Chapter 40 Some things still have to be faced
In the third grade of Hanahata Middle School, Sada Mai packed her schoolbag, looked at the half-red clouds outside the window, and sighed.
"Dangdangdang."
The ringtone of "The Sunset Fading" echoes in the low building.
Most students choose to go home after school, while some students are serious about preparing for the exam in school because of the upcoming high school entrance exam.
The same is true for Sada Mai. She had nothing to do when she went home early, so she might as well read a book at school for a while and then rushed home to cook before dark.
But when he heard the sunset fading, Sada Mai couldn't help but stand up and look out the window, just as the sun was about to fall into the city skyline.
"The Sunset Glow Fades", also known as Yuyaki Koyaki, is a nursery rhyme published by Nakamura Yuhong in 1919 and Kusukawa Nobunaga in 1923. The most well-known reason for this nursery rhyme is that every afternoon, its melody will sound on the radio on the streets and alleys of the city. This is the case every day, just like Westminster Nakamori during class, accompanied the growth of many generations.
The reason for daily playback is actually different from what most people think. Since island countries have frequent disasters, in order to warn before the disaster or alert after the incident, a radio emergency system was established in the early last century. Whether it is a TV or a mobile phone network, it is not as effective as a speaker that can be heard with your own ears.
So at around 5 pm every day, in order to check whether the broadcast system can operate, some simple music will be played to judge the system's operating status.
Among them, most of the districts of Tokyo 23 have chosen "The Sunset Fade" as the inspection song. Although it is the same song, there are quite a difference in "The Sunset Fade" in each district. Some are simple piano sounds, some are singing versions, some are ensemble versions, and some are reorganized, all kinds of different.
Over time, after several generations of implementation, "The Sunset Fading" has other explanations in the crowd's memory - because the playback time overlaps with the children's school trip and the office workers' time off work, and the melody is sad, so it is extended to urge people to go home. After get off work and school, stop playing outside, hurry up and go home.
It is similar to playing Saxophone "Going Home" in some city squares in China.
"Marie, let's go home together~" A petite figure suddenly hugged Sada Marie from behind.
This is a girl with a ponytail on her head and her eyes are like peach blossoms. She hugged Sada's waist and rubbed her cheeks back and forth on Sada's cheeks. Her delicate little face has a raised little nose. When her eyes squinted with a smile, she would slightly hang her tips, like a little fox.
"Mixi, stop hugging it, it's so itchy!" Sada knocked off Mixi Kohara's little hand, which means there was no one else in the classroom. If Mixi dared to do this in front of everyone, she would definitely make Mixi's forehead be covered with a big bag.
Sada Mai’s weakness is itchy flesh, only hands and face on her body are not, and the rest are all itchy flesh!
I want to laugh when I am touched!
After being knocked off by Sada Mai, Miyu Kohara was not angry at all. She smiled and covered her chest: "Ah, so hurt, the cruel Sada actually abandoned Miyu like this... So scared, the exam is about to be taken, the exam to get to high school in the country is so terrible."
Sada Mai curled her lips: "What are you afraid of? High school is also a compulsory education, so you can't get good grades..."
"Different, Sada!" Miyu Kahara pointed to her head, "My family must let me get good grades and go to a private high school. I don't want me to go to a public high school in Adachi District... But I don't have that ability to study at all."
Island countries also implement a zoning enrollment system, but because the educational strength of public county high schools is generally poor and cannot be compared with private schools, there is no problem of school district housing.
Public schools that are enrolled in sections are not good, while private high schools with good education quality are recruited according to money and academic ability. In this case, although there is no school district housing, it shows the factors behind the school district housing in China - capital. If you have capital, you can go directly to expensive private schools for education, and you can get a good university in the future, or be talented and can get free tuition in private high schools, and you can get scholarships every year. As for those who don’t have money, please be honest in public schools, from happy first year to third year of high school, and then you should be a housewife, and you should be a housewife, and you should be an NHK toll collector, and the mainstream society is nothing to do with you.
This can be seen from the number of private schools. There are nine Tori Higher Education Institutions in Adachi District, but only two private schools, one of which is a girls' school.
After thinking about Miyu Kahara's academic performance, Sada Maki nodded in agreement. With the level of his only good friend, it was still a bit difficult to go to a private high school. As for spending money, if you have money, you would have gone to a private school as early as junior high school.
"So, save me, the omnipotent Miss Zhenyi."
Pulling away Miyu Kohara's face, Sada Mai said without curiosity: "My own grades are hard to guarantee, so how can I have the ability to go to a private high school."
Miyu Kohara blinked her eyes and finally squeezed out a little tears: "I didn't expect you to tutor me. You did not do as good as me in the last exam. I mean, let's go to the shrine on the weekend to pray to Gods for our blessings, and bless you can get good results in the exam."
"When you hear your power prayers, the gods will only punish you. If you don't pray normally, what will you do when you cram the Buddha's feet in the moment?"
Miyu Kohara grabbed Sada's hand: "It's good to go to something like gods once during the New Year. If I really show up in this exam, I will definitely... dedicate half of my pocket money this month as a sincerity to the gods."
"You are bribing the gods."
"How could it be? Go to Meiji Shrine, it's a big shrine, very effective!"
Looking at Miyu Kohara's expectant eyes, Sada Mai sighed and nodded. Her friend was really careless in treating the gods. Judging from her appearance, she still had an optional attitude towards the gods.
But Sada is different. She has already lived with fighting monsters, so it is really hard to say whether there are gods in the world!
"Then let's make a decision, go to Meiji Temple tomorrow!"
"The day after tomorrow." Sada Mai said calmly, "I have something to do tomorrow."
Although she was unwilling to do so, she had to go to the hospital in Yamanashi Prefecture tomorrow. As a patient's family, she had never been there since the beginning. Now Yamanashi Prefecture Hospital has repeatedly called her to go and sign.
Chapter completed!