Ome Quartet of Snow Country

Chapter 637 Final Chapter New Year

Come early and leave late, the winter in the snow country is always much longer than other places.

The rotation of the four seasons will eventually come to an end. When the severe cold gradually subsides, all things emerge from the ground, the earth changes color, and spring slowly comes from south to north.

At the beginning of April, the unexpected spring cold has not yet receded, the short vacation has ended, and the new semester has begun.

Drop drop drop-

Awakened by the alarm clock, Naruse reluctantly sat up, pressed the alarm clock, then lowered his head and rested for a while.

He glanced beside him. When the alarm clock rang for the first time, Shangzi had already gotten up.

"I don't want to go to school..."

He just rushed back from Tokyo yesterday afternoon. He felt that during the spring break of just over a week, he didn't get any rest at all. Rather, he spent more energy wandering around every day.

"Harumi."

Shangzi appeared at the door of the room. Seeing that he had at least sat up, he breathed a sigh of relief, "It's time to get up."

He raised his head and responded to her with a long yawn.

"Have you not slept enough?" Shangzi walked into the room, opened the window, and then came over and lifted his quilt.

"It's too much..."

Naruse shrank but got out of bed.

When he came to the closet, Shangzi had already taken out the uniform shirt and handed it to him.

Putting on his shirt, Naruse looked down at the Apple Blossom school emblem on his chest, and then looked at his girlfriend's uniform.

The same flowers bloomed in the same position, but they looked more vivid and vivid on her side. Perhaps the full curvature of the support underneath played a role.

"From today on, we are the seniors of the third grade." Naoko smiled.

"Yes."

After putting on the shirt, Naruse moved quickly and quickly put on the entire uniform.

Finally, he put on his tie. Shangzi helped adjust it, then took a step back and looked up and down, "Well, he's very energetic."

Unconsciously, this is already his third year wearing this uniform.

"Time flies so fast... Come on down."

The two of them went downstairs, with Naruse following behind. Looking at Naoko's black hair that had almost reached her shoulders, she quickened her pace slightly and reached out to touch it.

Shangzi shrank his neck slightly and turned to look at him.

"My hair is a little longer."

"It will take a long time for it to grow to its previous length."

"Grow it slowly," Naruse said. When they got downstairs, they grabbed Shangzi and asked her to stand sideways, taking a photo of her and her hair for records.

"Keep a record every day to see how long it takes for your hair to grow back to the position of your chest."

"Go and wash up quickly."

Naruse went to wash up, and Naoko returned to the kitchen to continue preparing breakfast.

The short vacation has passed. In addition to breakfast, today we have to start preparing lunch boxes again.

She didn't find it troublesome, but rather enjoyed it, humming softly unconsciously until her boyfriend hugged her from behind, lowered his head and kissed the side of her face.

"Let me do it."

"Harumi, heat that up and it's almost ready."

"it is good."

After preparing breakfast, the two of them sat at the dining table and started eating.

While eating, Naruse sent a message to Haixing to make sure that she had also gotten up, so he felt relieved.

But even if she's still asleep now, there's no such urgency in the morning - winter is over and she can ride to school.

"It seems that because of our relationship, there are more and more children going to school on bicycles nearby."

"That can be regarded as setting a trend... No, didn't everyone find it inconvenient to commute by bus before this?"

"This is also a habit. If you live alone, it's easy to have no friends. The ten minutes while waiting for the bus is also a time for socializing."

"No wonder I have no friends."

"Although I already have three girlfriends."

"Isn't it four?"

"I am... my fiancée." Shangzi blushed slightly.

Naruse smiled and said, "Yes."

After having breakfast and tidying up a little, Naruse went to the garage to push the motorcycle out, stopped in the yard, and looked up at the sky again.

"The weather is so-nice and I really-enjoy school."

Shangzi closed the door, came over and pushed him, "Don't be stupid, let's go."

The two of them got on the car one after another. Shangzi put on his helmet and hugged his waist tightly, "Let's go."

Naruse turned on the accelerator and rode out of his yard. When they reached the intersection, Morimi and Haisei were already waiting on their respective originals.

Although the agreed time has passed, today is the first day of the new semester, and they made an appointment to go to school together in the morning.

"Did you go well getting up in the morning?" Naruse said to Haixing after stopping.

She curled her lips and said, "I set four alarm clocks."

"Which alarm clock did you wake up on?"

"the fourth……"

"Well, being able to wake up is already amazing."

Starfish smiled.

Morimi yawned and half-closed his eyes, "It's really painful to adjust your schedule. I also want to take my boyfriend's car to school."

"You'll get used to it soon," Shangzi said.

“I don’t want to ride on my own.”

"You'll get used to it."

"Do not want to."

"Habit."

The four of them chatted for a while at the intersection, and then saw Hikari Takigawa riding a bicycle out of the intersection of her house.

"Light has gone out too, come on over."

Naruse turned on the accelerator and rode forward. As he approached, Hikari Takigawa gestured for him to continue moving forward without stopping.

Several people rode over, and she quickly followed.

After passing several intersections in a row and approaching the school, they encountered a red light and several people stopped.

"It's so hard to get up." Hikari Takigawa said from behind.

Shangzi turned around and smiled, still giving the same comfort, "I'll get used to it."

"I'll stay at Harumi's house tonight. I want to be woken up gently by Naoko, which will make me feel a little better when I get up."

"If you just don't want to get up, I won't be too gentle."

"Hey, be gentle."

The red light quickly turned green, and several people continued to move forward, arriving at the entrance of Jingao in a few minutes.

Naruse had already begun to slow down. When he reached the school gate, he lightly pressed the brakes and stopped. Naoko behind him still lay on his back and got out of the car first.

Naruse got out of the car and walked past the door. People from the student union greeted him: "Good morning, Naruse-senpai."

"Good morning." Naruse nodded in response.

Because of several previous collaborations, he and the people in the student union were relatively familiar with each other, at least they knew each other by name.

The student council president he was most familiar with had already been admitted to a prestigious school in Tokyo and successfully graduated half a month ago.

Even the third-year seniors he met in the handicraft club and restoration department also left Jingao and became more relaxed in college.

"Good morning, Takigawa-senpai."

"Ah ha, it feels good to be called a senior by a second year student."

"Takigawa-senpai, Takigawa-senpai!"

"Hahaha, scream more, I like it."

"Stop blocking the school gate here."

After passing through the school gate and pushing the cart to the carport, Naruse stopped the motorcycle and waited outside for a while with Naoko.

When Hikari Takigawa came out again, his expression was tense.

"I'm starting to get nervous already."

"Yes."

"If I'm not assigned to the same class as you this time, I'm going to make a fuss."

"Don't mess around..."

Morimi and Haixing also walked out of the carport, "As long as you're not alone, it'll be fine."

"What I'm afraid of is that just like last year, I was the only one assigned to another class..."

"Let's take a look first and then talk." Shangzi held her boyfriend's arm and extended her hand to her, "Let's go to the atrium."

"Uh-huh."

Arriving at the atrium, the bulletin board was already crowded with students of all grades.

"The third graders are over here." Takigawa Hikari looked around on tiptoes and quickly pointed out the direction for them to squeeze in.

After squeezing and squeezing, Naruse met a boy from Class A of the second year, who took the initiative to say hello.

"Ah, Naruse, we are all assigned to Class A again this year, please take care of us."

"...Well, please take care of me."

Caught off guard by the information about his class placement, Naruse continued to squeeze in.

He was not surprised to be assigned to Class A. What was important was the placement of the other people.

After squeezing all the way to the bulletin board, Shangzi tried her best to stand on tiptoe to understand what was going on inside, but the people in front of her were motionless, blocking her view.

She was anxious when a sigh of relief suddenly came from behind her.

"Naoko is also in Class A."

"Really?" Shang Zi quickly turned his head.

Naruse smiled, "Let me pick you up and take a look."

"No..." She was relieved, although she still didn't stop pushing inside.

Naruse looked at Morimi, her eyes were calm, and she had already seen her own name who was also assigned to Class A.

Their ambitions are to enter higher education, and their grades are similar, so the chances of them both being assigned to Class A are very high.

"It's a pity that I can't have it all." Shangzi looked back at her, smiled, and then turned away.

"What about me? Where am I assigned?"

Seeing that the three of them were all assigned to the same class, Haixing was also very anxious, eager to know his own class information.

"Haixing is in class D." Hikaru Takigawa said at this time and smiled at her again, "In the same class as me."

She breathed a sigh of relief.

"Very good……"

Although class placement was not entirely determined by grades, she did not expect to be placed in Class A. Being in the same class as Hikari Takigawa would be the best outcome.

"Do you still want to squeeze in?"

"I want to see who else is in Class A." Shangzi said.

"You can even see it in the classroom."

"what."

She reacted and looked back at him. Naruse smiled and pulled them out.

"Finally no need to climb stairs anymore," Morimi said.

"This is a privilege that I have waited for three years." Hikaru Takigawa said with a smile. Class A of the third year and Class D of the third year are both on the first floor.

When they came to the shoe cabinet, several people changed their shoes, separated temporarily, and went to their respective classes.

Looking at the sign at the door of the classroom [Class Three A], Naruse walked in. There was a seating chart on the blackboard. The first thing he saw was Naoko's name.

"Naoko is in the front row."

"Um……"

She also saw his name at the same time, "Chun Hai is in the last row."

"Are they arranged by height?" Morimi looked at the two names next to each other on the seating chart, and the smile on his face could no longer be suppressed.

Naoko glared at her.

"Maybe the teacher has done something wrong." Naruse guessed.

The teachers in the third grade are all promoted from the second grade, and the teachers in each class will not change. Naturally, the teacher in Class A in the third year will still be Yanagisawa Oka.

Of course, the seats in the new class were assigned by the teacher. Naruse estimated that after seeing their names, in order to avoid the trouble of changing seats last year, he just stuffed them together again without changing their positions.

The two of them were sitting in the corner, and Naoko's seat was in the first row of the third column, almost closest to the podium.

"Shangzi's seat is here."

"Um……"

She sat down in her seat and turned to watch him and Morimi walk to the corner of the classroom, and the latter waved to her.

"..."

Shangzi sighed. Although he was a little disappointed, he didn't care too much. It's no longer the same situation as last year.

She looked at the blackboard in front of her again, looking for familiar names on the seating chart.

A girl came over, looked at the seating chart, and sat down on the seat next to her with a slightly subtle expression.

"Classmate Noka."

"We are in the same class this year, or at the same desk." Naoko smiled at her, "Ogasawara-san."

"Yes……"

Ogasawara glanced at the blackboard, then turned to look at the back corner of the classroom.

"Your good friend is also in Class A this year." Naruse reminded Morimi who turned around.

She turned around, waved to her friend from a distance, and then turned back.

"I guess it won't take a few days for Naoko to go to Yanagisawa and tell him that sitting in the front row is too hard on her neck and that she needs to change seats or something."

"It's not even to this extent..."

Naruse shook his head, and when Naoko looked over, he also raised his hand to her.

"The relationship between you and me, me and her, and even you and her, are all different from before."

"Yes." Morimi didn't say much and turned around again.

"Well--"

She leaned back and stretched, "I'm still a little sleepy."

"There is only the opening ceremony this morning, you can lie down for a while."

"After the opening ceremony, let's find a place and do something refreshing."

"...I have other things to do."

She looked back at him and said, "Just tell me what it is and I'll see how much time it takes."

Naruse looked around and said to him, "Stop making trouble."

"Humph."

Morimi continued to lie down.

More and more people came to the classroom. Those who knew each other greeted each other, and those who were slightly strangers also greeted each other after being introduced by other friends. It was very lively.

"Naruse!"

There were also a few boys who were originally from Class C of the first year or Class A of the second year, who came over to say hello to Naruse.

"I didn't expect that I would also be assigned to Class A."

"I can be classmates for another year."

The third grade is a long one, and the pressure of exams is finally approaching an unavoidable level. Under the heavy pressure, the flow of time seems to have slowed down;

Third grade is a short period of time. Based on each student's choice of career path, the time spent in school may vary, and the time spent with classmates will naturally shrink a lot.

Naruse has no way to guarantee that when he no longer needs to go to school every day, he will still get up in the cold and insist on going to school...

However, that is only at the end of the year.

Before that, the Tsudaka Festival, the cultural festival, the sports meeting... most of the activities in the school will not be missed by the third grade.

"Please take care of me this year too."

"Haha, easy to talk about."

Amidst the commotion, a teacher in sportswear also came to the classroom.

"Okay, everyone, please go back to your seats and be quiet for a while."

Yanagisawa Okaka greeted the students below, his eyes scanning the familiar faces one by one.

Although quite a few of the students know him, self-introduction in the new semester is still indispensable.

"I am Yanagisawaoka..."

After an introduction, he wrote his name on the blackboard, turned around and said, "Let's work hard together in our last year at Jingao."

"Yes……"

"louder please!"

"Yes--"

He glanced at the two top students in the corner. They just pretended to open their mouths and made no sound at all.

He didn't have a chance to say anything more. The announcement in the classroom rang, informing students in each class to go to the gymnasium for the opening ceremony.

"Let's go there first."

They lined up, gathered, and before going downstairs, Shangzi squeezed over.

"Chunhai is a very energetic teacher."

"Now it's time for us to serve as teachers."

She smiled slightly, "Yes."

When he came to the gymnasium, he stood in the third-grade area for the first time. Watching the juniors from the other two grades lining up one after another, Naruse felt as if time flew by.

And in the following time, every time he stopped and looked back, the same feeling gradually became stronger.

At the end of the first regional comprehensive examination in the third grade and at the beginning of the Golden Week holiday;

At the closing ceremony of the last sports meet in high school, when I received the certificate for the third-grade team’s first-place overall score from the principal, and at the end of the float parade at the 151st Anniversary Tsutaka Festival, another summer in Aomori upon arrival;

In the first few days of summer vacation, when I accidentally took a nap in my grandpa’s house until dusk when I woke up, and when my trip to Okinawa was over, I was about to board the plane back to Aomori;

At the beginning of the second semester of the third grade, when the carefully prepared cultural festival came to a perfect conclusion;

When I visited Osaka and saw my uncle Matsu Manse again, when I got on the Shinkansen and ended my seven-day and six-night Kyoto-Osaka-Nara school trip;

When the snowflakes slowly fall and Aomori becomes the land of white snow again, when Christmas decorations once again fill every corner of the stadium;

When the one hundred and eight New Year's bells fall, and when the bell rings for the start of the first common exam;

When Morimi held him with his transcript and cried with joy, when he tremblingly opened one of the two admission notices from the University of Tokyo;

As winter turned to spring, and the graduation season came again, it was also when he stood on the stage of Jingao Gymnasium for the last time, as the graduate representative, preparing to speak.

Time flies so fast, he thought.

"Answer."

After glancing at the microphone in front of him, Naruse raised his gaze again and looked at the students below.

Hundreds of eyes were staring at this side, and in the queue he came up from, as well as Class D next to him, a few eyes looked even brighter.

Sitting next to the parents of the graduates, Song Qianqiu, without any disguise, was also looking at him on the stage.

He smiled and spoke slowly.

“In the morning, when the wind was still a bit cold and there was still some snow covering the area between Iwaki Mountain and the fields, someone might have noticed that the cherry blossom trees in the atrium were quietly sprouting.

Yes, spring is here.

In this warm season mixed with a bit of coldness, our third-grade students have also ushered in the moment of graduation. "

Shangzi suddenly felt a sore nose, lowered his head slightly, and raised his hand to cover the burning heat rolling down his eyes.

A tissue was handed to her and she turned her head. Morimi took off his glasses and wiped the corners of his eyes.

She took the tissue and grabbed her arm with her other hand.

In the queue of Class D, looking at the pear blossoms and the rainy starfish, Takigawa Hikaru suddenly felt like crying.

"...Growth may not be smooth, no, growth is always not smooth. Everyone is unique and may encounter problems that only he or she will encounter.

But growth is not a test, and there is never a so-called standard answer. In other words, this is an exam with no time limit, and the final result is determined only by yourself.

It can be slower, it can be later.

The important thing is, don't run away.

Don't be afraid of failure, and don't be afraid of change.

All in all, let’s move on. "

After a brief pause, Naruse took a deep breath and looked at the ray of New Year's sunshine shining into the gymnasium.

“I wish you all good health and I wish Prefectural Tsugao to develop better in the future.

We will meet in the future.

Graduate representative, Naruse Harumi. "

【Complete the book. 】

　I’m asking for a monthly ticket for the last time.

　　

　

(End of this chapter)