>Sidebar: The genius student council president makes a heartfelt plea... >[Saika's Ice Goddess - Student Council President - Himemiya Yui] >...You want to keep going to the same school as him, no? >...Uh? >W- >Well... That's... >...Even if the department were to get shut down, >and Yuu had to change schools, >he'd probably still keep living with us... >...But...

>No matter what... >It's no question at all... >I'm one hundred percent sure...

>I want us to keep going to the same school...! >...Hm? >Wait a minute... >President Himemiya... Could it be...

>That you also don't want to get separated...? >From that assistant just now? >The musclehead just went and said it! >That's... >Correct... >I supposed I shouldn't try to hide it, >considering what I'm asking from you three. >I also want assistant Taira... >Tarou-kun... >To keep going to the same school as me...

>The Ice Goddess of Saika, >who's usually cold and rarely shows any expression on her face... >Is actually this CUTE!? >I'm simply a failure as a president, aren't I? >Letting my personal feelings get mixed up with the festival preparations like this... >(Please, have a seat.) >N-no way, not at all! >Yeah! >It's for the gen-ed department's sake, too... >...But, if I may... >Wh-why that assistant, in particular? >We've always lived quite close to each other. >We are "childhood friends", as they say.

Still the most dedicated shill out there

>We used to play together often when we were younger. >(Ah! Look, Yui-chan, butterflies!) >(They're Common Coppers, Tarou-kun) >However... >Little by little, the distance between us kept growing...

>...I understand. >A prodigy, and a common person... >The difference in abilities can lead to you drifting apart without even realizing it. >...No, >I wouldn't say we drifted apart, exactly... >Before I knew it... >...!? Wh... Why's all this stuff by my desk...? >Banners: Happy Birthday >B-because it's your birthday today, Yui-chan! >...Tarou-kun, why are you sweeping the street? >What do you mean? It's because this is the road you use to get to school, Yui-chan! >Obviously!

>...He'd turned me into an object of veneration... >An unexpected development!? >Since Saika had a general education department, we were both able to get into the same school... >But, in the end, our relationship has turned into that of a student council president and her assistant. >(Hrmm...) I understand that you're childhood friends, but... >How does a president end up falling that deeply for an assistant...?

>Sign: Kanade - Piano Class >(*Plonk*) >...Tarou-kun. >Even the teacher went home already, you know? >(That was a weird sound...) >N-not yet! >I want to keep going! >(*Pling dwang*) >Sign: Himemiya >You're late, Yui-chan. >You can't neglect your own duties just to keep your hopeless little friend company, understand?

>Now... >Let us begin today's lessons. >You must always fully live up to the things that are expected of you — You are a member of the Himemiya family, after all. >Sign: Staff room >Himemiya-san, >thank you for acting as the class representative this year, as well. >I'm glad to know that I can depend on you. >Tarou-kun, >you had trouble playing this piece correctly last time. >Do you want me to help you with it? >Hmmm...

>I'll play what *you* want me to play today, Yui-chan. >Is there anything you really like?

>I seem to have ended up talking for quite a while. >My apologies. >(*Peek...*)

>I GET IT!!! >I TOTALLY GET IIIIT!! >You're tormented by the empathy you feel for someone who's so utterly incapable at everything... >But that ineptitude is precisely what draws you to him...! >And then he just casually says something >that touches you right in the heart...!

>Seeing him fail, time after time... >But still trying, again and again... >No matter how many times he fails... >...I did suspect... >That you would understand my feelings, Three Emperors. >You *are* rather intimate with Ayase Yuu from the general education department, after all. >*Beep* >Just how many of those pictures do you have!?

>Won't you join forces with me? >There is a wall between prodigies and regular people. >And I want to use this festival... >To shatter it to pieces.

>We'll do it, >miss Ice Goddess!! >We will take those hopeless bunglers, >and turn them into the STARS of the Saika Festival!

>[Meanwhile, in the gen-ed department...] >(*Phew...*) >I just need to return this equipment to the athletic department, and I'll be done with cleaning... >Ayase-kun. >Oh... >That's the the student council assistant, uh... >Taira-kun! >We're in the same class, but I guess we haven't really talked very much... >What can I do for you? >...Actually, >There's something that only *you* can help me with, Ayase-kun... >It's about the student council...

>I want you to help me bring an end to president Himemiya's madness. >The president's... >Madness...? >Sidebar: A council of two great screw-ups. End of chapter 157.

On to Chapter 158. >Ayase-kun. >[Gen-ed department] >I want you to help me... >bring an end to president Himemiya's madness. >Her madness...? >[Student council general assistant - Taira Tarou] >Taira-kun... >What do you... Mean by "madness"...? >(*Wheeze wheeze*) >We... >We should talk about that *after* this... >(*Wheeze wheeze*)

>Sidebar: The student council president has approached the sisters to get their help in order to save the general education department. However, assistant Taira seems to have other plans? >Sorry... For making you help me like this... >(I need to return these to the athletics department...) >(*Wheeze wheeze*) >No, no... >I'm the one who came to ask for your help... It's the least I can do... >Home 158: Useless and useless. >...I guess these are training equipment or something... >(*Wheeze wheeze*) >Th-they're heavy, that's for sure... >[Athletics department] >...We... >We made it... >(*Wheeze wheeze*) >(Heh...) >(Hehehe...)

>Oh, >did you carry these here? >Thanks! >(*Lift*) >That's the athletics department for you... >The gen-ed department... >Is going to be shut down!? >Yes. >The president is trying to prevent it. >She wants to exhibit the department's progress at the Saika Festival, >and has asked the Three Emperors to help her achieve that goal.

>The Three Emperors!? >...But, what's so mad about that...? >I wouldn't really mind having their help... >...If we consider the reality of the situation, >the gen-ed department getting shut down is inevitable. >(Inevitable?) >I mean, you can put normal students in the same building as geniuses all you want, but the fact is, that's not going to make them suddenly produce better results! >I'm all the evidence you need! >Expanding any effort on that kind of failed department? >The president I know would NEVER have done something like this!

>...That's... true, I guess... >President Himemiya does seem like a pretty rational and objective person... >Right!? >I wouldn't want to cause someone like her any more trouble than necessary... >I'm nothing more than a burden to Saika... And now she's going to be dragged down by my department!? >It's utterly disgraceful! >Taira-kun... >Is she that important to you...?

>And of course, the Three Emperors will be inconvenienced by having to help her with this, as well! >Ah... >Don't worry. >I'm aware of your living arrangements with those three via the student council's reports. >(O-oh...?) >He... >He already knew about it...? >And I'm turning to you for help precisely *because* you live with them! >Please, Ayase-kun! >I want you... >To ask the Three Emperors to not help the president with her plans!

>What sort of weak-willed talk is that? >Sorry... but we've already made our decision. >Jackets: Festival

>Jackets - Saika Festival >We're gonna save the gen-ed department! >The Three Emperors... And, President!? >(I feel like they're getting a little too into this...)

>Assistant Taira. >I have reached an agreement with the Three Emperors. >B-but, >surely they're busy enough as it is...! >And now they're also going to lend their strength to the gen-ed department...? >I don't see how that would benefit them in any way... >Why!? >(Hmph) >Why, you ask? >We simply... >H-hey. >You say something, Niko! >Me!?

>No, that's... I, uh... >Miwa! >Bweh!? >W-we gotta stop the gen-ed department from gettin' shut down, 'cause... >We want to keep going... >To the same school as Yuu(-kun)...

>...As if... >As if we could say that when he's standing right in front of us! >YOU agree with me, right, Ayase-kun? >A normal department in a school for geniuses... >It was a flawed idea from the start! >I'm sorry...

>...But I can't agree with that. >I don't want the gen-ed department... >To be shut down. >...Huh? >Wh- >Why? >Because...

>I want to keep going to the same school as the sisters! >...Y-yes, we figured you'd say something like that... >We just didn't wanna steal your spotlight. >...I... >See...

>So you were also on *that* side after all, Ayase-kun. >"That side"? >You may not have her talents, but you're still the son of the genius actress, Ayase Subaru... >With something like that going for you, there's no way you could ever be >just an "average person". >N-no, I'm totally an average person, though! >(I keep failing at everything I do...) >You know that, Taira-kun! You've seen me in class, right? >It doesn't matter how clumsy you are...

>...It's your FACE!!! >YOU'VE STILL GOT THAT GOOD-LOOKING FACE!!! >Are you going to tell me that that's the face of a perfectly normal, average person!? >You could be the most useless person on Earth, >but as long as you've been blessed with good looks, there's still countless ways for you to take advantage of it!

>...Do you really think I look that good...? >KYAAAAAH! (I'm done talking to you!) >...You probably haven't realized it, >but there's a giant, insurmountable wall >between the haves and the have-nots... >Isn't that right... >President? >Geniuses, and ordinary people... >They live in completely different worlds.

>I... >(*Clench...*)

>..Huh? >P-President!? >(Th-) The Ice Goddess's... >Iron fist!? Thanks for reading. Weekly Shonen Sunday is taking a break next week, so the next chapter should be out two weeks from now. We'll see if the 4chan situation has resolved itself by then.

>>45817 Glad to have you here brother, I hope 4chan comes back to life

Great set of chapters, all I ask is that this arc doesn't drag out like the damn Island Arc

>>45452 Smiles that must be protected! >>45470 >>45480 Damn. She really doesn't hold back. If only the sisters had her courage...

>>45489 Cute potatos >>45509 ...for free?

>>45584 >>45596 Kek, they really are pulling a "she is literally me!".

>>45641 Cute sweaty boys being cute. All is good >>45715 Miwa, the FAT chuuni

>>45753 Look at those smug cowardly retards. >>45781 >>45795 Yuu, the slut. >>45817 Thx mate. I love how pres isn't afraid to get her man. Whether he likes it or not. Some girls could REALLY learn from her.

>>46323 The best girls are the ones who actually go after their men

>>45662 >>45677 >>45690 As it turns out, I was pretty much right on the money with my earlier prediction >>43059. Now it remains to be seen if the prez's fist of love manages to correct him, or if he's going to be more of an overarching antagonist for this arc. I hope they do a "takes off glasses -> suddenly turns hot" gag with him.

>>45728 Smaller than Niko.

>>47532 >I hope they do a "takes off glasses -> suddenly turns hot" gag with him Pres would be top tier if she entered protective yandere mode after that happens. Got to make sure her property is protected from horny sluts.

>>45715 >Miwa posing to show off the 祭 Best girl.

Last two weeks' bonus images: The prez and a sleepy Miwa.

>>48389 Digging the blue.

Some other pictures: A chibi cast drawing from the anime staff, a thank-you Kazuki for webry likes, and a piece of merch for Sunday's 66th anniversary (it was on the group cover)

>>48850 Big onee-chan tits smothering her little step-bro while he is gasping for air!