Chapter 332 A sudden strong wind (8)
The spacious stage of the gymnasium was furnished with wooden tables, wooden chairs and kerosene lamps.
"Good morning, girl." Toru Watanabe stepped onto the stage.
"Good morning, Mr. Devil." Kujo Miki, whose hair was tied into a strand and transformed into a young country girl, responded with a smile.
Qingye Rin sat below, holding the script in her left hand and a pen in her right hand, watching the two people's performance carefully.
"Act one, cut!" she shouted, and the movement of the two people on the stage stopped.
Miki Kujo put down her luggage and glanced at Toru Watanabe's blood-red eyes: "Colored contact lenses?"
"This is the GEASS I got this weekend. Its power is to make girls fall in love with me." Watanabe Toru put his right hand on his face as if he was taking off a mask, and declared in a handsome voice: "Kujo Miki, I now order you to - fall in love with me!"
"The show is over." Qingye Rin reminded from below.
Watanabe Toru put down his right hand and said to Kujo Miki: "This person is so boring."
"You're the boring one." Miki Kujo didn't give her boyfriend any face at all.
The two of them left the stage and gathered around Kiyono Rin with the rest of the people.
"When the demon comes on stage, the spotlight will be removed." Qing Ye Lin thought for a moment and added: "The demon does not need lights throughout the whole process and stays in the dark."
"But there must be a lot of girls who bought tickets to watch the play just to see Watanabe." Koizumi Aona glanced at Watanabe Toru's face.
Such a handsome face, she could touch it whenever she wanted, stare at it all the time, and even hug it in her arms from time to time - every time she thought of this enviable thing, her mood would brighten up.
Qing Ye Lin looked at Watanabe Toru and asked him: "What do you think?"
“How about a spotlight at the end?”
"Where did the devil enter the wonderland?" Qingye Rin confirmed.
"Um."
Qing Ye Lin thought about it, nodded and said, "Okay. Does anyone have any opinions on the first scene?"
"No." Only Ikki Aoi answered, while the others either remained silent or shook their heads.
"Then let's start the second act." Qing Ye Lin gave orders, "Stage: grassland; Characters: girl, devil, and the first person who knows the secret."
After discussion, the three unknown passers-by were changed to secret-knowers - people who knew the secret to the wonderland.
Although Toru Watanabe has a part in the second act, it is mainly about Miki Kujo completing the task of Aona Koizumi. When he is not on stage, he picks up the camera and starts recording mode.
The two people performing on the stage and the other people watching their performance below the stage were all captured in the video.
When the two finished their performance, Toru Watanabe came over to interview them.
"Teacher Koizumi, are you confident about this drama performance?"
"Do your best!" Koizumi Aona clenched her fists like a girl.
"So cute~ Let's interview the lead actor, Kujo-san, you..." Kujo Miki blocked the camera lens with her white hands, looking like a big-name female star who hates reporters.
After finishing a round of rehearsals, the gymnasium usage time was up and everyone returned to the Human Observation Department.
Dusk flowed in from the window and spread on the ground like egg liquid.
"The acting skills of Mr. Koizumi and Aoi Ikki are still not up to standard." Kiyono Rin sat at the head of the beech table.
"Sorry." Koizumi Aona said embarrassedly.
Ikki Aoi lowered her head and pretended to look at the script in her hand carefully, acting as if she was seriously thinking about her acting skills.
"It's not just about acting, it's also about overcoming stage fear." Qingye Rin continued, "From now on, the practice location will be changed to an overhead corridor."
"Ah!" Ikki Aoi cried out .
"Do I want one too?" After all, Koizumi Aona is a teacher, and it is a very shameful thing to practice voice and lines in the overhead corridor where students are coming and going.
Even if she was not a teacher, for any ordinary student, asking her to stand in front of a crowd and recite lines from a script would challenge the limits of her sense of shame.
"How about just practicing the voice?" Watanabe Toru suggested to Kiyono Rin, "If we practice the lines outside as well, we'll definitely spoil the plot."
"That's right!" Ikki Aoi responded quickly.
Koizumi Aona also nodded in agreement.
Kiyono Rin approved Watanabe Toru's proposal: "In addition to the most critical acting skills and stage psychology, we also need to start making promotional posters..."
After the meeting, with Aoi Ichimoki and Aina Koizumi dithering, they left the club room and came to the overhead corridor.
"Are you shy?" Toru Watanabe asked Aona Koizumi who was at the back.
"Of course." Koizumi Aona said with a bitter look on her beautiful oval face.
"Teacher, just treat it as a class, then you won't be afraid."
“Try it!”
On the elevated corridor on the fifth floor, the wind instrument section was practicing, the calligraphy section was writing giant calligraphy, and the robotics section was experimenting with their homemade robot dog.
Koizumi Aona, who had just mustered up her courage, suddenly had the same expression as Ikki Aoi.
The five people stood in a row in the order of 'Watanabe, Kujo, Koizumi, Asuhi, and Ikki', and Kiyono Rin stood opposite them.
"Voice exercises are fundamental and very important, so let's get started."
"a, e, i, u, e, o... ko, ka, ko."
Miki Kujo, Mai Asu, and Rin Kiyono spoke loudly without any fear.
The voices of Koizumi Aona and Ikki Aoi were hidden in their throats.
"Mr. Koizumi, Ikki-san," Kiyono Rin paused for a moment, "How can you perform a play if you are afraid to speak in front of people?"
"Yes!" "Got it." The two replied.
Their voices gradually grew louder.
Kiyono Rin continued, "If you want to show your full strength on stage, overcoming shame is a necessary prerequisite."
The two voices followed Watanabe Toru and the others.
At this time, several girls from the wind band smiled and greeted Ikki Aoi: "Hey, Ikki, what are you doing?"
Ikki Aoi's face suddenly turned red, her voice became smaller again, and she lowered her head shyly.
Koizumi Aona also followed suit, but after taking a deep breath, she quickly let go of the sound.
"Ichiki-san." Kiyono Rin reminded.
"Yes!" Ikki Aoi answered loudly, but when practicing, her voice could not be released no matter what.
"ka, ke, ki..." Toru Watanabe's voice suddenly became louder, and the sound of the choir in the atrium downstairs was suppressed.
There were people looking up at the elevated corridors on the fourth, third, second and first floors;
In the classroom next to the overhead corridor in the teaching building on the right, students who were preparing for class activities looked out of the windows;
A large group of people in the atrium looked up at the fifth-floor overhead corridor with a smile on their faces.
“We can’t lose to just one person!” A shout came from the atrium, followed by the sound of the choir, which was loud enough for everyone walking around the atrium to hear.
Ikki Aoi gritted her teeth, then closed her eyes, raised her head and chest, and shouted towards the dusk sky.
"a!e!i!"
"Ikki! Come on!" The girls from the wind orchestra waved towards this side, and Ikki Aoi's voice became louder.
Qingye Rin glanced at Watanabe Toru, then looked at Ikki Aoi who was shouting with her eyes closed: "Pay attention to your abdomen."
"yes!"
The rehearsal of the drama is proceeding in an orderly manner.
The tall buildings in Shinjuku sparkle in the sunset, and the glass walls reflect a light that is blinding.
When the light disappeared, Monday's practice was over.
"Gather in the sewing classroom after school tomorrow and have everyone try on their own clothes. If there are any sizes that are incorrect, ask the students in the handicraft department to modify them immediately."
"...Yeah." "Okay." "Yes!"
"Disband."
"Thanks for your hard work!"
They changed into their own shoes in the shoe cabinet; today the six of them planned to eat mutton.
The oven is surrounded by vegetables, including potatoes, mushrooms, bean sprouts, onions, asparagus, etc.
In the middle, there are lamb tenderloin, lamb sirloin, lamb neck, lamb chops, lamb tongue, etc.
The thin tenderloin is roasted until the skin is slightly yellow, dipped in the sauce and put into your mouth in one bite.
As I took the first bite, my hands couldn't wait to pick up the tongs and put the second piece on.
The tenderloin is larger than the tenderloin, with a layer of white fat on the edge. It sizzles under the charcoal fire, curls up slightly, and the aroma begins to spread.
Sprinkle with salt and cumin, and eat it with the chopsticks.
"Cheers!" Toru Watanabe raised his iced cola.
"Cheers!" Ikki Aoi was the first to respond.
But her eyes were fixed on Asuka Mai, ready to clink glasses with her.
Asu Mai picked up the juice and pointed the cup straight towards Watanabe Toru.
When she touched Watanabe Toru's cup, Ikki Aoi quickly moved over with the cup in both hands.
"Wait, wait a minute!" Akiko filled drinks for herself, Koizumi Aona and Kiyono Rin.
Miki Kujo picked up the cup nonchalantly and only touched Watanabe Toru's.
"Heroine, say something." Watanabe Toru said to her.
Kujo Miki rolled her eyes at him coldly and said, "I wish the drama a success."
"Success! Cheers!"
"Ah ...
"Teacher Akiko! I want one!" Ikki Aoi handed over the plate impatiently.
"Wait," Miyazaki Miyuki stopped Akiko and picked up the cut lemon juice, "Sprinkle the lemon juice, it's done."
"Thank you, Teacher Miyuki!" Ikki Aoi didn't care about getting her hands dirty. She just took the bone, put her mouth on the still sizzling mutton, and took a bite.
"Mmmmm!" Her lips were greasy and her legs in her pleated school skirt kicked around under the table . "It's hot! It's delicious! Senior, teacher, this is delicious!"
Toru Watanabe wrapped the bone with a hand towel and handed a lamb chop to Miki Kujo.
He watched as Miki Kujo took a bite with her tempting rosy lips, and when he couldn't help swallowing his saliva, he couldn't tell whether it was the lamb chops or the lips that were tempting.
After enjoying the "working lunch" with satisfaction, Kiyono Rin and Ikki Aoi went to the station, while Koizumi Aona and the other two, plus Asuka Mai, drove back to Shinano Town.
Toru Watanabe followed Miki Kujo to the Jimbocho villa.
In the car, Miki Kujo crossed her long and round legs, folded her arms, and looked at Toru Watanabe with a sneer.
"What's wrong?" Watanabe Toru was confused.
"If you don't do that kind of thing, then you won't come to my place, right?"
"On the contrary, every time I go to your place, I can't help but do that kind of thing."
"Sweet talk, do you think I will believe you?"
"Then I'll prove it to you!" Watanabe Toru said, "I won't do anything tonight!"
"What if we do it?" asked Miki Kujo with a smile.
"If you do it, then let..." The car just passed "Ichigaya", "let this bridge break."
"Don't give me that! If you do that, you won't be allowed to do morning exercises tomorrow."
"Then you lose."
Toru Watanabe was very confident in his perseverance. When Kujo Miki kissed him at Ochanomizu, he even despised her.
When they arrived at Jimbocho, the two strolled among the numerous bookstores on the street, and Watanabe Toru bought a set of "Selected Works of Nagai Kafu" published by Iwanami Shoten.
"See? I'm going to sleep with them tonight," Toru Watanabe boasted.
"Don't be impatient." Miki Kujo was confident.
"Are you going to use the trick you used on Izu?"
“It hasn’t reached that point yet.”
At nine o'clock, the two returned to the villa.
Toru Watanabe went to take a shower first. When he came out, he lay down on the big and soft bed and picked up "Flower of Hell" at random.
"You really don't want to do it?" asked Kujo Miki with a smile.
In the past, after Watanabe Toru took a bath, he would hug her and kiss her, and then go to the bathroom to take a second bath together.
"If I concentrate on studying, no matter how beautiful a woman is, she is like the peach blossoms in the yard in spring to me."
"What's the meaning?"
"More is not more, less is not less."
"Let's see how long you can hold on." Miki Kujo got up and went into the bathroom.
The bathroom was very spacious, with a high ceiling and was filled with mist. She soaked comfortably in the bathtub for a long time.
Hearing the footsteps of Kujo Miki coming out, Toru Watanabe took his eyes off the book and took a look.
Miki Kujo was wearing a black Western-style pajamas, revealing a little bit of her round and white breasts, with the belt around her waist tied casually.
She was tying her hair with both hands, and as she raised her arms, her delicate body under her pajamas looked even more graceful, with a soft and charming charm.
Watanabe Toru's heart was burning with joy. If it were any other time, Kujo Miki would have already become a big sister.
"Huh, it's just a pair of black pajamas." He lowered his head and continued reading.
"Look at me again if you can."
"I don't feel anything even if you take off all your clothes."
"You said you didn't feel anything without even looking at it? Or are you scared?"
"What if I look at you? My self-discipline is harder than a peach pit."
Toru Watanabe raised his eyes and looked at Kujo Miki, and his heart began to beat uncontrollably.
Miki Kujo didn't do anything, her pajamas were still intact, and her hands were still tied up her hair.
She just rubbed her knees together.
Toru Watanabe put down Nagai 's book and slowly stood up.
"Aren't you going to do it?" Kujo Miki said sarcastically with a smile.
"No, absolutely not. It's just late. It's time to go to bed."
Watanabe Toru turned off the lights, lay down on the bed with his arms around Kujo Miki, and covered them with a blanket.
Kujo Miki leaned into his arms, her nose pressed against his chest.
Toru Watanabe stroked her hair with his left hand.
"do what?"
"massage."
"You really can't believe a word you say."
"You can't believe most of it, but I don't joke about the phrase 'I love you.'"
"'I swear to Kamikawa High School, Yotsuya Station, and everyone, Miki, I love you the most' - who said this?"
"What does Toru Watanabe's incident last May have to do with me this September?"
"Don't move." Miki Kujo frowned slightly.
"I recently read a book that said that when women get excited before going to bed, they will feel full of happiness in their body and mind during the period of relaxation after they calm down. This can relax and help them sleep, allowing them to sleep more deeply and peacefully. I am doing this for my sister's own good."
"What...what book?"
"It's a very serious book anyway."
Kissing Toru Watanabe's neck and closing her eyes to enjoy it for a while, she opened her eyes and asked, "What do you think love is?"
"Are you starting to think about such profound questions now?" Watanabe Toru said with a smile.
"explain."
“Water the flowers you like.”
"That doesn't sound romantic at all."
“Love is a praying mantis.”
"Um?"
"Even if they are eaten, they still want to reproduce with the females. This is love." After saying this, Watanabe Toru sighed, "Poor male, great love."
Kujo Miki laughed.
A warm, wet and misty night.
