Light Novel Review: Ore ga Ojou-sama Gakkou ni “Shomin Sample” Toshite Rachirareta Ken Volume 11 (Final Volume)

Volume 11 starts off with a manga arc, surprisingly. It’s about Kimito having married with Sakimori (Haqua’s maid) living together and having a child (name’s Yukari), when Haqua (somewhat grown up now) comes to visit them and has a fun time with their child, acting like an older sister. However, it was all just a dream; Kimito’s.

We get another prank which results from Aika asking Kimito what commoner school festivals are like since Seikain’s cultural festival’s taking place soon. Of course the other members barge in right in the middle of it, embarrassing Aika. After, they decide to have a “You Laugh You Lose” contest as today’s commoner club activity. Karen’s first. She enters the room (again) carrying food with her, sits down, starts eating, and drops her chopsticks. The ojou-sama’s almost crack. Reiko’s turn. She sits down wearing a traditional dress and starts telling an anecdote about her handkerchief being in the wrong pocket, and the ojou-samas lose it (Kimito doesn’t get it at all; what the funny thing is, that is). All of a sudden, Kujou enters with a squad maids, lines the ojou-samas up, and gives them a clap on the bottom (for losing). Kimito gets punished for no reason (saying it’s ’cause he seems to enjoy himself), too, but with a full-blown kick from Kujou. Then it’s Haqua’s turn, who does a math joke (don’t mean to brag here, but I got that one!) and everyone takes like two minutes to get it, forcing Haqua into a explain-your-own-joke-kinda awkward situation, depressing her greatly. Last but not least is Aika, who enters the room in a full-body green latex-kinda thingy, stumbles, and falls on her face. Kimito laughs but everyone’s seriously worries about her and scorn him for cracking at her fall.

Kimito and the others’ class was picked making a food stall during the festival, so they’re holding a competition on what to cook. All the high talented people in their class fail, since they’re to complicated to make and the ojou-samas are supposed to prepare the food themselves, so that’s no good. Kimito then presents a crêpe. However, he’s reminded that nobility and such from all over the world’s gonna visit, so that’s too simple. Last is Aika, who simply drowns croquettes in olive oil, spouting nonsense doing it (seemingly a hint at celebrity cooks, pouring the olive oil from unnecessarily high above). Bottom line: it’s surprisingly good and she wins. Aika then happily chats with her classmates who want to try her cooking out themselves. As it’s unusual for her, Kimito notes that and wonders whether Aika even realizes it herself.

Kimito’s seeing Haqua off to her lab, they chat around as usual when Haqua comments he shouldn’t treat her like a kid. Suddenly, a group of ojou-samas cross their path and Kimito keeps responding in Haqua’s stead (unnecessarily, maybe? Doesn’t appear so, though) and suddenly Haqua runs off.

Kujou enters Kimito’s room late in the evening, seemingly dead-tired, and wants a hug – and a hug she gets.

Aaand it’s the day of the festival! Sakimori goes to wake up Haqua, however, she’s already awake! And dressed herself! Sakimori’s shocked, but Haqua’s looking out the window and appears to be dead set on doing something. As the festival’s underway now, the croquette stall is so too, and since all of the ojou-samas who are preparing the croquettes are putting off Aika’s cooking show, shouting weird warcries doing it, it’s really popular. During Aika’s break, she’s wondering what to do. So she tries to get out of the crowd first and spots Reiko (almost seems like Reiko’s been waiting for her), who suggests they should both walk around the festival together which Aika isn’t too fond of at first, but agrees eventually (or rather, gives in). They meet the student council president, Kyoko, who does fortune-telling with her class (or with the student council? Eh, who cares). Kyoko suggests to tell their fortune for them. Reiko’s first, and she wants to know her affinity… with Aika (wat). And so Kyoko foretells that Reiko really, really likes Aika, maybe even as more than just friends? She might even fantasize over her and Aika… Reiko shoots up from her chair, runs around, and finally collapses with a bright-red face. In the infirmary, Reiko then confesses to Aika that she wants to be closer to her than anyone (they only use the term “close friends,” mind you), and for now Aika agrees to be friends with her.

Now to Karen. She’s walking around the festival, on her way to the meeting place with Aika, and happens upon a chamber of horrors. It’s scaring her so hard, that she starts rampaging with her katana, spreading panic all around in the process until Ery appears and kicks her in the butt, literally. Ery drags Karen off somewhere and suggests she’d unequip her katana. At first, Karen wants to argue, but then she realizes she has Aika and the commoner club and doesn’t need an excuse why she’s alone anymore, so she really can take off the katana now. Finally, Karen realizes Ery isn’t such a bad person after all and even invites Ery to join Aika and her and walk around the festival.

Kimito meets Kuroe (Aika’s maid) and gives her one of the sold-out croquettes since she looked as if she would’ve liked to try one. After she’s giving him a happy smile, he invites her to walk around the festival together. Of course, Kuroe’s all shy and timid about it. Eventually, they end up in a “Do It Yourself” accessory course where they both craft bracelets (with diamonds, if I remember correctly). Kuroe then wants to trade bracelets and asks Kimito to keep it safely hidden away and to treasure it, stressing that she won’t forget this day.

Festival’s over (wat). Kimito’s roaming the school’s floors in the dusk when he stumbles upon Haqua who demands her right to ask anything of him (which she won at the athletic festival, remember?) and asks him to… go someplace with her. In the meantime, Aika, Karen, Reiko, and Ery are looking for him after they passed the whole day chatting away with each other.

Haqua leads Kimito to something like a rest spot for hikers from where almost all of Seikain can be seen. She stresses again how he treated the girls they had bumped into before differently than her and that she’s seemingly just a kid to him. However, she wants to be his lover. And like that, she leaves him to think about that.

Haqua’s maids monitored that via their Haqua Obversation Drone and are dumbfounded by her sudden advance (they were hoping to have more fun with her in that regard). However, they decide to make fun of this virgin couple then! Suddenly, they realize Kujou’s standing behind them, and she wants an explanation. Now.

It’s a day off. Kimito passes the time in his room, thinking about what Haqua had said to him. Kujou enters alone, yet isn’t in imouto mode at all. She asks him what he’s gonna do. Thinking about it, he never really saw Haqua as a love target and wonders whether that’s enough a reason to refuse her when Aika, Karen, and Reiko fall in with the door. They were eavesdropping and all of them confess at once, too. As it’s way too embarrassing a situation, they leave soon after. Along with Kujou again, Kimito states that he was way too slow on the uptake regarding everyone’s feelings. Kujou agrees and hints that he’s way too slow regarding her feelings too.

The four ojou-samas are holding a tea party and apologize to Haqua for barging in on her confession. Haqua’s fine with it though, having known everyone’s feelings all along. They decide to confess to Kimito once again, each for their own, since their confession had been far from romantic.

Reiko’s turn. She invites Kimito to dinner and cooks for him. To explain why she fell for Kimito, Reiko mentions (as expected) the bath scene (volume one) as the initial trigger and him rescuing her from that marriage interview (should have been volume 3), also his generally kind demeanor. Dinner’s – as proposed by her mother – something with chicken and egg (playing on both Reiko and her mother’s names, and what their conversation in, errr, volume 7 (?) was about, basically stating that her mum’s the chicken and Reiko’s the egg (the small her/her offspring), and he shall have ’em both).

Karen’s turn. They’re watching a movie like before, “Titanic” this time. After the movie’s over, Karen says that she knows he’s been watching her thighs all the time and that it’s actually okay for him to do so since she’s a rather clumsy and troublesome girl, and she doesn’t even think she’s that interesting to be around, so her thighs are all she can throw in here. He may even touch them… Before long, she forcibly puts his hand on her thighs. After a long monologue Kimito’s (of course he’s losing it in his mind), Karen adds that he may do whatever he wants with her thighs if he were to become her lover.

Haqua’s turn (again). They go picnic. As they sit down on a bench to eat Haqua’s handmade (!) food, she suddenly starts crying and wishes she would’ve never confessed in the first place since everything’s changing now and she wants things to go back the way they were. That’s it.

After the picnic, Kujou doesn’t come around for chores as usual. Soon, Kuroe enters Kimito’s room saying she’s standing in for her. Kimito goes visiting Kujou as she’s seemingly down with a fewer. He asks her to stop overdoing things and she states that apparently she will put down her position as head maid starting the third trimester and be a normal middle school student at Seikain. Lastly, it’s some talk about her being glad they’ve been able to meet again in Seikain.

Kimito returns to his room, where Aika’s playing games on his bed as usual, which gives him peace of mind and reminds him that being around her’s really calming to him. The conversation shifts to him having remembered everything that happened in the past (also that Aika is Kujou’s big brother’s fiancée (totally didn’t remember that)). Back then she was told Kimito wasn’t Kujou’s big brother and hence not her fiancé, which had been a big shock for her (for obvious reasons) and led to the fever and memory loss she’d been suffering from. Kimito wants to say that it’s probably been the same for him and his memory loss, but Aika shoots up and deceives by doing some “get poses.”

After talking a bit with Sakimori, who he’s met by chance, about his tough situation, she tells Kimito that it might be hard to picture now, but she doesn’t think that much would change no matter who he picks. And so he writes a message to Aika: “Would you come to the Christmas tree at the plaze? I’ve something to tell you.” “It’s freezing outside, so no.”

In the end, Aika comes after all and Kimito confesses to her in front of the huge Christmas tree. First, Aika can’t believe it (neither can I), since she’s not as beautiful as Reiko (hell no), not as smart as Haqua (not by a long shot, no), and not as gentle as Karen (wait, gentle? Karen?!). Well, Kimito chose her nonetheless – to each their own and all – and the two of them go look for the switch to light the Christmas tree and flip it, enjoying the Christmas magic.

The epilogue starts with the three (way better but nonetheless) loser ojou-samas stuffing themselves with pizza and all while Aika and Kimito are on their first date. But Ery barges in and tells everyone that this ain’t over yet, there’s no getting married if you’re 16 and have your first girlfriend when you’re a commoner, chances rather are that they’d quarrel and eventually break up before long – and so everyone has to lie in wait for their chance to attack.

When Aika and Kimito return to his room after their date, a sweet atmosphere developes which leads to their first ki… HOLD YOUR HORSES! The commoner club members burst in, take their usual seats, and gives the new couple smiles while holding virtual daggers behind their backs. Miyuki (Kujou) joins the fray (already dropped her head maid position, apparently) and wants to join the commoner club as a student now, too. Eventually, Kuroe shows up too, wanting to join, and everyone goes nuts in general, trying to get a piece of Kimito while claiming they are better-suited as his girlfriend.

The End.