Tokyo: Who would still fall in love after being spoiled?

Chapter 61 "Amano-san, please listen to my explanation..."

[Listen carefully]
[Natori: Report on the bread distribution!]
[Amano: There are still seven or eight children in the kindergarten who don’t have bread.]
[Sakurai: I have five left, I'll send them over right away!]
[Natori: I still have a few children who haven’t received any yet…]
[Sakurai: Where's Inoue-san?]
[......]
He is responsible for the junior and senior high school students who have not gone out to work or study after the holidays and are still staying in the welfare home.

In addition to the sports field shared with the primary school, the welfare home has an activity building built specifically for them.

There is a library on the first floor. There are not many books in it, but each one is carefully selected. There are three girls and five boys reading and studying in it.

The second floor is home to activity rooms for art, crafts, and home economics. Hanging on each door is a notice showing the dates of the welfare home's activities—teacher visits, group activities, and small competitions.

A simple piano melody came from the third floor, which must be the music activity floor.

After coming out of the craft room, he only had two empty oil paper bread bags in his hands.

A few boys playing basketball wanted one of each type of bread, so he gave them both.

In the corridor from the craft room to the art room, he turned on his mobile phone and briefly scanned the messages in the "Listen Closely" communication group, and found that they were all calling his name in the end.

[Inoue: Yes, there are.]
He looked around to make sure there were no surveillance cameras in the corridor, shook the empty oil-paper bread bag, and the next moment filled it with bread again.

It is steaming hot and exudes the unique aroma of baked pastries, cream and red beans, as if it is freshly baked.

-30 points

Only the art room and the third floor are left in the activity building. A rough count of other areas shows only about ten children left, which should be enough.

If it's not enough, just use points to buy more...

[Natori: How many are left?]
[Sakurai: Can you send it to the kindergarten? I'm having some trouble, so I need to hurry.]
[Inoue: I haven't yet assigned some of the children I've been teaching to take charge of.]
[Sakurai: So slow... Is Inoue-san in trouble too?]
He walked into the art room without answering.

Since the situation is urgent, we should first discuss how to solve the current situation.

[Amano: I'll get it.]
He felt relieved and put away his phone.

There are five children in the art room and there is no teacher today.

Although he is called a child, he is actually only sixteen years old, so it is not an exaggeration to call him a peer.

Smelling the aroma of bread, everyone except a girl with a low ponytail who looked like a high school student couldn't help but look away from the drawing board and look up at him.

"Bakery promotion—" He responded to their expectations, acting like a salesman in all seriousness. "We have two flavors: cream bread and red bean bread. Each person is limited to trying only one."

"...free?" a boy raised his hand cautiously and asked him.

"The sample is free." He looked at each child's face, each with a different expression.

The high school girl who was still drawing still didn't look up.

"Well... we don't have any money." The girl with two pigtails next to the boy raised her hand and said, "Even if we were given samples, we wouldn't be able to buy them..."

"No need to buy it," he said, walking closer and placing the bag of bread on the table, trying his best to maintain a gentle smile. "It would be a big help if you could recommend it to your classmates at school."

"Well……"

The boy moved closer to look at the bread, but the girl was still hesitant and kept pulling at the boy's collar.

He encountered the same situation on the basketball court and baseball field.

If you give them bread under the pretext of free samples for promotion, they will push and shove them; but if you claim it is distributed by a welfare home, they will accept it calmly. Even if they feel embarrassed if they really want to have two, they will have the courage to ask him.

Whether it's being cautious about the world outside the orphanage, or the sense of disadvantage brought about by a special family background, or simply being gentle because of not having much contact with society... No matter how this mentality is formed, if you want to continue to survive in this world after leaving the orphanage as an adult, you must always find a way to overcome it.

"Here." He took one of each of the cream and red bean flavors and stuffed them into the boy's pockets. "One for each of you, one red bean and one cream."

"Ah! Thank you..." The boy was a little overwhelmed, but still accepted it.

"Jingwu..." the girl scolded in a low voice.

"As long as we spread the word to our classmates...it's also helping them."

“What if my classmates invite me to go together?”

"Why not just decline it politely..." The boy broke the red bean bread in half and handed the larger half to the girl. "How can it be that easy... Stupid Keigo!" The girl was angry with him.

"Then, then I'll eat it alone! And then go promote it alone." The boy was anxious.

"No!" The girl took her half of the red bean bread and pouted, "Give me half of the cream bread too."

"Hmm!" the boy laughed.

He couldn't bear to listen any longer, so he quickened the pace of distributing the papers, trying to get out of the art room as quickly as possible.

The other two girls who were practicing geometric sketching also took the bread and broke it into pieces to share it like the childhood sweethearts.

"Yours." He walked over to the low-pony-tailed girl who had not looked at him for several minutes, looked at the watercolor painting on the easel, and handed the butter bread to her mouth to see how long she could hold on.

Deep forests, shrines, and fireflies.

Insert coins, make a wish, and ring the blessing bell.

The ema frame commonly seen in shrines was also painted, and words such as "top scorer in the imperial examination" were carefully written on the ema with a neutral pen.

The low ponytail also depicts dreams.

The colors are well-controlled, the composition is quite meticulous, and there are many details. However, it is a bit redundant, like an ancient sculpture in which even the hair is carved out.

But for high school students, it's pretty good.

"Entry?" He saw Low Ponytail holding a paintbrush, repeatedly drawing circles on the palette. She neither continued painting nor took a bite of her bread. He took the initiative to speak, "The youth painting competition has a deadline of over 20 days."

"..." The girl with the low ponytail finally raised her head, looked at him warily, and nodded, "Hmm..."

"Not bad... but..." He put the bread bag aside, freeing up the hand that wasn't holding the bread. Before she could react, he took the paintbrush from her hand and replaced it with bread. "There are a few places I can help you check the painting."

"Huh?" Low Ponytail panicked and tried to snatch back the paintbrush.

"Don't worry, I won't start painting directly on your painting."

"Well……"

He found a piece of white paper nearby and took it, "You eat first."

"That's...ah! I'm not hungry..." The girl with low ponytail finally spoke out a complete sentence anxiously.

Gollum~~
Before she could finish her words, her stomach started to rumble at an inopportune moment.

His face, stained with colorful paint, suddenly turned red.

wow——

At the same time, the door of the art room was opened at an inopportune time.

Amano, who had rushed to get the bread, took in the overflowing bread bags on the table, her blushing ponytail, and the man's insistent salesmanship, and sighed helplessly...

"Inoue-san..."

"I'm teaching her how to draw..." He was clearly speaking the truth, but there was a sense of powerlessness in his words that seemed pale no matter how he explained it.

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