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"Shirakaba Academy is caught in a controversy! The principal violinist may be replaced! Will the Holy Maiden Wind Ensemble go it alone again? The new Tachibana Kita's strength should not be underestimated. Can this year's music still be played? - The Hokkaido Wind Ensemble Representative Tournament will kick off tomorrow"
Komuro Teru held the newspaper in his hand and couldn't help but sigh.
"Why are you sighing for no apparent reason?" Kawabata Masahiko, his colleague sitting opposite him, couldn't help but ask.
"I don't know what happened to the Shirakaba Wind Ensemble! On the day before the competition, a student deliberately picked trouble with Daisho Tachibana Kita. Now, the incident was reported in the newspapers, and the whole school is embarrassed! I thought they were the dark horse this year, but the concertmaster was replaced! How can they compete?"
Every September, Teru Komuro would book tickets for the competition.
Naturally, this year too.
"So you're not going this year?"
Komuro Teru answered without hesitation: "Go, why not?"
Kawabata Masahiko waved his hand, disdainful of the trouble. "If you ask me, what's so good about it? Anyway, we in Hokkaido have always relied on a saint to break through the siege every year. Other teams are just runners-up in the national competition. This year, we finally have Shirakaba Academy, which is worth watching, but then the incident you mentioned happened.
"Why don't you take a short vacation when the national competition officially starts and treat it as a trip to Tokyo? That would be so much easier. Why waste your vacation on something like this?"
When his colleague Masahiko said this, Komuro Teru wanted to sigh again.
Because it is.
The other teams were runners-up every year. Although the Saint's Brass Band was of very good standard, it was always just a little bit short of winning the championship every year.
It's either second, third or fourth, what a pity.
Komuro Teru shook the newspaper in his hand, glanced at the title, pointed at the words above and said to his colleague:
"Look, the news said there's another Ju Bei."
"Jubei? Which school is this?"
"Taisho Tachibana Kita! Don't tell me you don't know, it's the number one girls' school in Hokkaido!"
"Oh, this school is famous, but I remember their wind band was pretty bad. They only run in the most basic competitions every year, and we can't even see their presence at all."
Komuro Teru stared at the words "The new Tachibana Kita's strength should not be underestimated" on the newspaper, stroking his chin and saying:
"I heard that Tachibana Kita seems to have changed his teacher."
"Komuro, you don't think that Tachibana Kita will stand out like this, do you?"
"That's true."
Komuro Teru nodded.
Even if Ju Bei really changed his teacher, even if Ju Bei really wanted to let the wind orchestra participate in the national competition, the strength of the entire department would not be able to be significantly improved within a year.
Because it's really hard.
For example, the "dark horse" Birch Wind Ensemble that was previously praised by everyone.
Strictly speaking, they are not dark horses.
Because we could see them in representative competitions in the past few years. Although they were always runners-up, they had basic strength and it was improving year by year.
The accumulation of the past few years has given everyone some hope.
Orange North?
Who is there?
This is a name that was only heard more than ten years ago!
If someone says that they can stand out in the representative competition this time, Komuro Teru won't believe it at all!
But as a native of Hokkaido, he still supports the local team. What if?
"By the way, do you know who Tachibana Kita's instructor is?" asked Komuro Teru.
"I don't know."
"That's it"
"Hey, have you bought the ticket?" The colleague came over again.
"I bought it."
“Can I still buy it now?”
"Of course you can. A wind instrument competition is not a concert. You can buy any tickets before the competition starts. Why, you want to go too?"
"You're already there. I thought there wouldn't be much work to do tomorrow and it would be boring, so I'll take a day off and accompany you."
Komuro Teru smiled.
The musical atmosphere at the cultural center is quite strong. He has worked here for more than ten years, and many of his colleagues have been influenced by him to like watching wind music competitions.
Masahiko Kawabata, who is standing before us, is one of them.
His family is quite wealthy. His parents are businessmen and his mother teaches at a university.
He is over 30 and still not married. He said he is a non-marriage advocate. Actually, he just can't find a partner.
As an uncle, single and with a leisurely job, he fell into the trap by accident.
He doesn't like to watch other symphony competitions, but he likes to watch the national competitions of high school departments.
According to him, he is reminiscing about his youth!
Back then, he had joined the wind band and played musical instruments!
It’s a pity that my family urged me to continue my studies and take the college entrance examination or the civil service examination, so I had to give it up.
Looking back on my busy half-life, I found that I had nothing except a relatively leisurely job.
It’s like life has come to an end, it’s so meaningless!
Right now, only some aspirational competitions are more to their liking.
As a civilian staff member of a cultural center, I do have some pursuit of art.
National Wind Instrument Competition!
Thousands of school orchestras register for the competition every year.
At all levels from elementary school to high school, college and social groups.
The competition in the high school section is particularly fierce.
Thousands of high schools and more than 100,000 people participated in the competition.
Last year, there were 4021 colleges and universities participating in the national competition! That’s nearly 20 people!
In the end, there were only 30 teams representing various regions to participate in the national competition!
If you can understand it, there is no need to describe how wonderful it is.
Of course, the most important reason is that 70 to 80 percent of the students who join the wind orchestra in high schools are girls.
Girls of this age are the most energetic and have the most youthful charm.
These uncles have no other hobbies, they just like watching young, beautiful and youthful groups.
Hokkaido's Holy Girls' College is so outstanding every year.
He even wants to send his future daughter to study there!
Of course, I don’t even have a girlfriend now.
I sat at my workstation for a while and soon it was lunch time.
"Let's go! Kawabata, let's go eat!"
"go!"
There are no canteens in government workplaces, and in most cases, people eat at nearby restaurants.
Komuro Teru particularly likes a Chinese restaurant near the harbor. He likes the fried tomato and eggs made by the owner there so much that he has to queue up every day at noon to eat there. What's even more strange is that he can't make the same taste at home using the steps he learned from the owner. It's very strange!
The two of them walked out of the Cultural Hall together and soon arrived at the snack street, near the downtown area.
Just as he arrived at the hotel entrance and was waiting in line to get his tickets, he suddenly saw a large group of high school girls walking towards him from the other end of the street.
"Hey, hey." He quickly nudged his colleague's waist with his arm.
"I saw it, I saw it."
"Kawabata, those people coming over there are all high school students, right?"
Kawabata Masahiko looked over and observed.
"From the looks of it, junior high school students are not this mature."
"You all look very energetic. Which school are you from?"
"You can tell at a glance that this Taisho-style sailor suit is from Taisho Tachibana."
"They are Ju Bei? Why are they here?"
Komuro Teru couldn't help but look at it a few more times.
The reason is simple, it’s just because some of the girls here are so dazzling!
That temperament shows that he comes from a famous family!
"The hotel they booked before the competition is nearby. They probably came here just to eat."
"Come here to eat? Eh! We went to a big restaurant. The school arranged it and their teachers treated us. They are so rich."
"Then I don't know," Kawabata Masahiko thought for a while, "but if they live near the harbor, then they should stay at the Xinghai Hotel. If they stay at the Xinghai Hotel, Tachibana Kita will provide a lot of financial assistance."
Komuro Teru became inexplicably concerned, "So, the school authorities at Tachibana Kita are very optimistic about their wind band?"
Kawabata Masahiko nodded, "I think so."
"Did you see that just now?"
"what did you see?"
"A leading girl."
".didn't notice."
"I always feel that she has an extraordinary temperament. Maybe she comes from a famous musical family."
Kawabata Masahiko took the queue number and glanced at his colleague. "Since you care so much, why don't you search online after dinner? They must have walked all the way here, so there must be footage. You will know if you take a closer look."