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Culture Festival.
Class 1-A.
"An Qiu, what kind of game is actually playing inside?"
Prunus, who had just finished dealing with a group of customers, walked up to An Qiu curiously after seeing Explode walk out of the game room with a gloomy face.
She asked carefully.
After all, she had never seen Explode look like a dead person before.
"Well …" An Qiu, who was having a hard time holding back her laughter, raised her head and put her mouth close to Prunus's ear. She did not hesitate to expose the secret that the whole class was trying to protect in an instant, "… It's a romance RPG with you and me as the female protagonists.
Almost all the CG in the game were secretly taken by our classmates. "
An Qiu said it casually.
Prunus, who finally knew the truth, widened her eyes instantly after realizing what was going on.
Explode was so angry, "… I, I, I, I, I will go and blow this place up with the senior!"
"Don't, don't, I won't be able to see the fun if you do that." An Qiu smiled and grabbed Prunus's wrist, pulling her back to her side.
He pulled her back to his side and said, "Look at how funny that senior over there is."
Prunus was speechless.
An Qiu's smiling eyes contained a malicious and triumphant grin.
…
After learning the truth and being forbidden to destroy the stall, Prunus and Explode returned to the snack corner in the class with the same expression. The desserts in their class were not expensive, so business had been good. Because of this,
Some customers that Prunus did not expect were also attracted.
"… Teacher, this festival called Culture Festival is really not sloppy."
"Janos, your database doesn't even know what Culture Festival is?
Japanese high school students should have experienced it. At that time, I was the first in the school's handsome boy election. "
"I see. Teacher has been very strong since high school.
I will remember this. "
Prunus, who was putting the bean stuffing into the incubator one by one, heard the two familiar voices. Her expression, which was not good to begin with, instantly sank to the bottom.
She froze and raised her head mechanically.
In the end,
Then, he made eye contact with the bald Saitama and the robot Janos.
Saitama: … Why does this girl look a little familiar?
"Teacher.
According to my database, this girl's face is 9500% similar to the face of the kindergarten student we met on the shopping street a month ago. "
Janos answered Saitama's ridicule seriously. He then looked at Prunus and used the scanner installed in his eyes to record Prunus's appearance in the database in his mind. "… Yes, they do look alike. this girl and that's …"
"I don't know him." Bai Jian interrupted Janos' analysis with a straight face.
Janos was silent for a moment before he said, "If you look closely, even the pupils …"
"No." Prunus interrupted again.
Janos was unwilling to give up. Just as he was about to activate a more advanced scanning function, Saitama, who was beside him, hooked her arm around Janos' shoulder and interrupted him. "Wow, look at Janos. There are fern cakes here for 200 yen. This is a very good price for a cultural festival. Miss, give me two of them!
Janos, you're paying! "
"… Yes, teacher."
Being interrupted by his most respected teacher, no matter how persistent Janos was, he could only give up on scanning Hakusen's pupils. He then obediently took out two hundred yen notes from his pocket and bought the desserts made by Hakusen's class.
Prunus quickly completed the transaction and said goodbye to the two with a smile. "Take care. The exit is over there. Don't take the wrong path. It won't be good if you come back after going around in circles. Thank you for your patronage."
Janos: "I feel that this girl is particularly unfriendly to us. It's just an illusion …"
"It's just an illusion. Thank you for your patronage!" Prunus replied with a smile.
… Janos felt wronged.
Saitama, on the other hand, completely ignored Janos's inner sadness. Instead, she looked at the Matcha Fern Cake in her hand with satisfaction. After all, she got it for free. She felt that it was beautiful no matter how she looked at it. "Janos, do you want to eat?
I'll treat you! "
"… It's okay, teacher." Janos felt wronged again.
Wasn't he the one who paid for it?
…
…
After watching Janos and Saitama leave, Prunus, who was very tired, welcomed a new batch of customers that drove her crazy.
— She was referring to Hong and his friends.
During that time, the number of customers in the dessert area gradually decreased. Prunus moved to the temporary open kitchen to help make various kinds of hand-shaken fruit tea. While Prunus was focused on cooking, the familiar names of the students in the class appeared.
"… Wow, senior Dehisa!
Why are you here? "
Knife-cutting, who was clearing the table, saw Dehisa and hurriedly pulled Ying Yin to greet her. After all, Knife-cutting and Dehisa used to be master and disciple, so they had a good relationship.
"Oh, it's because Che Island recommended us here …" Dehisa explained in a good-natured manner. She then chatted with Knife-cutting.
Prunus, who was making fruit tea, looked up casually and noticed Boom, who was following Dehisa, Iida, and Reishi. Perhaps because of the maze game in their class this year, all of them were dressed in adventurous attire. Boom was dressed as a bard. He was wearing cotton clothes and carrying a heavy magic book behind Dehisa and looked around. No one knew what he was looking for.
(An Qiu: You're the one I'm looking for.)
Should I say hello to Little Bombardment Scorch?
Prunus tilted her head.
"Senior Boom!"
Just as Prunus was looking for an opportunity to leave the kitchen, Ying Yin, who was following Knife-cutting to greet them, took the opportunity to put her arm around Boom's shoulder. Compared to Boom's height of 1.78 meters, Ying Yin was a little shorter.
"Do I know you?"
Boom raised his eyebrows. Ying Yin's expression and smile were too friendly. Boom was not used to it, so he opened his mouth to speak.
"Didn't Prunus tell you?
Thank you so much for giving us the scroll during the temporary license test. Without the help of you and Senior 8 Million, Starling Wood and I wouldn't have been able to pass the test! "Ying Yin said without hesitation. She put her arm around Boom's shoulder and said without hesitation.
— — Prunus froze. While no one was looking, he carefully squeezed his body between the cabinets and prayed that Boom would not discover him.
An Qiu: … Pfft, does Ying Yin want to be friends with me?
Prunus: Don't say anymore, don't say anymore, don't say anymore, don't say anymore …
The naturally airheaded Boom took some time to understand what Ying Yin was referring to. After about three to four seconds, another cross appeared on his forehead when he finally came to his senses.
Boom: I'm so angry.
Ying Yin was very satisfied to see the bulging veins on Boom's forehead. She comforted him without fear: "… Senior, don't be angry. Didn't you pass the test in the end?
But as expected, I still have to thank you on behalf of Starling Wood. How about this, I'll take you to play the romance RPG 'Doki', where you can get Prunus's hidden swimsuit CG!
Let's play 'Hero Love Academy'. I can use my data to give you a cheat. It's not a loss! "
The veins on Boom's forehead disappeared in an instant. Then, he looked at Ying Yin with an inexplicable expectation. His face looked like he wanted to know more, so please continue.
The corner of Ying Yin's mouth slowly curved into a mocking smile. Facing the naive and cute Senior Hong, how could he be so happy to bully him? After thinking for a while, he took out a pair of VR glasses from another dimension and handed it to Hong, "This is for you … The selling point of our class's game is not the 2D game, but the VR experience as if you are in the scene!"
— — Live experience, Prunus, Swimsuit, Love …
Oh, oh …
Boom was a little dizzy and his ears turned red: "Then, I'll try …"
"… Try your head!"
Unfortunately, before Boom One's hands could take the game item from Ying Yin, he and Ying Yin turned into stars in the sky in the next moment.
An Qiu looked at Prunus who was holding the bomb in his hand and shook her head: "Almond, is it really okay to not let senior date you?
Senior will be happy. "
"… Devil!
You're all demons! "Bai Jian hugged his head and wept bitterly, then ran out of the classroom.
An Qiu looked at Prunus who had been hit multiple times in one day, and her delicate red lips curled into a dazzling smile …
The Culture Festival is really … too interesting!
Boom: … I feel so wronged.
…
Various things happened. After Dehisa and Iida had experienced this strange game, Boom and Ying Yin, who had been blown away by the bomb, came back with their faces covered in dust. Just now, the two of them had run to Santukawa together, and now their outlook on life had changed.
Boom: I'm not playing games anymore.
Ying Yin: I'm not teasing others anymore.
Then, while Boom and Ying Yin prayed to Buddha at the same time and Prunus disappeared from the Culture Festival, 1-A's love game became more and more famous on the school's website and other websites.
Chiku and Uchikai scrolled through Weibo during their break time and found that the game in their class had become a hot topic on Weibo. Almost all of them were the ending cinematics uploaded by various participants, photos taken with An Qiu, and some secret shots of Prunus. Thanks to this online promotion, the names of Asakura Yasuaki and Prunus Almond gradually became famous on the Internet.
As a result, the next day of the Culture Festival, Class 1-A was flooded with guests. Some of the netizens who couldn't make it to the Culture Festival in person also started to contact the game producer Cube via email, hoping to buy the game to play at home. After thinking about it, if all of this was converted into Japanese yen, it would be enough for the whole class to eat and drink well for a period of time.
Cube: When I go back, I'll increase the cinematics of the game, add more realistic scenes and mini-games, increase the interaction between the characters and the ending, and then sell the game to the public. The profit will probably be … this amount!
Everyone in 1-A: dumbfounded.jpg
Uchikai: … Please marry me!
Nekoda: Cube, you're so cool!
So reliable!
Chiku: Yes!
Thank you so much for this strange game!!
Starling Mu: … Girls are so realistic.
Prunus: Am I the only one who isn't happy?
An Qiu: … Seems like it.
…
Then, after 1-A closed the food and beverage department and focused on entertaining the various guests who came to play the game, the Culture Festival finally came to an end.
Without any suspense, 1-A won the operating award from Xiong Ying. Although the 20,000 yen bonus was nothing compared to 1-A's profit over the past two days, it was still enough to make people happy.
However, there were also some people who were not particularly happy about this. Bai Jian, who was finally released, was more than happy to unload the game consoles and return them to the support department instead of celebrating the bonus that his class had received.
However, she was later driven crazy by the news that "her strategy and settings in the game will be perfected", and she turned herself into a star in the sky.
As for the remaining 19 1-A students who were enjoying the stench of money, they looked at Prunus, who was lying on the ground with a terrible expression on her face. Although they felt guilty and regretful for a second, they still laughed and discussed the sequel of the game.
"Hey hey hey, why don't we not participate in the night after the Culture Festival and just go back to the dorm to discuss how to fix the bug —"
"Since Almond knows about it, I want to play the game in the dorm tonight too!"
"Do we still need to collect cinematics? Hey hey hey, why don't we make an official website —"
"Also, also …"
Therefore, Anqiu, who had just changed out of her devil costume and returned to the classroom while her classmates were making crazy comments one after another. Suddenly, she saw a scene outside the classroom that surprised her.
There was actually a beige durian outside their classroom!
An Qiu, who realized who it was, gradually became gloomy. She pursed her lips, slowly walked to the door of the classroom, and pulled out the gloomy senior who seemed to have not been liberated from the shadow of the game.
"… Explode senior, do you still want to play the game?
Our class has already closed for business. "
"How is that possible!
I will never f * cking touch that shitty game again in my life! "Explode was seething with anger, almost wanting to fight with An Qiu in the corridor.
"Then what are you doing here?"
An Qiu tilted her head, looking at Explode Sheng Ji who, like her, had also changed back from cosplay to school uniform. Her thin lips that had not yet been removed pursed into a faint arc.
Explode frowned, looking at the girl in front of him who had been particularly happy in the past two days. There were some things that he wanted to say, but he couldn't say it out loud. After thinking a lot, he glanced at the unconscious Prunus on the ground in the classroom and casually changed the topic: "What happened to the white-haired guy?"
"He heard that the game was going to continue, so he just fainted."
An Qiu crossed her arms, her dark eyes like spring water emitting a soft light: "Senpai, you said that the cultural festival is really a good festival, right?"
Explode listened to her soft voice, but his mind was thinking of a different scene — he remembered her missing during the summer vacation, and her tired expression after she was found.
Explode's orange eyes suspiciously glanced at the girl in front of him who seemed to be in a good mood. After chatting with her for a long time yesterday, Explode found that Asakura Yasuaki had unknowingly returned to her original mysterious self. Even though he felt that she was more integrated with the surrounding environment than before, but was that true?
He couldn't help but begin to recall the events of that time.
Because he cared too much, he specially came to sneak a peek.
Just now, he just hid near the corridor, watching the 1-A crowd happily discussing the sequel of the game, but he couldn't find An Qiu anywhere. He waited for a while before he finally saw An Qiu coming out of the 1-A locker room with a set of red clothes. He thought that she would naturally blend into the group, but he didn't expect that she just looked at them from afar with a somewhat distant gaze.
Was she really okay?
What was she thinking?
At that time, Explode had a trace of doubt in his heart, and he couldn't help but want to talk to her.
As someone who was also kidnapped last year, he should be in a position to talk to her.
Something flashed in Explode's orange eyes, and he sorted out his thoughts before slowly opening his mouth: "… Hey, I won't beat around the bush, let's talk alone."
"Talk about what?
About Almond who fainted? "
An Qiu seemed to have heard the deeper meaning in Boasting Tyrant's words. His pair of deep eyes darkened, but his tone still carried a hint of teasing.
"About you being kidnapped," Explode gritted his teeth, suppressing the urge to blow up the girl on the spot, and said hatefully.
An Qiu looked at Explode with a pair of gloomy eyes. Seeing the stubbornness and seriousness in his eyes, she actually had the urge to run away.
She really couldn't face his honest eyes.
— She really lost to this senior.
…
An Qiu would definitely refuse if it was any other time, but the person was Explode, who appeared to be unparalleled in the world. Knowing his calm and cautious character, An Qiu finally accepted his invitation: "Okay, but there are too many people in the school, if senior wants to talk to me alone … let's talk outside."
"Outside?"
Explode frowned after hearing An Qiu's words. He also noticed that many people in the corridor were looking at the two of them strangely, whispering to each other about something, which made him feel very uncomfortable.
… No, wait, could it be the same rumors from before?
Saying that he and An Qiu were in contact with the enemy alliance?
Explode frowned, and a trace of irritation appeared in his heart.
"There are so many brainless people …" He pursed his lips in dissatisfaction. Although he would have cursed under normal circumstances, at this moment An Qiu was standing in front of her, if he made a scene here, it would definitely affect her. Thinking of this, Explode was rarely rational: "Whatever you say."
Hearing this, An Qiu's eyes softened a little, and she nodded in satisfaction.
Noticing that Explode was unhappy because of the stares, she thought for a moment and moved her face closer to Explode without any scruples. Her red lips pursed into a teasing arc, and she joked casually: "But two people going out on the street … I hope you won't think of this as a date in a game."
"No, if you think about it this way, you're quite lucky to be able to go out for a meal with a celebrity like me."
An Qiu's pair of black eyes glanced at him, and the corner of her mouth curled up, and her tone was full of surprise: "No, or is it just a pretense to talk to me?
Is it an excuse for you to ask me out? "
Hearing her say so much nonsense in one breath, Explode, who automatically interpreted all her expressions as "asking for a beating", twitched the corner of his mouth, and his pair of orange-red eyes lit up directly. He arched his body, and his hands lit up with explosive sparks: "… Bastard!
You really should go to hell! "
"… Haha, you're really the same as before, senior!"
An Qiu's mouth curled up, and she dodged Explode's fist: "I'm just joking, don't you know?"
"Who cares about you!" Without saying a word, the tyrant chased after her in the corridor and exploded.
… Then, suddenly, the sound of Explode and his disciple fighting could be heard in the corridor. Those who were gossiping about them were scared half to death, and it left a shadow in their hearts. From then on, no one dared to casually talk about this bloody duo in public. This was something that Explode found out later.
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