Chapter 336 A sudden strong wind (12)
After breakfast, I started practicing my lines immediately.
More and more people came to school, and many students chose to use the weekends to decorate their classrooms and clubs. The sound of the choir could be heard all the time in the atrium, and the sound of musical instruments never stopped.
"Ichiki-san, pay attention to your lines, they're a bit awkward here."
"yes!"
"Kujo-san, watch your tone. You are only teasing the devil because you are cheerful. I am not asking you to flirt with the devil."
"Nowadays, romance is popular in all TV shows and movies. Why not add a little bit of this element?"
"What's the point of the 'girl' searching for the 'end of the world'? Why not just stay and live with the devil for the rest of her life?"
"It's not like you're really going to fall in love with the devil. It's enough to let the audience have this misunderstanding and watch with fascination."
"This drama doesn't pursue these things, it has been changed."
Amid the noise of the crowd (mainly those two people, no one else would argue with Kiyono Rin), the day passed in the blink of an eye.
"The level of perfection is getting higher and higher, even though this is everyone's first time performing a play," Koizumi Aona exclaimed.
"It's only one day of training, and the effect is immediately different. But I'm so tired." Iki Aoi twisted his waist and stretched his body.
"There's still some time before the evening rehearsal, so everyone get some rest." Qing Ye Lin instructed, "Watanabe-san, dinner is up to you."
"Let me show you my strength. I studied at Totsuki Academy and have never lost in countless food battles." Watanabe Toru hooked the collar of his shirt with his right index finger.
"You're talking nonsense again." Qingye Rin was used to it.
"Honey, I don't know what you are talking about, but your cooking skills are just average, right?" Miki Kujo helped Toru Watanabe fasten his tie which he had just pulled open.
"I really studied at Totsuki Academy!" Toru Watanabe raised his neck and let her adjust his collar.
"What is Totsuki Academy?" asked Koizumi Aona.
"A prestigious culinary high school."
"I haven't heard of it."
"That's a very famous high school in Tokyo! It's very rich and covers a huge area. The first time I went there, I couldn't get back to the dormitory until the sun went down, and..."
"Teacher Koizumi," Qing Ye Lin said to Koizumi Aona who was listening attentively, "Don't pay attention to him. It's probably another fictional academy in some anime."
"And the admission requirements are extremely strict," Watanabe Toru continued, "Students who can graduate from here are all future stars in the culinary world!"
Koizumi Aina smiled gently at Kiyono Rin, turned her head and asked Watanabe Toru curiously:
"After graduation, will these people specialize in serving young ladies like Kujo-san and Kiyono-san?"
"Hmm - it seems not."
"Oh——" Ikki Aoi looked at Watanabe Toru with an expression that said, 'We've been talking for so long, but it's just like that.'
"I said they are future stars. They need to hone their skills for a few more years. The main reason is that their levels are too high."
"I've even eaten discounted bento boxes from supermarkets." This time, Qing Ye Lin interrupted Watanabe Toru directly, "Hurry up and cook."
"Okay, Commander!"
After eating the so-so fried rice and resting for a while, the six of them came to the gymnasium.
Walking in the corridor and looking out the window, you can see that there are many open-air stalls on the long road between the school gate and the school building.
The basketball club's marshmallows, the table tennis club's octopus balls, the track and field club's grilled sausages, the baseball club's candy apples - sports clubs... should we say they are creative, or are they hopeless?
Rehearsing in the gymnasium is completely different from rehearsing in the club classroom.
Standing on the stage, looking at the large venue that can accommodate all the teachers and students of the school, I couldn't help but feel nervous.
"If you're nervous now, once the seats are full, are you going to do a mime?"
"How can you perform a play if you are afraid to speak in front of people? Try again."
Director Kiyono is as demanding as ever .
In addition to rehearsing the drama, props and lighting are also inspected and practiced.
They practiced until ten o'clock, and after taking a shower, Asu Mai listened to music with headphones, Koizumi Aona prepared lesson plans, and the other four did their homework for the weekend.
The pen made a rustling sound on the paper.
Occasionally, someone would flip through reference books, and the rustling sound became the loudest noise in the club classroom.
After finishing their homework, the six of them ate the watermelon sent by Kujo Miki's subordinates.
"It's so sweet!" Aoi Ikki couldn't help but smile as she ate.
"Let's buy some more fireworks, it will feel like summer." Koizumi Aona also said with a smile.
"Teacher, are you going to buy us fireworks?" Ikki Aoi asked immediately.
"It's late now, let's do it tomorrow." Koizumi Aona thought for a moment, "I'll buy it for you after dinner."
"Great! Senior, we can set off fireworks!"
Asu Mai tilted her head and calmly asked Kiyono Rin: "Are you still going to stay at school tomorrow night?"
"No need." Qing Ye Lin finished eating a slice of watermelon, stood up, and prepared to wash his hands. "Dismissed at four o'clock."
"Ah..." Ikki Aoi took a big bite of the watermelon in frustration, and the area around her lips was stained light red.
The next day, training was the same as usual.
What was different from yesterday was that during lunch break, the head of the wind band, Kaoru Hayami, who was also at school preparing for the cultural festival, came to visit unexpectedly.
"Please have some." Toru Watanabe placed a glass of watermelon juice next to Hayami Kaoru.
"Thank you, Watanabe-kun." Hayami Xun picked up the cup with both hands and took a sip, "It's so cool and delicious!"
"Is there anything I can help you with?" Qingye Rin sat by her window, with a script full of notes written on it in her hand.
"It's like this," Hayami Xun put down the cup and said softly, "In October, our third-year students will withdraw from the club. Qingye is the person who knows the strength of the wind band best, so I would like to ask, do you have any recommendations for the new president?"
"Bullmaster?" asked Toru Watanabe.
"Um."
Toru Watanabe thought of his good friend in Kyoto.
Because the school failed to advance to the national competition and she dropped out of the club early in her third year, she has taken over as the head of the wind orchestra and specially posted a video to show off.
Recalling the first time they met, they were still in the first year of high school. Now, she has become reliable enough to be the department head.
Everyone is growing.
"Senior, can you please not quit the club? Everyone is reluctant to let you go." Ikki Aoi was full of reluctance.
"I can't bear to leave everyone." Hayami Kaoru sighed, "Asako and I have decided to go to the University of Tokyo together and continue to participate in the wind instrument competition with senior Mai."
"Really?" Ikki Aoi looked at Asu Mai.
"...Yeah." Asu Mai nodded.
"It's decided! Mr. Koizumi, I want to go to the University of Tokyo too!"
"Do your best~" Koizumi Aona encouraged softly.
"Mr. Kiyono, can I ask you to recommend a candidate for the president?" Hayami Fumio asked Kiyono Rin again.
Qingye Rin glanced at Watanabe Toru, who was asking him to be an interpreter.
What she meant was: It doesn't matter what the wind band is like, anyone can be the next band leader.
"It would be better for you to make the decision on your own regarding the wind orchestra, Senior," Toru Watanabe said in a tactful way.
Kaoru Hayami often comes to the Human Observation Club, and the two of them also often go to the Wind Band Club. Kaoru Hayami knows their relationship very well and knows that what Toru Watanabe said is almost what Rin Kiyono meant.
"I see." Hayami Xun said in distress, "I am a bit indecisive. I don't have any ideas and I can't make a decision."
"Senior, senior," Ikki Aoi put his hands on Hayami Kaoru's slender wrists and looked at her like a puppy, "What about me? How am I?"
"sunflower……"
"Alright..." Ikki Aoi loosened her grip, knowing that she didn't have the qualities to be a minister.
"Does Watanabe-kun have any recommended candidates?" Hayami Fumio asked Watanabe Toru.
"Me?" Watanabe Toru was about to say no, but suddenly remembered what he saw in the sewing classroom a few days ago, and changed his words, "How about Tamamo?"
"So beautiful?" Ikki Aoi confirmed in surprise.
Tamamo Yoshimi said so many bad things about Watanabe Toru in front of her, but Watanabe Toru recommended her.
'Poor Watanabe-kun, but I will never betray Haomei!'
"Watanabe-kun, you may not know that Hao Mei doesn't have... many friends in the club." Hayami Fumio explained with an embarrassed look on his face.
"Really?" Watanabe Toru never paid attention to these things. "I thought she worked so hard, so even if people didn't like her, there should be a lot of people who recognized her."
"So, Hao Mei does work harder than most people." Hayami Kaoru suddenly realized this. "However, as the club leader, she pays more attention to how to deal with the relationships between members than to the playing skills. Of course, playing is also important."
Of course Toru Watanabe knew this.
"Why did you recommend Tamamo-san?" Qing Ye Lin asked Watanabe Toru, "Don't you dislike people like her?"
"It has nothing to do with whether I like it or not. I just think that letting her be the director may be a good thing for her and the wind orchestra."
From a person who doesn't like to work hard to a person who works hard silently, what will he become after becoming a minister?
Considering the rapid improvement in Tamamo Yoshimi's flute playing skills, maybe she can become a great person through hard work in the future.
I used to be confused about how she got admitted to Shenchuan, but now I think about it, she must have worked hard for a period of time in junior high school.
Watanabe Toru said to Hayami Kaoru again:
"This is just my personal opinion, not an official order from the Human Observation Department to the Wind Ensemble Department. Don't take it too seriously, Hayami-senpai."
"Yes, yes." Hayami Xun smiled bitterly.
The Wind Orchestra is a subsidiary of the Human Observation Department - this joke was first made by Toru Watanabe.
Now, let alone their brass band, even Kiyono Rin has been subtly influenced to treat them with the attitude of a subsidiary department.
But it’s not a bad thing. Many people in the brass band even expect Kiyono Rin to directly manage them.
"I will think about it carefully. Thank you, Kiyono-san, and thank you, Watanabe-kun." Hayami Kaoru finished drinking the watermelon juice and stood up.
"Senior Hayami, what about the deputy director? Won't you consider me?" Ikki Aoi walked her out.
"As for the next deputy minister, I intend to let the new minister decide for himself..."
The door of the club classroom was closed, and the conversation between the two suddenly became so distant, just like dropping out of the club in the third grade, they were still in the same school, but suddenly seemed so far away.
"In the blink of an eye, it will be our turn." Watanabe Toru stared at the door in a daze.
High school life is coming to an end soon, and the Human Observation Department is about to end its short life.
This club classroom, which holds so many memories, may turn back into a storage room, with the sunlight shining in and all covered in dust.
"Toru?" Asu Mai had been watching his expression.
"Nothing." Watanabe Toru came back to his senses.
He sat down on the chair and looked at the four girls in front of him: "I suddenly wanted time to stop."
"Standing here, you can't go anywhere." Qingye Rin took the script and started flipping through it.
"That's true." Watanabe Toru nodded.
If they stop here, Kiyono Rin and Kujo Miki will never reconcile, and his relationship with Kiyono Rin will always stop at this point.
Asu Mai and Koizumi Aona, he has not brought enough happiness to them.
We must work hard and keep going to make the five of us happy together.
"Then let's keep going!" Watanabe Toru said firmly, "Let's go to the end of the world together!"
Asu Mai and Koizumi Aona thought he was talking about making the play a success. Kujo Miki knew the inside story. Kiyono Rin asked with some confusion:
"The script is called 'The End of the World and Hard-Boiled Wonderland'. Wonderland is known, but the end of the world is completely unexplained."
“When I was writing the script, I had a hunch.”
"Do you have a premonition again?" Qingye Rin said with a smile, placing her hand on her cherry-colored lips.
"Your smile is so annoying, R-san."
"What's the premonition?" asked Miki Kujo, who had been lying on the sofa playing games.
"After we finish the play, the world will soon come to an end," said Toru Watanabe. "Of course, it won't be the end of the world being destroyed."
"The end of the world." Asu Mai repeated the word and nodded slightly, thinking that this was not a bad idea.
"If it's not the end of the world, then what does it mean?" asked Koizumi Aona in confusion.
"I haven't anticipated this yet. I'll tell the teacher when I know it." Watanabe Toru said with a smile.
"Stop talking nonsense there and hurry up and do what you should do." Qingye Rin said without raising her head.
"Speaking of things I want to do, there's something I've always wanted to do since the first day of school!"
Toru Watanabe tore off the sleeves of the clothes that Miki Kujo had changed out of in the morning and made five armbands, which read "Supervisor", "Country Girl", "Devil", "Mikoto" and "Witch" respectively.
"Here, put them on for you."
Asu Mai stretched out her hand and asked him to help her put it on.
Koizumi Aona looked at the armband with amusement and put it on her arm cooperatively.
"Are you a child?" Qingye Rin looked at the armband coldly, then looked at Watanabe Toru.
"'Men are sometimes like children, they often have childish ideas, never get tired of doing so, and like to bully the people they like.' I heard someone say this recently."
Kiyono Rin looked at Watanabe Toru and suddenly burst out laughing.
Her happy smiling face is as clean and fresh as the snow on the top of the mountain.
Because of this smile, the stuffy club classroom with a typhoon approaching suddenly became comfortable and cool.
Toru Watanabe's heart is like a dandelion seed, floating in the wind in the blue afternoon.
"Just for a while." Qingye Rin reached out and took the armband with "Supervisor" written on it and put it on his left hand.
Halfway through putting it on, she suddenly realized , "You weren't there when I said that, were you?"
"Because you and Meiji were arguing at the time, I hid outside and didn't dare to come in. Was that smart, me?"
"Now that you mention it, I remember that you made me run more in physical education class, right?" Qingye Rin was about to take off the armband again.
"Wait, wait, didn't I buy a drink too? I bought all the flavors from the vending machine and you can choose from them!"
"…barely offset." Qingye Rin said reluctantly, but finally put on the armband.
Toru Watanabe took the last one and squatted in front of Miki Kujo who was lying on the sofa playing games.
"Hold out your hand," he said.
Kujo Miki glanced at him, then looked back at the screen and asked, "What is that?"
"Just reach out."
"Hurry up." Miki Kujo extended her left hand impatiently.
Toru Watanabe grabbed her slender wrist and put an armband on her.
After doing all this, he stood up with satisfaction and looked around: "Dream accomplished~"
"Watanabe Toru!" Miss Kujo suddenly got angry. "What did you put on me?! Ragged clothes with the word 'country girl' written on them? Come here!"
"I ate too much watermelon and want to go to the toilet. Is anyone willing to go together?" asked Toru Watanabe.
Asu Mai, wearing the "Miko" armband, stood up.
"I'll go too, the training will start soon." "Witch" Aona Koizumi also stood up.
Asu Mai glanced at her, and Koizumi Aona looked back in confusion.
After hearing what Koizumi Aona said, Kiyono Rin's eyes, which were originally looking at the script, showed a thoughtful look.
When those charming eyes came back to their senses and turned into clear lakes again, she closed the script and stood up gracefully.
"Toru Watanabe, I asked you to come over here." Kujo Miki's cold voice.
"Ah," Qing Ye Lin covered her mouth with her hands and smiled, "Make your choice, Watanabe-san."
Toru Watanabe looked at Kujo Miki who was alone, and then looked at Kiyono Rin, Asuka Mai, and Koizumi Aona who were three people.
How do I choose this? The location doesn't seem right either.
