for your personal safety."
"That's strange."
It's the third day of Qingye Rin's menstrual period... Well, without investigation, I have no right to speak, so this method of timing ends here.
Wednesday.
After the fourth class, Kunii Osamu and Saito Keisuke moved their desks over and put them together with Watanabe Toru's. The three of them ate their bento boxes or milk bread bought from the supermarket.
They have been turned away by the corridor windows.
Not only them, ever since Kunii Osamu revealed the incident of three people looking at the collars of girls in the atrium through the window, the discipline committee member named Kurosawa has prohibited any male from lying on the corridor window during lunch break.
I can't see anything.
While eating, Toru Watanabe talked about recruiting new members for the club.
"I saw people discussing this matter on the campus forum," said Keisuke Saito.
"Tell me about it." Watanabe Toru was cheered up. As long as the cause could be found, there would always be a way to solve the problem.
"You three people from the Human Observation Department are fine when you act alone, but when you get together, outsiders will find it difficult to integrate with you."
"Why?" Watanabe Toru felt confused.
It's not like their relationship is so good that it can't accommodate a fourth person. On the contrary, it can even be described as bad.
"Watanabe, you should at least have some self-awareness." Kunii Osamu ate the fried pork cutlet with big mouthfuls.
"Um?"
Saito Keisuke explained: "You three are the standard handsome men and beautiful women, and your academic performance ranks in the top three in the grade, with a gap of more than 40 points between you and the fourth place!"
"Just because of this?"
"That's it? Isn't that enough?!"
"Is this a conflict of values?" Watanabe Toru said to himself, "I can't understand the thoughts of people who are not handsome and have poor grades."
"Die handsome guy!"
Watanabe Toru really looked innocent in the face of the two men's angry looks.
Because he is good at studying and handsome, he doesn't consider these two factors when interacting with others.
But as for him personally, no matter what he is like, he doesn't care about his friends' grades or whether they are handsome or not, as long as they have compatible personalities.
He doesn't know how women choose friends, but in Watanabe Toru's opinion, this is how most men make friends, right?
After school, they came to the activity room and Watanabe Toru relayed the conversation between the two to Kiyono Rin. After listening, Kiyono Rin's expression was not surprised at all.
"It's natural to feel inferior to me," she said while drinking her own tea. "Not everyone is as liked by the majority as I am, and no one will be more honest than me."
"Ah, this may be the reason." Watanabe Toru suddenly realized.
"What?"
"It's that you're too honest."
"You guys like lying too much."
"It's all good," said Toru Watanabe, "because you are as honest as a mirror, reflecting the true side of everyone and everything, but everyone has something they don't want to be discovered, and definitely don't want to face you as a mirror for a long time."
"A mirror that reflects the real self...I don't dislike this metaphor." Kiyono Rin smiled faintly.
"I don't mean to praise you, please don't misunderstand."
Qingye Rin glared at him in dissatisfaction.
"Let's just consider this as a reason why no one came for the interview ." She put her hand on her chin and pondered, "There's not much hope of recruiting new people. Just in case, we need to prepare the second and third conditions."
"Excuse me, humans can only observe this kind of activity in comedy variety shows, there is no way there will be a formal competition."
"This is social research," Kiyono Rin corrected.
"Well, the explanation varies from person to person." Watanabe Toru said perfunctorily and took out the student union notice that had not been processed from the drawer.
Qingye Rin frowned: "I need to re-evaluate your learning ability."
"Yeah, yes, yes." Watanabe Toru continued perfunctorily, pointing his finger at the third condition on the notice, "'Convert the content of the activity into a concrete and visible form, and obtain the approval of the instructor.' Teacher Koizumi only needs to say one word, the key is 'the content of the activity is concrete and visible'."
"Help Ikki Aoi-san realize her love?"
“The spirit of high school club activities doesn’t pursue these things.”
"Participate in the literature and art department's essay contest again?"
"We can't cause trouble for them anymore, can we?"
Toru Watanabe didn't want to offend these guys who wrote the articles, especially since they were in cahoots with the News Department and he couldn't hit them.
"Then find a club that can't achieve results in official competitions and help them win the championship."
Champion...If possible, Toru Watanabe hopes that Kiyono can learn from him "how to remain humble even when one is very good."
"...Let's not talk about whether we can win the championship, are you sure that helping other clubs achieve results in official competitions can save the Human Observation Department from being abolished?"
"It's better than staying in the club room and waiting for new members to come."
"That makes sense." Watanabe Toru nodded, "Which club is that..."
He was interrupted by a knock on the door.
"Please come in." Qingye Rin greeted.
"Excuse me." Aoi Ikki and Asako Hanada walked in one after another.
