WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Season 2, Episode 9 of Kaguya-sama: Love is War, now streaming on FUNimation.
In the newest episode of the Kaguya-sama: Love is War anime, Miko Iino sits down with her friend Kobachi Osaragi and admits that she might want to leave the student council after all.
Miko Iino is a strong-willed girl with clear ideas on leadership and discipline, and she wanted nothing more than to join the student council. But now that she's on the inside, she witnesses true horrors (most of them in her imagination), and she desperately needs a solution for the chaos swirling around her. And she is sure that Kaguya Shinomiya is to blame.
The Wicked Council
One fine evening, Miko laments to her friend Kobachi about the current state of the student council. Miko portrays herself as an idealistic student who's in touch with the needs of the students, while Miyuki and Kaguya alike mistreat and berate her for the smallest things. Miyuki scorns her while Kaguya is ready to expel any student who's in a relationship. Miko insists that they're going too far, only to draw their ire (this is all in Mik0's imagination so far).
Miko gets a few words of encouragement from an imaginary Chika Fujiwara, and takes the fight to Miyuki and Kaguya. Kobachi comments again on how Miko is making all this up, but this is just the start. Then, Miko adds to her list of exaggerated problems with another realization: the student council is perverted, as well as cruel.
Kaguya The Schemer
Kobachi insists that Miyuki Shirogane, the current president, is a boy of faultless character, and he couldn't have done any of these things. Miko agrees, but Kaguya doesn't get the same treatment. Instead, Miko recalls all the wacky incidents with Kaguya, and realizes (incorrectly) that Kaguya has been exploiting everyone around her.
Kaguya, in Miko's mind, tricked Miyuki into that position in the gym shed to make him look bad, and she taunts Miyuki for liking black underwear. She has an iron grip on Miyuki's mind, Miko believes, and she's scheming to take Miyuki's position for herself. She'll even use duct tape to silence her critics, like Chika (that was the scene where shojo manga spoilers were silenced with tape). Miko is like an athlete with a ball and charges straight for the goal: confronting Kaguya about it all. But of course, there isn't really a problem, and Kaguya gives an innocent, maidenly answer to "What do you think of president Shirogane?!" Kaguya runs out of the office bashfully, and Miko is bewildered.
Poor Miko Iino got a spot on the council like she always wanted, but the antics and love war are just incomprehensible to her, and she sees monsters where there are none.