I live my life in Tokyo

Although she knew something about the commercial being filmed on campus, she didn't care too much.

After much hesitation, I finally chose the title of "senior" which was a suitable distance from me.

"Yuuki-senpai, I think it's a bit too much for me to interfere when you and your sister are having a good time together?" Sakakibara crossed her fingers and raised them to her chin, and spoke carefully, "I came here just to visit my colleagues in the office, and I have no intention of attending the school festival."

"I don't want you to think so, I want me to think so." Yuki Koichiro frowned and said, "Don't you think you have too much work and too little time to relax?"

The man recalled the comfort of the sofa in the office and the almost endless snacks, and coughed lightly, "It's okay... It's okay."

"Why don't we go shopping together? Exam week is coming up soon. Both you and I will be busy on campus. The next time we meet may have to wait until the unified assessment is over."

"It depends on whether you accompany me to drink alone in the pub or have a celebration party." The man smiled and picked up the last piece of cake with a fork and put it in his mouth.

All activities in the school festival cost money - that's for sure. After paying for the ingredients, the venue, and a series of other expenses, the money paid by the tourists can be recouped.

Although a large number of students in private academies don't care about spending at all, taking Yuuki Asuna's class as an example, the cost of custom-made butler uniforms and maid uniforms will definitely not be earned back.

The man took the college introduction handed out by the students, which listed the activities held by different classes, including the well-known haunted house, restaurant, magic show, as well as the rare stage show, debate question and so on.

Leaning against the window, the choir was drinking water to moisten their lips in the sunshine. As soon as a song ended, they were greeted with warm applause from the parents.

"Brother, Sakakibara-senpai, you didn't have to wait too long, did you?"

Yuuki Asuna walked out from the kitchen with small steps. She was wearing the black school uniform and short skirt of the private Shuchiin Academy. The skirt swayed with her movements, and her sleek indoor shoes made crisp notes. Her whole body exuded the beauty that a high school girl should have, youthfulness, innocence, and gentleness.

"No, Asuna, wherever you want to go, we will accompany you." Koichiro Yuuki, who had just paid the bill, waved his hand with great generosity.

"Where's Sakakibara-senpai? My brother didn't threaten you, did he?"

Yuuki Asuna looked sideways at the boy who had a lazy and relaxed look on his face.

"Hey!"

"Don't worry about me, Yuuki-chan." Sakakibara Kaede smiled and shook her hand. "Walking with young people makes me feel a lot younger. I can't wait to experience the rumored school festival."

"Eh? Senior Sakakibara, haven't you participated in a school festival before?" Yuuki Asuna was a little surprised.

"Well, there are all kinds of things."

Depressed, lacking care, being ignored, invisible, the boy who attempted suicide was hiding in a rental house playing Candy Crush Saga alone during the school festival.

Hearing the boy's half-bitter explanation, Yuuki Asuna wisely did not continue to ask. She stepped back a few steps and came to Yuuki Koichiro's side. Smiling, she spread out her right arm and made a gesture of invitation to the boy, "Then I will lead the way. Relax and enjoy the school festival, Sakakibara-senpai!"

Hearing the energetic and gentle voice, the boy unexpectedly did not continue with a stand-up comedy or say some cynical words, but nodded to express his gratitude.

After leaving the door of the busiest coffee shop, the two men walked side by side behind Yuuki Asuna. Watching her skillfully greet her classmates in the aisle, Yuuki Koichiro's face was filled with satisfaction, with "Look, this is the Ichimodo I'm proud of." written all over his face.

The life of high school students is full of troubles and entanglements, but also full of friendship and smiles. High school life is never the same again and is completely different from college classmates.

My roommates and classmates in college come from all corners of the world. Everyone has different ideas and opinions, and their worldviews and views on money are completely different. At least for boys, the only common topic is probably games.

High school friends are pure. We sat in the same classroom for three years, accompanied each other day and night, and had the same goal in mind, which was to get higher scores in the college entrance examination.

In the drunken memories, what the boy remembered was not the laughter of his college roommates playing games, but the classmates who worked hard in the study room on every sunny day and rainy night.

Those lovely people...

"Come in." Yuuki Asuna's clear bird song pulled the boy out of his memories. Her voice became a little softer. "This is the art exhibition of the school's art department. My friend is here. Let me go say hello first."

"Ah."

Koichiro Yuki watched his sister chatting cordially with a girl, but his expression became serious when he turned around.

"Junior, do you understand art?"

"I know nothing about pure art." Sakakibara Kaede composed her words. "Of course, I don't know anything about seeing a famous painting and only exclaiming "awesome" or something like that. I can still recognize the style of painting and evaluate the skills of a painter, but I am just a person of limited knowledge. I can't say anything about the truly professional stuff."

"Haha, in my eyes, only numbers and codes are art." Koichiro Yuki snorted coldly.

Pushing his non-existent glasses, Yuki Koichiro took the lead and the two of them quickly walked into the classroom.

There are easels on both sides, and different colors are used on the drawing boards to outline the painter's mood, so you can tell at a glance whether the painter is attentive or not.

"Oh, there's a little foundation."

Sakakibara Kaede sighed, moved closer to a still life oil painting, squinted his eyes and watched the textured paint leave passionate traces on the drawing board.

In addition to oil painting, there are also watercolor, colored pencil, sketch and other paintings.

The boy had little exposure to art, and had only seen a few exhibitions. He did not study this field in his previous life. What he said before was not self-deprecation. From an outsider's perspective, there was nothing wrong with these works.

"This painting style is that of Paul Cézanne. It's a really good imitation."

"Senior, you are right... How did you know that?" The girl who was talking to Yuuki Asuna at first became curious and asked with a smile. The boy glanced at her and saw that the conversation between the two had ended, so he nodded.

"Don't laugh at me if what I said is inaccurate, after all, I didn't study this major." Sakakibara Feng first gave the little fan a shot of vaccination, and then explained, "The most notable feature of the still life style of Paul Cézanne, an Impressionist, is that he likes to use color blocks to divide objects into geometric shapes of different shapes, which can shape the originally scattered still life objects into a whole."

Seeing that Yuuki Koichiro was also listening, the boy spoke in a more general way, "It's similar to the combinatorial formula in mathematics. The originally scattered numbers and symbols have only one meaning when listed separately, but they can be arranged and combined, and after being listed as a formula, they have a whole new meaning."

"Hey, senior, you really know a lot!" The junior girl from the art department had stars in her eyes.

The boy said modestly, "I'm just an ordinary passerby."

Chapter 46: Problem Youth

The boy put his hands in his shirt pockets, paused in front of each painting, and looked particularly relaxed.

In the Book of Songs, Aristotle believed that watching a tragedy being performed on stage had a purifying effect. Tragedy could awaken the audience's sympathy and fear, and these emotions would be released at the end of the play, making the audience feel "purified" and their hearts comforted.

Freud believed that, independent of behavior, participation in art was a way of coping with unconscious instinctual desires that people could not consciously face or satisfy. He applied this theory to Leonardo da Vinci, who was an illegitimate child who spent his early life with his mother, but later lived with his father and stepmother. Freud believed that Leonardo must have had a strong Oedipal complex for his mother. This was met in his paintings, such as The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne, in which a child Jesus is cared for by two young women, which, in Freud's view, was an unconscious representation of his mother and stepmother.

The forbidden feelings towards the mother are released in the painting and the sublime is comforted.

Paintings can relax people. As the saying goes, in the game The Sims, hanging paintings in the room can improve the mood index of the little people.

After looking at a round of paintings, Koichiro Yuki saw his sister appreciating them accompanied by members of the art club, and the boy took a short break with a relaxed brow, so he stepped forward.

"How does it feel?"

"I'm a bit of a pro. Regardless of my painting skills, the enthusiasm that comes over me makes me hesitate." The boy sighed, "I haven't felt this way for a long time."

"I think you don't have enough time to relax." Yuki Koichiro said bluntly, "When I say relax, I don't mean staying at home watching TV or playing games - that's just a break at best. You should go out more often, whether it's playing video games in a video game mall or visiting an exhibition at a museum. While working hard, you also need to enjoy life."

"Sometimes I really feel like you're an old man, squinting your eyes while drinking wolfberry tea, without any youthful energy." Yuki Koichiro patted the boy's shoulder and advised, "I understand that the nature of your work is slightly different from what I know. Going out for a walk is also a way to relieve stress. Don't suffocate yourself."

There is no real feeling of being alive.

The boy raised his head, he was still burning with the desire to leave his mark in this world - now it seems that tens of thousands of fans remember that he had been here, and Kitahara Hiroshi also appears in the TV series.

Work is moving forward step by step, but the essence of life is missing.

The boy was silent for a while, then smiled, "Enjoying life can also increase experience. Senior, you are still better."

"Of course, everyone who knows about this period in the third year of high school understands that I was almost drained of my energy during that period."

While the two were chatting and laughing, Yuuki Asuna said goodbye to her friends in the art club and waved to the two of them.

"My friend has been praising Sakakibara-senpai and asking me indirectly what grade Sakakibara-senpai is in." Yuuki Asuna smiled with her hands covering her mouth, "Sakakibara-senpai's school uniform fits him very well."

“Not only does it fit well, but it’s also very warm,” the boy added.

The next classroom was a haunted house. A student dressed as a zombie held out two tickets and extended them to Yuuki Asuna, "Do you two lovers want to go in and experience the fear of the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons?"

"Eh? A couple?" The chestnut-haired girl was slightly stunned.

"Ah, aren't you two?"

The zombie pointed with his dry finger at the black-haired, blue-eyed boy standing next to the girl. The boy was startled, then quickly smiled and shook his head to explain, "Junior, you misunderstood. This is my senior's sister, not his girlfriend."

But even though the tone was so quick, he still felt a chill on his back. Yuki Koichiro's breathing, like the roar of a train, was getting closer and closer, and now it had reached the back of his neck.

The brother who has a sister complex stepped forward and grabbed the two tickets. He squinted at Sakakibara Kaede with a hint of coldness at the corner of his mouth.

"Junior, why don't you and I go in and try our luck in this dangerous place?"

"If the senior has such a heart, the junior will definitely risk his life to accompany him."

The two men each took two steps back and bowed deeply. Yuki Koichiro spread out his battle robe and walked into the dark classroom alone.

Forget it, if I don’t go to hell, who will? The boy is not very interested in haunted houses. Besides, seeing the fearful look on Yuuki Asuna’s face, he would never be so despicable as to push her into the Hall of Demons.

That's it!

As for the two men who were still frightened and came out of the back door panting, that is a story for later.

Walking along the corridor, the three of them took two skewers of octopus balls in their hands at some point, and ate while browsing the decoration inside the classroom. After visiting the magic exhibition, it was five o'clock in the afternoon.

As a courtesy, Yuuki Koichiro treated the boy to a meal at the coffee shop, and now the boy pays for the crepes.

He was holding a small bag in his hand, which contained a crystal ball that he bought after watching Yuuki Asuna read tarot cards. Well, girls all like these shiny things.

"Hmm? What flavor would you like to eat, Yuuki-san?"

The boy looked back and saw that Yuuki Koichiro who was waiting there was nowhere to be seen. "Where is the senior?"

"Brother has a stomachache." Yuuki Asuna cleared her throat and looked at the menu, "I want banana flavored crepes."

Seeing the man taking out copper coins, Yuuki Asuna took out her wallet and said, "Sakakibara-senpai, how about I pay for it?"

"How can this be so embarrassing." Sakakibara Kaede stopped the girl's actions, "You are my junior, and you are also the guide of our school festival. It is neither reasonable nor moral for you to pay for it."

"Besides, Yuuki-senpai has taken a lot of care of me. You are her sister, so you are also half a sister to me."

After hearing this, the girl did not continue to force it. She put her hands behind her back and leaned forward, looking like a naughty and cute girl next door.

The boy bought four crepes and asked for one to be taken away.

Yuuki Asuna found a seat in the courtyard, and the boy handed her the crepe and sat down next to her - there was an empty seat in between for the take-out box.

He has become adept at controlling any social distance. He and senior Sakurajima Mai would sit one seat apart on the bench, and the same was true for the senior student and sister he had just met today.

"Sakakibara-senpai, do you want to take this food home?" The girl took a bite and some white and yellow sauce stained the corner of her mouth. She wiped it off with her handkerchief embarrassedly and took the initiative to start a conversation.

"This is for my colleague who works at the academy today." The boy took a bite of the strawberry-flavored crepe, his mouth filled with a sweet and sour taste. "She has a filming mission today. An actor's work is very brain-intensive. Eating something sweet can relax the brain and body. I'll bring it to her during the intermission of the crew, and ask about the progress of the filming indirectly."

Yuuki Asuna hummed in a confused manner, and she glanced at Sakakibara Kaede. This was also the time she had observed the leading actor of the commercial that was widely talked about in school. She had also heard her classmates put the two male leading actors together many times. They kept saying that they saw the two of them arm in arm, exchanging glances, and that they were indeed a perfect match.

"Senior, is the filming difficult?"

This is really a difficult question to answer. The boy organized his words and said, "I think it is difficult. Actors need to pay attention to and control the roles they play and substitute themselves into at all times when acting. After filming, they need to analyze the character's personality and the plot flow."

"My situation is a bit special. I can act out things that I've experienced very well, but it's difficult to imitate things that I haven't experienced." Sakakibara didn't deliberately brag about himself. He gave an example, "For example, in the plot of this commercial, I need to confess to the female lead, but I have no experience in confession. I was still very distressed about that scene."

His eyes were full of complex emotions, changing again and again, sometimes gentle, sometimes passionate. Finally, his face regained its calmness, and the lazy look returned to his face again.

He could never grasp it and couldn't find the feeling of confession.

After watching many TV series and trying different forms of confession scenes in movies, the boy found it difficult to imitate. He always felt like something was missing.

After thinking for a while, he was interrupted by the laughter of children. Sakakibara Feng suddenly came back to his senses and smiled apologetically to Yuuki Asuna, "I was immersed in work just now and was a little distracted."

"It's okay. Sometimes my brother will be like this too." Yuuki Asuna shook her head slightly, a smile appeared on her fair face, "Sometimes, it's good for two people to sit together and say nothing or do nothing. In fact, I was in a daze just now."

"What a mature idea," the boy praised.

"The most comfortable relationship between people is not talking all the time." Sakakibara Kaede smiled, "but being able to not talk all the time, or talking at any time."

The boy said that he saw Yuuki Koichiro limping out of the toilet and waved to him. Seeing Sakakibara Kaede and his sister sitting together and talking happily, Yuuki Koichiro gradually became suspicious.

However, he had just come out of the toilet and was in a very holy mood, so he didn't care about such things. Besides, he had just peeked in the shadows for a few seconds and saw that the two of them were in a harmonious atmosphere. The boy didn't take the opportunity to use his handsome face and dirty talk to attack them. Now he didn't say much and watched Sakakibara Kaede leave quickly with the box of crepes.

Koichiro Yuki coughed lightly, sat where the boy had just sat, took the crepe from his sister, and started eating.

"Asuna, where are we going to play later?"

"Hmm... I want to buy some magazines published by the literature club."

The conversation between the brother and sister gradually blends into the bustling square.

The school festival is something that boys only see in the second dimension. Whether in anime or Galgame, the school festival is a small climax of the plot, and it is also a breakthrough in the relationship between boys and girls. Boys invite girls to visit the school festival, their hearts beat faster when they walk through the haunted house, and they laugh all the way while watching the performances, holding hands tightly.

The boy pessimistically and realistically identified this situation as the suspension bridge effect. The correctness of the suspension bridge effect has been proved many times in experiments. When encountering dangerous situations, people will find it difficult to determine which factor causes their accelerated heartbeat. This is a misunderstanding of emotions. Dangerous or stimulating situations can promote mutual feelings.

Stepping into the teaching building on the west side, it was noticeably quieter. There was not even a sound of people, and the crew members were not there either. They took advantage of the school festival to film the leading actors in the main teaching building.

After waiting for dozens of minutes on the sofa in the empty classroom that was divided into a lounge, the boy heard sporadic footsteps coming from the stairs.

"Higuchi-san, thank you for your hard work."

When he arrived at the end of the line, the boy found Higuchi Madoka, who was walking at the end, and handed the bag to her.

"Eh? Thank you..."

Higuchi Yuanxiang, who was chatting on Line, was stunned. Her good upbringing made her thank him first before accepting the gift. "Why is Sakakibara-san here?"