Chapitre 6: Chapter 6: Napping, Knitting, and Witchcraft?
As I knocked on the door to the napping club I could hear faint sounds of snoring and groaning, I tried to open the door, and to my surprise it was unlocked. "Sorry to intrude, is this the napping club?" I said while opening the door, as I looked into the room all I could see was pitch black and the smell of the candle was stronger than what it was when I was in the hallway.
"Excuse me, can I turn on the lights?"
"Absolutely not! Wait there newbie" I heard a tired, almost irritated voice say, followed by fumbling sounds. A few seconds passed by before a dim light from a lamp in the coroner of the room was turned on. The one who turned on the lamp was a short girl with short pink hair, a little lighter than hiro's, she had twin tails, and had on a long white nightshirt with black cats imprinted on it. I looked over to the opposite end of the room to see another sleeping body but he was covered with three or so blankets, unaffected by the light. "Are you here to join the napping club?" she asked with tired eyes. "No I am here on behalf of the student council, do you -" I was cut off, as I was talking she walked over to me, "Ohh, the student council, I commend you for your work" she said this pressing against my body. "You deserve a break" I then fell to the ground with her on top of me.
"Huh?!? W-wait a minute I just came here to ask if you needed anything? Not to relax or for you to umm."
"Hehe, don't worry just relaaax will you." She had her legs over my waist, one of her hands on my chest pinning me down, and the other covering my mouth as though telling me to be quiet. "Deep breaths Mr. Student council, just sleep, you have done enough work today." Her quiet, tired voice was soothing, the floor itself was covered in blankets and pillows making it even easier to fall asleep, if I was more used to what was happening I would have actually fallen asleep."Mmm Hummum" I tried to talk but she wasn't moving. I was becoming a little concerned and as I looked up her eyes were closed. I used my free hand to move her hand, "Um, miss?" I shook her with one hand and her eyes slowly opened.
"Huh? How did I get into this position?"
"Miss, are you ok?"
"Hehe, I am fine but you seem stressed, you should sleep like we are."
"N-no I just came here to ask if you need anything!"
She looked at me with a devious look, "anyyything?" She asked as one of her hands began to move down past my waist.
"Items! Items! Stuff money can buy!"
"Oh, how sad." She slowly got off of me and I sat up, she was sitting on her knees in a w shape, and I went into a criss-cross position and explained my situation to her.
"Oh so your Takiko's replacement, you should have just said that. Well it's a shame you are not a new member but feel free to come by anytime. As for stuff we need, more candles would be nice." I pulled out my phone, opened my notes app, and added candles to the list. "Right, we will get those to you when we can." I was a little confused by the sudden change in her demeanor. I guess the tired version of her and the one that is fully awake are like two different people.
"Honestly you should lighten-up a bit, you're so formal and anxious it affects the atmosphere here."
"Oh umm, my bad, so are you the president of the napping club?" The events that have occurred for the last ten minutes made me forget that I am supposed to get to know the clubs more, and I never got her name. "Ugg, stoppp being so formal, but yes I am Neru, president of the napping club and the man sleeping over there is Zuko, my VP."
"Are there only two of you? I thought you needed five people to be a club."
"Well in reality this isn't really a club, but a hobby, the reason Yuuki wanted you to come here first is because it is not supposed to be a serious thing, all clubs are meant to be fun, please stop being so formal to people who are just doing what they love. That is my advice to you when visiting the other clubs. When you come back here, please come take a nap with us." She waved me off.
"I had fun, thank you Neru, I will pay a visit when I can." I bowed and left the room. I realized something in my brief meeting with Neru, I am the one adding pressure to everything. I felt bad putting a level of seriousness to something as simple as napping which caused her to be so up front with me when all she wanted to do was have fun messing with me.
I walked to the next room over, it was behind the corner, I heard the sound of machines running. I wanted to knock on the door but I figured they wouldn't hear me, so I just opened the door. There were two shelves on each side of the door, and four tables, each holding two sewing machines, six of the seats were occupied with people either sewing or knitting. All of them were pretty focused on their own projects. In the back there was a long desk with two people sitting there. I went over assuming they were the president and vice president of the club.
"Excuse me, may I have a moment of your time?"
A girl with long dark blond hair with yellow eyes wearing a black and white scarf looked up at me and held one of her hands to her ear. The VP, a girl with long brown hair, hazel eyes, wearing a red scarf with white squares leaned into the prez and whispered something to her ear, then handed her a piece of paper. The president's eyes lit up and she got up from the desk walking right past me, then waved for me to follow her into the hallway. I closed the door behind me.
"Hello there, sorry it gets pretty loud in there since the machines are old and I can't hear well, are you looking to join our club? If so, here is the application." That explains the piece of paper, "Oh, no, I am with the student council, I came here to see the club and ask if you need anything like materials."
"Ahh, that explains it," she opened the door and waved, leaving the door open, the VP walked out quickly after and the door was closed again. "Allow us to introduce ourselves, I am the president of the knitting club Amimono, and this is, drum roll please" She was enthusiastic and started to pat her hands against her tights, the girl in the red scarf started to speak, "Uh-umm hello, I-I am Aoi the VP." She was so quiet that's a shocker. "Great job Aoi!" she patted her back, I looked at her, "yes good job, and you can just call me Kyo, I am the new treasurer of the student council." "Sweet, well that's that for introductions, you will meet the others later but I will let them continue their work for now. As for materials I will take the usual please."
"The usual? Forgive me, I am new. Can I hear what that is exactly?"
"Haha, I am messing with you! Just some sewing threads about two of each color. Since it's just the beginning of the year we are good on materials for now." I pulled up the list and wrote down her request. "In exchange for those materials, would you like a piece of clothing?"
"Me?" I asked confused, "Duh who else, we don't make stuff for any particular reason we just do it because it's fun, so if you want something just ask, and I would like to celebrate you getting into the council. So anything at all just ask and I will make it for you." Aoi looked at me as if to say something, I was nervous by her just staring at me, and Amimono noticed and started to tap her thighs again. "Um y-you should take the president's offer, she is really good at it!" Aoi stumbled through the sentence but her words meant more because of it. "Awwww Aoi thank you! Well you heard the lady, so anything you need?" I couldn't just say, "thank you but no" now could I?
"I would like a scarf please, like the ones you two are wearing, they look nice."
Amimono looked me up and down, then took her scarf off, throwing it over me, wrapping it around my neck, then quickly moved around me in a circle checking for something. "You need one a little longer than this one, what color would you like?" She asked me while taking her scarf back.
"Whatever you think would look good on me, I don't really get fashion or anything like that."
"In that case leave it to me! Well then see you later Kyo."
"Y-yes see you."
I smiled, and bowed, "thank you see you two around." With that I walked over to the final club room in the basement, it was right down the hall from where I was standing with the other two, as I stood in front of the door I heard a loud "BOOM" and rushed to open the door and see if everything was ok. As I entered I saw a woman with a tophat, hair dyed down the middle to be black and white one color on each side, heterochromia eyes, wearing a frilled dress, tights, and shoes all of which were the same color. She was like a black and white gothic lolita.
"HAHAHA WA-HAHAHA, I did it, I finally did it"
"What exactly did you do?" I asked nervously entering the room.
"I am not sure myself, maybe I created a monster, or maybe caused a natural disaster somewhere in the world, or maybe I summoned you here. Our brains are too small to understand what has just occurred, but I know that I am the cause of it all. Wa-hahaha. Are you here to become my servant? Child of the darkened rooms?"
"Ok that last part you just made up because I walked into the room and we are in a basement which just so happens to be dark! I can't believe I thought you were serious for a second."
"Seriousness is the downfall of man, but fantasy is the upbringing of new life, so tell me child, are you an adult who believes my truths are lies, or do you see the other world as well?"
I thought back to Neru's advice, and realized the only way I will get my answers is by leaning into her make-belief stories, "Oh goddess of the dark I headed your call and have come with a simple question, is there any materials you might need for your experiments." I felt a knot in my stomach just from doing that, if anyone and I mean anyone saw that, I would become a neet and die, but for the sake of the student council I needed to do this.
"Hahaha, yes I request some teeth of the sea, some Mystic Sages Genesis, and a wound healing health position. That will be all my servant." As I wrote down her items I had to think of what she might have meant by each of them, ultimately I came to the conclusion that teeth of the sea was sea salt, Mystic Sages Genesis was code for MSG or baking powder, and the health position was rubbing alcohol. "As you command my queen." I left the room not even questioning if that was a real club. I had more questions than answers for that room, but I knew if I was in there for too long it would warp my perception of reality and change my personality for the worse. I proceed to the first floor to see their clubs.
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