It wasn't until three o'clock in the afternoon that the three of Natsume-sensei had finished their naps, and Narumi Yu and Shiina Weiyang woke up from their dreams.

At the same time, the pencil drawing in the sketchbook in Shiina Miyo's arms has also disappeared.

"Good afternoon, young."

Omada Muraichi changed the game, controlling his sword-wielding villain to kill all sides, lifting the pot on the side of the road to stack the road, and using the sword to bounce off the opposite magic ball to kill the enemy.

Most of them have not been charged in advance, and the battery level of the game console has bottomed out.

It's a shame that he can play the game so comfortably under the eyes of his teacher.

"Good afternoon."

Narumi retracted his gaze and looked at Shiina Miyo, who was sitting opposite and had just woken up.

He was pondering a question.

If he gets married to another girl in the future, will it be the first time to kiss?

Or Shiina Miyo has a bolder wish that she wants to realize in her dreams, and if she wants to return to reality, she must follow her ideas......

Lying on the small table, Shiina Weiyang, who was still immersed in a dream, raised his head and noticed his gaze. He smiled, looked at him directly, and then narrowed his eyes with a look of satisfaction and happiness.

Terrible.

His heart raced a little.

The favorability of the girl in front of me is gradually rising.

"Narumi-san, I'm hungry, and Shiina-san...... The two of you have been asleep since shortly after getting in the car and have been sleeping until now. Natsume-sensei kindly left a lunch box for them.

At noon, waiters push carts back and forth between the carriages.

Mostly rice balls, sushi, and set meals, which have a mediocre taste but are easy to fill.

Narumi takes the pork chop rice away, and the other set meal with tempura, eel, and umeboshi vegetables is left for Shiina Miyo.

Natsume-sensei looked at them, and the more he looked at them, the more he felt that something was wrong.

Then he looked at Asahi Kurako, who was also observing, and seemed to think of something indescribable, and a touch of crimson appeared on his face.

Asahi Kurako was stunned, not keeping up with her teacher's train of thought, but she also quickly thought of that possibility.

And she knows that the two live together, and she thinks of more things.

As the train passed through the tunnel, the light in the carriage suddenly dimmed, making the light of the game console in Kontamura's hand stand out.

“…… Omada-san, although it's summer vacation, it's a bit inappropriate for me to say that, but after such a long time, it's time to take a break from your eyes. ”

"Finish this boss! It was passed in no time. ”

As a teacher, Natsume Huayi was still speaking softly and persuading, and the Asahi class leader of Class C in the second year of high school had already snatched the game console in his hand.

"Ahh Just a glimmer of blood. ”

"I'll help you finish."

As soon as Kondamura wanted to resist, he met Asahi Kurako's imposing eyes, and involuntarily weakened a little, and retracted his hand.

"This boss can only take rebound damage, I've reached the third stage, pay attention to dodging the orb and then hit it back with the sword."

"I know."

While the tunnel was dim, the attention of the other three was on the glowing game console again.

Shiina Mio took the opportunity to push the bento box in front of Narumi Yu and put the two of them together. I grilled eel with sauce on top of Narumi Yu's rice, and then I took a piece of pork chop back.

Asahi Kurako controls the villain in the game console, flexibly dodging the magic ball, but will not use the bounce to counter, and has not caused damage to the boss.

Natsume-sensei supervised them while also paying attention to the battle situation on the game console.

No one paid attention to them sitting by the window.

Shiina stuffed the snatched pork chops into his mouth, and took two more bites of rice, his cheeks bulging slightly like chipmunks.

provoked Narumi Yu to poke it.

He couldn't laugh or cry, but the roasted eel in the bento had to be solved, so he had to learn from Shiina and put the eel meat and some rice in his mouth.

The space in the mouth is stuffed, and it is a bit difficult to chew.

At the end of the tunnel, the train bursts out of the darkness and returns to the light.

Asahi Kurako, who found out that she really couldn't fight, returned the game console to Muraichi Konda and watched him skillfully fight back and kill the boss.

"You ...... So hungry? ”

Natsume-sensei saw two humanoid chipmunks.

Asahi Kurako of the Ministry of Information reacted sharply, quickly turned on her mobile phone, and took a photo of the two.

Card.

The two men who didn't have time to swallow food before exiting the tunnel were recorded in the photo album.

"The train was early, and I fell asleep in the morning without eating." Narumi swallowed the rice as hard as she could, and explained out loud as soon as possible.

"Where's Shiina-san?"

“……”

Before the girl could swallow the food in her mouth, she winked innocently at her teacher.

"I saw Narumi san eat like this, and I thought it would be more delicious......"

Natsume Hanari wasn't asking, but Asahi Kurako was still watching them.

As for whether their words were believed or not, Narumi Yu felt that at least Natsume-sensei believed it.

Muraichi Konda, who didn't have a game console to play, looked up at the inner wall of the carriage in a daze.

When passing by the scenery worth seeing, Asahi Kurako took his head with his hand to look at it.

Mr. Natsume was eating dried fruits and snacks while secretly taking pictures of them with his mobile phone, and he seemed to like the atmosphere.

None of the four of them looked inhibited in front of the teacher.

Although the reasons vary...... Asahi Kurako is the squad leader, Omada Village has a big nerve, Shiina Weiyang currently only has Narumi Yu in his eyes, and Narumi Yu himself is still thinking about how to destroy the photos in Asahi Kurako's mobile phone.

But after spending more than a year at Mikagehama High School, in the end, the four of them got together to form a small circle, and there was always a reason for the good relationship.

"Everyone, let's play a game!"

Mr. Natsume quietly turned off the search page on the phone screen, turned off the screen and put it aside, clapping his hands together on his chest,

"A person describes an event in one sentence, and then someone else keeps asking questions to guess the whole story, but the questions asked can only be answered with words like 'yes', 'no', 'uncertain', 'unimportant'."

"Turtle soup?" After listening to the description, Asahi Kurako was the first to ask rhetorically.

"That's right, turtle soup."

"Wow! Last year's bonfire was held, and they pulled me to play. As if remembering, Konda Murakazu clenched his left hand into a fist and hammered down the palm of his right hand.

"Yamao-san? It turns out that the guy's confession was made through turtle soup. ”

"Ahem!" The topic suddenly deviated from the topic, and Natsume-sensei coughed and interrupted their discussion, "Do you want to come and play?" ”

"Is it okay to have any type of question?" Narumi understands the rules of the game, but for a while she can't think of interesting topics and plans to be lazy.

"Well, anything goes."

"I'm fine."

"Is it okay if you can't guess the question?" Shiina was obviously lazier than him, and raised his little hand to ask.

"Let's make a question for everyone, and it's okay to have a simple question."

"Oh......"

Thus, multiplayer games that could be played anywhere for the purpose of killing time began.

"That'...... I'm a teacher, so I'll start with the questions. Natsume-sensei looked at the four people who were all ready and said with a smile.

The train runs parallel to a river, and when you look out the window, you can see a clear blue sky and a slender cloud of airplanes across the riverbank.

"Why is a guy 30 meters away from his car, but he only walks five steps before getting into the car?"

"Are there any paranormal events?" Veteran turtle soup player Asahi Kurako was the first to ask.

“…… No. ”

"That...... I think about it, when I played with Yamao and the others, the first thing those guys asked was ......" Murakazu Konda tried to think back to the events of half a year ago, and was somewhat impressed, "I remember—is there a second person in the story?" ”

"No...... What are you all asking? Natsume-sensei's eyes were a little flustered, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

"It's neither supernatural nor suspense......" Asahi Kurako summed up the clue.

"Did he ride the bike first and then change the car?" The third person is Shiina Miao.

"It's not."

"Is thirty meters what we think of in the real world?" Narumi Yu.

"Yes."

"In a wheelchair?" Muraichi Konda.

"You can walk five steps in a wheelchair, right?!"

Asahi Kurako retorted to him, and then fell into thought,

"His car stopped on the ramp, he didn't brake, he took five steps and the car slid off the slope?"

"It's not."

"The hero came out of the house and went to drive his own car, right?" Shiina Miyo.

"Yes."

Looking at Narumi Yu in a daze outside the car window, I felt that the topic was a little boring.

As early as the end of the first round, he probably guessed the answer.

"It's Narumi-san's turn." Natsume-sensei reminded him.

Well, it's time to get to the end.

"Thirty meters is a vertical distance, right?,The hero's car is parked downstairs.,He took the elevator downstairs.,Walked five steps to the front of the car.。

"That's right! Narumi guessed correctly...... But how did you guess it? It's amazing. Natsume-sensei showed surprise and encouraged his students.

"That's right, obviously your house is also a family, and I didn't even think of this when I live in an apartment building."

"I was in the same situation not long ago." Narumi Yu casually found a reason.

This topic makes use of the inertia of human thinking.

Coupled with the current neon, very few people live in apartment buildings with a height of more than 30 meters, so it is still a bit difficult.

"Okay, Narumi-san gets a point~ Who's going to be the next one?"

Asahi Kurako, who couldn't be the first to guess the answer, asked Shiina Weiyang to borrow a piece of drawing paper and a pencil, showing a serious attitude of playing.

"I'll do it!"

So Okita Mura volunteered and cleared his throat,

"A writer who released a pigeon on deadline, but the editors are very grateful to him, why is that?"

"Muruichi, I've seen that anime." After listening to the question, Narumi couldn't wait to give herself a chance to be lazy, "I'll not guess yet, you guys come." ”

"Ah...... Damn, I thought I could stump you. ”

“……”

Ignoring the few people who continued to play the game, he turned his gaze out the car window.

Looking at the river, looking at the rice fields and villages, the train makes a slight turn and passes through a mountain forest.

That's what he likes, a good way to spend time.

As I walked through the dense forest, there was a sound of untrimmed branches and leaves sweeping on the car windows.

The train passed by startled birds until it passed through the woods and could be seen in the sky.

Of course, it's more likely to be a different flock of birds.

Ten minutes later, Murakazu Konda's question continued, and no one had guessed the answer to the riddle.

Asahi Kurako's drawing paper was full of clues, and she was completely immersed in thought.

The question is a play on words.

The meaning of "releasing pigeons" is actually "opening the skylight", a skylight in the real sense.

They who have never been light writers and have not experienced the tense and exciting atmosphere before the deadline will not enter the thinking mistake and should be able to guess it quickly.

He thought about it, took out his phone, and sent the question to the four people who were there with him, Yayoi Akizao, and the two editors.

[March 7: What is it?] ]

[Yu Murakami: Turtle soup.] ]

[March 7: Turtle Soup ......?] ]

So he introduced the gameplay of turtle soup again.

The next moment, he was pushed up by a series of angry messages from Wen Mura You.

[You: How is that possible?!] ]

[You: If you don't lock him in a small black room, eat one meal a day, and don't go out until you finish writing, you're already benevolent and righteous!] ]

[Yu: Does Mr. Murakami have such thoughts?!]

As an editor, I will not allow it! ]

[Yu Murakami: What is Yayoi-san doing now?] ]

[March 7: Nothing, resting.] ]

This was followed by a private message.

[March 7: When will you arrive?] The room is ready, have you bought everything you need for camping in the mountains? ]

[Yu: I arrived at eight or nine o'clock in the evening, and then we went over, and the camping equipment, except for some convenient ones, was planned to be bought in the town.] ]

[March 7: Okay.] ]

Switching back to the group chat, Yu Fumimura is still giving his passionate speech, and Shinichi Kamigawa joins in, mentioning words such as "responsibility", "basic literacy of authors", and "only authors who deliver on time can write better works".

I don't care about the topic itself at all.

Yayoi Akiha's message was inserted in it, interrupting their speeches and asking Narumi Yu.

[March 7: The phrase "releasing the pigeons" here is actually "opening the skylight."] ]

[You:......]

[God: ......]

[Yu: Yes.] ]

[March 7: When the author submits the manuscript, he finds that there is no ventilation in the editorial room and no toxic gases are emitted, so he opens the skylight and saves the editors. ]

[Yuu: It's worthy of being a genius beautiful girl writer.] ]

[March 7: It's the title that's too simple.] ]

[Yu: So, some editors should reflect on why the first thing that comes to mind when they see the title is to criticize the author.] ]

[You:......]

Back in the train car, the soup base was finally guessed by Asahi Kurako.

The angry squad leader gave Kondamura a violent buckle.

"Who would have a barbecue in their office!"

"That's the question in the anime, you can't blame me!"

"Then you can't change it?"

"Can't think of it, you're coming?"

“……”

Asahi Kurako sat back in her seat and thought about it,

"Guess where the name of the game 'Turtle Soup' comes from — a boy walks into a restaurant, drinks a bowl of turtle soup, and then kills himself."

"Don't be a scary type of question!" Teacher Natsume reacted very much, and righteously vetoed, "It's night after we get to the station, and everyone will have nightmares when they rest in a strange hotel." ”

"The teacher knows this soup...... Then change it," Asahi Kurako's eyes lit up as she swept her gaze over Yu Narumi and Miyo Shiina.

"There it is." She said, "One person took away something that was unique to another person, and yet the latter didn't get angry, what happened?" ”