Class A refused to use class funds to help Class D's students.
Seeing the final result, the Class A students grew uneasy, their emotions complicated as they looked at the pink-haired girl onstage.
Honami Ichinose still wore her lovely smile, but her delicate eyelids drooped slightly, and she looked much more dejected than usual.
As the class leader, it must have been hard to have so many people reject her proposal, hadn't it?
It was like when someone nominated you to be class representative.
But when it came time for your classmates to vote, almost no one raised a hand. Only someone who was kind to everyone took pity on you and voted for you.
That huge contrast was unbelievably painful.
"Honami..."
Chihiro Shiranami's eyes flickered with concern as she watched the pink-haired girl at the podium, afraid this might have dealt her a blow.
The others who usually got along well with Honami Ichinose, like Yume Kobashi, Hitomi Watanabe, and Yui Ninomiya, also looked at her with concern.
Feeling her friends' gazes, Honami Ichinose realized she had let her emotions show. She quickly composed herself and put on her usual bright smile. "Thank you for worrying about me. I'm all right."
"This was something the whole class had to decide together in the first place, and I'm glad everyone could make their choice for themselves."
After she finished speaking, the pink-haired girl returned to her seat at a slightly slower pace than usual.
Honami said she was all right, but the vote must have hurt her a little.
She always tried to make the kindest choice. This was probably the first time she had disagreed with so many people in her class.
"Honami, it's okay."
"Your way of thinking wasn't wrong. I'm sure no one in class wants to