Go back? There's no going back.

Thinking of this, Su Wei turned over in bed, closed his eyes and fell asleep little by little...

Cuckoo——

Cuckoo——

Guagua——!!

"Ok?"

While I was half asleep, a loud ringing sound suddenly rang in my ears.

In the pitch-dark room, Su Wei turned over without fully opening his eyes. He just stretched out his right hand to grope for a moment, then grabbed the source of the noise and threw it out.

Soon, with the last "quack", the noisy noise came to an abrupt end.

"...It's late at night, can you be quiet?"

After smacking his dry lips, Su Wei turned over in bed and continued to sleep.

Crunch, twist—

However, this time, before Su Wei fell asleep again, he felt a slightly cold touch on the left half of his face.

Then, a piece of flesh on the face was pinched and rotated 90 degrees clockwise.

"it hurts,?"

Su Wei was suddenly awakened by the sudden pain, sat up from the bed, and stared at the culprit with wide eyes and ferocious eyes.

Then, after making eye contact with the pure white figure sitting beside the bed, Su Wei's expression changed rapidly, and finally revealed a somewhat embarrassed smile: "Is there anything... possible?"

"..."

When they met again after three days, the Fox Fairy, as usual, pursed his lips and said nothing.

But she did not take out her notebook. Instead, she silently turned her head under Su Wei's gaze and glanced in the direction of the corner.

Su Wei also subconsciously followed her gaze. After seeing the toad communicator with its four legs facing up in the air, Su Wei was stunned for a moment. Suddenly he remembered something and he suddenly woke up.

"what time is it now?"

Scratching his hair which was a little messy from sleep, Su Wei first looked out the still dark window, trying to confirm the current time.

It’s just that the Toad brother who has the time-telling function just got sleepy and fell asleep.

There was no clock on the wall in the room, so Su Wei could only subconsciously look at the Fox Fairy beside him.

"3:53"

The furry tail swayed gently, the fox fairy snorted, wrote a few words on the notebook, and turned towards Su Wei.

Although the gesture of holding the pen is still a little strange, it has to be said that after just a few days, the words written by this adult are obviously becoming more and more like words.

However, Su Wei now has no time to lament about these things.

"…I'm super? It's already 53?"

His eyes swept over the numbers on the notebook, and he stood up from the bed and put on his coat, trousers and shoes swiftly.

“…I’m going out!”

After changing his equipment within two minutes, Su Wei quickly ran to the entrance. He looked back at the fox fairy who was still sitting beside the bed and said, "We will not collect the room until noon. You can stay here and rest for a while!"

After saying that, Su Wei opened the door and ran out in a hurry.

Although he seemed a little nervous, Su Wei was not worried about things like being late and being fined for breach of contract.

You know, this was a welcoming ceremony attended by that person and the princess herself.

For this reason alone, Su Wei felt that he could not let down.

He has been taken in by that kind-hearted adult for eight years. If he is late today even for helping to cheer for the other party...then don't say anything and just hang yourself on the tree first.

On the contrary, no matter how insignificant it is, he still wants to shout out all his heartfelt blessings during the ceremony today.

Chapter 32: He's Back

3:56,

3:57,

3:58……

When the hands of the clock on the clock tower outside pointed to 3:59, Su Wei walked out of the hotel and rushed all the way to the main gate of the training camp.

Tsk.

He supported himself on his knees and breathed slightly. Suddenly, he heard a barely perceptible smacking sound. Su Wei, who was out of breath, immediately raised his head and met the eyes of the square-faced man waiting at the door.

"You are quite good at keeping track, kid."

Meeting Su Wei's eyes, the square-faced man did not hide the regret on his face and patted Su Wei's shoulder with a forced smile.

"It's just so-so."

He stood up and slightly turned his shoulder to move away the square-faced man's hand. Then Su Wei subconsciously looked at the crowd behind the square-faced man.

Even though it's not even dawn yet, there are already quite a lot of people gathered here.

In addition to most of the orchestra members carrying various musical instrument cases, there were more than a dozen young people wearing casual clothes like Su Wei.

Seeing this, Su Wei quickly focused his attention on the dozen or so young people - if nothing unexpected happened, these people were probably just like himself, who were temporarily summoned to create the atmosphere.

"Ahem, everyone, be quiet!"

At this moment, the square-faced man next to him looked at Su Wei and snorted coldly, then retracted his gaze, put his hands behind his back, and walked slowly to the front of the crowd.

"Today is the welcoming ceremony organized by the great First Princess herself. The protagonist of the ceremony is the First Prince who disappeared after saving the royal city twenty years ago. I don't need to remind you how important this matter is."

"Later, you will all follow my instructions. No matter what I tell you to do, you must strictly follow it. Otherwise... you will be fined! Do you understand?"

"understand!"

After the square-faced man finished speaking, even though only a dozen temporary atmosphere group members responded to him and the people in the Royal Orchestra didn't even look at him, he still nodded with satisfaction: "Very good."

"...Then let's go to the ceremony site now. We need to go there early so we can rehearse in advance."

Just like that, the square-faced man waved his hand and led a dozen people out of the main gate in a mighty manner.

Su Wei also followed the team, sitting in the bumpy cheap animal cart. Soon, they arrived at the site of the ceremony - the main gate of the royal city.

According to the schedule of this welcoming ceremony, the first prince, who disappeared after guarding the royal city and thwarting the cult's conspiracy nearly twenty years ago, will enter the royal city from the main gate called "Arc de Triomphe" in four hours.

Then, amid the cheers and praises of the people on both sides of the road, we walked straight ahead and arrived at the square in the center of the royal city.

Finally, he will step onto the high platform built in the square and be awarded the medal under the watchful eyes of the crowd.

Just thinking about it, Su Wei's mood became a little complicated.

If...if I can reach this level in the future, then my mother will definitely not...

"I say, are you the special student from the magic department yesterday?"

At this moment, a frivolous voice came from behind, interrupting Su Wei's fantasy.

"?"

Su Wei turned around and looked at the person who greeted him.

He was a slightly thin young man with regular facial features and a tuft of white hair bleached and dyed on his forehead. Overall, he looked like an artistic young man.

"Let me introduce myself. My name is Kro. I'm a weapon repair special call-up student who joined this training camp last year. I'll also be your roommate from now on."

As the white-haired young man spoke, he extended his hand to Su Wei and said in a subtle tone: "I was wondering why you didn't go back to the dormitory last night, but I didn't expect... to meet you here. From now on, we are all in the same dormitory, so please take care of me."

"...Okay, my name is Su Wei, please take care of me."

Seeing this, although he had no plans to return to the dormitory in the future, Su Wei also reached out and shook hands with this empty roommate.

"Later, the dozen or so atmosphere groups will be divided into seven pairs, waiting for the triumphant prince to pass by along the way, and at the same time, we will watch the leader's gestures to cheer or create atmosphere... What do you think, how about we form a team?"

After getting familiar with it, the white-haired young man looked in the direction of the royal city gate again, suddenly turned around and said to Su Wei.

"……Row."

Hearing this, Su Wei was silent for a moment and nodded.

"Okay then. I'll go talk to the leader and see if I can get a spot closest to the hunting and patrolling platform in the square..."

Seeing Su Wei agreed, the white-haired young man was relieved.

"Why, is there anything special about this position?"

Looking at the white-haired young man's reaction, Su Wei couldn't help but feel confused.

"Of course there are. I heard that the two atmosphere points closest to the city gate can earn two or three more gold coins in the final commission, but you have to pretend to be a fanatic and rush up to present flowers to the returning prince. After that, you will be kicked hard by the accompanying knights and driven away... I am a weak person who has only started training for a year, and I can't stand it."

As he said this, a somewhat frightened expression appeared on his face. The white-haired young man glanced at Su Wei, whose clothes were more expensive than the rest of his body. He said, "Brother, you look like you come from a well-off family. You must not be short of these two cents, right?"

“It is lacking.”

"what……?"

"But I'm not going."

Seeing the white-haired young man suddenly become nervous, Su Wei smiled and said, "If I'm going to be kicked for giving flowers to the princess, then I'll definitely go, but... forget about the others."

"That...that's good."

The white-haired young man breathed a sigh of relief, and then, as if he had suddenly noticed something, he glanced at Su Wei with a strange look: "From the looks of it, brother, you... seem to like the First Princess very much?"

"Ah? Of course."

Hearing this, Su Wei nodded without hesitation, and even his eyes became pious at this moment: "The First Princess is the best in the world."

"..."

Next, time passed quietly.

Probably because the remuneration was the lowest among all positions, only the most basic twenty gold coins, Su Wei and the white-haired young man were both assigned to the positions closest to the medal awarding platform during the rehearsal.

Here, they don't need to pretend to be fanatics or guide the atmosphere.

After all, these have already been handed over to the people at the previous points.

They just need to pay attention to the signals from the square-faced man who is the leader, jump up at the right time, and lead the people around them to cheer.

In fact, they may not even have to do anything at that time, because the crowd around them will start shouting on their own because the atmosphere is so heated.

During the rehearsal, the only thing that the square-faced leader emphasized to Su Wei and the others was that they must not be stage-frightened and that the cheers must be louder at critical moments, the louder the better.

By now, Su Wei finally understood the true meaning of the existence of this atmosphere group.

It is said that a long time ago, there was a man who was appointed as the new leader by the emperor and the previous ruler even though his popularity was far less than that of another competitor.

As he was unpopular among the people, the king's coronation ceremony was very "quiet" throughout, with no cheering or applause.

This directly led to the fact that after he ascended the throne, the people of the entire empire experienced more than ten years of harsh rule, and afterwards even the eyes they looked at the monarch became much clearer.

It was from then on that whenever there was a ceremony of a larger scale, an atmosphere group became necessary.

It may not be useful, but it must be there.

Su Wei did not comment on this.

Whether there was such a precedent or not, it had no effect on him.

You know, today might be the day when Lady Princess is in the best mood in the past twenty years. Even without the square-faced man's instructions, Su Wei would definitely shout out and cheer for that lady from the bottom of his heart.

Just like that, as the rehearsals were repeated again and again, the sky gradually brightened.

At seven o'clock in the morning, the gendarmes responsible for maintaining order along the originally deserted streets arrived one after another and stood on standby on both sides of the streets.

Half an hour later, the entire route of the First Prince's return was already packed with people, and was squeezed by the citizens who came to watch.

Uooohhhhh——!

Standing at the position closest to the medal awarding platform and looking towards the main entrance, Su Wei suddenly heard bursts of exclamations coming from the front of the crowd.

"Hello? Leader, what happened at the main gate? Should I shout now?"

He subconsciously took out the internal communicator temporarily allocated by the atmosphere group and asked the square-faced man who was the team leader.

"The prince has returned from outside the city, but for some reason, the first princess also came from another direction. Now the two of them met at the main entrance and seemed to be talking about something... Anyway, don't shout over there, just pay attention to my signal later."

"OK."