The chapter sections are pretty short… only a couple pages long each. But they’re easier to translate in small chunks like this.

I dunno, what do you guys think? Should I just translate these little chunks as they appear in the novel, or should I do the whole chapter in one go even though it’ll probably take a lot longer?

I look forward to your opinions. At any rate, here’s pt. 1/7 of chapter 1!

The news of the Takasugi group forming the Odd Jobs Club to do school labor as penance for their misbehavior spread through the school like wildfire.

The moment a handwritten advertisement was posted up onto the school’s announcement board, text messages flew back and forth among the students, spreading the information.

–those takasugi guys started an odd jobs club.

—the hell is that anyway?

—uhhh, they help people?

—point is theyre trying to help people now right?

—whoaaaaaa they finally reformed!

—it seriously came back, the handyman job setting

—those delinquents are doing a life of free labor now lololol

— but now everyone’s gonna expect a lot from them

—pretty sure no one’s gonna get close to them, let alone make requests…

Among the students, the majority (and most favorable) consensus they came to was “It’s hard to ask delinquents for favors.”

Well, that’s just human nature, Kijima Matako thought to herself.

The reason was obvious. They were the group led by the man known as the “Cold-blooded Tough Guy” Takasugi Shinsuke. Just because his appearances in the light novels had increased didn’t mean that he had become any more friendly, even if he wasn’t that scary anymore. Even if the White Dragon from the OVA got onto a variety program and laughed with the audience, it wouldn’t change that it still has a scary-ass face. Obviously fear would still rule. So of course the ordinary students wouldn’t be able to ask for any kind of favors. It was just a natural reaction.

So of course as far as clients went…

“I guess I shouldn’t be surprised?” she murmured.

It wasn’t that Matako doubted Takasugi’s judgement, but it was something that she had started thinking about.

“Well, even clients don’t come it’s fine, I’d say,” Kawakami Bansai responded.

Two days after they had posted the ad for their club on the bulletin board, they had been spending more time in the prefab shack… Or rather, the Odd Jobs club room. Just talking amongst themselves.

Yesterday and the day before, no clients had come to the Odd Jobs Club.

“That just means we’ve already hit a slump though,” Nizou muttered in response to Bansai’s offhand comment.

“Even if we don’t get any clients for this month, it just means that no harm done to us, I’d say,” Bansai explained. “But if we refused to do the school voluntary service then we’d probably get stuck with some other punishment until graduation. This is much more favorable towards us, I’d say… Or more like…” Bansai turns his gaze towards the far side of their club room, where Takasugi Shinsuke sat alone on the sofa. “… Shinsuke. You foresaw this and created the Odd Jobs Club for that purpose, didn’t you?”

Takasugi simply reclined on the sofa with a faint smile on his lips and deigned not to answer. His expression clearly read, “Hmm, you think so?” even without him saying anything.

As usual, Matako could never tell what Takasugi’s true intentions were.

If no clients came then that meant they didn’t have to work. If that was really what the Odd Jobs Club was for, then that certainly was a very Takasugi-like demonic strategy…

And then someone knocked on the club room door. “Excuse meee!” someone called.

Matako turned to stare at the door. Could it be…?

“Come in,” called Takechi Henpeita from next to the door.

“Sorry for barging in,” the door opened and revealed a single male student standing before them.

“You’re…” Matako gasped. “The walking sunglasses machine!”

“It’s Hasegawa Taizou!”

A MADAO with an unshaven face had come.

Finally, the commemorative first client of the Odd Jobs Club had come.

I loved how in the typical Gintama fashion, one of these text messages said “it seriously came back, the handyman setting” referencing the original series, LOL.