Ome Quartet of Snow Country

Chapter 48 Refuge
Suddenly encountered a fire, under the calm command of the modern literature teacher, the students of class C of the first year left the classroom in an orderly manner without falling into a panic.

——Although the students were originally very calm, even talking and laughing.

"I'm really convinced by Kobayakawa...every time the evacuation training is the same set of acting skills, the key is that he seems to think his acting skills are very realistic."

"Actually, I was frightened by his sudden intrusion. I almost fell asleep just now. I thought something exploded."

"He doesn't do this when he informs every class, doesn't his hand hurt?"

The students of Class C lined up, chatting and evacuating downstairs.Naruse was in the middle of it, just listening to their exchange without opening his mouth.

Just now it seemed that he was the only one who took it seriously...although it was only for a moment.

This is also impossible.

After all, it was the first time for him to experience Kobayakawa's acting skills, and he was still drowsy just now.

Fortunately, before this was revealed, he learned from Shang Zi, who suddenly became sober from fright, that the evacuation training had begun.

"Hasn't Haruhi forgotten, the morning assembly will be notified."

"It seems that there is such a thing..."

When they got down to the second floor, Naruse glanced back, only the students of Class D followed behind them.

Classes C and D went downstairs from the side stairs, while Classes E and F went down the middle. The evacuation route was clear without any confusion.

This was something he had trained a long time ago, no different from the evacuation training he received in Tokyo.

"Move faster, and at the same time, pay attention to your feet, don't step on the air—"

The evacuation of each class is directed by the teacher in charge of the class. At this time, the order of the team is maintained while following the students downstairs.

"..."

Naruse sniffed, and suddenly smelled a burnt smell, and Nariko who was beside him also said something seemed to be burning.

"What Kobayakawa said just now meant that the Mandarin preparation room on the second floor caught fire."

"Ah."

The team of Class C quickly evacuated from the main building, temporarily assembled in the atrium, and confirmed the number of people by roll call.

Naruse saw the source of the burnt smell - an iron barrel that was smoking black smoke in the center of the atrium.

Are you using this to simulate a fire?
"This flower!"

Shangzi raised his hand, "Yes."

Class E was a little slower, and they had already arrived at the atrium at this time, and they gathered next to Class C for roll call.

"See you Sen!"

"..."

"See you Mori! Didn't you come down?"

"here."

"Be louder when answering!"

"Yes--"

Morimi was relatively tall, and she stood out among a group of girls, but she was listless at the moment, and Naruse took a second look before noticing her.

"Narase!"

"exist."

He was the last person in the attendance book of Class C. After the roll call was over, it was confirmed that there were no omissions. The modern Chinese teacher led the students to continue evacuating to the nearest shelter.

That is Tsugako's playground.

When he came to the playground, Naruse found that the fire here was more "serious".

A few iron cans that seemed to be gasoline barrels were lined up, burning blazingly, and the gushing black smoke connected into a piece in mid-air, permeating the air, and it really looked like a fire.

After the team was assembled, the second roll call began immediately.

"There are mountains—"

"exist."

"Little Lin—"

"here."

Waiting for the roll call, Shangzi saw Naruse suddenly touched his pocket, and then took out a note from it.

"..."

Whose note?

When was it handed to him?

She squinted, but he handed over the note.

【what's for dinner】

"Eh?"

Opening the note, Shangzi was taken aback, but he just smiled.

A few minutes later, classes from other grades also came to the playground one after another. The teaching director, Kobayakawa, stepped onto the platform and took over the loudspeaker from another teacher.

"..."

Naruse saw him frown all of a sudden, and then switched hands to hold it.

It seems that I was too involved in the performance just now, and my hands were swollen from clapping.

"Everyone be quiet—"

This was just a short episode that most people didn't notice, and Kobayakawa didn't care about it himself, holding up the loudspeaker, he summed up today's fire evacuation training.

Stepping on the sand, Naruse looked at the stage, when Naoko suddenly touched the back of his hand.

Following her gaze, Naruse saw several brightly colored figures at the entrance of the playground.

"Firemen……"

He almost guessed what was going to happen next.

Sure enough, after Kobayakawa finished his summary, he introduced the firefighters who were waiting on the side.

Then, the firefighters carried several common fire-fighting equipment and explained how to use it for the students below.

"The one in my hand is the most common dry powder fire extinguisher in schools. Do you know how to use it?"

Several firefighters carried fire extinguishers and walked slowly between the student teams while explaining.

The explanation was almost finished, and a live demonstration was carried out - the row of gasoline barrels emitting black smoke was not just used to pollute the air.

The firefighters stood together, pulled out the safety pin at the same time, and pressed the pressure handle, white powder spewed out, instantly suppressing the black smoke.

"Oh..."

Looking at this scene, other students around unconsciously murmured, but Naruse frowned and turned his body sideways, reminding Shangzi to avoid it.

Soon, a large group of white dust floated over with the wind.

"Wow!"

"Ahem!... This is the downwind..."

In the exclamation, the fire evacuation training this time came to an end.

Because of the evacuation training, the afternoon passed quickly.

During the evening shift meeting, Zhong Yuanxue emphasized the points to be paid attention to in tomorrow's outing.

"Assemble at the school tomorrow morning, and everyone will take the bus there together, so don't be late. If you have any students who plan to ask for leave, you'd better tell me today."

The shoulder was tapped twice, Naruse turned his head, and the girl in the back seat turned her head towards Hikari Takikawa.

She glanced at the teacher on the platform and said in a low voice, "It's more than 60 kilometers from here to Mutsu Bay."

"Yeah." Naruse didn't know why she suddenly mentioned the distance.

"Tomorrow is sunny, I plan to ride a motorcycle there."

"..."

If I were a teacher, I would definitely have a headache.

"You're not inviting me, are you?"

Hikaru Takikawa opened his eyes wide and smiled again.

"Okay. I haven't ridden there yet, so Chunhai will be in charge of guiding the way."

Naruse shook his head, "It's too far away, let's forget it."

"Okay." She didn't force it.

"I mean, it would be better to just give up on this plan."

"why?"

"It's too far away, and I always feel unsafe."

Hikaru Takikawa smiled, and said in a casual tone, "Don't worry, I will be careful."

Naruse pursed his lower lip.

"That's up to you. It's been more than an hour, and Shangzi and I were planning to chat with Hikari on the bus to pass the time."

"Well……"

Takikawa Hikari really hesitated.

"On Xiaoxue's side, it may be difficult to agree to Hikari's plan to act alone. Any small accident on the road by Hikari will double as Xiaoxue's responsibility."

She rolled her eyes in silence for a while, finally sighed, and lay down on the table.

"Ok."

Naruse didn't say anything more, and turned back.On the podium, Zhong Yuanxue also said the same thing.

"...The three-way interview starts on Wednesday, and it will be carried out in the order of notification. If there are students whose guardians cannot attend and who want to postpone, they will come to me after the evening class is over. That's it."

The teacher left holding the attendance book, and the classroom was filled with noise again.

Hikaru Takikawa had recovered, and he was talking and laughing at this time, saying hello to friends passing by outside the classroom.

Both Naruse and Naoko are going to the department. The watch that was commissioned to be repaired last week has not been returned to the client.

The two left the classroom together, and when they were approaching Class E, Shangzi suddenly remembered that she forgot to take something, so she went back halfway.

Naruse was waiting in the corridor, and Morimi came out from Class E.

She lowered her eyes and only noticed him as he approached.

"Where is Shangzi?"

"Something was left in the classroom, go back and get it."

Mori nodded.

"I'm going back."

"Ah."

The two passed by.

"It's about noon, sorry."

Naruse turned his head, Morimi lifted the bag on his shoulder, and walked away.

(End of this chapter)