Mental Out 29.5

Chapter 29.5

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Title: Chapter 29.5
Text: This extra chapter digs into a mystery surrounding the Shokuhou Clique.
Kuroko: Why do you all adore Shokuhou-san so much?
Credit: Author: Kamachi Kazuma
        Art: Nogi Yasuhito
        Character Designs: Haimura Kiyotaka

Komaki: Non non, Kuroko-san.
SFX: Tsk tsk tsk

Komaki: Call her the Queen!
Komaki: I can't let our new clique member get away with that.
SFX: Smug smug
Kuroko: I'm only here on a trial basis!
SFX: Shoo shoo

Kobayashi: Does it look strange?
SFX: Struggle...
Kuroko: From outside, it is hard to understand.

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Kuroko: I would get it if you were obeying an excellent leader.
Kuroko: But instead....

Kuroko: It sometimes feels like you treat her like...
Kuroko: she is your little sister.

Both: Ohhh...
Kuroko: That's fine with 3rd years.
Text: 3rd Years
Kuroko: But why would the girls her own age treat her that way?
Komaki: Now that you mention it...

Kobayashi: Well, she is very cute.

Kobayashi: Hee hee. Don't tell anyone, but...

Kobayashi: The Queen used to have trouble pouring milk into a glass.
Kuroko: What?
Komaki: Eh!?

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Kobayashi: Pouring it with her stature must have been difficult.
Kobayashi(outside): Hokaze-san even provided support.
Kobayashi: So we eventually ended up providing it for her.

Kobayashi: And when she was waiting...
Kobayashi: she would hum in the most excited way!

All: It was so, so, sooo cute!
Kuroko: O-okay.

Mei: She also had trouble with tea parties at first.
Kii: It wasn't so much the tea parties.
Girl: This sounds like fun...

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Kii: I think all the attention was a lot of pressure on her.
Kii: Because she was so shy.

Kii: Nevertheless...
Kii: Once we got talking...

Kii: She would show us a reserved but gentle smile.
Misaki: You're kidding

Girls: It was like, "do we have an angel among us!?"
Girls: It really was exciting.
Girls: I finally understood what it means for your heart to be "aflutter"!

Girl: Speaking of, remember when she would use an escalator?

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Girl: As the steps rose up...
SFX: Whirr whirr

Girl: her head would bob in time with them!
Misaki: One...two...
Misaki: Mh...

Girls: She was like cuteness incarnate!!
Girls: And we just knew we had to protect her!!
Girls: When you offered to take the lead, she would hesitantly hold your hand...kyahhh!!

Kobayashi: I think her adorableness and natural flirtiness...
Kobayashi: turned us all into her big sister.

Kobayashi: Does that explain it?
Kuroko: Explain it?

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Kuroko: I'm having trouble picturing any of that...
SFX: Spill spill spill
Escalator text: Cautious
Tea party text: Shy

Kuroko: It sounds to me like she Mental Outed them.
SFX: Whisper whisper
Komaki: They've all been brainwashed.
Komkai(small): I'd always suspected
Both: Hey! We heard that!!
Text: Eliminating the generation gap will be a challenge for the Shokuhou Clique...
Kobayashi: This is funny, so I'll let it be.
Kobayashi(small): Interesting
Text: End