Am I being simulated by their love affair.

Chapter 105 The Wasted Time
On Friday afternoon, after lunch, the classroom began to become lively. Everyone was decorating the classroom for the cultural festival that would begin tomorrow.

But Jun Matsueda had to leave temporarily. He entrusted the class affairs to Tomoka Tomatsu and walked towards the second activity room on the third floor.

Today is the day when tutoring for the biology competition begins.

He still knocked on the door first, and after the woman's gentle voice said "Come in", Jun Matsueda walked into the classroom.

The serious man with glasses was no longer sitting at the podium, but a kind female teacher who was squinting her eyes and observing him.

"Matsueda-san, huh?" The woman smiled at him.

"Hello, teacher." He greeted respectfully and handed over the registration form.

"Matsueda-san, try to bring back another gold medal~"

Jun Matsueda didn't dare to respond to this. He could only give the teacher a humble smile and walk to the back of the classroom.

Because he had to arrange the classroom layout, Matsueda Jun arrived a little late, and many people were already sitting in the classroom. This time, Tsushima Kou was not there, so he had to find a seat on his own.

However, he discovered another familiar figure.

Yamami Maki waved to him from the corner, Matsueda Jun walked over, and the girl patted the seat next to her.

"Isn't senior sitting with the others?" Based on the girl's connections in school, she shouldn't be sitting alone in the corner.

"This is my first time signing up for the competition. Many of the students who participated have been here since they were freshmen, and they all have acquaintances," she whispered.

This is a lie.

In fact, the instructor of this competition was Yamami Matsukori's homeroom teacher. The teacher mentioned to her when she was about to register that Matsueda Jun would also participate.

While preparing for the cultural festival, the girl chatted with Tsushima Kou, who was also the vice chairman, and he told her the story of Matsueda Jun in the activity classroom.

Yamami Maki just wanted to replicate Tsushima Kou's experience. She also wanted to be by Matsueda Jun's side and watch him become a legend in this classroom again.

Other people in the classroom were also secretly observing him. Recently, there was a rumor that Jun Matsueda planned to participate in all five major competitions.

If Jun Matsueda himself heard this, he might laugh out loud. Participating in five major competitions in three years of high school is something that even a master of time management cannot do.

He is not a genius.

"Sister Yamami, is this teacher easy to talk to?"

Yamamiya Maki nodded excitedly. Was he really going to repeat what he had done during the geography tutoring?

After the first tutoring get out of class, Jun Matsueda walked up to the podium under the girl's expectant gaze, and the attention of the whole classroom was quietly focused on him.

Before he could say anything, the teacher spoke first, "My style is not as responsible as Mr. Kashida, supervising you all day long."

"I know some students were persuaded by their homeroom teachers to sign up. The biology competition itself is the lowest in status among the five major competitions, so I understand that."

"So if there are students who don't want to listen, or are particularly capable and want to learn on their own," the smiling woman glanced at Matsueda Jun when she said this, "I allow it. Just don't come in and out of the classroom at will during my class."

Someone in the audience was secretly clapping. It seemed that they were persuaded by the class teacher to sign up.

So, with Yamami Matsukiri looking a little disappointed, Matsueda Jun said goodbye to the teacher and left the classroom.

The teaching building is no longer as quiet and orderly as usual. The corridors are piled with empty desks and chairs from classrooms, as well as various plastic boards and paints used to transform the space.

As he walked down the stairwell, he could hear noisy sounds even from the fourth floor - this was the last campus entertainment activity for the third-year students.

When Matsueda Jun returned to the first floor, the windows of Class 1's classroom had already been covered with black cloth. Through the gaps, he could see small rooms built with plastic sheets inside. The ceiling was decorated with white lights decorated with stars. It seemed that Class 1's fortune-telling room did not intend to use the classroom lights.

"Matsueda-kun, you are not allowed to peek in advance." The hot girl Rion poked her head out from the front door of the classroom.

So he averted his gaze and prepared to pass by without looking sideways, but Liyin came out and grabbed him, closing the classroom door.

"Is anything wrong, Rion-san?"

The hot girl looked around and whispered to him, "It's not me who has problems, it's Wangyueqin who has problems."

"She's been in a bad mood again recently. Did you dump her?"

Matsueda Jun shook his head. "She has her own things to worry about. It has nothing to do with me."

"Okay, okay." The girl originally wanted to test what her good friend was worried about, but Matsueda Jun didn't intend to reveal it, so she had to give up.

Someone in the classroom was calling her, and Hot Girl made a face at him and slipped back.

Before Jun Matsueda returned to his class, he could see students from Class 4 not far down the corridor. They were pressing bloody handprints on the outer wall of the classroom, and some had already covered themselves with white cloth and dressed up as ghosts.

"Matsueda-san isn't coming in?" Tomatsu Tomoka was looking at him from the podium. The girl was holding wood grain stickers in her hand. They were turning all the remaining tabletops in the classroom into rustic wood grain.

"I'm looking at other classes, and it feels like we're still lacking some uniqueness."

Jun Matsueda originally planned to just do it casually, and left things like the renovation style of the classroom to Tomatsu Tomoka, and he didn't ask a single question.

But now seeing how excited everyone was, he suddenly regretted not being more serious.

"It doesn't matter. The dessert shop was chosen by everyone's vote. We don't need a standout style. As long as the desserts are delicious and sell well, that's all that matters."

The girl comforted Matsueda Jun, who nodded. Class Two was confident in this regard; they had the most baking club members among the first-year students. "And it'll be a lot of fun once we've finished decorating!"

Jun Matsueda walked into the classroom, picked up the wallpaper on the floor, and started to help after asking. While he was putting up the wallpaper, he listened to Tomatsu Tomoka's decoration plan.

"We will first renovate the entire classroom with wood, then move the podium to the window side facing the corridor. The corridor window will be converted into a window for selling desserts, and awnings will be installed on the windows outside to create a French feel."

"We've also borrowed potted plants from the gardening department. Sakamuro and the others will be bringing them over soon. We'll have plants on the floor, on the tables, and even in the air. The tables will be lined up around the walls and filled with bread, pudding, and egg tarts. The middle of the classroom will be for customers to walk through, and the space between the tables and the wall will be our staff passage. What do you think, Matsueda?"

Jun Matsueda and Mizushima Miya beside him clapped their hands, and the girl's face turned red.

"From style planning to space arrangement and communication with the gardening department, Yuhua did it all by herself!" Mizushima Miya took credit for her good friend.

“It’s also inseparable from everyone’s support.”

The girl smiled shyly. She consulted with her classmates in the baking department about the purchase of materials and the selection of goods. She spent several nights contacting merchants to inquire about prices and finalize them. Her public opinion storm had not completely passed. Some people rolled their eyes at her when she communicated with the gardening department, but she did not say anything about it.

Tomatsu Tomoka likes Matsueda Jun, not because he can share the hardships, but because when the girl thinks of him, no matter how hard the life is, her heart will taste sweet.

It was with this feeling in mind that Tomatsu Tomoka wanted to turn the classroom into a small house filled with a fresh atmosphere and selling sweet things.

"Then I have to help out a bit." Matsueda Jun looked around and saw that everyone was already setting up the classroom. "Are the Sakamuro guys still moving potted plants over at the gardening department? I'll go over and help them."

Jun Matsueda left the classroom and walked towards the activity building. When he passed Class 3, he heard the sound of dice.

I heard their class was planning to open a casino, and the monitor of Class 3 was a genius. When he submitted the application, he wrote it was about promoting anti-gambling, otherwise the committee wouldn't have approved the proposal.

When passing Class 4, a girl wearing a devil mask bumped into his arms.

"N-I'm sorry!" Natsumi Imokawa lifted her mask, and her face turned even redder after she saw it was Jun Matsueda. "This mask, Yumi-chan and the others just asked me to try it on."

The girl didn't move in his arms, perhaps because she had no strength or was scared. Matsueda Jun had to hold her shoulders and push her away.

"Is Ikawa going to be a ghost and scare people? That seems a bit difficult."

Imokawa Natsumi shook his head. "I'll be responsible for taking Polaroid photos of the customers being frightened."

"It's a job that really suits you." Matsueda Jun laughed twice. "I have something to do in the Gardening Department, so I'll be leaving now. I'll come experience your class's haunted house."

The girl watched his back disappear around the corner, still savoring the touch of that moment.

"Matsueda-kun's body is so hard."

Before reaching the Horticulture Club's office, I saw Ken Sakamuro and his group on the stairs halfway up.

"Matsueda arrived just in time, come and help!" Sakamuro Ken and Suyama from the table in front shouted with difficulty, followed by boys holding potted plants.

"Didn't you say we were moving potted plants?" Matsueda Jun's eyes widened. "Why did you bring a tree as well?"

He quickly went over to take Sushan's hand. This guy who only knew how to do cloud fitness all day had no strength at all. Sakamuro Ken on the other side breathed a sigh of relief.

"A tree in a pot is still a pot, okay?" Sakamuro said irritably. "After this staircase, you can use a cart to carry it. Hold on, pine branches!"

The two of them made it downstairs safely and placed the tree on the cart. "Tomatsu-san said the tree should be placed in the middle of the classroom and we could hang some decorations on it."

They pushed the cart through the corridor, and students in the classrooms heard the noise and ran out to see what was happening.

"Wow--"

There were exclamations one after another.

The girls from Class 2 also came out of the classroom and stood at the door, shouting to them, "Come on! Come on!"

Jun Matsueda passed by the blood-dripping window of Class 4 and the notice posted on the door of Class 3 saying "Cheating will result in hand cut off!", and returned to the bread window of his own class. The whole way was filled with excited and curious students.

The afternoon light streamed into the classroom, illuminating the students' profiles. They would spend the afternoon studying, decorating the classroom, making posters, visiting each other, and chatting and playing.

In the gymnasium, playground and activity building, people from various clubs were rehearsing and preparing.

On the side of the teaching building facing the school gate, two giant vertical banners with the words "Haqiu Festival" have been hung, extending from the sixth floor to the first floor.

Jun Matsueda looked at the chaotic yet vibrant scene in front of him, and suddenly felt a little dazed.

In his previous life, he never left the university campus, and the high school there didn't have any cultural festivals at all.

If it were him in his previous life, he would definitely think that this was a waste of time. Even now, he felt that it was not worth it.

How many books can you read and how much money can you make in one afternoon?
But someone said to him, "Matsueda-kun, time is not calculated like this. You have plenty of time to work, but your youth is gone forever."

Only then did he remember what the girl by Lake Okutama had said to him.

"I still hope you can enjoy your youth."

It turns out that this is not called waste, but youth.

　3000 words!
　　As requested by the book review section, I've uploaded a batch of character cards. You can add your own tags, etc. Also, those labeled as "female supporting character" are not necessarily female supporting characters; they just haven't had their turn yet. I'm afraid that if I labeled them as "female lead," people will ask if they don't have enough screen time. Once the characters' main scenes start, I'll change it to "female lead."

　　When less important characters appear, I usually mention their titles or statuses, such as department head, hot girl, teacher, or chief.
　　
　
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