Ordinary I and Extraordinary Them

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Opening its eyes to glance at Kaede for a second, Muku once again closed it to return back to sleep.

“It is so cute.”

While grinning at such reaction, Kaede quickly started airing the laundry from the basket.

Western clothes, school jerseys, towels, our nightwear; watching her figure airing them at their fixed places in succession, I admired my sister’s wife-like skills.
Suddenly, Muku rose up next to me.

“What’s up? Is it time for you to go back already?”

“…Na～”

As if understanding my question, it cried in reply.
Approaching Kaede who was airing the laundry, it nuzzled up its body for a short while and then returned back to its home.

“Are you going back already… Please come again next time.”

When Kaede said this in somewhat lonely voice, Muku replied with a “Na～” without turning back.
…However you look at it, this cat is slightly different.

While I have heard that cats do as they like, doesn’t this cat move too freely…

After Muku went away, Kaede finished the laundry and returned back to her room to get ready.
I returned inside the house and started waiting for Kaede to finish her preparations.
While doing so, I could feel my phone vibrating a few times inside my pocket.

“Who is it?”

I took out the phone from my pocket and when confirmed the contents on its screen, it turned out to be a mail sent by the president.

“Assemble at the student council room on Monday, for a meeting at 8.
We will be doing morning greetings2 and luggage inspection.”

To the short mail, I replied with an even shorter “Understood”.
I don’t remember the luggage inspection happening last year.
Is it being started from new, this year?

In the first place, luggage inspection is not the job of student council but the teachers… I wonder if student council are overworking and on the contrary, teachers are having too much leisure?

Let’s talk to the president if I go to school on Monday.
“I think it is better to work the teachers more.” and etc.

“I am ready.”

While I was considering such thoughts, Kaede seemed to have finished her preparations and came inside the living room.
I was relieved to see that Kaede’s face had not changed drastically from the before and after makeup.

Today Kaede had wore a black dress.
Her usual childishness seemed to have disappeared.

“Well, should we go…”

“Yes!”

There were very few luggage and no forgotten items.
After checking the lock of our house, we started going towards the shopping mall in next town.

Footnotes

1.
The window doesn’t seem to be the smaller kind but instead a window door.
2.
Basically the student council will stand at the front gate of school and greet every student that comes.