Goodbye, Student Council President
Nope.
Why not, Student Council President?!
It's an epic!
I even made a poster.
No matter how epic it may be,
I can't allow it to be screened at the cultural festival.
There are way too many things that make it a no-go.
Especially troubling was the torture scene,
where you tried to shove an onion-head doll up her ass.
That was faked!
I told you to cut that scene, Kasumi-san!
She's so freaked out.
In any case, I can't allow it.
Please bring us another proposal for the cultural festival.
We'll be back with a director's cut version.
The director's cut must be even worse.
Student Council President work is pretty drab.
Is my precious term going to end responding to all these stupid problems?
How long will you be here tomorrow?
Let's see...
There are still some clubs that haven't submitted their proposals,
so I need to bug them.
The vice president should be here, so she should respond in my place.
There's a vice president?
There is, believe it or not.
And then what happened?
I wonder when the vice president's getting here.
Hey, President! Sowwie!
I'm back from the meeting with Opposite-san.
Thank you, Vice President.
Can you take it from here?
Roger that.
Girls' School
Convenience store
Hospital
The cultural festival is held every year with the boys' school
on the opposite side of the street.
Boys' school
Everyone calls the boys' school by their nickname, Opposite-san.
And this vice president goes to the boys' school just about every day,
saying it's for "meetings."
By herself, no less.
Um, should I come to Opposite-san with you for once?
It must be tough holding meetings with them by yourself.
It's okay.
I mean, you have a lot to do.
I don't want to waste your time doing grunt work.
I see.
To be honest, I'm the one doing grunt work every day.
Thank you for your consideration.
The negative emotions in my heart spread like soy sauce stains.
Hey, what's up?
What? You miss me?
Okay, sure.
I'll be right back.
Sorry, President, they need me for stuff again, so I'm going back to Opposite-san.
But I have to go visit the other clubs.
I need you to watch the office.
You should just put up a sign saying "Not in the office."
Actually, I'll go to Opposite-san while I'm out visiting the other clubs,
so I'd like you to stay here.
No way.
I'm the only one who knows how to do it.
Just tell me, and I'll deal with it.
Nope, nope, nope! You wouldn't get it, even if I told you.
It's really complicated.
Okay, now what?
I want to solve everything peacefully.
I absolutely don't want to get in a fight with the vice president.
But just once...
Just once in my life...
I want to go visit Opposite-san.
Rock, paper, scissors.
Oh, no, I ran out in such a hurry.
This is awful. She isn't on to me, is she?
She hasn't realized that I wanted to go to the boys' school, has she?
I never knew I had such a slutty streak.
Please don't let anyone notice this tiny bud within me.
Boys' school! Woo!
The president's happy to go to Opposite-san?
That's a bit creepy.
Supernatural Phenomena Science Club AKA Occult Club
Oh, yeah, the Occult Club hasn't submitted their proposal yet.
I should go in and ask them first.
Th-They have terrifying glares, as always.
Is something wrong, President?
Uh, you haven't submitted a proposal for your contribution
to the cultural festival, have you?
We plan on opening a snack shop.
Huh, a snack shop?
I see, I see.
Is that...
I can't bring myself to ask if it's safe for human consumption.
That sounds delicious.
Please have one, President.
Th-Thank you.
Please let me know what you think.
Have it now, please.
Th-Thank you.
That gesture...
It was like a "have mercy" pose.
Okay, please bring me your proposal later.
Supernatural Phenomena Science Club AKA Occult Club
Please let me be safe.
Why did you have squid ink spaghetti for lunch, Hanako?
It reeked pretty bad.
Mom's hooked on squid ink right now.
Your lips are black as hell.
Hey, President.
That's perfect.
President!
Could you look at the movie again?
Onion-head's not in it anymore.
Wait, hang on a second.
I'm going to Opposite...
Oh, yeah, I saw you come out of the Occult Club.
Hey, they're running a snack shop for the cultural festival, right?
Huh? How did you know?
Have you happened to try the Occult Club's candy?
Yes.
They gave me one yesterday.
One-day incubation period...
Please go see a doctor as soon as you can, too, Honda-san.
What was that?
It was like a "have mercy" thing.
It's a message from the president.
She's going to the hospital, huh?
I guess I'm going to Opposite-san, then!
Tee hee
The president had no idea that the vice president was going out
with all six members of the Opposite-san student council.
This leads to the worst bloodshed in the school's history,
but that's a story for another time.
Asobi Asobase
Oka-ken Witch Project
Luu.
Isn't it great that the president tried our candy?
Yeah.
I'm sure we'll get approval for the snack shop.
Oh, and I want to make other snacks, aside from candy.
Good idea.
Let's make a huge menu.
All right, let's go for it.
Yeah.
Let's witch cooking!
How about cookies?
That sounds easy.
Yeah, you just have to knead it, mold it and bake it.
It would be kind of lame doing normal cookies though.
Okay, let's draw designs for witchy cookies and share them.
Okay.
And then what happened?
Okay, let's share them.
I propose witch hat and broom cookies.
That's so cute.
How about yours, Agrippa?
A mouse jammed into concrete cookie.
You sure are crazy.
Thank you!
Want to make all of these, then?
Yeah, let's do that.
Done!
They turned out well.
Yeah.
How about yours, Agrippa?
They're almost done.
My grandma gave me this vial of magic essence.
Can I pour a drop in the end?
What does it do?
I don't know.
But my grandma taught me a long time ago...
Aguri, this is a magic essence to use when the time is truly right.
Is it magic?
It sure is.
Just a drop of this when you need it, and it'll make everyone happy.
Okay, let's do it.
Let's make everyone who tries it happy!
Faculty Room
Me? Taste test it?
Yes, Sensei.
We want to hear what you think of it.
Are you sure you want me to try it?
I can't wait.
What's that, Sensei?
The Occult Club girls made these snacks.
That's great.
What does it look like?
What is this?!
Cookies.
I think they'll be delicious.
Try it.
Hey, it just tastes like a normal cookie.
It has an utterly normal texture and an absolutely normal flavor.
Normal.
Sensei's expectations were so low that
he's acting like he had the ultimate dish even though
all he's saying is that it's normal.
We're thinking of selling these at the cultural fair.
What do you think?
I think it'd be good.
Kids would probably love these designs.
More than anything, it tasted normal. It was great.
Good for us, Agrippa.
Yeah.
Maybe Grandma's magic essence worked.
Thank you, Grandma.
I'll be waiting at Walpurgis Night.
Cookies...
I want those cookies...
Cookies...
Asobi Asobase
Face of Mass Destruction
Pastimers Club
How are we going to get approval for our cultural fair movie?
Oh yeah, we never got to meet the vice president.
What was she even like, anyway?
I think she made a speech when she took office.
I was asleep standing. I don't remember.
She seemed really proper.
Like the president?
Yeah, yeah.
She had the same kind of vibe as the president.
President!
I'm headed to Opposite-san again.
I'd like to speak to you about the posters.
Wh-What about them?
53rd Cultural Festival
Is it true that this is the final version?
Th-The art club says this is all they could draw.
So, they've taken on surrealist influences...
It's a deconstruction of the concept of humanity
and a prayer for lasting peace on Earth.
Have them redo it.
Why?!
Why?
Make it something a little less controversial.
I have to negotiate with them again?
Art Club - Them
This is making me depressed.
Say, where's the vice president?
She was just here.
Um...
What is it?
I've been here the whole time.
Uh, why are you drenched every time I see you?
I like dumping water on myself.
Are you making good progress on your meetings with the boys' school?
There hasn't been a single report.
All is going well.
I'll be leaving, then.
Please take care of the poster.
Okay.
You know, you're always impeccable when you go to Opposite-san,
I have to put my makeup back on quick!
but you really don't need to go that far.
Makeup is mostly banned at our school, after all.
Are you serious, President?
Are you telling me to show myself to boys without makeup?
That's the same thing as telling boys to walk around with their wangs out.
That analogy would mean that your face without makeup is equal to a p*nis.
No, I don't think it's really that obscene.
That's not the point.
The point is that it's bad etiquette.
I've only ever shown them my face with clothes on.
I can't show them my naked face now.
Understand?
Uh-huh.
Well, whatever.
Anyway, I'm going to take this poster to the art club to negotiate.
I'll leave the rest to you.
Okay.
What's up, President?
Forget something?
Pardon me, we're here to make our request once more.
Sure, sure.
Shit, a dude!
What is it?
Where's the president?
I guess I'll just do half my face for now.
The president's not in right now.
As the vice president, I'll take your inquiries for now.
Vice president?
Huh? She isn't quite like how Kasumi-san described her.
U-Um...
We'd like to show a movie for the cultural festival.
We're here for permission.
Oh, the Pastimers Club?
I'm sorry, the president watched the edited video, but she said it's still a no.
In that case, Maeda will grovel in my place, so please.
Uh, Hanako-sama, that's...
I'm begging you!
I've begged a ton of times already!
What difference does it make for you to tip your cheap head?
Come on, grovel on all fours!
U-Understood.
If that is your wish, Hanako-sama.
What the... Seriously?
Miss Vice President, I beg of you!
Hey, Hanako-sama...
I apologize, for my buttocks have torn.
O-Okay.
That's pretty bad if your butt gets torn, right?
Um, er...
Okay, why don't you grovel again,
this time to apologize to the door you made a hole in?
Yes, ma'am.
Wait, not that angle.
Seriously, go away.
What the hell? It's so breezy.
Whatever, I need to stop thinking and finish my makeup.
Um...
I'm with the Pastimers Club.
The Pastimers Club again?!
M-My brother will explain.
This girl's brother?!
Come in.
Huh? Her face changed on a dime.
My mood right now is overwhelmingly this side.
O-Onii-chan, prove her wrong!
Leave this to me.
I come with a wish to see this here Olivia's film granted approval.
This movie...
may, at first glance, appear to present itself as a lofty creed of faith,
but this is not the case.
It is but a collection of clichés from Hollywood's popular entertainment —
an amalgamation of myriad pastiches —
a passage, in Benjamin's terms.
The depictions of brutality and chaos are, in this sense,
most appropriately described as a "flirtation with tokenism,"
devoid of any of its original deviance.
Indeed, film was, fundamentally, a parody of reality —
a mimesis of mimesis, which, as its primary function,
sought to actively rid itself of meaning.
Therefore, by this argument, film is best understood as a
descendant of the bread-and-circus entertainment of ancient Rome,
wherein an evaluation based on its educational merit
Wow!
Sorry, the VP is stupid. I totally don't get it.
is antithetical to its fundamental being,
rendering it a caricature of itself, but alas,
the school council president's deliberation...
I'm pretty sure I cut my bangs too short.
I think you look fine.
Hey.
Whoa, that was the Opposite-san school council president.
He's so hot!
My beautiful vice president, forgive me, I'm here unannounced.
Jeez, they flustered me, and now I messed up the right half.
It's all the Pastimers Club's fault.
Guess I'll fix it up in the washroom.
Hey, I snuck in to see you.
I'm sorry, a good girl's got a lot of faces.
Now, then, what should I do?
It doesn't work when it's just one of us at a time.
Let's all go together.
Onii-chan did his best, but...
Give me a break!
Huh?
Vice President?
Where'd she go?
She was here a minute ago.
What should we do?
Want to come back later?
This desk takes me back.
We hid under that desk when we came here last time.
Are the three of us from back then still under the table?
Just kidding.
Let's come back later, then.
What's up, Kasumi-san?
There's a corpse under the desk.
It's true!
Oh my God, that's scary!
They found him already.
We brought him out here, but...
I did indeed.
What do we do now?
Th-The cops!
The cops?
We touched him all over.
Are we safe?
Is it a crime to mess up a crime scene?
But it was so sudden...
Wait, did you two notice when you came here?
Not at all.
I only saw the vice president.
Where did it come from?
I think I know.
Wasn't there a shounen manga where they buried a corpse in the school walls?
In the name of my grandpa!
Isn't that it?
I remember that!
It was super scary!
It was, right?
It was super scary!
The earlier chapters were so scary.
That's such a BS theory.
So let's just say this came out of the walls.
Yeah, that's probably definitely not it, but whatever.
That's it?
Have these girls shut their brains off?!
So then...
The vice president was right here... Where is she?
Staaaare...
Do I have to solve it again?
She's around here somewhere, maybe?
I see.
Okay, let's find the vice president, then.
Okay.
Yes.
Please, God, protect me from these dumbasses!
Oh, that's...
the president's face mask!
Thank you, President!
Gyark!
What's wrong, Kasumi-san?
Did you find the vice president?
Mask!
M-Mask!
You got me!
Am I, like, MK5 right now?
MK5 (5 seconds before I seriously end up in the slammer)
What language is that?
Why are your eyes different sizes?
She asked that so honestly, it actually stung the most.
Guys, that must be the murderer.
Let's catch her ourselves.
The vice president probably isn't alive anymore.
I'll go from the front.
Olivia, you take right.
Kasumi-san, left.
Okay.
Got it.
All right.
Charge!
Why are we all going from the front?!
I got nervous and made a mistake!
I wasn't paying attention to you, Hanako.
You weren't paying attention?!
Get her!
I'm sorry.
Stop panting over there, damn it!
Raw middle-schoolers embracing...
What a sight.
Thank my lucky stars.
President, help me!
Yes? What is it?
I could hear you from the hallway.
Hell on Earth.
What are you doing?
Is this a new harassment tactic, Pastimers?
No, we're the victims here.
It took all our courage to catch this murderer.
She can kind of guess what happened
Pastimers Club, please let go of her.
And I'll allow the movie.
Please keep what happened a secret.
Okay!
Also, never come back.
Roger that!
Yay!
Yay for us!
You just have to keep trying!
What just touched me?
Do I have to deal with this?
U-Um...
President...
Stay calm.
Where should we bury it?
Is there a lake nearby?
No, he's alive.
Stuff happened.
Oh, I see.
Well, in that case...
Are you up?
Huh? I...
Jeez, you just randomly collapsed.
I got so worried.
Randomly?
I feel like I just got kneed in the gut.
You hit your gut against the table when you collapsed.
And that monster?
What are you talking about?
There's no such thing.
No, it had the same hairstyle you did, but it had the face of a monster.
Such an abomination can't be allowed to exist in our world.
I told you to make something up!
It took a while before he escaped the loop.
Asobi Asobase