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

Chapter 57 "If Inoue-san goes, I'll go too."

Takeda went to sleep as soon as he got home. He got up early the next day and went to a nearby park for a run.

From this day on, we officially entered the 40-day long summer vacation, during which we no longer had to get up early to go to school.

You can also wait until after your running training to have breakfast at a cafe or restaurant that provides breakfast.

In the previous week, I relied on bread or bento from McDonald's and 24-hour convenience stores.

Takeda is looking for various kitchen utensils on the second-hand online market, planning to prepare his own breakfast.

As usual, he used his points to buy a butter bun and boarded the train to Edo, where the competition that Kimura and Kato were participating in was being held at a music hall.

On the train, while waiting for time to pass seven o'clock, I called my home in Tottori.

My father said that he caught a big fish two days ago, weighing twenty pounds, and there were also many smaller ones. He and my mother couldn’t finish them all, so they gave all the fish except the biggest one to their neighbors.

My mother added that the neighbors also sent back a lot of things, including eggs, milk, tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplants, peppers...all fresh.

Ask him if he has eaten well in Tokyo and not just bread in the morning.

He responded twice and passed it off, explaining that he had moved out of the boarding house and was now living in a single-family house, sharing it with a classmate.

She said she was looking for kitchen utensils so she could make breakfast when she had time.

I asked him if he had a girlfriend, and he said no, and he was only in high school.

His mother said that there are more opportunities in high school, and that he is now capable of being financially independent and is not worried about not being able to make a living after graduating from high school.

He understood that this was still about him, asking him to use some of the family's money and keep in touch.

Sakurai also bought an audience ticket for the competition and listened to the contestants' piano performances with him, Amano and the other two.

Amano sat in the middle, Sakurai sat on the inside, and he sat on the side close to the aisle.

As Sakurai listened, he introduced the songs as "This is the First Ballade," "This is the Heroic Polonaise," and tried to start a conversation.

Amano nodded from time to time, while he listened drowsily.

After several attempts, Sakurai gave up.

Kimura and Kato had smooth preliminaries and both advanced from their respective groups.

On the second day of the final, he forced himself to listen to the entire session without getting distracted.

When the rankings were announced, Kimura took third place, but Kato's name wasn't even called out by the judges.

Kimura was wearing a black dress and putting on makeup, standing under the spotlight on the bandstand, and she looked quite beautiful.

Accept the award, nod to the judges, accept the applause, and bow to the audience.

After stepping down, he did not celebrate happily immediately, but went to comfort Kato first.

They blamed everything on Amano, saying that the practice time was unevenly distributed, and also slandered Amano's playing and teaching level.

Kato herself was not too sad. Instead, she comforted Kimura, saying that her level was just like that and Amano had already helped her a lot.

It is said that Kimura's third place was well deserved, otherwise why would Amano give her all the practice time?
Kato and Kimura had the same views on resource allocation, but they came to completely opposite conclusions.

Walking in the corridor from the concert hall to the lobby of the main gate, he listened to the discussion between Kimura and Kato a few steps ahead, and looked at Amano beside him, wanting to know what she thought.

"It has nothing to do with what they said," she said.

Since he could openly call the tracking "observation", Amano was naturally eavesdropping on the conversation between Kimura and Kato and knew what he was going to ask.

"Then why not split the time equally?" he asked.

"I plan how much progress I hope they will make every day. Theoretically, an hour and a half is more than enough to complete it, but..." Amano didn't say anything else.

He also knew the rest of the story.

"Come to think of it—" Sakurai interrupted their conversation, aiming at him with a clear goal, "Natori-san is going to play the piano for the children at the orphanage tomorrow, leading them in an ensemble and singing. Inoue-san, would you like to go?"

"Ask me?" He doubted the truth of the story. "She said she told you that at the time," Sakurai said.

Amano also looked at him.

"When..." He recalled the few conversations he had with Natori.

After bringing him to the piano club, Natori said, "The club is going to the welfare home for a charity performance this weekend."

But it’s summer vacation now…

Even if it's the same orphanage, this doesn't count as telling him, right?

"Anyway, she thought you would agree." Sakurai blinked, and seeing that he didn't seem to understand, she simply said frankly, "Zou-chan will go too."

"Amano-san?" He looked at me, puzzled.

"Yeah." Amano nodded in response without any concealment.

It was already strange enough that a girl who looked like a young lady suddenly transferred to a public high school for the reason of "to help the piano club", but now she had to go to the welfare home to help with the performances of the children there...

He didn't respond for a moment and even fell into thought.

There is no completion notification for Amano's points task yet.

Logically speaking, now that Kimura and Kato's competitions have ended, the points tasks should have been settled.

He was wondering if helping out at the orphanage would count towards this 100,000-point reward system task...

【Ding--】

[Mission: Play a duet with the children in the orphanage.]

[Reward: 30000 points]

"...I'm going too." He came to his senses and responded to Sakurai.

So what is the reward for helping Amano Kanade substitute teach?

Can you still keep it for yourself?
"Hey!" Kato, who was walking and chatting with Kimura, turned around and found that they had unknowingly opened up a distance of more than ten meters between them and Inoue and the other two.

"Sakurai, Amano, Inoue-san!" She pulled Kimura to a stop and wait, shouting, "Kimura got third place! Let's go celebrate together!"

Summer vacation, clubs, competitions...there are so many reasons for young girls to celebrate.

"Great, great." Sakurai quickly responded happily, "You left me the day before yesterday, so we couldn't have dinner together."

"It just so happens that I got a bonus, so it doesn't matter if it's a little more expensive." Kato said, waving the 10,000 yen bill in his hand.

As long as you make it to the finals, you will receive a 10,000 yen bonus even if you don't place.

"Are you going?" Amano suddenly looked at him, puzzled.

"Why are you asking me..."

"If Inoue-san goes, I'll go too." Amano suddenly smiled and said to him.

It seemed like he had to have this meal. He hadn't received payment for a multi-million dollar deal yet. "It depends on what we eat..."

"Let Kimura decide for himself." Amano drooped his eyelids and looked away.

"So... what should we eat? Lamb shabu-shabu? BBQ buffet?" Sakurai ran to the middle of Kimura and Kato, who had not yet changed out of their dresses, and hugged them on both sides.

"let me see……"

Kimura fell into thought.

"Malatang bar."

...He doesn't want to go anymore.

(End of this chapter)