Kokoro Connect Light Novel Volume 06

Kokoro Connect (ココロコネクト) is a Japanese light novel series written by Sadanatsu Anda, with illustrations by Shiromizakana. Volume 6 was released on October 29, 2012.

Summary
It's the start of a new spring term and the members of the Student Cultural Society have been promoted to their second year. Enjouji Shino and Uwa Chihiro, two first years, join their ranks just in time for Yamaboshi High's Sports Festival. With the entire club forced to participate, the spirit of competition pits the Cultural members against one another. However, the situation complicates when Iori seemingly confesses to Taichi that she wants to get back together and after a series of misunderstandings, fingers are pointed and who can be trusted is thrown into question. Can the StuCS's bonds endure the misunderstandings and make sense of it all before it's too late? Meanwhile, one member secretly watches in the shadows, enjoying the chaos that unfolds...

Prologue
The novel starts off with a journal entry written by an unknown person saying about meeting someone. The entry keeps saying that " I don't believe it" and "It's a dream" and ends with "Forget about it" and the person writing the entry went to bed.

Chapter 1
It is the start of a new school year and Taichi, Iori, and Kiriyama are currently in a homeroom session discussing the participants of the upcoming Sports Festival. While in class Iori and Mariko are bullying Taichi by saying that Taichi has a bride already named Inaba.

Setouchi, now the class president, starts the meeting for the selection for the participants of the Athletic festival. The Athletics festival is a event where the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd year classes, 3 classes per team, get to compete with each other. Winning the Atheletics festival means that there will be something special for the winners at the cultural festival. The winner gets to freely choose any event and gets to pick first for the cultural festival.Watase is in charge of the male participants while Kurihara is in charge of the female participants since both of them are members of sports team. Class 2-B says that as long as they have Kiriyama "Godess of War" they will win the Athletics festival. Kurihara then calls Kiriyama "Mask de Kiriyama"and Taichi maskes a comment about bringing wrestling masks from home if he needs to. Kiriyama gets angry and says she's not wearing a mask. Taichi gets volunteered into participating and he has to participate in the Yamoboshi most famous event, the horseback fight. The girls team needs one more person and no one else wanted to participate. Only person left to ask was Fujishima. Fujishima now is no longer the Class president is depressed about it. Nagase invites Fujishima to join and she accepts. Fujishima has a delusion that Nagase inviting her means that Nagse accepts the "love" between them. Nagase refutes this delusion.

Later the StuCS meets up in the club room and they found out Taichi, Iori, and Kiriyama (Red Team) are enemies with Inaba Aoki, Shino, and Chihiro (Green Team) because they are in different classes. The club room is filled with excitement but Taichi and Chihiro are not excited at all. Kiriyama says, “ Taichi and Chihiro are different type of people, but they both have a calm and unemotional character to them.” Taichi immediately denies that comment. Kiriyama then says, “Well Taichi is Taichi and Chihiro is Chihiro”. Chihiro then says that “ I am not a natural Gigolo”. Taichi replies with, “ Does that means that I’m a natural Gigolo? I’m not a damn natural Gigolo.” Taichi is getting worked up but Chihiro is still calm. Kiriyama then says that it’s good that those two are not like Aoki. If it’s one Aoki, I can handle but two is too much. Shino agrees and calls Aoki annoying and Aoki replies by “don’t say that”. Nagase asks Inaba to respond to the comments being made. Inaba says, “I don’t care what others think, Taichi is ‘my only one’, before only one, Taichi is Number One” Inaba doesn’t care about the other comments and opinions floating in the room and is acting all in love. Nagase calls these situation “ Dereban syndrome”. (to be continued .....)

Note

 * 1) 【　】means the target the person using Illusion Projection wanting to pretend. eg. Chihiro【Taichi】means that Chihiro is pretending to be Taichi.

Trivia

 * "Nise" when written as 偽 translates to "Fake" or "Imitation."