Chapter 329: Sudden Strong Wind (5)
The party didn't end until midnight.
"If you can't get up tomorrow, it's okay to take a day off." The two wives instructed their daughter.
After watching their elders leave, the three of them went into the back seat, which was spacious enough to serve as a small meeting room.
The car slowly drove out towards Yotsuya Station, leaving the orange Tokyo Tower behind in the night.
After sending Kiyono Rin to the apartment, the two returned to Jimbocho.
After washing up, Kujo Miki half-lay on the bed in a fascinating posture and said to Watanabe Toru:
"Take out the cat-transforming props."
"Wait a minute...Okay."
One of them was on the bed and the other was under the bed, looking at each other.
Three seconds later, Toru Watanabe said, "Imagine this: the soul leaves the body and appears anywhere within 50 meters."
"soul?"
Toru Watanabe climbed onto the bed, slept on the left side, and covered himself with a blanket.
The next moment, a white cat with emerald green eyes like gemstones appeared on Watanabe Toru's belly.
"If I could transform my body into a cat, I would have given it to you as a means of escape." Watanabe Cat explained with his beautiful triangular mouth.
Miki Kujo glanced at Toru Watanabe who seemed to be asleep, and then glanced at the cat .
She lay down on the right side of the soft white bed, covered herself with the quilt and closed her eyes.
After a while, 'Kujo Miki' relaxed her body as if she had fallen into a deep sleep. At the same time, a ragdoll cat appeared out of thin air on the quilt under 'Kujo Miki's' belly.
Cats are pets and can be described with words like cute and adorable, but when it comes to this furry ragdoll cat, the first word that comes to mind is "beautiful".
With its seductive eyeliner, round eyes, extremely curvaceous back, velvety hair, a tail of just the right length, and an elegant sitting posture, it can be said to be a stunning cat.
The nine cats raised their soft front paws and looked around, then looked at their own bodies.
"It's pretty cute," she said.
"Actually, this ability is very ordinary," said Watanabe Cat, "It can only transform its soul into a cat, and it cannot leave the body more than 50 meters."
The nine cats put down their front paws and looked at the Watanabe cat.
The two cats stared at each other quietly for a while, then laughed at the same time, and then the Watanabe cat pounced on him.
The nine-cat leaped lightly, and with its elegant and beautiful body, it avoided the attack from the Watanabe cat.
The two cats chased each other and fought for a long time on the bed, under the bed, on the chair, on the dressing table, on the bay window, and all over the bedroom.
It wasn't until three in the morning that the two cats stopped.
They were coiled between the two human bodies, their cat faces pressed together.
“If I could become a bird and have the night vision and agility of a cat, could I fly to the sky?” The nine cats wagged their tails in a very good mood.
"Maybe." Watanabe Cat said softly, "Then we can go to see the sea of clouds together."
"good."
The two stayed in silence for a while, feeling each other's warm bodies.
"Sister~" In the darkness of the night, Watanabe the cat said as if he was afraid of waking up the moon.
"What?" The nine cats asked in the tone of a little girl whispering.
"Can I go back now?"
"What do you want to do?"
The two of them were like children who refused to go to sleep, hiding under the quilt and chatting secretly.
"I want to sleep with my sister."
"Slutty cat... I'm going to teach you a lesson."
"Um."
The cat disappeared and the man began to move.
…
Watanabe did not sleep all night and got up at five o'clock for morning exercises.
Running is the simplest form of exercise - all you need is a pair of shoes and a path to run on, and you can run wherever you want.
He runs from Monday to Friday, and goes to the nearby swimming pool on weekends to swim dozens of laps in the 50-meter pool.
I started jogging from Jimbocho, gradually became familiar with the scenery along the way, and arrived at Yotsuya Station.
Then run southwest from Yotsuya Station, pass by Suga Shrine where the old ladies once quarreled, and return to Shinano Town.
I bought breakfast for three teachers and a senior student at a nearby breakfast shop with only a window.
At this time in the early morning, the streets were empty with only crows squatting diligently on the roofs, their black eyes scanning the surroundings.
Toru Watanabe stood on a street that looked like ruins.
The scenery above the streets is divided by power lines, and as autumn deepens, the sky becomes increasingly desolate.
There was a plane that drew a straight white line from east to west in the light blue sky.
Toru Watanabe raised his left hand and looked at the dial, 5:46.
"Guest, your milk, and cheese and ham bread..."
"Thanks."
"Thank you for your patronage! Please take care!"
Toru Watanabe walked into the apartment carrying breakfast for five people. The feeling of missing his hometown gradually faded away, and was replaced by the joy of looking forward to meeting them.
…
On September 10th, Miki Kujo did not come to school.
"How's the progress of the costume design?" Before the morning meeting began, Kiyono Rin asked Watanabe Toru.
"Your set is finishing up. By the way, take a look for yourself."
Rin Kiyono took Toru Watanabe's phone, opened the chat history between him and Kiyomi Ogawa, and enlarged the latest design sketch.
She put her hand on her chin and looked at the picture with eyes as clear as the autumn sky. Her lovely face showed a thoughtful expression.
"Change this again, the neckline..."
"Wait a moment." Toru Watanabe took the notebook with the vote for "Female Voice Actor Ichiban-kyaku" and wrote down what she said.
Not only the two of them are busy, the entire Class 4 is working hard for the cultural festival.
They decided to open a fried noodle shop and sell fried rice and grilled sausages as well.
At the evening meeting, under the chairmanship of the male and female monitors, they decided on the candidates for each position, arranged shifts, and discussed what clothes to wear to receive guests.
“First and foremost is the chef.”
"Emi and Chieko! Those two are very good at home studies, there is no problem for them to be brides directly!" said the female class leader directly.
There was laughter in the classroom.
"Emi-san, Chieko-san, is it okay?" Koizumi Aona asked with a gentle smile.
Emi nodded without any problem, and Chieko raised her hands high in the air, rolling up her shirt sleeves: "Makoto must come too!"
"Hey - me?" The female monitor pointed at herself.
"Chieko, if you let Makoto be in charge of the cooking, all the guests will be poisoned to death!" Kunii Osamu laughed.
"Kunii! Do you want to die?" Squad leader Makoto picked up the chalk and pretended to throw it over.
"Teacher, the class monitor wants to kill me!" Kunijima Xiu sat on the stool, raised his feet to protect his body, and covered his face with his hands.
The classroom suddenly became noisy, and everyone encouraged the female class monitor to beat up Kunii Osamu - with Saito Keisuke as the main force.
Finally, the male class monitor pushed up his glasses and said, "There are still two weeks until the cultural festival . Makoto-san can borrow the home classroom. It's just fried noodles, and you'll learn it quickly."
"Okay." The female monitor wrote her name on the back of the fried noodles. "Three people, two more are needed. Oh, and there are five more people on shift. There are ten people in the cooking team in total."
"Let Qingye go." A girl suggested, "If she makes fried noodles, there will definitely be a lot of boys lining up."
"Yeah, let alone boys, I also want to try Kiyono-san's cooking!"
"marvelous!"
"I'm responsible for promotional copywriting or food procurement." Qingye Rin's calm voice was like filling the classroom with water, and the world suddenly became quiet.
"...Oh, okay." The female class monitor came back to her senses, "Then I'll leave the copywriting to Qingye-san."
This is the legendary campus upper class, whose personal will overrides that of the class.
The so-called squad leader is just the middle management.
"What about Watanabe?" another girl suggested, "As long as the food is made by Watanabe himself, many girls will be willing to eat it even if it is poison!"
"That's you, isn't it?"
"No way!" The girl immediately denied it, and then said, "If it's poison, I won't eat it unless Watanabe-kun begs me to!"
"Just ask, even poison?"
"And you?!"
"I'm not as useless as you! But if Watanabe-kun insists that I eat it, then I have no choice but to eat it!"
"What? You are just like her!"
"Watanabe-kun?" The female squad leader looked at Watanabe Toru. "There are already three people cooking noodles, and there is one left for cooking rice and one for grilling sausages. Which one do you want to choose?"
"Have you confirmed that I will be in charge of the cooking?" asked Toru Watanabe.
"Of course." The female class monitor said with a smile, "Please raise your hands if you would like to recommend Watanabe-kun as the one who should be in charge of cooking!"
A large area was lifted up from below.
"Okay." Watanabe Toru succumbed to the violence of Sarani, "Let's make fried rice. I'm really good at making Chinese fried rice."
“You can actually cook Chinese food, that’s amazing!”
"I really want to try it! Looking forward to it!"
"Are there any internal staff meals? Free, with priority to eat Watanabe-kun's cooking?"
"We will definitely be the first place in this cultural festival class event!"
"Stop, stop, stop!" The female class monitor shouted to stop the excited girls, "Now is not the time to discuss this! Kiyono-san, please make sure to write 'Watanabe-kun's fried rice' on the promotional slogan."
"Add a heart after the fried rice?" a girl said with a smile.
"If Kujo-san knew, he would definitely kill you."
It took an entire evening meeting to discuss the ten candidates for the cooking team alone, and the remaining work can only be continued tomorrow.
After school, Koizumi Aona found Watanabe Toru and Kiyono Rin.
"When will the play start rehearsals?" she asked. "There are only two weeks left. We need to hurry up if we want to achieve a perfect performance and there are many other things to do."
"Kujo-san has asked for leave today, and the main actor is not here, so we can only do it tomorrow. But please be prepared and memorize your lines in advance," said Kiyono Rin.
"This is my first time acting in a drama, I don't know if I can help." Koizumi Aona was a little hesitant.
"Don't worry, I will guide you until you pass the official performance." Qingno Rin said bluntly.
"Then I'll leave it to you." Koizumi Aona didn't mind her tone at all.
As long as they don't mention the time when she called me "Sister" when she was sixteen, anything is fine.
On that day, Toru Watanabe and Rin Kiyono were busy with photography, music, costumes, etc.
The next day, September 11, rehearsals officially began.
"Have you all got the script?" Sitting around the beech table, Qingye Rin gave orders.
"Yeah!" Aoi Ikki, who worked part-time, nodded.
Watanabe Toru opened the script. It was different from the one he gave to Kiyono Rin - it had a cover, and on the cover it read "The Human Observation Department's Second Cultural Festival·Drama Script "The End of the World and Cold Wonderland""
Open the cover and there is a list of positions.
Screenplay: Toru Watanabe
Director: Kiyono Rin
Girl: Kujo Miki
Fairy: Kiyono Rin
Devil: Toru Watanabe
Passerby 1: Koizumi Aonai
Passerby 2: Asuna Mai
Passerby 3: Aoi Ichimoku
"This is the first practice, so everyone should familiarize themselves with the lines. Next week, we will get the right to use the gymnasium and start formal rehearsals."
"Yes!" Ikki Aoi answered.
"Yeah." Koizumi Aona nodded.
As for the other three people, Asu Mai stared at the script with her eyes, rubbing her legs against Watanabe Toru under the table.
Watanabe Toru tried his best to pretend to be calm so as not to be noticed by Seino God.
Miki Kujo supported her head with her left hand and flipped the script with her right hand.
"Let's get started."
As Kiyono Rin finished speaking, Watanabe Toru read out the first sentence of the script:
"Good morning, girl."
"Good morning, Mr. Devil." Miki Kujo immediately got into the mood, her tone brisk with a hint of excitement and anticipation.
"Are you packing? Where are you going?" Toru Watanabe asked politely.
"Let's go to a place where there are no demons." Kujo Miki paused for a moment. The script here said to carry the luggage on her back. "Goodbye, Mr. Devil."
"Devils will always exist wherever humans exist," said Toru Watanabe. "Where can you go?"
The girl didn't answer, but closed the wooden door, leaving the demon inside the house.
The girl got up very early while it was still daybreak. She was the only one in this remote suburban town - this was when the demon was at its weakest and did not have the ability to move quickly.
The girl traveled a long distance, avoiding the crowds and walking alone in the wilderness.
Every day, as long as I open my eyes, the devil is by my side.
But she didn't care, she had a map to the end of the world, or more precisely, a way to find three people who "knew how to get to the end of the world."
As long as we find these three people, we can go to the end of the world, a place that the devil cannot reach.
The girl went through wind and rain and finally found the first person.
"Hello, do you know where the end of the world is?"
Koizumi Aona took the script and read: "Why do we have to go to the end of the world?"
She tried her best to put in the emotions, but compared to the naturalness of Kujo Miki, it was like a student reciting a text.
"Sorry," she apologized.
"It's okay." Qing Ye Lin said nonchalantly, "The first few times we just followed the procedures. As for relationships, it's good if they exist, but there's no need to rush if they don't."
"Yeah, I see."
On the other side, Ikki Aoi breathed a sigh of relief.
Miki Kujo is a natural born actress. Just by sitting there and reciting a few lines, she felt as if she was watching a formal performance.
"During the rehearsal, if you think there are any parts of the script that need to be modified, or if there are better lines, please feel free to raise them," said Rin Kiyono again.
"Okay." Everyone nodded or spoke in response.
"Let's continue. Let's start with the girl's question, 'Hello, do you know where the end of the world is?'"
"Hello, do you know where the end of the world is?" Miki Kujo supported her head with her left hand and held the script casually. The tone of the lines she spoke perfectly reproduced the girl in the script.
"Why go to the end of the world?"
"It is said that there are no demons there. I want to go to a place where there are no demons."
"I know one-third of the way. If you can complete my task, I can tell you."
The girl completed the task.
Before leaving, the first person said to her: "If you finally find the end of the world, please come back and tell me."
"If I find it, I'll let you know. Thank you for the news, bye."
The girl passed the tests of the three people one by one, and finally came to the fairyland where fairies lived and there were no demons.
The girl spent a happy time with the fairy. One day, she remembered her promise and prepared to go back to find the first person.
Before leaving, the fairy told her: "The devil has noticed your disappearance in the human world. This time when you go out, you must not let anyone see you, and you can only pass messages by leaving messages."
Once the devil finds the girl, he will follow her to wonderland, and there will no longer be a place in the world without devils.
The girl agreed, but for various reasons, she was eventually found by the devil.
The devil followed her into the fairyland. The fairy scolded the girl, ruthlessly expelled her from the fairyland, and left the human world with the fairyland.
From then on, there was no end to the human world, and demons were everywhere.
The above is the original script.
