Kyoto Shenyin Love Story

Chapter 402 Akane's School Festival Adventure
Papa, the extinguished lights on the stage in the auditorium came back on, and there was a boy in punk attire with pigtails in the middle.

"what."

Akane Kirino, who had already got up and was about to leave, stopped to look at it for a while.

Accompanied by a rush of percussion music, the lights on the stage also flickered.

[Hey, yo!

Look at me, baby!
Are you wondering about the meaning of this world?

Do you still have doubts about life?
In fact, the answers to all the questions are hidden in the book.

But I don't have time to study hard.

I want to escape this time that doesn't belong to me,

Seek the real stage in your heart,

Not tomorrow, not the future, but now!
hey yo!

...]

"What... what a weird rap."

Akane Kirino couldn't help smiling, and found it interesting, she sat down and watched the show.

After the opening ceremony, there were not many people left here.She looked left and right, and almost all the people in class B had left, and there were not many people in class A next to her.

"Next, is the track "Wind of Provence" brought by the Dan Gao Wind Ensemble."

The girl who announced the curtain disappeared behind the curtain, and then several staff members of the executive committee came to place folding stools, and then a large group of flute members came onto the stage with musical instruments.

"It's so slow."

Akane Kirino waited for a while, and the members of the brass band were still adjusting and preparing, so she got up and went out.

"Well……"

When she came outside, the bright light made her squint her eyes.

Walking along the corridor to the atrium, Akane Kirino stopped, "There are so many people."

The school festival has already started, not only Dan Gao students, but also many people from outside the school, wandering in the atrium with various stalls.

Today is still Friday, and there will only be more people waiting until tomorrow and the day after tomorrow.

Opening the school festival booklet in her hand, Akane Kirino glanced at it and closed it.

There are too many choices, she wants to see everywhere, so why not go shopping nearby.

"Let's start shopping from the atrium."

Fishing for goldfish, fishing for water balloons, shooting, or yakisoba stalls seem to be the standard for all celebrations in Japan, even school festivals are no exception, and many of them are run by people outside the school.

Should there be a booth fee?

Akane Kirino looked and thought, and started to shuttle in the atrium, not much willing to stay.

After making a small half circle, we came to the front of the special building. The vocal music department set up a temporary stage next to the entrance and exit, and there were two rows of small benches in front of it.

She walked over, "Can I sit here?"

"Of course, this is the auditorium." A second-year girl motioned her to sit down casually, "You came at the right time, our performance is just about to begin."

"That's great~"

Kirino Akane sat down on the small bench in the front row.

There are a total of eight members of four men, four women and eight members of the show, standing on the red carpet in front and back.The senior who was talking to her just now looked over: "The first song, "Walk With Head High"."

"what?"

She looked around, and the seats beside and behind her were all empty, "Is this the beginning, and I'm the only one?"

The senior just smiled, and suddenly snapped her fingers and took a breath.

【上を向いて歩こう

(Look up and stride up)
涙がこぼれないように
(to keep the tears from falling)

思い出す春の日

(recalling spring)

One person ぽっちの夜
(a lonely night)

兴せは云の上に

(Happiness is on the clouds)

lucky せ は kong no 上 ni

(Happiness is above the sky)]

(Ku Sakamoto · "Going Head High")
"..."

Akane Kirino blinked and opened her mouth to listen.

Without any accompaniment, the members of the vocal department sang a cappella with their heads held high, fully immersed in it.

After singing a song, suddenly there was a lot of applause behind her, and she realized that the surroundings were full of people.

"sounds so good!"

When she came back to her senses, Kirino Akane also applauded.

The members of the vocal department bowed to salute, then after a short pause, they sang the second song a cappella.

"Fate no ルーレット迴して
ずっと君を见ていた——"

(The wheel of fortune keeps spinning and I'm always waiting for you)
Immersed in the singing, Akane Kirino sat in the auditorium of the vocal department for more than ten minutes before being attracted by the conversation of the two boys passing by.

"I thought archery was very simple... I didn't realize it until I got started. It's not like that at all."

"People in the Kyudo Department practice every day, and there is no way to guarantee that every shot will hit."

"But I still think it's pretty cool."

"That's right."

Akane Kirino lowered her head and flipped through the school festival manual, and quickly found the Archery Club.

"Do you want to try archery yourself and experience the fun of archery..."

She decided to check it out.

After passing through the special building and following the corridor to the dojo of the Archery Department, Akane Kirino poked her head, and was noticed by a member of the Archery Department and invited her in.

"Want to try?"

"Okay."

"Put this on first."

"Is this... a chest protector?"

"Yes. Otherwise, you will be hit here by the bowstring."

The girl from the Kyudo Department helped her put on the chest protector, then handed her a bamboo bow, and walked to the side to demonstrate.

"Shooting eight knots, the first step is to set foot."

She walked to the firing position and stepped her feet apart.

Seeing Akane Kirino learning to imitate, she demonstrated the second step.

"The second step is to build the body."

Imitating step by step, until the seventh step "leave", Akane Kirino shot the arrow in her hand as she wished.

Whoosh!
"Wow, I hit it! Hahaha!"

Although she didn't hit the target, she didn't miss it either. As a beginner, Akane Kirino was very satisfied with this.

"The eighth step is to injure the body and mind." The bow member looked calm, "After the 'separation', maintain the same posture, so that the body and mind are in harmony with the breath."

"……Ah good."

After calming down physically and mentally, Akane Kirino lowered her bow again, and most of her enthusiasm faded away.

Serious archery is really troublesome...

"Can I shoot a few arrows at will?"

"...Please feel free."

The girl from the archery department looked at her and handed her five arrows, apparently already used to it.

Whoosh!Whoosh!Whoosh!
Akane Kirino didn't memorize any of the eight sections of the shooting method.

She shot all five arrows in one breath, even if she only hit one arrow, she was very happy.

The loose bowstring snapped against the breastplate, but she felt nothing.

"Thank you."

Unbuttoning the chest protector and returning it to the other party, Kirino Akane did not stop, turned and left the Kyudo Department.

"Well... next..."

The clubs are concentrated here, and the decoration in the special building is also the most attentive. The posters near the entrance and exit not only point out the activities, but also guide the location of the clubs on the corresponding floors.

Akane Kirino stopped to look at it for a while, then walked inside.

The special classrooms on both sides are basically occupied by various clubs, and various activities are going on.

"The Cuisine Research Institute and the Dim Sum Research Institute have specially made special snacks for the school festival, welcome to taste—"

"Whoever joins forces with you, how shameless!"

"Authorized by Dim Sum Research Institute, Cuisine Research Institute launched the latest special snacks for the school festival..."

"Not authorized!"

Akane Kirino stopped, looked at the two girls who seemed to be arguing, and looked at the snacks they were holding.

"May I taste a little?"

"Of course!"

Both of them stretched out the baskets with snacks in front of her, "just taste it."

Rolling her eyes, she picked out a piece each, and took another bite.

"How's the taste?" The girl from Dim Sum Research was very concerned about her evaluation, "Which one tastes better?"

Akane Kirino looked left and right, raised her right hand, "This."

The man wailed suddenly, and the one on the right was the dim sum made by Caiken.

"how so……"

"Let me just say that the essence of dim sum is cooking, and the one who really grasps the essence of cooking, of course, has to be our culinary research institute. How about it, let's think about the joint department."

"Don't—don't even die!"

Akane Kirino ordered two more cookies, ate them while walking, and continued to walk forward.

"The shogi club is holding the [School Festival Cup] shogi competition. The time limit is 10 minutes. The final winner can get an autographed photo of a famous person in Kiriyama!"

"It explodes in an instant, but it is absolutely safe. It is more magical than Harry Potter's magic. If you want to see exciting and fun experiments, please come to the Chemistry Department—"

"The top-secret magic that was released by the Magic Research Association for the first time, is only performed once a day. The opportunity is never to be missed, and now it only costs [-] yen to enter the venue!"

There was constant yelling from both sides, and Akane Kirino looked everywhere, and stopped when she was interested.

boom!
A puff of purple smoke rose from the laboratory bench of the Chemistry Department.

"what."

She witnessed a magic trick in full view.

"Damn it! I, I admit defeat!"

"Hey, how can you flip the chessboard!"

Chess pieces flew around, and fights broke out in the chess department's room.

What a lot of fun!

Looking left and right, Kirino Akane walked all the way to the end, from the stairs at the end to the second floor.

"The Film Research Association is currently playing the summer self-made film "My Show is Bad". It has large-scale shots. Children under the second grade are not allowed to watch it!"

"The furious sketching in the art department is in progress! The drawing will be out in 5 minutes, come in and draw a portrait!"

"Confused people, do you want to try divination?"

After strolling all the way to the literature and art department on the third floor, it was a little quieter.

Compared with other clubs with constant yelling, there is only an A-shaped stand at the entrance of the Department of Literature and Art, which is extremely simple.

[The Ministry of Literature and Art's magazine "Thousand Years One Hundred Selections" and the Unnatural Phenomena Research Department's magazine "Soya-san's Unnatural Story" are on sale. 】

"..."

As soon as she poked her head, she met Chao Wuling and Yugong Wenxu's eyes, and they looked at each other and smiled again.

"Ring, Amamiya-senpai."

"Kirino-san."

Akane Kirino walked in and looked at the stacks of magazines on the table, but nothing seemed to change.

Surely none of them were sold?
"One copy of the club magazine of the Literature and Art Department was sold." Said Amamiya-senpai, and showed her her records on paper, "Three copies of "The Unnatural Story of Soya-san" were sold."

"..."

Adding up the sales volume of the two magazines, they couldn't make up a single letter.

"It doesn't seem too good."

Senior sister Amamiya didn't care about this, "The school festival has just started, there will be more people in the afternoon and two days after tomorrow."

Akane Kirino looked outside, "Maybe it's because the location here is not so good and no one comes here."

"Perhaps there is such a reason, but the main reason is that we only publish the magazine and have no other activities."

And apart from the short sentence in the school festival handbook, and the stand sign at the door, there are no other means of advertising.

"Well……"

These two members of the Department of Literature and Art are not the type to go out and yell.

Akane Kirino thought for a while, picked up two magazines, went to the door and shouted.

"The autobiography of Soya Yoshiaki, the most handsome boy in the first grade, now only costs [-] yen a copy!"

"The two beauties of the Ministry of Literature and Art carefully selected one hundred books..."

Before she finished shouting, she was pulled in by the flushed Amamiya-senpai.

"Kirino-san, don't do this..."

"But……"

"It's fine now, really."

"Ok."

How many people were attracted by the shout just now, but only one girl paid for Honsoya's "Autobiography".

"Hey, is the strange story here true..."

"It's true."

"Is it really the personal experience of Soya from class A?"

"I'm his girlfriend, I can assure you."

"...Ugh!"

After staying in the department room of the Ministry of Literature and Art for a while, Akane Kirino bid farewell to the two of them, and went out to continue shopping.

There are not many interesting clubs on the third floor of the special building. The clubs that only publish a magazine at the school festival are not only the literature and art department and the unnatural phenomenon research department.

"Ah, that's right."

Recalling that Hongzi mentioned before that the horticultural department will hold a special exhibition of "Secret Garden" on the rooftop, she plans to stop by to have a look.

Continue to walk along the corridor, and when it is almost at the end, two girls come out of a department room next to them, holding a stack of leaflets in their hands.

"The costume design department will hold a fashion show in the auditorium, and there will be a first-year mysterious handsome boy playing the role of the ascetic prince. Welcome to watch!"

When she passed by Kirino Akane, the other party also gave her a slip.

The so-called mysterious handsome man should be Soya... She looked at the time when the fashion show started.

"Tomorrow afternoon...it would be nice if it could be earlier."

Continuing to go up to the fourth floor, Akane Kirino quickly noticed a girl standing at the door of her department.

"Is there a problem?"

"Ah." Being called on suddenly, the other party was surprised, and then said: "I read in the brochure that the magazine is being sold here, but there seems to be no one in the department..."

"Ah." Akane Kirino remembered that it was a temporary decision to sell the company magazine together in the literature and art department, and there was no further notice.

"The sales location is at the Art Department on the third floor."

"is that so……"

The girl turned and left.

Akane Kirino thought for a while, opened the door and went in, took a pen and paper, wrote a note, and pasted it on the door of the department room as a reminder to those who came after.

"Well, maybe it's better to let Suzu and Amamiya-senpai come here directly... After all, we are quite popular in school."

When she came to the stairs, she decided to go to the rooftop first, and then go to the club on the fifth floor when she came down.

On the rooftop, even though the hottest time has passed, the sunshine at [-] o'clock in the morning should not be underestimated.

"Well……"

Fortunately, the wind on the roof is not small.

Brushing her long hair that was blown by the wind, Akane Kirino looked around, and there were some pretty flowers and plants on the roof, but they were very ordinary and had no sense of novelty at all.

She grabbed one of the girls from the gardening department and asked about the situation.

The other party smiled mysteriously, "Because it's a 'secret garden', so you have to find it yourself. It's actually easy to find, and you can definitely see it on the rooftop."

Akane Kirino became interested, and explored left and right on the rooftop, and even planned to climb up to the high platform at the exit of the corridor.

Several girls from the gardening department were sweating coldly when they saw it, so they quickly grabbed her and led her to the guardrail on the edge of the roof.

"look down."

"Ah...ah!"

On the open space behind the special building, hundreds of potted flowers are placed together, the colors are gorgeous and gradually changing, forming a dreamlike eye, gazing at the sky.

"so beautiful!"

The girls in the gardening department looked at each other and smiled.

"Can I take pictures?"

"Of course. But hold your phone well."

Click!

"I originally planned to put on a whole face, but there are too many places to use flowers."

"I think it's more mysterious."

"Thank you, you can really talk. I remember you are Yoshikawa's friend."

"Yeah, Hongzi and I are best friends!"

After taking a few photos on the rooftop, Akane Kirino wanted to send them to Soya, but stopped again.

She was going back to find him.

After leaving the rooftop, when she visited the fifth floor again, her pace became much faster.

"Space Battleship Yamato 2199, which took two months to make by the Handicraft Department, is on display! There are also exquisite small items that are on sale for a limited time, welcome to see!"

Akane Kirino walked into the handicraft department to take a look, she was not very interested in the space battleships placed in the middle of the department room, and focused on the cute little objects next to her.

"It's completely different from the space battleship."

"Haha, if you like it, please pick one and take it away."

"free?"

"No... you have to pay."

Akane Kirino chose for a while, then picked up a hair accessory with cat ears.

"This is hand-sewn by a female member of our craft department, and it only costs [-] yen."

"Can you try it?"

"of course."

Akane Kirino put cat ears on her head, looked around, looking for the mirror, but saw a boy in the corner sneaking something into his pocket, and then dropped a card on the table.

She was startled for a moment, and immediately shouted: "There are thieves!"

The man was shocked, and when he turned his head again, countless eyes in the department all looked over.

"Wait a minute, I can explain. Actually, I belong to the Reasoning Club... Wait a minute!"

buzz-

In his busy schedule, Fushimi took out his mobile phone and glanced at the message he just received.

"..."

Noticing the change in his face, Soya who walked by asked casually, "What's wrong?"

"A member of the team was discovered while setting up puzzles, and even the entire reasoning club was wiped out..."

"Sounds like a criminal organization."

"Hey."

"—Soya."

Suddenly there was a call from behind.

Sogu turned his head, a pair of cat ears and its owner rushed towards him.

"Ow!"

Akane Kirino threw herself behind him, and scratched his face again, "You are disfigured, pretty boy~"

"What a handsome boy..."

Sogu turned around and looked at the cat ears on her head, "Can kittens also make tiger noises?"

She shook her head and smiled.

"They're all cats anyway."

(End of this chapter)