Akita Prefecture is located in the north of Tokyo, about 450 kilometers away. It takes about five or six hours by bus. If you leave at six in the morning, you can arrive at your destination at noon.
After refueling and resting at another service station, everyone in the car was well slept and it was a bit boring to just sit there like this.
"How about we all play some games, or everyone perform a show?" Ida Kou, who has rich organizational experience, suggested.
"I vote for the show, but it's hard to do the game with so many people."
"I vote for the show, too."
"Second."
Yi Dahang's proposal was approved by his classmates. In order to liven up the atmosphere, he took the lead and performed a set of boxing to warm up the atmosphere.
After he started like this, the students who were originally a little restrained began to perform their best skills. Hagiwara Kenji sang a song, Furuya Rei and Morofushi Kagemitsu borrowed the guitar and bass in the car to play "Roar at the Sun", which brought the atmosphere to a climax.
"How about I sing a song too?" Matsuda Jinpei suggested eagerly.
"It's not that good, no, Xiao Zhenping, please don't do that." Miyazaki Ren remembered the fear of being dominated in KTV last time, and begged hurriedly.
Matsuda Jinpei was unhappy, "What do you mean? Is my singing terrible?"
Do you really have no idea whether this sounds good or not? Miyazaki Ren complained in her heart, but she certainly couldn't say it like that.
"No, I mean, you shouldn't perform such an ordinary show." Miyazaki Ren chose his words carefully, "Come closer and I'll give you an idea."
"What idea?" Matsuda Jinpei stretched out his ears curiously. After hearing Miyazaki Ren's muttering, he patted her shoulder and said with a smile: "It's a good idea indeed. Thank you, Miyazaki."
Soon it was Matsuda Jinpei's turn to perform. He stood up suddenly, his back straight as an arrow, his face a serious expression that was completely different from the past, and his neck raised high. "Well, you can, but each person can only do it once." After saying that, he posed like Instructor Onitsuka raising the class flag at the sports meet.
Jinpei Matsuda's expression and movements were so vivid that everyone instantly realized that he was imitating Instructor Onitsuka. Immediately, the bus was filled with happy laughter. Instructor Onitsuka was so angry that his face turned purple. Just as he was about to scold, Jinpei Matsuda had predicted his movements.
Matsuda Jinpei changed his expression again, pretending to be furious, imitating the way Instructor Onitsuka looked when he was angry, and yelled, "Mazda! Go and clean the men's bathhouse for me!"
"Hahahahahaha~" The students couldn't contain themselves anymore and started laughing, clapping their thighs.
"Hahaha, Matsuda is so shameless." Furukaya Rei laughed so hard that he fell down.
Morofushi Kagemitsu hurriedly helped Furutani Rei over to prevent Kokenran from laughing too hard and bumping into things. "No, this idea probably wasn't from Matsuda. I think it's more likely that Miyazaki would have come up with it."
"Miyazaki, was this your idea?" Furiya Rei felt that what Morobushi Kagemitsu said made sense, so he turned around and asked.
Miyazaki Ren blinked her eyes and said innocently, "What are you talking about? Why don't I understand?"
Furuya Rei and Morofushi Kagemitsu looked at each other and realized that it was Miyazaki's trick and there was no way to escape it.
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Just after noon, the bus arrived at its destination, a small village in Daisen City, Akita Prefecture. This place is mostly surrounded by mountains, forests and lakes, and is a fixed training ground for the police academy.
"Six people in a room, and there is a hot spring. This hotel is pretty good." Jinpei Matsuda excitedly opened the shoji door, looked inside and out, and praised.
"Let's go soak in the hot spring together tonight." Hagiwara Kenji suggested after putting down his luggage bag.
"Sure, the hot springs in Akita are also very famous, I've always wanted to try it." Furuya Rei was also very tempted.
Lunch was Akita's local specialty, rice stick hotpot. The rice was cooked and taken out of the pot, crushed and strung into rice sticks with cedar wood, grilled over charcoal, and stewed in a clay pot with mushrooms, water celery, hinai chicken and other commonly used seasonal vegetables.
"Delicious!" Matsuda Jinpei didn't care that the food was still hot and impatiently stuffed two more pieces of chicken. He was immediately grimacing from the heat.
"Good boy, Jinpei, don't be so impatient." Hagiwara Kenji said as he took a new bowl, took out the ingredients, cooled them down, and placed it next to Matsuda Jinpei.
"Well, Hiro, do you know what this slightly bitter taste that neutralizes the greasiness of the chicken soup is?" Furiya Rei smacked his lips, unable to figure it out, and curiously asked the young girl next to him.
Zhu Fu Jingguang chewed it carefully but couldn't taste what it was.
Miyazaki Ren, who has a poor sense of taste, guessed it. "It should be the taste of cedar. Wasn't it skewered with cedar when it was grilled just now? Maybe this is what was left over from that time."
"You have a great sense of taste, young man." The innkeeper who served the dishes praised Miyazaki Ren's guess, "It's the taste of cedar. The cedar in Akita is known as one of the three most beautiful cedars in Japan."
"I didn't taste it, I guessed it." Miyazaki Ren shook his head and explained: "Hiro's taste is very good. If he didn't taste it, it means he had never tasted it or it was not a common ingredient and was overlooked, so I guessed it was cedar."
"As expected of a police academy student!" The proprietress gave a thumbs up.
The purpose of the police academy training is to train students' survival skills in the wild by taking advantage of the unique geographical environment of Akita Prefecture. In addition, students will also be divided into groups to take up their posts in advance as trainee police officers to solve some problems for the villagers.
Considering that we took a bus for five or six hours today, there was no wilderness survival training on the first day, and the main task in the afternoon was internship, with the dormitory as the unit. Miyazaki Ren happened to be in a group with five people from the police academy.
Although the village is small, there are many things to do. Not long after they were divided into groups, they encountered their first case, which was an indecent assault case.
Mao, a girl with double braids, accuses Nohara, a lumberjack at a cedar factory, of molesting her nine-year-old brother, Toratarou.
"You just touched Kotaro's butt, I saw it!" Mao was furious, her face flushed red, and her two braids seemed to be standing up because of anger.
"Yes, he pinched it!" echoed the boy named Kotaro, and as he spoke, he stuck his butt out and pointed at the part that was pinched for everyone to see, and even wanted to take off his pants to show it further.
Katayama, the police instructor of Date Ko's team, is a rookie who has just joined the job. Seeing this, he hurriedly stopped Kotaro's bold behavior and said, "Okay, no need to show off, Kotaro, we believe in you."
The burly lumberjack Nohara was unhappy to hear this. He suddenly knelt on his knees and banged his head against the ground. "Oh my God, why doesn't anyone believe me? What's the point of me living in this world? I might as well just die."
Police officer Katayama had no choice but to let go of Kotaro and quickly comforted Nohara, "Mr. Nohara, don't get excited. I didn't mean to say that you are a molester. What if it's a misunderstanding?"
"Okay, I knew that you men are all in the same gang." Miss Mao fired angrily after hearing what Katayama said.
Several people in the police academy couldn't bear to watch it any longer. Mr. Hagiwara, who was the most popular with women, whispered to comfort the emotional Mao. Date Kou and Miyazaki Ren supported the suicidal Nohara on the left and right. Furuya Rei and Matsuda Jinpei persuaded the anxious Police Katayama. Morofushi Kagemitsu comforted the angry Kotaro.
"Is there any surveillance at the crime scene? Why not check the surveillance?" Jinpei Matsuda suggested.
Police officer Katayama was a little embarrassed. "The village is too small, and there is no surveillance at the scene of the accident."
Morofushi Kagemitsu looked at the dirt under Nohara's shoes, his nose twitched, and he smelled a familiar smell. He couldn't help but ask, "Mr. Nohara, did you just come out of the cedar forest?"
Nohara didn't understand, but nodded anyway.
"Did Ms. Mao and Kotaro come into contact with cedar trees today?"
"No, I was at home with Kotaro today. When I was cooking, I realized that the soy sauce was gone, so I came out to buy some."
"Cedar has a special aroma. Mr. Nohara just came out of the cedar forest and smelled like cedar. If you want to know whether Mr. Nohara touched Kotaro, you can just smell Kotaro's pants to see if there is any smell of cedar."
When Kotaro heard what Morobushi Kagemitsu said, he immediately stuck his butt out again. Everyone else present was a little embarrassed as they didn't really want to smell a child's butt.
Miss Mao didn't mind. She moved over and took a deep breath. "It really smells like cedar. You scum, don't you admit it?"
Nohara saw that the truth was revealed, so he stopped being stubborn. He grabbed his hair like crazy, shaking his head left and right, with a painful expression on his face, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I didn't mean it, I'm just mentally ill, I suddenly wanted to eat shit, so I touched Kotaro's butt."
This reason was so bizarre that everyone present was choked for a moment and didn't know how to complain.
Only Miyazaki Ren looked at Nohara seriously and asked sincerely: "If you want to eat shit, why don't you just poop and eat it yourself?"
Others present: Well done, Miyazaki!
Finally, Officer Katayama pulled out handcuffs and handcuffed Nohara. "You are under arrest, Nohara. The charge is child molestation!"