“Mitsuba, Looking for the Lucky Clover” 💖💖💖
Rika Kawashima is a freshman at Shiro Mitsuba High School.
She is a bit timid but very kind girl who loves her friends.
Ever since she was little, she loved "sparkling things and people" that are the opposite of herself.
In order to help her friends, she joins a club.
Through the interaction with her best friends, seniors, and junior members of the club......
she gradually begins to realize her own potential and to secretly dream about her own dream.
For Rika, who has spent her life without self-confidence, now is the first step to take on her first bold "challenge".
Will the lucky clover come into the hands of those who keep searching without giving up----?
The First Episode “ Only 3 Days Left!? ”
"Ri--Kari Kari Crunchy!"
"Ooh aah! Yui, you can't call me that!”
The chime signaling the end of homeroom.
Among the students coming out from their classrooms, Rika Kawashima shouted in the corridor.
She rushed to cover the mouth of her friend who had apparently called out her name in a wrong way.
“Mmmhhrmm? Mmmhhrrmm cute?”
“Stop! It’s your fault! You called me “Kari Kari Crunchy”, me, who played the role of a hamster in the animal cafe at the junior high festival! Since then, it's spread so fast and some gave me sunflower seeds as gifts, and even girls in other classes call me "Kari Kari Crunchy♪”!”
“So? That’s their way to show their affection. They call you that because you're cute, don’t you see that?”
“That's a lie! I’m not going to be called like that in high school!”
"But they already know about it, don't they? It's a small town”
"Oh my gosh!"
Rika is half crying hearing the clear word of Yui Kamiya, her friend whose mouth was covered. Two girls look like nothing but playing together from others and there comes another voice over to the two girls.
"Hey, Kawashima and Kamiya. You have only three days left”
“Oh, teacher”
“Yes! I'm sorry!”
“It's already been half a year since you entered the school, and you're the only ones who haven't decided on club activities. You should be grateful to your homeroom teacher for being so open-minded”
“You are ruining it for saying it yourself”
“Kamiya, you should learn from Kawashima’s compliance. I really hope you can decide within the next three days”
“Don't worry”
Rika casts a disturbed look at Yui who spoke straight out while touching her chestnut chin-length bob.
“Alright, so if it's not decided in three days, I'll put you two up in some sports club”
“Understood, teacher!”
Rika can’t help but salute when pointed directly.
After the teacher has left, Rika timidly moved her eyes to Yui.
“Yui, you already have an idea for the club to join? Oh, no. Then I'm the only one left!”
“You've been visiting various clubs, haven't you? Didn't you have the one you wanted to join?”
"Well...... I can't seem to find anything that really hits the spot ......."
"Rika, you're very good at what you do, but it takes you a long time to get interested in something"
“I know…..I'm trying my best to ...... find something, but I'm not sure what it is. By the way, which club are you going to join?”
“Yeah, about that….
Yui’s face turned serious, and Rika felt puzzled.
Yui turned straight to Rika and reached over to her shoulders.
You’re scaring me!!!
The long, shiny hair of Rika waves with the shock.
“Please Rika….help me find my club"
“.................. what?"
What does she mean she need help finding club? She said she know which one she will join.
Yui continued looking straight to Rika who has question mark all around her head.
“Do you remember….the club who did the performance at the opening of the entrance ceremony, welcome party and sports festival?”
“Oh! The seniors dressed up in fairy tale motifs and showed us fun magic tricks?
“That's it! But I don't know which club they were.... I haven't found their club room yet”
“Yui, are you interested in magic tricks?”
“No, I'm not.”
Rika who felt like she understood the story goes back into the fog again. Rika's head keeps tilting to the right and to the left.
But it all became clear with Yui’s next word.
“That’s the perfect club to appeal to him, the Student Council's president of the next year!”
Wow.... Yui's bad habit is back again.......
Rika’s eyes that had been bewildered all along began to mingle with melancholy.
Kamiya Yui, her best friend since junior high school, was popular among both boys and girls because of her good looks and her ability in both study and sports but her only flaw was that she was a "woman in love”.
Despite her appearance, she is a headstrong person, so she is always trying to go too aggressive, only to be crushed in an instant.
Ever since they were in the same class in the first year of junior high school, they somehow got along and have been together.
As far as Rika knows, the number of heartbreaks Yui had is far more than the number of fingers on both hands.
But ...... she's always so serious and straight about her love, so it makes Rika want to support her.
Rika exhaled a single sigh and then smiled at Yui.
However, three days later, in the classroom.
Rika and Yui were facing each other slumping over the desk.
“We…. can’t find it….”
“It’s hard. I’ve asked for “magic club”, “entertainment club” and other things too”
While looking at the list of clubs, Yui seems to have no hand to play.
If we can’t find, we will be forced into a sports club.
Rika, who had been helping Yui and hoping to find a club that might attract her interest, looked far away with resignation since she had no choice but to make up her mind.
At that moment,
Someone passed before the door of the class.
Hm? What's that? Was it the senior I saw…. somewhere ...... when I asked around about club activities? Not, uh.......
After thinking for a few seconds, Rika suddenly stood up from the chair.
“Wow! What's wrong, Rika?”
“Yui! Now! In the hallway! One of the senior students who was doing the magic tricks just passed!”
Rika, together with Yui who sprung up at her words, ran out of the classroom and frantically chased after the silhouette that was one step ahead of them turning the corner of the corridor.
“Stop there, don’t move!!!”
“Wow! Yui, calm down!!”
Running after the figure, the two girls finally arrive at a club room.
This is ...... the first step towards my goal!
As soon as they found it, Yui, who apparently could not contain her excitement, forgot her manners and opened the door of the club room vigorously. Rika stops as to hold Yui.
The three people in the club room, who seems to be all elder, were aghast at the sudden visitors.
After a single cough to mend the situation, Yui opens her mouth again.
“I'm sorry for suddenly barging in. This is the club that always puts on a wonderful show at our events, is that correct?”
Yui, you are indeed a fast switcher!
Rika decides to leave the situation to Yui for the moment while secretly admiring her ability to switch mode so fast.
“…..That's true. Who are you? Are you freshman?”
“Yes, that's right. I've seen some of your performance and I've been completely impressed. I heard that you are not volunteers but members of the club. Then by all means! I'd like to be a part of that kind of activity!"
“You mean, you want to join the club?”
“Yes!!”
Yui, still with a stunned look on her face, spoke up smoothly as the braided senior with glasses responded.
Yui definitely have been preparing the line for this.
As the two of them talked, Rika watched Yui with respect for her eloquence that doesn’t show her ambitious motives for joining the club at all.
At this time, the two did not notice that the eyes of the seniors sitting on either side of the braided senior were shining in a predatory manner.
The braided senior, who is probably the president of the club, looked at the two on her sides and nodded to them.
Then, the senior on the right took out two sheets of paper from a drawer behind and spread them out in front of Rika and Yui.
“Sign-up Form”
Rika hurriedly waves her hand to the side from over Yui's shoulder with a bright smile.
“Ah! I'm sorry! I'm her chaperone!”
“Oh? I'm sorry to hear that..... If you two had joined us, we could continue this club.....”
“What? What do you mean?”
Yui asked enthusiastically to the braided senior who sighed dramatically.
“Me and him, we are senior and he is junior. After we graduate, he will be alone so the club can’t continue. A club has to have at least five members. However, due to the contributions we have made up to now, we have been allowed to continue with just three members.
If two new members join this year, the club will be allowed to continue”
“In other words, even if only I join...”
“It won’t meet the requirements, so the club will be discontinued in six months”
For a moment, Yui looked in despair.
In the next instant, she opened her eyes widely and reached over to Rika’s shoulders.
I was having a déjà vu.
I thought I could imagine what Yui was about to unleash.
“Rika, please!! Let's sign-up together! I want to do this with you!!”
It was a somewhat refreshing and almost predictable request.
Rika knew what Yui was trying to do, but she also knew that she could not leave her friends alone when asked face-to-face.
She was also interested in doing magic tricks to entertain people. It is also true that she felt a sense of relief she could finally join a club.
In the end, they both filled out the sign-up form.
The braided senior who received the sign-up form suddenly roared as if she was about to start wailing.
“Wonderful!! Welcome to the Drama Club!!”
“.........what?”
At the side of three jubilant seniors, the freshman girls simultaneously spun a questioning tone after a long pause, but it went unnoticed for a long time.
―― to be continued
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