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"Thank you so much for giving me a ride."
On the way back, Asagumo Chihaya, the new passenger in the minivan, said to Hiratsuka Shizuka.
"It's fine. After all, you are a Soubu High School student. It's not what a teacher should do to leave a student alone in a remote hot spring hotel."
Hiratsuka Shizuka said cheerfully as always.
Although she didn't know how Asagumo Chihaya found her way to the hot spring hotel alone, nor was she particularly clear about the reason she came here, she was an adult after all. After more or less guessing a little of the inside story, Hiratsuka Shizuka did not say much.
In her opinion, experiencing more in student life, whether it be ups and downs, would greatly help them when they entered society and became respectable members of society. So, as long as it wasn't a major issue that violated public order and morals, she would largely turn a blind eye to most student behaviors.
"But putting students aside, is it okay for a teacher to be drunk all day?" Asakura asked 'innocently' from the side.
Hiratsuka Shizuka immediately stammered, saying things like 'the sake at this hotel is stronger than elsewhere', 'I wasn't drunk from drinking, but from the charming scenery', 'can a people's teacher's business be called alcoholism', while her voice grew softer and softer, as if she had a guilty conscience.
Suddenly, the entire car was filled with cheerful air.
"By the way, Hiratsuka-sensei, are you really sober now? Is it okay to drive?" Asakura continued to ask.
"No problem," Hiratsuka Shizuka vowed.
"That's good..."
"I will absolutely not be detected by the City Hall's lackeys during the alcohol test!"
"Stop the car, I want to get off! This isn't the car to Soubu High School!"
"The decisive place... is the five-bend mountain road ahead!"
"Are you planning to drift with a minivan?! Don't just suddenly start humming 'Deja Vu' without a word!"
That being said, Asakura's words were mostly a joke.
After all, Hiratsuka Shizuka spoke very coherently, and her hangover symptoms seemed to have disappeared. She was also driving steadily, never exceeding sixty kilometers per hour, so she should have sobered up long ago.
When they came to the hot spring hotel, Yuigahama Yui and Anna and the others were quite excited, always exclaiming at the scenery outside the window. However, on the way back, because the scenery outside had already been seen, the atmosphere in the car was a little more subdued than when they came.
Of course, there should also be factors of that inexplicable emptiness at the end of the holiday.
However, Yakishio Lemon, who was originally sitting at the same table as them, had successfully found a partner at the hot spring hotel. Now, not only was she not in the same boring situation as them, but she was also canoodling with Ayano Mitsuki in the back row, and it felt like the sour smell of love was about to overflow.
Asakura, who was sitting in the back row as he had on the way there, silently put on sunglasses to defend against the glare—though wearing two pairs of glasses at the same time was indeed a bit comical.
The girls in the row in front of him were chatting idly, and thanks to them, Asakura finally learned the main reason for Anna's fever yesterday: this fellow stood naked by the pool while other girls were soaking in the hot spring, loudly proclaiming her experience and insights gained from eating hundreds of hot spring manju.
If that nearly fifteen-minute speech were condensed, the general content would be: 'Hot spring manju, red bean paste filling, traditional ones are delicious; chestnut filling, classic ones are also delicious; mochi filling, innovative ones are also delicious; durian filling, innovative ones are a bit aggressive but also delicious... this one is delicious, that one is delicious, in short, all of them are delicious!'
As a result, she naturally caught a cold.
Today, her condition seemed much better, but her voice still sounded a bit muffled, so she probably hadn't fully recovered.
"Is it my imagination? I always feel like Asakura-kun is looking at me like I'm an idiot."
Anna keenly noticed Asakura's gaze and poked her head out from her seat, saying.
"You're overthinking it," Asakura said with a confident tone, his eyes not dodging in the slightest, his face full of sincerity.
After all, that would be too rude to the idiot.
"I always feel like something's not right..." Anna mumbled.
"Want a candy?" Asakura pulled a candy from his pocket.
"Yes!"
The girl immediately took the candy and ate it with relish.
"So, Takuma-kun, you're the type to always carry candy with you?" Asagumo Chihaya asked curiously upon seeing this.
"No, it was just put in my pocket at some point, and I just happened to find it," Asakura replied expressionlessly.
"Cough..." Anna almost spat out the candy in her mouth: "I already ate it!"
"Is it spoiled?" Asakura asked.
"Hmm, it doesn't seem to have changed taste, so it should still be edible," Anna hesitated repeatedly but still didn't spit out the candy.
As for checking the best-before date on the wrapper, she really didn't have the courage to do it, so she could only continue to bury her head in the sand.
Asakura, on the other hand, felt that this fellow's nose seemed to still be blocked, and she probably couldn't taste much...
Of course, he wouldn't do something as tasteless as giving someone expired candy. Saying that just now was simply to make Anna a little more careful.
"Anna-senpai, please be a little quieter. Hinata and Tamaki are both asleep," Gokou warned from the side.
"Eh, is it my fault? I'm clearly the victim, aren't I?" Anna said pitifully in a low voice.
"Everyone quiet down, don't make my head hurt."
Finally, Hiratsuka Shizuka spoke: "Although I can understand that you are still immersed in the club training camp atmosphere, just like some students always find it difficult to detach from that state after the school festival ends, I suggest you calm down properly, because the school's next event will have to wait until after the mid-term academic test."
"Wait a minute, I seem to have heard something that cannot be ignored..." Anna rubbed her temples.
"As for the next event, is it the ball game tournament? After that should be the Golden Week holidays."
Asakura calculated the days and replied.
"No, Anna-chan is probably talking about the mid-term academic test, right?" Yuigahama Yui interjected: "My grades in a few subjects always just barely pass."
"Although I don't dislike it, it feels very troublesome," Gokou, who was not from Soubu High School but also had academic tests, said softly.
"Academic tests... what a terrifying existence..." Yakishio Lemon trembled.
"Headache, I feel like I'll have to pull an all-nighter again and cram at the last minute," Anna also mumbled with a bitter face.
"Is that so? I think it's alright," Asakura (first in his grade) said.
"Just treat it as a normal quiz," Yukinoshita Yukino (second in her grade) said dismissively.
"There's no problem if you approach it with a calm mind," Ayano Mitsuki (top five in his grade) suggested seriously.
"Accumulation over time is very important," Asagumo Chihaya (top ten in her grade) nodded in agreement.
The poor students: " "The honor student group is so annoying!" "
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