Back to the Future 1999: Raining at the Same Time

two weeks later

The day of the official tour performance has arrived.

The lower grade students carried their chairs and walked towards the center of the square in scattered groups.

The students preparing for the performance stood in neat rows on the stage, some of them even sweating in their white gloves.

"You didn't return to the dormitory last night."

Sonnet stopped Virtin and reminded him. Virtin was silent for a moment:

"Were you on duty yesterday?"

"Yes, today too."

"I know you are secretly planning something. But please do not do anything that violates the rules of the Student Handbook."

"Otherwise, as the disciplinary committee member on duty, it is my responsibility to report the situation to the instructor."

The orange-haired lady warned carefully, and after another short silence, Veldin nodded in agreement.

There are doves flying in the sky.

Standing on the stage, you can clearly see the principal walking onto the stage from the side.

"Are you ready?"

"Ah."

"come on……!"

"come on!"

"come on!!"

The voices of mutual encouragement rose and fell quietly.

Sonnet clenched his wrist nervously amidst the words of encouragement.

She didn't mind being excluded, but the uneasiness in her heart still made her break out in a cold sweat.

"Today, I am honored to invite Ms. Z, a young representative of the St. Petersburg Foundation..."

The principal's opening speech began, causing all the children standing in the center of the square to hold their breath nervously.

"Now let us begin the first ceremony of the tour performance - singing the school song. 'Let Peace Everlasting'. Please play the music."

There were many people sitting under the stage, and their positions were as neatly arranged as the pins on an organ.

Isabella, who was responsible for the first line of the lyrics, began to speak, her throat trembling...

Joy, peace, or fame

Health, respect and dignity

Skills and martial arts...

Neither care for the obedient and blind herd...

"What are you singing...?!"

The uneasy feeling was finally confirmed, but at this moment, these children who were eager to express their feelings ignored the only outsider in the team.

Little Mesmer skipped that beat and continued with his childish singing.

The voices may be a little shaky at first, but gradually, the children's voices become integrated, gentle and loud.

The principal in the audience finally heard the lyrics clearly.

"...?!"

"What, did I hear wrong?"

“Principal, Principal—! They’re singing that poem… the one on the back of the flyer…!”

The music teacher's beautiful voice was robbed of its intensity by the shock, and her tongue was left in at least two knots.

The entire venue was in an uproar. No one had ever thought that such a situation would occur in the defense school's tour performance.

The audience was boiling uncomfortably. Some cheered, some exclaimed, and almost everyone began to join in this unprecedented carnival.

Amidst the boiling waves of the audience, there was a small area that remained silent. Anna quietly looked at the children on the stage. Although she didn't want to join the people around her in this commotion, in her heart, she had already given the highest praise to these brave children.

This is what a child is, this is what a child who lives as a human being is!

“Stop! Everyone, stop right there!!”

"Sonnet—! Stop them!!"

"drink--!"

The teacher's words were like a needle, sharply piercing the sonnet's fragile emotional barriers at this moment.

Discordant singing came from all around her.

In front, behind, to the left, to the right. Lyrics she had never heard before gathered into a massive force, encircling her.

Sonnet felt dizzy and for the first time she felt her heart beating so fast!

"Mr. Principal, please listen to our voices."

"Please give us a chance to... be ourselves."

Virtin's words were like the last straw that broke the camel's back, making Sonnet breathless.

Anna's face was flushed with excitement. She had witnessed with her own eyes a beautiful performance. The children's most simple wishes kept echoing in her mind through the singing.

The principal's face turned pale and he turned to the guard standing next to him.

"Go and pull that girl on the far right of the first row down!"

"Roger that!"

"Quick! Connect the water pipe and prepare to spray the bitter mute potion!"

The safety supervisor ordered sternly.

"Whoosh-"

Light green liquid and multiple security guards rushed towards the children in the center of the square.

“Ugh…! D-don’t touch me! Wuuu…”

Isabella screamed in fear, and almost all the children closed their eyes in terror, but no one stopped singing, and no one let go of the song in their hearts...

"what--!"

"Roar--!"

After Isabella's final scream, a loud lion's roar resounded throughout the square.

I have never heard such a powerful voice. The emotions contained in the roar shook the hearts of everyone present.

"Chen Xi..."

Tears had already flowed down her face without her noticing. Anna saw a majestic golden lion in the center of the square. After a golden light flashed on Verdin's chest, it suddenly appeared in front of everyone.

The loud lion roar drove away the guards and connected the water pipe of the bitter mute potion, but its appearance also reduced its own momentum.

More and more singing came from behind the lion, and each child opened his eyes.

They finally realized that the adults couldn't see the gap, and they only had each other to rely on.

With fear, anger, and twenty years of unwillingness, amidst the roars of lions, singing mixed with crying, wave after wave rang out.

"Back off, back off! Protect yourself, stand behind the lion, and don't get hurt!"

Verdin clutched the necklace on his chest and whispered softly in his heart:

"Thank you, Sister Anna."

"The tall ones stand outside and the short ones are inside!"

She continued her command, wanting everyone to see the children's determination.

"Damn it, what the hell is that?! Where's the riot gun?! Stop them!"

"Be careful……"

"boom--!"

With a soft sound, the bullet filled with tear gas hit Verdin's body mercilessly and exploded in her chest.

"Om-"

Dizzy, her body fell backward uncontrollably. At the end of her coma, Virtine saw Sonnet's expression of disbelief. She heard the last lion's roar dissipating in unwillingness.

She didn't have the ability to see from afar, otherwise she would have seen a worried face in the audience.

This song, which only sang the beginning, was not qualified to continue singing, and the farce ended.