Chapter 291
"No, I think it's perfect."
Ryo kept her eyes closed, but her voice made Hitori feel that she was very serious.
Rather, it's evident from various details that Liang carefully selected the synthesizer.
Hitori breathed a sigh of relief, but then tensed up again at the cold voice.
"However," Ryo said, much to Hitori's surprise, just when she thought he might have a different opinion.
"If you don't want to fall behind, be careful of the people next to you."
Hitori was stunned for a moment before she understood what she was talking about.
She still didn't care; for her, a visible result was enough.
"Falcon and I have already set a time; I don't care about anything else..."
Liang sighed.
If even Ryo knew this, how could Ishikawa Hayato not know it?
On a weekend evening, when Hitori returned to her parents' house and said, "I'm home,"
A girl with shoulder-length red hair walked into the Ishikawa family's door, her face shy and timid, yet she still took out her access card.
But when she opened the door, the homeowner, whom she had never informed before, was already in the entryway. He put down his book, smiled, put his arm around her shoulder, and led her, who was surprised, into the house before closing the door behind him.
204. Scattered
Today is the school festival. Not only is it the school Shuhua High School, but it's also the school festival of Shimokitazawa High School.
However, they didn't hesitate about where they wanted to go.
As Nijika had mentioned before, their high school's school festival consisted only of seminars and academic observation reports, which were incredibly boring. Naturally, she chose to come to the more fun-filled Shuhua High School.
The five of them started preparing last night, gathering together to discuss how to have fun and practice the music for the school festival.
We ate breakfast early this morning and went out together.
To be precise, they were all pulled out the door by Ikuyo and pushed by Ishikawa Hayato.
In the entryway of his house, Ishikawa Hayato pushed the girls, who had already changed their shoes, from behind and said...
"Let's go, to the school festival!"
While being pulled along by Ikuyo, Liang was also being pushed around, muttering in disdain.
"Why are you so excited..."
"Hurry up! Ryo-senpai, stop complaining! Today is the school festival, we need to have a good time."
Because it was too difficult for three people to drag, Ikuyo had no choice but to give up and run ahead to clear the way.
"Hurry, everyone! Hurry, hurry!"
Ikuyo's urging for them to hurry up was continuous.
By the time Ishikawa Hayato closed the door, she had already run to the elevator and was pressing the elevator buttons excitedly like a child.
Ryo turned around and looked at Ishikawa Hayato, questioning him with his eyes.
Aren't you going to stop them?
"Ikuyo, just press it once."
Ishikawa Hayato greeted her with a smile, and his words were effective. Ikuyo immediately stopped her restless hands and skipped back with a sigh.
Even after that weekend, she didn't become quiet.
Ishikawa Hayato explained to Ryo again before she returned.
"It's been half a month since we last went out to play. It's a rare treat to go out together, and since it's a school day, I'm especially excited to go to school with Nijika and Liang, all five of us."
Ikuyo, who had run back, also earnestly raised her finger to add to the list.
"It's like everyone being in the same school."
"Indeed, it would be much more lively if everyone were in the same school."
Nijika was persuaded by the two and began to seriously imagine the scene. She seemed to think of some scenes that moved her heart and became slightly lost in thought.
"Right!"
Ikuyo exclaimed happily.
After getting off the elevator, the five of them walked along the route that Ikuyo Ishikawa Hayato and Hitori usually took to school.
Ikuyo skipped happily ahead, talking about the particularly interesting activities she had learned about from various sources.
"I heard that Class 2-2's ghost hospital project was really well done, as were the movies filmed by Class 4 and the fortune-telling shop run by the fortune-telling enthusiasts. Our class and Class 1 also sell really delicious snacks."
As soon as Nijika heard about the haunted house, which she was terrified of, she started to feel scared.
"Eh... a haunted house..."
"It'll be really fun!"
As if blocking their escape route, Ishikawa Hayato approached her and Ryo from behind, bending down and pressing on their shoulders.
Unlike the other three, Nijika and Ryo were dressed in casual clothes. Ishikawa Hayato imagined the five of them going to and from school together in their school uniforms and teased him.
"Let's go have some fun, senior~"
"Hmm..."
His voice struck a nerve with something Nijika had just been secretly thinking about, making her shudder.
Liang glanced at Nijika, who was frozen in shock, and said with the air of a senior student.
"If it's not fun, you know what to do, right, junior?"
Faced with the cold, Ishikawa Hayato floored the accelerator and asked.
"Payback with sex?"
Liang smiled but didn't say anything. Nijika out of her daze and called out.
"You two, watch yourselves!"
"It's so unfair that only seniors get this privilege! I want it too!"
At that moment, Ikuyo ran back and tugged at Ishikawa Hayato, calling out to him affectionately.
After another round of fun and excitement among the senior and junior students, the five of them chatted and joked until they reached a place where they could see the gate of Shuhua High School.
In their eyes, the school's once solemn entrance, devoid of any cute decorations, now had a huge sign hanging there, with the three large characters "Shuhua Festival" written in the middle of cute patterns.
The stone pillars on both sides are decorated with bird-shaped ornaments, and various signs to attract customers are hung on the side walls.
Beneath the huge signboard, between the two side billboards, in the walkway leading into the school, students and adults from other schools come and go in a constant stream.
Keep in mind that this was a weekday.
Nijika was delighted to see a scene so different from what she saw at her school, but then she turned to look at the others before speaking.
"This looks interesting, let's go."
"Senior Nijika, that's not how you should react. You should say..."
Ikuyo spoke, she looked at Ishikawa Hayato, trying to connect with him on the radio.
Ishikawa Hayato immediately understood and smiled in response.
The school festival has begun!
After buying the program booklet at the entrance, Nijika and Liang immediately started looking up the location and activities for the three students' classes.
"Let's go to the junior's and Bocchi's classes first."
Liang, with an understated eagerness, was ready to get straight to the main course. Not only Liang, but Nijika also let loose and started playing around.
Although she already knew that Hitori's class was going to work as butlers and run a maid café, she still pointed at Hitori's class and looked at her mischievously.
"Bocchi-chan's class runs a maid cafe! Bocchi-chan really wants to see maid cafes~"
"Ah..."
She froze for Hitori, feeling uneasy about something that might ruin the atmosphere.
But she only spoke in a low voice.
"I didn't participate in the class activities..."
"Oh... what a pity..."
The two seemed slightly disappointed.
They could only look at Ishikawa Hayato and Ikuyo's class.
Seeing that their class was making crepes, the two couldn't help but glance at Ishikawa Hayato, and the image of Ishikawa Hayato with a crazy smile, squeezing syrup onto the crepes in their minds came to mind.
The crepe was filled to the brim with thick, sweet syrup, but Ishikawa Hayato wasn't satisfied and continued to sprinkle white sugar on top, creating a mountain of sugar.
Faced with the terrifying images in their minds, and the scenes that were so sweet to even think about, the two remained silent for a while before Liang spoke.
"I won't be attending Falcon's class!"
Nijika also strongly agreed.
"It's just too much to make the whole crepe into sugar!"
As if reading their minds, Ishikawa Hayato quickly explained.
"What are you thinking about? It's Ikuyo who makes the crepes."
The two began to imagine again.
Ikuyo: This combination will definitely be fun! The colors are so beautiful! Strawberries are a must!
However, after imagining it for a while, the two realized that crepes seemed to be what they were originally made of, and no matter how many ingredients were added, they wouldn't taste too bad.
Ishikawa Hayato is an exception.
Seeing that the two were gradually becoming interested, Ishikawa Hayato said.
"Ikuyo's shift starts at 9:30, let's go check it out together then."
"Um!"
After the others agreed, Ishikawa Hayato looked at Ikuyo with a wicked grin.
"We'll get one of each flavor, and then another one of various combinations like double, triple, or even quadruple."
"I'll make it if Hayato-kun can finish it!"
Ikuyo didn't back down either, looking at Ishikawa Hayato and saying something sharp and confrontational.
Nijika felt that Ikuyo no longer cared about her sisters; she would probably prioritize finishing the dozen or so portions for Ishikawa Hayato before considering them.
Upon entering the school, one is greeted by two rows of food stalls, which have been transformed in many ways by the students' rich imaginations.
This is mainly reflected in the gimmicks used to attract customers. For example, the entire store and the costumes are decorated like those of a caveman barbecue restaurant, there are solar-powered takoyaki stalls with the words "clean energy" written on them, and students dressed in ham sandwich costumes dancing in the square full of energy in the morning.
Amidst the bustling crowds in the school square, the sounds of footsteps, conversations, the sizzling of barbecue stalls, and shouts of vendors created a lively symphony, infecting the emotions of the visitors.
When Nijika arrived at the central square of the school, she couldn't help but laugh when she saw the students dressed in sandwich costumes dancing.
Ishikawa Hayato glanced at the classmate who was dancing, then asked Nijika.
"Nijika, what's wrong?"
"It reminds me of Hayato-kun dancing dressed like this."
Do you want me to perform in real life?
Looking at the students dancing in the square, Ishikawa Hayato sensed that they possessed considerable strength and were at a somewhat abnormal level, which stirred a desire to fight within him.
Nijika Ishikawa Hayato back, looking at him with a gentle smile in her red eyes.
"Don't you want to play with us a little longer, Hayato-kun?"
Good heavens, Nijika is flirting! I have to stay no matter what.
"Then let Nijika see my cool moves when we get home."
After Ishikawa Hayato finished speaking, he glanced at the others. He looked at Hitori, Hitori, from the moment before, seemed to be looking around as if she didn't want to disturb their conversation.