Chapter 252: Xinchun's Solo

Kubota Ryoka was sent back home on the spot.

Even the other school called to apologize, so there was a 99% chance that she would not have a chance to continue participating in this competition.

By the time we finished our current affairs and returned to the hotel, it was almost early morning.

Fujii Itsuki saw that most of his students were injured in the fight.

But everyone was filled with righteous indignation because they were being wrongly accused by the other party, and they were not sleepy at this time and were very excited.

When Fujii Itsuki appeared in front of everyone, he was surrounded.

Everyone is asking how things are going and whether I can still go to the competition the day after tomorrow?
Did the culprit who hit Matsumae Shinchun in the first place be punished?

Fujii Itsuki explained everything to everyone one by one, and everyone became very excited. It was quite satisfying.

"Yes! That's it!"

"We'll have to make them throw some to Tokyo!"

"The teacher did the right thing!"

Everyone gathered together to discuss the matter enthusiastically. Yang Kui Chitose even slapped the table twice in front of her classmates to add fuel to the fire, saying, "Teacher Fujii slapped his head fiercely! Once the evidence came out, it shocked the whole audience, even the chief of the police station upstairs was alarmed! No one dared to refute Teacher Fujii!"

"Is Mr. Fujii really that amazing?!"

"Of course!"

Several other female students who had been staying at the back of the meeting room as witnesses echoed this.

I wish I could praise Fujii Itsuki to the sky.

Fujii Itsuki was not so shameless as to brag about such things in front of his students, so he directly pulled Chitose and the others out and urged them to go back and rest quickly and practice as usual tomorrow.

After he and Akai Muzi sent the students back to the hotel in groups of two or three to sleep, they stood at the door of the hotel for a while.

"By the way, Shu, how did you know that the other party was going to contact the hotel to delete the surveillance video?"

"You can tell from the other teacher's attitude. The female teacher tried to stop the fight first, but then she changed her attitude towards us. It's obvious that she doesn't want to take responsibility for this incident and is afraid that she will be held responsible if it gets exposed."

".So you want them to throw some to Tokyo——"

"I have advised the other party several times, but he won't listen. What can I do?"

Hearing this, Akagi Muzi nodded and said, "The fact that they could fight this time is still due to the youth and vigor of the students."

"Not just because of this."

"What else?"

Fujii Itsuki looked at the few sparse students standing in front of the hotel and said, "Doesn't this show that the students in our wind band are all united in their efforts? When everyone heard that someone in the club was being bullied, they immediately ran over to help, and they didn't think it was a big deal when they got hurt."

Akai Muzi seemed to remember something, and a smile appeared on her lips: "Think about it carefully, if you are right in a fight and no one helps you, it's really pitiful."

"Muzi, you..." Fujii Itsuki probably knew what she was talking about.

"That can't be helped. You were the only one who stood up for me when I was bullied before."

Seeing that he didn't say anything, Akai Muzi changed the subject again, "The two slaps you made on the table this time were actually to help everyone vent their anger, right? The other party was not in the right and hit so hard that many students were bruised. They wanted to explain the truth but were blocked by the other party. They must have been very angry. No wonder you acted so differently today."

"If students are bullied, I will definitely step in."

"Then Ah Shu, if I——"

"No need to say more, I understand, and I will definitely help you."

".real?"

"I don't lie."

"What if the person who bullies me is taller and stronger than you?"

“I will definitely help.”

Akai Muzi couldn't help but smile.

Fujii Itsuki could see that it was a very refreshing, happy and heartfelt laugh.

"call--"

After she finished laughing, she felt relieved and took a long breath. She put her hands behind her back like a young girl and looked at the night sky of Hakodate Harbor. "Then I will feel that my life is worth it!"

Fujii Itsuki looked at her.

After Akai Muzi sighed, she waved her hands, looking sleepy, "Then I'll go back and rest first, good night."

"OK, good night."

At one o'clock in the morning, Fujii Itsuki returned to his room.

After taking a shower and washing up, I went to bed and saw a few messages from Matsumae Shinchun on my phone.

Regarding the follow-up handling of today's incident, she said that the chief of the police station would give Ju Bei a complete account of the cause and results of the incident by tomorrow at the latest.

Fujii Itsuki replied that he understood, but Xinchun seemed to have something else to say.

[Teacher, actually, besides you, the person Koharu wants to thank the most today is Chitose.]
[Qiansui really helped me a lot in the beginning. When those people were trying to drag me away, it was Qiansui who came out to interrupt them.]
[Chitose, she really treats me as a good sister.]
[I think the same about her.]
Xinchun and Qiansui?

Fujii Itsuki sat on the bed, holding his cell phone with his back against the pillow.

He remembered that Qiansui always stuck to Xinchun before. As soon as he saw her, he would hug her neck. They had a very good relationship.

But the better their relationship, the more awkward they become about their feelings.

Xinchun and Jiuhua knew each other's position, and they usually argued over who was better and who was always fighting.

Jiuhua and Qiansui also knew each other's thoughts, and they argued over big and small things and were always fighting.

As soon as Qiansui came to Jiuhua's house, Jiuhuayue was distracted and became more at peace with Xinchun.

It's really a mistake.

However, in this way, the relationship between the two will definitely be much more harmonious in the future.

Fujii thought about it and felt that after what happened to Xinchun today, she would probably not sleep well at night, so he invited her to come to his room later.

[ah? ]
"Don't you want to come to my place?"

[Think.]——The girl’s reply quickly appeared on the screen.

Even though they were chatting across the phone screen, Fujii Itsuki seemed like he could see the girl's thoughts, which was quite magical.

[Xiao Yue she.]
"Xiaoyue won't come to see me tonight. She and Rinhua bought your medicine today. She told me that she was too tired from moving things and was very sleepy. She is sleeping in her room now."

[Okay, but let’s do it later. I’ll wait until Chitose falls asleep and then sneak over.]
"Yeah." Fujii Itsuki typed back.

After waiting for about half an hour, Matsumae Shinchun came over quietly.

She even knocked on the door gently, and Fujii Itsuki got out of bed and opened the door.

"teacher"

"Well, come in quickly."

The girl took small steps into the house and Fujii Itsuki closed the door.

When he visits secretly at night, it always seems like a private meeting. There is no need to create an atmosphere, and it naturally becomes a little ambiguous.

"That teacher."

"Want a hug?"

"Ah."

Xinchun just wants a hug.

To put it bluntly, she was uneasy.

All Fujii Itsuki could do was try to make her feel more at ease and not think about what happened in the afternoon.

"Was Xinchun a little scared in the afternoon?"

"I'm not afraid, I just really don't like it." "So is the anxiety now because of your family?"

"Yes, my aunt already knows about this."

"What did she say?"

"She asked Xinchun to go back home after the competition."

"Solitary confinement?"

"Yeah," Matsumae Shinchun agreed softly in his arms.

"The Matsumae family is really unreasonable. I will call your aunt right now and talk to her about this."

"No, no." Matsumae Shinchun stopped his hand.

Fujii Itsuki smiled at the girl who hid her head in his arms: "What are you afraid of, Xinchun? Your aunt won't eat me, and I'm trying to reason with her, not to cause trouble. Or is your aunt an unreasonable person?"

"No, it's not like that. I'm just a little scared of my aunt."

Xinchun was raised by Matsumae Yoshiko since childhood.

My aunt taught me all the family rules and etiquette.

It is my aunt who does the punishment and confinement.

Xinchun's parents, on the other hand, never paid much attention to her education, so she was naturally afraid of her aunt.

She was very confident and confident outside and was not afraid of anything.

"After the game, when you go back, I'll go with you."

"Teacher is going too?"

Matsumae Shinharu rested her hands on Fujii Itsuki's chest, without any of the ladylike demeanor she had when facing the police chief this afternoon.

"Not welcome?" Fujii Itsuki smiled faintly.

"No, of course you are welcome. But I feel a little guilty when I think that you are going to debate with my aunt on my behalf."

Fujii Itsuki immediately kissed the girl's cheek. Matsumae Shinchun immediately seemed to be frightened and blushed, "Teacher, you..."

"We are in this relationship now, so don't be afraid to trouble me or anything. If you don't like it, I will solve it for you. Isn't that normal?"

"Um"

"And wasn't it you, Xinchun, who said you wanted me to be your fiancé?"

"Teacher" Matsumae Shinchun hid her face.

"Why are you still shy? Okay, okay, are you sleepy now? Go to bed as soon as possible. Don't you have to practice all day tomorrow? And you still have to show me your strength?"

"Then hold me for a while longer, teacher."

"Oh, you said so. Just hold me for a while longer and then go to sleep."

"Yeah! But if I go back, I will feel lonely at night without the teacher."

"It won't happen again in the future." Fujii Itsuki comforted.

"Um"

Matsumae Shinchun nodded gently and snuggled into his arms again.

*
After what happened yesterday, we still trained as usual today.

However, everyone was still unsatisfied with yesterday’s fight, and many students were bragging at breakfast about how powerful they were and how many people they had beaten up on the other side.

Even boys can't beat me!
Matsumae Shinharu was concentrating on eating.

After the morning training session, she started her own practice.

Compared with yesterday's incident, she was more concerned about what the teacher said before that her level was not good enough and even failed to reach the passing standard. She was still very unconvinced. Before the free training in the afternoon began, she planned to try the method the teacher mentioned today.

She took some ice cubes and soaked her hands in cold water for a few minutes to temporarily numb her fingertips, then began to play while the numbness had not completely worn off.

Matsumae Shinharu didn't expect this method to have any effect.

But. It seems to be very useful.

Pulling the string feels different after the numbness wears off.

She was very curious about the reason, so she tried again.

The situation was indeed better than the last time, and she could increasingly feel what notes she was playing.

"Does it feel much clearer?" Fujii Itsuki asked with a smile.

"Yes, very clear!"

Matsumae Shinchun was surprised and confused at the same time. She quickly asked, "Teacher, what's the reason?"

“First of all, violin playing requires extremely high finger flexibility and precise control, especially in complex passages. Rapid fingering changes and accurate string pressing are the most important, but over-reliance on the tactile feedback of the fingers may make the player too sensitive to the ‘change of feeling’ when playing at high speed, resulting in unstable pitch or rhythm.

"The core purpose of letting you soak in cold water is to temporarily "weaken" the tactile sensation of your fingers, so that you can still maintain precise control of the strings under limited sensation, thereby improving your tactile sensitivity and finger flexibility.

“This approach changes your sensory feedback mechanism, forcing you to rely more on muscle memory and hearing rather than pure tactile feedback.

"do you understand?"

Matsumae Shinchun nodded repeatedly after hearing this, "I see."

"How about you practice on your own this afternoon?"

"it is good."

After Fujii Itsuki left, Matsumae Shinharu practiced alone in the hotel from noon to night.

She followed every step according to the details given by Fujii Itsuki.
Be careful not to put too much feeling on your fingers, but to strengthen your hearing through the numbness of your fingers.
Although she didn't want to admit that she wasn't even passing in the teacher's eyes, the improvement she could feel in this short period of time was real.

In the evening, Matsumae Shinharu specially invited Fujii Itsuki to the park by the harbor to listen to her achievements.

"Teacher, is this true?"

"A little softer, and pay attention that you are playing the second movement, with many long chords. Repeat."

Matsumae Shinharu noticed that Fujii Itsuki was particularly serious when teaching this knowledge.

After repeating this several times, she felt like she had gotten the hang of it, but she also didn't.

Fujii Itsuki shook his head several times.

"It's still not working. You haven't reached the 'passing' level yet. Try again tomorrow. But you don't have to worry about anything. Even if you don't practice well tomorrow, it will be enough for you to get through the competition the day after tomorrow. It will be more than enough for the competition the day after tomorrow."

After saying that, the teacher left.

Matsumae Shinchun looked at the teacher's back, feeling more and more unconvinced. How could she have failed?

By the next day, there was only one day left in the Hokkaido representative competition.

The mountains and forests surrounding Hakodate were covered with maple leaves; even the parks were a brilliant red, with countless leaves covering the entire city.

Fujii Itsuki gathered everyone early in the morning and started the final training.

When preparing for practice, he walked over to Matsumae Shinchun and said with a smile, "If you are not sure, don't force yourself. Although the method I teach you is quick, it won't lead to significant improvement in just one or two days. And if you play the violin based on your feelings yesterday, it is very likely that your level today will be worse."

Matsumae Shinchun puffed up her cheeks, which was rare. "Teacher, please don't look down on me!"

"I'm not looking down on you, but - it's okay, I can try more in the future."

"I'll pay attention!"

"Well, I won't say much."

The practice started soon, Fujii Itsuki stood on the podium and Akai Muko watched from the side.

He stood on the small platform at the top without a baton and waved his hand.

The students in the wind orchestra understood what he meant, and the “Waltz Under the Blue Sky” started to play loudly.

(End of this chapter)