At the end of the first class in the afternoon, Soya took out his cell phone and told Kirino Akane the candidate he had in mind for the fifth member of the club.
The message quickly showed up as "read" but she didn't reply.
When Zonggu was thinking about whether to say hello to the person involved first, someone stopped beside him.
"Sugawara-senpai?"
Akane Kirino looked at her phone and then at him, "Will she agree?"
"..."
He almost forgot that there was a wall between them.
"Not sure." Soya shook his head, "I happen to be going to the shrine in the afternoon and will talk to Sugawara-senpai in person."
"All right."
Akane Kirino answered after a while, "It's more important to establish a club first."
What she said was a little strange, so Zonggu asked: "Is there any problem?"
"I just think senior sister is too serious, but we are just having a little fight..."
She scratched her head and showed a forced smile, "No matter who is accommodating anyone, they will feel restricted, right?"
"Don't worry."
Zongya is very clear about Kyoko's attitude towards club activities, "Even if she agrees, at most she will only have a name in the club and will not participate in club activities."
"Ah." Kirino Akane paused, "When I think about it, I feel a little pitiful for my senior."
Zonggu smiled, "She asked for it."
It was not polite to say that. He thought for a while and added:
"Compared with club activities and interpersonal interactions at school, Kyoko values things at the shrine more, even though there are many times when she just holds a broom in a daze... In short, she enjoys herself."
"'Kyoko'."
Akane Kirino looked at him and said, "Soya called me senior like that again."
"Because it's troublesome to pronounce 'Sugawara', and she agreed."
"Yeah."
She was deep in thought and said nothing more, nor did she go directly back to Class B to find Yoshikawa Anko who was sitting in front.
Soya picked up the phone again.
Soya: After school, I have something I want to talk to my senior sister about.
Kyoko Sugawara: We have to prepare for the festival today.
Soya: It won't take long.
Soya: Let’s talk on the road.
"..."
Kyoko looked out the window and put away her phone.
...
The afternoon class ended soon.
Fushimi was so enthusiastic that as soon as the class meeting ended, he picked up his schoolbag and prepared to go to the club. At the same time, he did not forget to invite Soya again.
"Although I think Soya's height is more suitable for playing basketball, but if you have time, Soya should also come to the football club and have a look. You will definitely not be disappointed."
"Um……"
He still remembered that when school first started, Fushimi claimed that he had no athletic talent, but now he joined the football club just to attract the attention of girls, which made him admire him a little;
But in high school, the members of the athletic department do get more attention.
After packing up, Zonggu first went to the home economics classroom in the special building to show up. It was still early, and there was only a second-grade girl in there.
"Has the minister arrived?"
"Oh, it's Soya-san. You came early enough."
"I just came to say hello. Sorry, I have to go back early today."
"What does this have to do with it? It's okay. Rishiken is not required to attend in the first place."
After tying up her headscarf, the minister pushed up his glasses and said, "Sogu can come at any time if he wants to. It doesn't matter if you don't come. We are very convenient women."
"..."
There were people coming and going in the school, and after all, the homecoming group was in the minority. As soon as he walked out of the teaching building, Soya saw Kyoko Sugawara waiting at the school gate.
"Long wait."
She nodded, turned around and left, and Zonggu followed immediately.
"Sotani-san, what do you want from me?"
"Tirino wants to form a new club, but there is still one person missing. I thought of Kyoko - apart from the Kyudo Club, Kyoko shouldn't have joined any other clubs, right?"
Before she spoke, he added, "There is no need to attend, just name. And Miss Noma has also agreed to join the club as a consultant."
Jingzi glanced at him and swallowed the direct rejection.
"There are so many students in Danhai University, why do they come to me?"
There were only a few people on the stairs going down the mountain. The iron handrails were painted with red paint and extended to the ground. Zonggu was a step behind, holding on to the handrails as if they were off the ground.
"Because besides my senior sister, I can't think of any other friends."
"How pitiful." Kyoko said without emotion.
He smiled and said, "So, I, a lonely ghost who escaped from the underworld, can only look forward to my senior sister."
"..."
Jingzi turned to look at him, "I can agree if it doesn't take up my time."
"That puts me at ease."
Afterwards, the two chatted about Tsukuyomi, Noma Minami and today's festival, all the way to the station where there were not many people.
The wind blowing across the lake could not be called warm. Souya immediately saw Kirino Akane in front of the platform, followed by Yoshikawa and Asagiri Suzu next to her.
They also saw Zong Gu, or in other words, they were waiting for him here.
"What's your expression... I also want to go to the shrine."
Yoshikawa walked over and stopped in front of him.
"No?"
Soya didn't have any objections. Kyoko, whose family ran the shrine, would certainly not refuse worshipers.
"Isn't Yoshikawa not interested in this kind of thing?"
"Because what interests me is people."
Yoshikawa was still somewhat proud of being able to react quickly and say such slightly ambiguous words in front of Kirino Akane without revealing any actual content;
I just saw that her attention was focused on Jingzi, and she felt empty again.
"What's wrong?" Zonggu could feel her mood changes.
"nothing."
After waiting for a while, the tram pulled into the station.
Entering the carriage, four classmates were sitting together, and Jingzi found a corner by herself.
"...By the way, Jingzi has agreed to join the club."
"Really?" Akane Kirino smiled, "It's no problem now. Did Sugawara-senpai say anything about club activities?"
"No. She didn't ask a word about the name of the club, who its members are, or what it wants to do."
"Wow...you are determined not to come."
"Let her be a 'ghost member'. Isn't this what Kirino wants?"
"Don't sound like I'm bullying my senior!"
After a pause, the tram made a huge turn around Lake Biwa, and several people got off at Yasu Station, where Fuun Shrine is located.
Jingzi walked in front, neither fast nor slow.
"Has Akane been to the shrine here?" Yoshikawa asked.
"I think I came to Chuyi when I was in elementary school, but I don't have much of an impression."
"After all, everyone prefers to go to Kyoto."
In recent years, neither of them has been here, and their understanding of Fuyun Shrine is not as good as that of Soya, an outsider.
"But I know about that festival." Kirino Akane said, "Not only Fuun Shrine, it seems that most shrines near Kyoto will hold it."
"And it's held once a month. There are so many shrines in Kinki, and the arrangements of each shrine are different. It happens almost every day... so everyone doesn't regard it as a festival."
"Yeah, after all, the duration of the festival is very short."
Yoshikawa thought for a while, "It seems to be held only at dusk. When the sun sets, the festival will end."
"It's said to be a festival, but it's actually just a few witches dancing around and burning talismans..."
Kyoko, who was walking in front, had already reached the bottom of the long steps of the shrine and looked back at them.
"Sugawara-senpai must have participated in that festival many times." Kirino Akane whispered.
Zonggu, who had been just listening, shook his head, "I haven't seen it."
When the four of them approached, Jingzi took the lead in climbing up the stairs.
"Speaking of which..."
Climbing the steps, Yoshikawa looked at Soya and said, "Last week, Soya spent the night here, right? It was the time he treated Akane and me to a sandwich from the station convenience store."
"...You still remember."
"Because the excuse 'I suddenly wanted to visit the shrine at night' is too casual."
"I told the truth, but Yoshikawa refused to believe it."
"You said, 'Destroy the evil spirits and protect the peace of Kinki'? This is nonsense."
Zonggu turned his head and glanced at her, "Believe it or not, Yoshikawa remembers it quite clearly."
"..."
She looked at Kirino Akane in front of her and whispered: "Because Akane seems very interested in this kind of topic."
Because she is a different person from you.
Zong Gu wanted to tell her this, but faced an ordinary person, he had no way of telling her.
The world of spiritual awakeners is not the shrine hall that can be seen by climbing to the top of the stairs at your feet, it is above the untouchable clouds and sky;
People in the sky can see the beautiful earth beneath their feet when they lower their heads. No matter how people look down below, the sky is still the sky and the clouds are still clouds.
"Don't bother with this kind of thing." He reminded, "Just continue to develop your secret."