Although Danzi only won the third place, she didn't seem to care at all, and joined Hema and the others with a relaxed face.
"Why do I have the feeling that you have succeeded in your plan? Obviously you only won the third place." He Ma asked suspiciously.
The chairman spread his hands together: "Because I just succeeded in my plan."
"What's the big plan?" Hema couldn't help asking.
Chairman: "Make a big fuss and leave a strong mark on the last cultural festival of high school."
The Kiryu brothers and sisters looked at her suspiciously at the same time.
He Ma: "Really?"
Dandan nods: "Really."
Chiyoko changed the topic: "Playing the taiko drums is strenuous, isn't it? I can't tell that Jinguji-senpai is quite muscular."
"No, I'm trying to be brave. Now my muscles are already sore from being overdrawn. I may not even be able to lift my hands tomorrow." The chairman looked depressed, and he seemed really worried about his muscle soreness tomorrow. look.
She acted so realistically that Kazuma couldn't help but believe it.
"The rest is the Houye Festival." Chiyoko said, "People outside the school cannot participate in the Houye Festival. I will go home and wait for you guys to come back."
Kazuma grabbed Chiyoko's arm: "Don't, Nanjo said hello to the principal, you can stay and participate in the Houye Festival, it's safer."
"Oh. But what about Amao? Theoretically speaking, Amao may also be targeted, isn't it?"
"Yes, but Amao is a boy. It is a man's duty to encounter evil and then fight." Hema said, "If I say to Amao, 'I am worried about your safety, you stay in my sight Guilty, what would he think?"
Chiyoko raised an eyebrow.
"Well... I don't understand, I'm a woman." Chiyoko said, "But, brother, I remembered that when you said that, that night, when you went to dismantle the Tsuda-gumi alone, I was so worried that I was going crazy .In the future, it is best not to have such a thing again, whether it is you or Ah Mao, I forbid you to go to do big things with the consciousness of not coming back."
Chairman: "This should be impossible. You can either try to get used to waiting at home, or you can also go into battle and fight side by side with him."
Chiyoko turned to look at the chairman, and was about to speak when Mikako's voice came from a distance: "Kazuma! Look, MISS Kitaka, I got it!"
Kazuma looked up, and complained: "It's obvious that Guang Nanjo got it, what are you doing?"
In the final vote, Nanjo and Mikako were counted as a group, so this time there was an unprecedented tie for MISS Beigao.
"Hmph," Mikako ignored Kazuma's complaints, "My appearance and talent have finally been recognized by everyone! Kazuma, you should cherish me more!"
"Okay, okay, I will definitely cherish it more." He Ma said.
"I'm really not sincere." Mikako pouted, but immediately laughed again, "Forget it, I'm happy today, that's all."
The chairman suddenly said: "Mikako's second song "Thinking of Autumn" is really good."
"Look! Danzi understands!" Mikako immediately went over and put her arms around Danzi's shoulders, "You really are a good sister. But Dandanzi, it's a pity that you are too big, how handsome. These people don't know how to appreciate it."
The chairman just smiled.
At this time, the voice of Rinan Ricai came from the loudspeaker: "This is the president of the student council. Before the Houye Festival, everyone can move freely. The executive committee members of the Houye Festival are now gathering at the student union office. The Houye Festival will start on time at seven o'clock tonight. ,above."
The chairman looked up at the loudspeaker and said, "The feeling of heroism has returned."
As she spoke, she looked at the eye and the horse.
"It's completely different from when she was on stage for the second time just now."
He and the horse pretended to be watching the scenery.
Chiyoko sold him directly: "That's right! I remembered, and I'm going to sue! I originally hoped that my brother would go over and enlighten the president and increase the income of the dojo, but he only picked up girls and didn't do business. , made me look forward to it in vain!"
The girls looked at the horse together.
He Ma spread his hands together: "I'm just going to share a little life experience with her."
Chairman: "What do you want to eat later?"
Chiyoko: "Wait a minute, why don't you hold my brother accountable?"
"There is nothing to be held accountable. Whether there are new apprentices in the dojo has nothing to do with our old apprentices. Theoretically speaking, the operation status of the dojo has nothing to do with us."
Chiyoko tilted her head: "Hey, it seems... that's it."
After all, whether it is the chairman or Nanjo, together with Mikako, they are all just apprentices who come to the dojo to learn kendo, and they are not "hostesses". Immediately find a new apprentice to subsidize the family.
"So what are we going to eat later?" The Chairman repeated his question, looking at Nanjo and Mikako.
"Simply eat something and finish the work, and in the evening, we have an appointment at the family restaurant for a celebration dinner, right?" Nanjo said.
He Ma listened to the girls discussing what to eat later, thinking that this peaceful daily life is not bad.
**
In the evening, at 18:30.
The students of Beige's High School have returned to school one after another and gathered on the playground.
The executive staff of the student union was doing the final inspection before the bonfire was lit, and the disaster prevention personnel of the district office were in charge of guiding.
For the boys of Beige’s High School, inviting the girl they like to dance the folk dance is the meaning of this after-night festival and even the entire cultural festival.
Because of this, the playground where the Houye Festival is about to be held is full of youthful atmosphere.
"I'm sorry." Honami Nanjo bowed to the boy who invited her, "I already have someone to dance with, please ask someone else."
"Yes, that's right." The boy who came to invite looked at Kiryu Kazuma behind Honami with a complicated expression, "I'm sorry to bother you."
After speaking, he turned and ran away.
Mikako said to Nanjo who turned around and came back: "The fifth one today?"
"Well. It's a little surprising that there are so many."
"It should be the reason why you were elected to Miss North High this afternoon." Mikako Fujii said.
"If that's the reason, you should be invited too." Nanjo joked, "You are also MISS Hokuko."
"I'm Green Leaf."
He Ma: "You don't have to belittle yourself like this, at least I will invite you."
During the Beigao Cultural Festival two years ago, Mikako was invited by Hemadu to dance a folk dance. It's also quite strange with the horse. I thought that before I crossed over to seize the house, the original owner had an affair with Mikako no matter what.
Mikako Fujii looked nostalgic: "I was the only one who danced the folk dance with you last year. Obviously I did it first..."
At this time, the chairman of the committee who had rejected a few girls who invited him to dance the folk dance with him also joined the conversation: "Last year's Mr. He Ma is not worthy of being surrounded by us like stars and moons."
"Well...you are right in saying that, think about it carefully, the previous relationship with Ma Jun never gave me the idea of 'ah, I want to have a relationship with him', I just treat him as a good brother." Mikako looked up Looking at the starry sky that gradually appeared, recalled, "It feels like everything has changed since the sudden death of Kiryu's parents at the beginning of this year.
"After that, Kazuma seemed to be a different person."
He Ma thought that he had changed himself.
At this time, someone suddenly heard cheers in the distance, so everyone stopped chatting and looked in the direction where the cheers came from.
Rinan Licai came out of the teaching building holding a torch.
It's like the Olympic torch relay.
Under the eyes of everyone, she walked all the way through the crowd on the playground, and finally came to the square pile of firewood.
She carefully lit the kindling material at the bottom of the bonfire, then threw the torch to the top of the bonfire, and then stepped back a few steps to create a distance.
The bonfire burned violently in the autumn wind and quickly became quite spectacular.
After confirming that the bonfire was fully lit, Rinan Ricai took the loudspeaker from the members of the executive department behind him and announced loudly: "The cultural festival of Beigeshi University, the Houye Festival has officially begun!"
The music of the folk dance resounded through the campus through the school's loudspeakers.
The boys and girls who had just completed the pairing on the playground looked at each other shyly, and then held hands.
Kazuma also stretched out his hand, grabbed Nanjo with one hand, and pulled Mikako with the other, and said, "Let's go."
The chairman waved his hand: "Dancing happily."
In this way, this cultural festival, which has become a legend, came to an end in an unexpected calm.
**
After the cultural festival ended, not only the small group with Ma, but also the entire third year of senior high school were devoted to preparing for the exam.
I don't know if it was affected by the fact that Kiryu and Ma, the cranes, were going to be admitted to the University of Tokyo. This year's graduates of Beige University chose to go to higher education.
Moreover, the schools that everyone chose were of a certain grade, which gave people a feeling of "Even Kazuma chose Dongda, and I would be ashamed if I chose the pheasant school".
The teachers of the school also responded to the students and opened a bunch of small stoves for different schools.
The entire atmosphere of the third grade made Kazuma feel like when he was preparing for the exam in the third year of high school.
Especially the pile of reference books that everyone piled up on the desk, this feeling is too familiar, but unfortunately there is no "Five-Year College Entrance Examination and Three-Year Simulation" in Japan, so it is still a bit tasteless after all.
On the dojo side, the publicity effect brought about by the last incident is decreasing at a speed visible to the naked eye.
On the first weekend after the cultural festival ended, there were only three people who came to visit the ashram on Saturday, and no one came at all on Sunday.
"What should I do?" Chiyoko complained loudly in front of Kazuma after seeing off the girls on Sunday, "Not only did no new students increase, but now the trainees can't even make money. Tokyo There is still a big gap in the tuition fees for the first year of university. This is not counting the money for you to buy new review materials later, bro."
Hearing Chiyoko's complaints, Amao poked his head out of the guest room where he lived, and asked, "How about I go to work a few more jobs? This way I can pay back my father's money faster..."
"No, no, you have to go fast enough now. I have included your repayment in my calculations, so it doesn't affect your side." Chiyoko waved his hand, "You can be careful not to fall ill, and see a doctor once you fall ill. The money can make you work for nothing for the past few months."
"I will. I feel that practicing kendo has improved my physical fitness a lot, and I feel that I can collapse even tighter." A Mao said while looking down at his hand, with five fingers open and then clenched, repeating over and over again This action seemed to be confirming his newly acquired power.
Hema looked at Amao and asked, "Is there any problem with the study?"
"No problem, I feel that in a few months, I will be able to finish all the content of junior high school." Amao blushed slightly, "I'm sorry, Master, you are so busy, and you still need you to teach me the knowledge of junior high school."
"No, teaching you is also a kind of review. The chairman has agreed." He Ma said, "It's time to eat, come here."
"No, I'm still eating in my room..."
"I told you to come here and you come here, so much nonsense?" He Ma waved his hand impatiently.
Until now, Amao is reluctant to eat at the table with the Kiryu family, as if he feels that he is an outsider, and it is not good to just sit at the table like this.
But the master's order is absolute to the disciple, and he can only come here honestly.
Chiyoko continued to mutter while serving everyone a meal: "I hope to have a new apprentice next week. Now the dojo's monthly income is less than 100,000 yen, so there is no money to save at all."
"So if I do more work..."
"Amao, shut up." Chiyoko spoke like a sister to a younger brother.
Amao shut up decisively.
Kazuma comforted Chiyoko: "Aren't you going to be a martial arts instructor for Taiying's new movie in the future? The commission should be quite a lot, and maybe you can attract some celebrities to practice kendo."
"It's better to be like this. You also said that Larinan-senpai is here, where is she?"
Don't talk to the horse.
In this way, another week of peaceful but poor days passed.
The first weekend in October—there is no long holiday in Japan—on the first weekend in October, He Ma and his girls were studying around a table in the dojo when they heard the doorbell ringing.
Chiyoko's voice sounded in the corridor outside the dojo: "Here we come."
Then there was the sound of her footsteps running to answer the door, and she could be heard saying as she ran, "Our family doesn't want to order new newspapers, and we don't want to get a credit card."
Mikako muttered softly: "Recently, there should be more encyclopedias sold. My mother has been persuaded by the salesman to buy two encyclopedias, saying that they can help our family stand at the forefront of the times."
"Ah, the encyclopedia seller has also come to our side." He Ma responded, in fact, when he mentioned the salesman who sold the encyclopedia, He Ma couldn't help but think of the godfather of Japanese prostitutes he had heard about in his previous life. Before engaging in the SQ business, he was a salesman selling encyclopedias.
Later, based on his deeds, a Japanese drama called "Naked Supervisor" was adapted.
He Ma was thinking about it, when he heard Chiyoko shouting from the entrance: "Brother, come!"
He and Ma and the girls exchanged glances, put down the half-finished test papers and stood up, walked to the door in the direction of the corridor with a puzzled face, and looked along the corridor to the entrance.
Then he saw Nichinan Rina standing at the entrance, and she bowed when she saw Kazuma, demonstrating the existence of gravity.
"I'm here, senior. Or should I call you Master?"