Chapter 34: Hanging Out

The building area of the middle school hall is naturally much larger than that of the Red Devil Pavilion, and at a glance sweeping the interior of the bustling luxury hall, it feels like a luxurious hall with more than enough space for the final ball hall, but if you count the open-air area and age deposits, there is no doubt that the Red Devil Pavilion is a truly extravagant classical courtyard. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info

However, as an office space for outsiders, the grandeur of the middle school building with countless floors in the past is also admirable.

Miss Maruko motioned for me and Fran to wait aside, and then went to the front desk and talked for a while with the young woman in formal dress who seemed to be receiving outsiders, Miss Maruko's popularity should be good, and her communication with the front desk lady also showed that she was very familiar with any company colleague, and after a while she received two plastic cards from the front desk lady, with a rope attached to the sign to hang on her chest.

"This is today's visitor sign, and the school organization and other units or groups that have made an appointment in advance will come to visit, so you hang up the sign, huh...... If you find it easier to be part of a school group, you can take Fran with you, and of course you can move around as you please, except for a few rooms that are obviously closed to outsiders, and the whole building is open today. ”

"I see." In other words, I don't have to worry about outsiders and staff taking Fran to visit at will, "This casual visit sign is not so easy to get, right?" ”

"Hehe, I said hello to the planning team before I got off work yesterday," she smiled, "Originally, I only reserved a place for Fran alone, but it's not difficult to call and ask my seniors to add one more at night." ”

"I planned it yesterday!"

"I'm afraid of disrupting your plans, so I contacted you this morning, and it's good that the preparation is not in vain."

Then we squeezed into the elevator and followed the flow of people to the area where the editorial office of the monthly magazine was located on the eighth floor.

There was an endless stream of colleagues who greeted Miss Maruko along the way, and these people from different paths obviously did not belong to the same department as her, by the way, Fran and I were also introduced no less than a dozen times, and even young or middle-aged men ridiculed and asked to leave contact information, which was a bit irresistible, but fortunately, I led Fran to follow Miss Maruko's pace, and she helped me deal with those enthusiastic colleagues who were inconvenient and disdainful to deal with, In just a short period of time, I have a deeper understanding of Miss Maruko's admirable social talent, which has not worked for a long time, and her ability to cope with it with ease is not something that can be pretended to be able to do.

When I came to the office hall of the editorial office, I punched a card and reported that Miss Maruko introduced Fran and I to my colleagues who got up early to work, and still related me to Fran with the same hair color, and described the two of us as friends before taking us back to the first floor of the building.

"The layout of the building is hanging on the wall over there," she pointed to me, and continued, "The team that has made appointments to visit has also arrived, and the building is going to be very lively today, so you don't have to worry about how conspicuous it is, Alice and Fran can hang around, I'll go back and deal with some of the accumulated business," and she whispered, "Then go to the editorial office of adult comics, ah, and also, lunch is in the company cafeteria, there are already arrangements, I'll come back to you before noon." ”

"If you have a job, let's get busy, we won't lose it, huh...... Fran comes, let's go and find the way first. I beckoned my sister, who had always been obedient and well-behaved, to say goodbye to Miss Maruko.

"Goodbye Maruko-sama!"

"Goodbye."

The inland of the hall has continued to usher in today's visiting teams, mainly lively and frolicking primary school students, and there are few visiting groups above middle school students.

With Fran on our shoulders, we blended into the crowd and memorized the interior layout of the building to make it easier to find our target and prevent getting lost—in such a small but relatively simple building, it was probably the goblins' job to get lost.

"Where are you going?" After scanning the layout, I struggled out of the crowd and asked my sister above me.

"Ahh Alice took me to fun places! ”

"First of all, I need to know where to be fun......"

Let's hang out with the crowd, I thought aimlessly, and looked up, the crowd was a group of a few teachers or parents with a group of two dozen elementary school students, so I followed the crowd step by step, and drove Fran's child down in front of me to lead the way to show that she was not here to abduct elementary school students, she muttered a reluctant to sit on her shoulder.

"Don't be naughty, it was just to make you see the map, and it's too eye-catching to do it now."

"Uh......h Okay. The voice was aggrieved, and people couldn't help but roll her eyes.

At the head of the line, a young female teacher who described her age as Miss Maruko was introducing the Middle School Pavilion to the children in a slow and admiring tone, and I could tell from that she was a big fan of some of the Junior High School Pavilion's publications.

"Students, this is the birthplace of many of the manga that everyone loves, the Junior High School Building, well...... Founded in the tenth year of Taisho, ah, but, it was originally a professional company that published the most hated study reference materials, and it was not until 37 years later that the first issue of the manga magazine arrived, and the company had a soul and a real meaning of existence......"

Is the purpose of this company's existence a comic magazine?

Listening to her all the way, we first came to the general affairs department on the second floor, and at the kind invitation of several teachers, the middle-aged people who looked like the office manager enthusiastically introduced their work content and work significance, which roughly means that their work is very meaningful, is the key link to maintain the operation of the entire company, and is the main force to explore and open up the market and lead the direction of the company's publishing......

"Fran-chan, don't fall asleep." I half-crouched down and whispered to my sister, who was facing away from me.

"Why?" She turned her head, and she didn't bother her eyes as hard as I had imagined, and she seemed to be listening with relish—whether it was the female teacher's personal introduction or the section leader's self-boasting about the department.

“……”

Turning around the second floor, the corridor space was already filled with people coming and going, with primary school students being the majority, middle school students secondary, and the least number of teachers, and the duo of Fran and I following the group of elementary school students became more and more inconspicuous - as it should have been.

To my surprise, the young female teacher who first introduced the children to the history of the middle school hall with smuggled goods noticed the blonde teenage duo who had been following their group all along, and when she turned around and reminded everyone that the next destination was the editorial office of Shonen Weekly, I noticed her several glances at me.

Then, after entering the editorial hall, the young teacher came to the end of the line and greeted me in a friendly manner: "Hello, classmate, will you accompany my sister to the event?" ”

I smiled and nodded to her, "Hmm...... Yes, this is my sister, she likes comics, and her future dream is to be a cartoonist, so she begged me to bring her to the event. ”

Fran-chan looked at me with wide eyes, and her eyes rolled to reveal a bright smile, "Hmm! ”

"Ahh My sister-chan is so cute! Eh, of course you too," she patted Fran's head, and then officially sent out the invitation, "If you don't know how to visit, just follow our team, ah, I'm one of the leading teachers of Shirayuri Elementary School, Keiko Kobayakawa, and a few of them are also school teachers, so just call me Keiko-sensei." ”

"Huh...... Okay, okay Keiko-sensei," I had to echo the enthusiastic teacher who was going to visit in a low-key manner, "I'm Alice, and this is Fran." ”

"Hello Keiko-sensei." Fran obediently cooperated in greeting.

If Miss Love is so worry-free...... I probably won't have a chance to get to know Ah Miao, and she's going to fall victim to what might be a spin-off struggle from the top.