After the evening class meeting, before Nakahara Yuki left, she glanced at Naruse on the podium.
He nodded and said he would be there soon.
The silent exchange between the two was noticed by Hikari Takigawa, "Does Koyuki have anything to do with Harumi?"
"Well, it's still a matter of your choice for further education."
She smiled and said, "It's great, Chunhai finally enrolled in Jin University."
"Just fill it out like this first." Naruse said.
The greatest impact on him from that career path hope questionnaire was his promotion placement in the next two years. The final decision on which university to apply for would only be made by him in his third year two years later.
"Isn't Jinta University very good? Does Xiaoxue hope that Chunhai will go to Dongda University?"
"She seems to have this plan."
"It's too difficult."
Naruse just smiled and had no intention of distinguishing whether the emphasis in her words was "strong" or "difficult".
"Spring Sea."
Shangzi on the other side stood up, "I'm going to the club room first. Do you want to come over later?"
Naruse thought for a while, "I'll come over."
"Okay." She smiled at the two of them and left the classroom first.
Takigawa Hikaru also wanted to go to training. After saying hello, she picked up her schoolbag and walked away surrounded by several girls.
"When the training is over, let's go sit in the cafe outside for a while."
"Okay. Do you want to wait for me?"
"Hmm. Can I go to the gym to watch Guang train?"
"Okay. But the captain may not be happy because I can't help but care about you."
"Yeah——"
Really good at pleasing girls...
Naruse looked away, the students on duty began to clean, and he had to go to the staff room.
Passing by Class E, Mori saw Kazuha wiping the blackboard, but Haixing was nowhere to be seen, so he must have been pulled to take a make-up exam.
When he came to the staff room, on Nakahara Xue’s desk, in addition to his career path hope questionnaire, there was also someone else’s.
"You're here, Naruse-san."
She looked up at him and said, "There is something that Teacher wants to confirm first: Naruse-san and Ika-san are childhood sweethearts, right?"
Naruse glanced at the name on another form on the table, nodded, and then said:
"I hope to be in the same class as Shangzi when I enter the second and third grades, so I filled in the same application - we live close by, so the probability of being assigned to the same class is greater." p>
"..."
Zhongyuan Xue opened her mouth, but the words she had prepared were stuck in her throat, unable to come out.
She was still laying the groundwork, so he confessed directly.
"So, this is the main reason why Naruse-san chose Tsuda University?"
"It can be understood this way."
Nakahara Snow looked at him, "Has Naruse-san really thought about it seriously?"
Naruse stared at the form in her hand, "In the past week, I have fully considered the current situation."
"What about the future?"
"No matter how the future changes, it must be based on the current situation. Just like I am a boy now, I will only become an uncle in the future, not an aunt."
Zhongyuan Xue smiled, then frowned.
"I mean, a longer-term plan. Could it be that Naruse-san just wants to take it one step at a time and has never had any illusions about the future a few years or even ten years from now?"
Naruse didn't speak. After a while, he shook his head and said, "I haven't thought about it."
"I saw Naruse-san wrote here, 'Things I'm interested in are reading and walking'..."
Nakahara Xue took the file he filled out when he entered school and said, "If you like walking, you won't hate traveling."
"Those are two different things..."
"Traveling alone."
Naruse hesitated to speak, reluctantly and temporarily accepting her statement.
"Since you like traveling, wouldn't Naruse-san not want to go to further places? The famous mountains, rivers and historical sites in China, the ice and snow in Northern Europe, the savannah in Africa... Going to these places requires material support.
That’s money.”
Zhongyuan Xue looked at him, "Although it is very realistic to say this, in today's society, only money is the most solid foundation for life and dreams. Where does money come from? From stable, high-income jobs, and academic qualifications are just this
A stepping stone to a new job."
Naruse pursed his lips and looked at the ceiling of the staff room.
"According to what the teacher said, no matter what dreams I have, I have to get into a good university and then find a good job to support it?"
Zhongyuan Xue nodded, "That's it."
Naruse sighed.
"That's it. Materials, money... life is really boring. I'd better be a homebody."
"Ah?"
"I want to drop out of school."
"Ahhh..."
Zhongyuan Xue was a little at a loss. She was having a good chat, so why did she suddenly drop out of school and become a housekeeper?
What did she want to say in the first place?
"Wait, Naruse-san! Calm down first..."
Zhongyuan Xue herself is not very calm.
"Don't make such a joke! The teacher has been led astray by you."
"Sorry."
She lowered her head and pressed her eye sockets, gathered her thoughts and spoke again.
"Academic qualifications are not absolute. I just hope that Naruse-san can seriously consider his future..."
"——Tsk."
Zhongyuan Xue raised his eyes in surprise.
"Can you guarantee that if I make a plan, the future will go as I wish?"
After a pause, Naruse took another deep breath.
"...I'm sorry, teacher. What I mean is that I have already made plans to enter higher education and I will stick to it."
Zhongyuan Xue looked at him for a while, frowning, and finally had nothing to say.
The future is not something that can be decided in a few sentences, and your attitude towards the future will not be changed easily.
"In that case, I understand."
"I'm going back first."
"Be careful on the road."
Watching Naruse walk out of the staff room, Nakahara Yuki shook his head and began to clear the desktop, putting his and Shangzi's career path hope questionnaire back into its original place, followed by his personal file.
Taking the file and looking at it twice, she sighed.
"Escaping and refusing to consider the future is not unrestrained, but negative... He is obviously the son of that big star."
......
Realizing that his current mood was a bit unstable, Naruse returned to the classroom and stayed for a while, preparing to go to the handicraft club later.
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The new semester has entered its second week, and September has quietly entered September amidst the storm last weekend. All preparations have been carried out for the cultural festival at the end of the month.
The project for Class C in the first year is a private reading club. In addition to selecting "readers", the most important preparation is to build a reading place, which is a soundproof room similar to a phone booth.
A few boys were banging away at the back of the classroom, assembling the frame.
Naruse turned around and looked for a while, feeling his neck was sore, so he simply sat down on Naoko's seat and started watching.
He estimated based on the length of the wood, "It looks much larger than a phone booth."
"Of course, there are two people standing inside." The boy who answered the call glanced at him and said, "If Naruse is okay, come and help."
"Okay. What can I do?"
"Let me see...Hey, there is a shortage of people somewhere, Naruse wants to help."
Another boy near the back door waved.
Naruse went over and glanced at the design drawings on the ground.
The soundproof room is similar to two phone booths spliced together. There are doors on both sides for people to enter and exit. There is a wooden board in the middle with only a 20cm square opening. It is said that this is a requirement of the Cultural Festival Executive Committee to prevent students from taking advantage of the soundproofing.
The room is sealed and soundproof, and some unhealthy things are done inside.
The boys in Class C all feel that the committee that can relate to this is very unhealthy in itself.
"Ito-kun, what do you need me to do?" Naruse asked.
"How is Naruse-san's painting skills?"
“It’s a level I’ve only been exposed to in painting classes at school.”
"Well..."
Ito thought for a moment, "Will it be sexy?"
"Which level?"
"Kindergarten level."
Naruse smiled, "I will."
Ito moved a little to the side, and then gave him a composite board, "Be careful not to erase the line drawing."
The wooden board has already been drawn with a sketch, and the corresponding areas are marked with colors. All you need to do is fill it with paint. It is indeed a job that even kindergarten children can do.
"Give."
Naruse took the brush and paint tray, as well as a small bucket for cleaning paint.
"If it's just a wooden board, no matter how much decoration is added, it still feels a bit ugly." Ito said, "So I suggested just painting something on it, and then the job fell on me."
Naruse looked at the manuscript on the wooden board and said, "It turns out this was drawn by Ito-san."
"It's okay."
"I should say it's pretty good."
He stirred the paint and put the first stroke on the largest area, applying it repeatedly to familiarize himself with the feel.
Yidong looked at it for a while, and after he finished applying a small piece, he said: "Well, it's very good, keep this feeling. Come on."
"Thank you."
Naruse smiled, took another deep breath, lowered his head and continued coloring.
He is helping others, and at the same time he is helping himself: a simple application is making his heart calm again.