Everyone clapped enthusiastically, buzzing with discussion.
"Look up close, she’s so pretty!"
"Such a great figure! Even with that long skirt, you can tell her legs are slim and long!"
"I really want to know how she became an advisor!"
As the applause died down, everyone quieted and turned their attention to Dubian Che.
They had listened to the national competition CD countless times, watched it over and over, but the sound of the oboe was still so incredible.
They asked the advisor teacher and the oboist Kito Chiri and received the answer: "That’s not a level you can catch up to with just hard work."
"Hello, everyone, I play the oboe, and my favorite food is Uji’s matcha, especially matcha shaved ice and matcha..."
"Mm, Dubian Che, pleased to meet you all." Dubian Che nodded and bowed to the people around him.
"Mr. Dubian, can you give us a live oboe performance?"
"That’s right, that’s right, I’m your super fan!"
The newly appointed sophomore Minister You Zi clapped her hands and shouted, "Everyone, quiet down!"
When the crowd silenced, she said to Kiyono Lin and Dubian Che, "Kiyono, can you conduct our ensemble practice at noon? Please!"
Kiyono Lin thought for a moment with her hand on her chin, "Is it ’Three-Moon Dance’?"
Minister You Zi nodded excitedly, "Yes, that’s our free piece!"
"Kiyono has an amazing memory too, considering we only got a bronze and she still remembers the piece we played," Chisako said in surprise.
"Don’t bring up the bronze medal, Chisako," Sahui sighed.
"Eh?" Chisako came back to her senses, saw the embarrassed expressions of her classmates, and hastily apologized.
In front of national gold medalists, mentioning their club only got a bronze seemed a bit inappropriate.
"Honestly," Kiyono Lin glanced at them, "I’m surprised your skill level even got you into the national competition."
"Mm!" Dubian Che spoke up loudly, explaining, "Our school won the gold all thanks to Kiyono’s strictness, so everyone, please be mentally prepared."
"Yes!" Not only did no one mind, but they also looked at Kiyono Lin with curiosity.
Maybe they harbored a mentality of learning from a master?
Kiyono Lin glanced at Dubian Che, took the conductor’s stand, and began to look at the score for "Three-Moon Dance."
"Dubian, will you join us?" Chisako said with anticipation.
She too wanted to hear that incredible sound once more.
"I never turn down a friend’s request, but I didn’t bring my instrument. Does your club have an oboe?"
Such an expensive instrument, how could a public school like Yunbei, which didn’t even have a school bus, afford it?
The only oboe belonged to Senior Kito Chiri, who had bought it herself.
Just as Chisako was feeling disappointed, Kito Chiri’s calm voice came through, "If you don’t mind, please use mine."
"Eh? Senior Chiri, can I really?" Chisako asked in surprise.
"Mhm." Kito Chiri nodded, "I want to become even better, for Yunai."
"Oh, I see." Chisako immediately understood.
Dubian Che looked at the situation before him and felt it was all too familiar.
He leaned into Chisako’s ear and asked quietly, "This cool-named senior, does she like girls?"
"What’s wrong with liking girls?!" Sahui pushed her way between the two, looking up defiantly at Dubian Che with her beautiful face, "Do you have a problem with that?"
"Absolutely not, frankly, I also like girls."
"With time to leak your own fetishes here, better hurry up and look at the score," Kiyono Lin’s icy gaze shot over, "Don’t you think so, Mr. Dubian Che?"
"You’re absolutely right."
Dubian Che approached Kito Chiri in the crowd.
Kito Chiri stood up, handed over the oboe to him, then sat beside Dubian Che, staring intently at his fingers and lips without moving an inch.
Dubian Che inspected the reed and praised, "Senior Kito, though you still have a long way to go to reach me, you’re also an incredible reed master!"
"Mhm." Kito Chiri nodded slowly.