Strawberry Blond

✨[Act 3, Scene 3]✨

a/n: to avoid any confusion, i reference character from the assclass light novels named "Princess Lea" who i think is supposed to be asano's love interest. for anyone interested, i believe that there should be a translation/extended summary of it on tumblr somewhere if you look it up

Confused.

Exhausted.

Slightly disappointed.

Those were three words to describe how (Y/N) felt. At least, that's what she decided.

It's been a crappy day.

After the world's most stupidest argument with Seo, Ren, and Gakushu, she still had some residual hurt which was only amplified by Karma's comment.

(Y/N) let out another sigh for the day while she walked away from the direction of the theater workshop. She accidentally poked herself one too many times while sewing costumes for theater.

Now, she was heading to the student council room to do speech advisor stuff. With all the stuff that happened with Seo, she forgot she had a daycare drive to organize.

"(Y/N)!"

A familiar voice called out from behind her. It was the older brother of her campaign opponent.

He smelled like freshly cut grass.

"Oh, hey Tsubasa," She greeted, "Did you just finish with soccer practice?"

"Kinda sorta," He answered, "I have to help Tsubaki with her campaign, so I left early."

"Damn. I'm going to go help with Asano's too..." She let out a sigh as she continued walking, urging him to follow.

Tsubasa raised an eyebrow as he followed along, "You don't sound too thrilled about it."

"It's a long story..." She trailed off.

"Yikes..." He chuckled, "Looks like we both have our work cut out for us."

"Yeah, uh why did we both agree to this?" (Y/N) commented.

Tsubasa hummed, "To be honest, I didn't really agree to it."

"Hah, L," (Y/N) replied, flicking her fingers into an L in front of her forehead at him.

"Technically, you agreeing to it is also an L on your part," Tsubasa pointed out, "But just like how two negatives make a positive, two L's make a W!!!"

(Y/N) blinked at him with a strained smile while walking.

"That was so cringey..." She commented, "I only know one person who says stuff like that and it's—"

"Seiji? Yeah, he's the one who came up with it," Tsubasa informed, "He tells the soccer team that whenever he messes up during practice."

"Of course he did," She sighed, her smile never leaving, "Why am I not surprised?"

"He's certainly a character," Tsubasa replied with an airy laugh.

The two neared the student council room when they heard a declarative voice.

"How much longer are you going to play games with the students of this school?"

"As long as I have to. How much different am I from you?"

(Y/N) and Tsubasa shared a look after hearing the voices of their respective "clients" from the student council room.

(Y/N) slid the door open with force. Tsubasa stood behind her, looking over her shoulder to see the inside of the room. Directly in front of the doorway was Tsubaki with her hands on her hips and her head held high. Across from her stood Ren, Seo, and Gakushu. Ren was seemingly holding back Seo from something, while Gakushu wore a deep scowl on his face.