Chapter 322 – Episode 37. Teacher, Please Become a Club Advisor!
Shimokawabe Airen’s morning is early. I wake up at 5 a.M. Every day, breathe in the clear early morning air, practice sword dance and swordsmanship, and finish my morning training. She then cooks and makes breakfast in the cooking lab at St. Francis Girls’ Academy. After she cleaned up after eating, washed up, straightened her hair, and got dressed, she was ready to go to work.
The fact that she was ready to go to work once she got dressed meant that Cheongshim Hall and the cooking lab right next to it were her workplaces, so she did not have to go to work separately. When she doesn’t have classes, she meditates, and when she has classes, she teaches her students. This was her usual routine
Since there were no classes until lunch today, Airen Shimokawabe planned to spend the day practicing imagery. But things don’t always go as planned. She had just sat down in the center of her pavilion and closed her eyes when she felt a presence approaching.
She was quite upset that someone was interrupting her meditation this morning, but soon she sensed the presence of her and smiled slightly. A similar presence to her close friend and fellow martial artist, Rinka Fujigasaki.
The presence of Ryuta Taira, a student of her close friend whom she had met a few days ago, was approaching Cheongshim Pavilion.
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“Excuse me.”
When I knocked on the door of the old but elegant Japanese-style two-story dojo with a signboard that said Cheongsim-gwan (淸心館), I heard a voice from inside say, “Please come in, Ryuta-kun.” As expected, it’s amazing. They thought it was me just by my presence.
I opened the door of Cheongsimgwan and entered. Shimokawa Beiren was sitting in her seated position in the middle of a fairly large dojo. Sharp, refined prayers poured out to me. I slightly raised the abyss and approached Airen Shimokawabe, suppressing her prayers. Shimokawa Beiren looked at me like that and smiled with satisfaction.
“How did you know it was me?”
“At St. Francis Girls’ Academy, Ryuta-kun is the only person who gives off a similar vibe to Rinca.”
Oh, I see. At that time, she even talked to me at the gym, saying that I felt like Rinka Fujigasaki. Perhaps the experts felt the energy of the abyss. I think we need to be a little careful about this, right? Even if I do a sneak attack, if you sense my energy in advance, it’s a disaster.
“The reason I came this time is because of Alexandra, who will be taught by Mr. Shimokawabe.”
“Alexandra? Ah, you mean Miss Egawa. Shiho Egawa, whom I have known for a while, asked me a favor, so I decided to take charge of it starting today…”
“I am also related to that Miss Egawa, so I came to tell you that I am in good company.”
Airen Shimokawabe looks at me with drowsy half-closed eyes. She must have looked like she wanted a little more explanation. I told Airen Shimokawabe everything from rescuing Alric from slave traders to what Alric wanted, and even Alric’s talents.
“Hmm… In short, Ryuta-kun is Miss Egawa’s protector?”
“Yes, it was a coincidence that we came to the same St. Francis Girls’ Academy, but once we got to know each other, it was polite to say hello to Alric’s teacher, so I came.”
At my polite words, Shimokawa Beiren nodded her head with a slightly satisfied expression.
“I’m not going to be a perfect teacher either. “I plan to teach you just the basics like other club members.”
“That is enough. “Everyone has their own martial arts.”
If I like Alric’s talent, I will teach him his school of swordsmanship, Kashimakiichi Shindo-ryu. Otherwise, we will only teach the basics, but since Alric also has mastered swordsmanship, he will make significant progress.
“Ah, a guest came, but they didn’t even serve tea. “Would you like to follow me for a moment?”
Shimokawabe Airen clapped her hands as if she had forgotten and stood up. She asks me to follow her, and she heads out of Cheongshim Hall and heads to the cooking lab.
I followed Airen Shimokawabe into the cooking classroom. The fairly large cooking lab had facilities for fifty people, or two and a half people, to cook at the same time, and there were plenty of ingredients.
Shimokawa Beiren skillfully got into her car, took out her wagashi, went to the restaurant next to her galley, and started setting it up. The restaurant had a luxurious feel, like a fine dining restaurant.
“At St. Francis Girls’ Academy, home economics classes teach both cooking and dining etiquette. That’s why there is a place that feels like a fancy restaurant.”
Oh, I see. No matter how prestigious a family is, there are also new families that have become wealthy, so it seems that St. Francis Girls’ Academy also teaches table manners.
“Now that we’re having tea together, can I ask you something?”
“I’m a teacher too, but I don’t know much.”
“Rather than teaching, I would like to ask about the club.”
I thought that if I couldn’t avoid having to torture the club, I should ask Airen Shimokawabe to gather as much information as possible and do it in a way that is convenient for me.
“A club?”
“For some reason, it felt like they were going to torture me. They said that since the new teacher is a second language teacher who doesn’t have much work to do, consulting is essential.”
“Oh, that’s right. “I came to this academy to be the director of Cheongsimgwan and a home teacher at the same time, which ordinary teachers can’t do, but Ryuta-kun’s situation is different from mine.”
After listening to Airen Shimokawabe’s story, it seemed like the historic club wanted a somewhat qualified teacher as an advisor. Cheongshimkwan, a Goryu martial arts club, seemed to have invited Airen Shimokawabe because ordinary teachers could not torture them.
“Probably, Ryuta-kun will be an advisor to a club that students can run with little role as an advisor.”
I see… For example, since I couldn’t join the ink-and-wash painting club or performance club, which require a certain degree of culture, as an advisor, it meant that I would become a general club advisor.
In addition, according to the information I heard from Shimokawabe Airen, a club must have 5 members and an advisor to be maintained, and if one of them is missing, they will receive a warning and if they do not make up for the shortcomings warned for 15 days, they will be disbanded.
At the same time, he said that various clubs that were about to be disbanded would be targeting me, so he scared me for no reason. I was only a little known to high school seniors, so I had the complacent thought that they might be targeting me.
“I’ll just go.”
“Please stop by often, Ryuta-kun. “I was lonely because I didn’t have any close teachers.”
There was no need to have a close teacher. Even other teachers would probably be a bit ostracized if I were to live on school property for free, but just look at Yuzuki Kasaoka’s case. She bought a house near the school, but couldn’t pay the debt and ended up working at Deli Health.
The academy director and I know that Shimokawabe Airen is quite helpful for school expenses, so we don’t think that way at all, but other teachers don’t know the power of Shimokawabe Airen, either objectively or subjectively, so they ignore and reject it.
“Yes, I will stop by often. If Mr. Shimokawabe comes over to where I am, I will treat him as well.”
There was nothing special to offer in the education preparation room where I was. Since I have to treat guests when they come, I need to at least bring a refrigerator into the training room. I should put a lot of ice cream and pudding in it. I said hello to Airen Shimokawabe and returned to the training preparation room where I would be.
There weren’t any classes today, but I felt comfortable because I felt like the training preparation room was my area, perhaps because it had been two weeks.
When I returned, class was still in session, but soon the bell rang, and it was time for recess. Shortly after break time, there was a knock on the door of the training room.
Knock.
“Please come in.”
As soon as I told them to come in, five students rushed in. It seemed like they were in different grades, seeing as one or two of them were faces I had seen among the 3rd graders and a few had faces I had not seen.
“””Teacher, please become an advisor to our club!”””
Um, five people are looking for club advisors? The five people were all club leaders, and each one had a name that made it easy to understand why it was an unpopular club.
There were clubs and big clubs that no one would think would be popular, such as the Tangerine Peel Craft Club, the Slime Making Club, and the Enka Club, but they were divided due to various problems and the number was reduced, and the club manager of the 3rd Flower Arrangement Club and the 4th Anime Appreciation Club, which were about to be disbanded, He was asking me to come and torture him.
“Can’t the 3rd Flower Arrangement Club and 4th Anime Watch Club just be combined with the original larger club?”
“Joy! “Someone said they were making tangerine peel crafts, making out-of-season slime, or enkatawil!”
Since I wasn’t saying anything, the five of us started fighting to get the advisor. Both of those things I heard were correct, so I didn’t really want to go into torture. As they were asking each other to become advisors to their club, a voice of salvation was heard.
“Ryu Tachi decided to become our club advisor!”
When I looked towards the place where the sound was coming from, the main characters of the voice, Seizawa Shii and Minamoto Lisa, were standing in front of the door.
The five unpopular club leaders in the training preparation room looked devastated. There was no one who could deal with the two delinquent female students who were famous for being troublemakers. Besides, his family is so rich that he wouldn’t even dare to think about it.
“I didn’t know you already had an appointment. “Sorry to bother you, sir.”
“That’s enough for me too… !”
The five club leaders left the training preparation room as if the tide had ebbed. I was in trouble, but I’m glad.
“You helped me because I was in trouble, right? Thank you.”
When I greeted Seizawa Shii, Seizawa Shii gave me a look that asked me what I was talking about.
“What do you mean, Ryuutachi? Are we really going to create a club?”
—–A summary of the characters from St. Francis Girls’ Academy requested by Arnold-chan! It’s 〈 Teacher’s Edition 〉 hehe
Academy Director Daigo Terue
3rd year head teacher Yuzuki Kasaoka
School Nurse Jurie Kijimoto
Home teacher Airen Shimokawabe
