Tokyo life starting with painting.

Chapter 10 Tokyo National Youth Painting Awards

Higashino Division obviously didn't know what Xiaoharu Hosoya had experienced in the past two days.

But since the news has come over there, it means that there is still some hope.

He walked out the door in a relaxed mood, and even the apartment manager outside who liked to yell was particularly pleasing to the eye.

Tokyo, Japan in 2003.

In this era, there is no WIFI, no smartphones.

Japan had just emerged from the impact of the Asian financial crisis in 1997, and everything felt crumbling and hollowed out.

Higashino, who traveled over in 2020, took more than ten days to adapt to Tokyo in 2003.

He was walking on the side of the slope road, and from time to time, a high school girl with dyed hair walked past him, with childish pride on her face with exaggerated makeup like a monster.

This Shibuya trend has been popular in Japan for a long time in the early 21st century.

In Japan in 2003, high school girls wearing folded bubble stockings, dyed hair, and shining nails with diamonds could be seen in the streets and alleys.

High school girls go after grown-up behavior and desperately try to be more mature.

The result became this nondescript appearance.

But these girls in Japan don't know it yet, and think it's a trend, very fashionable.

So 'wrong again'.

In memory, the Shibuya trend seems to be a big hit in 2004.

But to be honest, Dong Yesi didn't understand what was so good about the heavy makeup of this ghostly painting talisman.

He shook his head, shaking off the messy thoughts in his head.

The school Higashino is going to is called Beiyiju Private High School, and the students are called Beiyiju for short.

As a well-known private school in the surrounding area, Beiyishu High School has sufficient teachers and abundant teaching equipment.

This school is famous for its arts and sports students, music and art, all of which have won the National High School Youth Award.

I heard that the judo of Beiyijuku is also aiming for the national competition recently, and it can be regarded as a famous school in the Meguro district.

The original owner had good grades in school, and with his handsome face, he was considered very feminine.

But ever since Higashino's family was seriously ill and Higashino Chihaya suffered from mental illness, those girls who were attached to the original owner at the beginning seemed to have seen flies and avoided him as much as possible.

After all, for these vain little girls, who can bear the sudden addition of a mentally handicapped sister to the 'boyfriend' family?

But Higashino didn't care either.

It would be much easier to not have those high school 'tablets' dangling beside you.

As for why a tablet?Isn't this obvious?How good do you expect a high school student to be?

Most of the figures of girls in Japanese cartoons are deceiving. If you don’t believe me, you can find a Tianchao high school right now and take a look inside——

Hey, isn't this all a tablet?There is no situation where Japanese girls develop so much better than Chinese girls.

When he came to the classroom, Higashino couldn't help squinting his eyes due to the sultry air rushing towards him.

It's summer now, not to mention the heat in Tokyo, the air is filled with moisture.

In addition to the No. 30 people in the classroom, everyone exhaled and exhaled together, feeling stuffy all over, with an indescribable feeling.

The point is that the electric fans in his Class A classroom have collectively declared a strike. The three bare electric fan leaves are dangling and turning, and the creaking sound is disturbing.

As soon as he entered the classroom, Higashinoji could feel the eyes poking on him from all directions.

This is also impossible.

Higashino Chihaya was considered a celebrity in Beiyijuku before, after all, she was very beautiful.

Later, after she suffered from a mental illness, many people used her as a conversation piece after dinner, and there was an inexplicable psychological advantage in the eyes of Dong Yesi.

Higashinoji obviously didn't care about these gazes.

He came to his seat, just about to sit down——

"Hey, Higashino, someone asked you to do something just now."

Someone from behind patted Higashino on the shoulder.

"Ah, I'm sorry, Gohara-san, who is it?" Higashinoji asked.

The boy in front of him is called Hou Yuanzhong. He wears big glasses and is upright. He has a good relationship with the original owner. Although he is not a best friend, he can be regarded as a first-class friend.

When he first crossed over, Dong Yesi also got a lot of news about the original owner from him.

"It's your girlfriend, right? The occasional classmate in class B of the first year. She asked you to go to the back of the teaching building at noon."

Hou Yuanzhong glanced at Higashino, hesitated for a while, and then leaned closer and said, "I want to tell you something, Higashino, this time your girlfriend is here probably because she wants to break up with you."

"Ah?" Dongyesi was taken aback for a moment, then laughed: "Really?"

He knew that the original owner had a girlfriend.

But this month he has been busy getting used to the new environment, and he has no time to pay attention to this girlfriend at all.

So he just left the other party alone for a month, and if Hou Yuan didn't mention it, he would almost forget it.

Higashino Division was cheerful, looking extremely happy.

Of course he won't be unhappy.

Higashino Division has already passed the age of 'first love is equal to the love of a lifetime', and he is very open about emotional matters.

It is also the right of the other party to want to break up.

Such things as pretentious retention, crying, and grief have nothing to do with him at all.

After all, there is also Dong Yesi's problem here. It is quite normal for the other party to want to break up after leaving the other party out for a month without reason.

But Hou Yuanzhong didn't know about these situations, and was baffled by his cheerful appearance.

It's not that your girlfriend is going to break up with you, why are you still so cheerful and gloating?Act like my girlfriend is breaking up with me?

wrong!

Hou Yuanzhong suddenly realized.

He probably got it.

Dong Yesi probably didn't want to let himself see his sad side.

After all, once the high school broke up, it was tantamount to never seeing each other again.

well! ! !

Hou Yuanzhong sighed heavily in his heart, and reached out to pat Higashino's shoulder: "I understand, when Higashino comes out some time after school, I'll treat you to something to eat."

"I have things to do after school."

Higashino waved his hand.

What he said was the truth, he wanted to bring Higashino Chihaya to the school, which must require the approval of the school.

Of course, this approval will definitely not be easy. It is impossible for the principal to open this back door for Dong Yesi.

However, I recently heard that there is a national high school youth painting award in Tokyo, which has a high gold content.

After all, Beiyi School is run by arts and sports, and it attaches great importance to these external honors.

If Higashino Division can cut the gold reward directly, maybe he can have some say in the matter of Higashino Chihaya.

He will go to the principal's office at noon today, and if all goes well, he will go to the art room to have a look in the afternoon.

As a former professional painter, Higashinoji, who has also held several exhibitions, probably won the gold award without any problem.

But later, Yuanzhong understood again, feeling that he was dumped by someone, and he just wanted to be alone and quiet.

He sighed heavily in front of Higashinosi again, patted Higashinoji's shoulder, his expression changed, he turned around with a smile, and went to call his girlfriend, asking her if she would go to dinner this afternoon.

Higashino Division ignored Houhara Naka's gesture of showing off, but just planned the action plan for today in his mind.

First of all, I went to the back of the teaching building at noon to quickly deal with the emotional problems.

Then go to the principal's office and discuss with the principal about Higashino Chihaya.

If everything goes well, I will go to the art room to check the situation in the afternoon.

(End of this chapter)