[Physical Strength: 8→9]

The effect of "Qi and Blood Medicine" combined with exercise is amazing. By the end of October, after finishing this bottle, I will basically reach my physical limit.

Toru Watanabe originally wanted to buy a bottle for his parents. It seems that he can just go back and secretly give them a pill every year to keep them healthy and prevent them from getting sick.

I washed my face at the drinking fountain in the roadside park, took the Shinjuku Line, transferred to the Chuo-Sobu Line at Ichigaya, and returned to my rental house in Yotsuya.

After taking a shower, I put on my uniform, locked the door, and went to school.

The uphill road that was so troublesome in the spring has become so easy without me noticing.

This is implied in the subtle influence of daily life. I can’t remember the exact time, but it should have happened before taking the "Qi and blood medicine".

"Good morning! Watanabe!" Kunii Osamu pushed Watanabe Toru's left shoulder and emerged from his right side.

"You seem to be in good spirits. Have you made any progress with Ikki Aoi?" Toru Watanabe put his fallen schoolbag back on his shoulder.

"Hey hey hey."

Watanabe Toru became curious. That was a lesbian. "Is there something going on?"

"We're starting to double-team!"

"...Congratulations!" Watanabe Toru pretended to be happy for him.

A girl on a bicycle wearing a Kamikawa uniform passed the two people walking slowly. She stood up and used her weight to pedal, looking very hard to climb the slope.

The clattering sound of the wheels echoed in the emptiness.

Kunii Osamu felt a little shy and changed the subject: "By the way, there is a mock exam this week, are you confident?"

Watanabe Toru knew that this guy was going to tease him again about his long-term ranking third in his grade, so he deliberately said in confusion: "I don't need confidence to surpass you, right?"

"Hey! You forgot that I traded my M4 for your M16!"

"That's because you want to show off in front of Ichimoku Aoi. Don't think I don't know."

"That's changed too!"

"What are you two arguing about so early in the morning?" Keisuke Saito, with big dark circles under his eyes, squeezed in between the two of them.

"What's wrong with you? Did you ask someone to come to your house for service?" Kunii Osamu pointed at his eye sockets and teased.

"It would be nice if it was a door-to-door service! I studied until three last night to prepare for the mock exam!"

"You are working too hard."

While the two of them were chatting, Toru Watanabe saw Rin Kiyono struggling to climb the hill ahead.

Her long, lead-black hair was very beautiful, cascading down her back.

When the three of them caught up with her, Toru Watanabe took the initiative to greet her: "Good morning, R-san."

R-san looked at him with her crystal clear eyes: "Can't you see that I'm tired? Don't talk to me now."

"You are too weak."

"Watanabe-san, you are the top student in liberal arts, don't you understand the principle that 'those who work hard are ruled by others'?"

"R-san, Rabindranath Tagore once said, 'Don't blame your food for your lack of appetite.' You hate exercise, so you look down on laborers. I'm going to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare to sue you."

"In order to justify themselves, they even say that day is night." Why do some people refuse to face the facts and deceive themselves that people are really equal?

“Did Tagore say that too?”

Kiyono Rin smiled disdainfully: "You've read Stray Birds, and you dare to talk to me about Tagore. I admire your courage, Watanabe-san."

"..."

Seeing that Watanabe Toru had nothing to say, Kiyono Rin lifted her hair with a victorious air, passed three people, and was the first to enter the Kamikawa school gate.

"This guy." Toru Watanabe was so angry that he wanted to ruffle her hair.

At a distance, Kunii Shuichi pushed Saito Keisuke's shoulder and said arrogantly, "Just because you've read Stray Birds, you dare to talk to me about Tagore?"

"Tagore once said... I'm sorry, I was wrong, I won't dare to do it again!" Saito Keisuke continued the joke as if he was about to kneel down and admit his mistake.

"Hahahaha!" The two of them laughed mercilessly.

"What are you laughing at?!" Watanabe Toru looked at them, "I was joking with R-san on purpose to make her forget about the climb. With just this small act of kindness, her liking for me has increased by at least 3%."

"real or fake?"

“No girl doesn’t like me.”

"Who cares about that? We're talking about whether you were joking on purpose or not."

"Of course it's true." Watanabe Toru said calmly, "Have you ever seen me lie?"

Kunii Osamu and Saito believed it a little bit. After all, Watanabe Toru was indeed very popular with girls, and he might be good at pleasing girls.

"Watanabe, I believe you. Can you teach me how to please Ikki-san?" Kunii Osamu said in a low voice.

"Lunchtime drinks?"

"I'll treat!"

"What's the most important thing when pursuing a girl? Gentleness and honesty! When I was pursuing Meiji..."

……

At the morning meeting, Koizumi Aona talked about the midterm exam.

"This exam is a national joint exam. After the exam, we will have a two-way interview based on your national deviation ranking."

"Also, for those students who wrote "study abroad" on the college entrance examination form, the career development department will discuss this with you."

"Students who want to study abroad later can ask me to revise it. This will affect the second-year class placement, so please go home and discuss it carefully with your parents."

"One last thing, everyone should hurry up and register for the sports festival. The class monitor told me that there are still a lot of vacancies."

After the first class, everyone talked about what happened in the class meeting.

"Why does going abroad affect class division?" asked Kunii Osamu.

"I heard that the school will put students going abroad in a class and invite foreign teachers to teach them. Even the school trips will be abroad," explained Keisuke Saito.

"Are you planning to go abroad?" Ikeda Kazumi, who was sitting in front of Watanabe Toru, turned around.

"No." The two shook their heads.

"Where is Watanabe-kun?" Ikeda Kazumi asked Watanabe Toru who was reading a book.

“Staying in Tokyo is like going abroad for me.”

"Wow, this is the advantage of the people of Iwate Prefecture, right?" Kunii Osamu made an exaggerated joke, making Ikeda Kazumi laugh continuously.

"Well, you can understand it that way." Watanabe Toru said perfunctorily.

Rather than going abroad, he now wants to get first place in the national entrance examination.

In the first few exams, he chose the liberal arts, while Kiyono and Kujo chose the science. Later, he chose the science, but his strength was not good enough and he failed the exam.

Then, he thought that his science scores had improved, and predicted that the two people would definitely run away and choose liberal arts. In the end, they still chose science, causing him to take first place in liberal arts again.

This time, the national joint entrance examination does not distinguish between arts and sciences, and the examination content is limited to the first year of high school. It is time to put an end to the shameful stalk of "Duan San"!

A week passed quickly. In addition to studying, training, and exams, the election for student union president was also over.

Watanabe Toru didn't know who it was, but it was definitely not the two seniors who were fighting.

As time gradually approached late October, the weather suddenly turned cold.

On Monday the 19th, Toru Watanabe even saw some girls wearing scarves on their way to school.

I don’t know if it’s to act cute or if she’s really cold.

Many boys also wore the matching sweater vests in their school uniforms - girls had already worn them because they were cute, intellectual, and really afraid of the cold.

"But anyway, isn't the scarf too exaggerated?"

Early in the morning, the trio started a boring discussion on "How much do girls wear scarves to be cute and how much to keep warm?"

"Vote, cutie."

"cute."

"Then I choose to keep warm."

"Two votes for cuteness, one vote for keeping warm, the final result is cuteness, any opinions?"

"No."

"The discussion is over. Now let me announce the result: girls wear scarves to be cute!"

It was a discussion so boring that it doesn’t matter if I don’t write about it.

During the morning meeting, unlike in the past, Koizumi Aona directly handed out report cards.

"Kunii-san."

"Have!"

"Saito-san."

"Have!"

"Wow, this is too bad." Kunijii Osamu, who was still high-spirited as the arbitrator in the morning, looked at the report card in his hand, his face turned pale and he began to tremble.

Saito Keisuke nodded vigorously in his seat, accepting the result: "Not bad, I've made progress."

"Watanabe."

"Have!"

Koizumi Aona did not give the report card to Watanabe Toru immediately. Instead, she held it in her hand and looked at it for a while with an expression of admiring a masterpiece.

"What's wrong?" Watanabe Toru asked.

"No. 1 in the country, Watanabe."

"Really?!" Toru Watanabe suddenly felt that his opponent was... so weak, even though he hadn't studied very hard.

"Well, take a look for yourself." Koizumi Aona handed him the report card, and her beautiful oval face couldn't help but smile.

The transcript contains the scores for each subject, followed by the deviation value and national ranking.

There is nothing much to say about the deviation value. A "1" is written in bold black pen on the national ranking.

"See who dares to call me 'Dan San'!" Watanabe Toru said with relief.

Koizumi Aonai couldn't help but smile: "Okay, go back to your seats, other students still need to collect their report cards."

"Yes!"

During the day, teachers of each subject handed out the test papers, and Watanabe Toru's entire answer sheet was covered with red circles, without a single tick.

"I haven't seen such a beautiful answer sheet since the lower grades of elementary school!" Kunijiro Osamu exclaimed as he held the answer sheet in his hands.

"Watanabe, what is your learning method?" Saito Keisuke also asked admiringly.

“The most important thing is honesty.”

“Studying also requires honesty?”

"Why don't you be honest? You need to be honest about everything! It's even more important for learning! Don't deceive yourself into thinking you know how to answer a certain type of question just because you got two questions right!"

"Yeah, that makes sense." Saito Keisuke nodded. "I thought I knew all the first-grade knowledge, but I ranked over 1,000 in the country on this test, so I made a lot of mistakes."

Kunii Osamu looked at his ranking outside the top 3,000 and decided to trust the number one in the country and be an honest person.

After school, Toru Watanabe walked towards the club building with brisk steps.

Outside the corridor window, the ginkgo tree in the atrium is magnificent, with golden apricot leaves falling at a speed slightly faster than cherry blossoms, covering the circular gravel path;

In the flower beds, chrysanthemums, veronicas, hibiscuses, and roses compete for splendor;

In the corners of the walls, ferns began to sprout.

Looking at his own reflection in the glass, Toru Watanabe showed a smile that no girl could resist.

On the playground, the sound of the wind band rehearsing in unison could be heard; the sports festival would be held in two days.

Walking through the overhead corridor and arriving at the activity classroom of the Human Observation Department, Toru Watanabe pushed the door open and went in.

Kiyono Rin was reading a book by the window, while Kujo Miki was lying on the sofa with her skirt lifted up, exposing her snow-white thighs.

Toru Watanabe walked over, covered her skirt, then sat in his seat and read a book without saying a word.

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