After riding all the way and arriving in front of Prefectural Tsu High School, Hikaru Takigawa lightly pressed the brakes, and the motorcycle slowed down.
Glancing around, she didn't get out of the car to push. Instead, she rode directly into the school, skillfully avoiding the students passing by on the road, and didn't stop until she reached the carport.
"Light..."
"It's okay. There are no teachers or people from the student union at the door." She turned around and smiled, tilting the car to let her sister behind her get out of the car.
Takigawa Yue was not energetic as usual, standing aside and yawning continuously, waiting for her sister to park the car.
"Let's go."
"Well..."
However, as soon as they walked out of the carport, they saw a middle-aged teacher striding towards them, shouting from a distance: "Hikaru Takigawa, you ride into the school again!"
"Ah, it's Kobayakawa. What a bad luck..."
Takigawa Hikaru couldn't help but sigh, turned to her sister and said: "Let's go to the classroom first."
Takigawa Yue nodded and walked towards the teaching building. But her sister ran towards the other side and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
This was an athletic ability that she couldn't envy, and in the entire school, there were not many people who could catch up with her sister, including the middle-aged dean.
Kobayakawa gave up decisively.
Facing the languid Takigawa Yue, he had nothing to say. Instead, he was worried that the third-year scholar would be affected, so he had to give up.
After wandering around the school gate for a few times, I saw Kobayakawa disappearing, and Hikari Takigawa walked into the school like nothing happened.
"The second semester got off to a bad start... I won't be so unlucky every day from now on."
She muttered, and a girl not far away quickened her pace and followed her.
"Takigawa-san!... It's indeed Takigawa-san, long time no see!"
"Ah, long time no see."
Takigawa Hikaru smiled, and after a while he remembered the other person's name, "How are you doing during your summer vacation, Saori."
"Yeah."
Ariyama Saori looked very happy when her name was called.
"I went to Okinawa for a trip with my family and just came back the day before yesterday."
"Okinawa, it's really nice."
"Yeah, I really want to stay there for another week, but it's a pity that school starts too early in Tsugao... But I'm also happy to see Takikawa-san."
"Me too."
Takigawa Hikari smiled and looked into the distance, "Sure enough, it's more lively now that school has started."
"Yeah."
Ariyama Saori looked down at the bag in her hand, "By the way, didn't Takikawa-san come to school by bike today?"
"Haha, guess."
The two of them were chatting while walking towards the teaching building. Many people noticed Hikaru Takigawa on the way and came over.
"Light!"
"Long time no see."
"Good morning, Takigawa."
There were both girls and boys who came over to say hello. The first one to come up was Yama Saori, who had been pushed to the outside and was getting farther and farther away.
After entering the teaching building, the crowd gradually dispersed and walked towards their respective classrooms. She was able to temporarily return to Takigawa Hikaru because their destination was the same class.
But as soon as he entered the classroom, Hikaru Takigawa's eyes shifted to another girl.
Passing by her seat, she didn't even put her schoolbag away, but went straight over to say hello, "Good morning, Shangzi."
"Light."
Shangzi raised his head and smiled at her, "Good morning."
Because she had no choice but to come by bus, she arrived at school early and at a fixed time. On the contrary, Takigawa relied on the convenience of coming and going by motorcycle, and often rushed to the classroom during class time - if the basketball team had not arrived early
If you want to train.
After saying hello, Takigawa Hikaru returned to his seat and started chatting with the people around him.
Some people are born to be the center of attention. Even if they are just sitting in the corner, people will keep coming with hot topics to create excitement, making the corner the new center.
Hikari Takigawa is this kind of person.
Shangzi sat not too far away from her, just enough to hear the conversation without having to follow the atmosphere and join in.
Many people have not seen each other for a month, and they are busy greeting and chatting, restoring relationships, and implicitly showing off what they have learned during the summer vacation;
And Hikaru Takigawa can answer a few sentences on any topic. Even if it is an unfamiliar field that he has never been exposed to, he can still use a small exclamation or an encouraging look to make the other party take the initiative to speak and talk endlessly.
Go down.
Naoko doesn't hate this kind of atmosphere, but she has no intention of joining it, even just as a listener. Fortunately, Takigawa Hikaru won't talk to her at this time.
"Shangzi——"
Naoko was stunned and turned around to realize that the person calling him was not from Takigawa Hikaru, but a classmate at the back door of the classroom.
"Ichikawa-san from Class A is looking for you."
Next to her is a girl from another class.
Shangzi got up and walked over, and on the way he remembered that the other person was the girl who came to the handicraft club room a few days ago to ask him to repair the doll.
She came here specifically to express her gratitude.
Returning to his seat, Naoko had a bag of candies said to be brought back from Tokyo.
Takigawa Hikari glanced in her direction calmly, while the others beside her were still minding their own business and continuing the topic.
"I went to Xiaoxue's place just now and saw a boy wearing a uniform from another school talking to her. He looked so handsome. He couldn't be a transfer student, right?"
"Transfer student? At this time...which school is he from, Nan High School?"
"It's not Nan Gao, nor Dong Gao. It doesn't look like the uniforms here. Guang, what do you think?"
Takigawa Hikaru smiled slightly, "Maybe he transferred from Tokyo."
"Eh~ It's impossible~"
There seems to be endless topics to talk about here, but the classroom is not a place for chatting after all. After a while, a young woman who looked like a high school student but was wearing a teacher's uniform walked into the classroom.
Naoko, who did not participate in the chat, was one of the first students to notice her. She was the teacher in Class C of the first year, Yuki Nakahara.
"Everyone go back to your seats——"
The young face was completely unable to display the majesty of the teacher, so she had to shout a few more times at the top of her voice. Hikaru Takigawa also reminded the people around her, and the classroom gradually became quiet, and the students returned to their seats.
"Before going to the gymnasium for the opening ceremony, the teacher has a few words to say."
Nakahara Xue took the attendance book and looked around at the students below, "First... do you want to take a guess?"
"..."
Standing outside the front door of the first-year Class C classroom, Naruse almost immediately understood why she had no authority at all in the class she managed.
The suspense deliberately created by Zhongyuan Xue didn't last for a few seconds before it was exposed.
"Are there really transfer students?"
"Eh? How did you..."
Seeing that she greeted him in with some disappointment, Naruse couldn't help but start to worry about her. Is such a character really suitable for becoming a teacher?
As soon as he walked into the classroom, all the distracting thoughts in his mind were instantly cleared.
Looking at the unfamiliar faces below, and briefly looking at Naoko and Hikari Takigawa, Naruse walked to the blackboard, picked up the chalk and wrote his name.
Zhongyuan Xue made a brief introduction and gave up time.
Then, he spoke calmly.
"I am Naruse Harumi. I have been to Tokyo and am from here. Now..."
He is very familiar with the matter of transferring schools.
......
A new school, a new class, Naruse's new seat is in the middle of the classroom, at the back, with Naoko by the window on the lower left, and Hikari Takikawa on the back right, not too far away from either of them.
People kept looking at him, but few spoke. Naruse didn't take the initiative to talk to anyone, trying to use silence to dissolve the overly concentrated attention at the moment.
"Next..."
After introducing the transfer students, the second thing that Zhongyuan Xue said had just begun, and the school broadcast informed all students to go to the gymnasium to participate in the opening ceremony.
"Okay, let's go to the gym first and don't push each other in the corridor."
Naruse's chair was not yet warm, so he could only stand up and follow the others out of the classroom.
The old uniforms looked very eye-catching in the new school, and after walking out of the classroom, his eyes were even more confused. He accurately found Naoko's gaze.
Their eyes connected, and she squeezed over.
"Chunhai just follow me next."
"Don't treat me like a child."
Shangzi smiled slightly.
The two of them followed the team downstairs. Hikaru Takigawa was also nearby, but he didn't squeeze over, he just gave him an incomprehensible smile.
"What's going on? You're laughing so weirdly."
"She seems to be making a bet with others, saying that Harumi came back from Tokyo and is still pretending not to know you."
Naruse shook his head and said nothing.
The classroom of Class C in the first year is on the third floor. After walking around the corridor a few times and reaching the ground, Shangzi pointed to the front of the student line: "The gymnasium is over there."
Naruse looked over, "I came here last time to go through the transfer procedures, and I had already seen the map of the school in the reception room."
She turned around and smiled, "It would be more impressive if I walked through it once. After the opening ceremony, I will take Chunhai around the school."
There is only the opening ceremony in the morning. After that, although as a teacher it is necessary to chat a bit, there is still a lot of time left, and the official class starts in the afternoon, so I can't go home directly.
"Okay."
Walking into the spacious school gymnasium, I found a place to stand, and students from other grades and classes also came in one after another. The opening ceremony is no more than the entrance ceremony, which usually lasts for an hour, and will not last too long, so there are no seats.
Takigawa Hikaru still couldn't hold it back. Taking advantage of the commotion in the gymnasium, he squeezed in from behind and asked, "How does Harumi feel?"
"There's no special feeling." Naruse told her feelings truthfully, and looked at her again, "The bet is over?"
"Ah." Takigawa Hikaru smiled, without denying it or asking how he knew.
After chatting and joking for a while, she looked around a few times, her eyes swept over the noisy students beside her, and then fell on the teacher maintaining order outside, where she stayed longer.
"As expected, I still prefer this feeling."
"How does it feel?" Naruse asked casually. Because of Takigawa Hikaru's approach, he only felt that more and more probing eyes fell on him.
Takigawa Hikaru thought for a while and looked at him, "I want to know too."
"..."
"It would be great if Harumi could tell me the answer."
Naruse was speechless just now, but now he nodded quickly, "I will help you think about it."
Takigawa Hikaru smiled at his perfunctory behavior, waved his hand, and returned to where he should be.
On the other side, Suzuki Kazumi squeezed to Naoko, stared at Naruse, leaned closer and said:
"Naoko didn't say your friend was such a handsome guy... How could such a person not be able to make friends?"
Shangzi just smiled, feeling suddenly uneasy about his treasure being revealed to the public.
Although others are just watching now, she still hopes to keep hiding the treasure deeply to eliminate any possible covetousness.
One class away, in the first-year Class E team, Maki Haisei looked towards Class C as unobtrusively as possible, but he didn't realize that Morimi Kazuha, who was standing not far behind, had already caught all her actions.
.
After a few more minutes, when all the students came over, the gymnasium quickly became quiet.
The principal took the stage to speak and looked forward to the new semester. The first thing to come is the Tsuga Cultural Festival at the end of next month.
"It turns out we have to wait until the end of September." Naruse whispered.
The team of each class was divided into two lines. Shangzi stood next to him and got closer at this time: "After the cultural festival is shortened to three days, the time is also determined to be on the Thursday of the last week of September every year, and on Friday.
Saturday."
"That's it."
For the cultural festival, preparations for the club have started as early as the summer vacation, and the class discussions are basically carried out after the start of school. The second thing that teacher Yuki Nakahara just wanted to say seems to be related to the cultural festival.
Nearly twenty minutes later, the outlook for the new semester was finally over. The opening ceremony was over, and the students in the gymnasium dispersed one after another and returned to their classes.
Although it was a completely unfamiliar environment, the process on the first day of the new semester in schools everywhere was roughly the same. Naruse went with the flow and spent most of his attention getting familiar with the corridor or corridor in front of him.
After returning to the classroom, someone other than Naoko and Hikaru Takigawa finally came to talk to him.
A boy passed by his seat many times and finally stopped, "Are you really back from Tokyo?"
Naruse was too lazy to answer such a question, but he soon realized that his inadvertent coldness at this time might become a fixed impression on most of his classmates.
"Yes." He replied, and took the initiative to add, "I went to elementary school here, and I moved to Tokyo during the summer vacation of my primary six year."
The boy looked at him, "Municipal Chaoyang Primary School?"
Naruse looked at him one more time and realized something.
"You are..."
"Ryohei Kamoi, we were in the same class when we were in third grade and fourth grade."
Naruse was stunned for a few seconds and looked at him again: "Ryohei... is that Ryohei?"
"That's me!" Kamoi Ryohei was a little excited, "I knew you still remembered me."
"When I heard Harumi's name just now, I remembered it. And then I heard that you came back from Tokyo. I'm sure you are the Harumi from back then!"
"Long time no see, Liangping."
Naruse smiled, "Five or six years have passed, and I'm completely unrecognizable now."
Shangzi in the rear left watched the reunion of old friends here, and stared at his face for a while, suddenly wanting to laugh.
Obviously he didn't remember the other party at all...
But she can also understand that it doesn't matter if she can't remember the past. At least new friendships will sprout from now on.
Boys should make more male friends, Shangzi thought, this would also allow him to establish himself in the new environment as quickly as possible.
"Okay - everyone returns to their seats."
After a while, Nakahara Xue returned to the classroom and continued the explanation that was interrupted by the opening ceremony.
"Just a few words and it will be over soon——"
The teacher shouted a few more times before Kamoi Ryohei returned to his seat.
Naruse quietly breathed a sigh of relief.
If he continues to chat, he will dig up all the memories he has of his elementary school classmates.
But he was also a little happy. He made his first new friend in the new school much faster than he expected.
I hope other aspects can unfold so smoothly, he thought.
On the podium, the second thing Nakahara Snow wanted to explain was indeed related to the cultural festival.
She hopes that the students below can consider the cultural festival arrangements for Class C of the first year today, the evening class meeting in the afternoon, and then decide on the project through joint discussions.
In addition, some information changes need to be registered with her, and students who failed the final exam last semester should actively prepare for make-up exams and other reminders.
When she was about to leave the classroom, she looked at Naruse.
"Naruse-san, please come with me."
"Okay."
Eyes met with Naoko's, Naruse left the classroom under the gaze of the whole class and followed Nakahara Yuki.
"Sorry, I forgot before."
When she came to the staff room, she took out a form, "Other students had already filled it out and handed it in last semester, because Naruse-san just transferred here, so..."
He took it and took a look, and it turned out to be a career path hope questionnaire.
"After the cultural festival, the tripartite talks will begin, so Naruse-san had better fill out the form and give it to me before then," Nakahara Yuki said.
In other words, I still have one month to think about my future life path.
"——Can you give it to me before next week?"
"..."
Really unreliable.
But Naruse doesn’t need that much time.
"Okay."
Zhongyuan Xue explained a few more words and then let him go. However, before he could leave the staff room, he bumped into Starfish.
"..."
Just like when they met at the bus stop this morning, she still didn't speak. She took a step back, lowered her head, and squeezed past him into the staff room.
Naruse stopped and looked back. Haixing stopped at the teacher opposite Nakahara Yuki.
The staff room is relatively quiet, and the voice is clearly transmitted to the door: "Maki, don't forget that you have four subjects that need to be retaken..."
Naruse laughed. It seemed that his stepsister's grades in school were worrying.
"..."
The starfish inside looked up and saw his smile. Apparently he didn't think that their relationship was good enough to be laughed at, so he gave him a cold look.
"What's your attitude?"
Naruse in the distance was fine, but the teacher in front of her was provoked by her first.
Haixing lowered his head and muttered, and when he raised his head, he glanced at her covertly and quickly. Naruse understood that she was chasing him away.
Putting aside the past, his invitation to her to attend a party a few days ago was rejected, and he doesn't really want to talk to her at the moment.
"Naruse-san?" Nakahara Yuki noticed that he was still standing at the door.
"It's okay."
Naruse bowed his head in greeting and turned to leave.
In the staff room, Haixing breathed a sigh of relief and curled his lips again.