Chapter 7 Lucky Stars and Unlucky Guys

Although the main campus of Waseda University is located in Shinjuku, it is not as prosperous as Shinjuku 2-chome.

The colorful neighborhoods are as fantastic as ink paintings. You can even see a torii gate with regional characteristics at the entrance of the park across the road.

Passing by the convenience store corner, the girls coming off the Arakawa Line decorated Natsume Naoki's vision among the pink cherry blossoms.

In Japan, there are very few girls who go to school alone. They stay in groups, and even if they go out alone, they will form small groups on the road.

The girls who came up from the subway station were chatting and laughing. After seeing Natsume Naoki, their originally cheerful smiles turned into upright and shy smiles.

"Look, Tokyo is full of handsome guys. It's great to be able to go to university in Tokyo."

"You've been in school for one year and you haven't adapted yet? You've had enough of those handsome guys in the Business Department, right?"

"This is different! The boys in our department all look very fashionable and handsome. Even if the family has money, they can do it~ But he looks very sunny and handsome."

"Is it sunshine? Why do I feel like a melancholy prince?"

"Okay, okay, I know you like Howl the most. You've watched "Howl's Moving Castle" so many times."

"Hey~ When you put it like that, the more I look at him, the more I think he looks like Hal! He's my type. If we go to the same school later, why don't we ask for his contact information?"

Natsume Naoki didn't notice that there were two girls looking at him across the street.

I don't blame him for his poor insight, because there is really nothing he can do about it. There are too many people watching him along the way.

Just because the maid at home held her down in a strong position and gave her a haircut?

Does changing your hairstyle make such a big difference?

"Obviously no one in my class paid attention to me before." Natsume Naoki carried the handbag Asai Mao bought for him on his shoulder, looking more or less like a standard male student in Japanese comics.

The influence of the so-called personal maid on him has slowly begun to expand from that two-story building to his entire life.

Cars coming to see students off at the school gate blocked the road, and many traffic police were directing traffic.

Next to the vending machine across the street, a friend who had not seen him during the spring break was chatting with him, and posters for welcoming the new year were placed at the entrance of the convenience store next to him.

Natsume Naoki walked in from the asphalt road, and there were two worlds inside and outside the school.

"Classmate, classmate!" There were hurried footsteps behind him. He turned around and found two girls in long skirts. "Classmate, please wait a moment."

"What's the matter?" Natsume Naoki asked.

The two girls pushed each other for a while, and then the nearest girl mustered up the courage to ask Natsume Naoki: "Classmate, do you want me to take you around the campus to get familiar with it?"

"Are you familiar with the campus?"

"That's right~ You see, volunteers may not be available, and they have to receive a lot of people. If they take you to the academic department, they will leave."

The girl's companion also came over and added: "How about we take you for a walk? The cypress trees in the school are very beautiful, and there is also the statue of Xiaoyao on the ground. It is said that if you shake hands, you will succeed in your studies!"

Natsume Naoki understood that they regarded themselves as new students.

"I already shook Tsubouchi's happy hand last year," Natsume Naoki smiled politely: "Sorry, I'm not a freshman. It seems there's no need to get familiar with the campus."

"Eh? Not a freshman?" the girls asked, "Which department are you in?"

"Department of Engineering, majoring in computer science." Natsume Naoki answered.

Finally, he thought about it and added: "I can't repair computers."

The two of them looked up and down at his outfit, which seemed to be different from their impressions of his classmates from the Engineering Department.

It turns out that there are handsome guys in the Engineering Department too!

He is still such a good-looking, well-rounded handsome guy.

What was originally a cautious temptation gradually turned into courage due to Natsume Naoki's easy-going and handsome smile.

"Classmate, do you want to leave your contact information?" The shy girl summoned up the courage to ask.

You see, being handsome has the mysterious power to make even shy girls have courage.

Natsume Naoki also didn’t expect that one day she would be approached or asked for her contact information by a girl she didn’t know while walking on the street.

Just as he was about to speak, he saw a familiar figure at the volunteer reception desk in the distance behind the girls.

Tall figure, warm smile and iconic ponytail.

"No, I'm sorry." Natsume Naoki rejected the girls. He ignored the slightly disappointed expressions of the girls and looked into the distance.

At the same time, the tall girl with a single ponytail also glanced here inadvertently.

"Eh?"

Mio Izumi, who was distributing maps to the new students, was stunned.

Is it...is it Natsume-san?

Natsume Naoki changed so much that Izumi Mio was stunned for a few seconds before she was convinced that it was really him.

"Hello senior, how can I get to the auditorium?" A new student asked.

"Ah? Oh!" Izumi Mio came to his senses and quickly handed him the pamphlet in her hand, then tilted her head and pointed to the road: "Go forward to the end and turn left, and you will see a statue and a small garden.

We are almost there, there will be volunteers there and they will take you there."

Natsume Naoki stared at Izumi Mio for a moment. He clearly made up his mind during the summer vacation that he should say hello properly when they meet again.

Everything starts with the words "Long time no see" under the blooming cherry blossoms in spring, like a scene from Haruki Murakami.

But seeing that my senior sister seems a little busy, I might as well not bother her.

When Natsume Naoki turned around and left, Izumi Mio turned around.

She watched his leaving figure and subconsciously wanted to stop him.

But the distance between the two was far away, and Izumi Mio's hand stretched out in mid-air and his half-open mouth stopped.

His movements froze for a few seconds, until Natsume Naoki completely disappeared into the crowd of freshmen, Izumi Mio silently fisted her small hands and put them on her chest, sighing softly, sighing away some of her thoughts.

"Mio-chan! Please go somewhere else and see if there is a big bucket of water. It would be great if the water dispenser could be moved here as well! I don't have any water here!"

"I see!"

A companion shouted in the distance, and Izumi Mio responded, thinking that there seemed to be a water point at the engineering department teaching building.

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"Water point! If you are thirsty, please come and get water!"

There are specially set up water fountains and awnings on the roadside in front of the teaching building of the Department of Engineering, providing paper cups for students passing by to drink water and take a break.

Natsume Naoki, who happened to come to the teaching building to look for someone, was a little thirsty. He looked at his watch and saw that there was still some time before the professor's scheduled working hours, so he came to the sunshade.

"Classmate, do you need some water?" the volunteer asked enthusiastically, "There is warm water."

"Please give me a paper cup." Natsume Naoki said.

As he walked, he was looked at all the way, and the hot looks from the girls on the road actually showed him that he was sweating. Natsume Naoki laughed at himself and thought it must not be because of his poor physical fitness.

If this were placed in ancient times, I'm afraid it would be another allusion praising the handsomeness of men.

I took the paper cup from the volunteer and put it into the hot water spout and pressed it, but no water came out.

Natsume Naoki frowned and tried the cold water outlet again, but the result was still nothing.

He gently pushed the bucket on the water dispenser with his hand, and then patted the water dispenser, but to no avail.

The volunteer also discovered the problem and came over: "What's wrong, classmate? The water dispenser is broken?"

"Well, probably." Natsume Naoki sighed.

Is this really the case again?

Unlucky things started to happen again.

"This..." the volunteer scratched his head, and then said: "Then let me take down the bucket and help you pour some. Don't mind if it's a little cold."

Natsume Naoki shook his head and put the unused paper cup back on the table: "No need to bother, I'm not too thirsty, thank you."

Watching Natsume Naoki leave, the volunteer let out a light tut.

This water dispenser was working fine just now, why is it broken?

It's rare that after sitting here all morning, someone wants to come and have a drink of water.

Most of those who voluntarily become volunteers have a lot of energy in their hearts, shine from the bottom of their hearts, and may even feel a little regretful that they cannot help others.

"Student, you have a drinking fountain here, right? There is too much traffic at the school entrance and the drinking fountain is not enough. Can you use it first?"

A few minutes later, Izumi Mio also came to the awning, "I'll come back after the peak period...the water is really not enough to drink."

The volunteer looked at Mio Izumi, who was also wearing an armband, thought for a while and said: "That's okay, we only had one person drink water in this half day, and it would be a waste to leave it here. But it's a pity that the water dispenser is broken, otherwise I

Can I help you get the bucket?"

Izumi Mio looked at the water dispenser and gently shook the bucket. The water was so heavy that not many people took it.

"Is it Izumi-senpai?" Another girl from this volunteer base recognized Mio Izumi and came over happily: "Senior, I have long heard that Izumi-senpai is a lucky star recognized by the sports department.

Maybe you can get lucky and fix the water dispenser!"
To be continued...