I minimized going out late at night as much as possible.
About a month and a week had passed since the fierce battle with the carnivorous merfolk.
“Students, have you been waiting a lot? The results of the student council president election have finally been announced.”
As I stood on the stage, I looked up at the emcee.
“They say that this election was more intense than ever before. It was decided by a very close margin.”
Ah. The short but strong vibration immediately captured everyone’s attention.
“Hurry up and finish.”
Pushing through the crowded merfolk, I slowly moved towards a corner.
These past few days, the academy had been quite chaotic because of the election campaign.
“If I become the student council president!”
He stands tall and walks around the campus, giving speeches and wearing a smile.
“I will change the rules so that you can ride on a horse to school!”
There were even sightings of dozens of white horses being ridden during the campaign period.
Maybe they could even be part of a city festival.
“It’s quite large.”
Quietly hiding my expression, I looked at the bulletin board near the stage.
“[Candidate No. 18, Bendy Reppy]”
Although my name appeared as a candidate, it boasted a faint presence at the bottom.
After all, only the S-class students would become student council presidents.
During the election period, students gathered and chattered about it.
Only power, intelligence, family, and money.
In this place where the law of the jungle prevailed, the students who possessed all three gathered in the S class.
The merfolk academy was a place where the status of one’s family or power determined their class, more so than the order of admission.
Except for the required courses, students were free to take the classes they wanted, so there wasn’t much distinction between upperclassmen and underclassmen.
Therefore, it was natural that the students believed that the student council president would come from the S class this year as well.
“Being the student council president or whatever.”
I just wanted to continue hiding without getting caught, and if I could graduate and stand on my own, there was nothing more I could ask for.
Alright. I clenched my fist with determination.
“As for the elected student council president… ”
Yes, just a few more years of enduring.
“From the X class…”
Graduating quietly is everyone’s ideal happy ending.
“Bendy Reppy.”
What?
I raised my head in surprise, having clenched my fist. A sense of unease ran through my body.
“I think I just heard my name.”
Looking up at the stage with a perplexed expression, the emcee was also staring at the result sheet with a confused face.
The emcee muttered unknowingly into the loudspeaker.
“…Bendy Reppy? The fox merfolk who entered the X class?”
That’s not me.
Something is wrong.
My confused face turned black as I forcefully lifted my head.
Clumsily, the emcee shrugged his shoulders when our gazes met.
Clumsily, shrugged.
Clumsily, shrugged.
We couldn’t communicate with clumsy gestures.
Sweating in his cold sweat, the emcee exchanged glances with the students in charge of the vote count.
What happened?
We don’t know either.
They drew an “X” with their arms, signifying that there was no problem with the vote count.
“The elected result is…”
The emcee who ended the meaningless conversation coughed loudly.
“The elected result is quite… unusual… It’s unprecedented for a freshman to be chosen as the student council president…”
My mouth involuntarily opened wide.
“Don’t accept the result, don’t accept it.”
Why did this result come about in the first place?
No matter how much I racked my brains, I couldn’t understand the feeble-mindedness of the merfolk.
Lost in thought, I stumbled my way back to the dormitory.
I didn’t even remember how I managed to return to the dormitory after being elected.
Thud.
I sat down on the floor with weak legs.
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