"Sorry, we still have preparation work to do." After saying this to the reporter, Rin Kiyono gave Toru Watanabe a "Follow me" look and walked towards the main group of the performance department.

"Watanabe-san!"

Toru Watanabe had just taken two steps when the reporter suddenly called out to him.

"I was joking just now, please don't take it seriously." He turned around and explained, "Actually, my goal is to become an idol like Kimura Takuya, or like the writer Junichi Watanabe, who writes about both genders..."

"Watanabe Toru." Kiyono Rin called him by his full name.

Watanabe Toru had no choice but to give the reporter an apologetic look and walked over quickly.

reporter:"......"

He just wanted to ask about Kamikawa High School's expected goals for this competition.

"Do you like talking nonsense so much?" Qingye Rin said angrily.

"What does it matter? Let's liven up the atmosphere. You see everyone is very nervous. Only when you relax can you perform to your full potential."

Qingye Rin glanced at him: "Are you an active reporter and the atmosphere in other schools?"

"...It's over! We've defeated the enemy! But forget it, only by being more nervous can we perform at our best. Thinking about it this way, we have basically won."

Qingye Rin sighed with a headache and had nothing to say to him.

The two of them walked to the music department, and she glanced at the people whose faces were so nervous that they turned gray.

"You don't need to worry about those powerful schools. Just keep your mind calm. We just need to go all out to perform our own music and leave the result to the judges."

"yes!"

Simple words certainly cannot ease the heavy atmosphere.

Watanabe Toru was about to speak and tell a few jokes when he heard someone calling his name.

"Watanabe!"

The voice was a bit familiar, and it didn't sound like it was a reporter.

Watanabe Toru looked up, with a smile on his face: "Look, look, isn't this Lord Ayako!"

The girl who ran over was Toru Watanabe's fellow high school student in Fujisawa City, Kanagawa Prefecture, Ayako Honma.

Her short bob hair makes her round face very cute, and she looks very much like the heroine in the short-haired period of "Bottom Girl".

Ayako Honma, who was holding a piccolo, hit him hard on the chest.

"Why are you here?" she asked with a smile.

"You're participating in the competition, what else can you do?"

"You?" Ayako Honma looked suspicious, "You can play the recorder and wake up the whole village, but you can also participate in the competition?"

"You guys are so rude. You are not as exaggerated as the rest of the village."

Ayako Honma raised her head and said, "I'm like this, what do you do to me?" with a proud smile on her lips.

"uh-huh."

Watanabe Toru looked at Kiyono Rin who cleared his throat and introduced the two people as if he had just reacted.

"This is my senior sister from the same village, Ayako Honma. This is my friend I made in high school, Rin Kiyono."

"Hello!" Ayako Honma greeted with a smile.

"Hello, Honma-senpai."

"Don't use honorifics. Just call me Ayako like Watanabe." After saying that, Ayako Honma turned to Toru Watanabe and asked, "Is this your girlfriend?"

"That's right, she's my daughter...well!"

Rin Kiyono withdrew his cold eyes that could kill someone and said to Ayako Honma: "No, he and I are just ordinary friends."

"What I want to say is 'female friends'." Toru Watanabe expressed his grievances.

Qingye Rin glanced at him without any emotion: "Then please speak more concisely. Also, when others talk about girlfriend, please don't give an affirmative answer."

"It's a lively atmosphere. I've already applied for it with you, right?"

"No."

"Huh?" Toru Watanabe recalled for a moment, and it seemed that he really hadn't, "I thought you could read my eyes and understand my application without speaking."

"The only people who understand you are ape-women with uncivilized brains."

Ayako Honma looked at Kiyo Rin in confusion. This was the first time she had seen a girl with such a fierce mouth. As expected of Tokyo, there are all types of people.

Watanabe Toru noticed her expression. Although Qingye Rin himself didn't care what others thought, he took the initiative to explain: "Qingye likes to be sarcastic, so don't take it to heart."

"No, I only like to do this to you, Watanabe-san." Rin Kiyono crossed her arms and said with a smile.

"Why?!"

"Because you are special."

Watanabe Toru suddenly became happy. Kiyono Rin never lied, which meant that he was indeed a special being.

"What's so special?" he asked expectantly.

"Dislike me."

"..."

It is better to think about it in your dreams when you expect Qingye Rin to praise him.

But wouldn’t it be too sad to have to face her all the time during the day and dream about her at night?

"Hahaha!" Ayako Honma patted Toru Watanabe on the shoulder and laughed, "I understand! It's just that you don't need to be scolded!"

"Don't laugh so hard that you won't be able to use your strength in the competition later." Toru Watanabe cursed viciously.

"Ah! I almost fell into your trap! How disgusting!" Ayako Honma immediately stopped smiling and said with a straight face.

"Is it vicious?"

"nausea."

"No, no, no, no matter how you think about the context just now, you used the word 'evil'."

"Disgusting!" Ayako Honma tilted her head and repeated in the cute tone of an idol scolding a nerd.

"Yes, yes, I understand, you just want to scold me."

Ayako Honma raised her neck again and showed a proud smile. At this time, someone called her in the distance, and she turned around and responded.

"I'm leaving first. By the way, what's the date of your school? I'll go listen to your performance after the game!"

"Number twenty-two."

"The penultimate one, I remember it. Let's work hard together. If you dare to embarrass the village, I will report you when I go back!" After finishing speaking, Ayako Honma waved her hand and ran towards a group of people in brown school uniforms in the distance.

"You seem to have a good relationship." Rin Kiyono looked at Ayako Honma who was chatting and laughing in the crowd.

"Jealous?"

"No."

"My grandma, no, my mother once told me: girls have nothing but they have."

Qingye Rin put down his arms, turned to the people in the music department and said, "Everyone, pack up and go to the rehearsal room."

"yes!"

"Wait a minute, I was just making jokes. Don't tell me you haven't watched "Kamen Rider Kato"?"

"No."

"It's over, it's over, we can't be friends anymore."

"Really."

"Of course... no. Generally speaking, I will never be friends with people who don't like to fight with each other. But you are beautiful and honest, so I can turn a blind eye."

"Isn't it because the legs are beautiful?"

Watanabe Toru glanced around and whispered: "There are so many people here, so don't say such things."

"It turns out that you really only became friends with me because of my beautiful legs. I'm so disappointed."

"As I said, I'm just studying legs. Studying doesn't mean liking them, understand?"

"Then just tell me, do you like legs?"

"I feel that the game is more important now, what do you think?" Toru Watanabe said worriedly.

Qingye Rin sneered.

When they arrived at the rehearsal room, everyone adjusted the music more carefully than usual before starting the final practice.

Still only training the beginning part.

I used to dislike boring repetition, but now I want to keep practicing, just like Tamamo Haomi before the final exam, walking into the exam room and holding a vocabulary book to read.

The practice time is over and the only time left for the competition is to go on stage.
To be continued...