Chapter 126 Before the Cultural Festival (1)
Watanabe Toru didn't go to bed until very late yesterday. He slept during the morning breaks and only woke up after lunch.
He had a swimming lesson in the afternoon, so he swam thirty laps in the pool to make up for the morning run he missed.
When he returned to the classroom after physical education class, it was already the last class. He picked up his oboe and prepared to go to the wind band to practice for a while.
Before I could even walk out of the classroom, I ran into Kujo Miki who had come to school at some point in time.
"Where are you going?"
"Music classroom." Toru Watanabe looked at her body, comparing it to last night when she was wearing a dress, half-dressed, and not wearing a dress.
"Don't go, come with me to the Executive Committee."
Watanabe Toru felt the weight of the oboe in his hand: "Is today officially starting?"
"Yeah." After saying that, Kujo Miki turned around and walked out of Class 4.
When Toru Watanabe put his oboe back on his seat and was about to follow, someone called him.
"Watanabe-san," the male class monitor came over, holding up his glasses that kept slipping down, "could you please help me get an activity application form?"
"OK."
"Thanks."
"It doesn't matter. It's our class's business."
Five days have passed since the beating of the student council president, and a small number of boys and Watanabe Toru have gradually returned to their previous relationship.
When he arrived at the meeting room, Toru Watanabe asked the person in charge for two activity application forms - the club's performance activities also required applications, so he simply filled out the application form for the Human Observation Department.
After filling it out, he handed the form to the event review team.
"Please review it."
"Okay, wait a moment."
Toru Watanabe stood in front of a counter consisting of a long table, looking around the rearranged conference room with boredom.
The first order that Kujo Miki gave after becoming the chairman was to rearrange the tables and chairs here into a suitable office space.
Each group has its own seat, so they do not interfere with each other, and the group that needs to receive classmates has more space.
But the person with the biggest space is the chairperson herself. Although she does not need to receive anyone, all she needs to do is stamp her stamp, control the progress of activities, ensure that things go smoothly, and occasionally veto some activities that she thinks are not feasible.
At this moment, she was drinking tea and looking at the progress charts submitted by the team leaders on a tablet.
The sliding fingers occasionally stopped, and every time this happened, it meant that the progress of a team leader made her dissatisfied.
She wouldn't scold anyone, she would just tell them what they had to achieve before today.
No one knows what will happen if her requirements are not met, and no one wants to know.
Watanabe Toru retracted his gaze and looked at the classmate who was reviewing the registration. He remembered that when she introduced herself, she said her last name was Shimizu.
"Shimizu-san, how will the programs be ranked in the Cultural Festival Guide?" he asked.
Shimizu Kazune stopped typing on the keyboard and thought for a moment: "It seems to be the fifty-sounds."
"Don't you think this is unfair?"
"Eh?" Qingshui Kazune looked at him in confusion.
"I understand that the purpose of sorting by the 50-sound system is to emphasize that there is no distinction between the top and the bottom, or between the most popular and the least popular, among the clubs, classes, and grades. Even the baseball club and the wind band must follow this order. But..." Toru Watanabe paused, "Isn't it unfair to those who submitted their applications in advance?"
"Well, what's unfair about that?"
"Why..." Watanabe Toru wanted to name a specific club, but after thinking for a while, he knew nothing about the various clubs in the school, and he didn't expect which club would start with 'a'.
He changed his words and said, "Why can a certain club occupy the most eye-catching position in the official propaganda publication every year without doing anything just because its name begins with the first sound of the 50-sounding Japanese syllable? Is this fair?"
"But it has always been like this." Qingshui Kazune said subconsciously.
"Is it right to do this all the time?" Watanabe Toru pointed at the computer in front of her. "We used to register by hand, but later we switched to more convenient computers. So when it comes to ranking clubs, we should gradually adopt a fairer and better way, what do you think?"
His series of words were full of momentum and his reasons were very sufficient. Just when I thought it was almost done, Qingshui Kazune said:
"I, I have no say, Watanabe-san."
Watanabe Toru: “…”
Then why didn’t you say it earlier!
Hearing undisguised laughter from behind, Toru Watanabe turned around and saw Kiyono Rin who had just arrived at the meeting room.
"Can't you see that I'm working hard for our club? Is laughing at this time what you should do as the director?" Toru Watanabe said unhappily.
"I was just standing there waiting for the review , and I was so bored that I suddenly thought of this topic. Don't make it sound like you have been working hard for the club."
"I was the first to submit the application form, and while waiting, I was still trying to think about how to get more people to notice our event. Isn't this considered doing my best?"
"Quibbling." Qing Ye Lin put his hand on his chin and commented condescendingly, "You are just using language skills to say that the more you fight, the more you lose, the more you lose" instead of the more you lose, the more you fight.
"You two," said Kujo Miki, who was sitting at the top with her legs crossed and holding a cup of tea, looking away from the tablet on the stand and towards this side, "What are you doing there?"
After what happened last night, Toru Watanabe began to treat her as his real girlfriend. Although there was no threat of being killed, he suddenly felt panicked as if he was caught cheating.
"No, nothing."
There's no way Kujo Miki would believe him.
She put down her teacup, crossed her arms, and ordered, "Come here."
Under the gaze of everyone in the executive committee, Toru Watanabe walked over slowly and awkwardly.
As soon as Watanabe Tetsuya approached, Kujo Miki immediately grabbed his ears, but she didn't rush to use force: "What did you say?"
"It's nothing... it hurts! We were talking about the event rankings in the cultural festival guide!"
Miki Kujo looked at Kazune Shimizu.
Shimizu Kazune stood up neatly as if he were a company employee facing the president, and replied, "Chairman, yes, the two of them were just saying that the previous ranking method was unreasonable."
"Look, it's really nothing, right?" said Toru Watanabe.
Kujo Miki glanced at him and let go of her hand: "What's unreasonable about that?"
Watanabe Toru repeated what he had just said to Shimizu Kazune, and concluded, "I think we should rank them in order of registration in the future. That's fair!"
Miki Kujo supported her face with her hands to the side as she listened to him finish his speech, then hummed without commenting.
"Fairness is fake. It's just to enjoy the superiority ." Kiyono Rin was rude to Watanabe Toru.
Watanabe Toru said dissatisfiedly: "Even if it is true, please don't say it out loud, okay? This is also for the sake of our Human Observation Department."
"I don't like the abuse of power." Even as the director of the Human Observation Department, Qingye Rin still sticks to his creed.
"I'd like to ask you to clearly distinguish the line between abuse of power and additional benefits, Mr. Qingye."
After listening to Watanabe Toru's sophistry, Qing Ye Lin rubbed his brows with a headache: "Watanabe-san, I can already imagine the scene of you becoming prime minister in the future and deceiving the people."
"Wrong." Watanabe Toru imitated her momentum when she told a 'lie'. "Now I am a member of the Human Observation Department. I try my best to make profits for the society. When I become the Prime Minister, I will make profits for all citizens. For example, I will find a way to use China's power to get rid of the current reality that the island country is actually a colony of the United States. If you think about it this way, I am simply the best choice for Prime Minister."
“Why should China lend you its strength?”
"This is my magic weapon. If I tell you, wouldn't that make you my opponent in becoming the Prime Minister? But even if I tell you, it's useless. This matter has been decided in the previous life. Give up."
Qingye Rin showed an extremely surprised expression: "You are quite good at dreaming. You actually believe that what you said is true."
"Dreaming? Please call this confidence."
"Yes, you look very confident."
Miki Kujo glanced back and forth at the two of them, a cold light flashed in the depths of her eyes, and she stepped on the foot of Toru Watanabe who was about to continue speaking.
Watanabe Toru's face suddenly turned red, but fortunately he managed to restrain himself from yelling.
He was about to ask what Kujo Miki was doing, but he saw her cold, shut up, or I'll kill you if you say another word.
After forcing Watanabe Toru to remain silent, Kujo Miki withdrew her gaze and glanced at Kiyono Rin, who was smiling happily at the moment.
She said to Shimizu Kazune, "Change the guide as Watanabe said, and also mark out the popular programs from the previous session."
"Yes." Qingshui Kazune quickly sat down and blended into the atmosphere of "I can't see anything and can't hear anything" of the other executive committee members.
"Kiyono-san," Kujo Miki said coldly, "Have the accounting audit team finished their work?"
"It hasn't started yet." Qingye Rin responded lightly.
"Then please hurry up. I need to see the budget before the end of today."
"no problem."
After Kiyono Rin sat in the accounting audit team, Kujo Miki's eyes turned to Watanabe Toru again.
Before getting married, she had planned to be more tolerant of this guy, and she also didn't believe that there would be a man who could tolerate Qingye Rin's ability to see through all lies, and Qingye Rin herself also hated liars.
Now it seems that the relationship between the two is closer than she thought, but it is also possible that Qingye Rin deliberately behaved like this to make her angry.
"Meiji, what should I do?" Toru Watanabe asked cautiously.
Kujo Miki retracted her thoughts and narrowed her eyes slightly: "Pat my back."
"Ah? All right."
Miki Kujo picked up the teacup again and pretended to review the documents , but her eyes were fixed on Rin Kiyono who was receiving the information from a team member.
The woman pretended to glance at Watanabe Toru behind her unintentionally.
Miki Kujo's plan all along was to make Toru Watanabe feel "free", at least before they got married.
She didn't want to fully reveal her character right now. She got annoyed when she saw Toru Watanabe talking to other women and wanted to kill someone.
This would put Toru Watanabe too close to him and keep him away from himself.
And now it seems that he has a good relationship with Qingye Rin. If he is forced to go to the Qingye family, it will be very troublesome.
Miki Kujo felt the broad palm on her shoulder and slid the tablet while thinking, deciding to keep it to the level of jealousy.
Boys don’t hate jealous girls. A certain degree of jealousy is even cute in their eyes, but most guys don’t like excessive control.
"Okay, go to the equipment warehouse and ask those who are counting the quantity to speed up." Miki Kujo took a sip of tea and said to Toru Watanabe.
"Yeah, okay."
Watching Toru Watanabe's back as he left the meeting room, Kujo Miki made up her mind: first, she would control her temper. After getting married, she would not only settle the current accounts with Toru Watanabe, but also stop him from having contact with other women in the future.
Toru Watanabe, who was on his way to the equipment room, was completely unaware of this.
The executive committee has a lot of work to do, and as Kujo Miki's secretary, Watanabe Toru's main job is to help her supervise the work on site.
For example, when mediating a nearly female brawl between the Dancing Stick Club and the Koto Club, a conflict arose over the use of the venue. Watanabe Toru personally preferred the Dancing Stick Club, which had better figures and could dance in short skirts.
There are also clubs and classes that are preparing to set up stalls and shops. He must review the ingredients they use and ensure that their use of electricity is safe;
In addition, activities using open flames are even more important, such as gardening to prepare roasted sweet potatoes - this is actually gardening? Then isn't Watanabe Toru the king of gardening?
"Forget about it. No matter how good I am at roasting sweet potatoes, it's nothing to brag about." At the Botanical Garden, while eating the sweet potatoes roasted by the Minister of Horticulture, Watanabe Toru thought.
In addition to these physical tasks, there are also endless forms to fill out.
Originally, it would not matter if it was just written casually, but if Miki Kujo found that there was something not detailed enough, she would ask the people below to submit clearer explanations, and the people below would have to find the person in charge of the activity to confirm the specific situation.
It would be terrible if the person in charge of the event himself didn't know what was going on and Kujo Miki was urging him to do something. The executive committee would simply help the person in charge of the event to improve the event plan.
They encountered many problems and were very busy, but with the ability of Kujo Miki, things went very smoothly. Everyone had no choice but to obey orders and had no questioning thoughts at all.
Each class and club is also preparing for the cultural festival, and people can be seen hurrying through the corridors at any time.
The entire Shenchuan is a busy scene.
Toru Watanabe was so busy with the wind orchestra, the film shooting of the human perspective department, and the executive committee that he even put his Spanish on hold.
Two weeks passed like this, and it was the last Friday before the cultural festival.
As the sun sets, only a faint red glow remains at the junction of the sky and the earth. The pale moonlight appears faintly in the dark blue sky, announcing that night has arrived.
The heroine, Miki Kujo, stood at a railing on the shore of Tokyo Bay, looking quietly into the distance. The dark water reflected the gradually brightening lights of the buildings.
"Okay." Qing Ye Lin looked away from the viewfinder of the SLR, "'Iwate Prefecture to Tokyo, 400 kilometers', the shooting is over."
"That's great." Toru Watanabe, who had been holding up the reflector like Abe-chan shouting "Long live Abe", could finally put down his sore arms.
"Then all that's left is editing and promotion."
"That's your business." The lovable heroine Kujo Miki just now now looked a little careless and arrogant.
After saying that, she got into the luxury car that had been waiting on the side.
Watching the car go away, Watanabe Toru rubbed his sore shoulders and asked Kiyono Rin who was still checking her SLR: "The cultural festival is still two days away, will there be enough time to edit it?"
"Everything will be fine."
"You make me feel uneasy when you say that."
The filming of "400 km from Iwate Prefecture to Tokyo" was not all smooth sailing, for example, the role of the male protagonist's mother.
When Toru Watanabe asked about the actors, Rin Kiyono also said that everything was going well.
As a result, she asked Kujo's mother to make a guest appearance, and for some reason, Kujo's mother agreed.
This is too much! Watanabe Toru firmly opposes!
Think about it: when the audience watches the movie, they realize that the heroine and the hero’s mother look alike. So the hero isn’t actually in love with her childhood sweetheart, but has some sort of fetish, right?
The reason was definitely not for Watanabe Toru's reputation, but also to prevent the audience from being distracted and affecting the theme of the movie "Beautiful Secret Love". Kiyono Rin accepted his opinion and persuaded her mother to play the role.
At this moment, hearing "everything is going well" again, Watanabe Toru subconsciously felt uneasy.
"Starting today, I will only sleep four hours a day and I will definitely be able to finish the editing work before the cultural festival." Kiyono Rin promised.
Only sleeping four hours for a few days was no big deal, and Watanabe Toru breathed a sigh of relief.
"Then you keep working on it. I'll find a way to promote it," he said.
"Well, thank you for your help."
