I'm a weird expert in Japan

"How's the painting?"

"That must be very beautiful."

"How beautiful is it?" Ying Lili asked again.

Lian was stumped by the question. He was not very good at analyzing specific painting techniques. As the saying goes, every different field has its own barriers. His main job is music, not art.

Even though they are both art forms, there are essential differences between them.

"I can't really describe it... I can only say that this is the most beautiful painting of Dianthus so far." Lian rubbed the back of his head and muttered, "If you want to know what's good about it, go find someone else. I can't judge."

"Then what did he draw--" Ying Lili raised her head and was about to speak, but suddenly she felt dizzy, her feet felt weak, and she looked like she couldn't stand steadily.

"Hey……"

Lian saw it clearly.

But Eriri just raised her hand to indicate, "It's okay, I just didn't sleep well."

"You don't look okay..." Lian narrowed her eyes slightly, "Stay here and don't move. I'll go get Shizhu."

"I told you it's okay." Ying Lili raised her eyes, giving off a strong aura.

The confidence that belongs to a diplomat's daughter.

"Okay..." Lian waved her hands awkwardly.

In fact, he was just being more cautious. If his friend really had something wrong and he didn't notice it, he would inevitably feel bad when he thought about it later.

"What were you about to say?" He returned to the conversation a moment ago.

Ying Lili brushed one side of her long hair and said, "Nothing, I have something else to do—"

"I have something to do..."

Lian remembered that she still had to get her lunch box, so she hurried to the office.

Chapter 114: Chapter 2: Midday ()

"Teacher Hanekawa——"

After Lian entered the office, she quietly walked to the desk in the corner and greeted Hanekawa Tsubasa.

"Wait a moment, I'm sorting out the students' information—" Hanekawa raised his eyes to look at him, "Shijo-kun, please wait a moment."

"What information? Do you need my help?" Lian asked immediately.

"Eh? Shijo-kun, are you willing to help?" Teacher Hanekawa smiled strangely, "Then I'll trouble you to help me sort the information over there according to the classification method above."

She said, pointing to a form on the table.

"Well, okay—" Lian leaned over to read the instructions, then began to read a stack of documents pinned together with a paper clip, "Well... here is..."

Sorting and organizing student information is not an easy task. Lian has never done this before. The most he can do is organize the scattered music scores by himself.

"Teacher Hanekawa, here are the documents that Teacher Hasumi asked me to deliver." Shizhu's voice came from behind.

He was politely holding a thick stack of folders and speaking to Hanekawa Tsubasa.

"Ah, there's no room here..." Teacher Hanekawa was a little helpless and looked around. "Put it on the coffee table in the reception room over there. No one is using it right now."

"Ok."

Shizhu put the things on the coffee table, walked out and said to Lian: "Can you do it, Lian? Don't do it recklessly, or the teacher will have to sort it out again later."

"Tsk..." Lian clicked her tongue in embarrassment.

"Okay, okay, do you want me to give you a hand?" Shizhu crossed his arms, looking like he was going to enjoy a good show.

"Enough, enough, get out of here." Lian laughed and cursed, and was about to kick Shizhu, but he dodged it with a slight movement of his body.

Then a stack of printed materials fell on Lian's head. Teacher Hanekawa stared at Lian seriously and said, "You can't use such rude words to talk to your friends."

"Yes, yes—" Lian said with a wry smile.

He and Shizhu were basically very open with their words in private, and what he just said was just the beginning of the beginning.

"You deserve it." Shizhu laughed non-stop. "Oh, by the way, the ones marked with asterisks should be kept separate from those over here."

Lian paused, "How do you know so much?"

"The second grade also had something like this. I helped our homeroom teacher do it." Shizhu said, "It should be the same for the third grade, right, Mr. Hanekawa?"

"That's basically right." Hanekawa took his hand back and looked at Lian's work. "I'm going to the dean's office and will be back in a few minutes. Please help Shijo-kun, Shinomiya-kun."

"I see."

As an excellent student, Shizhu agreed to the teacher's request without hesitation.

"I think you are really kind-hearted. Isn't the second grade enough for you to be busy?" Lian teased Shizhu with a smile.

"Not that proactive." Shi Zhu stepped forward to help, "Senior, you know me well. I like to be passive."

"Yes, yes—" Lian nodded, "Come to think of it, I just ran into Sawamura on the way here."

"Yeah." Shizhu was indifferent.

"Why don't you ask me what I talked about with her?"

"What can we talk about? Borrowing money? Matchmaking? Or arranging a social gathering for you? None of that is possible." Shizhu said with a smile.

Lian sighed, "Really... we only talked about her slacking off."

"Just slack off if you want to. You don't really think I want to do that project, do you?" Shizhu said.

"Huh?" Lian was stunned.

Shi Zhu squeezed next to Lian and said, "I may not have the desire to make games, but I have the desire to make money by making games, and it's very big."

"Are you short of money?"

"How can you complain about having too little money?"

"Right."

Shizhu's question stumped Lian for a moment, and he had no choice but to honestly admit that it was indeed the case.

"But if you don't plan to do this project, just tell me earlier so I can tell Kasumigaoka to stop working so hard." Lian sighed.

"That's not the case. Anyway, we have such a good team. If it is really made, it will sell for a lot of money." Shi Zhu narrowed his eyes. "Just the first creation of Utsunomiya Ren is enough to attract a large number of fans outside the circle to buy it."

"Who knows."

Lian didn't care about it. She just treated it as a way to pass the time. She could just say hello to the agency later.

"Besides, since he was able to think of this way of lying to both sides to break the situation, I wonder if I have underestimated Aki Tomoya." Shizhu suddenly lowered his tone.

"I'm not sure, anyway... let's just leave it like that." Lian hesitated to speak.

Although Shiyu stepped on herself when she scolded Aki Tomoya at that time, "He is not as good as a blind bat otaku", there is some truth and falsehood in that sentence, Lian never thought about it.

But at least it shouldn't be as powerful as described by Dianthus.

"So I find it a bit strange. If he is really so smart, why is he..." Shizhu seemed to be thinking about something, "Or is there someone behind the scenes giving him advice?"

"That's possible. Who doesn't know some powerful people?" Lian said assumingly, "With the conditions you proposed, if it were me, I would go straight to Mr. Hanekawa to discuss a solution."

"That's right." Shi Zhu seemed to accept this statement. "By the way, when is your game?"

"When? Maybe this weekend." Lian thought for a moment, "Sunday morning at 10 o'clock--"

"Sunday." Shizhu understood, "That's one day later than our exhibition."

"Exhibition? What art competition was it?" Lian still remembered.

"Yes, the works submitted last week will take about a week to be judged." Shizhu continued, "Anyway, it will definitely be the Eriri Gold Award again this time, so it's time to prepare a gift."

"How can you be so sure..." Lian said casually, then she realized that the question she asked was very strange and she was a little confused about how to put it.

Shizhu was very sure, "She taught me everything, what do you think?"

"What if the disciple surpasses the master?" Lian asked again.

Shizhu shook his head, "No, I'm still far from it."

“…I think it’s pretty good.”

"Not necessarily, it was just a coincidence." Shizhu continued to deny.

Lian knew Shizhu's personality. Once she made up her mind, she was not the type to give up easily.

Whether it is the principle or the goal, it has always been like this.

"Anyway, since the exhibition is on Saturday, I'll go over and take a look then." Lian thought for a moment, "Is it on the way?"

"What's the way?"

"It's from my house to there and then to school. Don't tell me it's the other way around."

"That shouldn't be the case." Shizhu put the sorted pile aside. "I'm worried that you'll get lost while driving. That would be so embarrassing."

"You're the only one who talks too much—"

With the help of Shizhu, everything was sorted out in no time. When Teacher Hanekawa came back, Shizhu had already left.

Of course, Lian didn't have the audacity to say that it was all his own credit.

Because there is no way to hide it from Mr. Hanekawa.

Chapter 115: Noise (1)

That day, I left the audio-visual classroom early as I had nothing to do and went to the second music room, where I ran into Touma Kazusa, who was holding two cans of condensed milk coffee.

"Hey, hey...you're being lazy again..."

Lian began to worry about the competition the day after tomorrow. He really wanted to know whether Kazusa had practiced well when he was not in the second music room.

"Who is slacking off? You'd better tell me clearly." Hesha frowned, "I just used my break time to go downstairs to buy something from the vending machine."

"Um..." Lian was suddenly unable to refute, "Sorry, I was just joking."

“Really?” Hesha pushed the coffee in her hand to Lian, “You seem to be quite busy lately.”

Lian held the coffee can without opening it. "It's okay--"

After turning the corner, you can see the second music room. Lian gestured to Hesha to go back to the classroom.

"What are you busy with?"

"Nothing..." Lian answered ambiguously.

Anyway, it’s very troublesome to explain. There have been a lot of messy things happening one after another recently, which are not big or small.

"Nothing, then someone comes to see you." Hesha suddenly said something without any context.

Lian opened her eyes wide innocently and said, "I don't socialize with people much, but that doesn't mean I'm like you and ignore everyone..."

In response, Kazusa did not say anything to refute, but just pushed open the door of the second music room.

"Oh, you're so late. I've been waiting for you for a long time, Lian."

Someone greeted Lian with the exact same lines as her uncle.

Oshino fan.

"You look really energetic. Did something good happen to you?"

Then, Oshino Ogi came out with two idiomatic phrases in succession. No matter how hard she tried to learn the tone, that slightly neutral female voice did not have the cynical flavor of Oshino Meeme.

"Well, if Oshino-sensei's presence here is considered a good thing."

Lian, who came in later, said as she closed the door.

"That's a great answer, but meeting me may not be a good thing. You should have known this from many people. If even meeting me can be considered a good thing, then your life may have been filled with misery that I cannot imagine."

Oshino Ogi obviously heard Lian's teasing and took over the conversation without hesitation and continued to tease Lian.

"Well... that's not the case." Lian leaned against the door and looked at Shinobu Osamu. "By the way, what are you doing here? It's a pity that Touma let you into the classroom."

Still dressed as a man, Oshino Ogi was sitting at a table against the wall of the second music room—even though there were several empty chairs here.