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127. Before the Cultural Festival 2(1/2)

The weather had been sunny for several days and suddenly started to rain.

Watanabe Toru woke up to the noisy sound of wind and rain, rubbed his bangs, and sweated a little because of the sweltering heat.

The air pressure in the cramped rental house is very low, and there is a slight feeling of chest tightness when breathing.

Watanabe Toru opened the window, and the strong wind suddenly brought the rain in, and the dry window sill became moist at a speed visible to the naked eye.

With a "pop" sound, before the rain wet his clothes, Toru Watanabe closed the window again, turned around and picked up the mobile phone on the table.

The time was 5:46, and there was a text message from the Meteorological Agency.

"Strong Typhoon No. 14 moved northward from the East China Sea and gradually turned eastward. Tokyo entered the typhoon area early this morning. Citizens are asked to avoid going out as much as possible, and workers at work must be careful."

With the existence of typhoon, Toru Watanabe wondered whether it was deliberately going against the students.

If it is from Monday to Friday, it will always let its pigeons go, either diverting to other areas, or coming and leaving at night. In short, it does not give students a chance to have a holiday;

Or just take it on Saturdays and Sundays when you can rest.

However, judging from the progress of the Human Observation Department's film shooting, this is the best arrangement.

I hope that those classes and clubs that are looking forward to preparing for cultural festivals on Saturday and Sunday can stay at home and not rush to school in the storm.

"Is this also the will of Qingye God?'

'But even if you can't go out by yourself and have to stay at home to edit the movie, there's no need for the whole Tokyo to accompany you, Kiyono-kun.'

Watanabe Toru looked at the high-end apartments in the distance in the wind and rain, silently praying in his heart that the weather would clear up.

The storm continues, and it seems that Qingye God has no intention of fulfilling the wish of her only believer.

In this case, Toru Watanabe had no choice but to change his morning exercise to doing push-ups at home, while reciting Spanish vocabulary in his mind to deepen his memory.

After morning exercise and shower, I got a call from my hometown.

My mother said that her hometown has not been affected yet, but according to the Meteorological Agency, the typhoon will continue to move to the northeastern region, and Iwate Prefecture is expected to experience heavy rain in the evening.

There was no food in the rental house, so Toru Watanabe basically ate at school or outside.

He was reading at home until noon. He was so hungry that he couldn't bear it anymore, so he decided to go to the convenience store in the rain.

After leaving the door, the sound of rain suddenly became louder, as if it was falling from the sky. The broken umbrella that Toru Watanabe bought from a convenience store did not hold up for three seconds before he died.

Toru Watanabe, who was soaked by the heavy rain, looked at the bare umbrella frame in his hand and sang a song in the deserted alley.

"Love is like a blue sky with white clouds, a clear sky, and a sudden storm... Bah!"

I spat out the rainwater in my mouth, wiped my face, and continued towards the convenience store.

Now that we have paid such a heavy price, it would be foolish not to go to a convenience store to stock up on food.

Anyway, it’s not the first time I’ve been caught in the rain.

"Sudden storms, with nowhere to hide, are always unexpected."

"I have a simple question, what is love."

"Whether it is a taste or gravity, from the day I first fell in love, it was sweet at first, and then there would be wind and rain."

While singing, Toru Watanabe had a bad premonition.

Along the way, many store windows were covered with tape to prevent them from suddenly cracking and injuring people.

It doesn't matter, what's most terrible is that all these stores are closed.

"Will the convenience stores be closed too?" Toru Watanabe couldn't continue singing.

Forgetting the storm in a real sense, do we also have to encounter a storm on the way to eat?

When he arrived at the convenience store he often went to, the convenience store that was open 24 hours a day and was still open even after a magnitude 5 earthquake, it was closed.

Watanabe Toru was hungry all day.

Since September, he has been busy with the preparations for the cultural festival. He has no time to read the news and rarely even chats with Osamu Kunii and others.

Otherwise, you can definitely know the news about the typhoon in advance and stock up on some goods!

At night, various TV stations issued warnings, except TV Tokyo, which showed "The delicious recipe of Chinese cold noodles."

Toru Watanabe was so hungry that he didn't know whether he was looking at the plum blossoms to quench his thirst or exercising his willpower. Anyway, he finished watching the program.

On Sunday morning, the first thing Toru Watanabe did when he woke up was to open the curtains.

The sky was dark, and a thick layer of rain clouds had accumulated over Tokyo. Thin threads of rain kept falling from between the clouds. The strong wind blew the street trees on both sides of the road to bend.

"hateful!"

Watanabe Toru stopped doing morning exercises and continued to sleep.

During the day: read, observe the rain, watch TV, observe the rain, sleep, observe the rain... At nine o'clock in the evening, the rain finally stopped.

Even if you don't hold an umbrella, it doesn't matter if you don't hold an umbrella. The light rain envelopes Tokyo like mist.

I have been hungry for nearly two days. For a sixteen-year-old body who insists on exercising, this is undoubtedly a super typhoon.

When Toru Watanabe went to the convenience store, his steps were a little frivolous.

The streets were brightly lit, and although not all shops were open, many were open for business.

Seeing the lights of the convenience store from a distance, Toru Watanabe felt that the bugs attracted by the light source became cute.

The convenience store is empty...

"Why are you here?" Toru Watanabe looked at the beautiful girl in a hat dressed as a detective in front of him.

The girl put the two boxes of lunch boxes into the shopping basket for a moment, then put one box back as if nothing had happened, pressed the brim of her hat, turned and walked towards the automatic checkout machine.

"Hello."

"What are you doing!" Qingye Rin turned around dissatisfied and said in a thorny tone, "Can't you see that I don't want to say hello to you now?"

Watanabe Toru looked her up and down.

Qingye Rin turned around and guarded the shopping basket vigilantly.

Who would grab that kind of thing? No one even paid.

"Are you so busy that you didn't know there was a typhoon? Then you were hungry for two days?" Toru Watanabe guessed.

"Do you think I am you?"

"Then why did you take two boxes of poop..." Because the girl's eyes conveyed the chill of 'I'll kill you if I talk again', Watanabe Toru chose to stop.

He changed the subject: "Then you knew there was a typhoon? Why didn't you tell me? I was completely and clearly hungry for two days."

"I don't know." Qingye Rin said in a tone of blame.

"Then what did you just say, 'You think I am you'?"

"I mean, instead of being stupidly hungry for two days like someone, I at least ate some fruit."

"...Did you buy the fruit by chance? In other words, you didn't prepare any supplies for the typhoon. In this case, I don't know why you want to pretend that you are great."

"Goodbye." Qingye Rin turned around and prepared to check out.

"It doesn't matter if you get another box, I won't tell anyone, and I won't laugh at you." Despite what Toru Watanabe said, the girl still didn't stop.

However, she turned around and went to the snack area.

Girls are so cunning. They say that snacks and desserts are placed in another stomach even though they are very edible. Boys who are confused by this cute saying are all idiots!

Although he claims to see through the true nature of girls, Toru Watanabe still chooses to keep his mouth shut.

Everyone, this is not cowardice, but a matter of assessing the situation.

Whether you are working as a secretary now or as a prime minister in the future, this is a very necessary skill.

While he was thinking wildly, Toru Watanabe had already selected two boxes of bento boxes, fried pork cutlet and eel rice, and then bought barley tea and rice balls.

When checking out, Rin Kiyono was just in front of him.

Rin Kiyono put the barcodes of the products under the machine one by one, and accidentally noticed that there were only two boxes of lunches in Toru Watanabe's basket, and his movements suddenly stiffened.

Unaware, Toru Watanabe asked about the cultural festival: "Has the movie been edited?"

Qingye Rin remained silent.

Watanabe Toru just thought she was angry about what happened just now, and said disapprovingly: "If it's okay, send it to Xi'an tonight for me to take a look at."

Kiyono Rin finished paying and gave up his seat.

Watanabe Toru stood in front of the machine, scanned the codes one by one, and stuffed a 10,000-yen note. When the change fell, he grabbed it and stuffed it into a plastic bag.

After leaving the convenience store, the weather that was still hot a few days ago felt cool. The wind could blow my hair around, and it was a bit cold without a jacket.

Watanabe Toru looked at Kiyono Rin standing at the door and asked doubtfully: "Wait for me?"

Qingye Rin hesitated for a moment and nodded.

"What's the matter?" As he said that, Toru Watanabe took out a rice ball from a plastic bag and ate it.

Qingye Rin glanced at the rice ball in his hand: "It may be too late for the movie."

"Ah, what a storm in every sense of the word." Toru Watanabe took another bite of the rice ball.
To be continued...
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