Friday, afternoon.

A pickup truck drove into Tsudaka, slowed down for a moment, and stopped behind the school building.

The driver got out of the car, looked up at the simple greenhouse covered with blue tarpaulin, and then looked at the busy students below, and waited for a while, and found that no one came to unload the goods, and he was a little surprised.

Casually pulling a passing student, he asked, "Where is the person in charge of your side, the wood has been delivered." ”

With that, he pointed to the truck behind him.

"Uh...... You wait. ”

The students he was holding him were quick to run away, and after a while, several more students hurried over and circled his van.

"Is that all?"

"Yes, it's okay to unload it." The driver said.

"Do you have to move in by yourself?" He heard one of the girls mutter.

"Unloading and moving, there is an extra amount of money. Do you need it? ”

The girl grimaced at her companion and didn't say anything.

"I'm going to call some boys." Another said.

"Girls can move too."

"It looks heavy, huh?"

"It's not heavy." The driver said, "If it's too heavy, how can you lift it as a lantern base?" ”

The girl who had spoken before dragged a bundle of wood with her companion and tried it, and found that it was not too heavy, so they lifted it together.

"Such a long piece of wood, you have to cut it, how many are there in each class?"

"Divide what, let them get it themselves, and we'll just carry it to the temporary warehouse and put it away."

"Oooh."

After a few trips back and forth, the planks behind the pickup truck were all moved, and the driver took the receipt from the cab and asked someone to sign it.

"Eh, sign? I can't, team leader...... Eh, what about the team leader? ”

The student who was pulled was a little at a loss, looked left and right, and suddenly pointed to the teaching building next to him.

"You go to the executive committee on the second floor and find someone to sign it."

"It's so troublesome......"

The driver muttered, looked up again, and didn't know which window was where he was talking.

I wanted to ask more clearly, but the person had already run away, so he had to go upstairs first.

As he passed under one of the greenhouses, a striking golden color caught his eye.

Looking over, it was a blonde girl who was too beautiful to talk to, sitting cross-legged on the plastic sheeted floor, her eyes wide open, like an elf who had strayed into this place.

"Real wood, the people from the executive committee said that the wood was delivered, you can carry it with me."

"Huh? Wood? Can we two girls move it......"

"It's light, come here."

"Okay."

Starfish got up to keep up with his classmates, and then looked at the middle-aged man walking outside, not paying attention.

When I came to the temporary warehouse, there was a pile of freshly delivered wood on the plastic sheet.

"Lift that head."

"Oh." Starfish walked in and lifted the other end of the wood with her, and found that it wasn't too heavy.

"Do you need that much?"

"You can use it, you need a lot of wood just to support the base, and you have to make a support ...... Uh, structure. ”

The female classmates who came with her were more powerful, and they could even lift one hand and gesture in mid-air with the other.

Starfish still remembers the design drawings she had seen before, and can roughly understand what she is anaglyzing.

"It's that high."

"Pretty much."

The timber was moved to the greenhouse where Class C was located, and there were piles of things all over the floor, and it took a while to clean it up.

"Let's put it here for now."

"Oh."

Starfish put down the wood and shook his arm slightly.

Although it is not very heavy, it is still a bit laborious to carry such a long way over.

Before getting back to work, she took a break and glanced at one of the second-floor windows.

"Eh......"

In the window, the person she wanted to see also leaned over and looked around.

He quickly looked this way, his eyes facing each other, he paused briefly, and then looked away.

Are you looking for someone......

I was looking for someone, but I didn't find it.

After scanning around again, there was still no result, and then looked at the place where the starfish was standing just now, and found that she was also gone, and Naruse was even more annoyed in his heart.

Of course, he wasn't angry with her.

"Little brother."

Behind him, the driver transporting the timber urged again, "It's confirmed, you can sign for it." ”

Naruse turned around, glancing at the chaotic activity room before looking at the driver in front of him.

"I see the wood, but the quantity and quality need to be further confirmed, please wait a little longer."

"Just sign a thing!"

"This is the material we want to use at the Tsutaka Festival, and we can't be sloppy."

While secretly scolding the leader of the missing item group in his heart, he squeezed out a little smile on his face, and so on, Naruse felt that he was already a little schizophrenic.

"It's quick to confirm, it won't be too long. Excuse me. ”

"Hey! I have something else to give......"

The truck driver sighed and frowned again, and made no secret of his displeasure in front of a room full of high school students.

But no one had time to talk to him, everyone was busy.

One of the tall bespectacled girls glanced at him and then looked at the laptop in front of him, the keyboard crackling.

The work was piled up, and Naruse didn't have time to go down to confirm it himself, not to mention that the pile of wood had already been taken and divided.

looked at the other people in the activity room, and it seemed that they were all free, so he had to find the contact information of the item team leader by himself and call the other party.

It's just that no one answered the phone for a long time, so he grabbed his hair and took a deep breath.

The truck driver was still watching him, and Naruse couldn't just sign for it without knowing anything about it—it was someone else's business.

He was going to go down and ask himself, at least in the right amount.

"I'll go down and see ......"

Just as he was about to walk out of the activity room, someone outside ran in and almost bumped into him.

"Wow!"

The other party took two steps back, and immediately leaned in, still holding his mobile phone in his hand, "Chairman, do you have something to look for me?" ”

“……”

His gaze wandered around his face, his gaze swept over the sweat on his forehead, Naruse swallowed his dissatisfaction, nodded quickly, and didn't ask him why he didn't answer the phone.

"This batch of wood for the second grade has also been delivered, did you just confirm it?"

"Confirmed. The quantity is right, and the quality is not a problem. ”

"Okay." Naruse breathed a sigh of relief, and motioned to the truck driver who had been waiting next to him for a long time, "Sign for it." ”

"Ah, I'm looking for him! I was just told to ......."

"It's fine." Naruse patted him on the shoulder, "Let's explain later, let's do things first." ”

"Okay."

After solving the problem here, he turned around, and there were still a lot of invisible problems waiting for him in the seat, and Naruse was anxious.

Today is Friday, and preparations for the Tsugaraka Festival have been underway for a week.

The first two days were relaxed, but by the third day there was nothing left.

He was looking forward to the feedback on the work of the various groups, but he didn't expect the feedback to come so violently and strongly, and he was directly overwhelmed.

He struggled to show his head through the crowd of questions, only to realize that it was Thursday.

Flooded again, struggled out again, Friday......

"Chairman?"

Morimi in front of the notebook looked at it, but his hand didn't stop.

“……”

Naruse shook his head, quickly sat back in his seat, and continued to look through the propaganda materials handed to him by the propaganda team ten minutes ago, and he didn't know how many versions of the propaganda materials he had handed over.

Just looking at it, his heart tugged again.

He felt that he didn't make any tricky requests, but just asked them to explain the Tsutaka Festival, which had been going on for more than 100 years, in a simple and easy-to-use leaflet.

However, every time he called back, the expression on the face of the leader of the propaganda team made him doubt this.

Could it really be that he is too demanding?

"Show me."

Morimi suddenly leaned over.

Naruse gave her the promotional materials in her hand and glanced at the computer in front of her, "How is the budget being summed up?" ”

Morimi frowned, thinking she was in trouble, and she threw the things in her hand onto the table.

"What's this about?"

“……”

Naruse glanced at the head of the propaganda team who shrank next to the printer, and said quietly: "Of course, it's the promotional materials of the Tsugaraka Festival." ”

"Shouldn't the focus be on Tsugara and Tsutaka Matsuri? This large section of the content of the Tzuzen apples is an advertisement for the orchard? It's not apple picking season yet. ”

He already understood her intentions, "When it comes to Tsumae, I have to mention the apples of Tsumae." ”

"Are you confused too?"

Morimi sneered, "Does this have anything to do with the Tsugaraka Festival?" If you get the leaflet and see the description of this large section of Tsuzen apples, will you buy an apple and watch the lantern parade while eating it? ”

"It's a little bit wrong about the point......

"No, it's a complete mistake."

Naruse sighed and raised his voice: "Akihara-san." ”

Kana Akihara, the head of the propaganda team who had been eavesdropping for a long time, finally turned to look at him openly, "Chairman......"

"There is still a gap between this information and what I want, please change it again."

was scolded by the cold-faced accounting team leader next to him without naming her, she couldn't say a word, and nodded in response.

Naruse couldn't put his mind at ease.

He promised quickly, but the problem just didn't change, he didn't know how many times he had learned in the past two days, so he had to say more.

"Akihara-san, if you are not good at this kind of style, you can 'refer to' last year's promotional materials, the focus is to learn the structure, and you can say anything about the choice of words and sentences."

"Okay......

"—do you really understand?"

Morimi spoke again, "Next Monday, the chairman of the committee will visit the mayor and be interviewed by the TV station together. If we don't even have a handy flyer, I think a lot of people will be disappointed in us. ”

“……”

The face of the head of the propaganda team suddenly turned red.

"Yiye, that's a point." Naruse spoke.

Morimi folded his arms and did not speak.

"There are still two or three days to go, and I'm sure Akihara-san won't embarrass me." Naruse said.

Kana Akihara lowered her head.

"Then please."

After a short while, seeing her get up and rummage through the promotional materials of previous years, Naruse was really relieved.

He and Sen saw that one sang with a red face and the other with a white face, and the yin and yang were weird for a long time, and it finally played a role.

"Why is there only one of her left in the propaganda group......" Morimi leaned over and whispered.

"Others have gone to paint posters and put up posters."

Naruse leaned over and lowered his voice as well, "The activity room is such a big place, you can't all be crowded here." ”

"She was the one who stayed...... I remember that her art level is quite high, but after reading it in the past two days, it is really not good to write articles. ”

"The propaganda group is pretty much the same." Naruse said, "She may still be the best among them." ”

Morimi sighed, and his eyes suddenly rolled again, looking at him:

"I've carried a lot of black pots for you in the past two days. Whoever you want to scold, I've scolded you at least once. ”

"Miss Yiye, isn't this her true color?"

"Then I'll usually hide." Morimi sneered, "I don't know how many people hate me in their hearts now." ”

"Then have you had enough scolding?"

She snorted, "It's okay." ”

"Then we all have gains, and we're even."

Naruse sat up straight again, distanced himself, and his voice returned to normal.

"So, how's the budget coming together?"

Morimi also entered the working state, "There is a problem. ”

Naruse looked at her.

"I checked with the team members, and there is no problem with this part of the budget we made, but there are many deviations in the data compiled by the student council. It's a problem on their side. ”

Hearing that the student union was involved again, Naruse had a headache, "Then you go find their accountant." There's a lot to report next Monday, and the budget is one of them, so hurry up. ”

"Yes, Chairman."

Morimi got up, closed the computer, left the aisle next to him and rubbed past him, and waved to him at the door.

Naruse raised his hand and continued to work.

After glancing at his focused side face for a few moments, Morimi hugged the computer and turned to leave.

The activity room of the student council is on the third floor, and when I came to the staircase, Morimi went upstairs, and there was a rush of footsteps from below, which was somewhat familiar.

She glanced down.

"Light."

"Huh? …… One leaf. ”

Hearing the voice, Hikaru Takikawa raised his head and took a few steps up, "Do you want to go back to the classroom?" ”

"No, I have something to do to go to the student union."

"That look on your face...... Looking for faults? ”

She smiled, "Almost." ”

"Then I'll be with you."

Hikaru Takikawa followed.

The two continued to go upstairs, and Morimi asked, "Don't you have anything else to do, I see you were in a hurry just now." ”

"There's something, but I'm not in a hurry, I'll look for Chunhai later."

"He's busy right now."

"Yes, there are a lot of questions."

When he came to the student union, Morimi got straight to the point and quickly connected with the accountant of the student union.

The student president and vice president were out to get busy, and Hikaru Takikawa was chatting with the secretary who stayed behind.

"It seems easy to be a secretary."

"I didn't have ...... It's just a little empty now. ”

"At least you don't have to help make the lanterns." Hikaru Takikawa said, smiling at her again, "Are you bored, do you want to go down and take a look." ”

"I'd better stay here, the president may come to me for something at any time."

"Okay. Your headband seems to have changed, where did you buy it, it's so cute. ”

"Hey! You've found ......."

The student council accountant stared at the screen, his hands tapping on the keyboard, and his head was sweaty.

"Wait a minute, Morimi-san......"

"I'm not in a hurry, don't worry, take your time."

Squinting at the computer screen next to him for a while, Morimi's eyes were a little sour, he closed his eyes and rested for a while, and then looked at Hikaru Takikawa on the other side.

"Light, you go first. I'll have a while on my side. ”

"Ah...... All right. ”

Yu Guang glanced at the accountant and said again: "Chunhai asked, and said that it was too noisy over there, and I will stay here at the student union for a while, and then go down when I am done." ”

Hikaru Takikawa smiled, "Okay." ”

Saying goodbye to the three of them, she went downstairs and went straight to the activity room.

"I'm back~"

Naruse turned his head to look at her, nodded, and then continued to explain things to the members of the chores team next to him.

It was a moment before he found time to talk to her.

"How's it going?"

"All the best." "They agreed to come down and urgently rehearse a play and go to the Budokan to perform it." ”

Naruse breathed a sigh of relief, and the boulder pressing on his heart lightened slightly.

"If it weren't for the band I had contacted before suddenly going on a trip abroad, I wouldn't have been so nervous...... After that, Hikari will continue to follow up and make sure that the drama department can perform on stage at that time. ”

He paused, "Let them stop making any innovations, just perform what they are best at, and it doesn't matter if the style is exaggerated." ”

She raised her hand and saluted, "Yes, Chairman." ”

"Stand down."

She glared at each other, and the two of them looked at each other and smiled.

"I'll go outside and take a look, I'll be looking for something."

"Hmm."

Leaving the activity room, Hikaru Takikawa went to the drama department again and conveyed Naruse's meaning.

"What the best performance ...... May I? It was the stage of the Tsutaka Festival. ”

"Don't worry about the performance, it's exciting, no one will mind the content."

"Okay."

Leaving this side, Hikaru Takikawa turned around and came to the back of the teaching building again.

Under the simple greenhouses lined up, each class is hurrying to make lanterns, and the prototype can basically be seen.

"Light."

When passing by Class C of the second year, someone stopped her.

"Naoko." Hikaru Takikawa also stopped, walked up to her, and stared at the lantern parts in her hand, "It's already done to this extent." ”

"Uh-huh."

Naoko smiled, and then asked, "Did Hikari just come from Harumi?" ”

"Hmm...... Almost, just finished running an errand for him. ”

Hikaru Takikawa also sat down on the plastic sheeting and waved his hand at the starfish not far away.

"Is Harumi busy?"

"It's busy."

Naoko nodded slowly, "It's probably going to be busy until six o'clock today." ”

"It's been like this for the last few days." Takigawa Mitsu said.

"So, let's go home after dinner today." Naoko looked at her and said, "I want Harumi to rest early." ”

Hikaru Takikawa was stunned for a moment, and then remembered that it was already Friday.

"Good...... Time flies, a week passes in the blink of an eye. ”

"yes."

She agreed, and Naoko continued to get busy with the things at hand.

"But we're only halfway through the preparation of the Tsutaka Festival...... Next week is the most critical time. ”

Grand Chapter

(End of chapter)