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Lying on the table, Kumiko Huangmae let out a long breath.

 “Finally done!”

"Really, even if the national competition is over, you can't relax. After all, there are still final exams next. If you don't work hard, you will be scolded again when you get back. If this continues, my mother will deduct my pocket money. It's money. The same goes for you. If you don't study hard, you won't be able to pass the exam. If you go to tutor while everyone is practicing, it will be over."

"I know."

Hearing the reminder from her friend, Kumiko Huangmae turned her head and looked at the empty seat behind her while speaking. There was no one there, it looked empty.

“Naruse-san is so nice. I don’t have to go to class now, and I also went to Antarctica...”

Let’s not talk about whether to go to Antarctica or not. Being able to take a break from school while others are still studying hard is already very impressive.

December.

 For students at the school, only the final exams are left, the third grade has graduated, and the wind band club is mostly empty.

“Speaking of which, when Teacher Duanmu is not in the wind band club, I always feel relaxed.”

"Yeah yeah."

 Hearing Huangmae Kumiko’s emotion, her friend also nodded. People in the wind band club usually don't dare to comment on Duanmu Huai, mainly because Duanmu Huai's aura is too terrifying. When he was in school, he felt like a supreme tyrant. Therefore, even if everyone knows that he is not nearby, they dare not judge him casually. But now that he has gone to Antarctica, which is thousands of miles away from here, they can finally relax and complain.

“Speaking of which, Mary-san is not here either. What will happen to the next concert?”

“Taki-sensei said that we need to change the music and start practicing again...”

"Why………"

　　A few people looked at each other and sighed in unison. Although the national competition is over, there are still a series of activities for the Wind Band Club. Especially when they entered the country for the first time and won the silver medal, they attracted considerable attention locally. They also have to participate in some public concerts, and in order to live up to the silver medal in the national competition, of course they cannot just deal with it casually.

Even if they don’t get a ranking, they still have to show the strength of the wind band club in front of the audience.

“Is it really okay? Without Mary, the strength of the wind band club will be greatly reduced.”

“So we have to work hard to make up for it.”

“But having said that, Mary is really awesome.”

Recalling Mary, Kumiko Huang’s friend Xiao Lu also felt emotional.

"Xiao Lu has never seen someone who plays the violin so well, and she hasn't practiced hard..."

“That’s talent. Really, it’s something that makes people envious even if they want to.”

Hearing Xiao Lu's emotion, Kumiko Huangzen also nodded, and couldn't help but think of her friend Reina Kosaka, who is also an excellent trumpeter. However, Kumiko Huangzen knew that Reina Kosaka never relaxed. Over-trained. Not only do I come very early every day, but I also go to private trumpet lessons after school.

But Mary is completely different. Although she also practices in club activities, other than that she basically does not intensify her training. According to Mary, her playing the violin is part of "lady's cultivation", and playing is used to cultivate her sentiments and relax her spirit.

In fact, Mary really enjoys playing the violin every time. It seems that she really treats the violin as a kind of entertainment, rather than training so hard like them that she doesn't even know when she is tall. But even so, she still holds the top spot on the violin, and no one can catch up with her.

And she still has the time to give guidance to other students. It can be said that nothing can make people realize the talent gap better than this.

“But Teacher Duanmu is pretty good. Although he is scary, he is not bad when he should be nice to us. Xiaolu really misses that cake.”

"yes……"

Hearing this, Kumiko Huangmae nodded. What Xiao Lu was talking about was the first day they returned to school after participating in the national competition. At that time, everyone dragged their exhausted bodies into the classroom, and then saw everyone's desk. A dessert was placed in front of them, and then Duanmu Huai said to them, "Although you may be dissatisfied, the game is over. After eating this, go back to rest and sleep. There is no use worrying about the past."

And it was very rare. The dessert was limited to 300 pieces per day. I don’t know how Duanmu Huai got it. All in all, after everyone finished eating the cake, their original melancholy mood was wiped away, and they went home chatting and laughing. went.

To be honest, after spending a year with Duanmu Huai, the views of the people in the Wind and Music Club towards the two consultants Duanmu Huai and Long have also undergone earth-shaking changes.

First of all, it was Taki. As a consultant, he was very popular with the students at first, because he was handsome. But soon, the wind band club was tormented by Taki's devilish training methods. He won't frown and curse with a straight face, he will just let you practice it over and over again until he is satisfied. So after this year of training, those students who originally thought "LUCKY, I can get guidance from a handsome teacher" have long given up on this naive idea.

 As for Duanmuhuai, everyone has completely opposite ideas.

At first, everyone was afraid of Duanmuhuai. After all, he looked fierce and had a terrifying aura. In addition, everyone was unable to adapt to Duanmuhuai's aura at the beginning, so his performance was poor, which caused Duanmuhuai to be in a bad mood. It becomes a negative cycle. So no one dared to talk to Duanmu Huai at that time, and even meeting his eyes would cause cardiac arrest.

It wasn’t until Duanmu Huai brought Mary and gradually restored the performance of the entire wind band club to normal that everyone discovered that although Duanmu Huai looked scary on the outside, he was still very approachable. He rarely loses his temper with students and will chat with them - of course, if Duanmuhuai is really angry, they will really be unable to bear it and walk away.

In addition, Duanmu Huai is always outspoken. Although many of what he says are not suitable for his status as a teacher, children in adolescence do not hate this approach. Now the wind band club has formed an unwritten rule. If you have any questions about music, please go to Teacher Taki. If you have other questions, you can talk to Teacher Duanmu.

 After all, Duanmu Huai was responsible for the several crises the wind band club encountered this year.

 Although his method is really unacceptable to everyone.

 “A sneeze——!”

Standing on the deck, Duanmu Huai sneezed violently.

 “What’s wrong? Teacher? Do you have a cold?”

Hearing Duanmuhuai's sneezing, everyone who was standing in front of the railing and looking at the endless sea in front of them also turned around and looked at him curiously.

 “Maybe someone is talking about me, it’s really easy to talk about me.”

 Duanmu Huai shrugged his shoulders and looked forward. They were not far from Antarctica now. For everyone except Mary, it was their first time to Antarctica, so they were naturally very excited.

　　Oh, not counting Fulillian, this girl stays in the cabin all day long, either sleeping or reading. If it weren't for Wan Lia and Tacheng Kitty to take care of her, I don't know how sloppy she would be.

What surprised Duanmu Huai was that besides them, there were actually four female high school students in the exploration team this time. The team leader said that they were in charge of the project to introduce the Antarctic exploration team, and female high school students were not allowed to come here. It is easier to cause a sensation. Of course, they also conducted interviews with Mary, Naruse Mio and others, but Duanmu Huai... naturally wouldn't go up.

 Otherwise, it will be easy to fail the review.

“But Teacher Duanmu, maybe I’m overthinking.”

Rias also turned her head at this moment and stared at Duanmuhuai with some doubts.

"I have also investigated this matter. According to reports, the survivor was brought back to the mainland at the beginning of the year. It has been almost a year now. Can we find any clues if we go there again?"

 “You don’t understand this, Rias.”

 Duanmu Huai shook his head.

“Indeed, I know what you said, but what you don’t know is that after that, the government secretly sent an investigation team to the scientific research station to investigate, and then..."

 Duanmuhuai spread his hands.     "No news at all."

 “Huh? Is there such a thing?”

"Yes, and after that, due to climate change in Antarctica, all routes to Antarctica were closed. In other words, we were the first group of members to go to Antarctica again after a year, so we must hurry up Before everyone else, let’s find out what happened there. And I have a bad premonition...well, my bad premonitions usually come true.”

"That is………"

Marie sighed silently beside her. Basically, every time Duanmuhuai felt something bad happened, something bad would happen, such as Ridu Island...

 “When are we leaving?”

 Tacheng Mao was also curious and asked. Generally, you need to take a helicopter to go to the scientific research station, but they are demons, so they can just transfer or fly directly.

“I have already told Toudo that we will disappear on our own and declare to the outside world that we are performing a special mission. They don’t need to know anything else.”

Duanmuhuai looked forward as he spoke. Under his gaze, a snow-white glacier appeared on the other side of the blue sea level.

“Okay, pack up, we’re ready to go.”

The light flashed before their eyes, and the next moment, everyone was stepping on the flat ice.

“This is Antarctica…”

 Looking at the surrounding scenery, Naruse Mio's eyes widened in surprise.

“To be honest, I never thought I would come to Antarctica.”

"Me too………"

 Everyone nodded. Even the devil had never thought that one day he would come to Antarctica for sightseeing. Of course, for ordinary humans, the ice and snow here are enough for them to endure. Fortunately, the people here have non-human constitutions, so this level of cold is still bearable for them.

 “Oh...it’s so cold, Mary is carrying me...”

 “Hey? Miss Fulilian, don’t you want to see the scenery here?”

“It’s not like it at all. It’s freezing and snowy over there in the Demon King’s City. I’m tired of seeing it. Let’s find a warm place quickly...”

 Except someone.

 To be honest, what’s the use of you?

Duanmuhuai glanced at Fulilian, who was shivering behind Mary, and rolled his eyes helplessly.

“But it’s so big here. There are flat ice surfaces everywhere, and it’s hard to tell the difference between east, west, north and south.”

“We are in Antarctica, must we be in the south?”

 “So where is the south?”

"this………"

Facing Wan Lia’s question, Naruse Mio was speechless. She looked around and then at Duanmu Huai.

“Mr. Duanmu, what should we do next?”

 “Of course I have a way.”

Duanmu Huai took out the augury - he must have prepared it before coming here.

“The scientific research station that was locked before is right here... Speaking of which, your teleportation magic is unreliable. Wouldn’t it be better to just send us to our destination?”

“The magnetic field here is very chaotic, and the teleportation magic will be interfered with. This is the limit.”

 “Okay, let’s go.”

After locking the position, Duanmu Huai also waved his hand, and then everyone stood up and followed Duanmu Huai forward.

The endless glaciers look very shocking at first sight, but if you look at them too much, your eyes will hurt. Naruse Mio was very excited at first, but soon it wilted like an eggplant beaten by frost.

 “Uncle, how far is it?”

 “It’s almost there.”

“That’s what you said half an hour ago…”

While complaining, Naruse Mio looked around boredly, and then she suddenly saw a small figure appearing behind the small iceberg not far away, running towards her.

That is……

"penguin!"

 Seeing this small, cute bird, Naruse Mio immediately screamed and hurriedly waved to others.

 “Hey, look, there are penguins here!”

"Um?"

Hearing Naruse Mio's greeting, the others also stopped and turned to look, and then saw the penguin running towards Naruse Mio.

“It’s surprising. It’s not afraid of people, isn’t it?”

“Antarctic penguins have never seen people, right?”

"That's what you said... let's go over and have a look too?"

"Why?"

While everyone was talking, Mary stared at the penguin, and then her expression suddenly changed.

 “Miss Mio, get out of the way, that’s not a penguin!”

"Why?"

Hearing Mary's reminder, Naruse Mio was stunned for a moment. Before she could react, she saw the fat, super cute little penguin running in front of Naruse Mio. Then - its head suddenly split into four pieces like petals, and then, several tentacles flew out of it like arrows and shot towards Naruse Mio!