The autumn wind is getting colder, and the feeling of winter is becoming more obvious.
Another week has passed, and October has entered the second half.
Monday morning.
Because there is a regular meeting in the gymnasium, the morning shift of first-year Class C will end in a hurry.
The front door of the classroom opened, and a cold wind suddenly rushed in. Zhongyuan Xue shrank her neck and raised her voice: "If you feel cold, you can wear a coat, but you can't wear scarves and gloves."
When Naruse heard this, he could only take off the scarf around his neck.
"Is it cold?" Shangzi looked at him.
"It's okay." Naruse shrank his neck and exhaled, "Let's go to the gym." Read a book
We lined up and went downstairs to the gymnasium. The sun didn't shine here, and the constant cold wind in the aisles made people shiver.
Naruse's teeth chattered with the cold, and he wished he could hide all the skin in his uniform until he entered the gymnasium.
"Finally the wind is gone..."
When passing by the third-grade formation, he took another look. The seniors who had gathered here first were whispering to each other, faintly excited.
He quickly guessed the possible reason.
"It's been two weeks, so it should be almost done."
"What?" Shangzi didn't know why.
"About the school trip... there must be some gossip."
Sure enough, after the assembly, the first thing Kobayakawa announced at the regular assembly was to restart the school trip for the third grade.
The departure time is tomorrow.
"YES!YES!YES!"
"Finally...!"
"Kyoto, study trip, here I come——"
The uncontrollable excitement of the third graders could still be clearly heard even through the second graders in between.
Students from both grades looked at the seniors over there.
Rather than envy, what Naruse saw on the faces of his classmates was more confusion after their thoughts drifted away - there were still two full years until it was their turn to go on the school trip.
There are exceptions.
For example, Takigawa Hikaru frowned.
"Let's leave tomorrow..."
"It will start snowing if it drags on any longer."
"Just cancel it."
"That's too cruel for a third-year student." Naruse understood that she still wasn't worried about her delicate sister traveling far away.
"Yue should be very happy now..." She stood on tiptoe and looked towards the third grade.
At the end of the assembly, Hikaru Takigawa did not follow the team back to class, but left midway.
Naruse estimated that she was going to find Takigawa Yue and ignored her.
After the first class in the morning ended, Takigawa Hikaru took the initiative to find him and Shangzi.
"Let's go there."
"Yeah."
The second class is biology, and today's class is about squid dissection, and they have to go to the biology classroom. The three of them are in the same group.
The biology classroom is on the ground floor of the auxiliary building, and you have to go through the connecting corridor between the main and auxiliary buildings.
With the cold wind blowing across, Naruse tightened the scarf around his neck and buried his face.
The scarf was newly knitted by Shangzi. Because she felt that the scarf she sent him before was a bit crude, she went back and spent two nights re-knitting it. It was warmer and better looking than the original one.
The cold froze the faint smell of hand cream on the scarf, and Naruse wrapped himself tighter.
Takigawa Hikaru looked back, "Harumi is really afraid of the cold."
"Because it shouldn't be so cold at this time..."
She laughed and said, "This is Northeast China, not Tokyo."
Naruse said nothing, and another cloud of white gas came out of the scarf.
When they were about to reach the entrance to the other side of the corridor, Hikaru Takigawa suddenly said: "Then let's go to some place where it's not so cold."
Naruse raised his eyes and looked at the auxiliary building in front of him, "Yeah."
She turned to look at him and smiled again, her meaning unclear.
When they arrived at the biology classroom, the three of them found a seat near the front. The squid specimens that would be used for dissection were already placed on the experimental table.
Takigawa Hikaru stretched out her hand and touched it. The smooth and cold touch made her reluctant to touch it again, "Damn it."
"Of course the specimen is dead."
"It looks pretty fresh."
"If it rots, there will be no point in dissection."
Shangzi lowered his head and sniffed, "There is a strange smell."
"She was soaked in formalin solution before." Naruse pulled her back a little, "Don't smell it."
She smiled and said, "Okay."
Before class started, the biology teacher Reiko Kuroda was busy writing the experimental procedures and requirements on the blackboard, and had no time to pay attention to what was happening below. A few boys suddenly started making noises.
"Teacher, Tsuchikawa ate the squid!"
Kuroda was shocked and walked down quickly. The squid specimen on the table was indeed missing, "Are you an idiot! Spit it out!"
But before she could reach the bulging Tsuchikawa, the squid slipped out of his sleeve.
"..."
The result, of course, was a scolding.
The farce ended in a hurry, but it also took some time. The class bell rang, and Kuroda Reiko hadn't finished writing on the blackboard, so she had to speed up and write fast.
After a minute or two, she put down the chalk and started class.
"In this lesson we're going to dissect a squid, but before we start - put the squid down!"
Following her line of sight, Naruse turned around and saw that several boys at the back of the classroom were playing with the squid specimens again.
"Boys are all idiots..." In the noisy classroom, the girls huddled together and whispered, "Except Naruse-san."
Naruse, who was unexpectedly praised, could only laugh.
"...The purpose of the squid anatomy experiment is, firstly, to understand the characteristics of cephalopods adapting to an active lifestyle, and secondly, to understand the internal organ structure of molluscs."
Kuroda Reiko pointed to the text written on the blackboard, "Before starting the experiment, I also need to explain the experimental equipment."
After introducing all the tools such as dissecting scissors, forceps, and dissecting wax plates, she allowed the students below to formally observe today's experimental subjects.
Seeing both Naoko and Hikaru Takigawa looking at him, Naruse had no choice but to do it himself and put the squid into the dissecting wax dish, with the darker side facing up.
"Now observe the external shape of the squid, distinguish the head, feet, neck and trunk, and the main characteristics of each part."
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Naoko handed the magnifying glass to Naruse.
"The neck is really short." He bent over and observed for a while, then gave her the magnifying glass, followed by Hikaru Takigawa.
"Is this the squid caught in Mutsu Bay?"
"I don't know."
"I'm craving for seafood."
"You can't eat this."
An assignment was given before this class, requiring him to draw the appearance of a squid, as well as a schematic diagram of its internal structure. Naruse compared it while writing, and soon had a rough prototype.
Takigawa Hikaru painted it several times, but it still didn't look like it, so he simply painted it according to his painting.
"Well...at least it doesn't look so weird anymore."
Naoko is very good at painting, and some parts are more detailed than Naruse.
After a while, the external observation part was finally over, and then the internal anatomy began.
Kuroda Reiko pointed at the picture on the projection screen and raised her voice:
"The anatomical scissors enter from here, first cut open both sides of the mantle, and then remove the ventral mantle to expose the visceral mass inside... Pay attention, I will demonstrate it first."
She operated a few times, and the projected content turned into her real-time operations on the experimental table above.
"Enter from here, be careful when cutting..."
After watching her complete the operation, Naruse looked at the two people beside him again, "Should I do it again?"
"Let me give it a try." Shangzi said.
So he gave up his position and stood to the left and right with Takigawa Hikari, watching her operate.
Picking up the scissors, Shangzi didn't even raise his head to look at the projection screen. He cut accurately and neatly, removing the mantle from the squid's trunk in a few strokes, and the incision was still smooth.
"Naoko might be able to become a surgeon in the future. These hands must be very stable holding the scalpel." Hikaru Takigawa exclaimed.
Naoko smiled and looked at Naruse.
"What a nice cut."
"Hmm."
The students below were operating, and Kuroda Reiko came down to look around and gave Naoko a very high evaluation.
The squid used for the experiment are all female, so after removing the mantle, you can see at a glance the raised white oval-shaped oviduct glands and a larger number of accessory oviduct glands in the exposed internal organs;
Due to limited course time, the last step of today's dissection is to remove these glands for further observation.
Hikaru Takigawa still had no interest in doing anything, so Yu Naruse picked up the tweezers.
"Be careful when removing it..."
The biology teacher issued a reminder on the stage. Naruse lowered his head, held down the squid with one hand, and used tweezers with the other hand to carefully separate the internal organs from the body.
"——By the way, Harumi, come with me to Kyoto tomorrow."
Phew!
The sudden tear caused the gland to detach directly, and the cold liquid splashed onto his face during the shaking. Naruse was stunned and turned to look at Takigawa Hikaru.