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Chapter 308 A Restless Afternoon

After taking a bath, I changed into a short-sleeved shirt and stepped out of the bathroom. A faint aroma of tea filled the living room.

But the person who brewed the tea wasn't there. The girl, with her back bent and bare feet on the wooden floor, moved silently to someone's bedroom door.

Jun Matsueda's voice came through, "That's good. I think your idea is perfect."

Huh? Matsue is on the phone? Kurusu Yosei raised an eyebrow. She pressed her ear against the door but didn't hear any girl's voice.

Maybe she was wearing headphones. The girl listened furtively at the door for a while longer before gently knocking, taking two steps outside, and pretending to have just been standing at the door.

Two seconds later, the bedroom door opened, and the boy walked out of the room. "Finished soaking?"

"Songzhi can go wash now~" The girl nodded obediently, then looked curiously into the bedroom. "Was Songzhi on the phone just now?"

Jun Matsueda nodded and took out a change of clothes from his room. "A senior member of the student council wants to see me about something."

"That's it"

Yosuke Kurusu wrinkled his nose. Are high school students really that busy? Calling their juniors at nine or ten at night?
She followed the boy into the bathroom. "By the way, Songzhi, do you still have that band photo you showed me before?"

"The one in the practice room?" Jun Matsue turned around, scrolled through his phone, and turned the screen toward the girl.

“That’s right!” Kurusu Yosei stared at the photo for a while, then pointed to the girl standing next to the boy, smiling and holding a drumstick.

"Who is this girl? Why didn't you mention her before?"

In the photo Cai Jiang sent her, there were two girls carrying instrument bags. Could the one holding the drumsticks be the second drummer in the band?

And why does she look so familiar?

The girl's memory wasn't as good as Matsueda Jun's. When she was admiring the cherry blossoms at Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden, her attention was focused on the two girls who were going against her, so she didn't have a deep impression of Yamami Maki, whom she had only met once.

“Didn’t you ask me about the band? She’s not a band member,” Jun Matsue said matter-of-factly.

"You met her before at Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden. She's Maki Yamami, Tomatsu Tomoka's senior. The practice room we borrowed is owned by her family."

"Ah!" The girl found the source of the familiarity, but because Jun Matsueda's tone was too ordinary, she did not connect the person who had just spoken on the phone in the room with the person who appeared in the photo.

"So it was Yuuka-chan's wingman!"

"." Kurusu Yosei stared at the photo on the boy's phone again.

The wingman is in the photo, but why isn't the main character there? The girl thinks this girl named Yamami Maki is a bit strange.

I hope to see her next time I go to the practice room. I want to see what kind of person this guy is.

In the other bedroom, Yamami Maki, who had just finished a voice call, sneezed, and her mother's voice came from outside the door.

"Don't set the air conditioner too low, Moji, or you'll catch a cold!"

"Okay~" She rolled over in bed, pulled the blanket over herself, and covered her slender figure under her light clothing.

Maybe it's Matsueda thinking of me? The girl thought to herself, unaware that someone else was calling her name.

Tomorrow is Sunday, and Yuuka will definitely be at the practice room, so she won't be able to see Matsueda. Monday is the election briefing, and there are proposals to discuss, so she can openly chat with Matsueda. Finding a performance venue can also be put on the agenda.
The meticulous young woman started planning, and the many ideas in her mind eventually turned into one thought. She sighed as she looked at the bright ceiling.

"I kind of want to see Matsue-san."

Monday noon, in the activity room of Haneoka High School. "That concludes the agenda for this meeting. Please prepare your campaign proclamations and posters and submit them to the election management committee before the deadline. The time for your campaign speeches will be announced separately. Thank you for your cooperation."

Jun Matsuoka stood in front of the podium, watching everyone leave one by one. He put his speech and related explanatory documents together, stretched, and realized it was another meeting that would consume his lunch break.

He stepped down from the podium and collected the documents that some people had left in the classroom—those who couldn't even keep their documents safe had little chance of winning the election; it seemed that not everyone in the student council was smart.

A soft knock came at the door. Jun Matsue turned around, and Maki Yami walked into the classroom, smiling and waving at him.

"Thank you for your hard work, Pine Branch!"

"Don't you need to take a lunch break, senior?" He threw the extra documents in his hand into the trash can and returned to the podium.

"I just submitted the revised proposal, and when I came back I ran into my classmates who had just finished their meeting, so I thought I'd come and take a look."

The girl sat in the first row below the podium, like a student listening attentively to the lesson, with the classroom lights swirling around her.

"Time really flies," Yami Maki remarked.

"It's already the end of June in the blink of an eye." Jun Matsueda nodded. "There's the sports meet in July, the student council will be busy again, won't they?"

"This should be the last big event we organize," the girl smiled. "We need to share some experience with the first-year members."

She watched as the boy packed up his things and the two left the classroom together. The students were all huddled in their classrooms enjoying the air conditioning, and there were hardly any people in the corridor.

"Have you been keeping an eye on the performance venue, Matsueda-san?" The girl, who had been building up her story for so long, finally revealed her true intentions.

“Caijiang and the others went to two places last weekend, but the schedule was full. We’ll have to see how it goes next.”

"It's a bit of a pity," Yami Maki said, a slight smile playing on her lips.

"Shall we go take another look after that?"

"Of course, but won't that take up your time, senior?" Jun Matsue turned to look at the girl beside him.

“If I’m not available, Matsue-kun can find someone else to go with her.” The senior smiled, naturally putting herself as the top priority.

Just as the boy was about to answer, a girl walked towards them in the hallway. Tomatsu Yuka initially showed a surprised expression, but only slightly restrained herself after seeing Yamami Maki next to Matsueda Jun.

"Has Matsueda finished the meeting? Kominato-sensei wants us to go to the office."

After the girl finished speaking, she turned to the senior student next to him and asked, "Did you come back from a meeting with Matsueda-san?"

Yamami Maki waved her hand, "I was on my way to the school administration office to hand in some documents, and I just ran into Matsueda-san on the way."

Tomatsu Tomohana nodded reassuringly, "Then, Matsueda-san, would you like to come to the office with me? If you're tired, I can manage on my own."

"Anyway, I've already lost ten minutes of my afternoon nap," Jun Matsue yawned. "It doesn't matter if I lose another ten minutes."

The cheerful laughter of girls echoed in the hallway, their light voices expanding in the sunlight and drifting away into the distance.

The three eventually parted ways. Yamami Maki opened the back door of her classroom, and a refreshing breeze rushed in. She turned her head and glanced at the two figures walking away.

The corridor without air conditioning was still too hot, making everyone feel restless.

(End of this chapter)