Part 1
Lunch Break
Miyamasuzaka Girls Academy
Ugh, I’m starving~! Wonder what they’ve got at the cafeteria today.
Ehehe, I can’t wait to eat! ♪
Ah, where do you guys wanna eat?
Since it’s sunny, why not the courtyard?
Ooh, great idea! Count me in ♪
Yippee ☆ Lunch party with everyone in the courtyard! This is gonna be sooo exciting ♪
Ehehe, I know right? It’d be so nice if we could all go on the research study trip together too~♪
Oh yeah, do we get to know where we’re going today?
We just talked about it in LHR1 yesterday, so probably not yet.
Well, as long as it’s not too biased, the teacher said our preferences should go through, so I wouldn't worry much.
That's true.....! I really hope we can all go together!
Courtyard
Ehehe ☆ We found some wacky onigiri today!
I got one too! The special ume onigiri ♪
The special ones have two pickled plums2 in them, right?
I figured you’d be able to tell just by looking….. but turns out, not so much.
They were all the same size, so they totally looked identical.
But it felt like a treasure hunt, so I got super into picking mine!
Me too, me too~! C’mon, let’s eat!
Yeah, yeah.
Alright then—let’s eat.
Bon appétit~!
Mmm, so good! This is totally living up to its "special" name ♪
…..Isn’t it just a normal ume onigiri, though?
Ah! Yay ☆ My second plum just showed up ♪
…..Huh, I got two too. Looks like Otori and I got lucky.
Wait, both of you got lucky!? No fair~!
Okay, then I’ll—!
Hmm? Still nothing..… Maybe if I eat from the other side?
I mean..… if you’ve eaten that much and still haven’t found it…...
I-I just have to keep eating from this side! It’s gotta be in there!
There’s still hope! Maybe it’s just hiding on the other end!
Don’t give up, Saki-chan~!
Thanks, Emu-chan! Alright, I’m gonna find it for sure!
Nom, nom…..!
*silence*
.......I ONLY GOT A PLAIN ONE~!
Mr. Pickled Plum.....it's such a tragic thing to be single.....
—Gasp! Could this be..… a premonition—no, a plum-monition!?3
Oh nooo, what if I’m the only one whose request gets rejected?!
You’re overthinking it.
But I’ve got a really bad feeling about this..…!
Maybe I should start, like, racking up my good karma or something?
Karma, you say......
Hmm...… Oh, I know! How about helping someone in need?
Someone in need…... Oh! I could be, like, a textbook fairy and save someone who forgot theirs!
Yeah, that works. Or, you know...… letting someone copy your homework.
Ah! I see what’s happening here! Shiho-chan, you’re trying to fish for someone to copy that math homework we were given earlier from!
I literally didn’t say any of that.
Saki-chan! I wanna go on that research project with all three of us too, so I’ll help out!
Thanks a bunch!
Alright, time for me to start stacking up those karma points!
"Learning Home Room" or "Long Homeroom", refers to a dedicated period in the school day where students gather in their homeroom class for activities not directly related to academic instruction, like announcements, group discussions, or administrative tasks; essentially, a longer version of a regular homeroom period.
Saki is making a pun here
foreboding/premonition/etc. is 虫の知らせ (lit. can be understood as "an unseen force [虫] within your body giving you a warning [知らせ]") but she quickly changes to 梅の知らせ (梅 is plum)