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As the weather gets colder day by day, Horikita Suzune has gradually thickened her clothes. Recently, she also bought a batch of customized earmuffs in the store. They look furry and very warm, and there are two cute earmuffs attached to them. Cat ears decoration, used to take souvenir photos for guests.

After all, this is a dessert shop with a cat theme and mascot.

Hotaru lay down next to Horikita Suzune and yawned lazily.

In fact, Yingying thinks that the warmest place is the kitchen. The air is filled with sweet warmth, like thick honey, and you can sleep comfortably all day long if you soak in it.

But Kitagawa Ryo would not allow cats to enter the kitchen, so most of the time Hotaru could only lie obediently here at the front desk.

Horikita Suzune shook her hands, stood up and walked to the kitchen.

The temperature in the kitchen is indeed much higher than outside. Ever since winter entered, Horikita Suzune has become more and more obsessed with the atmosphere here. She squatted next to the oven and watched Kitagawa Ryo methodically baking various desserts. Mentally, you will also enter a rare state of stability, even a little dull.

So slow that time seems to have stopped.

The sound of butter being spread, the sound of butter being fried, the sound of the oven being opened and closed...

You will even feel that this place is like a piece cut off from the long river of time and space, so quiet that there is no sound of human beings.

You can think about anything, or you can think about nothing.

Horikita Suzune hugged her knees and took a nap in the corner of the kitchen. Kitagawa Ryo would not kick her out, and the two of them did not speak. This could be regarded as a strange tacit understanding.

In the past two months, [Firefly] has finally established a firm foothold on this street. It has beautiful and delicious pastries, sweets, and drinks, and a fresh and elegant decoration style. In addition, Firefly is inexplicably attracted by emojis. It has become popular on the Internet, and it can be regarded as a good target for many middle school and high school girls who attend nearby schools.

Although Horikita Suzune didn't know how much money Kitagawa Ryo made in the past two months, her father occasionally revealed that the other party had recovered all the costs.

From this point of view, while children of the same age are still fighting on a test paper in school, Kitagawa Ryo has already come a long way on another track.

However, Horikita Suzune didn't have too many thoughts. She had already suffered a loss in front of a genius brother, and she had already learned a lesson when she met another one.

Maybe it was because she knew that this seemingly perfect guy would lie in bed at home, be picky about food, and have nightmares.

Neither looking up nor looking down is good for the neck. It is best to look at everyone honestly.

This is something Horikita Suzune learned while distributing flyers and doing publicity.

According to the agreement with Kitagawa Ryo, in the first few days after the store opened, in order to increase the popularity, Horikita Suzune had to wear a cat's leather case and hand out flyers outside the store for a few days.

She couldn't remember how many "Hello", "Thank you" and "Welcome" she said. Horikita Suzune was a little awkward at first, but fortunately the thick leather holster helped her cover up a lot.

So in the end, Horikita Suzune was finally able to smoothly say these most common but important words in daily communication, although she still doesn't think it is of any use.

Horikita Suzune is still learning Aikido and piano, but she is no longer anxious for temporary progress. She spends more time reading books, covering a wide range of subjects, and has no special preferences.

Horikita Suzune, who was dozing, suddenly felt something pressing on both sides of her ears. She didn't need to open her eyes to know that it was Kitagawa Ryo who put on the earmuffs in the store for her.

But she was still too lazy to speak or act. Anyway, the more shameful look was not seen by the other party. Now Horikita Suzune just wanted to sleep peacefully.

So this childish prank only made Horikita Suzune shake her head slightly, as if to express her dissatisfaction.

The cat ear decoration on the girl's head and her beautiful long hair swayed slightly together.

Horikita Suzune did not choose to cut her long hair short. In her words, it was because she had not yet seen her heart clearly.

Just like what Kitagawa Ryo had said to stop her from saying that, Horikita Suzune still couldn't tell whether she simply wanted to go back to her past self and cut her hair short, or whether she just wanted to be re-approved by Horikita Manabu, or whether she was Driven by a strange sense of revenge.

So two months passed, and Horikita Suzune still had no answer.

But the time ahead is still very long, and even if you think about it slowly, it's still too late.

Kitagawa Ryo squatted in front of Horikita Suzune and looked at her sleeping appearance. The girl squatted in her usual corner, huddled her petite body, and her longer black hair fell on her shoulders because of her posture. The two sides of the head are spread out, as if they have a pair of black wings.

By the way, Horikita Suzune's sleeping posture is quite gentle. Once she falls asleep, she stays like this without moving, and she has no bad habit of kicking the quilt.

Human thinking cannot go beyond the present.

Because things from the past are always magnified.

Kitagawa Ryo fiddled with the cat ear decoration on Horikita Suzune's head.

Although it's just a game about playing a family, at least until the end of this simulation comes.

He would look at each other.

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Cultural Festival.

A large-scale event held by Tokyo Advanced Education Middle School in November every year is the same as the sports festival in October. Although it is not a special examination on the surface, it also involves changes in class points.

The rules are very simple. Each class will be assigned a fixed number of personal points, and they can carry out preparations for the cultural festival with limited points.

Restaurants, haunted houses, mazes, concerts, theater performances...

Twelve classes in three grades will be ranked based on their final turnover. The top four will receive one hundred class points, the fourth to eighth will receive fifty points, and the ninth to twelfth will receive no reward.

The rewards are not large and there is no punishment. It can be seen that the school does not put too much pressure on the students. After all, the cultural festival is a rare open-to-public event of Tokyo High School, and the school does not want conflicts between classes. The smell of gunpowder is too strong.

Manabu Horikita, who is in Class A of the first year, rubbed his eyebrows.

As the leader of the first-year class A, he has shown a very high level of ability since he entered school half a year ago. The first-year class A has also gradually consolidated its advantages in these special examinations and improved little by little. The gap with the other three classes is wide.

The various preparations for this cultural festival have also entered the final stage. No matter from any aspect, Class A of the first year should be in a good situation where everything is full of vitality and competition.

However, Akane Tachibana, a classmate who joined the student union with Horikita Manabu, was keenly aware of Horikita Manabu's mental state. As the cultural festival approached, Horikita Manabu, who had always remained calm despite the collapse of the mountain, became a little unsettled. .

Obviously Horikita Manabu didn't have such big mood swings during the previous special examinations.

Noticing the worried look that Tachibana Akane cast towards him, Horikita Manabu shook his head to indicate that he was fine.

He is indeed a little worried about the upcoming cultural festival, but this is not because of the cultural festival itself, but because of the news he just learned from the outside world a few days ago.

Although Tokyo Advanced Education Middle School is known as a fully closed management, it does not prohibit students from browsing social networking sites. Whether it is SNS or blogs, students in the school can communicate with the outside world to a certain extent.

The girl who approached Horikita a few months ago posted a message of unknown meaning on her social platform a few days ago:

"She decided to come again."

Others may be confused by this sentence, but Horikita Manabu knows exactly who the "she" in this message is.

Horikita Suzune, her biological sister who is two years younger than herself.

Horikita Manabu once felt great talent in Horikita Suzune when he was young. Although it was not yet mature, he still saw the brilliance of the original stone.

At that time, he had not noticed how much influence he would have on his sister. He just expected that soon, the rough stone of Horikita Suzune would be polished and gain power that could surpass him.

However, the final result of the matter was that Horikita Suzune was completely restrained by the phantom named Horikita Manabu. She arbitrarily decided that her skills were inferior to others, and arbitrarily decided that it was impossible to surpass others and gave up. She chose the option of giving up her own development space.

This is something that Horikita Manabu cannot forgive at all.

Perhaps it was because of this that he took the initiative to stay away from Horikita Suzune and came to this high-education high school in Tokyo.

Holding the idea that the other person might be able to be independent without him, Horikita Manabu unexpectedly learned of Horikita Suzune's current situation two months ago.

That was the answer I got from Chairman Sakayanagi's daughter, a girl named Sakayanagi Yusu.

It is said that Horikita Suzune hoped to enter this place during the cultural festival through her connections.

At that time, Horikita Manabu just asked Sakayanagi Yusu to confirm the length of Horikita Suzune's hair. If it was short hair, he would happily accept it. If it was long hair, he would change his excuse.

Meet the conditions and enter different options.

This was a lie that Horikita Manabu had set up before. The purpose was to verify whether Horikita Suzune still had a phantom trapped in him after he left.

The final result disappointed him. Horikita Suzune still has beautiful long hair that reaches her waist. The change from short to long hair can be regarded as a symbol of growth in a sense, but in the eyes of Horikita Manabu, this It is indeed a reflection of my sister's lack of growth.

Horikita Manabu originally thought that his words would make Horikita Suzune give up, but he didn't expect that Horikita Suzune didn't give up yet, and still decided to come to see him on the day of the cultural festival.

Of course, he was not a brother who didn't love his sister, so he fell into confusion at this time.

What attitude should I take to face her?

Amid Horikita Manabu's headache, time continued to move forward day by day until the day of the cultural festival.

The start time of the cultural festival is nine o'clock in the morning, but the school requires students to prepare half an hour in advance. At the same time, in order to transport the supplies purchased by some students, the door of Tokyo Advanced Education Middle School has been opened at six o'clock in the morning.

The visiting guests were all family members of the school staff. Starting from nine o'clock in the morning, with the school-wide announcement broadcast by the school, all the guests who had registered and reviewed in advance entered the campus through the gate one after another.

"What should I do? I'm a little nervous."

"After all, since I entered this school, I haven't had any contact with anyone outside."

In the corridor, girls from other classes could be heard discussing uneasily.

Horikita Manabu took steady steps. He had already found a window position that was most suitable for observing the school gate in advance. The class's cultural festival activities had been rehearsed countless times, and nothing would go wrong if he left for a while.

He quietly observed each guest, looking for Horikita Suzune among them.

To be honest, it has been nearly a year since the last time the two met.

Horikita Manabu patiently watched groups of guests entering the campus through the security check. Among them were the elderly, middle-aged people, and many children.

He quickly found his target.

Even though they had been away for a long time, Horikita Manabu found Horikita Suzune in the crowd for the first time. With her long hair, she had grown much taller than before.

What surprised Horikita Manabu was that the other party did not come alone, but the girl accompanying her was not the girl named Yusu Sakayanagi, but another boy.

The two people were talking and laughing.

Akane Tachibana, who discovered that Horikita Manabu was missing, found her way here. She was about to call Horikita Manabu back to class to preside over the details of the cultural festival, but then she rubbed her eyes in disbelief.

Horikita Manabu, who had always been calm and expressionless, was actually smiling at this moment.

He looked out the window from afar, and the corners of his mouth curved in a brilliant way.

Ringtone...made a friend.

ps: I caught a cold and had diarrhea. I felt terribly uncomfortable. I found that every time I write about a character in an article who gets sick, I have to suffer from it too. Because I was not feeling well, it took me almost five hours to write this chapter one after another, so I apologize for the late update.

ps2: Thank you for reading and subscribing. Here is an explanation of the cultural festival. The cultural festival first appeared in the second grade. For the sake of plot design, it was changed to the tradition of Tokyo High School. I hope everyone understands.

Main plot: Kitagawa Ryo's strength supremacy classroom: Chapter 26: Cultural Festival with Horikita Suzune

"Points?"

Horikita Suzune looked up in confusion, and the school staff immediately explained kindly:

"Yes, every guest who enters the venue will be assigned a fixed personal point. Adults are ten thousand, while minors are five thousand. One point is equivalent to one yen."

"In other words, it is equivalent to the pocket money given to everyone by the school. Because it cannot be exchanged for cash of the same value after the event, so just spend it happily."

After listening to the staff's explanation, Horikita Suzune also thanked her. She walked back to Kitagawa Ryo and sighed:

"Tokyo Advanced Education High School is really generous. There are at least five hundred guests today, which means that the expenditure on this aspect alone is several million yen."

"After all, we will be questioned every few days for occupying too many public resources."

Kitagawa Ryo nodded and explained:

"Tokyo Advanced Education High School only enrolls one hundred and sixty students a year. The number of students in the three grades combined is probably not as many as today's guests."

"Want to see your brother?"

Hearing Kitagawa Ryo's question, Horikita Suzune shook her head. This was her first time in such a lively place. Not far from the school gate, she could already see students from unknown classes setting up There are various stalls, ranging from food to entertainment facilities, and there is a bit of a festival atmosphere among the crowds.

"Let's take a stroll here first."

Horikita Suzune set her sights on the Special Building not far away. Except for the two classes that had a lot of money and directly bought out the two classes on the golden section from the school gate to the Special Building, the remaining classes were basically in the first to third floors of the Special Building. Cultural festival celebrations are held in the building.

The weather in November is already a bit chilly. Today, Horikita Suzune is wearing a thick coat and cotton boots, with a hand-woven scarf wrapped warmly around her neck, making her pretty face look a little petite.

By the way, this scarf is the first successful product that Horikita Suzune learned and knitted by herself. Before that, there were several shapeless yarn balls... Hotaru had a lot of fun playing with it.

Kitagawa Ryo also wore gloves today. He did not wear the scarf Horikita Suzune gave him. Compared with the cold neck, Kitagawa Ryo is actually more sensitive to the temperature of his hands, so he never chooses that kind of scarf. Fingerless or half-fingerless gloves, but the tightest fur gloves that wrap your hands tightly in warmth.

In a long passage, the third grade students who were shouting hard for class points soon noticed the approach of Kitagawa Ryo and Horikita Suzune. Although the adults had more points in their hands, the underage children But it was much easier to deceive than the adults, even if two girls came over.

"Little brothers and sisters, would you like some apple candy? We also have marshmallows."

Just as Kitagawa Ryo was about to ask about the price, Horikita Suzune nodded first.

The two senior girls who saw a business done also hurriedly took two apple candies from their stall. After Horikita Suzune paid at the card reader, she also handed them to Kitagawa Ryo and Horikita gently. Suzune's hand.

"It's a hundred more expensive than outside."

Glancing at the balance displayed on the card reader, Kitagawa Ryo spoke subconsciously.

"It's just something this school gives away for free."

Horikita Suzune ate the apple candy in her hand in small sips. Her movements were a little clumsy. The apple on the bamboo stick was gnawing precariously, making people worried that it would fall to the ground next moment.

Faced with this crisis, Horikita Suzune quickly came up with a solution.

Eat around.