Shirogane Miyuki: [Hello, Uchiha. I've already taken care of your request for leave without prior notice.]
Uchiha Ryo: [As expected of my esteemed President Shirogane, my good brother. I'm helping Ishigami-kohai with his studies right now. If there's nothing else, I'm hanging up.]
Tutoring? Shirogane Miyuki naturally knew Ishigami Yu. They had played games at his house last time. This junior's grades seemed to be only average. So Uchiha Ryo's leave was actually for....
[I see. Then.....]
Uchiha Ryo: [Ishigami! Flashbang, throw a flashbang! Rush A long!]
Shirogane Miyuki didn't hang up, but asked with a twitching eyelid. [....You guys are, studying?]
The voice on Uchiha Ryo's end was clearly silent for a while.
[Ah, mhm, mhm, of course. Did you hear that, Ishigami? For this question (flash), we choose A first.]
Shirogane Miyuki: [Do you think I'm stupid! You guys went out just to play games, didn't you? And here I was helping you two apply for a student council leave report.]
Uchiha Ryo: [Uh, sorry.... I'll take you next time.]
Shirogane Miyuki held his forehead. [Forget next time. Do you know the new swimming pool that opened in Ginza? A store manager I know introduced me to work there as a lifeguard in the student area for two days. The hourly wage is 2,000 yen, but it requires three people....]
Hanging up the phone, Uchiha Ryo searched online for the new large swimming pool.
"Hmm? This one seems to be...."
"Ishigami, it's not good to stay at home all the time. Shirogane plans to take you to work part-time in two days. Go help out."
Ishigami Yu: "....Uchiha-senpai, if I heard correctly, he wasn't calling me, but us."
Uchiha Ryo scrolled to the online ticket booking interface.
"Is there any classmate you want to invite? Take this opportunity to call them out for a swim together. Working is out of the question. I'm going to book the whole place."
Ishigami Yu stared at the screen seriously. "Invite a classmate? I might as well just use a sniper rifle."
Uchiha Ryo: "....How about the classmate who dragged you to class last time?"
Iino Miko! Mentioning this person made Ishigami Yu angrier the more he thought about it. He peeked out to snipe! Then got taken out by a single shot.
"Inviting her is worse than inviting the principal!!"
Forget it. Uchiha Ryo thought of the members of the Classic Literature Club, and the members of the student council... Might as well call them all.
As for his friends at Toyogasaki, forgive Uchiha Ryo for not wanting to invite too many people at once. Next time, he wouldn't invite Shuchiin, only the people from Toyogasaki.
That's right. A true man, a real man, needs to know what he's doing and arrange his time reasonably to deal with different people.
.....
On Saturday morning, at the entrance of a swimming pool, Shirogane Miyuki finally waited for Uchiha Ryo and Ishigami Yu, who walked over together.
"You guys are here. Don't worry! Being a pool lifeguard isn't tiring at all. Unless a young kid is drowning, we just sit in the observation area."
Uchiha Ryo: "Mhm, a newly opened swimming pool. There's quite a lot of foot traffic, but they're all little brats."
Shirogane Miyuki sighed. "So guess why they hired three people just to watch over the student area? There are quite a few elementary and middle school students here, and the high school area is also under our jurisdiction."
Uchiha Ryo nodded. "Very good. Then I'll be responsible for watching the high school students. Ishigami, since you're in the middle school division, you watch your peers. Shirogane, you watch the elementary school students."
"Hey, hey! Don't give me the most troublesome one!"
Shirogane Miyuki pulled Uchiha Ryo over. "Let's swap. You be responsible for the elementary school students, okay? After all, elementary school students are the most dangerous and prone to causing trouble in the swimming pool."
Under Shirogane Miyuki's expectant gaze, Uchiha Ryo nodded helplessly.
"Anyway, just pay attention to their safety, right?"
Although Shirogane Miyuki took this job very seriously, yesterday, when he checked this swimming pool.... he had already made preparations to book the whole place.
After all, this newly opened swimming pool was owned by the Shinomiya family. And Uchiha Ryo knew more about the Shinomiya family's assets than Shinomiya Kaguya did.
Although he booked the place today, which meant that Shirogane Miyuki's part-time job was basically giving him money for free, in order not to let this good brother think it was pity, he should work properly for a while....
Mhm, as expected of something Shinomiya Un'yo spent money on. Rather than calling it a swimming pool, it wouldn't be an exaggeration to call it an indoor water park. Large water slides, small waterfalls, rest areas, drink areas, everything was there.
Uchiha Ryo, Shirogane Miyuki, and Ishigami Yu changed into blue coats symbolizing lifeguards and patrolled their respective areas.
Uchiha Ryo glanced around. Why were all the kids in the elementary school area brats? As expected, it would be better to call little Hana and the others over. But thinking about it carefully, forget it. Today's booking was not suitable for children.
"Hey, don't show off in the deep water if you can't swim."
"High diving is prohibited here. And you guys, stop fighting in the pool!"
Uchiha Ryo regretted it. Why did he swap with Shirogane Miyuki? These naturally naughty brats whose names he didn't know.....
Calculating the time, Uchiha Ryo called Ishigami Yu over and whispered in his ear.
"This... Uchiha-senpai, I didn't expect you to be so playful."
Uchiha Ryo chuckled. "Go over there and get ready. This is newly bought toothpaste. use as much as you want."
Turning to look at the group of children frolicking in the water, Uchiha Ryo, wearing only beach shorts and a lifeguard coat, blew his whistle.
"It's break time now. Everyone get out. You can't stay in the water for too long. Your lips are purple from the cold. If you're not careful, you might start foaming at the mouth."
However, the group of children expressed their dissatisfaction one after another.
"It's fine, lifeguard-niichan!"
"Yeah, yeah, it's just soaking in water. Nothing will happen."
Uchiha Ryo smiled. "Then suit yourselves. But if you stay in the pool for too long, don't come begging me for help if something happens."
"Hmph! Trying to scare us won't work. We're not kids anymore."
A bunch of brats acting like adults. Uchiha Ryo narrowed his eyes and suddenly screamed.
"Classmate, what's wrong with you?!"
Uchiha Ryo hurriedly jogged to the shore.
Looking at Ishigami Yu lying on the ground in beach shorts, rolling his eyes and foaming at the mouth, Uchiha Ryo's expression became more and more serious. "Idiot! I told you not to soak for too long! Ishigami! What's wrong, Ishigami! Wake up!"
Watching Ishigami Yu foaming at the mouth and twitching on the shore, the children in the pool fled in panic. Seeing the last child run out of the pool, Uchiha Ryo laughed loudly.
"Stinky brats, trying to fight me?"
Shirogane Miyuki ran over angrily from a distance, seeing all the children fleeing.
"So what exactly did you do! Our mission as lifeguards is to prevent children from drowning, not to cause panic among children!"
Uchiha Ryo looked at Shirogane Miyuki calmly.
"As long as there is no one in the pool, the drowning rate will be zero percent!"
Shirogane Miyuki: "Don't give me your twisted logic. Now that the children have all run away, what do we do?"
Uchiha Ryo picked up his binoculars and looked towards the entrance. "Just in time. The idlers are gone too. Let's stop working and book the whole place!"
Shirogane Miyuki: "Huh???"