Slow Start ch159

Happy
New Year!

The new year begins, friends meet up with each other, all wearing tracksuits.
Nice haiku!

They're not dressed up in haregis!? [tn: kimonos worn on special occassions such a New Year's]

Trash always stands out in the town following the first three days of the new year.

Which means it's time for us track-pick-uppins to shine!
Yep. Ins.
Trash-pick-uppins...

Hold on a sec. Me joining the Elite Four makes us...
...the trash-pick-uppins?
New Year's Day may be over, but there's still a lot of people.

If we work hard to show off the student council's appeal, our good deeds, as well as the name of Hoshio Girls', will echo through the shopping district.
In return, they'll put up posters for school events like the culture festival in more notable locations.

The town becomes prettier too, so it's
Win-Win
isn't it?

She sounding like a certain someone...
Kamu-chan's being stained with Tsukkun-senpai's colors...

Satisfied

I talked a lot.

Also...
Hey,

you're Hoshio students, right?
Thank you for everything.
You can eat these if you'd like.
Freshly baked.
Yep. Thank you very much.

bow bow

You get delicious snacks too.
Win-Win-Win
right?
It's nothing but good things!

By the way, did you guys all wear haregis for New Year's?

We didn't.
Oh my~

I don't think I've worn one since shichigosan.
Same here, I think...
That wasn't really a thing in my family either...

How about you, Kamu?
You seem like you'd have a lot of them.

I do have a kimono, but...
But?

When it's New Year's...
I want to eat a lot, so...
Aah...

Well, either way, we're doing volunteer cleaning today,
so kimonos would be, y'know.
Ah, but,

wouldn't something like this be good?
Cleaning Japanese-style Maid

That's nice!!

...

Nah.
I think the tracksuit would be easier to move around in.
You can really feel yourself moving.
The joy of maual labor.
Yep.

Ah.

Hebi!
Hana-chan!!

Are you okay, Hana-chan!?
You're not hurt, are you?
Y-Yeah.
Just banged my knee a little...

Ah, thank goodness~
Does it hurt?
No...

Ah, that's right!

See!?
It's because I was wearing a tracksuit that I got off lightly!
If this were a haregi, I could've poked my eye out!
Don't get too lively.
You'll just fall over again.

Then are you gonna wear a tracksuit forever from now on?
Eh...?
Just like Hiroe-san in the days of yore.

Well, haregis do spring to mind when you think of New Year event stills.
But if you're going to wear it for life, a tracksuit would be better than a haregi.
Yeah~
You have a point there.

Ah, that's right.

How about coming over to my place right now?
I don't have enough haregis for everyone, though.
?
Sure, but why?

Let's all dress up and have a kimono party!
Yeah!
Eeh?

Momochi house

Sorry for dropping by so suddenly.
Not at all.
The more the merrier.
Oh!?
Is this a kimono fashion show!?
Let me in on this!!

Yay~

I'm sorry...
For my daughter...
It's fine. The more the merrier...
Yeah, the merrier...

I think this is my first time wearing a kimono.
It suits you, Kasane-chan!

Did infant Oku-sama not wear one? [tn: oku-sama = wife]
Hmm, maybe...? I'm not sure...
Darling<3
The words "infant oku-sama" caught my interest more than the kimono.

Well, let's put that aside for now!
Yaha!
Since we're all dressed up, let's head into town!
Eeh?

Geez~
We just came from there~
Don't say that.
I know how you enjoy outings.
Dehehe.

...

Being wrapped up in a haregi has made Hana-chan unable to move out of fear of tripping over!

W-We need to help her!
Eh?

What are you guys doing?
Yep. This is surely a group exercise.
This is exactly why we were better off wearing tracksuits.

Oh.

You're the Hoshio students from earlier, right?
My, you've turned into such princesses.
Ehe ehe

Please help yourself to these.
Freshly baked.
Yep. Thank you very much.
Bow bow

So we get snacks regardless of what we wear.
Yep.

No.
Wait.
What's wrong?

French Toast Parfait: 500 yen
The snacks have become even greater than the ones from before!!
Oyaki: 200 yen

This is the darkness of the shopping district...!
Discrimination based on someone's clothes...!!!
You guys...
It's just what was freshly baked at the time...

The gorgeousness of the gift has made them suspect something behind it!?

Warning