Chapter Twenty-Seven: Visit the Pre-Owned Store Again
On Sunday morning, Naruse woke up and stayed in his room, looking through his notes.
Through the recent private investigation, coupled with some of the situations he has seen with his own eyes, he basically knows the current situation of Naoko in the community.
It's just that he thought about how to help her get out of this situation, but he still didn't have a definite idea.
As he told Starfish, despite being targeted by some of them, Naoko still has a lot of joy when she communicates and activities with other friends in the craft club.
Quitting the handicraft club, the gains outweigh the losses.
In that case, can you let the members of the handicraft club who are targeting Naoko quit?
After thinking about this line of thought for a while, Naruse found it even more difficult to execute.
Not to mention what means he was going to use to force those people to retreat, the number of personnel alone was enough to cause a shock in the entire handicraft society;
And with his relationship with Naoko, in the eyes of others, it is difficult not to connect this matter with her, and even think that she is in charge, and maybe it will backfire in the end, allowing the originally neutral members to stand on the other side......
Naruse let out a long breath, letting the thought dissipate with the exhaled breath.
Can only wait for the end of this school year, the members of Naoko voluntarily quit the department?
After all, the leaders are all second-year students, and according to the convention, they will basically choose to quit after being promoted to the third grade.
And if Naoko successfully takes over and becomes the next minister, it will be difficult for the rest of the students of the same level to become the climate.
Await...... Wait?
Naruse leaned back, leaning against the back of his chair.
As for the so-called settlement, he didn't think about it at all.
Naoko didn't do anything wrong.
After a moment's pause, footsteps came from the stairs. He put away his notes and took the book instead, and Naoko quickly opened the door and came in.
"Chunhai, the bus is almost here."
"Hmm."
Naruse got up and went downstairs, and when she was changing her shoes at the door, Naoko came over with an umbrella.
"It's likely to rain."
He looked out at the gloomy sky and took the umbrella.
After raging all night and one day, Typhoon No. 12 finally reluctantly turned around last night and drifted towards the Pacific Ocean.
Although the typhoon has been mostly sunny since its passing, it is difficult to say that it has completely left when you look at the dark clouds rolling outside.
Naruse stood up and picked up his umbrella, "I'm out of the house." β
Naoko greeted her at the door, "Be careful on the road." β
The uniform shop in Tsutemachi called yesterday to say that his new uniform had been made and that he could pick it up at any time.
And Naoko didn't go out with him because he had other things.
After waiting for a short time at the platform, Naruse got on the bus smoothly.
When he came to the city, he didn't forget the uniform shop he had been to once, and he quickly came to the door.
"Welcome."
"I'll get the uniform."
After a few minutes of waiting, Naruse finally got his full uniform at his new school.
There is a fitting room in the store where students can try on their uniforms so that they can adjust or even change them directly in the store.
Although he didn't think it was too necessary, if it really didn't fit, it would be a problem, so Naruse went into the fitting room and tried on all the summer clothes, winter clothes, and sportswear.
I changed back into my clothes and walked out of the fitting room, where the clerk greeted me.
"No problem, right? If you feel that the hem is too long, or something else that doesn't fit, you can propose it now. β
"No problem." Naruse shook his head, "It fits perfectly." β
"That's good."
The young female clerk smiled slightly, and stared at his face for a while, "I always feel that your face is somewhat similar to a certain celebrity." β
"Yes."
"But I can't tell which male star it is...... Is it my delusion? The female clerk looked at him and said.
Naruse just smiled, and didn't remind her to change her mind and consider the female star.
Carrying his uniform and leaving, he still had a lot of time in the morning, and he was going to go to the second-hand shop at Central Station to shop again.
"I hope to open today......"
In the past two days, the typhoon has been raging, and there are already few people going out, and some small shops have simply closed their doors, and Naruse only hopes that the second-hand store is not among them.
Coming to the vicinity of the station, he searched for a moment and breathed a sigh of relief.
The shop is still open.
Standing at the counter was no longer the same college girl from last time, but a young man. He was busy with his head down, and he glanced up at the movement when he heard the movement, a little surprised.
"Welcome."
Naruse nodded, walked into the store, and found a pile of disassembled parts in front of him, and he was holding an electric soldering iron in his hand, apparently repairing.
βGame Boy AdvanceοΌβ Naruse paused to look at it for a moment, recognizing the original body of the pile of parts by the shell next to it.
"Hmm."
The shopkeeper replied and looked at him again, "This machine is too old, and several capacitors on the motherboard are broken." β
Capacitance......
Naruse glanced at the small cylinders placed next to him, "Are you changing?" β
Second-hand shops recycle old items, usually do some maintenance or repairs, and then sell them.
"Hmm."
The shopkeeper nodded, then stopped and looked at him for a moment, "Do you know me?" β
Naruse was stunned, "I don't know." β
"Oh." He replied simply, not saying anything else.
Naruse had no choice but to ask, "Are you?" β
"I'm the owner of this second-hand shop, Chao Yueming."
The other party continued: "I only remember things, but I can't remember people, but I think you seem to be a little familiar, so I think it may be a guest who has been here before." β
They hadn't really seen each other before, and Naruse guessed the reason and couldn't help but smile.
"I came once, but it was a female college student who hosted me."
Chao Yueming thought for a while, "That's Xiao Tao, my junior in college." β
Naruse didn't know him, so he didn't say anything.
The second-hand shopkeeper looked at the bag in his hand again.
"What's that?"
"This?" Naruse lifted it up, "The uniform of the prefectural Tsugar." β
"We don't accept normal clothes here. If you're looking for a second-hand clothing store, there seems to be one in Totemachi. β
ββ¦β¦β
Naruse couldn't laugh or cry.
"It's not for sale."
"That's right." Chao Yueming nodded, without the slightest embarrassment, and picked up the soldering iron again and continued to be busy, "Please take a look." β
Strange shopkeeper, Naruse thought to himself.
But that's fine, he doesn't like to be disturbed by enthusiasm when he walks around a second-hand store.
"Can this be put here?"
"Please."
Putting the uniform she had just gotten at the counter, Naruse walked around the store.
Although he had already wandered around the corners of the corner the last time he came, he was immersed in the old things that surrounded him, and he still felt that he was still interested.
This time, he noticed some details: some of the second-hand items will be specially marked on the label that they have been repaired.
If nothing else, it should be the handiwork of the shopkeeper Chao Yueming.
As he passed the front desk again, he stopped to look at it for a while.
The GBA console had been repaired, assembled and set aside, and now it was being disassembled with an even older radio.
Naruse looked at the side, there was an undated amplifier on the ground, and a guitar, and asked casually, "Does Mr. Chaoyue fix anything?" β
Chao Yueming shook her head, screwdriver in her hand, "I can't repair a machine with too complex internal mechanism, and I can't fix anything that can't replace the material." β
Removing all the screws, he uncovered the casing of the radio and then looked at Naruse: "Do you have anything to fix?" β
"Nope."
Naruse remembered that there seemed to be some old electrical appliances at home, but there was no need to repair them, and the warehouse space was sufficient, so he didn't bother to sell them.
"Yes."
Chao Yueming continued to repair the radio, and Naruse turned his head to look at the slightly cramped small second-hand shop, and a thought suddenly flashed in his heart.
- If only he could open a second-hand shop like this.
Buzzing.
The phone on the counter vibrates.
Chao Yueming was holding the circuit board that he had just removed in his hand, and he was a little hurried for a moment, but he quickly calmed down.
"Hello...... Yes, I'm Chaoyue from the second-hand shop. Eh, huh...... I want it. β
It seems that business has come, Naruse thought to himself.
Hanging up the phone, Chao Yueming held the phone with some hesitation on her face.
"Someone over there in Soma wanted to sell a record player, and I wanted to take it, but the other party asked to collect it myself...... So, can you show me the store for a while? β
Naruse was stunned.
"Huh?"