After the cultural festival, everyone's lives gradually returned to normal. Of course, unlike before, the members of the Light Music Club had gained quite a bit of popularity after the festival, and even Touma Kazusa was no exception. Before the cultural festival, most students had only seen Touma Kazusa as an unsociable, withdrawn, and cold girl.
However, ever since Touma Kazusa performed that astonishing saxophone solo at the cultural festival, she had captured the hearts of quite a few boys. In the past, no one in class had spoken to her, but now plenty of people had started chatting with Touma. Though she was still not very good at getting along with others, everyone had become far more tolerant of her than before.
That was the bonus of talent. If you had no talent, people would only see your withdrawn silence as proof that you were some hopeless weirdo. But once you displayed heaven-defying talent, even if you did strange things, people would merely see them as eccentricities unique to the gifted and tolerate them.
It was like how people would definitely gossip if an ordinary person could not take care of themselves and lived in a sloppy mess. But if that person was a scientist, most people would understand.
Touma was like that now as well. Though she had not changed at all from before the cultural festival, everyone's acceptance of her behavior had risen considerably.
Naturally, Fang Zheng was also surrounded by a crowd of people...
"Hey, did you hear? Yoshida from Class Three confessed to Touma!"
"Really? Which brave warrior was that?"
"Still, it's all been useless. She looks completely uninterested in romance."
"Say, Kasugano... who's your number one?"
"Hm?"
Hearing the boys around him asking, Fang Zheng put down his novel and raised his head.
"What?"