I am a teacher at a girls' school in Tokyo

"Ah."

She nodded.

"..."

"Then, Mr. Shinohara, did anything happen when you came into contact with Mr. Amemiya yesterday?" asked Tetsufumi Hirakawa again.

"No."

I got the same negative answer as Amamiya Yoru...so it must be true that there is nothing left.

So why?

Hirakawa Tetsufumi looked away from the girl's face with a confused look on his face.

If nothing really happened, why did Amemiya Yo feel that Shinohara Shiori had... "murderous intentions"?

I lowered my head and thought in the sound of rain. But after thinking for a long time, I didn't come up with any new and useful answers.

Then, based on the speculation about Amamiya Yoru just now... we can only attribute the cause to the girl's Chuunibyou, right? Because of the Chuunibyou fantasy, she imagined the aura of a young lady as "murderous intent" or something.

I can't think of any other credible explanation except this one.

"Teacher Hirakawa, have you thought of anything?"

After he lowered his head and thought for a long time, Shinohara Shiori, who had been looking at him from the opposite side, suddenly called him.

Tetsufumi Hirakawa raised his head.

"Ah, no, it's nothing."

Shaking his head, he thought there was no need to dwell on this issue any further.

It was just a fantasy of Chuunibyou, that's probably it. Although it's not a final conclusion, it seems that there are no clues to continue the investigation.

So, let's end this question here.

However, this answer seems to have some other problems -

In Amemiya Ye's eyes, the young lady Shinohara Shiori has the so-called "murderous intention", so the friendship plan between the two girls is completely impossible, right?

Thinking of this, Tetsufumi Hirakawa looked at Shinohara Shiori in front of him with a little embarrassment.

It's a bit difficult to ask him to cancel the plan. After all, he was the one who asked Shinohara Shiori to do it in the first place, and now he is asking to cancel it...

But after all, she is a smart young lady. Before he could speak, Shinohara Shiori just looked at the expression on his face and immediately knew what he wanted to say.

The corners of the girl's mouth curled up slightly, as if she had made an important decision.

She smiled and spoke.

"Teacher Hirakawa, are you going to tell me about your plan to become friends with Amamiya-san?"

"..."

Hirakawa Tetsufumi was silent for a moment and nodded.

"Don't worry about this, Mr. Hirakawa."

"Don't worry?"

Hirakawa Tetsufumi looked at the girl in confusion, wondering why she said that.

In Hirakawa Tetsufumi's opinion, Amemiya Yo had already said yesterday that she wanted to stay away from Shinohara Shiori.

And this morning, the middle school girl with second-year syndrome felt the so-called murderous intent from the eldest girl again.

No matter how you look at it, you can basically conclude that the friendship plan between the two girls has failed.

Although Shinohara Shiori doesn't know much about the details of Amamiya Yo, with her intelligence, she should be able to understand this.

So what does this girl mean now?

Just as I was about to ask, Shinohara Shiori started explaining.

"As for Amamiya-san, I wanted to become friends with her out of my own will."

"Even if Mr. Hirakawa plans to cancel this plan, I will continue to befriend Amamiya-san."

"..."

Tetsufumi Hirakawa was puzzled by what Shinohara Shiori said.

After being stunned for a moment.

"Why?" he asked.

At the same time, he looked at Shinohara Shiori's delicate face, trying to see what the girl was thinking.

Then he saw that under the gloomy sky, Shinohara Shiori, the young lady, suddenly had a bright smile on her face.

This smile is completely different from the usual chuckles or sarcastic smiles.

Shinohara Shiori smiled like this and looked him in the eye without hesitation. There was even an inexplicable glow in her eyes and the ends of her hair swayed briskly.

"Teacher Hirakawa, I can't tell you about this."

The tone also had a hint of mischief that was typical of a young girl.

"..."

Tetsufumi Hirakawa was in a daze, looking at Shinohara Shiori at this moment. This was the first time he felt this kind of aura from this dignified young lady.

Unfortunately, this rare scene only lasted for a moment.

Before it could be recorded, this dignified young lady returned to her usual appearance.

"Teacher Hirakawa, that's it," she said.

"..."

"..."

"Ah... yes, that's how it is..." After coming to his senses, Tetsufumi Hirakawa nodded to show that he understood.

"If Shinohara-san is willing to spontaneously become friends with Amamiya-san, that would of course be a good thing."

Well, no matter how you look at it, this is a good thing and there is no reason to stop it.

It's impossible that Shinohara Shiori and Amemiya Yo are friends for some other purpose, right?

I can’t imagine what the good intention is.

So, that's it.

As for Amamiya Ye...for the sake of that smile just now, I'll ask him to do some ideological work on Amamiya Ye himself.

Having made up his mind and made plans, Tetsufumi Hirakawa thought that today's matter should end here.

"Well, Shinohara-san, I've said everything I wanted to say, so..."

He paused politely and looked at Shinohara Shiori to see if she had anything else to say.

It turns out that it really exists.

"Teacher Hirakawa." Shinohara Shiori spoke again.

"…Well, please go ahead, Shinohara-san."

"..."

"..."

The girl's eyes were fixed on him, not allowing him to look away.

"What I want to say is that I would like you to come to the wind band practice tonight."

"..."

"..."

"what?"

Tetsufumi Hirakawa felt like he had heard it wrong.

"Teacher Hirakawa, please come to the wind band practice tonight."

The girl's retelling confirmed that he had not heard wrongly.

"..."

This request was too sudden...it doesn't seem right to say this.

Because this request seems quite normal...

The so-called suddenness was only due to his own reasons...When "not going" becomes the norm, being asked to go becomes sudden.

Ok……

Hirakawa Tetsufumi felt a little guilty. But after feeling guilty, he turned his head and looked at the rain falling outside the corridor.

It's Friday, it's a holiday...

"Why did you say that suddenly, Shinohara? You said yesterday that you would go next week, right?"

Unfortunately, this is of no use at all.

Shinohara Shiori's eyes were as sharp as beams of light cutting through the cloudy sky, and she immediately saw through the guilt in his heart.

"Teacher Hirakawa, you are the instructor."

"..."

"..."

Tetsufumi Hirakawa regretted coming to see Shinohara Shiori a little bit, just a little bit.

"Okay," he said.

"Well, okay." Shinohara Shiori also said this and nodded with satisfaction.

"Goodbye, Mr. Pingchuan."

"...Goodbye, Shinohara-san."

Chapter 53 Has the rain stopped?

This afternoon, Tetsufumi Hirakawa had to attend the wind orchestra under the supervision of Shiori Shinohara.

After this audit, Tetsufumi Hirakawa felt:

In terms of hard practice, the wind band has a lot of room for improvement.

Although today's wind ensemble practice has made great progress compared to the previous one, it has only been a few days and Mr. Ogasa's style has not changed much.

The relaxed and pleasant main tone has not been shaken - regarding this, it actually doesn't matter if it is maintained. It would be best if students can still have fun playing during rigorous practice.

But at least for now, the only way to describe the atmosphere of the wind orchestra is that there is still a lot of room for improvement.

In short, at 6 o'clock, the wind band practice ended on time, and Tetsufumi Hirakawa and Shiori Shinohara, who had packed up their instruments, walked out of the concert hall together.

The moment I walked out of the closed concert hall, the sound of the dripping rain lingered in my ears again.

Stepping onto the corridor, from the height of the club building on the 5th floor, looking outside, you can easily catch a glimpse of the scenery in the distance.

But in this curtain of drizzle, everything seemed hazy as if covered with gauze.

The green trees are shady, the tall buildings are dim, and on the road, the white beams of car lights are scattered in the haze.

However, compared with the heavy rain in the morning, the rain at this moment is much smaller, like a spent force, and is about to dissipate.

Hirakawa Tetsufumi withdrew his gaze.

When I turned around, the girl next to me was still looking outside.

"Shinohara-san?"

After calling out like this, the girl slightly turned her gaze from the rain to him.

"Teacher Hirakawa."

"What are you thinking about?"

"No."

Shinohara Shiori looked at the rain that was about to dissipate again and shook her head.