My childhood sweetheart is Nishimiya Glass

Chapter 256 The First Day of Spring Break

The two days of exams flew by.

In Japan, the 'junior high school entrance exam' for third-year junior high school students is usually divided into two main stages.

The first stage is a standardized academic ability test, which usually lasts one day and includes subjects such as Chinese, mathematics, English, and social studies.

A-Tsuna and others had already taken the test in late January.

The final stage, or second exam, includes an interview, a short essay, and a practical skills test, among other things.

It lasts for two days, but most schools only have one day.

Tsuna lay on the sofa, snapping out of his daze. Today was the first day of spring break.

The printing of 'Anohana' is still going smoothly. Shoko and Takagi went to the Chicken Zzilla exhibition, leaving him alone at home.

Shizuka Miyamura and Yaeko Nishimiya went shopping, while Daio Miyamura made plans to go fishing with his fishing buddies.

Meanwhile, Nishimiya Yuzuru had already taken Hachiko out to visit his friends.

No way! Spring break can't just go by like this; I have to find something to do.

He suddenly sat up from the sofa.

After spacing out for a while, I leaned back again, unable to find anything to do, really unable to find anything at all.

'Anohana' is in stable printing and, barring any unforeseen circumstances, is expected to be released in late April, by which time he will have already been in school for almost a month.

As for part-time jobs, his age is suitable, and he has graduated from junior high school, which fully meets the requirements for minors to do part-time jobs in Japan.

However, he needs his guardian's consent, but his family situation doesn't require him to work.

As for pocket money alone, he doesn't spend it extravagantly; it's more than enough for him.

Moreover, his advance payment for the light novel will be paid out in a few days.

As for going out with friends...

Shin-chan's family went on a ten-day trip to Osaka during the Spring Festival break. A-Dai was helping his sister at the shop, while Masao was busy with something else.

Kazama is even less likely to be included. I heard that his mother enrolled him in three cram schools during spring break, he's really studying like crazy...

Nini, Miu (Matsuoka Miu), and Chika (Ito Chika) are all here. Shoko isn't around, so he doesn't dare to ask her out. Besides, Nini will probably be spending this spring break with her new boyfriend.

"Ding……"

I felt my phone vibrate in my pocket. I took it out, unlocked it, and saw that it was a message from LINE.

"Miyamura, wanna come out and play?"

When Tsuna saw that the message was from Nishikata, he paused. He clearly remembered that the kid had told them yesterday after finishing his exams that he was going to do part-time work during the spring break...

"Weren't you going to do a part-time job? You got fired on your first day?"

"(Speechless and wiping sweat.jpg)"

"The store manager said it wasn't busy today and told me to rest and go again tomorrow."

He recalled yesterday's conversation. It seemed that Nishikata was working as a waiter at a sushi restaurant, and today was the first day of spring break. Wouldn't he be busy...?
"Okay, where to?"

"I don't know, let's talk about it when we get out."

"..."

"Okay."

"Shall we meet at the school gate?"

"Hmm." Tsuna put his phone back in his pocket, grabbed a thin black jacket from the side, put it on, and headed towards the meeting point.

It was a little past two in the afternoon, and the air was still a bit chilly in mid-March. Tsuna and Naoto Nishikata met at the entrance of Namikaze Middle School.

The two eventually decided to go to Akihabara by rolling dice.

In the blink of an eye, the two arrived at Akihabara Station. The electronic announcements and noise on the subway gradually dissipated as they walked out of the station.

"Ningzi, didn't you say you were going to see Kenshi Yonezu's concert? How did it go? Did you manage to get tickets?"

"No... those tickets are just too hard to get, and I don't want to pay a high price for a second-hand ticket..."

Tsuna and Nishikata turned their attention away from the two high school girls passing by and continued planning where they would go next.

He quickly forgot about the conversation between the two girls; if he had been in elementary school at the time, he might have been shocked.

However, as time went by, he got used to it.

He had always thought he was reincarnated into a parallel world called Japan, and that Japan was relatively backward in terms of music, film, literature, and so on compared to his previous life's Japan.

However, when he first heard the name 'Kenshi Yonezu' from someone else when he was in elementary school, he was still deeply shocked.

The first thing I did when I got home was to borrow Shizuka's flip phone to look up some information.

The result was slightly different from what he had initially expected, but there were still some similarities.

Apart from lagging behind in modern literature (from the post-war period to the present) and anime and comics, Japan here is not much different from the Japan of his previous life, and is developing slowly.

However, works from before modern literature still exist, such as Murasaki Shikibu's "The Tale of Genji" and Sei Shonagon's "The Pillow Book" from the Heian period in classical literature.

There are also works in modern literature (from the Meiji period to before World War II), such as Jun'ichirō Tanizaki's "Shunkinshō" and Katai Tayama's "The Quilt".

Modern literature, compared to his previous life, has developed in the complete opposite direction, with very few works being worth reading.

For example, in the realm of modern literature, particularly Japanese mystery novels, there are renowned authors like Keigo Higashino and Seicho Matsumoto.

His identity here is actually that of a private investigator and forensic doctor...

With these three aspects lagging behind so much, the music and film industries must have been affected as well.

However, it's not a huge difference. Since movies and TV series adapted from anime or novels from previous lives don't appear here, the albums of those singers will naturally lack songs that provided background music for those adapted works.

As for making him carry the banner of modern Japanese literature?
All I can say is that anything can happen in dreams. In his previous life, he was just "a little" involved in the world of Japanese light novels and had some knowledge of anime, but not much.

Asking him to recreate those mystery novels? He'd be better off sticking with inheriting his family's firm...

"Miyamura, are you listening...?" Nishikata waved his hand in front of Tsuna.

"Sorry, sorry, I was daydreaming." Tsuna snapped out of his reverie, trying to brush it off with a laugh. "Nishikata, what did you just say?"

“I said…” Nishikata paused for a moment, “If you keep staring at those girls over there, Nishimiya will get angry when she finds out.”

Following his words, Tsuna looked across the street at the group of landmine-type girls leaning against the railing, and unfortunately, his eyes met those of one of them.

He nodded politely and looked away. This guy was not to be trifled with; he knew how to modify the decorative cuts, the kind that modify both sides...

"Let's go, have you decided where to go?"

"Hmm..." This question caught him off guard; he hadn't really thought about it yet...

"Let's wander around first, and we can go in if we see anything that interests us." Seeing that he looked a little hesitant, Tsuna decided to take the first step.

Naoto Nishikata realized what was happening and quickly followed in his footsteps.

Standing still isn't a solution, and besides, the New Year has just passed, so everyone still has some lucky money on them.

(End of this chapter)