Ome Quartet of Snow Country

Chapter 34 Noisy
two weeks later.

Standing at the back of the classroom, Naruse touched the wooden composite board beside him, feeling the texture of the paint with his fingertips.

These are all painted by him stroke by stroke. After two weeks, the paint has already solidified and dried, so there is no need to worry about getting it on your hands or clothes.

It has been a week since the job of painting the boards, because there is nothing else to do, he still stays after school to help, and now he is responsible for another part.

Naruse caressed the wooden board. On the outside was the bright pattern he and Itoo had painted together, while the other side facing the inside was to be filled with sound-absorbing material, that is, sound-proof cotton.

Yesterday afternoon, the boys in class C tried to assemble a soundproof room, but after the actual experience, the soundproof effect was not as good as expected.

Naruse also went in to experience it once, but he thought it was okay.

He tapped with his knuckles, and the wooden board made a muffled sound, "Basically you can't hear the sound from outside, can you?"

"It's not enough." Another boy next to him said, "Narase hasn't participated in the Tsuga Cultural Festival, right? It was very lively that day, in other words, it was very noisy."

Naruse glanced at the first-year boys beside him. Although all of them were promoted to Jin Gao this year, most of them had already experienced Jin Gao when they were in middle school.

"It needs to be soundproofed to the point where you can scream inside, but you can't hear it outside!" Another boy emphasized.

Naruse smiled, this is what he left to help today - on top of the original, add a layer of thicker and more expensive sound insulation cotton with better effect.

At present, the new sound insulation cotton has not been delivered, and there is no way to carry out the subsequent work. They can only wait.

The cultural festival at the end of September is getting closer and closer, with less than two weeks left, and various preparations are in full swing.The boys were busy assembling the soundproof room, while the girls contributed to things like decoration and publicity, such as cutting colorful paper and drawing promotional posters.

Looking at the busy girls chatting at the front of the classroom, Naruse couldn't help but think of Naoko who was staying at the handicraft club at this time.

Two weeks ago, at the Hamino Café outside Tsugo, she voluntarily revealed to him her predicament at the handicraft club for the first time.

It was also at that time that she said that she would solve the problem over there by herself.

Naruse didn't know if Naoko had noticed the investigation he was secretly conducting, but since it was her request, he never went to the handicraft club's department after that.

"So slow—"

Compared with the laughing and laughing girls in the front row of the classroom, the boys are doing nothing and seem a little impatient.

"It's already this time, haven't you delivered it yet? Let's call again."

"I contacted you just now and said that I have arrived at Shinteramachi."

"Isn't that nearby, can't you find Jin Gao's location?"

"What nonsense, the owner of that store is a graduate of Jin Gao... Well, the phone is coming."

The person who contacted the store was Koji Tanaka, executive member of Class C Cultural Festival, and when he received the call, it was indeed from there.

"Hey... have you arrived? Can't come in? It shouldn't be... I know."

After hanging up the phone, he greeted the boy: "The sound insulation cotton has been delivered, but the store's cars are not allowed to enter the school, who will come with me to get it?"

Being idle is also idle, Naruse was the first to respond.

"There's another boy... Tuchuan, you should come with us."

Together with Koji Tanaka, the three boys went downstairs together.

Leaving the main building, bypassing the circular flower bed in front of the teaching building, the three of them walked towards the school gate.

The road was bustling with people, and even though it was close to the cultural festival, there were many students who left directly after school.

Naruse unconsciously looked for a familiar figure among them, and Koji Tanaka suddenly said:
"Oops... such a big volume, three people may not be able to take it."

Following his line of sight, Naruse also saw two middle-aged men standing at the school gate.

One of them was holding a large roll of black sound-proof cotton, which looked much taller than the pickup truck beside him.

As for the high-end soundproof cotton that almost squeezed out the budget of the Class C Cultural Festival, they ordered a total of six rolls.

"No."

Another boy, Tuchuan Dahe, complained, "I don't want to drag that thing twice for such a long distance."

"It's not easy to carry, but the weight shouldn't be too heavy. It shouldn't be a problem for each person to carry two volumes downstairs." Naruse looked over there and said, "I'll go up first, and then ask a few people to come down. It can be moved."

Koji Tanaka agreed, but Tsuchikawa Taiga didn't say anything.

The people in the store also noticed the three boys coming, and recognized the person who came to place an order among them, and raised their hands to beckon.

"Naruse is really reliable."

On the way past, Koji Tanaka looked at Naruse again, "And I feel that Naruse recently got along better than when he just started school."

"Yes."

Tuchuan Dahe nodded, especially agreeing with the last half of his sentence.

"How should I put it, although Naruse didn't have a lot of airs when he started school, but he always felt a little bit superior... just a little bit."

"is that so."

Naruse smiled, "I didn't notice it myself."

This is a lie.

But not entirely false.

Before being pointed out by Kazuyo Morimi, he really didn't realize that the attitude shown by his occasional unconscious behavior would make him appear a little superior...or, in other words, a little proud.

These are her original words.

Naruse still remembered that one day two weeks ago, he went to the supermarket with Shangzi and Morimi to do some shopping, and casually mentioned what she had hesitated to say that morning.

Mori Jian didn't deny this, "Do you care?"

"I don't really care about it, it's almost the level of what I'm having for dinner today."

"I feel the same way, so I've forgotten what I wanted to say this morning."

"..."

But after walking around in front of the shelves, she still told him.

"That's it."

"I wish you could make it clearer."

"Obviously I care about it, but I can't let it go, so I can only pretend not to care, because I am a 'city dweller' who has been to big cities and has more knowledge-this is just my irresponsible guess about the reason, if it is wrong , just pretend you didn’t hear it. Naruse’s actual performance gives people the feeling that you seem to be a little proud of yourself.”

"...just say the last sentence."

"But don't worry, Naruse's 'symptoms' are not very obvious, and the frequency of triggering is not too high. It can even be understood that I am too sensitive, because most high school students are like this, regardless of gender."

Although he didn't directly accept her somewhat rude opinion in front of Mori at that time, after that, Naruse would often examine himself consciously or unconsciously;
And in this case, although in his opinion, he just said less casual emotions, or said a few more useless nonsense, but in the eyes of others, it is "Narase-san became Get along better"...

Back to the present.

The three of them came to the gate of Tsu High School, Koji Tanaka met with the people in the store, Naruse and Taiga Tsuchikawa each carried a roll of soundproof cotton and tested the weight.

"It's okay, it's not that heavy, it's about the same as last time." Tu Chuan said.

Naruse picked up another roll of sound-proof cotton, "It feels like the three of us can move back."

"Well, although it's not heavy, it's not easy to balance..."

After Tanaka finished handing over, the three of them carried six rolls of sound-proof cotton, and they staggered back to the Class C classroom without stopping.

"Don't sit still, come and help. Cut out a part first and try the effect."

"If it doesn't work, can I still return it? After all, shouldn't I buy a roll to try the effect first, and then make a decision?"

"You know what a fart, there is a discount for buying six volumes."

"That's because as soon as you went to the store, you shouted that you wanted to buy six rolls of soundproof cotton!"

The boys in class C are all talkative, even if they are busy, they will not be idle. Naruse is holding a cutting knife and has a headache from being quarreled.

The same goes for the boys who draw lines on the soundproof cotton with a marker.

"Is the line drawn at a slant?"

"Ah... hey, you guys are so noisy!"

The fine sound-proof cotton can't stop the sharp blade, and you can feel a little resistance when cutting, but at the same time it is very smooth, which makes people feel an inexplicable pleasure.

After cutting out seven or eight pieces of sound-proof cotton in one go, Naruse held a knife, still feeling a little unsatisfied.

Paste the small piece of sound-proof cotton that was cut out to the inside of the wooden board that has already been filled with a layer of sound-proof cotton. After all sides are pasted, Naruse feels that the internal space is a bit narrower.

"I'll go in and try."

Koji Tanaka got into the soundproof room and asked another boy to close the door on the other side, "Say whatever you want, the louder the better."

After all, he closed the door tightly.

Premonitioning that the boys were going to start making noise, Naruse hurriedly moved away and sat on Naoko's seat beside him.

"Hey--"

"Hey—can you hear—"

"Tian Zhong Da Bai idiot—"

The girls in the front row of the classroom turned their heads one after another, frowning from the noise.

After shouting for a while, the boys were a little suspicious.

"You really can't hear at all?"

"It's not a fake."

"It's possible. It would be a shame if you bought such an expensive soundproof cotton and it didn't work."

"Speaking of which, Tanaka insisted on buying sound-proof cotton at this price. Could it be because he got a kickback from the store?"

"Kickbacks! Kickbacks—"

"real or fake?"

"Shh...Of course I was joking, just to see if he really can't hear."

After a while, Tanaka came out of the soundproof room with a happy face.

"I really can't hear anything, so come in and try!"

It seems to work really well.

Naruse also went in to try it out, the soundproof room was so quiet that he suspected that everyone outside would go home as soon as he entered.

"Okay, just use this. Put the rest on."

the next morning.

After explaining some things, when Zhong Yuanxue left, he called Tanaka Koji out alone.

"Well, Tanaka-san, someone reported that you received a lot of kickbacks when purchasing items for the cultural festival..."

"what?"

"Many girls have heard it, and they can all testify..."

"Wait a moment--"

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