Ome Quartet of Snow Country

Chapter 20 Lunch Break
The pen spins between fingers.

Over the mountains and ridges, wandering indefinitely.

Every stop and move is just right, just like a top dancer who only challenges difficulties and is tireless.

But it just doesn't come alive on paper.

Hikaru Takikawa sighed, stopped the pen in his hand, and paused on the notebook for a long time, leaving only a string of slightly messy ellipses in the end.

She quickly found comfort in the fact that she was good enough athletically.

So the finger dancer jumped up 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 solved all the problems?"

There were very few applicants, so some students showed reassuring smiles and buried their heads even lower.

Of course, there are also those who do not know how to restrain themselves.

"Takikawa, what are you laughing at?"

Hikaru Takikawa changed his pen, the smile on his face remained unchanged, "It's nothing."

"You come up to do this question."

"sorry, I do not know."

She shook her head, and the math teacher on the stage also shook her head, but they didn't make things difficult for her. After all, this question was really difficult.

"Has anyone made it?"

After a brief silence, a response came from the back row of the classroom, but it was not for himself:

"Teacher, the transfer student has done it!"

"Transfer students..."

The math teacher looked down at the attendance book, but couldn't find any unfamiliar names, so he simply raised his head and said, "Who is the transfer student, please come up and answer."

"..."

Looking at the classmate in the back seat who was poking his head and encouraging him with his eyes, Naruse had nothing to say for a while, and got up and went up.

Two minutes later, he patted the chalk dust off his fingertips and returned to his seat.

"It's amazing." Shangzi smiled, happier than he did it himself.

Naruse smiled at her, and then said to the girl in the back seat: "If I want to go up, I will tell."

"Are you not happy?"

"I……"

"Sorry, not next time."

She patted him on the shoulder heavily, no matter the way she moved or spoke, she looked more like a boy.

"But you are really amazing. I observed it just now. You are the first one in Class C to solve this problem."

"It's okay." Naruse just reminded, seeing that the other party accepted it quickly, he didn't say much.

"Is Harumi studying well now?" Hikaru Takikawa who had been watching suddenly asked.

Naruse smiled as an answer.

"Obviously he said the same thing to me before."

"How many years ago did you say before?"

After all, he was still in class, and he quickly turned his head back, but Takikawa Hikari seemed to have discovered something terrible, and kept paying attention to him.

After a whole math class, she was finally convinced that Naruse was no longer the same "medium student" as she was back then.

"why?"

She remembered that he had never shown much interest in learning before, and it was the common purpose of both of them to play when he had enough energy to learn.

And she went a little deeper: you can play even if you don't have the energy to spare.

"what?"

Naruse didn't know that she was still struggling with what happened 10 minutes ago, and he was a little bit dumbfounded after asking.

"You have to be good at studying and sports, and I also need an outstanding advantage."

Hikaru Takikawa didn't understand, "Need?"

Naruse hesitated for a moment, got up and walked to the window, asking her to come too, before speaking.

"From the countryside of Aomori to a big city like Tokyo, even if others don't say anything, I still feel a little inferior..."

What's more, the actual situation at that time was completely opposite to "nothing was said".

"So, I tried to work hard, and the result was not bad."

Although he couldn't fully understand his mentality, Takikawa Hikari could almost understand it.

"Everything is not good in a big city." She said with emotion.

Naruse just smiled.

Shangzi next to him looked up at him with calm eyes, only she knew what happened to him.

"Then Chunhai or Yiye, who studies better?"

"You have to take a test to find out."

This unexpected discovery caused a slight change in the image of Naruse in Hikaru Takikawa's mind, but it was only a little bit. After half a class, her attention flew away again.

The time in the morning passed neither fast nor slow, fatigue was accumulating, and hunger was piling up. When both were almost reaching the limit, the morning was over.

Not long after the lunch break bell rang, most of the people in the classroom were gone.Some go to the cafeteria, and some just want to change places to eat bento.

Hikaru Takikawa was also one of those who left with a bento box.

Shangzi moved the stool and sat next to Naruse's seat, and explained to him: "I just went to the third grade classroom to have dinner with Sister Yue."

"Why?" Naruse thought there was some reason for it.

"Just say that I just want to have dinner with my sister."

"Is she sister control?" Naruse shook his head and said casually.

"..."

Shangzi made a move.

Is it because of this that Guang occasionally pays special attention to himself who is a bit of a sister in other people's population?

"what happened?"

"No, it's fine."

Shangzi opened the bento and smiled, "I'm starting."

Not long after the two of them finished their bento, Takikawa Hikari returned to the classroom.

Other students in the class also came back one after another. She leaned against the back door of the classroom, chatted and laughed happily with some of them, and did not forget to answer the greetings of everyone passing by.

"The popularity is really high."

Naruse observed from the seat for a while, although he had a premonition when he saw her for the first time, he still couldn't help feeling emotional.

Shangzi was lying on the table, looking at him and at the back door, "Guang is very popular in school."

He turned to look at her, "If you don't sleep, the lunch break will be over."

Shangzi closed his eyes, still facing him, "I'm trying to sleep."

She has been busy sewing puppets for the past few nights, and she goes to bed very late. The direct result is lack of sleep, and she feels sleepy in the afternoon.

"Fortunately, the most sleepy time is physical education class. It's not easy to fall asleep when you move." Shangzi said.

Naruse held his chin, didn't answer, and didn't look at her.

She opened her eyes and looked around, knowing that he didn't want to waste her rest time chatting, so she closed her eyes again.

Although the classroom was still noisy, after lying down like this for a few minutes, she gradually became sleepy.

Naruse had nothing to do, so he took out the career hope questionnaire in his schoolbag and looked at it for a while, then took a pen and circled the first among the four options of [University Entrance], [Vocational School], [Employment] and [Others] item.

And the next few blanks are to fill in the blanks with more specific expectations for the future.

"First choice, second choice, third choice..."

He has no clear idea yet.

"Tsu University, Tsu University, Tsu University." Hikari Takikawa came behind him at some point, stretched out his fingers and clicked through the three grids one by one.

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, and he didn't even know where the school gate was.

"At any rate, it is the only national university in Aomori." Takikawa said.

"I don't mean to look down on Tianjin University."

"Osamu Dazai also studied at Tsu University before."

"I'll take the time to visit." Naruse looked back at her, "But that's not the reason to choose Tianjin University."

"Ok."

The person in the back seat hadn't come back yet, Takigawa Hikaru sat on the other's desk, his long legs swaying slightly, "There are still more than two years, Haruhi can think about it slowly - just fill out the form casually."

"Ah."

Naruse nodded, and asked casually: "Since it is a national university, the deviation value of Tianjin University should be relatively high."

"That's right." Hikari Takikawa understood what he really wanted to ask, "I'm going to enroll through special sports enrollment."

"I see."

Thinking back to himself, Naruse was silent for a while unconsciously, "The future will be long, let's think about it then."

Shangzi, who was lying on the table, turned his head to the other side.

"Too."

Hikaru Takikawa smiled, "Why don't we discuss what to 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 face, "Shangzi is a bit overwhelmed."

"is it?"

Hikaru Takigawa looked at Naoko who seemed to be asleep, "Then let me help too."

"If there is light..."

Naruse pondered for a while, and then said, "Do you know any second-year students?"

"Know some. What's the matter?"

He glanced at Shangzi, and said in a low voice: "I'm a little curious about some things, and I may need to ask Hikaru to introduce me to some second-year students... preferably girls."

"no problem."

Hikaru Takikawa quickly agreed.

Naruse didn't say any more, bypassing the topic, the two chatted for a while, until the preparatory bell rang and the lunch break ended.

"Well--"

Naoko sat up straight, stretched long, and found Naruse looking at her.

"Have you had enough sleep?"

She smiled slightly, "Yeah."

(End of this chapter)