Chapter 42: Day 42 of Cultivation
Chapter 42
Time flies. Another semester has passed, and winter vacation is coming soon.
In early January 2007, Kanako, who had been busy with the teachers and students of the technical college throughout the winter vacation, was busy with the entire winter vacation (nonsense literature).
There are still three days before the winter vacation officially ends. Kanako stares at her full schoolbag and falls into deep thought.
She unzipped it, and a pile of exercise books and booklets for her winter vacation homework jumped out eagerly.
Opening one of the manuscript papers used for weekly diaries, Kanako saw these words written on the first page.
【Winter vacation is coming soon...】
I remember that before winter break, Kanako planned her vacation very thoroughly, writing a weekly diary, two pages of math problems and a Chinese comprehension essay every day, and also a thick stack of calligraphy practice books...
At that time, the system specifically spoke up for a subject that was deliberately neglected: What about English? Have you already ignored your English homework?
"ah……"
More than a month later, Kanako gazed at the blue sky and sighed heartily, "I forgot to do my holiday homework."
*
Kanako walked into the lounge with the notebook in her arms, and happened to meet Ieiri Shoko and Iori Utaha sharing apple candies.
"Nano, why don't you try to quit smoking?" An Geji said for no reason while holding an apple candy.
"?" Ieiri Naoko looked up in confusion. "Why did you suddenly bring up this topic?"
"As for me, I've never thought about quitting smoking." Ieiri Shoko thought for a while and replied.
The white stick connected to the sugar rotated slightly at her fingertips. Kanako put the notebook on the chair next to her, ran between the two of them, and rested her chin on the edge of the table.
"What are you talking about?" Kanako continued the previous topic with her sharp ears, "Daddy-senpai, do you want Nozomi-san to quit smoking?"
Yay! The cute and polite Kanako called me "senpai"!
An Geji felt secretly pleased, then immediately returned to normal, saying, "It's not about quitting smoking, it's about that... have you watched the popular TV series lately?"
Kanako and Ieiri Shoko looked at each other and shook their heads at the same time.
"The plot is awesome, and the heroine is so pretty."
An Geji coughed a few times to clear her throat, then half-closed her eyes, held up two fingers, and said with perfect fidelity: "'Smoking? I never smoke. Nicotine is my mask. Just like those little people who look down on me, they only imagine the way I puff away at cigarettes, but they don't know—'"
Ange quickly shifted the candy apple in her other hand between two fingers and continued, "'—I'm just eating candy.' Then she left in style!"
After performing the famous scene in the TV series where the heroine slaps the villain in the face, An Geji waited for the comments with great anticipation.
Ieiri Naoko was filled with mixed emotions, feeling at a loss for words: "... Such a melodramatic line."
Kanako lowered her head silently, ready to take out her notebook to write it down, but Ieiri Naoko pushed her back: "Don't learn all that crap."
"But Nozomi is really handsome. I feel Nozomi's temperament would be more suitable for this kind of lines. Can you act it out? Quit smoking and act it out!" Angehime lies on Nozomi.
"I'll think about it. My secretary, Kanako, will handle the rest. Please check my schedule in advance." Ieiri Shoko started acting, pushing up her non-existent sunglasses. "After all, I'm a very busy president."
An Geji was very excited: "Yes, this is the feeling I want!!"
"By the way, Kanako, do you have something to talk to us about?" asked Naoko Ieiri.
Kanako blinked her big eyes and said sincerely, "It's like this, I forgot to do my holiday homework, but school starts in three days!"
"To sum up, I can't finish it!"
System: "Aren't you going to act at all?!"
Ieiri Shoko was used to Kanako's direct answers and asked, "What homework?"
Kanako picked up the top few math workbooks and said, "First, the arithmetic problems."
When Ieiri Shoko asked this, it didn't mean she was planning to help Kanako with her homework.
However, she thought of a great homework helper.
Patting the singer An who was leaning on her shoulder, Ieiri Shoko took the apple candy from her hand, and together with the one in her own hand, two white candy sticks appeared in Kanako's hand.
Kanako's eyes sparkled: "Give it all to me!"
Ieiri Naoko said, "I don't like sweets."
An Geki made a cross with her hands and said, "I hate sweets."
Kanako was confused and asked, "Then why did you buy candy apples?"
"Who said we bought these? I just passed by the delivery station and emptied Gojo Satoru's snack box." Ieiri Glass said with a stifled laugh, "Kanako can use sweets to 'fish'."
Kanako looked at the candy apple with a confused look, then nodded thoughtfully.
[Name: Gojo Kanako, Week 1 diary.]
[Title: "Smart Kids Get Candy"]
One day, I was walking down the street with my math homework when, without noticing, it fell into the river. My untouched homework, tumbling into the water, was so devastating :D (crossed out), I could only burst into tears. Then, a swimming white cat emerged from the river, clutching a stack of notebooks, and asked, "Are those the math homework you dropped, with nothing written on it?"
I answered "no," and then the white-haired cat took out a stack of half-finished math homework and asked the same question. I answered "no" again, until the white-haired cat took out the completed math homework...
I immediately dug out a candy apple from my pocket, one the white-haired cat couldn't refuse! The cat, surprised, rushed ashore with its homework. I snatched the finished math homework into my arms, snatched the candy apple from the cat's mouth, and returned home with a bountiful harvest.
【First week's diary, end.】
System: "What is this thing about?! It was supposed to be about the woodcutter... Why did the white-haired cat lose his math homework and the candy apple?"
There were still three days before school started, and Gojo Satoru was writing with both hands at the same time, and his six eyes could finish a whole page of math problems at once, solving Kanako's math homework.
*
Kanako then went to find her bonded guardian.
"Xiaojie!" Kanako kicked the door open and the first person she saw was Geto Suguru who was staring at Choubao.
Ugly Treasure's long body moved slowly across the floor. Xia Yujie turned around and said, "Kanako, you're here. I'm going to train Ugly Treasure to automatically appear and actively avoid strong enemies when facing them."
Then the training results were a failure.
Chou Bao was a low-level cursed spirit, and it was difficult for him to form such a judgment consciousness. Just when Xia Yujie was discouraged, he heard a very low voice of "Ma... Mama."
Geto Suguru turned around in disbelief:?
Chou Bao tried to raise his head to support his body, and cried out weakly: "Num...Num..."
Facing the direction of Geto Suguru.
Kanako seemed to have opened the door to a new world, and she also shouted to Geto Suguru: "Mom!"
Geto Summer Oil: ???
"I told you, Xiaojie, that you're a perfect mother. Look, Choubao treats you like a mother." Kanako hugged Choubao and patted his back. "Good boy, Choubao, I'm your sister Kanako. Can you help Kanako finish her Chinese calligraphy homework?"
Ugly Bao: “Meh?”
The system couldn't bear to watch: "How did you manage to hold the ugly baby without any burden..."
"Calligraphy homework?" Xia Yujie realized the key point and said casually, "Kanako, did you forget to do your homework again?"
Kanako defended herself, "I didn't realize school would start the day after tomorrow! No one ever warned me when I went out on a mission with you guys!"
...That's true.
Geto Suguru was convinced, there was no other way. Although the semester schedule for sorcerers to move up a grade was the same as that of ordinary schools, there was no clear understanding of the start of school and holidays.
After all, they have to attend classes and exorcise curses on a regular basis, and they have to arrange tasks even on holidays. They live like this every day and almost forget that there is a Kanako who is attending compulsory elementary school in the technical high school.
"Maybe... I can help?" Geto Suguru summoned an octopus-shaped curse.
The cursed spirit, which looks like an octopus but actually has more tentacles, has a bad premonition.
Calligraphy practice copybook, completed!
[Name: Gojo Kanako, Week 2 diary.]
Title: Octopus and Ugly Treasure
Today is a cold winter day. A little cursed creature named Ugly (blacked out with a black pen) found an octopus writing calligraphy on the side of the road.
Ugly Bao discovered that the octopus had many "arms" and could write very quickly, and he was very envious. But then Ugly Bao suddenly realized that the octopus's arms were frozen, so he hugged the octopus in his arms and used his body to warm it.
The octopus's hands quickly warmed up, and he began writing even faster. Just as he was about to say "thank you" to Chou Bao, Chou Bao suddenly bit the octopus!
I quickly rushed over to separate them and angrily scolded Ugly Bao: "How can you eat anything you want? Eating everything will only harm you!"
System: "Isn't this the story of 'The Farmer and the Snake'? Why did the farmer eat the snake?"
[In the end, Chou Bao admitted his mistake, and I got the complete calligraphy copybook. This story tells us that as a natural leader, we must always pay attention to managing the relationship between subordinates and not let them hurt each other in the pursuit of favor.]
System: "...That never makes sense! How did you come to this conclusion?!"
【Second week journal, end.】
*
On the first day of school, in order to let the students summarize the knowledge they had gained during the holidays (and to check whether they had done their homework), Kobayashi Sumiko asked some students to come up and read their weekly diaries.
"Gojo Kanako-san."
Kanako walked up to the podium with a weekly diary filled with notes.
After she finished reading the diaries for the first and second weeks, Kobayashi Sumiko became increasingly bewildered. She simply assumed Kanako had read a lot of fables during her vacation and said, "...she wrote some pretty good fantasy stories!"
Kanako continued reading.
"Third week's diary, titled 'Panda Doll'."
"Among my many family members, there is an adult who works hard and always cleans up our messes. We call him the principal because he looks very anxious and is really suitable to be a principal."
"The principal has a hobby, he likes making dolls, and he gave me one last year. Over the past year, his doll-making skills have improved a lot, and just in the first few days of this year, he made a panda."
Kobayashi Sumiko: "It looks like a true story. Is it a panda doll?"
The principal was very happy and said, "From now on, he'll be called Panda, which means panda." I was also very happy because this was the first life I'd ever met that was younger than me.
Panda was so tiny, so small he hadn't even learned to breathe while sleeping in his cradle. Every day, the principal held him like a baby, dressed him in human diapers, and gave him a pacifier. The principal said that after a while, he might finally have a life.
Hearing the principal say this, I recalled my childhood. For a long time, I was like a stone, left at home. To me, the world was cold and indifferent, and no one cared about me. Until one day, I left home and met many people. I found that they were all happy to know me, and I felt the same way.
"It turns out that besides this cold home, everywhere outside can be home." — I suddenly realized this.
[At my home, I met a white cat with a sweet tooth and a fox guardian who raised an octopus and an ugly baby. Then, they took me to a secluded mountain forest and welcomed me into their big family.]
[Although there are some unreliable adults and unreliable minors among them, as well as some reliable minors, I no longer care about that. They are all good people, and I am not a bad person. Week 3 Journal, end.]
Week 4 Journal, titled "New Life"
[Panda still hasn't woken up today. The principal said it has a heart, but it just hasn't learned how to beat yet.]
Looking back on my entire winter vacation, I focused on physical education activities and didn't prepare for English at all. No one cared, as they assumed I should just live my life the way I wanted. Kanako, who couldn't learn English, was still a good Kanako, just like the white-haired cat and other small animals who were always good people at heart.
[As I write this, I can't help but have a wish, which is to make all human beings understand this.]
[In order to fulfill this wish, I need to constantly become stronger, strong enough to defeat all the bad guys. I can't be soft on them. After all, as a strong person, a little bit of willfulness is the only way to avoid being led around by the bad guys.]
Finally, I carefully picked up Panda and said to his dark, bean-sized eyes, which hadn't yet opened, "You must wake up peacefully. Don't be too anxious. You can take your time. Remember, you will be born with the blessing of our big family in the mountains."
"I'm so glad you were born into this world."
【Week 4 notes, end.】
Kanako stopped reading and closed her weekly notebook. The air in the classroom froze.
After a moment, the primary school students erupted in a violent reaction.
"I miss my mom and dad."
"I want to go home!"
“Wuwuwuwuwuwu…”
Kobayashi Sumiko wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes.
Conan also felt a little dazed and had not yet completely walked out of the world of words.
After a while, a sentence popped up in his mind: Wait, who still remembers that this is just a primary school student's weekly diary?
What kind of elementary school student's weekly diary is this?!
【Author’s words】
The birth of the panda is a private setting. Logically, its birthday is in March, so let's assume that it fully wakes up in March.
Kanako: Loving eyes from her sister.jpg
I have an exam on Saturday. I hope I pass. I hope I pass. I hope I pass... (mumbling)
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