with a tired voice.

Looking around the room, many students had already arrived at school.

However, there was no one around the transfer student from Ukraine.

She was sitting alone.
It was as if there was a barrier around her.

“You owe me one.”

I said to imaginary Mai.

And I will complain to my homeroom teacher later.

I wanted to watch the VTubers’ videos with a pure heart, unencumbered by anything.

I can’t fully enjoy the streaming if I’m worried about it!

I approach the new student straight away.

The transfer student must have noticed my presence because she lifts his face from its prone position.

“Do, do-burobo, ranku!”

A loud voice called out to the transfer student as if interrupting me.

Her gaze was drawn not to me, but to the person who jumped in front of her.


It was a boy, a classmate.

In his hand was a notebook.

Behind the boy were several other students.

One after another, they said to each other in Ukrainian, albeit poorly.

Then, looking at the notebook, they were desperately trying to spin words to say , and so on.

I was shocked to see them.
I get overcome with a sense of defeat.

“Ha, ha, what am I doing?”

I was disgusted with myself for unconsciously relying on my ability to translate.

I was also dismayed at myself for unconsciously relying on my translation skills and thinking I was helping her.

The first thing to do is not to improve your Ukrainian.

First, I need to speak to her in Ukrainian, even if it was not very good, and put myself in her shoes.

I had to speak to her as she would speak to me.

Oh, my God! What a great idea, an elementary school student.

“Arigato!”

The transfer student replied with a smile that almost made me cry.

It was a complete defeat.

I rummaged through my school bag and pulled out a stack of prints.

I held them out to the boys.

“Here.”

“What’s this, Iroha?”

“Use it if you want.

The printout I handed her had a chart of correspondence between Japanese and Ukrainian printed on it.

Among them, I made sentences often used in school life, choosing words that are as easy to understand as possible.

“You can speak Ukrainian!

“I learned it.
If you have trouble speaking Ukrainian, just call me.
I’ll teach you.”

I told the same thing to the new student.


The transfer student rolled her eyes, my classmates looked at me with somewhat puzzled eyes.

I wondered if I had alerted them.

When I was thinking that.
The boy who was talking to the transfer student first said to her.

“Ah, well, thank you.
And, Wali.
You’ve been weird lately, so I was a little prejudiced.”

“Eh.
Uh, yeah.”

Soon the rest of my classmates were like, [You learned Ukrainian!], [Wow!], [Teach me too!].
I get surrounded by my classmates.

Is it possible to switch so quickly?

No, I don’t think so.

Now I know.
In the first place.

–In the world of children, there are no national borders or age differences.

“Thanks, Iroha-chan!”

Mai comes up to me with an expression as if to say, “I know.”.

I felt somewhat embarrassed, scratched my cheek, and replied, “Shut up.”.

*  *  *

Then I talked about this incident on my stream.

I was inundated with comments saying, “I want to learn Ukrainian, too.”.

Some even told me some people had recently evacuated from Ukraine to their workplaces or schools.

Before I knew it, the country of Ukraine seemed to have become surprisingly familiar to me.

Surprised by the unexpected response, I decided to give a lecture on the Ukrainian language, saying, “Well, since I’m here, why not?”.

The response was very positive.

Many people who normally don’t watch VTubers came to watch.

That was the first time my stream grew so much, and it was neither a collaboration nor a clipping.

I felt like I had a better idea of what I should be doing as a VTuber.

*  *  *

…… By the way.

The next day.
My homeroom teacher made a similar printout and brought it to me.

The homeroom teacher said, “What? You already have ……? And it’s better than the one I made!” I was confused.

Too late!

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