I won't be a loser.

He didn't seem to know anything. He looked at the teacher who was teaching the class content and listened to what he explained. He felt that it was okay, but a little stiff.

He doesn’t look very old, maybe he’s a new teacher?

After a while, other parents came to the door of the same classroom, stood beside Xianren, nodded slightly to Xianren, and the two stood in front of the door together, listening to the class in the classroom.

Compared to Xianren who paid more attention to teaching content, this parent obviously paid more attention to her own children. Her eyes were always on the students who might be her children, and she took out her mobile phone from time to time, as if she wanted to take a picture of her daughter, but she held back.

Although it is a visiting day and parents can see their children in class, most schools strictly prohibit parents from taking photos inside the school during the visiting day. Taking photos of other students and uploading them to SNS is strictly prohibited.

The two of them kept strict silence during the class. When the get out of class was over, the girl in the classroom suddenly rushed out, came to the side of the blonde woman, stopped, and turned around.

"Mom! How about Nai Ai when she's in class? Isn't she very cute?"

"Of course! The lovely Nai Ai is an angel, an angel! A god!"

Watching the intimate and lively interaction between the mother and daughter, Elio just walked out of the classroom silently, came in front of Xianren, stopped, and looked into Xianren's eyes for a moment.

Reaching into his arms, the wise man took out a piece of konpeito and handed it to his daughter.

Elliot looked down for a while, then stretched out her little hand to take the candy, unwrapped the candy, and put it into her mouth. Her cute mouthless appearance made Xianren squat down and stroke his daughter's soft light blue hair.

"Is this your daughter?"

"Yes, Fuji and Elio, I am her father, Xianren."

"This is my daughter—"

"Hello! Elliot's father, my name is Himesaka Noai~"

The girl walked up to Xianren, hugged Elio, and introduced herself. It seemed that she had a good relationship with Elio, but looking at his daughter's expressionless face, Xianren couldn't help but smile softly.

"Hello."

"I am this child's mother, Emily Himesaka. Please give me your guidance."

"Yes, please give me some advice."

After a brief exchange, Elio and Himesaka Noa did not stay with their mother and father all the time, and soon returned to the classroom. Parents of some other children also gradually came to the school. Some of the parents were acquaintances of each other and were members of the "PTA".

The so-called 'PTA' is the Parent-Teacher Association, which mainly builds a bridge of communication between schools and parents. It also has a considerable influence in the current education community. In many cases, schools have to seriously consider the suggestions and influence of the 'PTA'.

Especially the 'PTA' of some private schools, which are mostly headed by the major shareholders of the school. People like the principal take these parents seriously when facing them.

The 'PTA' in this school doesn't have that much influence, but the parents in it are all acquaintances and have already gathered together to start communicating.

Most of the people I saw were students' mothers, but not many fathers. After communicating with each other for a while, it was soon time to introduce each other's family backgrounds. Some of the conversations were like, "My husband is... Your family is... Oh, it turns out that..." The wise men standing in the aisle didn't know how to answer.

Until noon, the students sat quietly in the classroom, and the teachers and students distributed lunch together.

The wise man standing outside the classroom looked at the students' lunch and actually did not agree with it. Such collective lunches, like those in current schools, would occasionally break out in the news that there were problems with the school lunches. Even if it was only occasionally, the wise man found it difficult to feel at ease.

It would be safer to have your family prepare lunch boxes and bring them to school. I understand that not all parents have the time to do so, and some parents don't even have the financial resources to do so.

sigh.

Since there is no way to change it for the time being, this is the only way.

When you reach middle school or even high school, you will be much more relaxed in this regard, at least you won’t need group lunches anymore.

"At least teachers and students share the same lunch..."

Looking at the scene of shared lunch at school, where the teacher seemed to be sitting in the front and eating the same food as the students, Xianren couldn't help but think of his own life in elementary school.

For example, the students all had the same simple lunch, while the teachers sat in different rooms, with all kinds of fish and meat. They were in the same cafeteria, but in different rooms, they had completely different treatments, such as fish, vegetables, and fresh soup...

The room where the teachers sat was mysterious and noble in the eyes of elementary school students at that time.

Later, when I entered junior high school and high school...teachers and students still sat in different places and had completely different dinners.

"Ah... When I think about it, my stomach starts to hurt."

Xianren sighed and looked at the teachers and students in front of him who were eating the same lunch. He watched for a while, and when it was the break after lunch, he came to Elliot's side, chatted with her in a low voice, smiled at the other students beside her, showed his kindness, said goodbye to Elliot, and left the school first.

Although it was not impossible to endure lunch and wait until Elio got out of school, Xianren couldn't help but recall some bad memories while staying in the elementary school.

After leaving school, I went to a nearby izakaya and sat for a while.

It was daytime, but there were still izakayas open. While drinking inside, I couldn't help but chat with the store manager, asking about their generation's days in school, and talking about what I saw in school today.

"That's really different. School before and school now are completely different. We didn't have it easy in school before. Almost every day we were subjected to strict requirements from the teachers. Being insulted or even beaten was a common occurrence."

"Back then, it was the same at school. There wasn't any direct verbal abuse, but indirect insults, even attacks on students' parents, were quite common."

"So-called teachers, after all, aren't they still human beings? Young man, you may not know that we've had some people who looked like teachers come to our store before. Tsk, they were obviously not young anymore, but they were so…"

The store manager smiled and didn't continue.

Xianren, who was sitting in the store, felt even more melancholy all of a sudden. He borrowed a cigarette from the store manager, and the two men sat there and expressed their dissatisfaction.

"It's not that there aren't good teachers, but most of them are trying to keep quiet and only pick on the weak. They have no moral integrity as teachers."

"The world has changed, hasn't it? Back then, students dared to go on strike and confront their own teachers. Back then, when we were young, we wouldn't back down from those teachers!"

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Chiba New Story: 478. Humans are creatures that live in memories

"How does it feel?"

After walking around the street for three or four hours, he waited for Elio to finish school and took her home. Fuji and Nyu, who were resting at home, saw the father and daughter returning and asked Xianren.

"Well...it's okay."

Glancing at Elio beside him, Xianren was at a loss to give his own evaluation in the presence of his daughter. He smiled at Fuji and Nunu and gave a rather perfunctory answer, which made Fuji and Nunu smile softly and immediately understood what Xianren meant.

As long as no detailed evaluation is given, the words "okay", "okay" and "not bad" spoken by the wise can basically be regarded as "dissatisfied".

Fujihe Nunu, who was lying on the sofa, slowly sat up, took out the fruit from the refrigerator, cut some apples, and put them on the coffee table. She asked Elio to watch TV, and she came to the front of the wise man, looked at the wise man in front of her, stretched out her hands and took off the glasses on his face.

"It suits you very well, but I'm still a little uncomfortable with it."

“Just don’t make people feel disgusted.”

"School doesn't satisfy you very much?"

"It's not a big problem. From a personal perspective, I hope the school's arrangements will be more biased towards me. In other words, I'm being... willful."

As for himself, he still has some clear understanding, knows what is right and what is wrong, and does not mind admitting these aspects of himself.

"Willful?"

He turned around, got a piece of cut apple, and stuffed it into the wise man's mouth.

"I don't hate willful children~"

"..."

After staying at Fujiwa's house for a while and chatting with Fujiwa's daughter about some things, I said goodbye to them and left Fujiwa's house.

Carrying the desserts he bought, he came to the door of Qingpu's house, rang the doorbell, and after waiting for a while, Qingpu Setsuna, wearing home clothes, appeared in front of Xianren.

"A wise man?"

"Yeah, good afternoon."

"……good afternoon."

Qingpu Shanna was a little surprised at the sudden visit of the wise man, but he still invited him into the house.

After entering the living room, Xianren placed the dessert in his hand on the coffee table. Then, Qingpu Setsuna, who had made tea, came to the coffee table with the tea, placed the tea on the table, sat down next to Xianren, and looked sideways at Xianren beside him.

"What happened today?"

"Nothing, I just came to see if you were home. I didn't expect you were resting at home."

"I didn't have any classes in the afternoon, and I didn't feel like going out shopping, so I went back home to rest and read a little. I was already feeling sleepy when you, Xianren, came."

Looking down at the tea on the table, Qingpu Shanna didn't know what to talk about with Xianren. There was already a small gap between the two of them, and they both felt that they no longer had the tacit understanding they once had.

Three years, but more than three years.

It was indeed time for the relationship to become dull.

"Have you ever considered moving out?"

"Moving out... There's no need. I've always lived here, and it's not far from school, so there's no reason to move out."

After thinking for a while, the girl shook her head gently, and her short black hair fluttered gently. A faint fragrance of her hair drifted in front of Xianren. Xianren, who was sitting in the living room, was not surprised by Qingpu Setsuna's decision.

"There are still two years left. Have you considered it?"

"What happens after graduation?"

Qingpu Setsuna was silent for a moment, his gaze slowly fell on Xianren, and he pursed his lips.

“I will continue studying.”

"Ok?"

The somewhat unexpected answer made Xianren look at Qingpu Setsuna in surprise.

"I originally thought about joining your company after completing my studies, but now that's no longer necessary, I've decided to continue my studies."

"This is also a good choice, isn't it?"

"She's probably preparing for the world this way. She doesn't know what she'll do in the future. In this case, it's better for her to continue studying."

Both of them are planning to continue their studies, which is not a bad thing for a wise man.

"Has Mitsuha come to your place recently?"

"Ah."

"I'm already in my third year of high school, and I'm about to go to college. It's a bit of a headache."

"she……"

"Ok?"

"nothing."

He wanted to say something but stopped himself. Looking at Qingpu Setsuna's reaction, Xianren also noticed something strange and became a little concerned about his sister's affairs.

After staying at Qingpu's house for two hours and chatting about some recent events, when it got dark outside, Qingpu Setsuna looked at Xianren.

"Will you stay here tonight?"

"……Um."

After hesitating for a moment, Xianren nodded, and Qingpu Setsuna smiled slightly and started preparing dinner. Xianren stood up and walked towards the door.

"I'm going to check on Mitsuha."

"Ah."

Qingpu Setsuna, who was standing in front of the kitchen counter, responded softly, and Xianren came to the door, put on his shoes, pushed open the door, crossed the road, came to the door of the apartment, pressed the doorbell, there was no response, so he took out the key from his pocket.

The pitter patter.

The sound of running water made Xianren look towards the bathroom. Under the warm yellow light, a person's body was vaguely visible.

I was wondering why Sanye didn't come to open the door, or whether Xianren was not at home, but she suddenly reacted, closed the door gently, and came to the desk. Looking at the simple desktop from her time, which now has a girlish feel, she sighed, came to the balcony, looked at the dim sunset outside, and was stunned for a moment.

How long has it been since I stood in this place and looked at the scenery outside the window?

Even though several years have passed, the sunset scene here is still the same as before. Even though a lot of things have changed, there are still some unchanging scenes.

wow——

The door opened and Mitsuha, wearing a yukata, walked out of the bathroom and looked at Xianren standing on the balcony.

"I knew it was you."

"is it?"

"Humph."

Sanye, wiping her hair, slowly walked into the living room, poured herself a cup of tea, and then her eyes fell on Xianren.

"Are you okay today?"

"Hmm? Something happened, but I've already taken care of it. Don't forget to come to Setsuna's house for dinner later."

"Huh? I've always been at her place... Ugh wow, are you planning on staying at her place today?"