CHAPTER 494: 229. GRADUATION

It was a beautiful sunny day, as if even the darkest corners were filled with sunlight.

"Hello, everyone, this is KOKO-chan~"

[Koko-chan!!!]

[She’s really live streaming! So exciting!]

[Koko-chan looks great today]

Yuzao Haomei read the comments scrolling past as she swiped her card to exit Shibuya Station and continued speaking:

"Today, as promised, Haomei will live stream the graduation ceremony."

"Don’t worry, everyone, I’ve already gotten permission from the school."

When she reached the slope, the camphor trees on both sides were lush, already conveying a sense of spring in the sunlight.

"This is the path I usually take to school, it’s a bit tiring, but now already..."

While she was speaking, someone greeted her.

"Yo~, Haomei," said a female classmate.

"Yo~," Yuzao Haomei stopped paying attention to the comments on her video and started chatting with her friend.

[????]

[LOL]

[Listening to high school girls chat is healing my soul]

[Goda High School’s graduation ceremony? Isn’t that the high school with incredibly strong academic performance?]

[Freshman? My Koko-chan is a student at Goda]

[What freshman? Koko just started streaming half a month ago, right? We’re all newbies]

"Today, the senior girls are graduating."

"Yeah, we chatted for a long time in the Wind Instrument Club group last night."

"With so many people in the Wind Instrument Club, was there time to reply to all the messages?"

"Not everyone was chatting. You know, I can’t really get along with the guys in the Saxophone section."

"Oh, is it because of that incident?"

"Those people are just too weird, don’t you think? Almost as annoying as Mr. Dubian."

"Oh, speaking of Mr. Dubian, did you know, Haomei? He’ll be the one representing the freshman class and giving the farewell speech!"

"Ew~"

[Beauty puking!]

[My mouth is open already]

[You guys are disgusting... what? My mouth opened too?!]

[LOL]

[LOL]

[You guys are too much]

[Haomei is clearly still a beauty YouTuber, why does she have so many male fans?]

Climbing the slope and walking onto the campus, the 25-meter-tall oak tree would take some more time before it blossomed, probably not until April, when school resumed.

She changed her shoes at the shoe lockers.

[Beautiful girl’s feet]

[Beautiful girl’s feet]

[Beautiful girl’s feet]

[Can you guys go die]

[Stop harassing Koko-chan, okay?]

Yuzao Haomei glanced at the comments during her break and couldn’t help but say:

"Why are all foot fetishists such creeps, disgusting."

[LOL]

[LOL]

[HAHAHA]

[Those in the previous reply laughing, are you remnants from a past generation?]

[LOL]

Yuzao Haomei rotated her phone around, introducing the layout of the first-floor corridor:

"Pretty ordinary, probably just like everyone’s high school, with shoe lockers, vending machines, and machines that sell bread."

[No bread machine]

[Our school’s shoe lockers don’t have doors]

[Our school doesn’t have Koko-chan]

After a brief introduction, she waited for her friend to change shoes, and they went upstairs together.

On the stairwell walls were posters recruiting for the Art Club, each corner of the poster featuring a cat, a dog, a giraffe, and an earthworm.

Once on the third floor, they entered Classroom 1.

The monitor was writing today’s schedule on the blackboard.

’9:40 Gather in front of the gym’

’9:50 Entrance ceremony’

’11:27 Leave’

These were the general students’ timings, but the Wind Instrument Club members had different arrangements due to their role.

"Yo~"

"Yo~"

This form of greeting was popular among the girls.

"Good morning, Kiyono!"

"Good morning, Yuzao."

[Such a lovely voice]

[Why cover the camera now?!]

[I want to see her]

"Kiyono, I think you should be the one to go up and give the farewell speech on behalf of the freshmen."

"Thank you, but Mr. Dubian is still the top student nationwide."

"Really, aside from grades, how is that guy better than Kiyono in any way?"

"So many ways."

"Not at all!"

Chatting until 9:15, a few members of the Wind Instrument Club together left the classroom.

"Next, we’re heading to the Wind Instrument Club," Yuzao Haomei told the audience in her stream.

[Long awaited]

[Goda Wind Instrument Club!!!]

[For a school that never even made it to the Kantou championships yet got a national gold medal within a year, I’ve always wanted to visit.]

[I took Goda’s entrance exam this year but wasn’t admitted]

[Me too, there were so many applicants this year, and the selection was much stricter.]

Yuzao Haomei chatted with the live stream about her own exam experience from last year when suddenly, up ahead, she saw Ichiki Aoi.

"Hey!" she yelled.

"Yay!" Ichiki Aoi spun around dancing.

The friendships among girls were shallow and fickle, but Yuzao Haomei believed she and Ichiki Aoi were genuinely good friends.

"What are you doing?" Ichiki Aoi asked, pointing at the smartphone on Yuzao Haomei’s selfie stick.

"Live streaming."

"Live streaming?" Ichiki Aoi leaned in closer.

"YouTube live streaming." Yuzao Haomei also leaned in closer.

Both adjusted their hair for the camera.

More than the comments, the girls cared about their appearance.

[Too close, too close]

[Jealous of Koko-chan, such beautiful skin]

[Many female YouTubers turn on beauty filters but don’t dare to get close to the screen, Koko doesn’t even have makeup on, so beautiful!]

[Can’t see the makeup = no makeup]

[Guys are stupid]

"Aoi, did you hear? The freshman representative is that Mr. Dubian."

"Of course, Mr. Dubian topped the nation in the final exams again."

"Ugh, makes me sick."

[LOL, how much does Koko hate this Mr. Dubian?]

[She disses him wherever she goes]

[Ex-boyfriend? Heartbroken?]

[Koko-chan, he doesn’t love you, but I do]

"I’m also jealous of him, heard he’s pinning the corsage on Mayi."

"Really? Why?"

"I heard from a friend in the Journalism Club that the school invited reporters from Asahi News to cover the graduation ceremony for publicity, hence the arrangement."