Chapter 34: The Unprincipled News Department
The next day, Tuesday, was also nice weather.
The sky is blue and clear, and the young leaves of the trees are sparkling.
During lunch break, Watanabe Toru, who started to enjoy his daily life again, leaned against the corridor window with Kunii Osamu and Saito Keisuke, chatting while overlooking the atrium.
Students eating their lunch boxes can be seen everywhere in the atrium.
"Damn it!" Kunijima Osamu looked at the man and woman under the tree, tore off a large piece of bread with his teeth and chewed it hard.
Saito Keisuke sneered, "If you can get Yamaguchi Naomi, you won't have to envy her here anymore. "
"How can that be! Am I the kind of person who abandons my friends? Even if I had a girlfriend, I would still eat with you guys!"
"How's the progress between you and Yamaguchi?" Toru Watanabe held the straw of the strawberry milk in his mouth.
I have been studying hard recently, which has caused my body to always crave sweets. Coke is not nutritious, so I have to choose this kind of milk that only girls like.
Kunii Osamu looked at the sky in the distance and said, "I have someone I like."
"Ah?" Saito Keisuke looked at Kunii Osamu in surprise.
"Listen." Kunijii Osamu closed his eyes.
"What are you listening to? Someone you like? Don't you like Yamaguchi Naomi? Or..."
Watanabe Toru interrupted Saito Keisuke: "It's the cello."
"Violin?"
“There’s the sound of a cello.”
Faintly, the sound of a cello came from the elevated corridor between the club building and the teaching building.
Saito Keisuke listened hard for a while, but he could not tell what instrument was playing.
"What's wrong?" he asked.
"It's Hanada Asako from the wind orchestra. She's practicing the Koshien cheering song, 'Baofang General Theme Song.'" Although the music was clearly inaudible, Kunii Osamu, who looked intoxicated, was very sure.
"What about Naomi Yamaguchi?" asked Keisuke Saito.
"Keisuke," Kunii Osamu grabbed Saito Keisuke's shoulders and looked him in the face, "Love is blind. Love always comes like . I can't control myself."
"Which book did you read this from?" Saito Keisuke slapped Kunii Osamu's hands away in disgust.
“I forgot.”
Watanabe Toru, who was replenishing his sugar, answered: "Hojo-san, who has a 120% favorability, seems to be willing to do anything for me..."
"As expected of Watanabe! What a great memory!"
"I just happened to read this light novel and remembered this sentence."
Watanabe Toru, who accidentally exposed his excellent memory, was about to change the subject and ask about the wind orchestra Hanada Asako when someone called him from behind.
"Excuse me, is this Toru Watanabe, who ranked third in the entrance exam and monthly test?"
Toru Watanabe turned around and saw a man and a woman looking at him.
The female students held notebooks and pens, and the male students carried cameras.
"Who are you?"
"Hello, I'm Hase Momoka from the News Department." the girl replied.
"Xiu Nishikawa." The boy also introduced himself briefly.
After that, the girl asked again, "Excuse me, are you Toru Watanabe, who ranked third in the entrance exam and the monthly test?"
"My name is Watanabe Toru. I got third place in the entrance exam and monthly test. What can I do for you?"
"The News Department is working on a special issue about the midterm exam and would like to ask you a few questions." Without asking for Watanabe Toru's consent, Hase Baixiang asked the first question, "What is the goal of this midterm exam?"
"Watanabe's goal is to be second in the grade!" Kunii Osamu answered helpfully.
"Nothing." Watanabe Toru quickly stopped him.
This kind of talk can be discussed in private. If Qing Ye Lin finds out, she will be scolded:
Before you succeed in doing something, you should remain calm but full of excitement - I should have told you this before, right? It seems that your stupidity is beyond my imagination.
He seemed to have seen the girl's contemptuous smile.
"Second in the grade." The girl named Hase Baixiang wrote these words on her notebook.
"Wait, my goal is to be in the top ten in the whole school, that 's my goal!"
Hase Baixiang acted as if she didn't hear anything.
"According to our investigation, Watanabe graduated from the Mizawa branch of junior high school. There are only three people in the entire junior high school department, and they all rely on self-study. What is Watanabe Toru's usual study method?"
“The goal is to be in the top ten in the school.”
“What is the learning method?”
"Target……"
“What is the learning method?”
“……” As expected of a member of the News Department, he is very good at being aggressive.
"Do the exercises from morning till night."
"I don't need a teacher, I don't need to go to a private school, I can teach myself." Hase Baixiang quickly wrote it down.
"Hey, what you said before was unnecessary! Can you please have some professional ethics as journalists?"
If this were reported, wouldn't Watanabe Toru be considered an arrogant person? His handsome, smart, hardworking, low-key and kind image would be completely destroyed!
"One last question," Hase Momoka still ignored him, "Among the first-year students, Kiyono Rin is ranked first, and Kujo Miki is ranked second. Your ranking has not changed in the past two exams. Now you are in the same club again. What do you think of them? Or what do you want to say?"
"No."
Toru Watanabe already knew that the so-called news department was nothing but unscrupulous media, and he absolutely could not give them the opportunity to write nonsense again.
"Nothing to say? Got it. Watanabe Toru despises..."
"Wait a minute!"
This time, Toru Watanabe relied on his agility to grab Hase Momoka's irresponsible right hand.
Looking down on Kiyono Rin and Kujo Miki? Are you kidding me?
Do you want him to be killed by the sharp tongue of Kiyono Rin, or do you want Kujo Miki to trample him to death with her legs?
"Please let me go, Watanabe-san, freedom of the press must be defended!" Hase Momoka acted as if she was ready to die.
Watanabe Toru was speechless for a moment.
He smiled and said gently, "Hase-san, I suddenly have something to say. Can you answer the last question again?"
Hase Momoka looked at Watanabe Toru with obsession and agreed without thinking.
Xichuan Xiong, who was carrying the camera, reminded quietly: "Minister, news focuses on truth, and it can't be repeated, right?"
"Shut up."
"yes."
"Thank you." Watanabe Toru smiled and nodded to Hase Momoka.
"It's okay." Hase Baixiang shook her head obediently, blushing slightly, "For interview-type news, we must respect the wishes of the interviewee ."
You weren't like that just now, Minister Hase!
Can news really be interpreted in any way you want?
Watanabe Toru said seriously:
"I respect Seino and Kujo very much. They are beautiful, smart, hardworking, low-key and kind. They are the representatives of Tokyo beauties. They are my goals, my beacons and my ideals in life."
"Hey, Watanabe." Saito Keisuke was incredulous. "You're not that kind of person."
Kunii Osamu patted Watanabe Toru's shoulder, and an atmosphere of 'you're the best at flattering' came over him.
"After close contact, you will think the same as I do." Watanabe Toru, who was not at all shy, affirmed without hesitation.
He asked Hase Baixiang: "Please put my original words on it."
After seeing off the people from the news department, Toru Watanabe and the others turned their topic back to Hanada Asako from the wind orchestra.
Kunii Osamu saw the petite Hanada Asako carrying a cello when the wind band came to the baseball field for rehearsal. He felt that the girl and the scene were so cute, and then he fell in love with her.
"Is it that simple?"
"It's usually like this. I feel that the other person is cute at a certain moment, and I fall in love with her. Anyway, I care about her so much that I can't help myself. I will pay attention to the sound of cello every day."
"What about Yamaguchi Naomi?" asked Keisuke Saito.
"Stop talking. Chat with her. She keeps asking me about Watanabe. Watanabe, if you like her, you can easily get her."
Watanabe Toru drank up the strawberry milk in one gulp: "I only love to study."
