148.National Competition(3)

Kumiko wiped the soles of her feet with a tissue, and they were from Tokyo and Kyoto, respectively, and walked together in the night in Nagoya.

"Prime Minister Watanabe, can I ask you a question?" Kumiko holds a drink in one hand and covers the neckline of her clothes with the other, and the wind is a little cold at night.

"Secretary Kumiko, I'm not cold."

"No, it's not this, it doesn't matter to me whether you're cold or not, right?"

"Huh? You talk to me like that? ”

"I'm sorry, Prime Minister!"

Toru Watanabe let out an arrogant "um" with his nose.

Rin Kiyono and Rina glanced at each other and found that there was the same helplessness in each other's eyes.

Kumiko took a sip of the drink, and there was still a little bit of temperature left, and she hurriedly drank a few more sips, trying to drink it all before it became completely cold.

Feeling the sweetness between her lips and teeth, she continued, "I heard that you went to school in Tokyo alone from Iwate Prefecture, can you share your life experience? ”

"Don't go to the Ocha no Mizu." Toru Watanabe blurted out.

"Huh?"

After listening to Kumiko's question, the other two girls, who were also ready to listen carefully, showed puzzled expressions along with Kumiko.

Toru Watanabe's face was heavy: "The coffee shops there always play outdated rock music, and even if the coffee is sold with sugar, it is still bitter. ”

“...... That's right. Kumiko didn't know what to say.

"Be serious." Rin Kiyono said angrily.

"Okay, okay, I haven't seen anyone from Kyoto, I want to have fun."

"We're not monkeys!" Kumiko and Rina said in unison.

Toru Watanabe pointed at the two of them and said to Rin Kiyono with a smile, "Look, it's interesting, right?" ”

"It's rude." Rin Kiyono doesn't deny that it's funny.

"Kumiko," Rina grabbed Kumiko's arm and glared at Toru Watanabe, "let's go back." ”

"I'm in for a treat to udon."

Rina stopped her steps to turn around, and still said to Kumiko, "We're going to have a big meal, and we will pick the expensive ones!" ”

“...... Wouldn't that be bad? ”

"What's this?" Rina pinned her long hair behind her ears and said lightly, "Anyway, it's his fault, I haven't bothered him about the last concert in the station building, so it's right to invite us to dinner." ”

Kumiko has never seen such a Reina, this Toru Watanabe is really her nemesis.

She looked at Rin Kiyono in embarrassment.

"Hey, my secretary, what do you see her doing? I said I'm in for a treat. Prime Minister Toru Watanabe was dissatisfied.

Rin Kiyono smiled shallowly, nodded and said, "It's okay, instead of letting him spend money in the game, it's better to bring it to a treat and apologize for what happened last time." ”

"Then we're welcome. Ah, here it is, I already smell the scent! ”

Kumiko lifted the curtain of fabric and disappeared into the store.

Toru Watanabe said to Rin Kiyono, "...... It's my money, right? Why do you call the shots? ”

"Do you have any grievances?" Rin Kiyono looked at him lightly.

"No, there isn't."

Kumiko poked her head out of the store: "Come on, I've found a seat!" ”

The three walked into the store.

This is a udon noodle shop called it, and the decoration is very peculiar.

It's like a shed made of a few steels, the pillars are rusty, the walls are adorned with white coarse cloth gloves and safety helmets, and there are news, celebrity photos cut out of newspapers, and so on.

The stools are also peculiar, baskets of wine and eggs, which are turned upside down for the guests to sit on.

The only thing that feels premium in the store is the black cushions on the baskets.

There were already two tables of guests sitting inside, both men and women, wearing suits, and it seemed that they were social people who attended the drinking party after work.

The four of them sat down in the corner against the wall, with Toru Watanabe and Rin Kiyono naturally sitting together, with Kumiko across from him and Rina sitting across from Rin Kiyono.

"It's weird here." Sister Lina's big, dark eyes quietly looked at everything in the store curiously.

"I've never been to a store like this before, and it's still eleven o'clock at night!" Kumiko said with a little excitement.

"Welcome, what are you going to eat?" The waiter came over with pen and paper.

"Miso pork chops." Toru Watanabe didn't look at the menu and ordered directly.

"Nope." Rin Kiyono vetoed.

"Why?!"

"The miso in Nagoya is different from Tokyo, so if you have diarrhea and it affects tomorrow's game, can you take responsibility?"

"What do you think I've been exercising so far?"

"No matter what you're for, you're only going to have udon noodles for this meal." Rin Kiyono stopped talking nonsense with him, and said directly to the clerk, "Two udon set meals, no special side dishes, thank you." ”

"Okay." The waiter writes down the menu on a piece of paper.

Toru Watanabe picked up the barley tea on the table and took a sip, the cold liquid sliding down his throat, lowering the temperature of his internal organs.

On the other side, two girls from Kyoto are struggling with the menu.

"What should I do, I really want to eat linguin, and I want this oyster egg to look delicious!" Kumiko frowned slightly in confusion.

"This assorted hot pot and oden look pretty good......" Rina also frowned, thinking seriously.

"It's okay to eat it all if you want," Toru Watanabe said, shaking the cup and taking a sip as if the barley tea was hot, "I've brought enough money." ”

"That ......"

Sister Rina stretched out her finger and was about to make up her mind, when Rin Kiyono said, "You also have to compete tomorrow, right?" It's better to eat Kyoto food. ”

Kyoto cuisine is a Kyoto-style dish with a taste of Kyoto, with a focus on the seasonality, with tofu, bamboo shoots, and vegetables as the main ingredients.

"I almost forgot!"

"It's dangerous, it's dangerous, Rina, let's eat udon too."

"Well, well, he'll be cheaper this time."

After the clerk left, Toru Watanabe said to Rin Kiyono, "Sister Rina is the trumpet solo of Kita Uji, and Kumiko is one of the two upper bass horns, and if they eat bad stomachs, our probability of winning the gold medal will increase by at least one percent." ”

"One percent? You don't look down on us! Sister Lina was so angry that she almost slapped the table.

Kumiko smiled and poured her barley tea.

"Kumiko, aren't you angry?!"

"He's definitely joking, don't care, and he's having a dinner party, and I don't care if he says a few words."

"No, if you really plan to order something that might cause stomach trouble after eating, I won't stop you, and I'll be happy to pay for it." Toru Watanabe said.

"He's really." Rin Kiyono added.

"Although we are not as cosmopolitan as Tokyo, we will not be easily deceived, you can't fool us." Kumiko said confidently.

Toru Watanabe looked sideways at Rin Kiyono and raised an eyebrow.

'Fun, huh? ’

'Seriously. Rin Kiyono gave him a blank look, but still didn't deny that it was fun.

"By the way," Kumiko suddenly remembered what had just happened, "Is there anything else to pay attention to in Tokyo besides the Imperial and Imperial Tea?" ”

"Why do you ask this?" Toru Watanabe grabbed the mouth of the cup with his thumb, index finger, and middle finger and shook it gently.

"In the future, I plan to go to a university in Tokyo." Kumiko replied.

"Are you coming to the University of Tokyo? I'll cover you then. ”

"No, the University of Tokyo is a bit ......"

"Don't be in a hurry to refuse, the reputation of the University of Tokyo is not very good, what 'cradle of stinky politicians', 'there is no more old-fashioned guy than the students of the University of Tokyo', etc., I am going to continue to participate in the wind club in the university, and our prime minister's secretary has joined forces to win four consecutive national golds, which will also be a great talk in the political circles in the future."

"Uh-huh, cough-cough-" Sister Reina, who was choking on tea, hurriedly pulled out a tissue, and stared at the serious Toru Watanabe with angry eyes.

Talking a little too much, Toru Watanabe took another sip of barley tea.

Kumiko patted Rina on the back to help her breathe, and she smiled wryly and said, "The University of Tokyo is still over, I'm going to go to a women's university that is famous for its English, and I want to be an English teacher." ”

"Well, there's no way around it."

"Uh-huh, thank you for having me."

If she could go to the University of Tokyo, would Kumiko not go?

Although this guy is a powerful oboe and has excellent grades, he is unexpectedly a guy who is so simple that he can't understand the situation, and he will definitely not become the prime minister in the future!

Toru Watanabe didn't know anything about the girl's thoughts, and he told about his experience in Tokyo.

Including renting, part-time jobs, transportation, and more.

Halfway through, the clerk brought up udon noodles for four people, and the bowl was steaming hot, and it was a little difficult to see each other's faces.

The four of them were sixteen years old, and the dinner in their stomachs had already been digested, and when they smelled the aroma, they instantly became even hungrier.

After saying "I'm moving" in unison, he immediately ate it.

"Kumiko, try this!" Rina first took a spoon of soup, then put on the udon noodles and ate it in one bite.

"I'll try...... Hmmm – delicious! Delicious! After eating, Kumiko took a sip of the soup.

The feet under the table were cocked, and the slippers naturally fell off again.

Maybe it's because it's rare to have such time to eat udon noodles with people you've met in a strange city late at night, but you feel good about each other, so Toru Watanabe and Rin Kiyono also think it tastes good.

After eating a few bites, Kumiko put the noodles in her mouth and said, "Watanabe-kun, please continue." ”

"Kumiko!" Rina wiped the back of her hand with a tissue, and there was soup spilled by Kumiko on it.

"Hey, hey." Kumiko smiled sheepishly.

"Where did you just go?" Toru Watanabe asked.

"Why don't you open the door to the NHK TV toll collector?"

"Oh, that's it, isn't it? Next, I'll tell you how to save money......"

Toru Watanabe said as he ate, and the two people in Kyoto listened quietly, occasionally asking a few questions.

“...... What I hate the most is the two-slice salmon in the supermarket. ”

"Why?"

"A piece sells for 500 yen, which is not enough; It's only 975 yen for two pieces, but it's too much. Watanabe finished his last bite of noodles and drank some soup, "That's pretty much it, if you can't remember, just come to Tokyo and find me." ”

"As soon as I graduated from junior high school, I went to school in Tokyo alone, and while maintaining good grades, I had to do various part-time jobs, which sounds so hard!" Kumiko said in disbelief.

Rina also nodded, what she felt the most was the fact that Watanabe was holding a billboard for four hours under the big sun.

When they come home from school every day, their mother has already prepared the meals, and they don't have to wash their own clothes, all they have to do is study and practice in the wind club.

Although this man is a hooligan, a pervert, and likes to joke with them, he is unexpectedly an inspirational guy.

"Otherwise, why would I be the prime minister, not you?" Toru Watanabe wiped his mouth with a tissue, drank barley tea, and waited for them to finish slowly.

"Unfortunately, that was a time ago." Every time Rin Kiyono takes a bite of noodles, she wipes the corners of her mouth with a napkin.

The way you eat it is so delicate that it doesn't fit in with the atmosphere of this restaurant.

"Once upon a time?" Kumiko asked curiously.

"There's nothing to say, the past is unbearable." Toru Watanabe interrupted her, "By the way, Kumiko, how many places did you take this national mock exam?" Mathematics must have made a lot of progress under my guidance, right? ”

"Fingering? Do you call that pointing? "Kumiko deliberately ignores the former question.

Although I am not dissatisfied with my ranking, I always feel shy to say it now.

Because it must be the worst of the four!

"The master leads the way, and the cultivation depends on the individual."

"I don't remember when I worshipped you as a teacher, and you didn't lead me in." Kumiko complained.

"There's really nothing I can do with you, a rebel, next time we meet, I'll sort out a math note for you."

"Next time? If there is no concert in the station building, won't it be today next year? ”

"yes." Toru Watanabe stopped shaking his teacup and couldn't help but laugh, "And you have to get into the national competition." ”

Kumiko looked at his irresistible smile in a daze, came back to her senses, and hurriedly lowered her head to eat noodles.

"We're going to make it to the national races!" Sister Lina happened to be eating noodles just now and escaped the catastrophe.

"Uh-huh." Toru Watanabe nodded, and the afterglow smirked at Rin Kiyono.

Rin Kiyono pulled her long hair behind her ears and took small sips of the soup with a spoon without even looking at him.

As a rule of thumb, this is despised.

If it was just the two of them, she would definitely have laughed mercilessly, and would even ask him to buy a drink.

After eating the noodles, Toru Watanabe checks out.

Kumiko looked at the swarthy wallet he took out, and couldn't understand: why would a boy think that kind of monotonous thing was cool?

Then, she was shocked.

In the wallet, in addition to the card, there is a thick pile of 10,000 yen bills, and it is roughly estimated that there are at least ten or more.

Carry 100,000 yen with you...... It's better to go to school in Tokyo by herself - Kumiko, who has only 3,000 yen a month's pocket money, is dazzled by money and thinks about the possibility of this plan.

After eating, I didn't feel cold at all on the way back.

The four of them walked slowly through various "Japanese" buildings, crossed the park, and suddenly found that each other's directions were the same.

"It turns out that the other school that lives here is you." Toru Watanabe said.

"I'm wondering, are you so rich and living here?" Kumiko thought of the magnificent school bus with crows printed on it.

"No way, who made our family leader a guy who puts efficiency first and doesn't know how to enjoy."

"Toru Watanabe-san, you dare to say bad things about me in front of me, and you are still the first."

"Really? That's great, another first ....... of Kiyono-san"

"Shut up."

"Yes."

When Rin Kiyono rubbed his brows in pain, the four of them had already arrived at the door of the hotel.

"Ahh Watanabe! "A boy from the Kamigawa Wind Club was buying a drink in front of a vending machine.

He has a lot of them in his hand, and it seems that he lost playing cards, which is a real dish.

"We're going to the toilet to find you!" Saying that, the boy suddenly discovered the three beautiful girls around Toru Watanabe, especially Sister Reina.

His eyes widened, and he yelled, "You're another person to occupy Sister Linai!" ”

Rina was stunned, not sure what he was talking about.

"What the hell is Sister Lina? It was this Miss Kumiko who took possession of her, and I occupied Kiyono-san....... And Miss Kumiko and Sister Reina, I'll pick three, you know...... Hmm, cough cough cough! ”

Sister Rina is quite familiar and very unceremoniously to Toru Watanabe.

"You try to tease Kumiko again!" Her eyes widened, her pretty face was serious, and she said sharply.

"I, ahem, that's where the fault is."

Kumiko couldn't help but smile shyly, and she grabbed Reina's arm: "Forget it, Reina, for the sake of him inviting us to eat udon." ”

"Udon?!" The boy screamed again.

In the quiet of the night, his voice was unusually harsh, and Rin Kiyono and Rina looked at him with cold and impatient gazes.

"I'll go back first!" The boy immediately ran away with a drink.

The drink fell halfway, and he hurriedly picked it up, but fortunately, there was no plot where all the other drinks fell when he bent down to pick it up.

"I'm going back too." Toru Watanabe covered his flank, looking like his kidney had been cut off.

"Wait a minute!" Kumiko shouted a little embarrassed, "Well, let's exchange contact information, maybe we can eat udon together for the next three years." ”

"Just eat a meal, you still want to eat me for three years?"

"Stingy men are not welcome." Sister Lina said disdainfully, "I'll invite you next time." ”

"That's fine." Toru Watanabe immediately let go of his hand and took out his phone as if nothing happened.

"That ......" Kumiko looked at Rin Kiyono.

She always felt that this person was full of the momentum of the eldest lady, and her words and deeds were different from herself, and it was difficult to speak.

"I'll forget it." Rin Kiyono said lightly.

Although he could convince her, Toru Watanabe still didn't speak, anyway, the two of them would quit the wind club after tomorrow, and they shouldn't come to Nagoya again in the future.

But he thought about it, Rin Kiyono didn't have any friends, and just now he took the initiative to invite Kumiko and Rina to eat noodles, maybe he had a good impression of these two in his heart.

Although Kumiko and Rina have a lot of different personalities, they are generally very good, and they are also good in wind music, and when they come to Tokyo in the future, they may not be able to become good friends with Rin Kiyono.

The most important thing is that people who can go out alone in group activities are either emotional plot triggers or protagonists, and becoming friends may not be able to improve their luck.

Fake, just kidding.

"Don't be so cold, maybe we'll be in the Wind Club at the University of Tokyo in the future." Toru Watanabe casually pulled out a reason.

Rin Kiyono thought for a moment and sighed, "Okay. ”

The four of them changed their LINE accounts, and after saying 'come on' to each other, they each returned to the floor of their school.

As soon as Toru Watanabe returned to the shop, he was immediately suppressed by all the boys......