"Come to the second art preparation room after school!"
Below is a string of numbers that looks like a phone number.
This is what is recorded on the note wrapped in the handkerchief given by Yinglili.
After saving the phone number in his mobile phone, Kato Yusuke crumpled the note into a ball, then put it into the garbage bag he carried with him along with the finished coffee bottle and put it in his schoolbag.
The boy who refused the invitation of the girls in his class on the grounds that he still wanted to participate in club activities came to the west side of the third floor alone.
Pushing open the door of the art room, I saw the familiar girl with braids again.
"Excuse me, good afternoon."
"Ah~ Good afternoon, Kato-san." Toyama Harumi responded with a smile: "You are so early."
Perhaps because he arrived too early, there were no other club members in the classroom at this time, only Harumi Toyama was doing preparations.
Seeing this, Kato Yusuke stepped forward. While saying "Let me help," he moved the sculpture that the girl wanted to carry to the designated position.
"Thank you, it's really helpful~!" Toyama Harumi thanked: "Sure enough, having a boy in the club is different~"
"It's nothing." Kato Yusuke shook his head and then asked: "But I haven't seen any students applying to join the club recently. Did something happen?"
"Ah, Kato-san doesn't know yet..."
Harumi Toyama kept her mouth shut and explained: "Actually, starting from last Friday, the Art Department no longer accepts new applications for admission to the department."
She continued without waiting for Kato Yusuke to speak.
"On the one hand, the classroom cannot accommodate so many people, and on the other hand, as members, we also want to focus on the next city art exhibition."
"Especially for the third-year seniors, the art exhibition in April next year is the last chance before graduation, so everyone is busy preparing."
"I see." Kato Yusuke nodded, and then a new question arose, "But it's only June now, isn't it too early to think about next year?"
Hearing what he said, Toyama Harumi lowered her eyes slightly and spoke in a slightly lower voice than before.
"It's not too early. After all, for ordinary people like us, if we want to get a place in an art exhibition, there is no other way but to work hard..."
The classroom suddenly became quiet, but it was only for a moment. Because Toyama Harumi quickly returned to normal and encouraged Kato Yusuke with a smile on her face.
"But if it's Kato-san, it'll be fine! Because you have talents that are not inferior to Sawamura-san, so if you want to do it, you will definitely be able to get the ranking easily."
Is this what is called talent greater than hard work...?
Kato Yusuke thought silently and lost interest in talking for a while.
At this moment, the door to the art room was opened again, and three girls walked into the room together.
"Good afternoon, Qingmei."
"Good afternoon, Toyama-san~~" x2
You can tell the order here just from the title.
The vitality of the girls swept away the dullness in the room, and Harumi Toyama responded with a smile.
"Good afternoon~Hishida-senpai!"
Then he greeted two first-year students.
Due to unfamiliar reasons, Kato Yusuke did not say hello to the three of them. He just said "I'll excuse you" to Toyama Harumi, and then walked towards the room by the window, preparing to open the door and enter.
Seeing his behavior, Toyama Harumi couldn't help but open her eyes wide, and hurriedly stopped her: "Wait, wait a minute, Kato-san! You can't go in there..."
The other person's reaction was more direct.
I saw the girl wearing glasses who had started moving together as soon as Kato Yusuke started to move. At this time, he quickly blocked the door of the second art preparation room, raised his hand and slapped the door frame with a "pop-!"
Go up and say coldly to him.
"What do you want to do, first grader!"
This attitude made Kato Yusuke narrow his eyes. Just when he was about to say something——
"Hishida-senpai??" Toyama Harumi, who came a step behind, stepped forward and said, "Please calm down first. I think this must be a misunderstanding. Kato-san doesn't know that this is Sawamura-san's..."
"That's impossible!" A girl named Hisita interrupted her, stared at Kato Yusuke and said, "I've told him this kind of thing a long time ago."
As he spoke, Hisita looked at Kato Yusuke, stared into his eyes, and said word by word: "Do you have anything to say? I'm a first grader."
The cold tone of the question seemed to freeze the air. The two first-year girls standing there were watching all this with trepidation, not even daring to take a breath.
In such an atmosphere, Kato Yusuke spoke.
"Sawamura-san asked me to come."
"Stop joking! Do you think I will believe such nonsense?" Hishida said impatiently: "Since Sawamura-san used this place, no one has ever been invited in here. Let alone a boy. I don't believe it.
If so, you can ask Harumi."
"Eh, eh?"
Harumi Toyama was startled when she was suddenly called, and then she glanced at Yusuke Kato and said with some anxiety.
"...That's true. It's an exclusive studio that only belongs to Sawamura-san, and even the school agrees."
As if she felt guilty, she changed her words again.
"But, I don't think Kato-san is capable of lying..."
The voice gradually became quieter, but it was enough to express what he meant clearly.
"Harumi... do you actually believe this boy!" Hisita's voice became sharp. Just when he was about to ask more questions, he heard a sigh echoing in the room.
His voice was not loud, but it could not be ignored. After all, all the conflicts were caused by him.
"I said, as long as you can prove what I said, that's fine, right?" Kato Yusuke said in a calm tone.
As soon as he said this, everyone's eyes focused on him.
"You said proof...how to prove it?"
Faced with Hishida's inquiry, Kato Yusuke simply said in an understatement, "I'll find out in a moment." Then he pulled up a chair and found a corner to sit down by himself.
Hisita couldn't help but hesitate in her tone, but as long as this person stopped wandering around, she didn't bother to care.
The other girls looked at each other in shock.
This situation lasted for about five minutes.
The door of the art room opened with a squeak, and the figure that everyone was looking forward to appeared in front of them.
With shining blond hair and blue eyes. A pair of slender legs under the skirt were wrapped in black knee-high socks. The young girl walked into the room with light steps.