I am a teacher at a girls' school in Tokyo

Summer vacation is summer vacation after all, and not all students have time to come to school.

Extracurricular tutoring, or other activities, or something like that.

Therefore, during the summer vacation, the practice of the Moritani Wind Ensemble is generally free and loose. From Monday to Friday, they only need to attend three days, and they can ask for leave directly if they have something to do.

Moreover, the practice method tends to be voice practice and individual practice rather than group ensemble practice, and the practice time is not completely fixed.

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Those who want to practice can practice from 8 am to 5 pm. If you have something to do, it's okay to come later or leave earlier. This is summer vacation.

However, this is the students' request. As the instructor of the wind orchestra, Tetsufumi Hirakawa cannot be so free.

He is on duty every Tuesday and Thursday, arriving at 8 am and leaving at 5 pm.

As for Ogasa Suzukiko, she works every Wednesday and Friday.

On Mondays, two people arrive together, and students are encouraged to arrive as much as possible. This is the ensemble practice time once a week.

This is a necessary investment of time for the national competition.

So, on Thursday, July 7, when Tetsufumi Hirakawa met Shinohara Shiori, it was in the morning, shortly after the sun appeared on the horizon.

The morning breeze and the light shining through the leaves, the two met under the shade of the tree.

"Long time no see, Mr. Hirakawa."

The girl holding the golden trumpet spoke with her usual clear voice.

"Well, good morning."

As they walked through the school gate, the girl naturally followed him.

Hirakawa Tetsufumi didn't react much. He just glanced at her right foot and asked, "How's Shinohara's foot? You tried to be brave during the competition and got injured again, didn't you?"

"It's fine now." Shinohara Shiori walked briskly, and indeed she didn't look injured. "Plus I missed Mr. Hirakawa, so I came to school early."

Hirakawa Tetsufumi ignored the second half of the sentence and said, "It's good that there is no problem."

"Thank you Mr. Pingchuan for your concern."

"It should."

"So, has Mr. Hirakawa missed Shiori these days?"

"If you're just thinking of Shinohara-san as a person, then yes. If you're talking about missing him emotionally, then no."

"Is that so? I do miss Mr. Hirakawa—emotionally."

"Okay." Hirakawa Zhewen coped calmly, and his tone could only be described as "coping".

However, Shinohara Shiori didn't care and continued talking.

"Moreover, Shiori has been thinking about how to get Mr. Hirakawa to agree to this problem in the future."

"Hmm. Have you thought of that?"

"Hmm..." Shinohara Shiori pondered, then nodded, "I thought of it."

"How about it?"

"secret."

"Ok."

"I believe that day will come. After all, Mr. Hirakawa has already sensed Shiori's love for you, right?"

"..."

The corridor of the campus was so empty that only the wind was echoing, and the girl beside me was showing her feelings wantonly.

In the past, Tetsufumi Hirakawa should have firmly denied such a problem, saying, "Absolutely not", such words to express his position.

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Shinohara Shiori was prepared for such a rejection. She opened her mouth, and then, beside her, Tetsufumi Hirakawa nodded, which was unusual for her.

"Of course, I've felt it."

“……” Shinohara Shiori was stunned for a moment.

"What's wrong?"

"...No." Shinohara Shiori paused and shook her head, "I just didn't expect Mr. Hirakawa to admit it."

"There's nothing wrong with admitting it." Hirakawa Tetsufumi kept his tone calm.

The sky is high and the wind is light with few clouds. In the azure blue, only the sun is shining brightly.

There must be a reason for something that is out of character.

Shinohara Shiori looked at Hirakawa Tetsufumi's profile with a little suspicion, and after thinking for a moment, she asked, "Teacher Hirakawa, do you have something to say to me?"

Although it was a rhetorical question, judging from his expression, he was certain. The clever young lady guessed the truth immediately.

Hirakawa Tetsufumi looked at Shinohara Shiori's reaction, and then -

"Yes, I do have something to say to Shinohara-san." He nodded steadily.

"…If I'm not mistaken, it should be something bad."

"It might be true that those words were not good for Mr. Shinohara." Tetsufumi Hirakawa did not deny it.

"..."

There was a moment of silence.

The girl's pace, which was originally a little excited because of the reunion after a long time, gradually slowed down.

The aura of "having something to say" that Tetsufumi Hirakawa carries becomes more and more obvious.

Finally, he spoke.

"Shinohara-san, these past few days, it seems like you've been thinking about how to get me to agree. In fact, I've also been thinking about a question."

"..."

Tetsufumi Hirakawa's eyes were focused forward.

"I was thinking, how should I respond to Shinohara-san's love for me? After much thought, I finally came up with some ideas for this question that has been lingering in my mind since I heard Shinohara-san's confession."

"However, before I tell you the answer to this question, please allow me to tell you a little story, Mr. Shinohara."

"..."

As Hirakawa Tetsufumi spoke in a leisurely tone, the two of them slowed down their pace, so slowly that it became a little heavy.

Shinohara Shiori pursed her lips, and Hirakawa Tetsufumi fell into some memories.

After walking several steps at this slow pace, he came to his senses and apologized.

"Sorry, this memory is a bit old. Give me some time."

“……”Shinohara Shiori did not reply.

The memory seems to be really old, very old. The teacher next to me, although his face is very young, seems to have become an old man who is struggling to dig out memories.

He kept recalling the scene until a slight smile of reminiscence appeared at the corner of his mouth.

"All right."

Hirakawa Tetsufumi said this, indicating that he had finished recollecting. Then, he used a question as the opening statement of this story:

"Shinohara-san, do you know why a lazy person like me would become a teacher? A teacher who should represent the word 'hardworking' in the eyes of most people?"

The memories from the previous life that had been buried deep in my mind resurfaced.

Tetsufumi Hirakawa spoke in his characteristic calm tone, telling of a memory that could not be any longer old.

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"A long time ago..."

"That doesn't seem quite right. I should say that when the teacher was still a junior high school student."

"Does Shinohara know what I was like back then?"

"I can ask this. Obviously, you should be able to guess that I was not a good student at that time."

"Well, that's true."

Tetsufumi Hirakawa looked forward, and in his mind, an old movie from about thirty years ago was playing.

The picture was broken, the sound was no longer clear, and the faces were all blurry.

"Even if I look at it from my perspective now, I was definitely a student with a serious problem back then... I could even say I was a delinquent."

"The character is inherently lazy, I hate studying, and I feel that learning is anti-human."

"I like playing games, martial arts, and all kinds of interesting things. I don't like reading textbooks anyway. In order to fit in with the so-called clique, I even skipped classes, went to the game hall, fought, and so on... I've experienced all of that."

"I was such a terrible person at that time. I couldn't become a teacher, let alone educate people. It would be good if I didn't harm society when I grew up."

Tetsufumi Hirakawa laughed at himself, then continued.

"Actually, this statement is wrong. After all, at that time, I had no idea about growing up or the future, and I had no idea what to do. I was in a daze, just getting by, and that was pretty much the state I was in."

"Then, in this state, the teachers in my class basically gave up on me - it was normal. Even now, I think it was normal for these teachers to give up on me."

"It wasn't until the third year of junior high school that we had a new homeroom teacher for some reason. The teacher was very young and must have just started working. Indeed, she said we were the second batch of students she had taught."

Hirakawa Tetsuwen tried hard to recall the young teacher's face, but the memory after a lifetime was already broken and blurred. The only thing he could remember clearly in his mind was the memory of this lifetime.

But fortunately, Hirakawa Tetsufumi still remembers what the teacher said.

He continued to tell the story.

"Not long after she took office, she talked to all of us students with the worst grades one by one, asking us why we were like that, what we were thinking, and so on."

"I told her that studying is boring and games are more interesting."

"In fact, the answers given by the last few of us are similar. I don't know why -"

When Tetsufumi Hirakawa thinks back to this incident now, there is still confusion in his eyes.

"Among several people, she only told me that she thought I could still be saved."

"I asked her why, and she said that she looked around and found that only my name was written in the textbook. No one else had it."

"Well... I have reason to believe that she just found a random excuse to trick me. After all, among the dozen textbooks, my name is actually only written in one book."

"The reason is that after writing down the first name, I got lazy and tired, so I went to play games."

"It just so happened that the only textbook was a Chinese textbook, and she was a Chinese teacher."

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"Maybe it's because of this? Because of this coincidence. Anyway, she just inexplicably firmly believes that I can still be saved."

"I couldn't understand her. To this day, I still don't know how she could say that with such certainty."

"But after I got home that day, I still found a pen and wrote my name on all the remaining books—"

When he got to this point, Hirakawa Tetsufumi started laughing, a little heartlessly. After he calmed down, he changed the subject:

"——After writing my name, I immediately went to play games and didn't do my homework that night, huh."

"The next day at school, she came to the class and flipped through my book again. Then she said those words to me again. She said I could still be saved."

"I told her that last night, after I wrote my name, I went to play games and didn't do my homework. She said it was okay and she believed she wouldn't make a mistake."

"I still don't know where the trust comes from."

Tetsufumi Hirakawa's tone was full of emotion, but after a while he continued speaking.

"To be honest, I was a bit chuunibyou back then. Um... you know chuunibyou, right? It's good to know."

"So a few days later, I was playing a game about the Three Kingdoms. As I was playing, I watched Romance of the Three Kingdoms because I was interested. After I finished watching it, I suddenly thought of this incident."

"So I ran to her and told her that a man will die for his friend - the brain circuits of the chuunibyou are somewhat magical. There is no need to worry about why I did this."

"She didn't dwell on it. She just asked me if I had read the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, because kids of this age should be very interested in it. I said yes. She asked me if I had read the book or something, and I replied that I had just finished reading the book over the weekend."