Carriers of Jade - 5

[bladeofresolve]

Location: Garden



Eichi: Mm, your chin feels nice too.
There’s a bit of soft flesh behind the bone, and it goes in when you touch it.
It feels like my finger’s stuck inside, I can’t take it out anymore ♪
You want to shake hands with me? Okay~
Come on, hold out your paw, take my hand, and up we go~ …and the other paw ♪
If there’s anything that can beat the belly of a cat, it’d be the paw pads of a cat.
……♪

Ritsu: Ecchan, how long are you gonna keep the kitten to yourself?
I still haven’t gotten to pet it and you’ve coaxed it over to your side again…
You’re so domineering. It’s not like it’s your cat, Ecchan.

Eichi: This is war, Ritsu-kun. You’re full of holes, so naturally I took the opportunity.
It’s my win this time ♪

Ritsu: Hmph…fine. You won’t be able to gloat any longer anyway, Ecchan ♪

Keito: Oi, Eichi! So you were here.

Eichi: Ah, Keito. The transfer student’s here too.

Keito: Eichi, don’t you have activities for the Tea Club today? Why are you outside here?
How long have you been idling here? Are you feeling alright?
What are you doing all gathered here? Hm? This is…?
Ooh, this little one isn’t scared of people at all. Good child, good child…♪

Yuzuru: Fukukaichou-sama didn’t do anything at all, yet the kitten won’t leave his side.

Ritsu: Hehehe, now even Ecchan’s lost. And it’s a total defeat too, a total defeat…♪

Eichi: There’s no other solution than to make Keito my enemy now.

Keito: …What, were you all in the middle of a competition of some sort? Eichi, did I make you lose?

Eichi: No, Ritsu-kun’s only joking around with me. Right, Yuzuru?

Yuzuru: Yes. The sight of Kaichou-sama and Sakuma-sama warring over a cat amongst themselves was very interesting. I gained a lot from it ♪

Keito: …It sounds like I’ll only get stupid answers if I ask further. Well, as long as everything’s alright.
Where did the cat come from? I haven’t seen it around school or nearby before. Is it another new stray?
Just on the way here we saw two or three unfamiliar cats, and we were thinking over the situation the workers in school informed us of…
As expected, the transfer student wasn’t just spouting empty words.
Eichi, come with me to the student council. I have something to discuss with you.
You too, transfer student. This is a problem that you noticed, so you’d also want to know how to solve it, right?

Eichi: Keito’s always entwined with work, like some restaurant’s strange combo menu…if I’m ever out of a job, I should just look for you, Keito.
You definitely wouldn’t let me stay idle like that ♪

Keito: That’s right. I’d make you properly reflect on how you’d fallen into a state like unemployment despite your family background and ability.

Eichi: Haha, I was just joking. I still have a lot of things I want to do, how could I bear to be unemployed? ♪

Ritsu: Ecchan, are you going to take care of the annoying cats?

Eichi: Mhm, that’s right, Ritsu-kun. I think that’s the issue transfer student and Keito want to talk about too.
It’s not just cats; haven’t you noticed more and more stray animals around school?

Keito: The transfer student told me that it feels like the number of wild animals around school are slowly increasing.
You should be more precise when expressing yourself; saying “wild animals” is a severe misuse of language. But considering the amount of experience you have, being able to notice this issue is worthy of praise.
That says that you’re treating each day in Yumenosaki seriously. I’m very pleased.
You thought that there would be no correlation between this issue and idols, and perhaps it wasn’t so important, didn’t you.
But the large amounts of stray animals will threaten the plants growing in the school, as well as the animals in the breeding pen.
They’ll ruin the ecological environment in the school.
The stray animals will bring with them more bacteria, disease, or parasites, and this might affect the health of the idols.
All in all…This is a very serious problem. And it won’t be easy to take care of it suitably either; it’d take a lot of time as well as effort.
We can’t put it off any longer.

Ritsu: So~ …you guys aren’t going to exterminate them all, right…?

Eichi: We won’t, Ritsu-kun. Don’t mind him with his face all scrunched up like that; Keito’s solutions are always nice and gentle ♪
Come here, cute little kitten…
You and your friends have brought some problems, so Keito and I have to leave first and take care of it.
For now we’ll just have to let Ritsu-kun take care of you. Get along with him, okay ♪

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