Tokyo Soft Rice King

Therefore, if you really want to protect your woman, you still have to have your own power. For example, Grandma Kobayashi was very well "protected" by Grandpa Kobayashi. No one dared to touch Grandma Kobayashi after his death.

At this time, a classmate who happened to be passing by saw them and shouted at them.

"Hey! Kuroba! And Ryouta, why are you here so late? Come and help! Our class's haunted house is about to open! There's already a line!"

Sumitomo Ryouta raised his hand and replied to the other party.

"Oh! Come here!"

Then he patted Hei Yuming's shoulder and walked forward.

"Let's go, Ming! Let's have a blast today! This is one of the most important events of high school! We need to make some precious memories!"

"Ah... um."

Hei Yuming followed him into the campus and saw large vertical banners hanging from the front of the school's teaching building. They were similar to the vertical banners for restaurants in shopping malls, but these were all made by the students themselves and were filled with their enthusiasm.

Hei Yuming also saw the banner of his class's haunted house... and felt a little shy because the words on it were written by him.

Mingming hadn't written for a long time, and even Hei Yuming himself thought his handwriting was ugly, but everyone in the class thought that the Chinese characters written by Hei Yuming had the most Chinese flavor, so they decided to let him write.

It seems that the cultural genes still remain in his body... The words he wrote in high school in his previous life continued into his high school life in this world.

Then this time, he participated in the preparations for the cultural festival throughout the whole process. When the cultural festival officially started, Kuroba Akira finally had a real feeling that "he is now a student."

This is the feeling of youth...

Isn't it good too?

Just be a good student today.

Chapter 230: A Peaceful Cultural Festival Part 2

When I entered the school, I got a bunch of introductory materials at the student union reception desk at the entrance. These materials included the booth locations, program schedule, and a clock-in sheet, which was quite formal.

This is also the information that will be distributed when we open to the public tomorrow. Today is actually just a rehearsal in advance. We have to be a little presentable when receiving foreign guests.

The punch-in sheet is similar to the card in the amusement park, which records what activities each student has participated in and how many times they have participated. Finally, it is used to count which class is the most popular and then award collective honors.

After Kuroba Akira and Sumitomo Ryota returned to the class together, they helped set up the scenery. Sumitomo Ryota still had to dress up as a ghost, so Kuroba Akira was completely free.

In fact, during the cultural festival, 80% of the students will be very idle. Even though everyone needs to work together in the early preparation stage, on the day of the cultural festival, not many operational staff are actually needed, and the shifts are half a day, so every student has the opportunity to go shopping. Just discuss the layout in advance.

For a logistics team member like Hei Yuming, he has nothing to do with the operation of the haunted house in the class, so what he has to do next is to act as a consumer, eat, drink and have fun everywhere, and contribute to the sales of each class.

He happened to have some money today, which was the money Sister Hong gave him for the bus fare in the morning, and there was still some left.

Five thousand yen is not too much, but not too little either. It should be enough for visiting a cultural festival.

So, where to go first?

Hei Yuming began to look through the introductory materials in his hand.

Hibiya High School's cultural festival is divided into three main parts: game challenges, business simulations, and stage performances...

Game challenges refer to programs like the haunted house of Kuroba Ming's class. In addition, there are also ninja challenges, escape room murders, western showdowns and so on... It looks quite interesting.

To put it simply, the business simulation is just a variety of snack stalls. There are no maid cafes or Sese, so I skipped it.

Then stage performances refer to drama performances, band performances, and club performances, which are performed on stages built in gymnasiums and playgrounds.

In the stage performances, most of the opportunities for drama performances are allocated to the senior classes. After all, for the senior students who are about to graduate, this is the last memorable cultural festival, so they will organize a work that is the culmination of three years of work.

According to the program, there will be a performance in the morning and one in the afternoon. The morning will mainly be a drama performance, and the afternoon will be a community performance. In the evening, the band will start playing and a bonfire will be lit at this time.

Accompanied by music, there is a dance activity... the one where boys and girls hold hands and dance folk dance together.

So this bonfire party seems to be an annual confession meeting.

Maybe there’s a legend about a couple dancing together at a bonfire party and being together for a lifetime... Well, I have nothing to do with it anyway.

After all, in the eyes of most students, Kuroba Akira is already dating Asato Hitomi.

After seeing them all, Hei Yuming didn’t have any particular place he wanted to visit, or rather, he felt that none of them were as good as the haunted house in his class.

But there is already a long queue at our own haunted house, and it will take at least an hour to play there, so we'd better come back later.

Hei Yuming didn't expect that the Chinese haunted house would be so popular. Maybe it was because the theme was well chosen?

The theme is "ghost marriage", which was proposed by Kuroba Akira. The main inspiration actually came from the horror game he played in his previous life, the Paper Bride series. Even some of the small puzzles in it were copied by Kuroba Akira and put into the haunted house.

Moreover, the overall style is no longer based on the old-fashioned jump scare, but is more like an escape room.

The entire setting is dark, guided by light (flashlight), with a straight map design that does not go in circles. Small mechanisms and plot performances are placed in the middle, with creepy sound effects throughout, and a light chase at the end to make the adrenaline surge. The whole process experience takes about ten minutes.

Rather than 'playing', the focus is on 'watching', so it is much more fresh than traditional haunted houses.

After Hei Yuming proposed the whole process, it was immediately adopted by everyone in the class, and they all praised his idea as great. This was also an important reason why Hei Yuming was able to reconcile with his classmates after he "stole" the class monitor.

I can only say that when it comes to creating gimmicks and plot flow, Hei Yuming is quite good.

Of course, Kuroba Akira thinks the reason why it is so popular is because of this...

Hei Yuming flipped through the program list in his hand. It contained promotional materials for each class's own program. Among them, the first-grade class's "Ghost Marriage" featured a bride wearing a Chinese wedding dress and lying in a coffin with her eyes closed...

It was squad leader An Litong.

This promotional picture alone makes the performances of other classes look pale in comparison.

Rather than being 'shocking', this can be described as 'stunning', giving people a breathtaking sense of beauty.

Although the class monitor repeatedly refused, under the insistence of everyone in the class, it was decided that the class monitor would be the poster girl, that is, the bride of the "ghost marriage".

And in Hibiya High School, who doesn’t know Hitomi Asato?

She may not be particularly famous in her second and third years of high school, but she is really known to everyone in her first year of high school. After all, every time the test results are announced, Anri Hitomi is always ranked first.

So the students who were amazed by the promotional pictures asked around and when they heard that the beautiful ghost bride was actually Hitomi Asato, they definitely came to visit with the idea of ​​seeing her in person.

Even a high school cultural festival has a 'star effect'...

However, although the squad leader is the protagonist in the promotional image, there is actually no need for an actor to play the "ghost bride" because the ghost bride itself is a prop made of a human model and is part of the scary part.

After all, what their class is going to build is a haunted house, which is used to induce fear in people, not to lure out their courage.

Is this also considered "cover fraud"?

But sorry, high school students, this is the cover strategy of shameless light novel writers!

However, although the squad leader will not dress up as a ghost bride in the haunted house, as the poster girl, she still has to wear a wedding dress in the morning to promote the haunted house at the entrance, which is also the "finishing touch" of the entire haunted house.

Because when students who visit the haunted house see the actress Hitomi Asato playing the ghost bride sitting at the door, they wonder what the ghost bride in the haunted house is? Or, are there other ghost brides in the house? Is this just a scam?

Then I went in with doubts and fell into Hei Yuming's script routine.

After watching the "performance," players who understood the whole story, already feeling a bit creeped out by the environment and the final chase, finally emerged to see the squad leader, the "real ghost bride," smiling and asking, "How was it? Was my story interesting?"

Now when you think back to the "plot", you will find it "terrifying when you think about it carefully", and you will find that the ghost bride sitting at the door is "spreading her own story in the form of a haunted house".

Anri Hitomi...could she be a real ghost?!

If someone can really get into the story to this extent, then the design of this haunted house can be considered a great success.

To put it simply, it's a puzzle haunted house with some meta elements.

However, because the entire process and plot were designed by Kuroba Akira, when he came to play, it was equivalent to being spoiled, so the experience should be quite different.

After guiding the first group of players into the haunted house,

Seeing that the first group of players had already entered, Hei Yuming was about to leave when he was stopped by Anri Hitomi.

"Mingjun, are you leaving?"

"Yeah, looking at the queue, it'll probably take an hour to play. I'd better go somewhere else first."

"It might become even more popular later, so get a number first."

As she spoke, Anri Hitomi handed Kuroba Ming a queue number, which happened to be number 100, and then said to him with a smile.

"At noon, um... just come over around 11:30. It will be your turn then, Mingjun."

"oh oh……"

Hei Yuming nodded and took the number paper.

Is the timing so perfect?

"It's about time for my shift change, so why don't we go to the cultural festival together afterwards?"

"Okay, I'll wait for you."

This was also agreed upon beforehand, that I would accompany the class monitor to visit the cultural festival. Since the class monitor had to be a poster girl in the morning, I had to go down and go shopping with him.

"So, squad leader, are there any stalls you'd like to visit or shows you'd like to see? I can skip them for now, and we can go together later."

"It's okay, Mingjun, you don't have to worry about me. Just go and visit the places that interest you. There are afternoon programs anyway, right? We can still watch those shows together then."

"Okay then... I'll go check on Shiori and her classmates first..."

"Are you talking about me?"

Just at this time, Shirai Shiori and Aizono Moe came over together.

When the two men came over, they saw Hitomi Asato in a red dress, and then they exclaimed in admiration.

"Wow~ Tong, this is really gorgeous."

"Wow... Hitomi-chan! So pretty...! Really beautiful! Completely different from Shiromuku... a completely different style!"

"Oh, thank you."

Perhaps because she was used to hearing compliments, Anri Hitomi's reaction was rather normal, but she glanced at Hei Yuming intentionally or unintentionally, because Hei Yuming was the only one who had never praised her.

To be precise, she hadn't said the word "beautiful", but only said "the effect is really good", and Anri Hitomi was still upset about it.

After all, this man lives with a super beautiful woman of foul level, so his standards must have been raised.

Even if I wear a wedding dress and put on makeup, I can't compare to that woman?

It really hurts one's self-esteem... But Anri Hitomi also knows that she can't compete in terms of appearance, so she doesn't feel particularly unwilling.

Moreover, being too beautiful is not necessarily a good thing. When you are outside, you will always be watched by people and have no freedom at all.

Although she said so, it was just an excuse made by Hitomi Asagi to comfort herself. She still wanted to hear Kuroba Akira say that she was 'beautiful' and 'beautiful' in person, but she didn't force it, as that would be a bit too exaggerated.

Shirai Shiori joked.

"I think you should set up a paid service for taking photos with the poster girl? Maybe it would make more money than the haunted house."

Hei Yuming complained.

"That's putting the cart before the horse. And we can't let the monitor sit here all day. It's not very friendly to the girls who will be on duty later."

"makes sense."

"So Shiori and Moe, are you guys here to play in the haunted house too?"

"We originally just came to see Tong, but..."

Shirai Shiori took another look at the promotional poster of the haunted house and asked Kuroba Akira.

"Ghost marriage... this was also designed by you, Lord Ming, right?"

"Oh? How do you know?"

"You know your style at first glance."

Aizono Moe also smiled and nodded in agreement.

"Yes, that's definitely Kuroba-kun's style."

What do you mean by my style? Does it mean it’s exaggerated and full of gimmicks?

However, he had never told these two people before that the haunted house was planned and designed by himself, but they still guessed it. This made Hei Yuming secretly happy and felt proud of being noticed.

"I see something like 'A brand new take on a haunted house' and 'A thrilling story' written on this promotional image. It seems your haunted house has a 'main storyline'?"

"Yes, this is the core selling point."

"Did you design the plot too?"

"Yes."

"Then it's necessary to come and play."

Shiori Shirai was not interested in most of the programs of the cultural festival. It was called a "cultural festival", but there was no literary element at all. She felt that it did not live up to its name and was simply a fun festival for students.