No... it may not be appropriate for your role to cancel a Student Council meeting without advance warning, but you just don't want to be there. Studies do take priority over all else for a student, don't they? That being the case, you should prioritize covering the material you didn't address last night over extracurricular activities. After sending a short LINE message to Ikeda telling him to cancel this morning's meeting, you leave the chilled campus for the shelter of the school building, hurriedly cutting across the main corridor to the stairs and heading for your classroom. Your phone begins to vibrate almost immediately, bombarded with replies from Ikeda you don't doubt. He can be ignored for a while, he's sure to just be complaining about your timing.

To your surprise, class 3-B isn't entirely empty. Despite the fact that anyone here this early can be expected to have arrived only for club practice, one of your classmates is there already: Tatsuhara Satsuki, standing beside her desk as she fishes a textbook and notes out of her bag.

"Oh, good morning Yumigawa-kun." Turning at the clatter of the door, the girl catches sight of you and gives a bright greeting. "You're here early. Isn't the Student Council meeting today?"

"No, our morning meeting has been cancelled." No need to explain that you were the one who cancelled it.

"I'm sorry," she says, seeming to show genuine sympathy over something that, for most, would hardly be a negative event. Then she brightens again. "But still, you must be feeling better, right? Or you wouldn't have gotten here so soon."

"That's right," you nod. "Thank you for your concern. I'm not sure just what had me so out of sorts yesterday, but I've recovered. It did hold my studying back a bit, though, so I thought I'd catch up here in class." You show a self-deprecating smile as you walk over to your own desk and open a textbook on national history.

"That's a coincidence, isn't it?" You look up again to see that Tatsuhara has followed you over to sit down at the empty desk beside you and talk, a smile on her face. Evidently her own enthusiasm for studying isn't quite as fervent as it might be.

"Is it?"

"I just meant, um." Tatsuhara looks suddenly embarrassed, realizing she put her conclusion before the reasoning. "I'm doing the same thing, you know? It's a little bit tough for me to study at home, so I like to stay late and show up early. That way I can keep up with the classwork here." Her smile is more hesitant now, as if afraid you'll mock her for the habit.

"Admirable." Your voice is neutral, stating a plain fact without opinion. "Many students with difficult home environments let their grades slip altogether. I suppose that explains your lack of membership in any clubs."

"Does it?" Tatsuhara blinks. "I-I mean, was that something that needed explaining?"