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Chapter 82 - 70. There’s no such thing as an unchanging routine.

Chapter 82: 70. There’s no such thing as an unchanging routine.

In the evening, Hanaoka Asako, who had been memorizing musical scores in her bedroom, took a break to play with her phone.

"Ichiki Aoi’s Brain Trust," a chat group created by first-year members of the Wind Instrument Club looking up to a third-year senior.

Including her, who had joined just today, there were now four members in total.

She stared at the name of the group chat for a while, intending to leave the group and check what her friends had posted in the news feed when, without warning, a message popped up on the screen.

Ichiki Aoi: Where should we go out this week!!!

Dubian Che: Saturday and Sunday are all rainy days

Kiyono Lin: Then let’s do indoor activities, like watching movies or singing

Dubian Che: Saturday and Sunday are all rainy days

Ichiki Aoi: Let’s go karaoke then! It’s the perfect chance to play Truth or Dare!

Dubian Che: Saturday and Sunday are all rainy days

Ichiki Aoi: Can Hanaoka senior help ask Mayi senior to join us?

Although Dubian was quite frivolous—a type she found most annoying—ignoring someone who was being overlooked was too much for her to bear.

Hanaoka Asako: Dubian, may I ask why you are repeating the same thing three times?

Dubian Che: ...

Dubian Che: Sorry

In her bedroom, with no one else but Hanaoka Asako, her face instantly turned as red as a boiled octopus.

She hastily replied on LINE: I didn’t mean to blame you! I was genuinely curious why you repeated it three times!

Kiyono Lin: Don’t mind him

Dubian Che: I want to stay home and sleep on a rainy day

The messages from Dubian Che and Kiyono Lin appeared on the screen simultaneously, at a speed that only the system could discern the sequence of.

Hanaoka Asako: After all, Dubian now has a girlfriend, it’s not appropriate for him to always go out with us, Kiyono, let’s not bother him

A long while later.

Kiyono Lin: Fine

Dubian Che: Hanaoka senior is the best!!!

Dubian Che: For things outside of school, I’ll count on you guys!!!

Hanaoka Asako looked at the words "Hanaoka senior is the best," and puckered her lips in dissatisfaction, feeling both angry and embarrassed.

Despite having a girlfriend, he still said such things to other girls... He’s truly a frivolous underclassman!

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There’s a saying, isn’t there? What’s not meant for you cannot be won by pursuit, and what’s yours cannot be avoided, even if you hide.

On Saturday morning at nine o’clock, Dubian Che, umbrella in hand, arrived at school.

The reason was simple.

Mayi Asuka, seemingly due to Kiyono Lin’s critique, rejected Hanaoka Asako’s suggestion to go out, deciding instead to continue practicing on both Saturday and Sunday at school.

She didn’t demand that the other students of the bass section give up their holiday, only mentioning that if they wished to come, she would be willing to guide them.

In Dubian Che’s view, Mayi Asuka’s intent was clear, hinting that everyone else should practice more and not to embarrass her again—of course, the words would never be that direct, this was simply Dubian Che’s personal interpretation.

Ichiki Aoi would naturally not miss this chance.

Therefore, he, who had said ’I’ll leave things outside school to you guys,’ set foot in the ’Gods’ River of a Saturday’ that he had not visited before.

The school building during the rainy season had a quietude like the silence he felt submerged underwater when swimming, with only the loud sounds of musical instruments and the clear clink of metal bats hitting baseballs to be heard.

The baseball team, gearing up for the Koshien preliminaries in July, was still practicing intensely, even on Saturdays, even in the rain.

This was indeed the rosy life of high school.

"Salute to youth!"

But that was all the salute it could muster.

Dubian Che held an umbrella in one hand and a book he had bought from a bookstore in the other, "The Star Moment of Humanity" by Stephen Zweig.

It was a biography written by Stephen Zweig including great writers, generals, politicians, and other significant figures at key moments in their lives.

The reason he chose this book, rather than a biography of a specific person, was that Dubian Che hadn’t yet decided: whether to become a great writer, a politician, or perhaps a general.

At the same time, he wanted to see how people of different statuses adjusted their mindsets and made decisions when faced with difficulties, which could broaden his strategies for dealing with the Jiutiao family.

Dubian Che and Kiyono Lin ran into each other at the shoe cupboard—their daily routines, no, at least their school arrival times, coincidentally matched.

But if they both took the same train every day, it wasn’t really a coincidence.

"Good morning, Mr. Dubian."

"Good morning."

Kiyono Lin’s courtesy was actually quite considerate, far beyond the average person, but her clear eyes, perceptive of all lies, made her seem always cold and distant.

On the way to the music classroom, Dubian Che expressed to her his admiration for those who persisted in practicing even on rainy days.

To Kiyono Lin, this was just a commonplace matter.

"If you want to go somewhere, like Koshien, the national competition, effort is just the most basic requirement," she concluded blandly.

"Is that so?"

"You don’t need to admire them," Kiyono Lin said as she opened the heavy soundproof door of the music classroom.

Inside the classroom, not just the bass section but members of other sections were present too, totaling around twenty people.

Dubian Che noticed that a small half of them were first-year students, and thanks to Kiyono Lin, he could even name each one and recall their student numbers.

It seemed like the problem with the Wind Instrument Club lay with the upperclassmen. While thinking this, Dubian Che pulled a chair up to the window to sit by the wall and opened "The Star Moment of Humanity."

Dubian Che’s arrival caused a small commotion in the Wind Instrument Club, which was almost entirely female.

His slender figure, visible even through his school uniform shirt, his long fingers turning the pages of the brand-new book, combined with his handsome face and focused expression while reading, instantly captured nearly all the girls’ hearts.

Due to the absence of the pesky Discipline Committee on Saturdays, the fact that they were secretly not wearing ties made the girls want to sneak peeks inside their casually unbuttoned shirts.

The girls exchanged glances.

"Deciding to come to special practice today was such a great idea!"

"Mhm, mhm!"

By the time Dubian Che glanced at the clock on the wall, it was already forty-three minutes later.

The music classroom was filled with various scents of shampoo, and the slightly murky air made him feel sleepy.

After resisting a yawn, Dubian Che simply stopped turning the pages, placed the book face down on the chair, and decided to go to the restroom to wake himself up.

After using the restroom and coming out to wash his hands, Mayi Asuka was at the sink, rinsing her mouthpiece.

Dubian Che washed his hands without a word and prepared to return to the activity room to continue reading.

"Thump."

Mayi Asuka’s tissue pouch, which she was about to take out of her school skirt pocket, fell to the floor.

This was the restroom, after all; thankfully, there was packaging... Dubian Che thought as he automatically bent down to pick up the tissue pouch that had fallen at his feet.

"Senior, here..."

It was then that Dubian Che, suspecting that bending over had caused blood to rush to his head, thought he was seeing a hallucination.

The usually expressionless and clear-eyed Mayi Asuka was now lifting up her skirt without wearing safety shorts.

Inside the women’s restroom, there was a murmur of someone speaking, seemingly one person had finished and was hurrying another!

As the other person responded with ’I’ll be ready soon,’ Mayi Asuka’s fair cheeks were also gradually tinted with a strange blush.

Finally.

Dubian Che could no longer think.