With a piercing ring, the bell warned every student and teacher and mice crawling in the basement about the end of the school day. The class rumbled with talks of going home and preparations for the school's clubs. The latter topic was of high interest to Henry.

"Tell me Riku, do you partake in any extracurricular activity?"

"What?"

"Are you in a club?"

"Oh, of course! I am an exemplary member of the going home club." Riku had already packed his things and was ready to leave.

"What?! But you are a Japanese school boy in the prime of your life! You cannot simply go home after school!"

"I've never been interested in any club. After all, anything the clubs have, I can do at home."

"That's not the point! It's about the group, the friends, the excuses to get close to the girls and accidentally bump your elbow on their—" Henry stopped and pointed his index finger at Riku. "Doesn't this school have both a swimming club and an archery club?"

"It does."

"The moment we become closer friends you're going to show me your home. For now, I'm going club hunting!"

"They won’t let you in just because you ask. And I doubt that getting close to girls will convince them."

"You underestimate me!" Henry cackled. He wanted to laugh in a cool and subtly evil way, but alas, this was his best. "I always have a backup plan. I can assure you, no matter what happens, I'm going to end the day as a club member." He grinned and began walking out of the door.

"There's no anime club."

Lacrimosa by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart started playing. Henry's face grew distraught as he turned back to Riku, following the rhythm of the music.

"Where is the music coming from?"

"I was inspired by Chiharu playing a thunder on her phone and prepared a soundboard." Henry replied without changing his distraught face, which stayed the same even when he pressed his phone a second time and played a sad trombone. 

"Want to go to an arcade?" Riku ignored his antics.

"...You make a very compelling argument," He cried out. "But I will not give up! I'm going to join a club!" 

Henry stomped away, but stopped before leaving the class. Turning around, he screamed "We'll go to the arcade tomorrow!", before walking out of the class.

Now that his backup plan was inaccessible, he had to tackle the main plan seriously. He couldn't give up at the first occasion like he really planned to do. He didn't even know where to go to look for clubs, which was why he was aimlessly doing laps of the halls, hoping the few students there wouldn't realize that the samy guy ahd passed by them three times already. 

"Maybe I should look for someone in my class?"

He could go to someone he knew and ask about their club, hoping no one else followed Riku's philosophy. The only problem was, he had already left the class with an exit line, and he couldn't come back after just a little time. Things simply didn't work like that. He was debating whether it would have been worth it to wait in front of the class for half an hour when he conveniently spotted Rohou walking to the floor below.

"Rohou! Wait a second!"

"What is it, Henry?"

"Exchange seats with me!"

"That again?! I already told you the seat has nothing special, and the teachers wouldn't allow it!"

"It was worth a shot. I actually wanted to ask you about your club."

"Why didn’t you start with that then? Are you interested in joining a club? Oh! You would actually be of great help if you joined mine!"

"How come?"

"The club isn't still official yet. There are these two sisters: one is a first year and one is a second year. They want to start their own club but they haven't had any luck finding new members. To be honest, it's partly their fault. The older sister is pretty clumsy, while the younger one is... Let's say interesting. I only found out about the club when I entered the wrong room by accident and saw the young sister in a bunny outfit... A-anyway, there are only three of us, and we need more people if we want to make the club official. Technically speaking there is also another girl who joins us often, but she's from a different school so she doesn't count."

Henry was shocked. Either that seat was really magical, or, and he feared this the most, Rohou might be the real protagonist of this story. But first, he had to deal with more important matters.

"Why are we still here?! Let's go sign up!" 

"Really? You want to join?"

"Are you kidding? You described a situation so anime that I could hear an opening song starting! What's the club about?"

"Math!"

Lacrimosa by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart started playing.

"What are you doing?" Rohou was unimpressed.

"It's a soundboard. Do you think I'm overusing it? Wait, never mind that! Why math?!"

"It's what the sisters like. The younger one is really good at it and her passion inspired the older one to—"

"Booring!" Henry interrupted him, "No wonder they can't find people! I could have even accepted chemistry, since the labs in Japanese schools are supposed to actually be functional, but math? A math club? A club for mathematics? To do calculus and stuff?? Really???"

"It's better if you don't join if this is how you see it." He turned around, insulted by Henry's lack of empathy for the two sisters.

"Wait!" Henry grabbed his arm to stop him. "Cute girls though..."

"Let me go!" Rohou shook him away. "I've changed my mind! You're not invited anymore!"

"Can you at least tell me what club Gimei is in?"

"Gimei? Oh, right. I don't know, she usually leaves right after school. Goodbye now."

Rohou left, and Henry was left alone. Not only had the two sisters' club abandoned him, but now even Gimei, a girl he knew for sure existed, could be out of his reach. 

"I knew I should've gotten that seat..."

Was the going home club really popular? Should he join it too? No, he couldn't give up. He just had to find more people he knew. He began to explore the school, hoping to see the only other three people he had talked to that day who could still be in a club.
He also checked for club rooms, and every other room, opening doors without knocking first. He ended up finding many annoyed boys, but sadly no girls in bunny outfits. Thankfully, someone had come to stop him.

“I’ve received a complaint that the boy who sits next to me in class is going around annoying people.” Chiharu appeared at the end of the hall to stop his shenanigans.

"Hey, it's the tsunder—"

Chiharu threw her bag away and ran at him. She stood in front of him before the bag could touch the ground. With one arm raised, she grasped Henry’s head and stopped him from finishing his sentence. He was too scared to notice, but his feet were not touching the ground anymore.

"Chiharu." Slowly, a cold and deep voice escaped her lips. "Call. me. Chiharu."

"C-Chiharu-sama." Henry whimpered.

"Good." She let him fall to his knees. "What are you doing?" Her voice returned to normal, the lights came back up, and the dark fog around her body dispersed.

"I-I was just looking for a club to join. Why are you here?”

“Riku has gone home already, so with the excuse of sitting next to you I was burdened with the job of stopping you from bothering the other students. You are a real nuisance.”

“You could help me then, instead of threatening my life. Are you in a club?"

"I don't know if I want you in my club, but yes. I'm in the chiropractic club."

"There's a chiropractic club?! Oh, sure! Anime clearly isn't popular enough to deserve a club, but manipulating people's bones is all the rage with the teens!"

"I don't really care about the practice, I'm only in the club because I'm good at moving people's body parts."

"Yeah, I have seen that. Better yet, I've felt that..." Henry caressed the hand-shaped mark on his face. "Still, I don't think it's the best club for you."

"Oh yeah? And what would the best club be?"

"Anger management club."

"Why? Chiropractic is so much fun, want me to relocate your spine?" She grabbed Henry's shoulder with the strength of a mighty coconut crab.

“B-before I lose this arm, could I try joining your club?”

“How about you don’t? I don’t want to be your babysitter.”

“I’ll keep opening random doors if you don’t.”

“Or maybe I can send you back to America with one well-placed kick?”

“C’mon, let me at least try! I’ve gotten curious to see what kind of students would join a chiropractic club.”

“Fine, but you’re not joining. I’ll just let you stay with us for today.”