Gathering confidence or hesitation, each step leaves a unique footprint.
Shasha——
The same movement appeared in every corner of the first-year Class C classroom, and even in all classes at Prefectural Tsugao.
It was around three o'clock in the afternoon, and the first comprehensive examination of the second semester had come to an end.
[3. In the early days of the Edo shogunate, what impact did the outbreak of the Shimabara Rebellion have on the spread of foreign religions in Japan?]
Naruse thought for half a second, and the answer popped into his mind.
"Well, the key word should be 'temple invitation system'."
He held the pen and the answers flowed out on the paper without any hindrance.
After answering the last question, Naruse put down his pen, swept the eraser scraps on the test paper, and let out a breath.
It's over.
The Japanese history exam, as well as all the exams yesterday and today, are all over.
I looked at the clock on the wall and saw that there were about twenty minutes left in the exam.
Other students were still immersed in answering, and all he could see were frowning faces.
"..."
Sensing his gaze, Shang Zi raised his head and looked at him, then looked at the test papers on his desk, and pursed his lips slightly.
Naruse smiled comfortingly and quickly turned back.
Relaxing his body, emptying his mind, and resting for a while, he turned the test paper back to the first page and started checking.
I checked it completely and found nothing that needs to be modified.
A few minutes later, the bell rang, and the teacher on the podium stood up and announced that the exam was over.
A series of coughs and sighs suddenly sounded in the classroom.
"It's over...in many senses."
"It's really difficult."
"Is this kind of question really not out of scope?"
After taking the test paper from the back seat and sending it forward together with his own, Naruse glanced at Hikari Takigawa again.
After she handed over the test paper, she was in a daze, her eyes were empty, and she didn't know where she was looking.
"Light?"
"The longer I spend learning this, the more I like basketball."
"..."
The commotion after the exam did not last long. Teacher Nakahara Yuki quickly came to the classroom and explained some things.
"Next Monday, the exam results will come out, so it's useless to show this expression now. But before that..."
A few minutes later, the evening class meeting ended. Nakahara Xue walked out of the classroom with her attendance book in her arms. The students below packed their things and left one after another.
Naruse stayed in his seat, worrying again about the issues he had considered when school first started.
"Is there a three-way meeting next week? She probably won't have time to come back."
Matsu Qianqiu has left Jinqian for more than a month, and the crew has been preparing for so long and officially started filming more than a week ago. This is the busiest time in the early stage.
"——Chunhai, do you want to go to the club room?"
He turned to look at Shang Zi who had already packed his things, "Three-party talks, will Mr. Ika and the others come back?"
Shang Zi was startled and nodded slowly.
"I'll be back. I can still spare a day."
"I'm thinking that I might have to ask Naoko's father or mother to attend the three-way interview for me," Naruse said.
Shangzi was not surprised, "Mom and dad will not refuse...if there is time."
"Well, let's talk about it then."
In addition, even if he knew that Song Qianqiu would not come back, he still had to contact her after returning home.
Hikaru Takigawa walked around outside the classroom, calling friends and friends. When he came back, he had gotten rid of the state of being confused about the exam.
"Chunhai, Shangzi, you're done with the exam, do you want to go out and relax together? Tomorrow happens to be the weekend."
Naruse picked up his bag and prepared to leave, "Next time."
Takigawa Hikaru stretched out his arms and blocked the back door. After being perfunctory countless times, he finally complained: "I always say next time."
"Hikari..." Naoko looked at her and then at Naruse.
"The exams and club activities have been suspended these days. I have to go over there today and have a look." Naruse said, "Hikaru also knows that Naoko has established a new club."
"...Okay."
Hikaru Takigawa put down his arms, "I feel so embarrassed when I get rejected every invitation."
Naruse smiled.
“I’ll definitely go there next time.”
"That's what Harumi said last time."
"I promise this time."
"Wait a minute."
Takigawa Hikaru took out his mobile phone, clicked a few times, stretched it out in front of him, "Say it again."
Naruse glanced at the screen.
【Recording】
"Say it."
"...I promise, if Guang invites me to hang out next time, if there is no emergency, I will definitely go."
Takigawa Hikaru reluctantly put away the phone with satisfaction, "Thank you for your hard work."
Naruse shook his head and was speechless. He took the smiling Naoko and went to the club.
Watching the two of them go down the stairs in the middle, Hikaru Takigawa looked at Class E over there.
She still remembers what Naruse told him at the cultural festival.
After saying hello to the girls he met in the corridor, Hikaru Takigawa came to the Class E classroom, and someone happened to come out of the back door.
"Wow."
She stood still and couldn't help but say, "Yiye..."
Morijian Yiye's face was sullen, and his whole body was enveloped in an aura that kept strangers away, just like a piece of walking ice.
Hikari Takigawa understood immediately.
"Yiye also failed the exam."
"..."
After all, they were friends who grew up together. Seeing that Mori was in a bad mood at this time, he simply rolled his eyes.
"Sorry sorry~"
Takigawa Hikaru didn't care at all. He raised his arms and hugged her shoulders instead.
"What has happened in the past, let it go. If you want to relax, ask Shanghai Star to come with you."
Morimi struggled a little, not used to her excessive intimacy, and then sighed again.
"Forget it for today, let's do it next time."
"Oh, even the excuse is the same as Harumi." Hikaru Takigawa almost took out his phone and asked her to record a voice too.
Hearing her mention Naruse, Morimi's face darkened again.
"That guy..."
"Huh?"
"No, it's nothing. This exam exposed many problems, so I'll go back first."
"Okay, be careful on the road."
Just when he was about to leave, Morimi suddenly thought of Takigawa Hikaru's plan to come to Class E.
Turning around, she saw that she had indeed gone to find the starfish who was still on her seat.
These two have been really close recently...
Morimi shook his head.
You have too much time to take care of yourself, so don’t worry about it so much.
What's more, both Guang and her friends are more reassuring than those hot girls.
She reminded herself in her heart, picked up the bag on her shoulder, turned and left.
"Failed the test?"
Starfish lay on the table, without raising his head, and gave a muffled response.
"I should say 'stable performance'... I will definitely have to take the make-up exam again this time."
"Haha."
Takigawa Hikaru laughed, "Since we are destined to make up the exam, it's better to relax now."
"..."
Starfish lay down for a while, raised his head, and finally showed a smile.
"You're right, there's no point in worrying about it now. Let's just go play!"
"I've thought about it."
While waiting for her to pack her things, Takigawa Hikari glanced around the classroom of Class E.
Starfish's hot girl friends have all left.
"Let's go. Where are we going?"
"Where does Starfish want to go?"
"Anything is fine."
"Well... there are a few friends waiting at the school gate, let's discuss it together."
On the other side, Monk Naruse walked through the connecting corridor, came to the annex building, and climbed up two more floors.
The two of them stopped walking until they reached the depths of this floor.
A formal or unified house number with other societies has not yet been produced. The current replacement is an engraved wooden board nearly two meters long, made by Ogawa Rina herself.
【All Things Restoration Department】
"Speaking of which, today is the first club activity in October."
"After all, all grades have been preparing for exams in the past few days."
Naruse touched the huge door number, Naoko took out the key and opened the door of the department room.
"Come in."
The Creation Restoration Club is a new club established by Naoko during the cultural festival. Except for Naruse, all the current members are her friends from the Handicraft Club.
Because the time of establishment is a bit awkward, neither early nor late, the location of the activity department that can be assigned is relatively remote.
Fortunately, the members don’t really care.
Walking into the club room, although the club has only been established for a few days, there are already many handmade works in different styles, which are very attractive.
"The handicraft club has almost been emptied out," Naruse said. After the cultural festival, he never went there again.
Shangzi smiled and shook his head.
"Chunhai underestimated the historical accumulation of the handicraft society."
He found a seat and sat down, took out the novel he borrowed from the school library, and started reading.
The purpose of the Restoration Department is to give full play to their own strengths and try their best to repair the cherished items of others. In other words, the members are relatively free most of the time.
"When there is no commission, just do your own thing." Minister Naoko said this at the first general meeting of the restoration department.
Naturally, there are no mandatory requirements for attendance.
Although there was a unified exam for the whole school today, many people still came after school.
The first person to come over was Ogawa Rina.
"You are here."
She looked at the door number she had carved at the door, and then walked into the department room.
"Senior Ogawa."
"There was no one there when I came here just now, so I went downstairs to sit in the handicraft club for a while. Oops... I was stared at by Ritsuko all the time, and I didn't dare to move my head. I felt that if I turned my head, she would pounce on me.
Swallow it into your stomach."
In response to her joke, Shangzi just smiled and said nothing.
The same goes for Naruse.
Almost all the current members of the Restoration Department are the backbone of the Handicraft Club, and on the day he attended the celebration party at the izakaya, he heard that the two tables of girls from the Handicraft Club almost got into a fight, and there must have been quite a conflict.
But he didn't ask, and Shangzi didn't explain it to him in detail.
Facing the opposition in the club, she found a third solution besides endurance and direct confrontation, and she seemed to enjoy it, and he would only give her full support.
After a while, other members came to the department room one after another.
Chatting and laughing with each other, doing the things you like, it's no different from when you were in the handicraft club, but the atmosphere is much more relaxed and comfortable than there.
"Shangzi."
A second-grade girl sat next to her with a bag, then took out her laptop and put it in front of her.
"Senior Yasuoka, this is..."
"The webpage I told Shangzi before is almost complete. Let me show you the effect first. If there are no problems, you can put it into use."
Naruse, who was sitting not far away, also turned to look over.
Senior Yasuoka turned on the computer and skillfully opened a web page to introduce Naoko.
"The overall layout is like this... When the time comes, some photos will be put here as an introduction. The content will mainly be the repaired things. Shangzi can choose it himself;
Here, this is the range of items we can help repair now, such as clothing, puppets, electronic products with less complex structures, etc. In addition, we can also do some simple renovation work...
Click here to entrust. The specific form is to fill in a form describing the entrustment. After submission, the contents of this form will be sent to the set mailbox."
Shangzi stared unblinkingly, nodding from time to time and responding with hums in his mouth.
After introducing the content of the entire web page, Senior Sister Yasuoka said:
"At that time, through the operation of the student union, our webpage will be linked to the school homepage of Tsugao, and all visitors can see it. In this way, the exposure of the restoration department can be greatly improved - missing the cultural festival
Such an excellent publicity opportunity, now we can only do as much as possible to make up for it."
She waved her hand, turned the notebook towards her, and scrolled up and down the web page.
"Don't rush to say thank you. After reading it, what do Shangzi think? Is there anything that needs improvement in the content or design of the webpage?"
"Hmm... I think the title text here can be slightly enlarged."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading!
"OK~ changing the font size is very simple. How about this?"
"A little bigger."
"No problem."
"Hmm...a little bigger?"
"Okay. What about this?"
"It seems too big. Can it be a little smaller?"
"..."
When Yasuoka-senpai raised her eyebrows and took a deep breath, Naruse immediately stood up and went over to make the decision for Naoko.
"Just keep the font size like this."
"Chunhai..."
Shang Zi also quickly recovered from the entanglement, so the next part that didn't have any major problems was basically passed with a few glances.
"Then so be it."
Senior Yasuoka put away her laptop and said, "Naoko, please send me the materials for promotion as soon as possible."
"Okay."
After Yasuoka-senpai left, Naoko had nothing else to do for the time being, so she began to prepare materials.
When she was in the handicraft club, she helped repair many dolls. Other members were also good at handicrafts, so they helped repair some items in and out of school.
"If we can get in touch, please ask them to take some photos." Shangzi said to the members, "Tomorrow happens to be the weekend."
After finishing her work here, she stayed for a short while and then left the department to find the people she had helped before.
Naruse did not accompany him and stayed in the club room to continue reading. He took out his mobile phone and took a look.
The message I sent to Song Qianqiu before is still unread.
"I'm really busy filming." He muttered and put away his phone.
Before Shangzi came back, a strange face appeared at the door of the restoration department.
"Is this the restoration department?"
As soon as he entered the door, he was stared at by more than a dozen girls at the same time. He was startled and subconsciously looked at the only boy in the club.
"Yes." Naruse had no choice but to answer and got up to go over.
"There are so many girls..."
He walked up to the boy, who was still looking into the club room.
"Is something wrong?"
"I am Guze from Class A of the first year. The people from the handicraft club asked me to come here... Can you repair anything here?"
Handicraft club?
Naruse was a little surprised and didn't ask in detail, "What do you want to practice?"
"Watch."
"..."
It’s such a difficult job from the beginning.
"Mechanical watch?"
"Ah? Really? I don't quite understand the difference between mechanical watches and quartz watches..."
As Gu Ze said this, he took off the watch on his hand and said, "This is it."
Naruse took it and took a look. The English on the dial was very unfamiliar. At least it was not a famous brand he had seen before, such as Patek Cuili, Lange or Vacheron Constantin.
"It's a mechanical watch."
"Oh. Although this watch is just a bargain, it is also a gift that my brother left for me before he went abroad. After not wearing it for a while, the time error has become bigger and bigger. I don't understand what's going on... Can you repair it?
”
The two did not lower their voices during the conversation, and everyone else in the club heard clearly. Naruse asked with his eyes, and everyone shook their heads.
"It seems impossible."
"That's it." Guze looked a little disappointed.
"Um...wait a moment."
Naruse stopped him when he turned around, "If you're not in a hurry, I can ask my friend to take a look at it - even if it can't be repaired, I will return it to you exactly as it is."
"Really?"
Guze was very happy and handed the watch over directly, "Then I'll leave it to you... There should be no charge, right?"
"If there is no need to replace any expensive parts, Furusawa-san will not be charged." Naruse said.
"That's good."
After thanking him and glancing at the club room full of girls, Furusawa left.
Naruse returned to the club room with his watch. Others were a little curious, so he handed over his watch and let them pass it around for free.
"You can let us repair it casually. It is indeed a brand I have never heard of. Does Naruse have any friends who can repair watches?"
"I know how to repair some things, but I don't know if mechanical watches are among them."
"I don't know?" Ogawa Rina glanced at him, "Then you agreed so quickly."
Naruse took the watch and said, "After all, this is the first official commission after the restoration department was established. If you refuse without doing anything, I don't think it's a good sign."
Rina Ogawa said nothing more.
Ten minutes later, Shangzi returned to the club room.
"How was it?"
"I found two people. They said they would help take some photos after they go back."
"That's good. But on the doll that Naoko has repaired, you can't tell where the patches are or where the original decorations are. If it is used for publicity, will ordinary people be able to spot it?" Naruse said.
She smiled and seemed very happy.
"Then mark it on the photo."
After staying for more than half an hour, Naruse packed up his things and prepared to leave.
"I'm going to go to a second-hand store and let Mr. Chaoyue see if this watch can be repaired."