My youth story cannot be a knight war

When others asked her why she reacted this way, she burst into tears and said:

"I finally understand how ordinary people feel when they see idol stars. This is the first time in my career that I've seen such a white document among public officials!"

[And so, having inadvertently gained a passionate stalker fan, Kousaka became the government's undisputed rising star. Countless traffic converged at his feet, becoming the ladder that propelled him to the altar of fame. Now, he has become the true commander-in-chief, directly wielding all power over the Unidentified Lifeform Countermeasures Headquarters. Even in extremely dangerous situations, he can directly mobilize the entire Metropolitan Police Department to deal with Gurongi-related incidents without consulting his superiors, essentially acting as the temporary Superintendent General.]

In just one year, he went from being an ordinary police cadet to becoming a Superintendent General, a position of power comparable to the dreams of all professional police officers, truly ascending to the pinnacle of national power. A triple jump pales in comparison to this speed of advancement. Even a mindless, enjoyable novel wouldn't necessarily achieve such a feat. "Hagane Naoki," once Japan's most enjoyable drama, pales in comparison to "Kousaka Kyousuke," a story based on a true story. This ascent is so rapid it feels like a dream.

Such a prominent figure would actually endorse Kitauji, a music school that was once a national powerhouse but has been declining in national competitions in recent years, having not won a gold medal for five consecutive years, in a disguised attempt to attract sponsorship and students. This incident shocked everyone who knew about it, and it also led people to wonder: Is Kitauji's administration somehow connected to this prominent figure? Or is this venerable music school, which has been declining since the graduation of its gold medal-winning class nearly a decade ago, truly about to begin a resurgence?

[But despite all the rumors flying around, surprisingly, they actually got one thing right: Kousaka Kyosuke did have some connection to this school he had never visited, but it had nothing to do with the school as people speculated.]

There are two reasons for this connection. First, the trumpet player in the student orchestra that won the national gold medal nearly ten years ago was a distant relative of hers. After graduation, this relative now works as a music instructor at her former alma mater.

"What!???"

Once this incident was exposed by Guangmu, it immediately caused an uproar in the entire Kitauji High School, and all the teachers and students in the school were shocked.

No one had expected that they had thought that the reason their school could appear on the screen was because it would house the Light Music Club, a group of main supporting characters, in the future. But that was all, just a position like a post-event shelter. Apart from that, there was nothing outstanding about it. It was nothing compared to Sobu High School, which was rumored to be replacing Shuchiin as the number one university in Japan on the Internet because of its relationship with super-famous alumni such as Zaimokuza Yoshiteru and Yukinoshita Yukino.

But now everyone knows that "Kousaka Kyosuke", another protagonist in the light curtain, is actually related to Kitauji. His relatives have attended this school, and it is well known that the time in the light curtain is the future world, which is approximately between seven and ten years.

And if we estimate based on the time, the trumpet player in the orchestra who won the national gold medal nearly ten years ago in the light curtain... is very likely to be among the current three classes of students in the school!

The whole school went crazy at this moment, and all the students took action, eager to find the distant relative of "Kousuke Kosaka" and then contact the current Kyosuke Kosaka through him. Countless people now want to contact this one of the two heroes who will protect mankind in the future.

"puff!"

When Kumiko Oumae learned of this in the music room, she spat out her iced cola, then began coughing violently, tears and saliva streaming down her face. Her usual image of a lazy, beautiful girl was instantly extinguished, and Reina Kousaka, who had just returned from the room, looked disdainful and pulled up her skirt, moving several steps away.

"Hey, hey, hey...are you kidding me? Our school actually has such a genius who can associate with such a big shot?"

Kumiko Huangqian wiped all the liquid off her face, her eyes twitching as she exclaimed in amazement, while Reina Kousaka rolled her eyes upwards and spoke unhappily.

"Kumiko's reaction is too exaggerated. The emperor also has some poor relatives. My cousin is also a human being, right? Is it strange to have a distant relative?"

"Reina, you're too calm, aren't you? That's Mr. Kosaka. If I could get to know that relative now, maybe through him I could meet Mr. Kosaka, who's still my classmate."

Kumiko Huangmae blinked, picked up the can of Coke and drank it again, while Reina Kousaka commented indifferently.

"Then you'd better not have any strange expectations. In fact, cousin Kyousuke is just an ordinary student now. After all, even Uncle Daisuke is still alive, so he definitely can't be as outstanding as you see now."

"Huh? How would you know if you don't take a look—wait…"

Kumiko Huangqian's movements suddenly stiffened, and it was as if a whole nebula flashed through her brain, and her brain froze for a while.

Her neck twisted like a rusty screw as she turned to the side. Looking at the beautiful girl next to her, her whole face began to twitch violently.

"Reina...what did you just say???"

At the same time, the information on the light screen just now flashed through her mind quickly. Mr. Kosaka's distant relative was probably a member of the current student orchestra in Kitauji, and was also a trumpeter in the orchestra... The more she thought about it, the blanker her mind became.

"What? I thought you'd already guessed it, Kumiko~"

Reina Kousaka looked at her friend's jaw, which was about to be dislocated, with a half-smile, and gently reached out to hold her face, gently closing her wide-open mouth, with a devilish curve at the corner of her mouth.

She picked up the gold-plated and silver-embossed trumpet that she had placed next to her, shook it, and said with a smile. The smile on her fair cheeks was incredibly beautiful.

"And have you forgotten? What is my last name~"

A moment later, screams as if witnessing the end of the world rang out from the music room, echoing throughout the entire Kitauji campus.

This was the first connection between Kousaka Kyosuke and Kitauji, and the second was that his "fiancée" was also currently studying at Kitauji, and happened to be taught by that relative.

Kousaka Kyosuke: "???"

Kosaka Kirino: "!???"

Kousaka Yoshino, Kousaka Daisuke: "???"

Kosaka Rina: "???"

If the first piece of information was that a bomb fell on the lake, then the second piece of information was simply that a meteorite hit the earth. The shock wave not only made the brains of all the students in Kitauji go blank, but also completely shattered the brains of the people involved and their relatives.

[——For some unspeakable reason, it's now a widely acknowledged "fact" throughout Japan's upper class: the only daughter of the Kotobuki zaibatsu's head is a deeply in love couple with this now-hot rising star and public hero in the police force, and they're even discussing marriage.]

Otherwise, it's inexplicable why the Kotobuki family has been so dedicated to promoting the Kousaka Kyousuke incident, contributing both money and effort. The Metropolitan Police Department's budget for the next ten years has been completely covered by the Kotobuki family, so this matter is basically known within the department. Even the lady sweeping the door knows that Officer Kousaka has hooked up with a wealthy family's daughter.

Although the age difference between the two makes one want to call the police, the man is currently the top police official, and the woman's family is even more influential, so it's not a problem at all.

Is it immoral and detrimental to social order for minors to date members of society? Never mind. Just amend the relevant laws in the next Diet session. It's just a matter of high school students getting married. At worst, we can emulate India in this regard. Maybe this can even help Japan alleviate its increasingly aging population.

[The woman certainly wouldn't have a problem with this, but what does the man think? Kousaka Kyousuke, who owes the Kotobuki family so much, has expressed complete indifference to this "fact." Please feel free to do as you please.]

[——Anyway, I'm going to die in six months. As long as I don't have any real affairs or a real engagement with that girl during this time, it'll be fine. Even if the sky collapses and the earth splits, it won't matter to me, a burial ground. After all, I don't care about the floods after I die.]

The cell phone rang at this moment. Kosaka picked it up with a stiff expression and saw the caller's name "Kosaka Daisuke" displayed on the screen.

His expression suddenly turned dead. Before answering the phone, he was considering what kind of punishment he would get from his father for the charge of "policeman playing with the feelings of an underage girl"... Maybe he would have to book a seat in a famous German orthopedic hospital in advance.

Today, in addition to being invited to visit Kitauji, Kousaka Kyosuke was also asked to help with a performance for a newly established student club on campus called the Light Music Club. He agreed, and the school officials, seeing this prominent figure so engaged in the public's activities, were reluctant to neglect him, and all the school leaders rushed to watch the performance.

If nothing else, the event had to be given a lot of fanfare. Perhaps no student club in the school's history has ever been granted such an honor. Everyone from the chairman to the gym teacher came to watch a club's performance, filling the front seats of the concert hall to the brim. Everyone's expression was incredibly solemn, turning the performance into some kind of official speech. The students in the back didn't dare to even breathe.

In the solemn and silent concert hall, all students and faculty members sat at attention, watching the performance currently taking place on the stage with serious expressions: the light music section's adaptation of "The Tortoise and the Hare."

[“Ouch!”]

A rabbit in a white rabbit costume leaps up and bites a carrot hanging from a line above. The blond girl standing on the second floor above gives a sly smile and pulls up her fishing rod. The carrot rises just before the rabbit's bite, and the rabbit misses.

Meanwhile, at the front of the stage, a girl with long black hair, dressed in a maid outfit, looked out at the packed crowd in front of her, which was as silent as if watching a silent film. With one hand, she tugged at her skirt, which was so short it barely covered her thighs in white silk stockings. With the other, she gripped the microphone, stammering with an expression of embarrassment, tears threatening to seep from the corners of her eyes.

“And so, the rabbit was delayed by the tortoise’s despicable trajectory, and the tortoise, taking advantage of the rabbit’s distraction with the carrot, slowly ran from behind towards the finish line just in front of the rabbit… woo~”

As the girl's sobbing voice fell, a giant turtle slowly emerged from behind the curtain, using all four limbs to crawl towards the end. Its head, visible from its shell, was lowered deeply, its face covered by sunglasses that almost obscured it. It slowly and leisurely crawled towards the red line drawn at the other end of the stage, its pace so slow that it looked like torture.

The faint sound of students' hidden laughter echoed in the corner of the concert hall, but the noises died down as the Dean of Students in the front row coughed, cupping his fists over his mouth. After admonishing the students, the Dean returned to watching the performance with a serious expression, seemingly unperturbed... unless one ignored the two palms on his knees that were nearly tearing his pants.

"Finally! The turtle won the race!"

As the girl finished her words, the turtle's hand touched the red line, and countless fireworks exploded around the bandstand, scattering down.

The school leaders were the first to stand up and applaud vigorously, their faces filled with emotion, as if they had witnessed the end of a powerful and moving performance, rather than a remake of a fairy tale. The students, seeing this, could only clap their hands with stiff faces, while trying hard not to laugh out loud.

The tortoise that touched the red line lay motionless at the finish line, its head lowered, unwilling to lift it up, as if in hibernation.

[“——The performance is over! Thank you for watching!”]

After saying this, Akiyama Mio, her eyes already glaring, gripped the long microphone in front of her with both hands for support, trying to prevent herself from collapsing in a duck-like position... If she were to do this with the length of her skirt, it would probably be a far more tragic memory than a performance she no longer wanted to recall.

The red curtain on the ceiling slowly descended, and the performance entered its final stage.

[Unfortunately, an accident still happened. ]

Like a fisherman on a fishing rod, the rabbit kept jumping up and down at the constantly rising and falling carrots. As the carrots, suspended by the thin line, began to rise rapidly, he subconsciously increased his jumping ability—and the result was that he jumped nearly ten meters from the ground in front of everyone in the concert hall.

"Ouch~"

The rabbit happily opened its mouth and bit down on the hanging carrot. All the teachers and students subconsciously applauded upon seeing this, but their expressions and eyes had become glazed over.

【"?"】

Rabbit noticed the atmosphere was much quieter than before, and subconsciously turned around to look. The entire room of teachers and students sat in silence, and his expression suddenly froze.

[“Gudong~”]

A clear swallowing sound echoed through the concert hall. At the same time, the thin string holding the carrot snapped, unable to bear the rabbit's immense weight.

Then, the rabbit, unable to react, fell down with the carrot in his mouth. Below him was Mr. Turtle, lying motionless at the finish line.

The rabbit smashed directly into the turtle's shell. The floor beneath them, suddenly impacted by the force of inertia and weight, crumbled. Amidst a shower of splinters, both figures vanished before the crowd's eyes. The curtain descended completely, covering the gaping hole in the stage.

[Within three seconds, the entire concert hall fell silent. Everyone looked at the lowered curtain, no one speaking.]

Three seconds later, the students' laughter resounded throughout the concert hall. The situation was completely out of control, and the laughter even reached the outside world, attracting curious glances.

[And behind the curtain, from the breach in the bandstand, two voices emanated from the pitch-black pit one after another. One was as terrifying as a demonic demon, the other as frightened as a lost elk.]

[The rabbit's head had just emerged from the hole, and as it tried to climb up with a panicked look on its face, a hand had already grabbed its back and pulled it back with force, followed by a shrill scream.]

【“Material—wood—seat!”】

"Mr. Kosaka, I was wrong!!!"

【The light music section's performance concluded successfully.】

15. The sound of footsteps before the end (7K, with group number)

【Kyoto Prefecture, Kitauji, rooftop of a teaching building. 】

After a chaotic performance, this adaptation of "The Tortoise and the Hare" officially came to an end. Everyone's laughter filled the concert hall, bringing today's performance to a successful conclusion.

“Ah, ah, ah… That’s too much! You actually did it, Mr. Kousaka…”

Zaimokuza, still wearing his bunny costume, sat on a chair on the rooftop, covering half of his face with one hand. The other half of his face was wrinkled, and he kept uttering low, painful screams.

"Zaimokuza-san, are you alright?"

Akiyama Mio, sitting next to him, couldn't help but laugh at Zaimokuza's expression. She tried to suppress her laughter as she asked, but a faint laugh still escaped her words.

"Mio, why are you like this too?"

Zaimokuza lowered his hand, covering the right side of his face with a mournful expression. A dark mark was left on his right eye socket, resembling some kind of smoky makeup or a panda-like creature. Combined with his mournful expression, it was particularly comical.

[…Puff~]

After staring at this face for a few seconds, Akiyama Mio suddenly covered her mouth with her hands and lowered her head. The half of her fair shoulders exposed by her maid outfit rose and fell slightly, and her slender, white, silky legs trembled uncontrollably as they were joined together. The girl's suppressed laughter made Zaimokuza's eyes completely dead.

"Even a gentle girl like you, Mio, is laughing at me... This world is too cruel. I've lost the will to live."

"Hey hey hey!? Zaimokuza-san, I'm just kidding! Stop jumping!"

Watching Zaimokuza, with a look of dejection on his face, clattering on the soft mats of his bunny suit as he made his way towards the rooftop railing, Akiyama Mio, her laughter turning into shock, hurriedly stood up and threw her arms around his waist, trying to drag him back.

[“Hehehe~”]

【"Why?"】

After being embraced by Akiyama Mio, Zaimokuza suddenly let out a sinister laugh. Akiyama Mio froze at the sound, looking up blankly at Zaimokuza's face as he turned his head upwards. He saw two fingers pressed against her forehead, poking her neck back several degrees.

There wasn't a trace of frustration on Zaimokuza's face when he turned around. He was grinning like a thief rabbit that had stolen food from the neighbor's house.

"The deception operation was a resounding success~ Ritsu-chan is absolutely right. If I make that kind of expression, you'll definitely fall for it, Mio."

Looking at the girl in his arms, her head tilted back with a dazed expression, Zaimokuza smiled, then retracted his finger from the center of her forehead and shook it.

“Your expression is cute, but don’t let yourself be fooled so easily next time. Also…”

Zaimokuza's eyes suddenly wavered as he turned his head away. He put his fist to his mouth, coughed, and spoke awkwardly.

"You—the clothes you're wearing today are really beautiful, but you should buy another one. They're a little too thin after all."

【“——!!!”】

A strange sense of déjà vu suddenly washed over her. Upon hearing this, Akiyama Mio's entire body stiffened, and she slowly lowered her head.

Because of the performance today, Akiyama Mio was the first to draw lots in the light music club, but unfortunately, she drew the first lot (Tainaka Ritsu's lot). She had to wear the maid outfit she had prepared long ago without anyone knowing and go on stage to be the commentator. After the curtain call, she couldn't bear the shame and ran away, so she didn't even have time to change back into her clothes.

The light music club's professional musical skills may be questionable, but their aesthetic sense of style is definitely up to par, and they possess a deep understanding of human nature. Akiyama Mio's maid outfit is both fashionable and cute, bringing out her inherent charm. At the start of the performance, I wonder how many boys were transfixed by it.

To put it simply, the skirt of this dress was incredibly short, completely revealing her slender legs clad in white silk and her absolute domain. The top was made of equally minimal fabric, revealing only a small strip of cleavage at the very top, except for the chest area, which was covered by a sliver of white cloth. The slender neck, collarbone, and rib cage, as well as the shoulders and a small portion of her back, were all exposed. Add to that the black and white headscarf wrapped around her head, and she looked like someone from some unspeakable place who would bow down and shout "Dog Xiu Jinsa Ma~" upon entering.

Now, because Akiyama Mio was hugging Zaimokuza's back, and because of the height difference between them, Zaimokuza, looking down from above, had a clear view of everything, including the entire upper hemisphere of the area where the loose fabric of his chest garment was slightly deformed when pressed against his back... High-temperature white steam erupted from the top of Akiyama Mio's head as she lowered it, and the small earlobe that peeked through her hair suddenly turned a brilliant red, like a pigeon's blood stone.

"Uh—Mio?"

The two slender arms that had wrapped around his back and were hugging his chest suddenly stiffened. A terrifying, inhuman strength surged from those delicate arms. Zaimokuza felt like he was being held by a bear, and even his ribs crackled under the immense force. Realizing something was amiss, the smile on his face faltered.

The girl in his arms began to tremble violently. Zaimokuza swallowed hard and spoke cautiously.

[“Um? Are you okay—”]

[“——Aa ...

[A familiar high-pitched scream exploded from the roof of the teaching building, mixed with the crisp sound of flesh colliding.]

……

"Ugh~ That's too much, Mio-chan."

The bunny costume was folded in the middle of the chair. Zaimokuza was now wearing only a white T-shirt. Two wide, spaghetti-like tears hung from his mournful face. His nose was plugged with a red tissue. This time, his palm covered the other half of his swollen face. Through the gaps between his fingers, a thin, red palm print could be seen on his face.

“Hmph! It’s Zaimokuza-san’s fault for wanting to learn from that guy Ritsu! Tsurumi-san was right. This is how we deal with Zaimokuza-san who has learned bad habits!”