After becoming a chaotic daughter

At the end of March, when the buds of the cherry trees on the campus were just emerging, Shengye Elementary School held a graduation ceremony.

All the graduates have put on uniforms, white shirts, black suits, and small leather shoes. Nanako doesn’t know how to wear a tie, and Chaobu’s ties are all loose. Wild help fasten it.

A group of elementary school students dressed in formal attire like adults lined up in the auditorium.The parents of every student were present. Ranpo and the president were sitting on the parent table of Nanako. After six years, the parents have gotten to know each other more or less. I chatted casually.

"Does your child enter directly or go to another middle school?"

"The selection papers of Didan Middle School this year are much more difficult, and my Yongtae almost got passed."

"Mrs. Fujii, long time no see. I heard that your company's business is booming recently."

"..."

There are two classes in one grade, and many of the [-] students have parents or elders at home. The parents' auditorium is full of nearly a hundred people. It became slightly noisy, not to mention there were students from lower grades watching the ceremony.

It has been half an hour since I entered the arena, the graduation ceremony has not yet started, and I can't see where my idiot daughter is when I sit on the parent's seat, I gradually become impatient in waiting, and my sitting posture has changed from sitting upright at the beginning. With his head propped on one hand, he tilted his body and looked lazy.

"It hasn't started yet, President—" He pouted impatiently.

"According to the ceremony process arranged in the invitation letter, it should be soon." Fukuzawa Yukichi's sitting posture was still as straight as when he first entered the arena, and he was not at all sluggish.Putting his hands in the wide sleeves of the kimono, he patiently answered the random steps, and finally advised him: "In this kind of formal occasion, don't sit idly and walk around like this."

"Oh, that's fine." Luanbu reluctantly moved his body that was gradually sliding upwards, reluctantly "sit down".

Finally, about five or six minutes later, the radio in the auditorium rang, and along with the school song of Holy Night College, the voice of the person in charge of the ceremony echoed in the huge auditorium: "Holy Night College Elementary School, Graduation Ceremony, officially start--"

"—Graduates enter!"

The students in the lower grades and the parents in the auditorium applauded together. The colorful cannons hanging above the auditorium were fired, and colorful shreds of paper fell like snowflakes. Sixty students who graduated this year had They lined up in two rows and walked across the long red carpet spread out in the middle of the auditorium.

Nanako is short in stature, walking in the front, where Luanbu can be seen at a glance, but Nanako can't see Luanbu in the vast crowd of nearly a hundred parents at a glance, she didn't even look at the parents' seat, a pair of dark The round eyes stared unbiasedly at the red carpet that was rolled out in front of him.

With her ears pricked up, she tried her best to follow the beat of the school song, strode on her short legs, and walked wholeheartedly. She managed not to make a turn, and walked smoothly to the position designated during the rehearsal, and then stopped. He lost his footsteps and stood motionless.

After that, it was the same session as in previous years. The principal gave a speech, the two homeroom teachers gave speeches, KChair Ichinomiyamitsu, the guardian, spoke, and the graduate representative spoke... After a series of chaotic speeches, it was the process of awarding graduation certificates.

The graduation certificate with bronzing patterns was rolled up and tied with a red ribbon. In previous years, the principal came to issue graduation certificates to the graduates, but this year the person standing in front of the podium holding the graduation certificate was the chairman of the college. .

Shengye Primary School is a private school, that is, a school invested and built by a consortium or an individual. Therefore, in addition to the principal who is responsible for managing daily affairs, there is also a chairman who is the representative of the investor.

Nanako went to school for six years on Holy Night, and it was the first time she met the school's chairman. He was a young-looking man named Tian Hesi. From his appearance, he was only in his early 30s at most. Long and slender, wearing a mint green shirt, with light brown loose hair.

Every time he read a student's name, a student would step forward, take the graduation certificate and graduation badge from him, and after a sentence or two of dialogue, he would return to the line with the things.

Nanako waited for a long time before finally hearing her own name.She walked over, stood in front of the podium, looked up at the man, her expressionless little face looked like a doll.

"Congratulations on your graduation." With a gentle smile on his face, the director put the graduation certificate and badge safely into Nanako's little hand, and reached out to touch Nanako's little head.He was tall, and Nanako stood across a podium from him, about as far as his chest.

"You look a lot like your grandpa." He said to Nanako.

Holding the graduation certificate and badge, Nanako blinked in confusion: "Huh?"

But the chairman stopped talking again. Nanako bowed to him as Mr. Koizumi said, turned around, unfolded her graduation certificate, bowed to the students and parents in the audience, and went back to Went in the team.

"Next, Sanlun Xia..."

*******

The graduation ceremony is over, Miwa went to find her mother, Nanako also took her graduation certificate and badge, and looked for Ranpo and the president in the chaotic crowd in the auditorium, but she wandered around for a long time, but couldn't find anyone, and finally I still ran to the backstage to get my schoolbag, only to see the director and president who were standing in the corner of the backstage talking.

"...This child will trouble you." Standing beside the piled up curtains, the president said to the young man, closing his eyes and sighing slightly.

"No, where." Chairman Tian Hesi chuckled, "She is a very interesting child, and she has taught me a lot of interesting things."

"?" The president didn't understand what he meant.

"During the holy night when this child first arrived, I had divination for her." Tian Hesi said, "Her star is dim."

Tian Hesi is a man with a mysterious identity. He is not only the chairman of the Holy Night School, but also an accomplished astrologer. The president also met him in an incident related to divination, but he was divination with playing cards at that time. A clue to where the cult murdered and buried the corpses came out.

After learning of the existence of the ability, the president once guessed whether he might be a person with some kind of divination ability, but he couldn't verify the answer. There is only one thing that the president is sure of, and that is this The man's divination results are indeed worth listening to.

"Does this mean something bad?" the president asked.

"It's like this in most cases." Tian Hesi saw Nanako who was standing not far away, and waved at her as if inviting a kitten, "But later, I realized another possibility. "

Nanako held her graduation certificate in her left hand, a delicate badge in her right hand, and dragged her schoolbag on her arm. She staggered to the side of them, looked up at the unfamiliar Tian Hesi, and then hid in suspense. behind the president.

The president helped her pick up the schoolbag, and Nanako stuffed the graduation certificate and badge into the schoolbag, zipped it up, put the schoolbag on her back, and waited for them to talk.

Seeing that Nanako had packed up her things, the president looked at Tian Hesi again, and continued to ask him: "Another possibility? What does that mean?"

"It's not that the star is dimmed."

Tian Hesi looked down at Nanako who was huddled behind the president. She was holding the phone with her head down, and she didn't know what she was doing, pressing her fingers back and forth on the buttons.

"...Maybe it's just that the star is too far away, so I can't see it clearly."

Tian Hesi left, and Nanako, who was busy sending messages indiscriminately, also knew where her idiot father had gone.

She raised her mobile phone, recorded the message displayed on it to the president, and said sternly: "Father and Guoguoli are at the school gate."

"We'll go find them." The president replied to her.

Nanako nodded, said "Yes", put the phone back in her pocket, and followed the president out of the school.

There are some dim sum stalls opposite Shengye Elementary School. When Nanako came out, she was sitting on a flower bed by the side of the road, eating a box of takoyaki. Gogol was standing in front of the grilled corn stall, talking to the boss. .

Nanako ran over and called Ranpo: "Father."

"Huh?" While chewing takoyaki, Ranpo saw Nanako, poked a octopus ball with the bamboo stick in his hand, and handed it to Nanako's mouth, "Ah——"

Nanako opened her mouth, ate the octopus balls in one gulp, then covered her mouth with her hands after being burned, and stood motionless, her cheeks shrugged several times, and her shrunken shoulders slowly let go. down.

After struggling to finish eating the hot octopus balls, she breathed out "huhu", and took cold water for her to drink in a random step. She took several sips from the kettle before feeling all right.

"...It's hot." Holding the kettle in her hands, she raised her head and talked to Luanbu.

Ranbu looked away guiltily.

"Dad." Nanako called him again, "When do I go to middle school?"

"In another half a month." Luanbu said, and inserted another ball. This time he learned his lesson, separated two bamboo sticks, and handed the ball to Nanako, "April [-] No. report, and then classes start on the Monday of the second week, and you can play for another two more weeks.”

Nanako took the octopus balls, took a small bite carefully, said "Oh", and went to find Gogol with the octopus balls.

The golden corn was roasted by the charcoal fire, and it became a little burnt black, exuding a sweet aroma mixed with the smell of charcoal fire, and after brushing with the sauce, it became more salty and fresh.The stall owner handed Gogol two pieces of roasted corn, and Gogol gave another one to Nanako.

There was only a small octopus ball, which was eaten quickly, but there was a whole corn. Nanako threw away the bamboo skewer of the octopus ball and began to nibble on the corn slowly.

"What's it like to graduate?" Gogol asked Nanako with interest while holding the grilled corn.

One winter passed, he grew a little taller, and now he was as tall as Ranbu. Standing beside him, Nanako just reached his shoulders, looking like the little sister he was carrying.

Nibbling on the delicious corn, Nanako thought about it seriously, and then answered Gogol: "It feels like...graduation."

"Hmm! And then?" Gogol turned his head to her side and asked enthusiastically.

"Then...then nothing." Nanako scratched her little head and continued to gnaw on her corn.

"..." Gogol had a thoughtful look on his face, he thought for a while, and finally commented: "That doesn't sound like anything special."

Nanako also felt that there was nothing special about it. Graduation was just another place to go to school.

But Gogol still didn't understand: "But if that's the case, why did some people shed tears when they left school?"

Indeed, Nanako remembered that when Miya graduated, she held her and cried for a long time.

She stopped gnawing on the corn, thought for a moment, and then gave a very well-mannered answer: "Because they are reluctant to leave school and their good friends."

"Aren't you reluctant to leave school and your good friends?" Gogol asked her.

Nanako shook her head, and Miwa went to Qinggaku with her. As for the school, such a big school will not be able to run long distances, why should I be reluctant.And even though I said that, in fact, the graduates rarely come back to school to visit.

She couldn't understand what there was to be reluctant about.

Gogol glanced at her for a while, then looked away, and finally said: "School is really a scary place."

When locked in school, every student looks forward to school, but if they don't have to go again, they will be reluctant to leave.

Nanako gnawed on the corn and nodded in sympathy.

Japanese schools are such a horrible place.

She really didn't want to practice front and back rolls in gym class anymore.