The biggest difference between church schools and other schools is that the former have more religious ceremonies. As an orthodox Catholic school, Liyuan Girls' College is naturally no exception.
Every morning at 6 o'clock, the college's chapel holds a mass to express gratitude to God. Since the college is not full of Christians, it is not mandatory for every student to attend. Those who are willing to come are welcome, and those who are not willing to come can choose not to come.
Most students would choose to attend mass for one or two days, and only devout believers would attend every day. Tachibana Kaori was such a believer. From the day she entered the ceremony garden, she would never miss a mass unless she was sick or had special circumstances.
This time, she was hidden by her classmates, Kurodori Hana and Asagami Fujino, so she couldn't attend the daily mass. She could only pray to God in the dormitory. She would also preach the doctrine to her friends to express her apology.
Influenced by her, Seo Shizune, who originally did not believe in God, also began to develop towards the direction of a believer. The best proof of this was that the number of times she attended mass increased from once a weekend to twice a week.
Today is the day chosen by Tachibana Kaori to attend mass.
Before dawn, Tachibana Kaori, who was used to getting up early, woke up Seo Shizune and urged her to get ready and go to the chapel to wait. For believers, being late for mass is the greatest disrespect to God.
So, Seo Shizune, with her messy hair, rubbed her sleepy eyes while listening to her temporary roommate's chatter, brushed her teeth and washed her face in a daze, and finally left her own room.
The winter morning was particularly cold. Blown by the cold wind outside the dormitory, Seo Shizune suddenly felt much more awake. After saying hello to the nun who managed the dormitory, the girl set out for the chapel.
The scenery along the way has long been familiar to me: bare branches, withered green belts, and simple but somewhat overly monotonous buildings.
"What a boring place. I admire Kaori for staying in such a place for ten years. If this hadn't happened, she might never have changed."
Numbly looking at the unchanging scenery around her, the girl's thoughts spread without limits.
"Speaking of which, Hayama will be arrested today. I don't know if Fujino's boyfriend succeeded yesterday."
At this moment, a series of unfamiliar scenes flashed before her eyes. Compared with the real scene she just saw, these scenes seemed a little hazy, like fleeting shadows, and she couldn't tell whether they were real or illusion.
The girl was already familiar with this feeling, because it was her innate ability to see fragments of the future.
Although this ability is not under one's control and the interval between the future seen and the present is not fixed, it is still very useful at certain times.
For example, seeing future exam questions.
For example, now, in her future vision, the following scene appeared.
Two police cars were parked in front of the familiar main school building, and two uniformed policemen escorted a thinly dressed prisoner into the police car. The red police lights on the roof of the car illuminated the prisoner's face, and also let Seo Shizune know the identity of the prisoner - Hayama Hero, a scum who intended to do something bad to Tachibana Kaori!
As the fragment of the future passed by her eyes, a relaxed smile appeared on the girl's face.
"It seems that the flowers were successful, worthy of being flowers... I just don't know how much effort Mr. Mikiya put into it. By the way, Fujino's boyfriend said he wanted to cause trouble for Hayama, I wonder how he would do it..."
The girl muttered to herself, recalling the scene she had just seen, hoping to find some clues from it, and soon she found what she wanted.
"It seems like there's a patch of hair missing from the top of Hayama's head, and his clothes are wrong, they're pajamas... This must have been done by Fujino's boyfriend, but why would Hayama appear in the main school building in pajamas?"
As she walked and thought along the way, she passed by a stadium with a sign saying "Temporary construction, no entry allowed" and walked up the familiar ramp. Gradually, the girl felt that the environment was a bit noisy.
"What's wrong? You shouldn't be so noisy at this time."
When Seo Shizune came to her senses, she found herself at a classical bell tower not far from the chapel. There were a dozen students surrounding the bell tower, and the noise in the environment was caused by them.
I listened carefully and heard that they were saying that there was something on top of the bell tower, and it seemed to be a person.
The girl raised her head and squinted her eyes to look upwards, and indeed saw a blurry figure. Although she couldn't see his face clearly, the clothes he wore were exactly the same as what she saw in her future vision.
"Ye, Yeshan Hero!"
The girl almost screamed, but fortunately she covered her mouth in time.
After taking a few more glances to make sure she was not mistaken, the girl hurriedly left the clock tower and found a secluded place where she could laugh secretly.
"Fujino's boyfriend is so brave that he actually hung Hayama on the clock tower. Hmm... I also want a man to do that to me."
Just as Seo Shizune was daydreaming, a young woman in a black jacket came to the top of the clock tower and showed a disgusted expression to Hayama Hero, who had already woken up but had his mouth blocked and could not make a sound.
Then the woman punched Ye Shan Yingxiong in the stomach, and the violent impact caused the latter to fall into coma again.
The impact penetrated Ye Shan's body and spread along the golden bell. Suddenly, the distant bell sound echoed in the campus in the early morning.
After knocking the scum unconscious with one punch, the woman skillfully drew a cross on her chest and prayed in a low voice: "May the Lord forgive my sins."
This scene, which spanned a distance of nearly a thousand meters, fell into the eyes of a purple-haired girl. The girl hid the sparkle in her eyes and lowered her head in thought.
"The new headmaster, Liz Baife Stolindobarry, is indeed an extraordinary person."
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An hour later, two police cars drove out of the Guanbuzi City Police Station and headed towards Liyuan Girls' College in the suburbs.
At the same time, some "well-informed" reporters began to move like sharks smelling blood.
At 8:30 a.m., Hideo Hayama, who had fallen into coma twice, was arrested by Daisuke Akimi in the academy's high school health room.
Immediately afterwards, the president of the college, Huang Lu, held a press conference, saying that the school teacher, Ye Shan Yingxiong, was involved in a vicious case related to the gang, and the specific circumstances of the case were awaiting further investigation by the police.
Soon, the news that the teacher of Reien Women's College was involved in a vicious case swept across the entire Kanbushi City and quickly spread to other parts of Tokyo. Although there were some different voices, these voices that should have been the truth were quickly drowned out by the joint voice of the mainstream media.
At noon, Hei Tong Hana, who had been out for some reason, returned to school. Together with Fujino and Tachibana Kaori, who had disappeared for a week, they came to the chairman's office to negotiate terms with Chairman Huang Lu.
In the afternoon, Tachibana Kaori left Class 4 under the gaze of all the students in the already decadent Class 4 and transferred to Class 1 where Hua Hua was.
At this point, the turmoil at Liyuan Girls' College has calmed down.
Students should attend classes and study. There will no longer be fires in old school buildings, no longer be murders and goblin incidents caused by student union presidents seeking revenge for their good friends, and no longer will some poor person who is included in the "sealed designation" list die silently in this remote academy.
The story that should have been titled "Forgotten Recording" ended before it even began.
Perhaps doing so would make the story less exciting, but Shinji is willing to read such a story. At least such an ending is much better than a tragedy, isn't it