Growing up meant daring to take the first step toward things you'd never experienced before...
Shizuka Hiratsuka still remembered that back at Sobu High School, Yukino Yukinoshita had founded her own club, the Service Club. But rather than a club, it was more like a safe haven Yukino used to avoid interacting with people. Its guiding principle sounded lofty:
[The fortunate should extend a helping hand to those in need, and when helping others, it is better to teach them how to fish than to give them fish.]
What Shizuka wanted to complain about was that this volunteer club did nothing to promote itself and was also incredibly mysterious. Throughout the entire first year of high school, the Service Club's activities amounted to this: Yukino read a book, the time came, and Yukino left the clubroom...
When Shizuka realized something was wrong, she'd wanted to think: 怒(ノ｀ー′)ノ~~┻━┻
Damn it! I went through all that trouble to get this club set up, and this is what it comes to? Haruno, get over here and tell me how I'm supposed to educate your little sister!
Fortunately, as an educator, Shizuka had both professional ethics and an overabundance of responsibility. When it came to an outstanding yet flawed student like Yukino, she hadn't turned a blind eye like the other teachers. Instead, she'd thought that she had to change her—to help this kind and principled girl enjoy her youth and smile from the bottom of her heart...
She'd had a plan. First, she would make sure that someone joined Yukino's club and became a rival. Then, she would discreetly spread the word among the students about the Service Club's existence...
Thinking back on it, Shizuka felt she'd really put herself through the wringer...
But before she could put her plan into action, the