'Thoughts' ← thoughts / "" ← speech

** ← actions / ~~ ← phone calls

[ ] ← Narrator

A student was helping Ryo carry some equipment to the council room.

"Love advice?" Ryo gave a confused face to the student.

"Yeah I was wondering how to confess your love and I thought being the president you might have had some experience with things like this." The student said.

"I've… had my fair share…"

["Oh the lies!"]

"Will you help me?" The student asked.

'Confessing your feelings can't be that difficult and as the president it's my duty to help the students especially when something like their love life is on the line!' "Sure, you can count on me Tsubasa."

"Thanks, I appreciate it." Tsubasa said.

["You do realise this is a battle right?"]

'It is..? Well I'll still help out, our main goal is getting Shirogane and Kaguya to like each other so helping this guy out can't be too bad'

["You do have a point. I guess you could just have fun with this one and hopefully it won't bite us later"]

They entered the council room a little after, they placed the equipment down and sat on the couches to talk about Tsubasa's problems.

"Who's the girl?" Ryo asked.

"Her name's Kashiwagi, we're in the same class together and well like I said before I want to tell her how I feel…"

"You want to build your relationship up right?" Ryo finished his sentence.

"Y-yeah…"

["How'd you know?"]

'I've seen something similar in games and manga'

["You said you were a delinquent in your past life but from what I've heard you weren't very… delinquent-ty"]

'Doesn't matter at the moment'

"So what is your relationship like right now?" Ryo asked.

"She gave me chocolate on valentines day!" Tsubasa said.

"Could be good. What kind?"

"Chocolate balls, three of them. They were obligatory weren't they?"

"Unfortunately yes, but it doesn't mean there's not something there."

"What do you mean?" Tsubasa asked.

"What kind of expression did she have?"

"Sorry I can't really remember."

"That's fine, girls can often be difficult to understand but the same goes for boys. One side can't exactly understand the other through subtle hints, you have to make your feelings clear to her."

["That's… actually good advice, very unexpected of you"]

"So I should just tell her how I feel?" Tsubasa asked.

"In simple terms yes…" 'This is a battle it can't be this easy, there has to be a flag I'm missing'.

["I think you're missing the "Wall press" Shirogane would've showed him"]

"The wall press!" Ryo said out loud as he remembered the episode. 'It's coming back to me, I know what to do!'

["The stage is yours"]

"The wall press?" Tsubasa asked.

"That's how you do it."

"You mean to confess my love and what's the "wall press"?" Tsubasa asked.

"Well how do I put it? You get their attention by pinning them up against the wall and then confess your love" At the same time Kaguya walked in the room. "Kaguya good timing, I need your help."

"With what?" Kaguya asked.

"Just follow my direction and Tsubasa, take notes." Ryo said.

"What do you want me to do?" Kaguya asked.

"Just stand against that wall for me".

"Alright?" Kaguya stood against the wall next to the open door and Ryo walked up to her.

"Alright, Tsubasa pay close attention."

Ryo lightly slammed his open hand against the wall beside Kaguya's head making her jump and maintained eye contact as he lent in closer, maybe a little bit closer than necessary but it's for love, Tsubasa paid close attention, Ryo kept eye contact and started to say the lines with a soft voice.

"Kaguya, from the moment we met you have been constantly in my mind and not a moment goes by that I don't want to spend with you, the thought of you keeps me going and keeps my heart beating to put it simply… I lo-"

"Are you going to blink soon?" Kaguya asked with a straight face.

Ryo took a step back and rubbed his dry eyes. "That's the wall press and the main thing is to remember to blink."

"If that's all, I just came to pick up my bag" Kaguya quickly picked up her bag and walked out the door.

"You get all that Tsubasa?" Ryo asked.

"Yeah I think I get it" Tsubasa said, looking fired up.

"Good, it's just about the end of the day so it's best to do it tomorrow, I'm rooting for you." Ryo said.

"Right and thanks you've helped a lot" Tsubasa grabbed his own bag and walked out the room leaving Ryo alone in there.

Ryo watched Tsubasa walk away down the hall and then took a deep breath. "Oh my god that was stressful!" Ryo said, taking deep breaths.

The narrator started to clap slowly. ["Nice going, maybe if we teach Shirogane that trick then this can all be over"]

"As long as I'm not "confessing" to Kaguya then maybe."

["Why did you pick Kaguya? You could've just done it to Tsubasa"]

"That would have been even more awkward and he needed to see it first hand."

["Why first hand experience, I'm sure just telling him would've been enough"]

"Everybody knows you need to see it first hand to get it done right, especially for moments where you only get one chance like… confessing your feelings."

["And who told you that?"]

"My friend in my old world."

["Right so your "Muscle fanatic" friend told you about love?"]

"No no no the other one."

["What other one!?"]

"Oh yeah I guess I never told you about Kenji".

["Who is Kenji!?"] Ryo could tell that if the narrator could he would be shaking him by the shoulders for more details.

"Kenji was an old friend of mine who had a new girlfriend every other month."

["Sounds like a scumbag, ditching the old for a new one every month and not the type of person you'd want love advice from"]

"Ditching? No, they all stayed with him."

["What!? Why!? How many did he have"]

"Altogether or at the moment of my death?" Ryo asked.

["Altogether, then the moment of death please"] The narrator braced himself for the answer.

"Altogether about… 30 I think."

["30?! You can't be serious, how many when you died?"]

"30"

["Wait… you mean he's never been dumped?"]

"Correct he was never broken up with, even his pre school girlfriends grew up with him and funnily enough he was known as the Scumbag Harem King back at school by all the male students." Ryo laughed to himself. "Yet he was the most popular guy in school and even held seven long distance relationships."

["SEVEN!?"]

"Or was it eight?"

["You had weird friends Ryo, but I have to agree that the relationship advice from a guy with 30 girlfriends might be worth something."] The narrator gritted his teeth when it came to the number.

"See you can always rely on the people that I used to know."

["Are there anymore old friends I should know about?"]

"Not at this moment, no."

["So there are more…"]

"Anyway we should probably head home" Ryo walked out the front door.

That night at the Shinomiya estate

Kaguya's personal maid "Hayasaka" was helping her get dressed and saw that Kaguya was a bit quieter today.

"Did something happen at school today miss Kaguya?" Hayasaka asked.

"It seems he's finally pushing back, he knew it would get to me".

"Might I ask what he did?"

"He used me to demonstrate to another student how to confess their feelings."

"How did he do it?"

"He did a move he called the wall press."

"Did you not like it?" Hayasaka asked.

"That's not the point."

"Did he say the words?"

"No, I cut him off before he could finish".

"Could you?" Hayasaka's question caught Kaguya off guard.

"What do you mean?"

"Talking to the other student might have reminded him that other males might confess to you and take you away so he acted on that thought and tried to confess."

"Where are you going with this?" Kaguya asked.

"What I mean is hypothetically could you do what he did and confess if you knew other girls might take him?"

Kaguya thought for a second and then came up with an answer. "Hypothetically I would consider the risk of someone stealing him away and come to a rational conclusion and if I were genuinely in love then yes." Kaguya put her head down and blushed. "Or at least I think I would."

["Yeah maybe he should have just used Tsubasa like I said, like 80% of that conversation was not in the script, not that the script will be much help nowadays."]

The next day at school

Ryo was in the council room office alone working on a few things like a student council president should.

Tsubasa walked through the door with his head down.

["Oh Tsubasa's here, has he confessed?"]

'I bet he's doing the whole "it didn't go well" act and then say that he was lying'

["What makes you say that?"]

'Well think about it, his whole character is based around his relationship, no matter what he did I'm sure they would have started dating… right?'

["Yeah you're right, it wouldn't make sense for them to not be"]

"Hey Tsubasa how'd it go?" Ryo asked.

"Well I confessed." Tsubasa said.

"And how did it go?"

Tsubasa looked up and Ryo saw the pain in his eyes.

["Oh no… Ryo what do we do!?"]

'It's okay, maybe he's just a good actor?' "what happened?"

"She rejected my confession and said I wasn't her type".

["Ahhhh!"]

'I don't understand. I taught him the wall press.'

["Ryo! What did we do differently!?"]

'It's alright, we can fix this!'

["We can't right now"]

'What Why!?'

["It's the end of the battle"]

"What do you mean end of th-"

[Today's battle result: Ryo and the narrator loses]

Just thought I'd apologise for not uploading sooner. I have been really distracted lately and that threw me out of the loop, but I shall continue this story!