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Chapter 261 Sakura Front

For students at Haneoka High School, the Showa Day holiday disappeared a little too quickly.

Shedding the tail end of April, they stepped into the classroom and into May, looking forward to the holiday that would begin on the 3rd.

Back at school, there was also good news for Jun Matsuoka: the results of the survey distributed by the student council had been released, and the reformists had won by a narrow margin. After Golden Week, his lunch break would be extended by twenty minutes, ensuring his lunch break.

On May 2nd, the last day before the holiday, Jun Matsuoka walked out of the principal's office. He had just finished being interviewed by a reporter about the biology competition. It was the same TV station that had interviewed him last time about the geography competition, but this time it was a different reporter.

"Thank you for your cooperation, Songzhi. I wish you the same success in future competitions!"

He closed the principal's office door and walked towards the teaching building. It was dismissal time, and the flow of people in the corridor was disappearing at a visible speed. The Golden Week holiday was about to begin, and no one wanted to stay at school for long. Many clubs had canceled their activities for the day.

"Future competitions..." Jun Matsue walked into the hallway, recalling the reporter's words. He had initially chosen to participate in competitions to convert his time at school into money, but now he no longer had such an urgent need to make money.

I work about 26 hours a week part-time, earning around 130,000 yen a month. I've been working part-time for over a year since leaving the welfare home. After deducting competition prizes, scholarships for outstanding students, and school subsidies, and then deducting daily expenses, tuition fees, and rent, my savings figure last month seemed to have reached one million yen.

When he first started working, he considered sending some money to the welfare home, but the director called him and sternly forbade it. After the New Year, the new social security system promised by Mochizuki Haruka began to be implemented, and the need for him diminished.

If one doesn't need to strive to become the "King of Part-Time Jobs" for the time being, what should one do? Jun Matsueda walked against the flow of people towards the classroom, pondering this previously shelved question.

Two girls hurried past him, their backpacks brushing against his legs.

"Sorry!" The girl in front turned around and apologized to him with a smile, then was pushed away by the girl behind her.

"It's already May! If we don't go see the cherry blossoms now, it'll be too late!"

When they returned to the classroom, the last group of students walked out the front door with their backpacks on, leaving only the girl wiping the blackboard in front of the teacher's desk.

"Is it Tomatsu's turn to be on duty today?" He looked at Tomatsu Tomoka, who had put down the blackboard eraser and was walking towards the back row.

"No, that's not it." The girl brushed the dust off her hands and wiped them with a wet wipe. "The classmate who was supposed to be on duty today had something come up, so she switched with me."

"I see." Jun Matsue began packing his schoolbag. Yuka Tomatsu always had various plausible reasons for staying in the classroom.

"When we go cherry blossom viewing tomorrow, is there anything you'd like to eat, Matsueda-kun?" The girl stood beside him, lifting up her slightly drooping black calf sock.

"Anything is fine?" He walked out of the classroom, Tomatsu Tomohana followed behind him, and the two closed the classroom door one after the other.

I'll try my best~

The corridor became empty, and at the end, one could still see the backs of a group of students. The sounds of the crowd gradually faded away, like the receding tide on the shore.

"How about cherry blossom mochi? When it comes to sweets for cherry blossom season, this is probably the one."

As she stepped out of the teaching building, cherry blossoms drifted down from the campus. The girl frowned slightly, her face filled with determination.

"Although it's a bit challenging, it's definitely worth trying!"

Back in the apartment, as Jun Matsue walked into the living room, the first thing he saw was Yosuke Kurusu sitting on the sofa. The girl's black hair had turned into the color of sakura mochi, a delicate pink.

"Why are you pink-haired again?"

"The company thought my previous pink hair look was pretty good, so they let me dye it again." The girl turned around and showed a vain expression.

"How is it? It looks great, doesn't it?"

"It looks delicious." He went into the bedroom, put down his backpack, returned to the living room, and opened the refrigerator. "We're almost out of food." "I'll go buy some!" Kurusu Yosei jumped up from the sofa. "What do you want to eat?"

"Pork chop rice, you mean?"

"OK!" The girl skipped out the door, and the sofa in room 507 welcomed its new owner.

Jun Matsueda changed the TV channel, leaned back on the sofa, and reminisced about the pork cutlet he ate at the Mitaka Forest convenience store.

Tears soaked the pork chop rice. I vowed to earn a million, and before I knew it, I had actually earned a million.

Although it was in Japanese yen, it was still a cause for celebration, and Jun Matsueda decided to make himself a cup of barley tea to mark the occasion.

Even though the savings went from zero to seven figures, the way 507 Apartment entertains its guests has never changed.

On May 3rd, the first day of the holiday, Jun Matsue and Aya Miyamura boarded a train together to Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden.

"Brother Chun isn't wearing his school uniform today?" The girl asked curiously, looking at the boy sitting next to her.

“You guys definitely don’t wear school uniforms, it would look weird if I were the only one wearing one.”

It was a bit warm inside the carriage. Jun Matsueda rolled up his sleeves slightly. Although he wasn't wearing his school uniform, the difference wasn't significant; he had simply changed his shirt and trousers. However, he was still quite eye-catching to everyone on the train.

The boy felt a vibration in his pocket. He took out his phone; it was a message from Tomatsu Yuka: "We've met our senior, and we're about to get on the bus~"

"We've already set off."

"See you at the station then~" the girl sent a cute bunny emoji.

At the entrance of Setagaya Station, Tomatsu Yuka put down her phone. "Aya-chan and the others are already on their way. Let's hurry up too."

Maki Yamami nodded. "The weather today is perfect for cherry blossom viewing!"

The girls passed through the ticket gates and waited on the platform. Yamami Maki looked towards the end of the tracks. Ever since a few thoughts had begun to surface in her mind, she had become somewhat hesitant to make eye contact with her juniors.

"I heard that the cherry blossoms in Kumamoto were also very beautiful when my senior went there before?"

Seemingly to break the silence, Tomatsu Yuka brought up a topic that made Yamami Maki feel uneasy.

"I don't really remember," the girl said, maintaining her smile. "The competition schedule was very tight, so I didn't go to see it. There are a few cherry blossom trees downstairs at the hotel, though."

"Is that so? That's good." Tomatsu Tomohana looked thoughtful. "I was thinking that if Matsueda-kun had already seen the cherry blossoms in Kumamoto, the cherry blossoms in Tokyo might not surprise him as much."

The girl's words seemed to have a deeper meaning, and Yamami Maki hoped that she was just overthinking it.

A black sedan was parked on the side of the road in Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden. Mochizuki Haruka rolled down the window and looked at the large expanse of pink rising from the depths of the green space.

"So we're going to enjoy the cherry blossoms here today?"

On the subway that was about to arrive at Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden, the girl sitting next to Jun Matsueda tugged at his sleeve and swayed back and forth while humming a song.

"Cherry blossoms, oh cherry blossoms~ I want to see you right now~"

(End of this chapter)