Taking advantage of the lunch break, Shiina Asaka left school and went to a nearby supermarket to replenish some ingredients, but she almost fainted when she came back.
“It’s too hot…”
"Let's have a rest."
Fortunately, I was relatively free at noon. In more than half an hour after Mrs. Yoshikawa left, the cafe in Class A received a total of three or two guests.
Sonogu sat in the corner in a daze, Fumimi walked over, "Songu, let's go for a walk together in the afternoon."
"You said this on purpose because you knew I couldn't go out."
"How could that happen?" He sat down next to him, "and if you really want to go shopping, Shiina will never stop you."
Zong Gu turned his head to look at him, "The problem is, if I really want to go shopping, I won't be with you."
“…”
Fushimi's eyes flipped, and then lay down on the coffee table.
"Are you going to stay here for the past three days?"
"That's not."
He has made arrangements, but today's plan is to stay in the classroom.
"Forget it, I'd better go shopping by myself."
After thinking about it casually, I felt that Soya could not leave those girls alone and go to the school festival with me. Fumimi patted his shoulder and stood up and left.
"Today there should be many beauties from outside the school coming..."
"come on."
"What oil should I add?"
Fushimi left, and Soya continued to sit in the corner, sending a message to Hongzi.
Hongzi: Ling is actually my mother’s life-saving benefactor!
Soya: I forgot to tell you before.
Hongzi: How can you forget this kind of thing...
Soya: Because I heard from the bell too. And for her, it was just a trivial matter.
Hongzi: What else did Zong Gu say to his mother?
Soya: A lot. Let me tell you on the way home.
Hongzi: My mother said that after the school festival, she would invite the bell to my house for dinner.
Soya: Did she agree?
Hongzi: Ling said you will make a decision.
Soya: Then let’s talk about it later.
Hongzi: I didn’t invite you.
Soya: I don't believe it.
Hongzi: My mother said that she would go back after walking around the school for a while.
Soya: Don't you accompany her?
Hongzi: It's so hot, I can't walk around...
The two kept chatting, and at around 1:30 pm, the popularity in the cafe gradually recovered.
Soya no longer occupied the position in the corner. Under Shiina Asaka's arrangement, she sat in a place where anyone could see him.
But he soon discovered that instead of sitting here as a mascot and being watched by others, it would be better to help.
"Help? Soya be at will." Shiina Asaka said.
Zong Gu said again: "But if I have some other arrangements tomorrow afternoon, I won't stay here."
Just as Fushimi said, she had no objection.
"Okay, no problem."
After continuing to work hard for a while, Zong Gu went to the door to greet the guests and saw the figure wandering back in the corridor at a glance.
"Songshan!"
He turned his head and shouted inside, "Come and entertain these two guests."
"Ah? Oh, OK."
Another free boy in the classroom came up to meet him.
“Welcome to--”
Ignoring the grieving eyes of the two girls in front of me, Soya walked outside, "I thought Kyoko wouldn't come here today."
When Kyoko saw him, she stopped looking back meaninglessly. She looked at him, her eyes swept over the deacon's uniform on him, and fell on his face again.
"The successor just came back."
Zong Gu frowned, "It's almost two o'clock now."
"It's okay, there's no busy there." She glanced at the cafe inside, "not half as much as here."
"Have Kyoko had lunch?"
"Eat a little."
"That's right." He stepped forward and took her hand, "Come in and have a cup of coffee."
"Um."
Entering the cafe, Kyoko chose a coffee table beside the window to sit down, which happened to be where Mrs. Yoshikawa had sat before.
Because she wasn't very hungry, she just had a cup of coffee.
After a while, Zong Gu brought two cups of coffee, and then brought the small cake in the refrigerator.
"Only this is the only one left."
He sat down opposite him, "The conditions are limited, so there is too little food available here. Someone just suggested that he just go to another class to buy some, but they can't sell it anyway. If the Osakayaki on Kyoko can't sell it all, you can
Contact me.”
Kyoko's lips bent, quickly pulled up, and said, "Is it okay for you to sit here with me?"
"It's okay. I'm working in the morning and it's already time to rest."
She nodded, picked up the coffee and took a sip.
“How is the taste?”
"It seems to be a little better than yesterday."
"I have to thank the dozens of guests who came here in the morning for honing our skills in using coffee machines... and try the cake."
"Um."
The two girls who came in before Kyoko sat not far away, looked at them, and then looked at the deacon in front of them.
“Didn’t it mean the cake is gone?”
"this……"
"Do you still have deacons to accompany you to eat here? Why aren't there on the menu?"
"That...I can accompany the guests..."
"Ah, no need."
After taking another bite of the cake, Kyoko pursed her lower lip and looked at Soya: "In the morning, Kirino and Yoshikawa came to the store."
"Is that true?" He was not surprised either.
After Akane Kirino and Hongzi met, they visited many places. According to what she said, even the shops she had visited would have a little more interesting experience because she went with her friends.
"They asked me to go to the academy together in the afternoon." Kyoko said again.
Zonggu looked at her.
She put down the small spoon for eating the cake, "I don't want to go."
really……
"Then don't go."
"I don't hate Kirino or Yoshikawa, but..."
"I see."
She looked over and said, "Does Fangming really understand?"
"Kyoko is just not used to being too close to others, and she prefers a calm state." Soya also looked at her, "If you can, you want to be alone most of the time."
He added, "Take me with you at most."
She smiled briefly, but her brows were always frowning, "Ke Fangming doesn't think so."
"No, I want to..."
"——Songgu. Oh, senior sister Guanyuan is here too."
Soya turned around, Akane Kirino and Hongko came over.
He turned back, grabbed Kyoko's hand and pinched it, "I'll tell you later."
She looked at him and nodded without saying a word.
"Why are you here?"
"Because I had almost had enough rest and was a little tired of staying in the department room, Hongzi and I were going to the auditorium to see the live of the Qingyin Department and come here to take a look."
Only Akane Kirino has the "by-way" of climbing up the fourth floor...what is right.
"Don't you still have to go to the B-duty cashier?"
"Someone has changed shifts with me, and it's noon tomorrow, so I can keep playing today." She explained, and asked again, "Does Zonggu still stay here?"
"Um."
Zong Gu glanced at the cafe and said, "Today is the first day, and everyone is not very skilled. I want to stay here as much as possible so as not to be too busy. I will accompany you to visit tomorrow and the afternoon of the day after tomorrow."
"All right."
Akane Kirino had heard him say such a plan, and looked at Kyoko again, "Does Senior Sister Guanyuan come together?"
"She has just sat down for a while." Zong Gu declined for her, "You guys go."
“Ohh.”
He greeted the other people in the classroom, and the two stayed here for a while, until the Live performance of Qingyin Department was about to begin.
He picked up the coffee and took a sip, and it became a little colder. When Soya put it down again, Kyoko pushed half of the cake over.
"I can't eat it anymore."
She was about to go to the front desk to ask for another small spoon. Zong Gu grabbed her and picked up her spoon directly.
He dug a spoonful of cake and put it into his mouth. He said something sweet, and Kyoko sat down again.
"Do you have any plans for Kyoko later?"
"Go to the bow and do your best to check it out, and then go back."
In addition to the opening ceremony in the morning and the closing ceremony the afternoon after tomorrow, there are no particularly strict attendance requirements during the academy, and no one will stop me from going back.
"So early."
"Nothing else."
“We can go and have a look at the school festival.”
"Student Fangming just said he wanted to stay here to help."
Zong Gu dug up a spoonful of cake, "Because I stayed voluntarily, I could leave at will."
Kyoko shook her head.
"Tomorrow or the day after tomorrow."
She glanced at the two girls at the nearby table quietly, "I came here today, it seems that I have caused you some trouble."
Zong Gu was a little helpless, "I had known that I should have changed my clothes first."
Kyoko smiled slightly, her eyes fell on his deacon uniform again, "Fongaki's classmate fits everything she wears, very suitable."
"Really."
"Well. Although I have never seen a real deacon in reality, it is probably what classmate Fang Ming looks like now."
Zonggu held up his chin, "What family can afford a deacon like me?"
Kyoko smiled again.
"Not whether it looks like a deacon, does this outfit look good?"
"Um."
"Can Kyoko like me more?"
“…”
She glanced at him and picked up the coffee.
"You know what I care more about."
Sonoya remembered the topic that was halfway through the topic, "This matter..."
"—I don't want to talk about this here. This time is not right." Kyoko put down her coffee, "It's almost time for me to go back."
"Then I won't talk about it."
Zong Gu grabbed her and said, "Sit down for a while, at least finish this cup of coffee with me."
Kyoko sat down again.
"After that being said, will Kyoko's family come here in the past few days of the academy festival?"
"Takiko wants to come over, but neither her father nor her mother have time."
"Will you just let her come with Kyoko?" Soya said.
She lowered her eyes, "My father was not very relieved and said it might affect my work..."
Bang.
Zong Gu smashed the table and made a muffled sound, only the two closest tables looked over, and their eyes fell on his clenched fists.
The coffee cup on the table also shook.
"Is it necessary to do this level with such excuses?" He quickly returned to his calmness, just frowned.
Kyoko stretched out her hand and wrapped her fist.
"Maybe I should blame me for being too anxious at that time. I was determined to let Tamako take over the burden of the shrine after leaving. My father always cared about this matter...
But I didn’t expect that in just a few months, Fang Ming had already found the Eight Thunder Gods Seven. Perhaps before the day when I had to leave, Fang Ming would be able to find the Big Thunder."
After a short while of silence, Zong Gu held her with his backhand.
"Even now, will Kyoko still follow me and even leave here with me?"
“…”
Kyoko looked at him, "This is for the tranquility of the world, it is my duty. It has nothing to do with love."
"How can we tell so clearly?"
"I can tell."
If I could really tell the difference, I wouldn't have resisted and accepted it so contradictoryly...
Zong Gu stopped talking, grabbed her hand and lowered his head to kiss her.
"Wow……"
The two girls at the table next to them looked straight.
Kyoko was a little uncomfortable being stared at, and she struggled with her hands, and said again: "I'm going back."
Zong Gu let go of his hand and stood up, "I'll send you down."
"Need not."
"This is the duty of the deacon."
“…”
Holding his hand that was reaching out again, Kyoko said, "Just go downstairs."
The two went downstairs, and people came and went up and down the stairs.
"It's so lively, I haven't watched it well."
“There will be time.”
"Tomorrow or the day after tomorrow?"
She glanced at her and understood that he was making a choice.
"tomorrow."
"I have to go to the auditorium tomorrow afternoon to attend the fashion show of the fashion design department. Will Kyoko come and see it?" He explained why he participated.
"I'll come."
After going downstairs, Zong Gu pulled her toward the school gate again.
"Student Fangming, it's enough to get here."
He didn't stop, and Kyoko could only follow him until he went down to the same middle position as the steps.
Zong Gu looked up and down and approached her, "At this time, there are only people here."
"Um……"
Kyoko leaned back and leaned against the guardrail next to her.
"Is this also the responsibility of the deacon... Um..."
After kissing him intermittently for two or three minutes, Kyoko lowered her head, hugged his waist, and took a deep breath.
"I'm going back," she said, but her hands were still holding her tightly.
"Um."
Zong Gu lowered his head and kissed her forehead, followed by her eyes and nose tips, and finally a little on her lips.
The two separated, Kyoko asked him to go up first and stood in the middle of the stairs to watch.
When they reached the top, Zong Gu turned around and waved her hand.
He also raised his hand to respond.
Kyoko turned around and looked back halfway, and he was still standing there.
This will not work...
She understood this deeply.
The so-called dividing line between lovers and colleagues has long disappeared, and I will only become less and less resistant - just like when I loved him wholeheartedly.
But what is the difference between this and accepting that thing directly?
“…”
Walking down, Kyoko looked back.
He was still there, raised his hand and waved it twice.
She turned and left, took a few steps before turning back and waved her hand to respond.
Seeing that she finally walked to the invisible place without looking back, Zong Gu turned around and returned to the school.
Kyoko was struggling, approaching him and away from him, struggling in difficulty, pain and confusion.
And he won't let go, nor can he let go.
“…”
Taking a deep breath, Zong Gu became firm again and looked up toward the atrium.
His eyes passed through the lively stall and looking at the auditorium on the other side, he thought for a while and "by the way" to detour.
The sun was bright outside, and when I entered the slightly dark auditorium, Zong Gu adapted a little and saw that it was filled with folding chairs.
At this time, there were only people sitting in some positions in front.
On the stage, the live of the Qingyin Department has begun. In other words, the performance on the auditorium stage will never be interrupted, but it is Qingyin Department's turn at this time.
Soya looked at the door for a while and soon found Hongko and Akane Kirino who were sitting in the front row.
Both of them watched the performance intently and didn't notice him. Soya didn't go in, and turned around and went out in the slightly intense guitar solo.
When he returned to the classroom, he occasionally helped him when he was busy, so he spent most of his time free.
The afternoon seemed to pass faster, and welcoming and seeing off. When the sky became dark, there were few people in the store, and the radio hanging in the corner of the wall also rang.
"Now I'm notifying all students and everyone who come here that the first day of the Danhai University Academy Festival will end. Please leave school as soon as possible..."
After the broadcast stopped, Zong Gu stretched out his long and stretched.
"it's over--"
The few people who were still in the classroom all looked relieved.
A boy who took over in the afternoon sat down and looked up at the sky, "It's only been an afternoon, I didn't expect to be so tired..."
"Two days left."
"Give me aside. Is it still time to replace people now?"
"You think beautifully. Soya is not tired."
Sonoya smiled at the talking girl, "I've been resting in the afternoon."
"I feel that Songu is very skilled."
"I go to work occasionally, and I do almost the same things."
"Songu is also a deacon in private?!"
"No...that's not what it means."
It was already time for school, and the few people didn't delay. They were talking and cleaning up their hands.
Put the cups and plates together and cut off the power for the coffee machine and induction cooker. Someone stayed to close the door and windows. Zong Gu carried a large bag of garbage downstairs.
The garbage room was in the corner behind the special building. After throwing the garbage, he changed his uniform. When he came out, he happened to run into Chao Muling and Senior Sister Yugong down from the building.
"How about it, how many social magazines are sold today?"
"The "Hundred Selections of Millenniums" sold 18 copies," said senior Yugong. "Your social magazines have also sold more than 30 copies."
"Yeah?"
Zong Gu was a little surprised.
Judging from the pessimistic attitude of senior Yugong who had to thank God for half of his previous face, this sales can be said to be quite good. After all, today is the first day of the school festival.
"Tungno and Yoshikawa took some of the social magazines to the department office on the fourth floor, and the main sales came from there."
"I see."
Zong Gu suddenly realized, no wonder neither of them came over afterwards.
When they arrived at the school gate, they met with Akane Kirino and Hongzi who were waiting, and they went back together.
“I had a great time today.”
"You have to sit in the classroom from noon to afternoon tomorrow."
Akane Kirino snorted lightly, and held his arm again, "Come here and accompany me."
"I made an appointment with Kyoko."
"Ah...oh. Humph. OK."
Step down the long steps, and the first day of the school festival ends here.