When he went out in the morning, Hikaru Takikawa saw a harvester parked on the side of the road.

She stopped next to the harvester, looked up at the unmanned machine, and then at the rice paddies on the side of the road.

The ears of rice hung heavily, full of grains, golden and dazzling in the morning sun. Perhaps by the time she returns from school in the evening, this large paddy field will have been harvested.

Some people are leisurely, some people are busy, but the objective flow rate of time in both types of people is the same.

The days passed, and there was less than a week left in the golden autumn of September.

The cultural festival that will take place in the last week of September is also just around the corner.

“……”

Raising his hand and touching the cold shell of the harvester, Hikaru Takikawa held the throttle again, twisted it slightly, and continued to set off.

When she came to the school, she didn't see her companions' cars in the carport, and she left the house a little early today.

I parked my car and walked upstairs into the classroom, where there were a lot of things piled up on the table next to the locker in the back.

For example, some hand-drawn posters, some thin foam boards that block out the light from the window as much as possible, and other signage with instructions.

There are almost no decorations for the interior of the classroom, after all, the inside is in a dark state.

"Good morning, Hikari."

She sat down in her seat and smiled in response, "Good morning." ”

"Why is it only Tuesday today, I'm a little impatient."

"Yes." Hikaru Takikawa smiled, "Tomorrow will be very busy." ”

"Hey, no matter how busy Class E is, it's just like that, putting up movie posters, blocking the windows on both sides, it's over. Where can you get busy? The cultural festival has begun, and it's just a movie and a little bit of a fool's premium drink......"

"What about the Society?"

"Aha! I'll tell you, oh, let's cook this ......."

Hikaru Takikawa listened absentmindedly, but the other party had a lot of desire to talk, and as long as she gave twenty percent of her attention to deal with it, she could let her talk endlessly.

The cultural festival is really about to begin.

Hikaru Takikawa glanced out the window, the fourth floor was too high to see the busyness underneath, but the faint restlessness in the air could be felt with his eyes closed.

It's just that unlike last year, she doesn't feel much excitement now.

A lot of things are different from last year.

Taking a breath, she retracted her attention and refocused on what was in front of her.

"yes, that's really amazing."

"Uh-huh!"

Dealing with the topic of the club, Hikaru Takikawa thought that the morning greetings would almost end here, but the other party stared at her for a while.

"What's wrong, Miyu?"

"I feel like the light has become more girly lately." Miyu continued to look at her face, "I guess I took care of it this morning." ”

“……”

Hikaru Takikawa pursed his lower lip and smiled again: "I'm originally a girl." ”

"I mean...... Hmm, how can I say it......"

She thought about it for a moment, and suddenly found the right description.

"Ah, it should be said that the biological sex of light has always been a girl, and now, the psychological sex is more like a girl."

"Could it be that my previous psychological gender was a boy?"

"It's not that extreme, it's not very pure, like a boy, like a girl, and a man and a woman...... Aha......ha Wait...... Hahaha, I'm sorry I won't say it......"

Sending Miyu away with tickling means, Hikaru Takikawa picked up his phone and looked at his face through the reflection of the screen.

She didn't wear makeup either, she just took care of it a little in the morning when she washed up, and the change was really obvious.

The hair seems to be a little long......

After a moment's pause, she put away her phone and looked out the window again.

The weather is still good today.

Ideally, the next few days will be sunny like this.

In this way, a considerable part of the flea market and cultural festival projects of the restoration department can be carried out.

Hopefully the weather is fine and everything goes well, she thought.

As long as the weather can be maintained like this, he thought.

"It's a nice day." Seeing her boyfriend looking up at the sky after walking out of the carport, Naoko said.

"yes."

Naruse nodded, "It would be nice if the weather was like this for the next three days." It doesn't matter if it's cloudy, as long as it doesn't rain. ”

"It's been four days."

"You can't be too greedy, three days is enough."

"What about the club that is still setting up a stall outside on the last day?"

"Pray like I did."

The two left the carport and walked towards the school building.

"The big lantern of the handicraft club should be waterproof, right?"

"The exterior material is waterproof and won't be damaged by rain, but there are a lot of wiring ...... inside."

"Is it too late to transform now?"

"Hmm...... Let's pray that it won't rain these days. ”

Going upstairs, the two separated, and Naruse came to the classroom and sat for a while before seeing Morimi come in.

"Good morning."

"Good morning."

"Woke up late today?"

Morimi put down his schoolbag and hung it on the side of the desk, "It's the starfish who got up late, so I waited for her a little." ”

They usually go to school together when they go out, but they wait for each other to go to school together every day, and usually, she is waiting for the starfish.

"I see."

She turned, "After all, I was quite tired yesterday. ”

Looking around, Naruse took her hand and squeezed it.

"I've got to work hard a little harder today."

As the festival approaches, the restoration department is back busy preparing for the flea market.

It's not time to start yet, and the venue doesn't need to be set up for the time being—there are also people from the student council to help with it—and his busy business is mainly to contact the stall owners who signed up for the flea market to reconfirm that they can participate in the exhibition normally.

And since the registration, after all, it has been nearly a month, and many people have even forgotten the relevant rules, and he has to explain it with great difficulty when he confirms it.

He couldn't do it alone, so he had to ask them to help.

"There are only half of the stall owners who haven't been confirmed yet."

"Hmm."

"That's good." Morimi breathed a sigh of relief and held his hand as well, "Some people simply can't communicate, and I really don't know how they managed to sign up at that time." ”

Naruse smiled, also a little helpless, he had a lot of troubles yesterday.

"What about publicity? Although it will definitely be listed in the pamphlet of the cultural festival, it always feels like it is easy to overlook. ”

"The student council is already preparing for publicity, and along with other publicity for the cultural festival, there will also be posters outside the school. Yoshioka said that she also asked the chairman of the executive committee of the cultural festival to include an introduction to the flea market in his speech at the opening ceremony. ”

Morimi raised his eyebrows, "The student council is also working too hard...... That student council president doesn't like you too, does he? ”

“……”

Naruse shook his head, "It's just that I promised to help me run this flea market, and now it's not over yet, of course I have to do my best." Two months ago, at the Tsutaka Festival, didn't I work very hard? ”

Morimi just said that, just laughed, chatted with him a few more words, and then turned around.

Naruse looked out the window and continued to think about arrangements after school in the afternoon.

Preparations for the cultural festival are in full swing, and classes still have to be held before they actually arrive.

After a few classes in the morning, by noon, several people came over to eat lunch together.

Hikaru Takikawa still sat next to Naruse and gave the table to him and Naoko.

"It feels like everyone is getting agitated." She spoke.

"yes, it's even noisier than when I was in first grade. Obviously, they are all two-year students, and they don't look like their predecessors at all. Morimi tilted his head and followed.

"That's because there was really no movement in Class E in the first grade, so you think it's very noisy here, right?"

Naruse took a bite of food, "I feel that the people around me are much calmer than last year." ”

Starfish also nodded, "When I was in the first grade, Class E really wanted to be lively, but it couldn't be lively. ”

"Is this the case with the current E-class?" Naoko looked at Hikaru Takigawa.

She smiled, "It's not very lively, but it's not lifeless." Although I didn't participate, I heard that it took a lot of effort to make that movie during the summer vacation, and everyone is looking forward to it. ”

Morimi also turned his head to look, "Have you just watched that movie, how is it?" ”

"It's hard to describe...... It's still worth a look, though. ”

"Yes." Hearing her say this, she seemed to care more, "Who wrote this year's script?" ”

Hikaru Takikawa glanced at Naruse and replied, "It's Miko Kajie." ”

"Kaji......" Morimi muttered for a moment.

"Someone you know?" Naruse asked.

"Well, when I was in the first grade, she was the librarian of Class B, and we were occasionally on duty together, so we had some communication." She explains, "At that time, I seemed to hear her say that she usually wrote something by herself...... I haven't seen it though. ”

Morimi said, and looked at Hikaru Takikawa again, "I'll definitely go to your class to have a look then." ”

Hikaru Takikawa smiled, "Okay." ”

"Speaking of which, what is the theme of this year's movie?"

"It's a love theme, right...... Although there is a large paragraph in the middle of the philosophical very strong, I don't understand the monologue. ”

"Again?"

"What do you mean by 'again'?"

While eating a bento, a few people chatted about homemade movies, and the lunch break passed quickly.

Less than ten minutes before class, the three members of the other classes returned to their respective classrooms.

"Are these classes again in the afternoon?"

Glancing at the class schedule on the blackboard, Naruse took out his textbook notes and waited for class.

"Come with me to the bathroom." Morimi got up and said.

“…… You go on your own. ”

"It's just going over together, and I didn't let you do anything."

Naruse looked at her twice, but still got up.

And when she walked out of the classroom, she went downstairs, "Let's go to the bathroom on the third floor, otherwise it won't be easy to explain if you bump into Naoko." ”

Naruse glanced at the other side of the corridor and followed.

The third floor is a first-grade classroom, Morimi walked a few steps and leaned on Naruse's arm, "Do you have a feeling of coming to the lower grades to find faults?" ”

“……”

He glanced at the first-grade class walking by, "That needs to be called to be imposing." ”

Morimi turned his head to look at him, "You're very experienced, huh?" ”

"When I was in middle school, I followed my 'friends' to scare the junior students a few times." Naruse said, shaking his head again, "It's naïve to think about it now. ”

She looked at him and said, "Over the past year, Naoko has fed you a lot stronger, but when you first came back, you were as thin as a bamboo pole, who can you scare?" ”

"I'm just going to be strong."

"Be the little brother of the background board."

"Yes, little brother.

"Did you take the initiative to pass?"

"Of course the little brother has to take the initiative."

Not knowing what came to mind, she smiled.

"It's better to be the king of children in the country, right?"

Naruse also smiled, "Of course. ”

While talking, the two also reached the end of the corridor, and the bathroom was not far from the corner.

"Wait for me."

"Hmm."

Naruse himself went in to make it easier, and when Mori came out, the two walked back along the way they came.

"Do you have any acquaintances here in the first year?"

"No...... Why do you suddenly ask that? ”

Morimi turned his head to look at a class he had just passed by, "There's a girl in there, and when I saw you just now, I reacted quite a lot." ”

Naruse pursed her lower lip, "It may be a member of the handicraft club." ”

"It's good that I didn't hold you just now."

"It's not much worse."

The two quickly went upstairs and returned to the classroom in Class A.

After sitting down for a while, the bell rang for class.

The two classes in the afternoon passed neither quickly nor slowly, and the students at the bottom were more energetic and restless than usual.

Classes and classes are dismissed, and the focus is not surprisingly on tomorrow's schedule: only a half-day class in the morning, and after noon, preparations for the cultural festival begin.

Yanagisawa was still quite emotional about the smooth operation of the cultural festival project in Class A, but he just looked at the figure in the corner of the classroom who was busy whispering to the front table, he pondered for a while, but still didn't say anything.

"Since we've been preparing for so long, let's behave well from tomorrow at noon."

"Okay—"

He waved his hand, "Get out of school." ”

The students in Class A dispersed, and Naruse quickly packed up his things, called Morimi, and went downstairs with Naoko, Starfish, and Hikaru Takikawa.

"If you're too busy, I'll find a few people to help." When she got to the second floor of the annex building, Naoko said.

"Not at the moment." Naruse squeezed her hand, "If I'm too busy, I will definitely not be reckless." ”

Naoko smiled, "Hmm." ”

She went to the handicraft club, and the remaining four continued upstairs to the restoration department.

When I first signed up, each applicant made a separate list, but now this is also a proof of contact between several people in the restoration department, and after sitting down, Naruse divided the remaining 20 or so lists equally.

"Once the status of these people is confirmed, it's all done. It's still the same as yesterday, first ask the other party if they can participate normally, and then notify the time, and finally remember to emphasize: don't send things to the restoration department. ”

"Got it."

Starfish answered, picked up the top list, looked at it twice, and called the phone according to the contact information left on it.

"Is it Keiko Kurata from Class F in the first year? I'm a ...... from the restoration department."

Perhaps because he often answers the phone call for wine orders in his own hotel, and occasionally calls guests to confirm the situation, Starfish is very skilled in this kind of thing, and there is no resistance.

Unlike Morimi on the side, he often shows a tough and decisive side in front of familiar people, but it becomes difficult to call strangers.

With the number, she still has to do some psychological construction to get out, and she can't wait for the other party to refuse to answer.

"In today's society, how can anyone still call directly, and sure enough, it's still convenient to send emails......

"It's better to call more directly, so you can get feedback the fastest." Naruse said, "After all, time is a bit tight. ”

She sighed, "I know. ”

Staring at the number that had been pressed on the phone, Morimi still called.

"If you can't finish it, give me a few." Hikaru Takikawa said.

Morimi looked at her, smiled, and the phone was connected.

"Hey, who is it?"

“…… Is it Shizuka Ichihashi who is in Class A for three years?,I'm a ...... from the restoration department?"

After a phone call, only to hear her breathe, the three of them thought she was going to collapse.

They each asked for a copy, and she had only one left.

Naruse glanced at it, "It's a first-grade student, let's take out the majesty of the second-grade second, Sensa Morimi." ”

She ignored him, and the call was quick to go.

On Naruse's own side, the phone call he had just made was quickly connected.

"Hello, Akimi Takashima, I'm Harumi Naruse from the Restoration Department."

"Ah, hello...... Department of Restoration......"

"A month ago, Takashima-san signed up for the flea market organized by our restoration department, and I'm here to check if you can still participate."

"Sure enough, it's a flea market thing. Yes, I've been waiting for a month. ”

Naruse picked up the pen and drew a circle on the list.

"Okay. The flea market will be held as scheduled on the second day of the festival, so please bring your things to the playground after 10 a.m. to prepare for the flea market, which will officially open at 12 p.m. ”

"Can you just take something and go over?"

"At that time, the people from our restoration department will also wait over there, and Takashima-san, find us, get a number plate, and go to the corresponding booth to set up a stall."

"No problem."

"There is no place to provide storage here in the Restoration Department, so I ask Takashima-san to plan the time to bring things to the school by himself."

"Huh? …… Oh, of course I understand. ”

After a phone call, after two or three minutes, Naruse recorded it and picked up the next number.

Morimi came down early to be "free", but he still took another number from him and went back.

With yesterday's experience, the four of them worked together and it took less than half an hour to confirm all the remaining places.

"There's nothing else to do for the time being."

After tidying up, Naruse stood up, "Feel free to do so, I'll go to the student union and see how they are prepared." ”

Seeing him leave, Mori looked at the other two girls.

"It's okay, let's go get some coffee."

The starfish got up, and was then pulled by Hikaru Takikawa.

Grand Chapter

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