2017 April Fools. Engirls main story in four chapters, with glasses.
(And Sakura as the student council president instead of Himari.)
Can be found under the “Sub” story tab in Ensemble Girls!! Memories.
Written by: Kino Seitarou
Timeline: April
Kimisaki Private Academy, a school surrounded by the beauties of nature.
Being a long-standing all-girls academy priding in its low rate of students with unaided vision, it is becoming a glasses school, following the trends of the times.
You are transferring into Kimisaki as their first and only glasses boy.
Your presence will bring a big glasses wave to the academy’s peace.
The destiny you will meet there is of a bizarre, bright, fun and fulfilling glasses life.
Forming bonds with the many glasses girls around you, you will celebrate the joys of youth.
Please, enjoy the stormy and dramatic everyday of Kimisaki with unclouded lenses.
Chapter 1
Natsumi: “Yahoo. I’m glad we get to be in the same class.
Do you remember me? I’m Minami Natsumi. Didn’t we use to play together a lot?"
> Classroom
Natsumi: “You couldn’t tell because I changed the color of my frames?
Ahaha. You’re the same as ever, judging people by the frames of their glasses.
But I never dreamed that you’d be transferring to this school.
We were an all-girl school until last year. You’re the only boy here.
And a glasses boy, at that. You’re a perfect fit for what Kimisaki has become♪
That’s why all the girls here are very intrigued by your presence, and the brand of the glasses you wear.
I’m sure you’ll be confused about a lot of things at first, so feel free to tell me when you’re in trouble.
I have an ultrasonic eyeglasses cleaner and anti-fog spray ready for when you need them. Count on me if you’re having troubles with glasses♪”
Saaya: “Oh dear, Minami. You’re acquainted with the transfer student?”
Natsumi: “Yup. He’s my childhood friend.
Ah, I’ll introduce you.
I think you can tell from her glasses, but she’s our class rep, Hotta Saaya-chan.”
Saaya: “Well, nice to meet you. Hmm, so you really are a glasses boy.
Geez, I wasn’t expecting a transfer student with really fashionable frames to come, when the plain and serious-looking frames are supposed to be the best part of eyeglasses.
I guess that’s not a problem, as long as you’re not causing troubles. Just be nice and quiet.
This school’s in the middle of a war between glasses and no-glasses factions. Criticize glasses, and you’ll have to say goodbye to your dream of a peaceful school life."
Nana: “Aah! Class rep’s talking to the transfer student! Show me, show me!”
Saaya: “And here comes our class’s representative weirdo.”
Nana: "But I’m as normal as they come! Whoa, we really got a glasses boy here! Hey, are those glasses from your old school?
Glasses made for guys – nice stuff! I’m in the Glasses Cheerleading Club, y’see, and I’d love to get a feel of a glasses cheer squad with that combination of gakuran and glasses you have!"
Natsumi: "Nana-chan, if you touch his glasses too much, you’ll leave prints on the lenses.
Ah, this girl is Harukaze Nana-chan, by the way. She’s vice-head of her Glasses Cheerleading Club.
Meanwhile, I’m in the Art Club, crafting art objects of glasses, and Saaya-chan’s in the Volleyball Club."
Saaya: “Sports clubs still have low rates of bespectacled members. I wish we can glasses more.”
Nana: “The three of us together make the Bestie Trio! I hope you can join us to form the Bestie Quartet, transfer student-kun!”
Saaya: "Don’t just involve us in your weird group.
Ah, right right—the student president was looking for you, so you’ve got to visit her for a greeting, maybe after classes are over.
Minami, you’re good friends with him, so show him until the council office when it’s time."
Natsumi: "You’re always so efficient, Saaya-chan.
Anyway, you heard her. You’re booked with me for after school.
Now that we’re classmates, I’m in your care.
—Let’s create lots of fun memories together♪"
Chapter 2
> Student Council Office
Sakura: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was Eyeglasses.
…Such were the words of an ancient Greek philosopher, Aristoglasses.
Since olden times, glasses have been treated as a symbol of knowledge, and worshiped like god alongside Glasses-Wearing Girls and Childhood Friend Girls.
However, in modern times, glasses wearers and childhood friends have grown to be treated with little respect.
Due to the importing of foreign-made cheap glasses, as well as the existence of contact lenses, the value of glasses has greatly fallen.
Kimisaki was once the same.
Glasses-wearing students were horribly persecuted by those with unaided vision.
At times they would play games of snatching away our glasses. Others they would scoff at our lenses, fogged white by the winter winds. During PE, they would persistently aim at our face.
Finally, feeling alienated by such situation, a close friend of mine was forced to transfer.
To be oppressed, simply because you are wearing glasses… Is that how an institute of education should be? To this day, I continue to ask myself that question.
Thus, I declare,
We shall spread the shine of glasses to the human race, once more! The joys of wearing glasses, once more…!
I, Itoh Sakura, having protected my seat in the student council through the Student Council President Re-election, henceforth enforce a rule that requires all student to wear glasses!
<It’s a glasses world!>
<Beginniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing!> (her glasses shine rainbows here)"
Sumire: “Be-gin-niiing…☆”
Yako: “…”
Hotori: “Zzz, zzz…♪”
Sakura: "Well then. This should be the end of the speech. From here on, I’ll be asking for your activity reports.
I’ll start with you, Kijishi-san. How’s your progress with the creation of the glasses that we, the student council, commissioned you?"
Sumire: "Reporting. The entire Art Club have exerted their best efforts to create a new-type glasses, and all there is left to do is the mass production.
Lightness, endurance, and design – I assure the glasses are perfect from every angle."
Sakura: “I’d expect no less from the Art Club! Surely with Saeki-san’s genius art skills and the innate power of glasses combined, the final product would rise as the first star of the glasses world.”
Sumire: "It’s an honor.
But is it all right? That I am bestowed the title of a student council officer, instead of my seniors in the Art Club… I’m worried that they don’t think well of me."
Sakura: "You don’t have to worry, Kijishi-san.
I did not choose you as a member of my student council because you’re in the Art Club. The fact that you are here right now… was because my first sight of your glasses had electrified me so."
Sumire: “Hmm. I don’t believe I truly comprehend, but in other words, is it all thanks to glasses?”
Sakura: "Precisely. That is simply the way of things… My will was of no importance; we are all puppets dancing atop the lenses of the great eyeglasses.
Next, Konan-san. It’s time to hear your report."
Yako: “…The Theater Club held a performance last weekend. A love-romance play about a non-glasses boy falling for a glasses girl. Well, it seems like we did pretty well.”
Sakura: “And yet, you do not seem very thrilled. Is something bothering you, Konan-san?”
Yako: "Hah! I’m sure you don’t need me to tell you.
I won’t let you say you’ve forgotten about her. My close friend, who was forced to transfer after the persecution she experienced because she didn’t wear glasses…
You know, Student Council President? Each time a play that glorifies glasses succeeds, I think this:
If this regime, this ideology had spread earlier, I wouldn’t have to lose a friend…!"
Sakura: "…!
I thought so. You are chasing after her shadow, even now…
The shadow of our friend, Anzu-san.
…No, Lenzu-san. That was our affectionate nickname for her; our friend who’s no longer here."
Hotori: “Zzz, zzz…♪”
Sumire: “E-Excuse me. Who is this ‘Lenzu-san’?”
Sakura: "…I will tell you when the time comes.
Our first priority now is to spread the wonders of glasses even deeper, as to strengthen our regime.
I don’t want to create another victim like Lenzu-san. Never again.
…Konan-san. It pains me to keep making someone with an artistic soul like you to do plays that propagate glasses, but—
Please, lend me your strength for a little longer, for the sake of our common desire."
Yako: “…Hmph. You don’t need to ask.”
Sakura: (…The current student council isn’t fortified either, it seems. While it may look as though we are walking towards the same goal, we are only using glasses as a method and no more.
At this rate, I can see the council falling apart due to our unaligned interests.
But I’m not worried; I have prepared a wild card.
If it is him – the glasses boy who have transferred to our school today… surely he will bring transformation upon this situation. After all, he is Lenzu-san’s…
No, I shall speak no more.)
Natsumi: "Pardon uuus…?
Um, President? I brought him like you asked. Are we fine here?"
Sakura: "Ah, yes. You have my thanks, Minami-san♪
…Transfer student-san. I’m sorry to rush you, but there is something we, the student council, would like to request of you.
I ask that you, as this school’s sole glasses boy, to distribute glasses and make them trend among the non-glasses-wearing girls in this school.
I seek your cooperation for the Glasses-ification of the Entire Student Body."
Chapter 3
> Gymnasium
Kana: "C’mon! We’re doing this fast, Nekozuka!
Practicing with a ball is actually still too soon for first years like you, but I’m allowing you to stay with me for a special training experience! Eat my killing move!"
Mike: "U-Unyaaa~!?
P-Please spare me already, Umezono-senpai! Stop aiming at my face~!
If my glasses were to take on your violent attacks, the frames and lenses will break to pieces!"
Kana: "Hmph. How should I know? All you girls ever say is glasses this, glasses that, glasses everything… All the noises you make are making me depressed! I’m in a horrible mood right now.
Hotta, too. We once promised to become regulars for the Volleyball Club together. But only Hotta got her eyesight corrected through eyeglasses, and she got to be a regular thanks to it!
Me? I’m still benched. Only Hotta gets to take the regular spot for herself. I can’t accept that. I have good eyesight to begin with, there was nothing I could do.
Geez, geez, geez! It’s like I was the only one thinking we were friends! I feel betrayed!"
Mike: “Unyaa, someone help! Uukh! Why is no one ever there when I need them!?”
Kana: “Curse your luck for being picked as my punching bag. If you hate me, go ahead, make that frustration your stepping stone and raise above me!”
Mike: "S-She’s being ridiculous… I’m telling you, that’s still impossible for me!
Eek!? That one just then rubbed past my cheek! That’s dangerous!
A-At this rate, my glasses are seriously going to break! Even though this is a new pair…
…Unya? Umezono-senpai, did you something shine on top of the gym’s platform?
It might be someone’s lenses reflecting off the afternoon sunlight."
Kana: “Haa? Why would someone be on the platform…? All the other Volleyball Club members already went home, so there should be no one besides us, right?”
Mike: “I-Is that… the student president, and the guy who just transferred into Kimisaki?”
Sakura: "O-ho-ho-ho♪
The Heavens, the Earth, and the People tell me! Wear glasses, they say!
Hear, you little girl with no glasses! It is I, Kimisaki Academy’s student council president, Itoh Sakura!
Umezono-san, your act of barbarity cannot be forgiven. Even if the Heavens permit, these lenses will not overlook it!"
Kana: “W-What? This is the problem of our club. You have nothing to do with it, student council president!”
Sakura: "No. I have very much to do with it.
Transfer student-san, you’ve picked a pair of glasses that would suit Umezono-san, haven’t you? Put them on her."
Kana: "W-What? I don’t need glas—
H-Huh? My vision is suddenly a lot clearer, for some reason. T-That’s strange… The test says I should have no problem with my eyesight."
Sakura: "Fufu. You must be surprised. I was as well, upon hearing Transfer Student-san’s story.
Apparently, your friend from the same Volleyball Club – Hotta-san has been bothered by something that happens during offense drills with you.
Even though you are supposed to have good eyesight, you would sometimes fail to follow the ball during attacks.
At first, she thought it was simply due to your lack of skills. But recalling that there was no such trouble when you were first years, she rejected this possibility from the outset."
Kana: “W-Why, of course! It’s absolutely impossible for me to suffer from lack of skills. Geez, I can’t believe that Hotta!”
Sakura: “Then why couldn’t you throw your attacks properly? Isn’t that strange?”
Mike: “That’s true. You’ve been incessantly throwing attacks at me, Umezono-senpai, but none of them managed to hit. And you’re definitely not the type to miss on purpose…”
Sakura: “Fufu. Exactly. I have been watching since a while ago, and it did not look like she was trying to miss on purpose.”
Kana: “Can you get to the point? I still have no idea why these glasses fit me.”
Sakura: “…The answer is simple. Umezono-san, you have astigmatism.”
Kana: “…Astigmatism?”
Sakura: “Indeed. This is what the school nurse told me, but Umezono-san ― it seems you were diagnosed with astigmatism on your eyesight test.”
Kana: "Ah… That’s right, I forgot. But even with a little astigmatism, I never had problem seeing, so I didn’t let it bother me…
This means I need glasses too, huh?"
Sakura: “Yes, exactly. And as long as you believe in glasses, they will never betray you.”
Kana: “T-Thank you very much, President. Thanks to you, I feel that I can finally try my hardest to take that regular spot.”
Sakura: “Fufu. It’s fine. The one you should thank is him – he picked a pair of glasses that would suit you immediately after hearing about your astigmatism.”
Kana: "…T-Thank you, transfer student.
Fufu. I’m feeling a lot better now. Hey, Nekozuka, you’ll keep accompanying me through the attack drill, won’t you?
Brace yourself; this time, I’ll keep my glasses on the ball and aim straight at you♪"
Mike: “Eh! S-So I’m being sacrificed either way!? That’s not fair!”
Sakura: "Fufu. We can deem the case closed, then…♪
Our propagation of glasses have been a smooth sailing, thanks to you.
Only a little more until our plan comes due. Let’s brace ourselves… no, our glasses, and persevere♪
…As it happens, Transfer Student-san—
…No, never mind.
Rather than that, we should return home for the day, before it’s dark. Omnipotent glasses may be, they are powerless before the darkness of night.
Transfer Student-san, I thank you for your excellent work today. I’m very pleased to find out that you are more than meets the lens.
Well then. I will see you tomorrow…♪"
Chapter 4
Hotori: "Snore, zzz…♪
…nnyu?
Nngh~♪ Got to sleep really well today. The stuco meeting went without a hitch, nobody tried to slap me awake.
But look at the time. I gotta pack up and go home~
Oh? Whassup, Transfer Student-kun. Crossing your legs on a pipe chair… Talk about weird…
Anything bothering you, maybe? If you’re okay with me, I don’t mind hearing you out.
Huh. So you couldn’t find the student council president anywhere.
That’s normal. That girl likes to vanish sometimes.
Probably just patrolling the school for anything that may catch her glasses. To see if there’s any scoundrel planning something bad out there.
No matter how bad someone is, there’s definitely purity somewhere deep inside their heart. That’s what the student president believes, that people are bad because their hearts’ glasses become clouded.
Just like how you saved that Volleyball Club gal, people will surely see the right way if we can wipe their inner glasses clean. So she’s trying to help with that.
Does that come as a surprise? Well, gotta admit we dunno what the president’s thinking either, despite being part of her student council. But she won’t ever suppress people for not wearing glasses.
She’s only protecting us from anti-glasses people. The whole stuff about glasses-ifying the entire student body is just a way for her to keep the glasses extremists on her side.
So she won’t ever force glasses on people. She just gives the students glasses to clear up their grievances.
Even if said student has strayed too far from the path. But you change glasses, and your entire life may change in the process.
So ‘Keep calm and have these glasses’, she’ll tell 'em.
Well, no idea how the other stuco officers besides the president and I feel, though.
I mean, Konan-chan looks to me like she’s gonna do a coup d’etat one of these days☆
Ahaha. Just messing with you. It’s all hypothetical stuff, no worries.
Ah right… If it’s someone with a kind heart like yours, Transfer Student-kun, it’s prolly okay to tell.
There’s a place that means a lot to the president. Somewhere special that she keeps secret from people outside of stuco.
Transfer Student-kun, can you follow me for a bit?"
> Rooftop
Sakura: "…(sighs) The wind blowing from the sports grounds has dirtied my glasses. Thanks to that, I’m left with no choice but to take off my glasses… This has greatly lowered my defense.
The sports clubs kicking off clouds of dusts… Fufu, it’s all because of their high spirits that I’m left with a pair of smudged glasses now.
But that is fine. Tolerance is the key of things.
When you wear glasses with strong prescription, you tend to forget that.
It was the pressure that caused Lenzu-san to transfer.
The immoral fight between no-glasses and glasses factions… Many had to drop out throughout the conflict, all because they couldn’t see lens-to-lens.
Lenzu-san grew to lose faith in the situation, and embarked on a quest to learn how to make glasses in a vocational school in Sab*e.
Even so, she left with us a precious gift.
…I knew you would come, Transfer Student-san.
So I believe it was Kannazuki-san, who guided you here?
Fufu. Because I do not have my glasses on, you are looking to me like a small, white creature, Transfer Student-san… but I’m sure it’s my imagination♪"
Hotori: “Uh hello, why are you talking to a stray cat? Transfer Student-kun’s over here. Don’t mistake him for an entirely different thing just because you’re not wearing glasses.”
Sakura: “Ah, pardon me… Hello, Transfer Student-kun.”
Hotori: “Like I said, you’re talking to the wrong thing. That’s a water tower in front of you.”
Sakura: “Oh my…?”
Hotori: “Transfer Student-kun, can you wipe her glasses? Our talk isn’t moving anywhere at this rate.”
Sakura: "I didn’t mean to stale the conversation so much…
Fufu. Transfer Student-san, you really wiped my glasses for me. You have my thanks.
I can see your face clearly now.
You look so much like Lenzu-san… The moment I saw you for the first time, I was convinced; that you are truly Lenzu-san’s younger brother.
She was struck with sorrow and had to leave because of it… but that she let you, her little brother, transfer here now means that she is satisfied with what Kimisaki Academy has become, right?
There were once sad, painful times. But it’s all in the past, and now she is working hard to become an optician in her new school in Sa*ae, right? So she is telling me, that I must persevere as well…
So this is what true friendship is like. My tears just won’t stop.
Transfer Student-san, that’s not a handkerchief, but a glasses wipe…♪
…Eh? You do not know of any Lenzu-san? You don’t even have siblings…?
Oh, what must I do? I think I said some very embarrassing things in my misunderstanding. So I have been looking at you through the wrong lens all this time?"
Sumire: "W-We have an emergency! A bespectacled squad of seven just showed themselves in Kimisaki, and caused an explosion in the school with a glasses-shaped bomb! It is said they are doing this for Lenzu-san…
They are the Drama Club and the Rock Band Club, unified into a team! Having received Lenzu-san’s instructions, they mean to push their glasses agenda by force!
Please take a look there! A revolutionary army just entered the courtyard!
No, it’s worse… They cracked the courtyard open and appeared from under the earth, riding on a gigantic bespectacled robot!"
Sakura: “No way! Is that robot the ultimate glasses missionary weapon that the Drama Club has been developing in secret…!? So Lenzu-san is not yet free from the chains of hatred!”
Hotori: “Ooh. So Konan-chan really went ahead with her revolution…”
Sakura: “Kuuuh! Then I have no choice but to release ‘that’ to the world!”
Sumire: “Understood. I shall ask Saeki-senpai to get the Art Club’s anti-bespectacled-robot weapon ready…!”
Sakura: "Transfer Student-san. I’m very sorry to get involved you in our problem.
But since you are with us now, will you take up arms to fight by our side?
I realize my impertinence in seeking help from you. Even so, I ask your cooperation, as another who loves glasses like I do.
…Thank goodness. So you agree to fight with me.
You have my thanks, Transfer Student-san… No. As proof of our camaraderie, let me call you…
Glassesman.
Now, let us depart, Glassesman! For the peace of humanity and glasses…!"
> Tea Ceremony Club Room
Sakura: "…Nngh–ah?
I feel like I have just seen a very strange dream. A ridiculous and foolish dream.
(sighs) I’ve grown rather sloppy. It seems I fell asleep soon after Tea Ceremony Club activities were over.
It must be the recent busyness getting to me~ I need to remember to take a breather once in a while.
Perhaps I can window-shop for glasses with Kaede-san this weekend? I want to convey my passion for glasses to her…♪
Fufu. Now that I have a plan, I should go home so I can rest for the day.
Let’s seal all these feelings inside the glasses case and have a sweet dream♪"
s
Aristoglasses and Glassesman were originally “Meganes” and “Meganeman”, but Lenzu-san (れんずさん) is as literal as it gets. I assume the nickname was because this version of her wore contact lenses or something…? But then she left to study the way of glasses…??
The censored city name Lenzu is said to have transferred to seems to be Sabae.