"Yes. I was searching for a club where I could do the most good, in order to improve myself, and ended up joining the student council."
"In order to improve yourself, huh. Pretty cool..."
Her reason for joining the student council was like blindingly bright light compared to my reason for joining the Neighbors Club.
"No no, it's nothing special."
Yusa happily grinned like a little puppy.
"Well, like I said it was just made this June. You looked over the clubs before that, right?"
"Yes, that's exactly right! I didn't think to check for any new clubs after the start of the year! As I'd expect from one of Sena Kashiwazaki's fellow club members, your insight is truly splendid!"
"...Does being in a club with Sena have anything to do with how insightful someone is?"
I remarked, but Yusa ignored it, and asked,
"By the way, what does the Neighbors Club do?"
"Eh..."
I was at a loss for words.
The goal of the Neighbors Club is basically "to make friends", but we don't have any specific activities, and generally just kill time doing whatever we want. It's kinda hard to explain that to someone else...
...I'm pretty sure Yozora came up with some authentic sounding fake description when she made the club though, maybe I can fool her with that.
"Ummm..."
What was it... I can't really remember because of how ridiculous it was...
Let's see, I think it went like,
"The Neighbors Club is..."
"The Neighbors Club is?"
"Uses... No, follows(?) Christian teachings, and..."
"Uh-huh, uh-huh!"
"Basically, it's like, with Neighbors you see..."
"Yeah!?"
"W-with our Neighbors, we...?"
"Yes!?"
...Shit, I can't remember it at all.
"Simply put, we strive to,"
"You strive to!?"
Yusa's innocent and sparkling gaze was making this really awkward.
"We strive to be able to... adapt to a variety of situations with our neighbors."
Yeah, I'm pretty sure Yozora had something about adapting or whatever in there.
"Ohh!? And what kind of situations do you want to adapt to specifically!?"
I have no idea what to say now.
"...Umm............L-love situations?"
"Love!?"
I just kind of came up with it on the spot since the phrase "neighborly love" came to mind, but "adapt to love situations"? I know I'm the one who said it, but seriously, what does that even mean?
"!? So what does that mean exactly!?"
Figures she'd ask about it if even I don't know what it means.
"B-basically the Neighbors Club studies love... in various situations..."
"You study love!?"
"Y-yeah..."
I averted my eyes from Yusa as a cold sweat ran down my face.
"So how do you study love!?"
"Eh...... Uh... Um... I'm not too sure yet..."
I seriously have no idea (about studying and what I'm saying), so I just crossed my arms and answered her with a serious face.
Surprisingly though, in response Yusa simply made a meek expression on her face, and said,
"I see...... I should've known... It's quite a profound topic after all..."
"...?"
I have no idea why she "should've known" that, but whatever.
"...Pardon my silly question... This is a subject a sage as wise as yourself must dedicate his entire body and soul to in order to understand... There's no way I'd ever be able to grasp it simply by asking you about it."
It appears I'm a sage now.
"...The pursuit of love... so profound... I can't believe Sena Kashiwazaki is off studying such a deep topic while all I do is spend my days training in the morning, studying at night, doing student council work during the week, and volunteering on the weekends... She's on a whole different level from me now... I don't think I'll ever reach her..."
"W-well, you might be closer than you think. Haha..."
I made a dry laugh to try and cheer Yusa up (she's way too good of a person... is she a saint or something...?).
"So yeah, anyway I've gotta go. Good luck."