This afternoon, Tetsufumi Hirakawa, under the supervision of Shiori Shinohara, had to go to the wind club to observe.

And after this audit, Tetsufumi Hirakawa's feelings are:

When it comes to hard practice, there is a lot of room for improvement in the wind section.

Although today's wind club practice has made great progress compared to before, after all, it has only been a few days, and Ogasa-sensei's style has not changed much.

The main tone of lightness and pleasure has not wavered - it doesn't matter if it is maintained, it is best if the student can still play it with pleasure in the midst of rigorous practice.

However, at least for now, the atmosphere of the wind club can only be said to have a lot of room for improvement.

Anyway, at 6 o'clock, the practice of the wind club ended on time, and Tetsufumi Hirakawa and Shiori Shinohara, who had packed up their instruments, walked out of the concert hall together.

The moment I walked out of the closed concert hall, the sound of the rain lingered in my ears again.

Stepping into the hallway, looking out from the height of the 5th floor of the club building, you can easily get a glimpse of the scenery in the distance.

It's just that in this drizzling rain curtain, everything is as hazy as if it is covered with gauze.

Shaded by green trees, shadowed by tall buildings, and on the highway, the white headlights and light beams also diffuse into a scattered form in a haze.

However, compared to the heavy rain in the morning, the rain at this moment is much lighter, like the end of a strong crossbow, it has already dissipated.

Tetsufumi Hirakawa withdrew his gaze.

When he turned his head, the girl next to him was still looking outside.

"Shinohara-san?"

With such a cry, the girl turned her gaze slightly away and moved her gaze from the rain curtain to him.

"Hirakawa-sensei."

"What are you thinking?"

"Nope."

Shiori Shinohara took another look at the rain that was about to dissipate and shook her head.

"Well, okay."

didn't care about this, Hirakawa Tetsufumi listened to the small sound of rain in his ears, as well as the sound of the wind, and his side face was slightly stained with a little coolness that belonged to water vapor.

As he walked into the stairwell, he suddenly thought of something and said.

"That's right, Shinohara-san."

"Huh?"

Shiori Shinohara, who lowered her head and didn't know what to think, looked at Tetsufumi Hirakawa.

Their eyes collided.

"Actually, I wanted to ask before, what is Shinohara-san's musical instrument?"

“……”

Shiori Shinohara stopped without speaking.

"What's wrong?"

Tetsufumi Hirakawa had to stop and turn around to ask.

"Mr. Hiragawa, don't you even know musical instruments?"

"That's not to say I don't know ...... at all."

Shiori Shinohara looked at him with hopeless eyes, and then walked back on.

"Mr. Hirakawa, it's not that I don't know you at all, that is, I don't know you at all?"

“…… The same can be said of it. ”

This sentence Tetsufumi Hirakawa said very quietly.

"You're the instructor of the wind club."

“…… Okay, so I know that I have a lot of room for improvement in terms of my role as an instructor. ”

Faced with the sarcasm of this eldest lady, Tetsufumi Hirakawa used a nice statement. Well, it's like the Wind Club now.

But I still tried to find a reason.

"After all, I haven't learned anything like that, and this instrument looks similar."

“……”

It's really a complete layman's statement.

Shiori Shinohara tidied up her long hair a little helplessly and said.

"My instrument is a trumpet."

"Trumpet?"

Tetsufumi Hirakawa has no idea about this, as he said, this kind of thing looks the same.

“……”

Obviously, after hearing his tone, Shiori Shinohara gave up on explaining it.

All right.

Ending the topic, the two walked downstairs in the direction of the shoe cabinet amid the faint sound of rain and footsteps.

After arriving at the shoe cabinet and changing his shoes, Tetsufumi Hirakawa took out his own umbrella from the umbrella stand and stood outside the shoe cabinet, waiting for Shiori Shinohara.

But after waiting for a long time, I didn't see the girl for a long time.

"Shinohara-san."

I had to shout into the shoe closet.

A few seconds later, there was a response, footsteps approaching, and then behind a shoe cabinet, Shiori Shinohara, walked out, empty-handed.

"What's wrong?"

Tetsufumi Hirakawa looked at Shiori Shinohara's empty hands.

"The umbrella is gone."

The girl said calmly.

"Umbrella gone?"

"Hmm."

The eldest lady is still very calm.

“…… Was it taken away by another student? ”

"Maybe."

When saying this, Shiori Shinohara used a very indifferent tone.

Tetsufumi Hirakawa understands it as the atmosphere of the eldest lady.

If you lose your umbrella on a rainy day, you can still be so calm, you are worthy of being a famous lady, and you won't lose your temper because of trivial things.

However, he glanced at the light rain that was still falling outside the shoe closet.

"The rain hasn't stopped."

"Hmm."

"What to do?"

“……”

——

Tetsufumi Hirakawa held up an umbrella and extended an invitation to Shiori Shinohara, who was still standing in the shoe closet.

"Shinohara-san, come on."

The girl looked at him and bowed.

"Thank you, Mr. Hirakawa."

"You're welcome, anyway, Shinohara-san's car is at the school gate, right?"

"Hmm."

Shiori Shinohara nodded and stepped under Tetsufumi Hirakawa's umbrella.

Compared to Amamiya Night, Shiori Shinohara is much taller, at least she doesn't need Tetsufumi Hirakawa to bother to lower the umbrella to cover the two of them well.

What's more, the rain at this time is much lighter than in the morning.

Tetsufumi Hirakawa held an umbrella, Shiori Shinohara followed, and the two walked towards the school gate together.

"Hirakawa-sensei." After walking a few steps, Shiori Shinohara spoke.

"What's wrong?"

Tetsufumi Hirakawa avoided the stagnant water on the ground and responded to the girl beside him.

"What do you think of the Wind Club?"

In the already dim skylight, under the black umbrella, Shiori Shinohara looked at the side of him, Tetsufumi Hirakawa's side face.

"What do you think?"

"Hmm."

“…… Well, to be honest, don't know much. ”

"Mr. Hirakawa, you're really ......"

Tetsufumi Hirakawa smiled helplessly, thinking that it was necessary to explain it to the girl.

"It may seem like an excuse, but a large part of the reason why I don't interfere in the orchestra is because I think professional things should be done by professionals."

"Ogasa-sensei is a professional music consultant, and it is not necessary that I will make mistakes when I point fingers, so I am negligent."

Shiori Shinohara chuckled.

"Isn't it because you're lazy?"

“…… There is also a little. ”

I don't deny it.

"Teacher, do you know what the students in the wind club say about you?" Shiori Shinohara said again.

"How do you evaluate it?"

Hirakawa Tetsufumi was aroused by curiosity, turned his head to look at Shiori Shinohara, and met the girl's gaze that seemed to be staring at him for a long time.

Shiori Shinohara looked away and looked ahead.

"They ...... said"

"Huh?"

"I'm very curious about your relationship experience."

"Ah...... This. ”

Tetsufumi Hirakawa opened his mouth, not knowing what to say.

Students' love gossip about young teachers is always like this.

When he was a student, his classmates gossiped about those young teachers.

"Are you married?"

"We all have children."

"Really?"

"Of course, I heard it in the office."

"I can't see it."

Such.

Now, it was his turn to become the object of gossip in the mouths of those students.

It's a little emotional.

"But it's okay, at least it's not my professional ability to gossip, after all, there is no one at all."

After thinking about it, Tetsufumi Hirakawa laughed at himself helplessly.

The girl next to her pursed the corners of her mouth when she heard it.

"So, does Hirakawa-sensei have a girlfriend?"

"Shinohara-san is also gossiping about this?"

"Can't you?"

Shiori Shinohara looked at him with pure eyes.

"Yes, yes, but I didn't expect that a lady like you would be interested in this."

"Even the chatter of the wives with billions of assets in the banquet hall can't avoid this kind of gossip."

Shiori Shinohara said.

"Mr. Hirakawa, gossip is human nature."

"That's right."

Tetsufumi Hirakawa nodded affirmatively, and after a few seconds, he said again.

"My girlfriend's words, no."

"No?"

"yes, what's wrong, this tone."

"Because a lot of students think you should have."

Tetsufumi Hirakawa smiled.

"Take it as a compliment. But not really. ”

"Hmm."

Shiori Shinohara stopped asking, looked ahead, and straightened the hair on her shoulders behind her.

On the road in front of you, there was a little stagnant water, and the falling rain got into the water, making a few circles of ripples on the water.

The rain is getting lighter.

After a while, when the two of them walked to the gate of the campus, the rustling of rain in their ears had completely disappeared.

"The rain has stopped?"

Tetsufumi Hirakawa deflected the umbrella away, leaving the two of them unobstructed under the sky.

"Not yet."

Shiori Shinohara glanced up at the sky.

"Didn't you? The look has stopped. ”

"Mr. Hirakawa, I feel a little rain."

"Is that so?"

Although I was a little confused, I still held up the umbrella.

Tetsufumi Hirakawa and the girl strolled under an umbrella again and walked all the way to Shiori Shinohara's car.

"Mr. Hirakawa, goodbye."

"Well, Shinohara-san, goodbye."

With a wave of his hand, he watched Shiori Shinohara, sitting in the car, the car started, and Tetsufumi Hirakawa also turned around and walked in the direction of the other side, the tram stop.

It didn't take a few steps for him to notice that the wet streets, where shops, billboards, and street lamps were reflected, were no longer dripping with rainwater.

"Why, the rain has stopped, right?"

Tetsufumi Hirakawa muttered to himself, glancing at the pedestrians on the street again, and finally, putting away the last umbrella he had held up in his field of vision.