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Chapter 182 - 112. Cultural Festival (1)

Chapter 182: 112. Cultural Festival (1)

On August 26, the second day of the Kantou Competition.

Although I wanted to make the most of the last days of summer vacation and continue practicing, as a high school club, it was doomed that we couldn’t devote all our time to the competition.

"Does anyone have any good suggestions?" Komatsu Misaki, the Wind Instrument Club President, stood on the podium in the music classroom.

"Why not just play the competition pieces?"

"Exactly, that way we wouldn’t waste any training time."

"Right now, I just want to practice, practice, practice!"

"I understand how everyone feels, but the competition pieces alone aren’t enough," Komatsu Misaki stated with difficulty, "This year, the school has allocated thirty minutes for the Wind Instrument Club, and our competition pieces only last twelve minutes. To deal with the extra time, we must practice new music. Kiyono agrees with this point too."

Everyone turned to look at the far side of the classroom where guests sat; there was Kiyono Lin, the beautiful and intelligent girl who, unfortunately, was otherwise utterly useless, sitting calmly.

The wind on the cusp of autumn stirred the white curtains, swaying the girl’s black hair and sketching a scene straight out of a youth movie.

Facing everyone’s gaze, Kiyono Lin nodded.

Her nod was far more convincing than Komatsu Misaki’s, and immediately, no one opposed anymore.

"So, what piece shall we pick?" Yuzao Haomei, who played the tenor horn, asked.

"Better to choose something simple to save practice time."

"Too simple isn’t good either. Remember, we are the first team from Goda High to win the gold medal at the Kantou Competition and represent Kantou in the national competition!"

"...Aren’t you a bit too proud?"

"Actually, simple is fine too. Most people who come to hear us play won’t understand wind music, choosing a currently popular song might actually be more popular."

"That’s true, we’re going to play the competition pieces anyway, and anyone who truly understands will not question our skill level."

"So, which songs are popular now and have suitable scores?"

"Not sure. If I’m not training, I’m on my way to cram school, I’ve been completely out of touch with society."

Everyone was more or less in the same situation, just about to resort to Google, when Dubian Che said, "How about anime songs? Like theme songs and insert songs from ’Demon Slayer’ and the ending song from ’Sword Art Online.’ These two anime are very famous, lots of people have heard of them, and there should be wind music versions available online."

"’Sword Art Online’ I know, but what’s ’Demon Slayer’?"

"It’s a new anime that’s supposedly super popular," Dubian Che added, who learned about it from Kunimi Shuichi and Saito Huijie.

He’d been busy lately working on his Transcendent Level double-reed performance, and hadn’t watched any anime.

"It’s super, super popular!" A boy in the percussion section got excited, stood up, bent forward, and gestured a sword-drawing pose with his drumsticks, "Focus, and reach the peak!"

No one paid him any attention.

Even Dubian Che had no idea what he was doing.

After a brief silence, Komatsu Misaki spoke up to relieve the boy of his awkwardness.

"Then, let’s decide to pick songs from popular anime. We don’t have extra time to spend on selecting music. Section leaders and seniors, come to the tenor horn section classroom for a meeting to finalize the specific songs. The rest of you, practice on your own."

"Yes!"

The scene above was the Wind Instrument Club preparing for September’s Cultural Festival.

After the morning practice, in the Human Activity Department’s classroom, after lunch, as Dubian Che was reading a book, he asked Kiyono Lin, "What should we do?"

Goda’s school rules dictate that during the Cultural Festival, in addition to classes, every official club must present something unique.

"Survey questionnaire."

"A survey questionnaire?"

"Yes. A survey on people’s views about lying."

"What’s fun about that? Boring," Dubian Che complained.

He had looked forward to the exotic customs of events like the Cultural Festival and summer festivals with fireworks; he’d finally left his village hoping for a campus life akin to anime, but in his first semester, he’d unexpectedly ended up with a girlfriend—though pretty and wealthy—his first cultural festival faced him with the utterly boring task of handling a survey.

Not even half as fun as last life’s flea market.

"Then what do you want to do?" Kiyono Lin asked without looking up, flipping a page of her book.

"How about forming a temporary band? You sing, I play guitar, and we’ll get Meiji involved too, singing theme songs from ’Slam Dunk’ and ’Dragon Ball.’"

"I don’t really like standing on stage, managing the Wind Instrument Club is a necessity."

"That’s not up to you." Dubian Che slammed his hand on the table, "I declare at this school festival, our SOS Brigade must do something fun!"

"SOS Brigade?"

"Ah, my mistake, it’s the Human Observation Department. The Human Observation Department must do something more interesting!"

"On what grounds?"

"With our grades, we get only one freshman year, which means only one freshman school festival. A once-in-a-lifetime event should be made unforgettable, right?"

"You eat every meal once in a lifetime, do you get to eat exactly what you want every time?"

"That’s different! Although each meal indeed occurs only once in a lifetime, there are many meals, so you can look forward to the next one," Dubian Che argued.

"What’s the difference? There’s only one freshman cultural festival, but there’s one for sophomore, junior year, and every year in college."

"This..." Dubian Che couldn’t argue with her, "Regardless, I disagree with conducting some survey."

Kiyono Lin sighed as if she couldn’t stand him anymore, "You can make suggestions, if there’s an activity that I find interesting, I don’t mind changing it."