I live my life in Tokyo

"Oh, thank you, Sakakibara-san." The girl blew him a kiss. Amid the jeering of other boys and girls, Sakakibara's smile looked a little awkward.

Doma Ohira stretched and sat down beside him, quickly turning on the computer, with a steamed bun still in his mouth. "Good morning, Sakakibara. I feel like I haven't seen you for a whole summer. You seem a little taller."

“I don’t have any impression of it myself.”

The boy activated the laptop he got from the production team and opened the manuscript of the speech they were going to give today.

The rest of the people also returned to their seats and started discussing in pairs. There was more than one group that needed to give a speech today, and they arrived at the classroom early just to make final preparations before the speech.

"How was your summer? The reality show looks great, but what is it like in reality?"

"It's exactly the same as what was filmed on camera." Sakakibara accepted his friend's concern and nodded. "Although it was a bit troublesome, it was a task assigned by the production team, but the six of us had a lot of fun."

"But I did cry a lot when I said goodbye. I also had an urge to sigh, but I didn't cry. I just wiped away the tears from the corners of my eyes."

"Sakakibara Kaede is very emotional."

"Kindness is human nature. I can't really say whether sentimentality is good or bad. I just cry when I watch tear-jerking movies, and I feel sad when I see an old man dying alone in bed in the hospital. I don't think there's anything wrong with this, but if you are so sentimental in your daily life, you will get hurt. Emotional people are more likely to get hurt, whether it's emotional or social. Emotional people are more likely to give their all, and they will always be sad and lonely."

He glanced at Doma Ohira and smiled, "Doma-san think I'm a very emotional person?"

"Half and half."

"That's fine. At least from my friends' perspective, I'm taking the golden mean, which is peaceful and harmonious."

The two chatted about philosophical thinking for a long time, but could not come up with an answer to this question for a while, so they quickly focused their attention on the laptop screen, silently reciting data and text.

After a while, President Kimura pushed the door open and saw the ministers sitting in their seats. The corners of his mouth curled up slightly, and his smile was filled with nostalgia and warmth.

"Hello."

"Hello, Dean Kimura."

All the students stood up and asked.

"A summer vacation is over. Did everyone enjoy it?" Dean Kimura always chats a few words before starting the class to relax the atmosphere and put everyone at ease.

Everyone started talking one after another, and Dean Kimura responded with a few words, creating a harmonious atmosphere.

"Sakakibara, I also watched the reality show you participated in." Dean Kimura's eyes swept over Sakakibara Kaede and hummed with satisfaction, "You perfectly portrayed the image of a senior student in the Department of Economics at the University of Tokyo, making Tokyo University, and me as your teacher, proud."

"The dean is so complimentary."

Sakakibara Kaede replied quickly.

After looking around, Dean Kimura turned on his computer and sat down next to him, indicating that the group could go on stage to give their speeches now.

Sakakibara Kaede and Doma Ohira looked at each other, and under the satisfied gaze of Dean Kimura, they stood up first. Doma Ohira inserted the USB drive into the computer and retrieved the document. Sakakibara Kaede took a deep breath and began to tell the story.

"As for our summer homework this time, we are conducting research and study on the software market—"

Lang Lang's male voice echoed in the classroom. Dean Kimura picked up a pen and began to record the key points of what the two said.

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"Thanks for your hard work."

Doma Ohira walked on the gravel road and handed the water to Sakakibara Kaede, who was sitting on the lawn in a daze. The latter took it and thanked him with a grin.

“I feel like Dean Kimura has responded well, and we should be able to achieve a good result this time.”

"About the same. I'm still pretty confident."

Doma Ohira breathed a sigh of relief and sat down next to the boy. "The Programming Club is recruiting new members. After the seniors of this class left, there are only five people left in the club. We don't know if the school will cancel our club membership."

Kaede Sakakibara thought about the high-end equipment provided by the University of Tokyo, and couldn't help but sigh. He and other seniors had to work harder to recruit some new people into the company next year.

"Excuse me, is there any senior who can show us around the college? I want to apply to the University of Tokyo."

Hearing these familiar words, Sakakibara Kaede and Doma Ohira looked up and saw several high school girls standing on the lawn not far away, attracting the students' attention.

The leading high school student looked at Sakakibara Kaede's stunned face and laughed as if his prank had succeeded. "Ah, Sakakibara-senpai, it's been a long time since we last met. Although it's been a long time, it's only been two days. Did you miss me?"

"No..." The boy looked at Kasumigaoka Utaha, Furuhashi Fumino and Aoyama Nanami standing in front of the lawn wearing different school uniforms, and said in surprise, "Why did you three make an appointment to come to Tokyo University today?"

"I've already told you, it's a woman's secret." Kasumigaoka Utaha smiled very ambiguously, "We both want to apply to the University of Tokyo in the future, and we want to find a senior student we know to lead the way... Is that not okay?"

She raised the tone slightly at the end, and there was a hint of grievance in her voice, but Sakakibara knew that all this was pretended by Kasumigaoka Utaha.

"Aren't these the three high school students from Dream Apartment?" Doma Ohira smiled at Sakakibara Kaede, nodded and greeted the three girls, patted his friend on the shoulder and said, "I'll go open the door today, Sakakibara, you have to take the trouble to show them around."

Kaede Sakakibara took a deep breath. He had been planning to go to the club to use the air conditioning after finishing his lunch box, but this plan was ruined!

"Please, Sakakibara-senpai~"

Chapter 46: Red Bean Rice Trap

One thing led to another, and before Sakakibara Kaede could react, he had already lost the chance to escape.

We came to visit Tokyo University on the first day of school. Did you ask for leave from high school? Don't you have to take a test in the third year of high school? Sakakibara Kaede sighed as he looked at the three people whispering to each other.

Never mind, just treat it as a new mission for the production team. The three of them look so confident and it doesn't seem like they are faking it. At least the boy personally hopes to see his juniors using the University of Tokyo as a springboard to realize their dreams.

"Sakakibara-senpai, could you introduce the department to us?"

Hearing Fumino Furuhashi's voice, Kaede Sakakibara nodded and stood up. Realizing his own actions, he felt a little emotional.

In the past, some people had warmly entertained him and told him every detail of the trivialities of the University of Tokyo to younger generations whom they had never met before.

Now, it's his turn.

At that moment, at this moment.

"——Kasumigaoka-san should like the Department of Literature, right? 10①⑦④5Sake④⑨⑧" The boy said a few words about the department introduction and looked at Kasumigaoka Utaha, "Furuhashi-san is good at science, so the department she is considering should be similar to the one I was considering."

"What is Qingshan-san interested in?"

"Well... I'm still a little confused at the moment."

As the person who asked the question, Nanami Aoyama was unable to answer the boy's question at this time. Like Kasumigaoka Utaha, she had good academic performance in both subjects. Unlike Furuhashi-san, she was not single-minded and could only choose a department related to science.

And since Kasumigaoka Utaha likes literature, she will most likely choose the literature department.

She was left alone, not knowing what to choose.

"This is the purpose of the tour. Let's talk while we look around." Sakakibara Kaede made a gesture of invitation.

The Department of Economics was still conducting summer vacation reports at this time. Kaede Sakakibara did not go in to disturb Dean Kimura and his classmates, but just walked around outside the teaching building.

In other departments, Sakakibara Kaede and his group received a warm welcome - anyone who has a slight interest in the entertainment industry knows that there is an actor in the Department of Economics at the University of Tokyo. The seniors who watched the reality show welcomed the four people who came, and the boy came forward to negotiate, and then the three people who were interested in the department asked questions.

"Eh... I didn't expect Sakakibara-senpai to be so famous?"

"Weren't you recognized too?" Sakakibara Kaede complained when he heard it.

"But unlike Sakakibara-senpai, he received the warmest welcome~" Kasumigaoka Utaha smiled with her hands covering her mouth.

In the eyes of the three people, it was indeed like this, as if all the seniors knew Sakakibara Kaede, had a friendly conversation with him, or had watched his TV series.

I don’t know if this can be considered a good thing, but there are fans and ghost-sharing up-masters of the boy in the Department of Economics.

Sakakibara Kaede brought the three of them to the cafeteria. As a senior at the University of Tokyo, he naturally strongly recommended the popular Akamon Ramen.

Seeing that there was no seat for Dean Kimura in the huge cafeteria, Sakakibara Feng felt a little regretful. He would not be able to spar with the Emperor of Han for the third time today.

The three of them sat down at the table with trays in their hands and continued to look through the admissions information of each department. Although it was not the open day, the three of them still had the opportunity to have a brief exchange with the professor after class.

Kaede Sakakibara opened the lunch box, took a look at the sumptuous dishes inside, took a sniff with satisfaction, and then sighed.

He felt that Mrs. Higuchi's cooking skills seemed to have returned to their peak. The dishes she made were exactly the same as what they had eaten in the evening. Although the taste was still sweet, the boy liked sweet things so it was not a big deal.

"It's actually a bento. This... shouldn't be made by Sakakibara-senpai himself, right?"

Kasumigaoka Utaha poked Sakakibara-senpai's scar with a smile. He had witnessed the boy's cooking skills with his own eyes during the two months he lived under his roof with him. He could only say that apart from his skilled knife skills, the rest was hard to describe.

"It's ridiculous. Even though I didn't do this, it's the same as if I did it." Sakakibara Kaede curled his lips in disdain.

Furuhashi Fumino asked curiously, "What do you mean? Did Sakakibara-senpai hire a housekeeper to help with cooking?"

"No, I think it might be a love bento that Chizuru-senpai prepared for Sakakibara-senpai."

Kasumigaoka Utaha said something shocking, causing the pure hearts of Aoyama Nanami and Furuhashi Fumino to blush. They murmured to themselves, "Love... bento."

"That's right. The two seniors have lived in the same house for more than seventy days and nights. In order to thank Sakakibara-senpai for taking care of her, Chizuru-senpai temporarily lives in his house and prepares three meals a day for Sakakibara-senpai." Kasumigaoka Utaha said with a light blush on her face. "We are both actors and seniors. Ah, are we going to eat red bean rice tonight?"

Furuno Furuno and Nanami Aoyama have become like steamer heads, with visible smoke constantly coming out of their ears. It is obvious that they have imagined something.

The instigator, Kasumigaoka Utaha, took out her notebook and quickly recorded the bits of inspiration she gained in her daily life.

Sakakibara Kaede put the delicious ball of meat into her mouth and chewed it, "I say..."

"Sakakibara-senpai, is this true?" Furuhashi Fumino asked shyly.

"No, don't fall into the trap of Kasumigaoka junior every time." Sakakibara Kaede complained.

Kasumigaoka Utaha closed her notebook. "But I am really curious, who made this bento? Please give me some inspiration, Senior Sakakibara."

Sakakibara Feng looked speechlessly at the school girl with red eyes who was obviously daydreaming and had a bad personality, and sighed, "I tutored a senior high school student, and her mother made a bento for me to thank me."

"Hmm... What is the relationship between this senior student and Sakakibara-senpai?"

"We are friends, what's wrong?"

Sakakibara Kaede's question made Kasumigaoka Utaha smile mysteriously. She tapped her notebook with her fingers, "I'm curious, is the one who cooked for Sakakibara-senpai the mother of his friend, or his friend?"

"Who knows."

Sakakibara Feng stuffed the egg roll into his mouth. He still felt that it was his aunt who made the lunch box for him. After all, he was used to eating his aunt's dishes and could naturally taste her flavor.

The dishes cooked by a family will taste different if they use different oils, salts, sauces and vinegars. As a family eats more dishes, their tastes will gradually be affected and changed.

At least now Kaede Sakakibara can taste the flavor of the Higuchi family.

Half a year later, Higuchi Yuanxiang graduated from high school. He had to say goodbye to Aunt Higuchi in tears. He had prepared himself mentally for this.

"By the way, what club does Sakakibara-senpai join? Is there a club similar to the Actors Club in the University of Tokyo?" Nanami Aoyama interrupted and asked, patting her flushed face.

Sakakibara Kaede hummed, and his answer was more complete for the more well-behaved and considerate Aoyama Nanami.

"There is no actor club, but there is a drama club. Every holiday, the drama club holds club activities and drama performances, where we can express ourselves and interpret our lives." Sakakibara paused, then smiled, "I accepted the president's invitation when I just entered university, but I was too busy at that time and couldn't make it with work, so I politely declined."

"I am currently participating in a club called Programming Club. As the name suggests, the theme of the club is programming and code, and sometimes it also touches on design. It is a learning atmosphere that is more suitable for learning software and computers."

The boy introduced that he had endless topics to talk about when it came to the programming club, but it was obviously inappropriate to talk about such topics in front of the three women. According to Yuki Koichiro, women would only affect my coding speed, and talking about coding in front of women was like talking about cosmetics in front of men.

“Can the club also visit?”

Sakakibara Kaede pondered for a moment and hummed, "Some club activities are not open to the public, so let's try our luck."

The four of them finished their lunch, and the boy closed the bento box. The other three people, except him, ate Akamon Ramen. It was Kaede Sakakibara who treated them after a long time.

If Koichiro Yuki were here, his jaw would probably drop to the ground in surprise.

Three junior girls came to visit the college, and this was the food they reaped for their enthusiasm.

The boy nodded with self-satisfaction and led the three people to the club's teaching building.

The club activities in college are not much different from those in high school, at least there are music clubs, dance clubs, and kendo clubs that are required in every school. The three junior girls' popular appearances were warmly welcomed by some clubs that had just started school and had no plans for activities. Although Kaede Sakakibara was still the first to be recognized, the seniors who were excited and took out all their energy to entertain the junior girls with potential.

Along the way, the four people usually divided into two circles after entering the club. One group was those who greeted and talked to Kaede Sakakibara. For such classmates, Kaede Sakakibara never refused anyone and smiled before saying anything. In response to the club's invitation, he simply said that he would be busy with work in the future and might not be able to help much.

The other way is to surround the three junior school girls and persuade them in a gentle tone to choose to join their club after they successfully pass the college entrance examination and enter the University of Tokyo next year. There are many seniors with eager eyes, but the three of them obviously know how to deal with this situation. A firm refusal is more effective than simply avoiding it.

Finally, Sakakibara Kaede brought three female junior schoolmates who were holding a bunch of club brochures in their hands to the programming department. They looked thoughtful, and it was obvious that they were considering which club to join in the future.

Sakakibara Kaede smiled. Just now, the senior president of the music club asked him to join the club and become the lead singer. This was met with good-natured laughter from other club members - what a joke, the first album of Shine World will be released in a few days, and inviting the lead singer to join the club is not sure whether the senior president wants to expand the club, or... She simply sat in front of him, listening to him sing with watery eyes.

"Thanks for your hard work."

Sakakibara bought three cans of drinks from the vending machine and handed them to the three people one by one. "That's a lot of information, right? At least you can relax now. The programming department is usually not crowded, so you can take a break."

"Thank you, Sakakibara-senpai."

The boy opened the door and saw no one in the room, only a sticky note on the blackboard.

"I'm going to work, the Coke is in the refrigerator - Doma."

Sakakibara Kaede opened the refrigerator and found a whole box of iced cola. He was overwhelmed with emotions and took out a can, unscrewed the lid and poured it into his mouth in one go.

The programming department was empty as usual. Furuno Fumino, Nanami Aoyama and Utaha Kasumigaoka were sitting on the sofa in the lounge area discussing their views on different clubs. Kaede Sakakibara leaned comfortably on the chair she hadn't used for two months, and turned on her computer with a satisfied sigh of relief.

The three school girls used this place as a place to rest. After asking a few questions, Sakakibara Kaede learned that their parents would come to the school gate to pick them up and take them home, she felt temporarily relieved.

Insert the USB drive into the computer and open the familiar folder.