Kaede didn’t know that he was already on the right way towards the teachers office as an upperclassman practically pounced him. The upperclassman immediately started to talk like a waterfall. Kaede shook his hand and at the same time escaped from his ‘hug’. He basically only nodded once because there was no room for actually talking.<br/><br/>“Since today is your first day we’ll start with a tour and I’ll bring you to your classroom later. It will be nice and quiet since everyone is in class.” Reo-senpai didn’t wait for a reply as he started to drag Kaede along. “They probably didn’t give you a map of the place right? Well, the layout is pretty logical so they didn’t think that you would need one. The place is kinda big but you’ll get used to it soon.” Since he couldn’t manage to get a word in between anyway, Kaede decided to just follow along and listen. But then Reo-senpai suddenly remembered something and stopped right in his tracks, almost making Kaede bump into him. “Have you been told that it is mandatory that you join a club?” he asked the new student with a serious face. At least as serious as his face can get. Kaede, whom had heard nothing of the sort, could only shake his head in denial as he expected his senpai to just continue talking. “I thought as much,” Reo indeed continued. “This school has a great academic record but when it is about communication with new students they greatly lack skills sometimes. What kind of stuff are you interested in?” This time Reo-senpai seemed to be waiting for an actual answer.<br/>“Nothing in particular,” Kaede answered truthfully. However, his senpai wasn’t content with this answer. “Do you like sports? Or more artsy stuff? Or do you like something more unusual?”<br/><br/>The last option was so vague that it did pique his interest a little bit. “What are the unusual clubs?” he couldn’t resist asking. “For example we have a club for researching supernatural phenomena, this club researches rumours about supernatural occurrences and tries to find explanations for them so that the students and occasionally the general citizens can be calmed down. Just recently we managed to solve the third of the seven mysteries of the school.” Again, Reo-senpai talked without stop. Just that this time Kaede was actually interested. “Ah, I happen to have a club sign up form with me right now. Since you have to sign up for a club anyway, why not join one that actually interests you?” He started to rummage in his pockets until he found a wrinkled piece of paper and handed it to Kaede.<br/><br/>Kaede was a bit surprised that he was expected to make a choice right away, and somewhere in the back of his mind there was a voice of reason warning him. However, this club did sound interesting and he could probably change clubs if it was too weird. Quite unsurprising was that Reo-senpai also had a pen on him so that he could fill in the form right away. And Kaede did start to fill in the form until a certain point. “Senpai? I need the signature of the club president to complete the form.” He diligently informed Reo. “It’s fine if you filled in all the other stuff,” Reo-senpai happily said while taking the form and the pen out of Kaede’s hands. After which he signed the designated area.<br/>“... Could it be that you are the club president of the supernatural phenomena research club?” Kaede asked with some precaution and already expecting the answer. “I prefer to call it ghost club, that’s shorter. And just call me Reo like everyone else.” Kaede couldn’t help but notice that Reo-senpai hadn’t directly answered the question. But also that there had been some people passing by while they had talked and almost everyone had greeted Reo in some way or another, even teachers seemed to call him Reo. This probably means that he is quite popular. And that couldn’t mean a bad thing for the club, right?<br/><br/>How bad that could be was something that Kaede would find out soon enough.<br/>As the last bell for the class rang, he and Reo were still doing the tour. This time more seriously. Suddenly Reo-senpai started waving and calling out to someone. “Hey, mister student council president, over heeerreee~” A grim and strict looking upperclassman looked around and seemed to be the first person today to be displeased to see Reo-senpai. Although that didn’t look as if it concerned Reo at all. He happily pushed a wrinkled piece of paper into the student council president’s hands that looked a lot like the club form that Kaede had just filled in. “I got another member right here. So now that we got the minimum amount of members we can keep the club room, right? And get a club budget right?” While senpai kept bugging the president, Kaede quickly caught on that he had just been recruited to meet the minimum member requirement for the club to keep existing. The weird thing was that how could a club around such a popular senpai not have enough members to begin with?<br/><br/>The student council president glanced over towards Kaede and signed. Was that a look of pity?!<br/>“You do realize that you can not change clubs for the rest of the year, do you?” he asked Kaede with the same pitiful look. Before Kaede could react or even realize what was just being told, Reo-senpai started to drag him along again. “Time for class, let me show you your classroom.” Senpai’s pace was so quick that Kaede didn’t have any breath left over to ask questions.