What does it have to do with me if they hate vests?

Unlike the enthusiastic and generous Yamada fairy who kept trying to stick to him during the dance, the class monitor was much more shy and always kept a certain distance from Shiki.

Even without touching the other person's waist, Si Ji could feel the stiffness of the girl's body, so the hands that were supposed to be around the other person's waist were just empty hugs and did not really fall on her.

Kato Megumi seemed to have no knowledge of ballroom dancing, so the dance that Shiki performed with her was very simple, consisting of just a few beats of circular folk dance.

The music this time was probably from the light music section. The tune was soft, cute, light-hearted and cheerful, but it was only a minute long and ended very quickly.

After the dance, Kato Megumi's face was red, but the feeling of shyness had been reduced a lot compared to the beginning.

She thanked Four Seasons politely and left quickly.

For a moment, Siji didn't know who was taking advantage of whom.

After that, Si Ji danced with the other girls.

There were some familiar faces among them—such as Eriri and Furukawa Nagisa—but there were mostly some unfamiliar girls. They seemed to simply think that Shiki danced very well, so they also wanted to experience the so-called folk dance.

The four seasons are welcome. After all, girls of this age have youth as the seasoning, and with a little bit of simple and elegant makeup, they won’t look ugly in the end.

However, even though Siji's physique was different from that of an ordinary person, and his physical strength and endurance were very good, after more than a dozen girls came in a row, he was finally completely drained, without even a drop of physical strength left...

So when he saw someone walking towards him, Si Ji thought for half a second and decisively chose to give way to him.

By the way, Yamada Fairy is still dancing with Oosaka Taiga. Neither of them is willing to give in, and it seems like they are just being stubborn...

Shiki first ran to the health room to see how Yukinoshita was doing, but came back empty-handed. There were many people in the health room, but Yukinoshita Yukino was no longer there.

So Si Ji could only wander around the school.

But at this time, the school security guards had also been dispatched and were also wandering around the school building, just to catch those guys who had no interest in the bonfire party and stayed just to wander around the teaching building at night (the section of the health room was an exception, because injured students and tourists could come here for treatment and a certain degree of management).

Although for Si Ji who possessed Xian Zhixian and Zavaludo, those security guards could not pose even the slightest threat to him, if he wanted, he could even trap them on the stairs and prevent them from coming down.

But Si Ji obviously would not do such a meaningless thing.

So after thinking it over again and again, he decided to go back to the playground and find something to eat at the buffet table over there - the buffet was made with ingredients that were not sold out at noon in the school cafeteria. To be honest, the taste was average, but it was completely free, so he couldn't ask for too much.

He was grateful that the system gave him a cooking skill of level 8 and did not create something like the Divine Tongue to disgust him: so now Si Ji can still eat ordinary food, but it doesn't taste as good as what he cooks, it's just like chewing wax.

At this moment, he suddenly saw what seemed to be a figure flashing past the corridor, so he followed curiously.

It didn't take long for him to discover that the other person was the sneaky Amakusa Shino.

"Look what I found~" Si Ji said suddenly, scaring the other person half to death.

"Don't stand behind someone and suddenly speak to them!"

Amakusa Shino patted her chest and complained viciously.

"There's an old proverb in the big country across the sea, 'If you don't do bad things in your life, you won't be afraid of ghosts knocking on your door at night.'" Si Ji said leisurely, "As the protagonist of the bonfire party, what are you, the student union president, doing in a place like this?"

"Of course, we are preparing for today's highlight!"

Amakusa Shino was not at all panicked, she just turned sideways to let Shiki see what was in front of her.

"Are these...fireworks?"

Si Ji looked at the boxes lined up in a row with some surprise.

They are not the large fireworks set off at the Ullambana Festival temple fair, but more like the ones set off during the Chinese New Year. However, judging from their size, these fireworks should not be cheap.

"Ah."

Amakusa Shino showed a smug smile: "Washimiya-kun~ Why did I specifically entrust the bonfire party, which is not a difficult proposal to pass, to the Service Club? Why didn't I continue to communicate with the Service Club and take over the follow-up work after the bonfire party proposal was passed? Why did I hold the bonfire party at the sports festival instead of the school festival?"

Si Ji thought for a moment and said, "I think you should start from over there, about a hundred meters away, while running and asking."

"Why?!"

Amakusa Shino was choked as she didn't expect Shiki to be so uncooperative with her.

But she quickly calmed down and moved on to the topic: "There is only one answer! Everything is for the sake of setting off fireworks!"

four seasons:"……"

"Over there! Stop that speechless expression that says 'Isn't this guy too boring?'"

four seasons:"……"

"And you are not allowed to show a sympathetic expression like 'it's so hard for everyone in the student council to play with her'!"

"But to be honest," Shiki asked, "Wouldn't it be better to do this at the school festival?"

"To set off fireworks in school, you need to get a permit from the fire department, which is very troublesome."

Amakusa Shino replied as a matter of course: "And I did some research, and the school festivals in previous years were almost always in a state of 'lack of funds', so there is no way they can afford fireworks."

After she said that, Si Ji finally understood that this guy had deliberately gone to the Service Department to get cheap wood, which also saved a lot of manpower. He was probably trying to squeeze out that little bit of money to buy fireworks.

While he was thinking, the excited Student Council President had already lit up the fireworks: "I bought fireworks with words on them. If you arrange them in alphabetical order, you can form a sentence to cheer up the students of Fengzhizaki!"

"What?" Si Ji asked curiously.

"Abreast of the times." The girl said happily, "This is one of the mottos of Fengzhizaki! Even if we are held accountable later, we can use righteousness to get away with it!"

Shiki looked up at the fireworks that were lighting up the sky one by one, and then said, "I don't know if it's my illusion... Did you miss an A?"

Amakusa Shino’s expression froze: “…Huh?”

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"breast of the times?"

In the distance, Yukinoshita Yukino on the playground was looking at the words formed by the fireworks in the sky, her head full of black lines.

Chapter 356: The Wild Natsume Pillow Flow Appears

Shirakawa Kyo sighed at his workstation.

It has been some time since she joined the Maple Leaf Society's Snow Group and became a professional editor, but unfortunately, up to now, she has not been able to find an author to be responsible for.

Authors who have already entered the industry have their own editors. Even if she diligently reads the submissions from new authors from all over the world every day, she hardly gets any results. Many submitters can't even write coherent sentences. Not to mention being published, even as a reading material, it's not up to standard...

What’s even worse is that people often come to the interview with their own manuscripts.

Compared with those mentioned above, this type of author is naturally better, but there are still many problems in their writing. What's worse is that such people are generally quite confident in their own creations. Once Shirakawa Jing makes some suggestions from an editor's perspective, the other party will either directly retort angrily, or pretend to have listened to her words but actually don't care at all, and it's almost written on their faces that they are lip service.

Even if Shirakawa Kyo warned them in a serious manner, the other party would only think that she could not understand them and was just a third-rate editor who wanted to manipulate a fourth-rate novel.

Shirakawa Kyo was overwhelmed by all the similar talk about love, bond and so on, so he finally gave up and continued to look through the submissions honestly.

"Don't you have a truly great thing in your hands?" Seeing the anxious look on the girl's face, her senior couldn't help but say in a tone that was either joking or persuasive: "Holding on to the other party is more useful than discovering thirty or fifty new authors."

"Senior, you are right, but I haven't been able to contact Natsume-sensei for a whole month..."

Shirakawa Kyo sighed.

She herself is a fan of Natsume Makurei's books and knows all of his works by heart. Of course, she wants to see his new work or sequel, but the problem is that Natsume Makurei has always been a mystic. If he doesn't take the initiative to contact her, it is difficult for her to contact him. Most of the time, he won't answer the phone calls, and if he occasionally answers, he will just give a perfunctory reply like "I'm collecting materials".

Listening to the crashing sound in the background, the girl couldn't help but want to yell, "Liar, you are obviously playing mahjong!", but considering that a giant like Natsume Makuryu is far from being something a poor, weak and helpless new editor like her can mess with, in the end she could only be angry but not say anything.

Besides, playing mahjong is always safer than actually going to the snowy mountains or the seaside to collect materials, right?

"It's only been a month. It's normal. Before you came, we hadn't been able to contact him for at most half a year. If he hadn't attended one or two seminars or talk show variety shows every month to make some outrageous remarks, we would have thought he was missing."

The senior said cheerfully.

Shirakawa Kyo's delicate face twitched.

No wonder these guys wanted to hand over such a big thing as Natsume Makura to a newbie like her. It turns out that besides being easily scolded by them, she is also so troublesome...

By the way, it seems that it is also difficult to contact the comic author Fuyuo Kishihisa who was recommended by Natsume Makuryu to join the Lotus Group. However, his assistant said that the new comic is almost finished and all we need to do is wait for Fuyuo Kishihisa to give the final confirmation. He seems a little more reliable than Natsume Makuryu.

Just as the girl reluctantly picked up the manuscript she received today and planned to continue looking for any good candidates worth cultivating, her cell phone suddenly rang.

"Hey, Shirakawa, is this the ringtone of your cell phone?" the senior asked curiously.

"I have set different ringtones for different contacts..."

Shirakawa Kyo said with some guilt.

For example, the ringtone she set for this senior who always disturbed her was the buzzing sound of flies...

But the girl soon cheered up.

She naturally still remembered which contact the ringtone belonged to, so she quickly picked up the phone.

"Hello, is this Mr. Natsume?"

Without paying attention to the shocked expression of the senior next to him, "What? This guy actually contacted the publishing house? Does the sun rise from the west today?", Shirakawa Kyo asked in a low voice.

【See you at the old place.】

The person on the other end said something nonsensical and then hung up the phone.

Shirakawa Kyo was a little helpless, but she quickly packed up her things, asked her senior to cover for her, and then hurriedly left the publishing house.

She had only met Natsume Makuryu once, so when he mentioned the old place, the only thing she could think of was that family restaurant.

Not long after, she arrived at the restaurant where she met Natsume Makuryu last time, and then she saw the young man with flaming red hair and arrogant expression after a long time.

The other party seemed very interested in the new Kung Fu tea launched by the family restaurant and was studying the petals inside.

"Sorry to keep you waiting."

Although he had rushed over as fast as he could, the dusty Shirakawa Kyo still apologized to the other party first.

"12 minutes and 43 seconds. Considering the distance the Maple Leaf Club has traveled to here, that's pretty fast."

Natsume Zhenliu glanced at her leisurely and said.

Did he even remember the seconds? If he really delayed a little longer before coming over, he would probably be scolded by the other party.

Shirakawa Kyo felt relieved in his heart.

"Um, what's up with you today, Mr. Natsume?"

"Don't be so nervous. It's not a bad thing to ask you to come here today."

Natsume Makuryu took out a stack of manuscript paper from the mountaineering bag beside him and threw it on the table, then continued to study the petals in the transparent teapot, as if the dry flower bud that was slowly opening as it absorbed water was more attractive than the beauty in front of him.

Shirakawa Kyo was stunned for a moment, then nervously picked up the stack of manuscript paper.

The first thing she saw was the title of the book written on the title page.

The Adventures of a Little Wizard: Hajime and the Little Prince

The girl's eyes lit up.

Although the "Adventures of a Young Wizard" series is not Natsume Makuru's famous work, it is the best-selling and most famous one. It can even be said that in the past ten years, no best-selling book in the world can surpass the fame of this series. Even if there are one or two books that can surpass "Adventures of a Young Wizard" in a short period of time, as long as the time is extended to three months, the other will eventually disappear like a meteor, and only "Adventures of a Young Wizard" will still be like a morning star, still shining at the top of the list.

According to a foreign critic, as long as "The Adventures of a Young Wizard" does not have a bad ending, even if there is no subsequent innovation, as long as it can be written step by step according to the previous quality, in the next decade, it will be the memory of childhood all over the world, and in the next hundred years, it will be the new "Grimm and Andersen's Fairy Tales" for children.

Chapter 357 Natsume Award

Shirakawa Kyo is also a fan of "The Adventures of a Young Wizard". After all, this fairy tale for adults is not just talk. Every time you re-read it, you can feel some new insights from it. The portrayal of each character is also meticulous. It is not like doing reading comprehension and making conversation. But if you really look carefully, you can see a lot of overlooked details, and these details become more and more, and you can make sense of it.

Obviously, the story is just about an ordinary group of upright protagonists defeating the evil villain's plot, but the world created by the wild imagination is extremely fascinating. The seemingly fairy-tale-like background that cannot be taken seriously is actually full of various rigorous and detailed settings, making people feel that the "other side" of the world where only wizards exist really exists.

"The owl that brought my admission letter must have gotten lost and hasn't found me yet" has become a popular phrase used by many witches and wizards to express their longing for that world and their disappointment with reality. It was once quite popular on the Internet.

The girl, with an almost pilgrimage-like mood, tried to suppress her trembling hands and carefully opened the manuscript paper.

Sure enough, the fantastic and magnificent text seemed to be able to bring people into a psychedelic world. The gorgeous and incredible atmosphere was overwhelming. In just a moment, she was immersed in the story.

The protagonist is kind and upright but has the same worries and little thoughts as ordinary people. People can't help but place their own perspectives on him, and observe through his eyes the fantasy world that Muggles can't see at all, a world that is mysterious but full of infinite charm.

Even though she had only read less than one-tenth of the book, the girl was already unable to stop reading. The countless text garbage that had accumulated in her mind over the past few days disappeared under the cleansing of the words in "The Adventures of a Little Wizard" like a clear spring, allowing her to regain the joy and ease of reading, as if she had found her original intention of becoming an editor.

No, if I keep watching, I won't be able to stop...

The girl tried hard to resist the temptation in her heart to "read just a little more, just one more page, no, just one more line, just one line!" and tried to move her eyes away from the manuscript paper.

It was only then that she noticed that Natsume Makuryu had shifted his gaze from the flower buds in the transparent teapot to her at some point.

"Not bad," he nodded in approval, "You are the most qualified among this group."

"The best...what?" Shirakawa Kyo was a little confused.

"I have met many editors, including many chief editors, but you are the first one who can divert his attention from my manuscript so quickly."

Natsume Makuryu said happily: "And it's not that you don't like reading, but you managed to do it with self-control, which is very good."

"This, this is it..."