Tetsufumi Hirakawa soon arrived in the activity room of the wind club.

Witnessed by my own eyes, and in Shiori Shinohara's explanation-

"Mr. Hirakawa, you should know what is the problem with the wind club, right?"

In the corridor at the entrance of the activity room, Tetsufumi Hirakawa withdrew his gaze from the concert hall and looked to his side, Shiori Shinohara looked up at him and asked him.

A drizzle of rain drifted in from the canopy outside the corridor with a sudden gust of wind, and a little cold moisture on his face.

Tetsufumi Hirakawa took half a step back.

"Shinohara-san, this kind of thing, in fact, I would have guessed it if I didn't use it here."

It's true, I guessed the specific situation yesterday.

The problem is that –

"The last time Shinohara-san and I came to the wind club in the morning, there were probably students who practiced independently in the activity room—"

Shiori Shinohara replied: "Less than thirty." ”

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"That's right, less than thirty."

Tetsufumi Hirakawa nodded.

That was more than a month ago, and Shiori Shinohara asked him to come to the band for the first time.

Herein lies the problem.

More than a month ago, the number of self-trained people was less than 30, which is not a lot in the first place.

"But today ......"

Tetsufumi Hirakawa also glanced at the activity room of the wind club.

"There are about twenty people left."

That's right, as the voices are unified and the official competition is getting closer and closer, the number of people who are willing to come to the wind club in the morning to practice on their own has not increased, but rather decreased.

That's the problem.

"If the reasons are many, there should be many reasons."

Tetsufumi Hirakawa faced Shiori Shinohara's delicate face, and the girl didn't say anything, so he continued.

"First of all, at that time, I had just started school, just finished spring break, and some of the students who had just joined the wind club were still interested in wind music...... But apparently, more than a month later, the interest is no longer enough to support them to train on their own in the morning. ”

Because he had already guessed the situation and had analyzed it in his heart, Tetsufumi Hirakawa basically did not pause when he began to explain the reason now.

"Secondly, it should be the reason for the accommodation. Some of the students who are interested in self-training have withdrawn from the national competition, and in any case, such a change may also affect their motivation to connect with themselves. ”

"Again, it's because of the practice time, right?"

Although it is an interrogative sentence, it does not actually have too many interrogative tones in it.

"If the practice time is extended to 7 p.m., some people may feel that the afternoon practice is already very hard and there is no need to continue practicing in the morning."

It can only be said that this is a very normal thought. And human energy is limited.

Although it is obviously unnecessary from the perspective of a bystander, many people have done it. Stay up late at night and sleep the next day or something.

This is just the simplest example.

"Finally—"

Tetsufumi Hirakawa pauses here and focuses on it.

"And most importantly – persistence is inherently very difficult."

"If you're not mistaken, when you just came back from Hesu, there should have been a lot of classmates who trained on their own in the morning, right?"

Tetsufumi Hirakawa looked at Shiori Shinohara.

The girl, who had been calm for a long time, finally reacted, and she responded to his gaze.

"The week I just came back, there were about 40 students who trained on their own in the morning."

There are 40 people, and the wind club has a total of 73 people, and if you exclude the 12 people in Group B, there are only 61 people in Group A.

In this case, it is really nice to have 40 people come to the wind club in the morning to train according to their own goals and without any external constraints.

But ah, it's already the beginning of May, and it's the end of May.

Tetsufumi Hirakawa looked at the rainy sky at this time, and the rainy season had arrived.

At the end of the nightstay, the sound that had resounded all the way in the car had dissipated in my ears.

Perseverance is precisely because of its difficulties.

There is nothing difficult in the world, as long as you are willing to give up - the emergence of this reverse chicken soup can also reflect this truth.

Insisting on absolutes, absolutes is a rather rare quality.

This is true even at Moriya, a prestigious private university with a fairly good student base.

Not everyone is like the eldest lady in front of him, who has a very firm goal in his heart, even if his parents block him, he can find his interests in that environment and never give up.

"Huh?"

Miss Shinohara-sama met his gaze with a puzzled look.

Tetsufumi Hirakawa smiled.

This eldest lady is truly remarkable in this respect.

But for now, let's get back to the point -

From the beginning of May to the end of May, the number of self-trained students plummeted from 40 to 20 in one month.

At first glance, it doesn't seem like a big problem, it's not at all a "very serious problem" as Shiori Shinohara said earlier.

But ah, if you look at the essence through the phenomenon and think about it carefully, you will know it-

Tetsufumi Hirakawa's voice sounded faintly at the door of the concert hall of the Wind Club, in the melodious background sound:

"So in the end, even if we come back from the dormitory and eliminate the differences among the students, this problem still cannot be solved."

"It's true to unify the goal, but in the end, the goal is not firm."

Not to mention that Shiori Shinohara is so firm, this level of firmness is not even enough to support them to practice for a month.

"The problem behind this is that the students' internal motivation is insufficient."

The internal motivation is insufficient, and it doesn't seem too serious to say it's serious. As long as they are under the supervision of the teacher, they can also train seriously during the evening practice.

However, it is important to make a point here that is quite important - the goal of the Moriya Wind Club is the national gold medal.

With the goal of the national gold medal and the current strength of Moriya, it is impossible to exaggerate the difficulty of breaking out of the encirclement and winning the gold in one fell swoop.

In this kind of team competition, the Moriya Wind Club must reach its full potential in order to have any hope of winning gold – and only hope.

So, combined with this background, it is conceivable how serious the problem of insufficient internal motivation is.

To put it nicely, this will greatly reduce the probability of Moriya winning the gold, in fact......

"It can even be said that the Moriya Wind Club has completely lost the hope of winning the gold medal."

Moriya was not a strong school in the wind club in the first place.

Last year's results were only in the Tokyo Division, which is not a top playing area, and participated in the national competition.

And the best result in the history of the school is to stop at the silver medal in the national competition.

If you don't get all your potential, you won't get a gold medal if you don't have a firm goal in your heart and do not follow through with it.

This is a national gold medal.

Tetsufumi Hirakawa looked at Shiori Shinohara, who looked back with an affirmative gaze.

That's the problem with Moriya.