Tokyo: Who would still fall in love after being spoiled?

Chapter 24: As a third-year student, Natori chose between piano and studies...

The bell for the second class in the afternoon rang, the teacher left, and the students in the classroom packed up their desks and backpacks.

I immediately felt relaxed from the tense atmosphere of the word dictation test in class.

He put on his backpack, which he had packed during class time after finishing the dictation in advance, and was the first to step out of the classroom, heading towards the class that Sakurai had mentioned in the message.

In addition to being punctual and saving time, he was not sure whether Amano would continue to block the door and follow him after school in the afternoon, so it would be better for him to slip away as soon as possible.

I climbed the stairs to the third grade floor. Although school was over, the surroundings suddenly became quiet.

Grade 3 Class A was the first classroom at the end of the corridor. He walked along the corridor, looking at each class he passed by.

About one-third of the students continued to study in their seats, and two-thirds of those who left moved very cautiously. Even if they were with their companions, they would meet up in the corridor, talk in a low voice for a few words, and then leave quietly.

"Did you do the exercises distributed in yesterday's training session? How was your accuracy?"

"Not very ideal... Where's Prince Jia?"

"So-so..."

A pair of girls walked past him, discussing topics related to tutoring.

He walked across the corridor against the flow of people, walked to the door of Class A, and leaned against the other side of the corridor, waiting in a daze.

Sakurai didn't describe Natori-san's appearance to him, and I don't know if she described his appearance to Natori-san...

"Yanaizi still has to go to cram school today?"

"Um……"

"Ah... the competition is in half a month... If this continues, Menako's position will be taken away by the younger students."

"That can't be helped, right?"

"But who among the lower grades can play the saxophone as well as Yanako?... Maybe because of this, we can only get a useless gold or even silver reward!"

"There are four saxophone players in the wind section, and the solo is performed by the oboe, so it won't have that big of an impact."

"But……"

Two girls from Class A walked away talking in low voices, and I couldn't hear what they said afterwards.

Further studies and clubs are also one of the issues that third-year students must face...

Before Natori-senpai came out, he came to his senses and thought of the club activities and the video Sakurai mentioned that Natori-senpai posted on YouTube.

Since it's a performance video, I should be able to see Natori-senpai in it...

Thinking of this, he lowered his head and took out his cell phone.

"Um...is that...Inoue-san?"

He looked up at the sound, put away his phone, and had not yet opened YouTube on the desktop.

"Yes."

"Sorry, sorry, I kept Inoue-san waiting for so long." Senior Natori scratched her head apologetically and smiled foolishly.

Her long curly hair, tied into a ponytail, transitioned from black to brown at the roots, as if it had been dyed. Her school uniform wasn't neatly worn, and the bow tie that should have been tied across her chest was missing.

Because he happened to be looking down, it was not even clear whether he came out of the classroom or came from somewhere unknown.

"Where..." He looked away and shook his head in response.

Natori raised his hand and pointed in the direction of the stairs, indicating that he should talk while walking.

"Tsubaki told me there's a handsome second-grade boy who wants to join the piano club." She tugged at the stuffed bear hanging from the zipper ring, opened her backpack, and pulled out an application form. "Here, go home tonight and fill it out and leave it on the podium in the interest club classroom."

"Handsome guy?" He took the application form for joining the club.

"Inoue-san..." Natori-senpai couldn't help but cover her mouth and laugh, "Do you like hearing girls praise you so much?"

"No... I just didn't expect to be called that."

"You're not confident," Natori-senpai commented. "You won't be able to play the piano well with that mentality."

"Then it's okay to call me that. From now on I'll call you 'Handsome Inoue'."

"Pfft..." Natori-senpai couldn't help laughing again, "You're such an interesting person..."

"Back to the piano. All I have to do is fill out a form?"

"Well, you just need to fill out the form..." Natori-senpai's smile faded, and her tone became calmer. "Inoue-san is also joining the piano club as a pianist, right?"

"perhaps."

"Then you just need to fill out the form." In just two short sentences, the ease in Senior Natori's tone completely disappeared and became cold.

"There's another question..." Passing by the second-grade floor, he glanced in the direction of Class C and didn't see any suspicious figures in the area in front of the classroom door.

"What? Are you asking for a letter of recommendation? Or a recommendation for admission?"

Does the piano club still have spots available for direct admission? "The interest club classroom is locked."

"Ah...! This..." Natori-senpai suddenly realized, "The spare key is right here... Never mind, I'll take you there."

Halfway through her words, she glanced at the time on her watch and smiled at him.

Just...?
'Right over the sill?'

Wouldn't that be...

……

"It's bad..."

About five minutes later, in front of the activity room of the piano club's interest department, a third-year student with a wavy ponytail lost her composure, squatted on the ground, and wailed with her head in her hands.

"I remember it was always here..." she said.

"Is this the only key?"

"...The other key is with me." Natori paused for a moment, patted her skirt, stood up silently, and apologized to him, "I'm sorry to have delayed Inoue-san. I can look for the spare key myself, I'll find it eventually..."

"I hope..."

She pulled a wallet out of her shoulder bag, took out a bunch of keys from the wallet, and finally searched through the keychain for the one that corresponded to the classroom door.

The moment I found it, I paused for a long time.

"……found it."

"Yeah." He was waiting for her to open the door, while thinking about how to convince Natori to get the only key left.

Natori took the key silently, faced the door, jumped lightly, and put the key he had just taken out.

Then, pick up one of the keychains, insert it into the door hole, and turn it.

With a creak, he pushed the door open and walked in.

The spare key was not lost, it turned out that the president had taken it away.

Is that why no one from Kimura or Kato comes to this classroom to practice piano...

He looked at Natori-senpai, who was silent for a moment as she looked around the classroom, checking things.

"..."

Natori-senpai looked around, met his gaze, and blinked.

"Hey~" The third-year senior pretended to be cute in front of the second-year junior.

"..." He wanted to sigh, "Can I just fill out the form and put it on the podium?"

"Yes." Natori-senpai nodded, "I'll help you with it when Igarashi-sensei comes back."

He walked around the podium and went to the grand piano placed in the middle of the classroom, which was roughly the same as the one in the other classroom.

I opened the piano cover and tried to play a melody by Xiao Shili.

Unexpectedly, the piano, which looked almost the same, produced a sound completely different from the last time he played it.

"Ah...it's time to tune the piano again..." After hearing this, Senior Natori walked over to him and couldn't help sighing.

She placed her fingers on the keys.

He made way, and another melody flowed out from under Natori-senpai's fingers.

Although many notes were offset, it was still clear to hear that Senior Natori played the next part following the melody he had just played.

"Xiao Shi." Natori-senpai snapped her fingers, her tone slightly nostalgic, "I've practiced this song before..."

"Practice?" He didn't expect it.

"Hmm. But..." Natori-san closed the piano lid and said something meaningful and earnest, suddenly adopting the airs of a third-year student, as if trying to regain the face she had just lost with her "Hey hey," "If Inoue-san also wants to get admitted, he still needs to practice more complex ballads."

After saying that, she smiled at him and said goodbye.

"It's almost time. Our interest group is going to the welfare home for a charity performance this weekend. We have to practice every day, and it's almost time to gather.

"Goodbye, Inoue-san."

"Goodbye..." He watched Natori-senpai turn and leave, and when he turned back, the few words he had just heard were still lingering in his mind.

also……

Did you start to relax in organizing club activities after getting the qualification for admission?

　Thanks to shuzb7dian and fengzijian for their monthly tickets.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)