I am a teacher at a girls' school in Tokyo

"I want to drink yogurt, there-"

"Okay, I'll treat you."

The tall-tailed boy puts coins into the beverage machine.

After a while of operation, there were two consecutive "click" sounds, and Gaowei Tong took out two bottles of drinks from the outlet of the beverage machine, and then handed the yogurt to Inaba Xun.

"Seriously, could Mr. Hirakawa and Mr. Ogasa have that kind of relationship?"

Takaodou sat down next to Inaba Fumio.

Inaba Xun shook the yogurt, then took a straw and inserted it into the yogurt packaging.

"Teacher Hirakawa, aren't you with Teacher Hisata?"

She drank yogurt and spoke incoherently.

"Yes, we saw it with our own eyes."

“We just saw it with our own eyes.”

"So..." Gaowei Tong guessed, "Teacher Hirakawa, are you two-timing?"

"No way?"

"Who knew that Ogasa-sensei was so cute."

"Kusada-sensei is cute too."

"Hirakawa-sensei is handsome too," Takao said. "That's the problem - handsome people are generally scumbags, that's what my mother said."

"It's still hard to believe... We kept secrets for Hirakawa-sensei and Kuta-sensei before. It's really not worth it for Kuta-sensei."

silence.

After a long moment, Takaodo spoke again.

"Kaoru, tell me, was Hirakawa-sensei with Hisata-sensei first, or was he with Ogasa-sensei first?"

"I guess it's Mr. Hisada?" Inaba Fumio took a big sip of yogurt. "Look, Mr. Hirakawa suddenly intervened in the wind band this semester, which means they must have been together this semester. As for Mr. Hisada——"

Gaowei Tong took over the conversation: "There were rumors last year that they were together."

"Yeah, obviously Hirakawa-sensei and Hisata-sensei seem to be a good match."

"So, do you think Mr. Ogasa knows about Mr. Hirakawa and Mr. Hisada?"

"You definitely don't know, right? Teacher Ogasa is so cute." Inaba Fumio chewed yogurt.

Gaoweitong didn't respond and just drank his Coke.

About ten minutes later, the drink was finished.

Inaba Fumio took one last deep sip of the yogurt, and the yogurt box made a mournful sound of being "squeezed dry".

"let's go."

Throwing the yogurt box and the Coke can into the trash can, Takao said to Inaba Fumio who was still sitting on the chair.

"……Um."

After some inexplicable hesitation, Inaba Fumio stood up and walked up the stairs to the second floor with Takao Dou.

When they reached the stairwell on the second floor and were about to step into the corridor, the two looked at each other.

"Take a look?" - That was the message in his eyes.

So, the two of them leaned against the wall and stuck their heads out.

"The door is open?"

Takaodo noticed it immediately.

"Is it over?" Inaba Fumio asked in surprise.

Then they saw Teacher Ogasa walk out of the room.

The two of them shrank their heads back in fear.

My heart was pounding.

"Hasn't it been discovered?"

"Probably not." Inaba Xun was not sure either, "If we are discovered, we will be silenced, right?"

“…That’s an exaggeration.”

After calming down, a few seconds later, I heard the sound of a door closing, followed by the sound of a door card being swiped, and then another sound of a door closing.

"Mr. Hirakawa has closed the door, and Mr. Ogasa should have gone back to his room."

Talltail said, his ears perked up.

"Yeah." Inaba Fumio nodded belatedly and breathed a sigh of relief. "By the way, aren't Mr. Hirakawa and Mr. Ogasa too bold? There are so many students from the wind band living here."

"Maybe some special fetish? Thrill-seeking?"

"..."

Inaya's face turned red and she didn't dare to answer.

Takaodou looked at Inaba Fumio's face.

"Xun, you know——"

"I don't know." Inaba Fumio shook his head reflexively.

"No, I want to ask - do you know how long it took from Ogasa-sensei to go in and come out?"

"...Let me see." Inaba Xun took out his cell phone and took a look. "About ten minutes."

"Ten minutes." Takaodo repeated, his tone subtle.

Inaba Fumio's face suddenly turned even redder.

"Do you know what ten minutes means?" Takao Dou asked, leaning close to Inaba Fumio.

"I don't know..." Inaba Fumio's voice became much softer.

"You know."

"Uh--I don't know." Inaba Fumio felt his face a little hot.

"Explain..." Takao Tong drew out the words, their faces pressed together, and their noses touched.

Inaba Xun didn't dare to speak and closed his eyes.

She was still a simple child and didn't understand anything.

"It shows that Mr. Hirakawa is a genius at wind instruments. He learned it in just ten minutes."

Takao said this with an unconcealable smile.

"Eh?!"

Inaba Fumio opened his eyes in surprise and faced the funny gaze of Takao Dou who was right in front of him.

"What's with that expression on your face? What do you think I'm going to say?" Takao asked back.

"No, no, I think so too." Inaba Fumio stuttered.

"Xun, stop pretending, you must have been thinking--"

"I didn't." Inaba Fumio turned his face away.

Takao Dou sighed helplessly and looked at Inaba Fumio who refused to admit it.

"Okay, back to the topic, what are we going to do?"

"..."

Inaba Fumio didn't know how to answer, so he just remained silent.

"Pretend you didn't see it?"

"But Mr. Hisada..."

"Yeah, it's really hard to deal with. Why do we always run into this kind of thing?"

The corridor fell into silence which lasted for a long time.

"Let's go back to the room and think about this kind of thing later."

"Ah."

Chapter 70 On the way back, the sound of music was heard

May th, today is the last day of the camp.

In the morning, just like the previous two days, there was still exciting ensemble practice.

But it can be seen that today, Teacher Ogasa is probably a little out of shape. Although Tetsufumi Hirakawa comforted her last night, she still minds a little about the student leaving group A and joining group B.

In fact, it can be seen from normal practice that Ogasa Suzuki is a teacher who cares "excessively" about students' feelings. Her current state is within expectations. I hope she can recover during the short break after this training.

Another piece of bad news is that at present, not only Mr. Ogasa, but also the entire ensemble of Group A has some minor problems.

The reason is that Group B did not participate in this ensemble, but went to train by itself.

As for Group B... Tetsufumi Hirakawa mentioned last night when he was discussing with Suzuki Ogasa that many of the students in Group B are third graders.

The pressure of schoolwork, the satisfaction of qualifying for the national competition for two consecutive years, and the realization of the gap in strength between the school and other strong wind instrument schools and the unattainable national gold medal...all these reasons led to 8 third-year students in Group B.

The third-year students have practiced the longest and are generally stronger. Their withdrawal is indeed a loss for the current wind ensemble.

But there is no way. Just look at the wind band in the past two days and you will know that if these third-year students with the most say continue to stay in Group A, it will be a blow to the practice atmosphere of the entire wind band.

This blow will be long-lasting and may even affect the wind band's chances of winning the national gold medal in the future.

Besides, since they are no longer aiming for the national gold medal, then we should respect the students' wishes. Nothing can be forced.

So even though there will be a decline in strength in the short term, for long-term planning, Tetsufumi Hirakawa still made that move last night.

And he also believes that time will give the answer.

Now, the Moritani Wind Ensemble has unified its goal, and after further hard training, its strength will definitely gradually recover until it surpasses its previous level.

Tetsufumi Hirakawa listened quietly, the sound of the ensemble echoing and lingering in his ears for a long time.

In the forest under the blue sky, birds circled and finally flew towards the clear sky and disappeared.

"The goal is—"

“National Gold Award!”

The last unified slogan sounded, marking the end of this three-day and two-night training camp.

3pm.

"Minister, roll call."

"Yes."

Just like when I came here, the head of the village took orders and faced the students.

"The ministers of each voice called out their names."

Shortly after.

"Teacher Hirakawa, Teacher Ogasa, all 73 members of the wind orchestra are here."

"Students, please check if there are any items missing."

"Are you sure you don't have any? Okay, group like before, get in the car."

The students got on the bus one by one.

Finally, when Tetsufumi Hirakawa got on the bus, the only empty seat was still occupied by Shinohara Shiori.

"Teacher Hirakawa."

Looking at the girl who greeted him in the seat, he was no longer surprised.

"Student Shinohara."

After nodding and greeting, he sat down calmly, and a very familiar sweet fragrance came from his nose.