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

Chapter 25: Saotome is actually a painting genius among gorillas

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[Skill: Mechanical Piano Tuning — 5000 Points (Lv. 1)]

After Natori-senpai left, he was the only one left in the piano classroom.

Next to me is an out-of-tune grand piano, in front of me are harassing pop-up ads from the system, and there is no piano practice sound coming from next door yet.

He was thinking about how to break through a multi-million yen business.

He actually recommended that he tune his piano himself... Is it really necessary for him to learn a skill that he might never use again in his lifetime?

It would be more convenient to look for the contact information of a professional piano tuner on the Internet.

He took out his mobile phone and searched on Google for the official website of the most well-known related company, found the contact information, filled in his name, mobile phone number, address, and paid the advance payment.

Then he walked out of the piano club's interest department classroom, closed the door, and went to the art club to sign in.

"Oh~ Pervert Inoue." Saotome greeted him.

"Are you wearing pantyhose today?"

"What's it to you whether she's wearing it or not? You keep asking questions like that, you pervert."

"Saotome..." Ichinose paused her brush and couldn't help but interrupt, "Don't you want to show Inoue-san the results of your practice?"

"Oh, I almost forgot... Pervert Inoue, look! I've mastered all the lines you mentioned. In just these few days! Am I a genius?"

He ignored Saotome's words and examined the thick watercolor painting framed for Takeda on the easel.

According to the overall progress, 90% has been completed, with only some details left to be repaired. If nothing goes wrong, it can be completed today.

Hopefully, Takeda has already bought the frame.

It's strange that there is no system task triggered for sending paintings.

"Hmm---Inoue-kun!"

"Yeah, genius."

"You didn't even look at it!"

An arm as long as a gorilla's reached out from across Ichinose, covering Takeda with her line drawing practice paper and forcing him to look.

He glanced at Saotome out of the corner of his eye. She almost leaned on Ichinose's arms, just to hand the paper to him.

Retracting his gaze, he put down the palette, held the practice paper to prevent it from touching the painting behind it, dipped the brush in some red dye, and drew a circle on it.

Pushed the paper back.

"Ugh... Ichinose—this guy really thinks he's a teacher!"

"Saotome——" Ichinose got angry because she was forced to not draw.

"Feel sorry……"

About an hour and a half later, the phone vibrated, indicating that a text message had been received. The adjuster I contacted online had arrived.

He was a serious middle-aged man wearing a pair of black-framed glasses and a business suit that you often see on the tram. He stood silently in front of the piano hobby classroom and waited for him to open the door before nodding and walking in.

He opened the piano cover, looked around, and played a scale.

"It's been in use for quite a while... If I just tune it and adjust the tone, it'll be back to its current state in no time."

The man stood up and explained the situation to him.

"And if we do a full renovation, it'll cost at least 50,000... I can take it even at 40,000 yen. Is that enough for Inoue?"

Forty thousand yen... Just two hundred points, treating Takeda to a braised meat set meal costs five hundred.

"Enough." He made a simple calculation and nodded in agreement.

"Pay me after the inspection is complete... If the parts that need replacing exceed the estimated cost, the cost will increase. If you can report the expenses to the school for reimbursement, it's best to budget at least 60,000 yen."

"Replace parts?" The problems with the piano in the interest department classroom seemed to be much more than he expected.

"Judging from the sound quality, the hammers, dampers, strings, tuning pegs... many parts may be so old or worn that they can no longer function properly."

"I see." He had no idea what the objects behind these nouns were used for. "When is the latest time to leave your school?"

"Will it take long?"

"At least five hours."

It's already half past four, and in five hours it will be half past nine.

Not to mention when the school will close, even the boarding house will be closed.

"Then let's do it tomorrow at noon..." It seems that I can't carry out the mission this week...

Even if we start cleaning and repairing at noon, it will not be completed until after five o'clock, which is close to the time when club activities end and we leave school.

It was unknown how long it would take for the competition that Kimura and Kato would participate in to start, and how much time he had left.

The adjuster nodded in agreement and left the classroom.

He returned to the art club.

Takeda's painting was nearing completion; Ichinose asked him for advice on the treatment of light and shadow.

He raised one hand into the air, facing the window frame, and slowly moved closer, allowing her to observe the light and shadow falling on the floor through the gap between their easels under the sunlight outside the window.

Because light scatters in the air in reality, the shadows of the hand and the window frame will merge together in advance when they are still some distance away as they gradually get closer.

Ichinose seemed lost in thought; Saotome said she had discovered this a long time ago when she was playing shadow puppetry, and she enthusiastically performed a rabbit-turned-puppy transformation in front of the two of them.

The art club should really learn from the piano club and apply for another classroom, and put all those who are only interested in painting into another classroom.

It was almost six in the evening and the art teacher and most of the members had left school.

Ichinose finished revising the drawing and watched him put the finishing touches on it.

The indoor lights took over from the sunlight and continued to illuminate the entire classroom.

After finishing the final stroke of the "Takeda Park Painting," I checked it over and could see no obvious areas for modification.

He raised his phone, took a photo, and sent it to Takeda himself.

[Inoue: Delete the recording.]
"It's much better than that street painting..." Ichinose exclaimed.

At that time, he had just picked up the brush again. After not having touched it for more than ten years, he was always a little rusty. Now he has regained some of his feeling, but there are still many areas that are not satisfactory.

"That's right - this time I'm drawing one of the lovers of the scumbag Inoue, so of course I have to draw it well." Saotome said sarcastically.

"So if I were to draw you, I'd probably draw you as a long-armed gorilla with no hair and clothes on."

I didn't get an immediate reply from Takeda, and I didn't know whether he was in training or working.

While verbally dealing with Saotome, he tore off the four strips of tape from the edges of the dried drawing paper.

"Then you better be careful, or the gorilla wearing clothes will call King Kong to beat you to death!"

"I'm a Cybertronian. Go ahead and yell, I'll be there for you."

I tore off the tape, put it into the album, and also stuffed the practice drawings that I had thrown next to my seat a few days ago into the album. I put them on my shoulder bag and got up to leave.

"See you tomorrow~ Inoue-san." Ichinose waved to him and planned to draw for a while longer.

"Ichinose-senpai, see you tomorrow."

"What about me?" Saotome called from behind him.

"Well, and the gorilla...see you tomorrow." He turned around, thought seriously, and added with a smile.

"Hey!"

“…” Ichinose buried his head behind the easel.

"Ichinose...stop laughing!"

"I'm sorry...but, but...I'm really sorry..."

(End of this chapter)