Tokyo: The Player Behind the Scenes.

Chapter 34: The Gentle Spring Rain

Good morning, Higashiyama-kun, Chiba-san, and Higashiyama-chan.

At the apartment entrance, Natsuki Otsuka's sincere and bright smile always sets a good tone for many residents' day.

This is also the key to her success in becoming a housekeeper several years ago and maintaining her position for so long.

Higashiyama was the only one who was very unhappy about having "chan" in his name, as if he were coaxing a child.

Unfortunately, the opinions of immature teenagers are insignificant.

Good morning, Otsuka-neechan.

Higashiyama Shin looked at the front desk, where the cherry blossom branches on the vase had been replaced with new ones.

She seems to really like cherry blossoms. Every year during cherry blossom season, she buys cherry branches to insert and keeps changing them until the cherry blossom season ends.

"The weather forecast says it will rain today, but you all brought umbrellas, so you should be fine. Be careful on the road." Otsuka waved goodbye to the group.

"Thank you."

The three of them returned to normal, going to school together, and the world where only Higashiyama was injured was achieved.

With the cold-faced Chiba Shion around, his desire to speak was greatly suppressed, at least less than when it was just him and his brother.

I don't know how this guy can put up with that kind of personality, or maybe his girlfriend is just adorable.

"Brother, do you think the police will still be at school today?"

"meeting."

"Oh, does that mean the serial killer is still at school?"

"As long as you don't sneak off to school at night, nothing will happen."

"I'm not going to school tonight."

Higashiyama and his companion chatted idly, while Chiba read a book to the side.

We hadn't chatted for long when the subway arrived at the station.

"Brother, it's raining."

At the exit of the station, Higashiyama looked at the sky, which had suddenly changed color, and his mood seemed to sink instantly with the gloomy rain.

"Did you bring an umbrella?" Shin Higashiyama asked Chiba.

"No."

Chiba calmly shook his head and put the bag down without making a sound.

"I brought it." Dongshan Du took out his folded umbrella, which looked like dried pickled vegetables.

Generally speaking, the umbrella used by the Dongshan Shen family should not be used to cover living people, as it can easily reduce their yang energy.

But with Higashiyama Shin suppressing it, there are no problems at all.

"Brother, would you like me to make the umbrella bigger?" Ueda Yasushi asked, poking his head out.

Higashiyama Shinsuke shook his head slightly.

At the exit, the shared umbrellas were snapped up, leaving behind students who hadn't brought umbrellas or were too slow to grab one, sighing in frustration.

However, the rain wasn't heavy, and many boys gritted their teeth and rushed out.

Higashiyama Shin opened his umbrella, just enough to cover the two of them.

Just as they were about to leave, Dongshan turned around as if he saw something, his face lit up with joy, and he quickly ran back to the station entrance.

Shinichi Higashiyama could see his younger brother approach the two girls, pat his chest, and forcefully hand the umbrella to one of them.

That must be his girlfriend.

She is indeed quite cute; she seems to be the kind of soft and adorable girl.

After all, even elementary school students are dating nowadays, so Shin Higashiyama has always been very open-minded about it, since the concept of early dating doesn't really exist in Japan anyway.

The girl also noticed Higashiyama Shin's gaze, and lowered her head shyly, her ears turning red.

A moment later, Higashiyama Doku trotted back: "Brother, brother, squeeze me in." Higashiyama Shin was about to ask Ueda Yoshi to subtly enlarge the umbrella a little when Chiba Shion, as if she had been prepared, took a folding umbrella out of her bag and handed it directly to Higashiyama Doku.

“Use this,” she said.

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Higashiyama took the umbrella with a strange expression. Just now, she had said that she didn't bring an umbrella. Sure enough, the cold-faced woman's words were not to be trusted.

Higashiyama Shinichi stared straight ahead, looking serious, as if he were studying the relationship between the trajectory of falling rain and the theory of monism.

The three arrived at the school without incident, but the police tape was still in place. Several student council members, looking distressed, held up umbrellas to block the still curious students, preventing them from getting close.

The person leading the group was probably a student council disciplinary committee member. He had caught someone who almost sneaked in and was yelling at them in the rain.

"Bye-Bye."

Dongshan, itching to look around, glanced at them a few more times before saying goodbye to the two and heading towards the teaching building.

Upon entering the teaching building, Higashiyama Shin put his umbrella away. A cloudy day was a good time for Ueda Yoshi to expand his activities. He told Ueda to take a stroll around the old teaching building when he had time and see what new discoveries the detectives had made.

"Leave it to me, brother!" Ueda Yasushi was always happy to be able to help and seemed a little impatient.

He trusted the ghosts to do his job.

"Clubs start recruiting tomorrow, would you like to join another club?"

Arriving at his seat in the classroom, Higashiyama Shin looked outside at the drizzling rain and asked...

"No, I won't add it." Chiba said without hesitation. "What about you?"

"I plan to specialize in archery and video games next."

Chiba looked thoughtful upon hearing this.

Shin Higashiyama has always been very energetic, but now he has not only given up his class position, but his club activities have also started to slow down, in addition to not accepting her badminton invitation last night.
Chiba took out his notebook and wrote something on it.

Just before class started, Nobi Tomoyo hurriedly arrived at the classroom, panting and wearing glasses, with many wet patches on his clothes.

Higashiyama Shinichi glanced at him a few times.

Good, at least it's not a minor disaster today.

Ikeda arrived early today, but came right on time, and then started the morning meeting. The main purpose was to inform everyone that the club recruitment event would start tomorrow and to talk about things to pay attention to after becoming a high school student.

Below the podium, Nobi Tomoyoshi adjusted his worn-out glasses, a notebook sat on the table, and he scribbled on it intermittently.

"The biggest threats to the left platform are known to be poison gas and cultists. If this is the only way through, then we need a way to resist the poison gas or deal with the cultists."

"There is an unknown deadly threat on the right platform, but the train doors to the right platform will not close, so I probably need to find a tool on the right platform that can solve the problem on the left platform."

"Poison gas can be used with gas masks, and fanatics can use weapons and fire-fighting equipment boxes."

"According to the search, there is a chance that the fire equipment box is equipped with a gas mask and a safety hammer. If all else fails, you can use a fire extinguisher to smash or spray it."

Nobi Tomoyoshi endured the throbbing pain in his temples and carefully recalled the clues he had found last night, as well as the ideas he had come up with after searching.

Therefore, tonight's objective is to find the tools from the right-hand platform and successfully avoid the threats of poison gas and fanatics.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but tap on the small screen that had been following his gaze.

[Ranking List (Subway):]

1. Hao

2.Month

3. Wisdom

He's still at the bottom of the rankings.

If it ends like this, his reward will be a health-enhancing pill.

This thing is good, but it's not as good as increasing lifespan or having more game opportunities.

Moreover, there were only three players this time, which is why it was his turn. What if there are five or ten players next time? Wouldn't it be even harder for him to get the top three prize?
"Perhaps I can ask Fujimoto?" Nobi began to consider off-field assistance.

(End of this chapter)