The four of us drank our tea in silence. As always, the tea Matsushita made was top-notch.
“Now, let us talk about what we need to do moving forward.”
Thus began, the student council meeting.
“As you know, we have about three months left.”
Matsushita had told me before that the third-year students who are on the student council have until their first term exam to be part of the council. After the exams, they will have to hand over their position to someone else. Since the exam will end at late July, we have about three months remaining.
“After that, we will have to hand over our positions. That means after three months, there will be a new student council president and vice-president.”
“Yes.” Tanaka replied. By the way, Tanaka was the vice-president.
“As such, I want to elect the future candidates immediately and get them used to the inner workings of the council.”
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