Clubs Are Essential in Romance Comedies
Clubs are an essential element in romance-comedy stories. Love tends to blossom when people who share the same purpose gather together in an enclosed space.
You admire the way the usually sloppy senior becomes utterly reliable the moment work begins… You get tangled up in a problem that feels impossible to solve and feel lost, only for them to appear and lend a hand… And when there are multiple heroines, you watch one of them enjoy a harmonious atmosphere with the protagonist while another sends subtle glances of jealousy.
Plus, that thing that happens once every break. The club members’ training camp trip! Peeking at the girls bathing in the women’s bath, accidentally walking into the women’s bath thinking it was the men’s, or rescuing a heroine who went missing during courage training in a cool, heroic way. After raising their favorability through all those events, the long-awaited evening arrives. The heroine comes to your room, and you share a hot, passionate night together.
Kya~ Just imagining it gets me excited.
In that sense, it was only natural that I put the women I wanted into the student council. That’s why, through my bet with Cha Yeri, I filled every spot with exactly the members I desired.
There were three new members joining the student council. Considering the student council wasn’t an ordinary club, it was a reasonable number. It was an elite organization that included the president and vice-president, both elected by student vote. Since it sat at the very top of the school’s caste system, they couldn’t recruit too many people.
The newly joined executives sat lined up on the sofa. Cha Yeri and I sat across from them.
Doing this makes me feel like Cha Yeri and I have become husband and wife.
While I was blankly indulging in lewd fantasies, Cha Yeri began her self-introduction and snapped me back to reality.
“Everyone, welcome. I’m Cha Yeri, president of the Gangan High School student council.”
“I’m Kang Ijin. It wasn’t the president here who picked you—it was me… Ack!”
Cha Yeri secretly pinched my side from an angle the others couldn’t see. Thanks to that, I completely botched my first greeting as vice-president.
I glared at her fiercely.
“Pfft…”
Apparently my little yelp had been funny. Cha Yeri turned her head and let out a small giggle. She pinches me and laughs? Just wait. Later I’ll pinch your clit until you cry. Still, seeing her laugh made me feel good. If I’d known, I should have screamed louder.
“Ahem… Anyway, you don’t need to work too hard. Just do well.”
Clap, clap, clap.
Once our introductions ended, applause rang out.
“Then let’s hear self-introductions from the new members.”
Cha Yeri’s voice was noticeably gentler than when she spoke to me.
“Yes, hello! I’m Kang Suho, who joined the student council this time. Please take good care of me.”
Clap, clap, clap.
When the clearly nervous Kang Suho introduced himself, Cha Yeri clapped with the warm smile of a kind senior.
This is exactly why everyone—guys and girls alike—voted for Cha Yeri. Good grades, good family, beautiful, capable, and well-liked. There wasn’t a single thing missing.
I still don’t get why she was so cold to me when we first met.
It seemed my attitude had really rubbed her the wrong way.
“Kang Ijin, you clap too.”
“Wow… clap clap clap.”
I had been sitting there thinking why the hell would I clap for a guy, but Cha Yeri was staring at me with strict eyes, so I half-heartedly joined in.
“Hello. I’m Jeong Sua, who joined the student council this time. Please take good care of me.”
Clap clap clap!!
This time I clapped immediately—and loudly enough to make the student council room shake.
“Haa…”
A small sigh came from Cha Yeri beside me.
To anyone who didn’t know about our relationship, I probably looked like some massive pervert obsessed with his little sister. Anyway, the reason I had brought the two of them to school early was for this exact moment—to let them know they had been selected as student council officers.
The pair, unaware they had been chosen through a bet, were overjoyed. It made me feel good just watching. Ah, of course I wasn’t looking at Kang Suho. Only at our Sua.
Aigoo, my pretty girl. Are you that happy to be picked? Then let’s have lots of secret sex in the student council room~ Got it?
“Hey, why aren’t you introducing yourself?”
After the other two finished, it was her turn, yet Lee Yena was still sitting there looking confused, so I spoke up.
“I didn’t even apply for the student council, so why…”
“It doesn’t matter whether you applied or not.”
“Huh? What do you mean?”
“The reason you’re here is because I chose you.”
“What?!”
The reason I had asked Cha Yeri for help was precisely so I could bring Lee Yena into the student council even though she hadn’t applied.
Lee Yena looked at Cha Yeri with a dumbfounded expression that screamed Does that even make sense? When she saw Cha Yeri silently avoiding her gaze, Lee Yena’s face crumpled into pure despair.
“I-I’m the new member who joined this time… ugh… s-second year… L-Lee Yena…”
The sight of her being abandoned by Cha Yeri and reluctantly introducing herself was utterly pitiful.
“I’ll distribute the student council badges now. Please wear them on your uniforms at all times.”
Cha Yeri handed out the badges she had prepared in advance. Everyone except me accepted one and pinned it to the right side of their chest. Kang Suho, Jeong Sua… even Lee Yena all straightened up with visible tension. It seemed they were finally feeling, in their bones, that they were now official student council executives.
In the middle of that, Sua—who had noticed me sprawled on the sofa counting ceiling tiles—asked the president.
“Um, President? I have a question…”
“What is it, Junior Jeong Sua?”
“Doesn’t Jin Opp… Ah, I mean, doesn’t the vice-president get a badge?”
“I already gave it to him.”
“Huh?”
When Sua looked at me with a puzzled face, I told her the truth.
“I lost it the moment I received it.”
“Haa…”
“That sounds exactly like the vice-president, haha…”
Both of them acted like they were used to this, but their reactions were completely different. While Cha Yeri let out an immediate sigh, Sua laughed in resignation. That alone told me how high her favorability toward me was.
It was about time to move on to the next stage. I should create a suitable event and take Jeong Sua’s virginity soon.
“Kang Ijin.”
“Yes, President.”
“I was thinking of spending today showing the new members what the student council does. Is that all right with you?”
“Why are you asking me? You can do whatever you want, President.”
“That’s because you have to participate too.”
Aha! So that’s why she asked. I had naturally assumed Cha Yeri would handle everything herself. She wasn’t the type to entrust anything to someone as unreliable as me. This was proof that she was treating me with respect in front of the new members to maintain the hierarchy.
She wouldn’t want to ignore me in front of the new members. It wouldn’t look good for her either.
The sight of the president ignoring the vice-president and doing everything alone wasn’t the ideal image of a student council. If the other members saw that and started ignoring the vice-president too, the internal hierarchy would collapse. An organization only runs smoothly when the chain of command is perfectly established.
“Understood. What would you like me to do?”
When I readily agreed, Cha Yeri’s eyes widened slightly. Was she surprised? It would be nice if her favorability rose even a little.
“There are three new members to teach, so let’s split them up—two for one of us, one for the other. How does that sound?”
“Sounds good. Since we’re doing this, how about letting the new members choose who they want to learn from?”
She looked at me with confident eyes, arms crossed.
“You seem pretty sure of yourself?”
“Pardon?”
“What if all three choose me? Are you trying to use this as an excuse to dump all the annoying work on me?”
Hmm… I really want to twist that confident face and make her sob beneath me. There’s no way all three would choose you, you bitch.
“If you keep acting so confident, I guess we’ll have to make a bet…”
Cha Yeri flinched at the word “bet.”
“We don’t have to go as far as a bet… It’s just… for fun… Let’s do it for fun.”
“As you wish. Too bad.”
When I rested my chin on my hand and brought my finger near my lips, Cha Yeri’s face flushed slightly. Every time I reminded her of that kiss this way, she became meek. It seemed she wasn’t completely uninterested in kissing.
I wonder how long she can hold out.
There are people who have never kissed, but none who have only kissed once. Anyone who has experienced it knows the intense desire to feel that sensation again. Especially since Cha Yeri had grown up in a strict household and lived a chaste life. The more upright the woman, the higher the chance that once she experiences something lewd, she’ll crave to feel it again.
Cha Yeri always maintained a cold, rational appearance. But I knew that wasn’t her true self.
What I wanted to do with Cha Yeri was this: to make her see me as the only person she could entrust with the heavy burdens she carried, the only one with whom she could reveal her true self. A reliable colleague she could trust, someone who made her laugh and act playful without even realizing it…
That plan was still in progress. And the moment she completely revealed her true self to me, the woman born to stand in a position of dominance would be corrupted by my touch and transformed into a vulgar, lewd woman.