Ome Quartet of Snow Country

Chapter 556 Cultural Festival!
On Wednesday afternoon, preparations for the cultural festival officially began.

Major clubs and classes spent an afternoon decorating their appearance, releasing the energy they had accumulated for a long time in the running around.

When everything was ready, it was Thursday, the first day of the cultural festival.

In the morning, the weather was clear and cloudless.

Naruse rode to school with a few companions. When they came to Shinjimachi Bridge next to Hamono Cafe, they saw conspicuous banners hanging on the guardrails on both sides.

【Prefectural Tsudaka No. 40 Third Cultural Festival! 】

This is the starting point for the Tsudaka Cultural Festival’s promotion outside the school.

After crossing the bridge, there is a sign at the end of the bridge, guiding the direction to Jingao.

Continuing forward, on the walls on both sides of the road, there are promotional posters for cultural festivals posted almost every short section, and the contents are different.

"It's incredible..."

Naruse slowed down and leaned toward the roadside, glancing at the posters posted on the wall here.

"There are so many posters, all hand-painted. This is a lot of work."

"Most of the posters are drawn by each club themselves," Shangzi said.

Naruse nodded, "I can see it. The difference in style and level is quite obvious... This kind of poster that promotes the cultural festival as a whole should be produced by the student union and the cultural festival executive committee."

"However, they will also help clubs that participate in the cultural festival but cannot promote it to draw separate posters." Naoko added.

"Like the restoration department?"

"Ah."

Naruse continued to scan, and soon saw a promotional poster for the restoration department's flea market posted between the cooking and gardening departments.

"The painting is really good..."

He stopped completely and looked at the poster on the wall.

A short-haired girl wearing a Jingao uniform squatted in front of a booth composed of several cardboard boxes and a parasol.Displayed in the carton are toys such as puppets, and beside them there are books, CDs, and even things like big-brimmed hats worn in summer.

There was a smile on her face, and there were a few coins on one of her open palms, and there was a sign beside her.

[The flea market has everything, let’s go shopping together! 】

The slightly smaller font at the bottom is the time and place of the flea market.

"It's clear at a glance, and it's very interesting." Morimi said, stopping behind them.

"Yes."

Naruse took another look and took out his phone to take a photo. He even wanted to take the poster back as a souvenir after the cultural festival.

"There should be more than one poster at the flea market."

"Of course there are more. I saw several of them in the student union yesterday."

A few people continued to move forward, and there were also promotional posters for various other associations with excellent content.

The Handicraft Club’s poster shows a giant robot, and its style is deliberately retro, like a promotional poster for a science fiction movie from the 60s and [-]s.Two beams of light are projected from the robot's eyes, and in the falling aperture are the words "Welcome to visit the handicraft club".

"It's quite interesting..."

Naruse rode forward for a short distance and saw another handicraft club poster on the wall. It was also full of design and very eye-catching.

"Another poster from the Handicraft Club..."

"Our members all drew them themselves," Shangzi said. "A total of more than 20 different drawings were drawn, and preparations began before the summer vacation."

“The Handicraft Club is really full of talents.”

Naruse couldn't help but sigh, and looked back at his girlfriend behind him, only to find that she wasn't very interested in the posters on the roadside.

He quickly responded, "Are you anxious?"

Shangzi smiled, puffed his lips again, and shook his legs, "Hurry up and go to school."

"Let's see later."

Avoiding the increasing number of Tsugao students on the road, Naruse turned the accelerator and rode towards the school at a faster speed, with Morimi and the other three quickly following suit.

When we arrived at the door, on both sides of the school gate that had been decorated yesterday afternoon, there were people on duty from the student union again, and a few people could only get down to push the carts.

"Good morning."

"Good morning!"

"I saw the flea market poster." Naruse said as he passed the student council president.

Fumiko Yoshioka nodded and said hello to him and the head of the handicraft club, "Are you satisfied, Naruse-san?"

"Now all I can think about is how lucky I am to be embraced by the student union."

The student council president smiled, nodded to the two of them, and said nothing more.

He pushed the motorcycle into the shed and stopped, then got out and followed the flow of people inside. Naruse had participated in Tsudaka's cultural festival last year, so he quickly noticed that there seemed to be a lot of people in fancy clothes this year, far more than just animation research groups. , Manyan’s handful of Two-dimensional.

"This seems to be the suggestion of the first-year executive committee chairperson to ask everyone to dress as 'brightly' as possible to participate in the cultural festival." Takigawa Hikaru said, talking about the news he heard from his friends.

"Really?" Naruse pursed his lower lip and did not comment.

When he arrived at the teaching building, he changed his shoes and hurried to the handicraft club.

The remaining few people had no arrangements in the class, and they had nothing to do in the club room, so they went upstairs first.

"Bye-Bye."

"See you later."

Haisei and Hikaru Takigawa each went to their own classes. Naruse and Morimi came to the second-year Class A classroom that had been converted into a chow mein shop and looked around.

"Although there is nothing new, there are no obvious shortcomings." Morimi looked around and said, "There are all the publicity slogans that should be posted outside. It should still attract some people to come in."

"That's right. There has been so much traffic during the Cultural Festival these days, so there will always be some guests."

Naruse walked around, chatting with a few excited boys in the classroom, and then picked up the menu next to him and took a look.

"Wait a minute, what does 'the best luck in grade plus limited seating' mean?"

"Aha... that's what it means literally."

"It can't be my seat."

"As you said."

Naruse looked at the only dining table covered with a red tablecloth in the middle of the classroom. As expected, one of the two desks under the tablecloth was his seat.

"Then the 'seat selection fee' of [-] yen written on the menu, how much can I get?"

"Haha... not even a cent."

"Then I don't agree. Please remove my table."

"Stop kidding, Brother Naruse..."

Morimi on the other side quickly noticed the "special seats" on the menu and raised his eyebrows.

"Where's my desk?"

"It's put together with Naruse's desk."

"It's almost there."

The two of them stayed in the classroom for about twenty minutes. The school announcement rang, informing all students to gather in the gymnasium to participate in the opening ceremony of the cultural festival.

"Let's go."

Several students in the classroom greeted each other to go to the gymnasium, but Morimi sat down on a special seat covered with red cloth.

"There are people on the stairs now, please wait a moment."

Naruse didn't rush downstairs and sat down opposite her.

"This is your table." She bent down and lifted the tablecloth and looked at it. "There is... nothing in the drawer."

"When I was preparing to decorate yesterday afternoon, I put everything in the locker." Naruse said.

He only knew that his desk was selected as a dining table yesterday, but he did not expect that it would be given such a value.

"When the cultural festival is over, you might have a few more love letters on your desk," Morimi said.

"It costs five hundred yen to sit in this seat, so why not just stuff the love letter into my shoe cabinet."

"You will think more about the cost of sending that love letter, and the value of five hundred yen will be reflected."

"Even if it's worth five thousand yen, I won't look at it."

The corners of Mori Jian's mouth curled up, and he looked towards the corridor outside again.After sitting for a while, most of the people upstairs left.

"There's no one here, come and kiss."

"..."

Naruse stood up and pulled her to stand up as well, "Let's go gather."

After walking to the door and making sure there was no one outside, Morimi pulled him in and kissed him for a while.

I hurried downstairs and came to the gymnasium, which was still noisy.

Because they did not queue up from the class, and the people who came first had already sat down, the queue was crooked and it was difficult to distinguish, and many people had not even found their seats.

"Fortunately, Class A is at the very edge..."

Naruse and Morimi looked around and quickly identified the queue of second-year Class A. Since the people in front had already sat down, it was not convenient to jump in line, so they simply came to the end of the queue.

“It’s the first time I’m so far away from the stage in front of me.”

"You can see it."

"It doesn't matter if you can see it...it doesn't matter if you can't see it. It's just an opening ceremony anyway."

After confirming their positions, the two of them sat down directly on the floor like other students around them.

Morimi adjusted her skirt, and Naruse looked around. He didn't see Naoko and Haisei, who were already petite and sitting close to the front. Instead, he found Hikaru Takigawa sitting at the back of Class E's team and looking at him at this time. On his side.

"..."

Their eyes met, and her eyes turned between his and Morimi's faces.

If it was a month ago, she would have gotten up and come over and sat with them... Naruse took a breath and raised his hand to greet her, asking her to come over.

Takigawa Hikari looked at him, quickly stood up, came over and sat cross-legged between him and Morimi.

"Why did Harumi and Kazuha just come here?"

"While there was no one in the classroom, I did something bad up there." Morimi said.

"..."

Takigawa Hikaru pursed his lower lip and looked at Naruse.

He pressed her hand and said calmly, "It's just a kiss."

Just kissing...

Takigawa Hikaru reminded herself again that the relationship between them had long since departed from the normal category - she herself had become an immoral part.

She didn't say much on this matter, paused, and said:

"The opening ceremony will be over later. Will Kazuyo come to Class E to watch the premiere of the homemade movie at the cultural festival?"

Morimi readily agreed, "Okay."

"Where's Chunhai?"

Naruse thought for a moment and nodded in agreement, "Go ahead, I have nothing to do now."

The three chatted for a while, but the gymnasium was still noisy.

"It's almost nine o'clock, it's almost time to start."

"Why is there no one here to maintain order? It feels so chaotic."

Naruse looked at the stage in the distance and saw no one come up to say anything for a long time.

“Although I’ve always heard that this year’s Cultural Festival Executive Committee is very unreliable, it’s unlikely that there will be trouble during the opening ceremony…”

There was still some chaos in the venue, with people coming and going. He looked ahead, and after a while he suddenly noticed a figure in the queue of Class C who stood up and looked at the queue of Class A.

Naruse also immediately stood up, raised his arms, and waved to Naoko.

He waved widely, and Shangzi finally saw the figure at the back of the team. Just as he turned around and raised his hand, the surroundings suddenly fell into darkness.

"..."

The lights in the venue were turned off.

buzz-

His message was sent immediately.

Harumi: I saw Naoko.

Harumi: Sit down.

Naoko: I saw Harumi too.

Snap, a beam of light hit the stage. Naruse was still looking at his phone when he suddenly heard Morimi and Hikaru Takigawa next to him take a breath at the same time.

"..."

He raised his head and took a breath.

"what……"

Under the light, something resembling a peacock—he would call it a thing for now—is slowly fanning its huge tail feathers studded with colorful reflective feathers.

But from the front, it was obvious that he was a person, even though wings were strapped to his arms on both sides, and there were two huge feathers one or two meters long on his head.

The only light in the venue hit him, and he slowly turned around in the center of the stage, bowed slightly, and walked to the microphone.

"Hello everyone, I am the chairman of the Cultural Festival Executive Committee, Satoshi Kuroki from Class E of the first year——"

The people in the audience fell into silence when he appeared on the stage, and suddenly became noisy after he said hello.

"What a joke!"

"Hehehe, first graders are so bold."

"Oh my god, I must take a photo and send it to my friends from other schools..."

In the queue of Class C of the second year, Shangzi and Haixing looked at the "peacock" on the stage and were a little stunned.

buzz-

Harumi: Aren’t you scared?
"..."

Naoko: Terrified.

After "Amazing" appeared on the stage, the lights in the venue turned on again, and more things could be seen. The visual impact brought by the strange-looking chairman on the stage was not so strong.

After introducing himself, he read according to the script he had written before.

“…The Prefectural Tsudaka Cultural Festival has a long tradition, and it was first held, even dating back to the Showa era…”

While Naruse was listening to the speech on the stage and Morimi's unstoppable muttering beside him, he suddenly thought of something.

"Did the executive chairman of last year's cultural festival go up and say a few words and then it was over?"

"Yes." Takigawa Hikaru nodded.

"Are you free to use the length of your speech?"

"It seems so."

"Then I prefer to keep my speech brief."

Mori looked over and said, "I'm afraid you will be disappointed. He will be dressed like this later to introduce our flea market to all the teachers and students in the school."

"...I almost forgot that there is such a thing."

Fortunately, although the style is too chic, the executive chairman's speech is still very appropriate - the speech is obviously ghostwritten by a more mature person - no one will feel any discomfort.

When he mentioned the flea market, Naruse braced himself and observed the reactions of other people in the venue.

There were many people whispering to each other, and they must have become a little interested... He was looking forward to it.

A few minutes later, the slightly lengthy opening speech finally came to an end. The executive chairman fluttered his brilliant feathers again and announced the official start of the No. 40 Third Cultural Festival.

"Oh—"

White air suddenly spurted out from around the stage, and the atmosphere in the venue became heated again.

The chairman on the stage retreated behind the scenes, and then a group of punk-looking people stepped onto the stage from both sides, jumping to the sudden strong rhythm music.

The show started, and more than half of the people in the venue got up and prepared to leave.

"There are too many people going out now, and they are all crowded in the corridor. Anyway, there is nothing to do. Let's wait until everyone has dispersed before leaving." Morimi said.

Naruse and Takigawa Hikaru didn't have any objections. Like the other half-school students who were still in the gym, they continued to sit where they were, chatting and watching the show.

"During the three days of the Cultural Festival, there seem to be performances all day long at the gymnasium."

Before Naruse came over, he had read the brochure of the cultural festival. On the page about the stadium performances, the program list was almost full from top to bottom.

"There are actually quite a lot of clubs or bands that want to perform on stage, and it's not that easy to sign up," Hikaru Takigawa said.

Mori smiled and said, "Is the Tsugao Gymnasium their martial arts venue?"

Takigawa Hikaru also smiled and raised his eyes again to look ahead.

Shangzi and Haixing came over.

"Harumi, do you want to continue watching the show here?"

"There are too many people in the corridor now. I will go out when there are fewer people."

Looking at the two people next to him, Shangzi nodded, "I have to go to the club first."

Naruse took her hand and said, "I'll go over and take a look later."

She smiled and said, "Yeah."

When Naoko looked back, she found that Haixing had sat down next to Morimi.

"Do you want Haixing to stay here too?"

"Um……"

Shangzi waved to the four of them and left first.

As she approached the exit of the gymnasium, she stopped and looked back.

The four of them were still sitting there, and the two tallest ones looked over and waved to her when she turned back.

"..."

Shangzi smiled from a distance, raised his hand and waved, took one last look at his boyfriend, and turned to leave.

She would probably feel uneasy if any of them were alone with him, but if all three of them were there...

Shangzi took a deep breath, quickened his pace, and walked towards the club room.

The four people who stayed in the gymnasium watched the street dance performance for a while. They felt that the crowd was almost dispersed, so they got up and left.

"We're going to Class E to watch a movie. Will Haixing come over?"

"Okay."

After walking out of the gymnasium and returning to the teaching building, the isolated excitement suddenly hit my face.

“Come and try our Chinese pancakes!”

"If a hundred people come, whoever comes will win! If you win, you will get beautiful prizes!"

"If you want to see an absolutely hilarious Mancai performance, please go to the classroom of Class F, Year [-]——"

The cultural festival has begun, and members of every class and club are at their most enthusiastic, trying their best to greet everyone who passes by.

The four of them walked through the corridor with difficulty. If Takigawa Hikaru hadn't said that the movie was about to start, Morimi would have dragged Naruse to watch the manga show in order to catch up with the premiere.

"Forget it, let's watch the movie first."

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