Chapter 44: The Beginning of October

Rustle, rustle –

The tip of the pen is slowly moving on the paper.

Condensed with confidence or hesitation, every step leaves a unique footprint.

Rustle –

The same movement appeared in every corner of the classroom of Class C in the year, and even in all the classes of the prefectural Tsu High School.

The time was around 3 o'clock in the afternoon, and the first comprehensive examination of the second semester had come to an end.

[3.In the early days of the Edo shogunate, what impact did the outbreak of the Shimabara War have on the spread of foreign religions in Japan? 】

Naruse thought for half a second, and the answer popped into his mind.

"Well, the key word should be 'temple invitation system'."

He held the pen and the answers flowed out on the paper without hindrance.

After answering this last question, Naruse put down his pen, swept the eraser scraps on the test paper again, and exhaled softly.

It's over.

The Japanese history exam, as well as all the exams from yesterday and today, are all over.

Looking at the clock on the wall, there were about twenty minutes left before the exam.

The other students were still immersed in answers, and all he could see was a wrinkled face.

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Sensing his gaze, Naoko glanced up at him, then at the exam paper on his desk, and pouted slightly.

Naruse smiled comfortingly and quickly turned back.

Relaxing his body, emptying his brain, and resting for a while, he turned the test paper back to the first page and began to check.

I checked it all and found nothing that needed to be changed.

A few minutes later, the bell rang and the teacher on the podium stood up and announced the end of the exam.

A series of coughs and sighs rang out in the classroom.

"It's over...... It ended in many senses. ”

"It's really hard."

"Is this kind of topic really not out of scope?"

Taking the test paper in the back seat and sending it forward with his own test paper, Naruse looked at Hikaru Takigawa again.

She was in a daze after handing out the test paper, her eyes were empty, and she didn't know where to look.

"Light?"

"The more time I spent learning about it, the more I enjoyed basketball."

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The commotion after the exam didn't last long, and Nakahara Yuki, who served as a teacher, quickly came to the classroom and explained something.

"Next Monday, the exam results will come out, so it's useless to show that expression now. But until then......"

A few minutes later, the evening shift meeting ended, and Nakahara Xue walked out of the classroom with the attendance book, and the students below packed up their things and left one after another.

Naruse stayed in his seat, once again worrying about the problems he had considered when he first started school.

"Is it going to be a three-way talk next week...... She probably won't have time to come back. ”

Song Qianqiu has been away from Tianjin for more than a month, and the crew has been preparing for so long, and filming officially started more than a week ago, which is the busiest time in the early days.

"β€”Harumi, are you going to the ministry?"

He turned his head to look at Naoko, who had already packed his things, "Three sides, will they come back?" ”

Naoko was stunned and nodded slowly.

"Will be back. One day's time, I can still draw it. ”

"I was thinking that I might have to ask Naoko's father or mother to attend the three-way meeting for me." Naruse said.

Naoko was not surprised, "Mom and Dad won't refuse...... If there is time. ”

"Well, we'll talk about it then."

In addition, even if he knew that Song Qianqiu would not come back, he would have to contact her when he returned home.

Hikaru Takikawa walked around outside the classroom, calling friends and friends, and when he came back, he had already gotten rid of the state of being stunned just now.

"Haruhae, Naoko, after the exam, do you want to go out and relax together? It just so happens that tomorrow is the weekend. ”

Naruse was about to leave with his bag in his hand, "Next time." ”

Hikaru Takikawa braced his arm and blocked the back door, finally complaining after being perfunctory countless times: "Say next time every time." ”

"Hikari ......" Naoko looked at her, and then at Naruse.

"In the past few days, exams and club activities have been suspended, so I have to go there to have a look today." Naruse said, "Hikari also knows that Naoko has formed a new club. ”

β€œβ€¦β€¦ All right. ”

Hikaru Takikawa lowered his arm, "Every invitation is denied, and I am very shameless." ”

Naruse smiled.

"By all means next time."

"That's what Harumi said last time."

"This time I promise."

"You wait."

Hikaru Takikawa took out his phone, clicked it a few times, and reached out to him, "Say it again." ”

Naruse glanced at the screen.

[Recording]

"Say it."

β€œβ€¦β€¦ I promise Hikari will invite me out next time, and if there is no emergency, I will definitely go. ”

Hikaru Takikawa reluctantly put away his phone satisfied, "It's hard work." ”

Naruse shook his head speechlessly, pulled the smiling Naoko, and went to the club.

Seeing the two of them go down the stairs in the middle, Hikaru Takikawa looked at Class E over there.

She still remembers the incident that Naruse told at the cultural festival.

Greeting a few girls he met in the hallway, Hikaru Takikawa came to the E class classroom, just as someone came out of the back door.

"Wow."

She stood still, unable to hold back her voice, "One leaf ......"

Morimi Kazuha had a calm face, and his whole body was shrouded in an aura that no one could approach, like a walking block of ice.

Hikaru Takikawa understood at once.

"Ichiha also failed the test."

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In the end, it was friends who grew up together, and Mori was in a bad mood at this time, so he simply rolled his eyes neatly.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry~"

Hikaru Takikawa didn't care at all, and when he raised his arm, he put his arm around her shoulder.

"Let him go as he passes. Do you want to go and relax, call the starfish together. ”

Morimi struggled slightly, a little unaccustomed to her excessive intimacy, and then sighed again.

"Forget it today, next time."

"Oops, even the excuses are the same as Harumi." Hikaru Takikawa almost took out her phone and asked her to record it too.

Hearing her mention Naruse, Morimi sank his face again.

"That guy ......"

"Huh?"

"No, nothing. This exam revealed a lot of problems, so I went back first. ”

"Okay, be careful on the road."

When he was about to leave, Morimi suddenly remembered Takigawa Hikatsu's plan to come to Class E.

Turning her head, she was indeed looking for the starfish that was still in her seat.

These two have really been close lately......

Morimi shook his head.

If you don't have time to take care of yourself, don't worry about it so much.

What's more, whether it's Hikari, or her friends, it's more reassuring than those hot girls.

She reminded herself in her heart, lifted the bag on her shoulder again, and turned to leave.

"Failed the test?"

The starfish lay on the table, without raising her head, and muffled.

"It should be said that 'stable play' is right...... This time I will definitely have to retake the exam again. ”

"Haha."

Hikaru Takikawa laughed, "Since you are destined to take the make-up exam, let's go relax now." ”

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The starfish lay on its stomach for a moment, looked up, and finally smiled a little.

"Just that's right, there's no point in dwelling on it now. Let's go play! ”

"I want to open it."

Hikaru Takikawa waited for her to pack up her things while scanning the classroom in Class E.

Those hot girl friends of Starfish have all left.

"Let's go. Where are we going? ”

"Where do starfish want to go?"

"Everything."

"Hmm...... There are also a few friends waiting at the school gate, let's discuss it together. ”

On the other side, Naruse and Naoko walked through the connecting corridor to the annex building, where they climbed two more floors.

It was only when they reached the depths of this level that the two stopped.

The official or unified door plate with other societies has not yet been made, and in its place is a wooden board with a length of nearly two meters, which was made by Rina Ogawa herself.

【Department of Restoration of Everything】

"Speaking of which, today is the first club activity in October."

"After all, all grades were preparing for the exam a few days ago."

Naruse touched the huge door number, and Naoko took out the key and opened the door to the department.

"Come in."

The Department of Restoration of All Things,It's a new club founded by Naoko during the cultural festival.,The current members are all her friends at the handicraft club.,Except for Naruse.。

Because the time of establishment is a little embarrassing, neither early nor late, the location of the activity department that can be assigned is relatively remote.

Fortunately, the members of the department didn't care much.

Walking into the department, although the club has only been established for a few days, there are already a lot of handmade works in it, with different styles, which is very attractive.

"The handicraft club is about to be emptied." Naruse said. After the festival, he didn't go there again.

Naoko smiled and shook her head again.

"Chunhai underestimates the historical accumulation of the handicraft society."

He sat down, pulled out a novel he had borrowed from the school library, and read it.

The purpose of the Restoration Department is to make the most of their own strengths and try their best to repair the treasured items for others, in other words, most of the time in the department is relatively free.

"When you don't have a commission, you can just do your own thing." At the first plenary meeting of the Ministry of Restoration, Minister Naoko said.

Naturally, there are no mandatory requirements for attendance.

And today, although there is a unified exam for the whole school, after school, there are still many people here.

The first person to come over was Rina Ogawa.

"You're here."

She looked at the door and looked at the door number she had carved before entering the department.

"Sister Ogawa."

"There was no one when I came over just now, so I went downstairs and sat down for a while. Ah...... I've been stared at by Ritsuko, and I don't dare to move my head, and as soon as I turn my head, she will pounce and swallow me in my stomach. ”

Naoko just laughed at her joke and didn't say anything.

The same goes for Naruse.

Almost all of the current members of the restoration department are the backbone of the handicraft club, and on the day he attended the celebration party at the izakaya, he heard that the two girls at the handicraft club almost fought, and there must have been a lot of conflict.

However, he didn't ask, and Naoko didn't tell him in detail.

In the face of the opposition in the community, she found a third solution besides enduring and direct confrontation, and seemed to enjoy it, and he would only give it his full support.

After another moment, other members of the department also came to the department one after another.

Talking and laughing with each other and doing what they like is no different from when they were at the craft club, but the atmosphere is much more relaxed than there is.

"Naoko."

A second-grade girl sat next to her with a bag, then took out her laptop and placed it in front of her.

"Yasuoka-senpai, this is ......"

"The web page I told Naoko before has been almost made, so I'll show you the effect first. If that's fine, you're ready to go. ”

Naruse, who was sitting not far away, also turned his head to look over.

Yasuoka turned on the computer and skillfully opened a web page to introduce Naoko.

"That's the general layout...... When the time comes, some photos will be put here as an introduction, and the content will be mainly repaired things, and Naoko will choose it herself;

Here's the range of things we can help with right now, such as clothing, puppets, less complex electronics, and other things that can be refurbished......

Click here to make an order by filling out a request form. Once you have completed your submission, the contents of the form will be sent to the email address you have set up. ”

Naoko's eyes stared unblinking, nodding from time to time, and responding with a mumm-humm-hmm.

After introducing the content of the entire web page, Yasuoka said:

"At that time, through the operation of the student union, our website will be hung on the school homepage of Tianjin High School, and all visitors will be able to see it. In this way, the visibility of the restoration department can be greatly increased - the excellent publicity opportunity of the cultural festival is missed, and now we can only make up for it by doing as much as possible. ”

"Great...... Thank you, Yasuoka-san. Naoko thanked her solemnly.

With a wave of her hand, she turned her notebook around her, scrolling up and down the page.

"Don't rush to say thank you just yet. After reading it, what do you think, is there anything that needs to be improved in terms of the content or design of the website? ”

"Hmm...... I think the title text here could be enlarged a little bit. ”

"OK~ It's still very simple to modify the font size. How's that? ”

"Bigger."

"No problem."

"Hmm...... A little bigger? ”

"Good. So what? ”

"Seems too big, a little smaller?"

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When Yasuoka raised her eyebrows and took a deep breath, Naruse immediately got up and went over and made a decision for Naoko.

"That's it."

"Spring Sea ......"

Naoko also quickly recovered from the entanglement, so the next parts that were not a big problem were basically passed with a few glances.

"So be it."

Senior Sister Yasuoka put away her laptop, "The materials to be used for publicity, Naoko will send them to me as soon as possible." ”

"Okay."

Yasuoka Senpai left, and Naoko didn't have anything else to do for the time being, so she began to prepare materials.

When she was in the handicraft club, she helped repair a lot of puppets, and the other members were also good at handicrafts, and they also helped repair some items in and out of school to a greater or lesser extent.

"If you can get in touch, ask the other party to take a few photos." Naoko said to the staff, "It just so happens that tomorrow is the weekend. ”

After finishing her work here, she stayed for a while, and then left the department to find the person she had helped before.

Naruse did not accompany him, stayed in the ministry room and continued to read, and took out his mobile phone to take a look at it.

The message sent to Song Qianqiu before is still unread.

"It's really busy filming." He muttered and put away his phone.

And before Naoko came back, an unfamiliar face appeared at the door of the department of restoration.

"This is the Restoration Department, right?"

As soon as he entered the door, he was stared at by more than a dozen girls at the same time, he was startled, and subconsciously looked at the only boy in the department.

"Yes." Naruse had no choice but to answer and get up and go over.

"There are so many girls......"

He walked up to the boy, who was still looking inside the room.

"Is there something wrong?"

"I'm Gu Ze from Class A in the first year, and the people from the handicraft club asked me to come here...... Can you fix anything here? ”

Handicraft Society?

Naruse was a little surprised, and didn't ask in detail, "What do you want to repair?" ”

"Watch."

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It's a job of this kind of difficulty.

"Mechanical watch?"

"Huh? yes, I don't know much about the difference between mechanical watches and quartz watches......"

Gu Ze said as he took off the watch in his hand, "This is it." ”

Naruse took it and took a look, and the English on the dial was very unfamiliar, at least not the famous brands he had seen such as Patek Cuili, Lange & SΓΆhne or Vacheron Constantin.

"It's a mechanical watch."

"Oh. Although this watch is only a bargain, it is also a gift that my brother left me before he left abroad. After not wearing it for a while, the time error is getting bigger and bigger, and I don't understand what is going on...... Can you fix it? ”

The two did not lower their voices when they talked, and the other people in the department also heard it clearly, and Naruse asked with his eyes, and everyone shook their heads.

"It seems like it can't."

"That's right." Guzawa looked a little disappointed.

"Hmm...... Wait a minute. ”

Naruse stopped him as he turned around, "If you're not in a hurry, I can ask my friend to help you take a look - even if it can't be repaired, it will be returned to you as it is." ”

"Really?"

Gu Ze was very happy and handed over the watch directly, "Then please...... There shouldn't be a charge, right? ”

"If you don't need to replace any valuable parts, you won't be charged for Gu Ze's fees." Naruse said.

"That's good."

After thanking him and glancing at the room full of girls, Gu Ze left.

Naruse returned to the ministry with the watch, and the others were a little curious, so he handed over the watch and let them look at it at will.

"You can just leave it to us for repair, and it's a brand I've never heard of. Does Naruse still have friends who can repair watches? ”

"I know how to fix something, I don't know if the mechanical watch is in it."

"Don't know?" Rina Ogawa glanced at him, "Then you agreed so quickly." ”

Naruse took the watch, "After all, it was the first official commission after the establishment of the restoration department, and if you refuse to do anything, I always feel that it is not a good sign." ”

Rina Ogawa didn't say anything more.

Ten minutes later, Naoko returned to the department.

"How?"

"I found two people. They said they would help take a few pictures when they got back. ”

"That's good. But the dolls that Naoko has repaired, I can't tell where the patches are at all, where are the original ornaments, and if I use it for publicity, can ordinary people find out? Naruse said.

She smiled and seemed pleased.

"Then mark it on the photo."

After staying for more than half an hour, Naruse packed up his things and prepared to leave.

"I'm going to go to the second-hand shop and let Mr. Chaoyue see if this watch can be repaired."

Naoko also got up.

"Well, I'll go with Harumi."