Traveling over mountains and ridges, wandering indefinitely.
Every pause and move is just right, just like a top dancer who only challenges dangers and is tireless.
But it just can't come alive on paper.
Takigawa Hikaru sighed, stopped writing in his hand, and paused on the notebook for a long time, leaving only a series of slightly messy ellipses.
She quickly found comfort: she was already good enough at sports.
Then the dancer between the fingers jumped again.
"Okay, time is over."
The math teacher on the podium looked away from his watch and looked around at the students below, "Have you finished this problem?"
There were only a few people who responded, so some students smiled reassuringly and buried their heads lower.
Of course, there are also those who don’t know how to restrain themselves.
"Takigawa, what are you laughing at?"
Takigawa Hikaru turned around and kept the smile on his face, "Nothing."
"You come up and do this question."
"Sorry, I can't."
She shook her head, and the math teacher on the stage also shook his head, but he didn't embarrass her. After all, this question was indeed a bit difficult.
"Has anyone made it yet?"
After a brief silence, a response suddenly came from the back row of the classroom, but it was not for himself:
"Teacher, the transfer student is ready!"
"Transfer student..."
The math teacher looked down at the attendance book and couldn't find any unfamiliar name for a long time. He simply raised his head and said, "Who is the transfer student? Come up and answer it."
"..."
Looking at his classmate in the back seat who was craning his head and encouraging him with his eyes, Naruse was speechless for a moment and got up.
Two minutes later, he patted the chalk dust on his fingertips and returned to his seat.
"It's awesome." Shangzi smiled, happier than he had done it himself.
Naruse smiled at her, and then said to the girl in the back seat: "If I want to get in, I will tell myself."
"Aren't you happy?"
"I..."
"Sorry, I won't do it next time."
She patted his shoulder heavily. Whether it was her actions or the way she spoke, she looked more like a boy.
"But you are really good. I just observed that you are the first one in Class C to solve this question."
"It's okay." Naruse just reminded him. Seeing that the other party accepted it quickly, he didn't say anything more.
"Is Harumi studying well now?" Hikari Takigawa, who had been watching, suddenly asked.
Naruse smiled and answered.
"Obviously you told me the same thing before."
"How many years ago were you talking about?"
After all, he was still in class. He quickly turned his head, but Takigawa Hikaru seemed to have discovered something extraordinary and kept paying attention to him.
After a whole math class, she was finally convinced that Naruse was no longer the "average student" like her.
"Why?"
She remembered that he had never shown much interest in learning before. If he had enough time to study, he would go and have fun. This was a common goal between them.
And she went even further: if you don’t have any energy left, you can still play.
"What?"
Naruse didn't know that she was still struggling with what happened dozens of minutes ago. After asking about it, she felt dumbfounded.
"You have to be good at studying and sports, and I also need an outstanding advantage."
Takigawa Hikaru didn't understand, "Need?"
Naruse hesitated for a moment, stood up and walked to the window, asking her to come over too, and then spoke.
"When I came from the countryside of Aomori to a big city like Tokyo, even if others didn't say anything, I would still have some sense of inferiority..."
What's more, the actual situation at that time was completely opposite to "saying nothing".
"So, I tried hard and the result was pretty good."
Although I can't fully understand his mentality, Hikaru Takigawa can almost understand it.
"Not everything is good in big cities," she said with emotion.
Naruse just smiled.
Shangzi next to him looked up at him with calm eyes. Only she knew everything that happened to him.
"Whose study is better, Harumi or Kazuyo?"
"You have to take a test to find out."
This unexpected discovery slightly changed the image of Naruse in Hikaru Takigawa's mind, but only a little. After half the class, her attention flew away again.
The morning passed neither quickly nor slowly. Fatigue was accumulating and hunger was piling up. When both of them were almost reaching their limit, the morning was over.
Not long after the lunch break bell rang, most of the people in the classroom were gone. Some went to the cafeteria, and some just wanted to eat lunch somewhere else.
Hikaru Takigawa was also one of the people who left with a lunch box.
Naoko moved a stool to sit next to Naruse's seat and explained to him: "I just went to the third-grade classroom to have dinner with Sister Yue."
"What?" Naruse thought there was some reason.
"I just want to have dinner with my sister."
"Is she a sister-controller?" Naruse shook his head and said casually.
"..."
Shangzi made a move.
Is it because of this that Guang occasionally cares about himself, who others say has a bit of a sister-like attribute?
"What's wrong?"
"No, it's okay."
Naoko opened the lunch box and smiled, "I'm starting."
......
Shortly after the two of them finished eating their lunch box, Hikari Takigawa returned to the classroom.
Other students in the class also came back one after another. She leaned against the back door of the classroom, chatting and laughing with some of them, and did not forget to respond to the greetings of everyone passing by.
“It’s so popular.”
Naruse watched for a while in his seat. Although he had a premonition when he saw her for the first time, he still couldn't help but sigh.
Shangzi lay on the table, looking at him and the back door, "Guang is very popular in school."
He turned to look at her, "If you don't sleep, your lunch break will be over."
Shangzi closed his eyes, still facing him, "I'm trying to fall asleep."
She had been busy sewing dolls these past few nights and went to bed very late. The direct result was lack of sleep and she felt sleepy in the afternoon.
"Fortunately, the sleepiest time is during physical education class, so it's not easy to fall asleep when you move." Shangzi said.
Naruse held his chin, neither answering nor looking at her.
She opened her eyes and looked around, realizing that he didn't want to waste her rest time chatting, so she closed her eyes again.
Although the classroom was still noisy, she gradually started to feel sleepy after lying like this for a few minutes.
Naruse had nothing to do, so he took out the career hope questionnaire from his schoolbag and read it for a while. He picked up his pen and circled the first among the four options: [College Entrance], [Trade School], [Employment] and [Others].
Item.
The following blanks are filled in with more specific expectations for the future.
"First choice, second choice, third choice..."
He doesn't have a clear idea yet.
"Tsuda, Tsuda, Tsuda." Hikaru Takigawa came behind him at some point and stretched out his fingers to click on the three grids in sequence.
Naruse smiled and put away the questionnaire.
Apart from the fact that it was close to home, he didn't know much about Tsuzen University a few hundred meters away. He didn't even know where the school gate was.
"After all, it is the only national university in Aomori." Hikaru Takigawa said.
"I don't mean to look down on Jin University."
"Dazai Osamu also studied at Jin University before."
"I will make time to visit." Naruse looked back at her, "But this is not the reason to choose Jinda."
"Okay."
The person in the back seat hasn't returned yet, so Takigawa Hikaru sat on the other person's desk, swaying his long legs, "There are still more than two years, Harumi can think about it slowly - just fill in the form casually." "Yeah."
Naruse nodded and asked casually: "Since it is a national university, the deviation value of Tsushima University should be relatively high."
"Yes." Hikaru Takigawa understood what he really wanted to ask, "I plan to enroll in the school through special sports admissions."
"That's it."
His thoughts returned to himself, and Naruse was silent for a while unconsciously, "The days are long, let's think about it when the time comes."
Shangzi, who was lying on the table, turned his head to the other side.
"Same."
Hikaru Takigawa smiled and said, "Why don't we discuss what we should do after school today? I don't need to train today."
"I have to go to the handicraft club to help." Naruse said without changing his expression, "Naoko is a little busy."
"Really?"
Takigawa Hikaru looked at Naoko who seemed to be sleeping soundly, "Then let me help too."
"If there is light..."
Naruse pondered for a moment and then said, "Does Hikaru know any second-year students?"
"I know some. What's wrong?"
He glanced at Shangzi and whispered: "I'm a little curious about some things. I may need to ask Guang to introduce me to some second-year students... preferably girls."
"No problem."
Hikaru Takigawa agreed quickly.
Naruse said no more and avoided the topic. The two chatted for a while until the preparation bell rang and the lunch break was over.
"Well——"
Naoko sat up straight, stretched out, and then found Naruse looking at her.