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Not long after the full-year contest, the admission letters from Jinglingting's various teams fluttered to the students.

As expected, Aoki was recruited by the sixth team.Those voices who criticized her because of her theoretical grades disappeared after witnessing her battle with Jingle.The strength displayed by Tsuchimikado Azusa on the field was beyond the imagination of Byakuya Kuchiki.

The boy was very dissatisfied with this: "You didn't take it seriously when you practiced with me, did you?"

Aoki expressed her innocence: "The situation is different. When I practiced with you, it was a protracted battle, and the leader of the Beijing band is my last opponent. There is no need to worry about it. It doesn't matter if the spiritual pressure is completely exhausted."

Takashi Watanabe, who came with them to receive the admission letter, diverted the topic away: "Tsuchimikado, did Deputy Captain Ichimaru treat you to dinner?"

Aoki closed the admission letter that was opened under Watanabe's coaxing: "How is it possible, he just said it casually." Her eyes fell on the admission letter in Watanabe's hand, "Where are you going?"

Watanabe shrugged and tore open the unified envelope: "Who knows."

The acceptance letter was pulled out lightly, and the team logo of the first team was revealed.

The trio froze briefly.

Aoki was the first to react. She patted Watanabe's shoulder with an obvious exclamation expression on her face: "It's amazing. The first team members are basically the best from other teams."

Kuchiki Byakuya also said, "Congratulations."

Watanabe has not recovered, his grades are not so good: "How is it possible? Is it because I helped the leader of the Beijing band put out the fire on the bamboo hat?" The boy's thinking was very nonsensical.But Aoki agreed: "Then you have to thank me well, treat me to dinner."

Kuchiki Byakuya rarely agrees: "Although I don't agree with this reason. But Watanabe, you really deserve a meal for being in the first team."

Even Kuchiki Byakuya had spoken, Watanabe couldn't escape this meal, and with Mao's bonus for outstanding students, he didn't have to worry about being shy at all.

For several days in a row, Watanabe was busy entertaining guests, and the students naturally notified verbally one by one. To invite the tutors, a formal invitation letter was required, and Kuchiki helped write the post.

Watanabe made the list, Kuchiki wrote, and Aoki dried the post and put it in an envelope.Watching Kuchiki writing, the boy sighed contentedly: "Hey, Master Kuimu helped me transcribe the post, what a face."

"In order to repay him, how about using Kuchiki's cherry blossom wine for drinks?" Aoki said.

"If Master Kuchiki is willing to give a friendly price, otherwise I can't afford it." The boy smiled.

What kind of wine is used at the banquet will not be known until the day of the banquet.

After helping Watanabe, Kuchiki disappeared from Mao and returned to Kuchiki's house, as if he still had something to explain before joining the team.Aoki packed up his things and wandered around Mao idly. Occasionally, when he met a student of a lower grade, he would be respectfully called "Senior".Time has changed and things have changed, she has changed from a college student who is not allowed to leave Mao casually to a quasi-death god waiting to enter Goutei Shisanfan.

One day, she was really bored, so she tried to contact Ichimaru Gin with Skyra: "Are you free? Come out for a drink?"

The boy's reply was also conveyed through the sky: "There is something wrong, I'm sorry, Xiao Aoki."

The quasi-reaper who didn't have permission to use Hell Butterfly used Tianting Kongluo again: "It's okay." It was her whim.

Mao no longer sets up access control for the students who have received the admission notice, and Aoki, who does not need to run around because of the unsatisfactory admission team, changed his uniform and walked to Ruhun Street.

Walking from east to west, the sun is also on the horizon, and I am hungry.Aoki thought for a while, then walked towards a certain small shop on the edge of District [-].

Compared with a few years ago, the commercial street on the edge of the water in District [-] looks even more depressed.The restaurant once named "Aokiju", the small shop where Aoki brought Ichimaru to have a meal, was even more dilapidated and dilapidated.The dark lobby smelled badly of tobacco and food.However, the scale has expanded, and several shops around have been eaten up.

Aoki carefully looked at the menu hanging on the wall, ordered a bowl of udon noodles, and the proprietress sitting behind the ordering counter stared at Aoki for a long time.Aoki looked back quietly with a blank face, just to be on the safe side, before leaving Mao, she put on Tsuchimikado's mask.The girl is not worried that this former neighbor will recognize her.

It was the proprietress who looked away first.

There are few people on the edge of the first district, and the small shops with deserted business are full of men doing rough work.The slender girl looked out of place sitting inside, but she didn't show any discomfort or unnaturalness. People around lost interest after looking at her for a while, and went on with their own things, eating and chatting.

You can guess what men can talk about, what a group of men can talk about, what a group of rough men doing rough work can talk about together.He thought the wages were low, scolded Jing Lingting for not doing anything, the girl next door refused to marry him, and the gangster from a street away had another woman next to him.

The sun was getting late, and after a few glasses of wine, the leading man greeted the proprietress: "Ajuan, come and have a drink with us." The men around followed suit.

The proprietress walked around the tables in the lobby with a slightly philistine smile, and walked to the table where the man was.The men had already made room for her.

Obviously a regular customer, the proprietress sat down, took the cup and drank it down, and said with a smile: "Oh, why did you think of asking me for a drink today?"

"Miss you." The man joked harmlessly, and served the proprietress with chopsticks.

The proprietress picked up someone's chopsticks on the table, ate the food, and asked familiarly, "Why did you go these few days?"

After eating the noodles, Aoki got up and left without interest in listening to their conversation.

Her neighbors are neither bad nor good.Do not do immoral things, nor do good things.In Aoki's vague memory when she was young, she and her mother were once down and out, and this neighbor taunted them, adding insult to injury.After they opened Qingmuju, their life gradually improved, and the attitude of their neighbors towards them gradually improved.

slippery.Such a person will live a good life, just look at her growing storefront.

Aoki didn't like this kind of person, and always hid behind his mother when he was a child.And now, if she is asked to talk to her neighbors, she can show a friendly expression without hesitation.

Hey, I accidentally became an annoying adult.

PART THREE