Chapter 4: The Child's Words......

Today's lunch at noon was also just a quick bento box that I bought on the way to school. When you go back in the evening, you can take it easy and make some food by yourself, but when you wake up in the morning, Rintaro doesn't have that much patience, so it would be a good choice to buy a cheap but delicious bento from the side of the road.

Rintaro also has a fixed place for lunch, so if the weather is better, he goes back to the chair on the edge of the playground to eat, and takes a break while eating. If the weather is bad, I stay in the classroom and listen to the lively discussions in the classroom.

Rintaro doesn't usually get involved in it.,Although the boys next to him will also pull Rintaro into a certain topic when they are discussing.,But Rintaro, who doesn't seem to be very interested in anything, usually just casually rebles a few words.。

Fortunately, everyone is more tolerant and doesn't care about anything. Although Rintaro thinks that this may have something to do with the fact that he will be constantly borrowed from homework.

It's spring and the weather is nice, so Rintaro sits on the edge of the playground as usual, on a chair that is not usually crowded, and while eating, he watches the students on the playground doing all sorts of things that they have to make the most of in less than an hour.

Take, for example, running.

It's just that today is a little different from usual.,Rintaro, who casually scans the entire playground while eating, seems to see a familiar face.。

Although it was far away and her hair was tied up, a certain girl who walked with a group of other girls talking and laughing did have a familiar face.

She wore the same uniform as herself, apparently a student at the school. But the confident smile on his face, and the appearance of being down-to-earth and generous in his gestures are obviously not quite consistent with the Katase Hoshiri he saw before.

If she is the kind of character who will become completely different in front of strangers, it is somewhat unreliable, and Rintaro, who heard something from Kudo before, quickly remembered that he had not yet met, the second daughter of the Katase family.

Katase Hazuki.

It's really the same as what Kudo said.,It looks like a completely different character from Hoshiri Katase.,It's more similar to her sister Yorai Katase.,It's the kind of character that can stir up the topic and even become the center of the group.。

If you look at it this way, it is estimated that the youngest sister of the three sisters, Hoshiri Katase, is an introverted girl.

Rintaro quickly lost interest in Hazuki Katase, who was at the center of the topic, and continued to eat his lunch, looking elsewhere.

Neither will have any contact with himself, nor will it help his work, and it looks like the kind of personality that will make people feel very headache like her sister, and Rintaro thinks it would be better to have less contact with her.

However, there was no chance of contact.

After eating his lunch quietly and resting on his chair for a while, Rintaro rushed back to the classroom before the start of the class and successfully completed the two classes in the afternoon.

It just so happens that today is Tuesday, and the last class of the afternoon is the class teacher Akiyama-sensei, and after class, Rintaro was directly stopped by Akiyama-sensei.

"Sakuraba-san, do you have anything else to do now?" She walked straight to Sakuraba's side and asked, causing the other students who were about to leave the classroom to look at her with curiosity.

Rintaro shook his head: "There is nothing else. ”

"Then come with me." Mr. Akiyama was the first to walk out through the back door of the classroom, and Rintaro's position was at the penultimate table on this side of the wall, and it was basically from here that he wanted to get out.

The others, who had quickly lost interest in Rintaro's side, did not continue to care about him and instead talked about their plans. Rintaro left the classroom with the teacher.

Rintaro thought he would go to the teacher's office, but Mr. Akiyama took him downstairs and went to a building next to him. The smaller building next to it was not used as a classroom, but as a building where the school's club department was centralized.

It used to be a school building, but that was a long time ago.

"Although Sakura-san, you don't participate in the club, but the club department of our school is actually assigned according to the teacher. And I happen to have a small department here that hasn't been applied for, and now it's just right for you and Kohoshi...... Ahem, Hoshiri Katase uses. Akiyama-sensei said as he turned around and handed a key to Rintaro: "This is one of the keys to the department, I'll take you there first, and Hoshiri-katase will come over in a while." ”

"Is it okay to use the club office? There are only two people on our side, and there are not enough people in the good club. ”

"Anyway, it's empty, and if someone uses it, you can clean it often, so there won't be any problems. Also, since it's not a club activity, you don't have to write me a report or anything like that, which is more convenient in every sense. ”

Rintaro nodded, "Got it." ”

There is no need to go out of the new teaching building to get to the club department building, there is a passage on the first floor that can lead to the side, which is also quite convenient for members of literary and art clubs.

From there, I went upstairs again, to the fourth floor, which was also the top floor of the old school building, and then to the innermost classroom.

Rintaro knows why such a club department is vacant and not used, and even this floor Rintaro doesn't feel any human activity, and even a light bulb on this floor is broken, where to light it for a while, and it's dark. Whether it is the location or the lighting, in every sense, this location is quite underworld.

If it's the right one, you might be able to make a lot of money by turning it into a haunted house.

Rintaro couldn't help it a little: "Don't we really have to wait for Katase below?" Her character, I'm afraid she ......"

Although Rintaro didn't finish his words, the meaning was already very clear.

Mr. Akiyama turned his head, looked at the floor, and blinked, "...... The words of that child...... Okay, let's go downstairs and wait for her. ”

"Can that lamp be replaced with a new one? It's a bit oozing to watch. Rintaro said, pointing to the flickering tube.

"This floor has not been used for a long time, and it is quite normal to have electrical damage. Don't worry too much. Mr. Akiyama waved his hand, then turned around and walked downstairs.

Rintaro involuntarily twitched the corners of his mouth and walked down.