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Chapter 133 Part 2

At that moment, Masaya came over from a short distance away.

「Guys, it seems like they have prepared curry for us at the headquarters tent.」

「Oh! Then, let’s go and get some right away.」

「Let’s go, let’s go!」

When Yuu’s group arrived at the headquarters tent in high spirits, it happened to be the exact moment when the fragrant smell of curry started to waft from the stockpot on the portable gas stove.

Apparently, the executive committee members who had some free time had prepared it for them.

「Thank you for your hard work!」

「Thank you for your hard work! I saw it. Your place was incredibly popular, Hirose-kun.」

「Ahaha… Thanks to that, we finished the earliest. Ah! I’ll help you, so if anyone’s free, why don’t you eat with us?」

「S-s-s, seriously?!」

「Are you sure?」

It was not only the boys in charge of serving the food who were too busy to eat, but also the executive committee members stationed at the headquarters.

The sports club groups, who had been patrolling the grounds for security, also happened to have just returned.

As Yuu also had experience as a school festival staff member in his student days, him showing such consideration to those girls was also a show of kindness on his part.

For female students, the opportunity to have meals with the boys was not something that came often.

So the girls there gladly accepted Yuu’s offer.

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『It’s about time, so we would like to start today’s main event, folk dance!』

While Yuu was having fun chatting, or rather engaging in skinship, with the seniors there after finishing their meal, such an announcement was made from the headquarters, and cries of 「Ooh!」 and 「I’ve been waiting for this!」 echoed through the area. Mainly from the second- and third-year girls.

Folk dance, huh…

The last time he did it was when he was in sixth grade, or maybe when he was in middle school.

For Yuu, who was over 40 years old in terms of mental age, it was too long ago that his memory of it was hazy.

He remembered that even though it was just a dance, he was embarrassed to hold hands with girls, but felt happy when he did it with the girl he had a crush on.

In this world, boys and girls lived their school lives separately in middle school, and they didn’t even go out on the same grounds. During elementary school, it differed depending on the region and grade.

However, it seemed that about 10 years ago, a nationwide reform of the curriculum guidelines was proposed to allow boys and girls to exercise and dance together, at least during elementary school.

Therefore, for the girls of Sairyou, this was a chance to come into contact with boys openly for the first time since elementary school.

『For the boys, please split into the groups from the new student orienteering event in May and meet up with the class you were in charge of.』

Yuu and Rei’s group of five hurried to class 1-5.

As soon as Yuu approached, Youko and the other girls from class 1-5 welcomed them with cries of joy.

Following the instructions of the announcer, the boys split up and joined the girls’ lines.

Although there were only about five boys per class, this kind of event, in which boys and girls mingled together, was a scene unique to Sairyou.

『Please pay close attention to the morning assembly platform and the area around the fire.』

Even if they tried to get into dancing right away, those who remembered the choreography were probably few in number, so it seemed that the executive committee members were going to show them how to do the dance.

The first dance was Mayim Mayim.

The choreography itself was simple.

Holding hands with the people to your left and right, you form a circle and perform dance steps as you move around in time with the music, chanting 「Mayim mayim mayim mayim….mayim be-sasson!」 as you narrow down the circle.

Here, an arrangement was made for the boys to move to the side when the circle returned to its original position, so that they could hold hands with as many girls as possible.

The moment the light music started to play as the executive committee members showed them how to do the dance, Yuu couldn’t help but blurt out 「How nostalgic」 softly, but due in part to the lively atmosphere around him, no one seemed to hear it.

And then the main event began.

Following the instructions of the announcer, they formed a circle by class and held hands.

At first, on Yuu’s right was Youko, and on his left was Kazumi.

They would take turns right away, but it seemed that they just couldn’t concede the first turn.

「Ufufu!」

Youko, who was holding hands firmly with Yuu, looked really happy and had a radiant smile on her face.

「I couldn’t participate in the quiz today, so… just being able to be by your side like this makes me really happy, Yuu-kun….」

As if shooting off love rays, Kazumi was staring at Yuu with sparkling eyes all the time.

As he got stared at in such a manner, there was no way it wouldn’t make him happy.

Besides, even though there was no difference in height between boys and girls, there was no change to the softness of their hands, and he felt like his urge to touch her more was about to overflow.

「Kazumi.」

「Huh…?」

Yuu pulled Kazumi closer with his hand that was holding her hand tightly with just enough strength that it wouldn’t hurt her.

Just like that, they pressed their arms and legs closely against each other.

「Me too.」

Refusing to be outdone, Youko also stuck close to him, still holding his hand.

Watching the scent from the front, the classmates who were holding hands with fellow girls looked at them enviously.

They hoped that at least Yuu would come round to them before the song ended.

「Wow!」

「Kyahaha!」

「This is fun!」

Performing dance steps while holding hands, and raising both of their still linked hands and bringing them forward while repeating the same phrase.

Even though that was all they did, it was so much fun that they naturally broke into a smile.

This was probably the charm of dancing with a large number of people.

Smiles seemed to be blooming on their faces, which were illuminated by the blazing fire, boys and girls alike.

For the girls in particular, holding hands with a boy after the curtain of darkness descended like this was an extraordinary event in and of itself. As such, there was no way their mood would not soar high.

These kinds of summer events sure are fun. I know it’s a cliché, but it makes me feel like I’m living my youth.

As Yuu held hands with one girl after another in turn, he thought to himself.

There wasn’t much interaction with girls, but his past late teens also left him with their own happy memories.

But now, after his miraculous rebirth, he was surrounded by an unbelievable number of girls.

Spending such fulfilling days of youth was so much fun that he couldn’t hold himself back; he thought.

After Mayim Mayim, it was Jenka, a Finnish folk song, originally titled 『Letkis』.

Like its meaning, 「Let’s form a line and dance」, you stand in a long row and dance, back and forth.

In this dance, you put your hands on the shoulders of the person in front, and for many of the first-year students, both boys and girls, it was the first time they had ever touched the shoulders of a person of the opposite sex.

However, due in part to the fact that they had held hands during the Mayim Mayim dance earlier, it seemed that their resistance had lessened.

The last dance was Oklahoma Mixer, the song title was 『Turkey in the Straw』.

In the world prior to Yuu’s rebirth, this was the most popular dance.

However, it seemed that it was not as widespread in this world, and there were even some students who never did this dance in their elementary school days.

When the executive committee members demonstrated the dance to the country music, which made Yuu feel nostalgic, a murmur spread through the area.

That was because, while they had been dancing in a group earlier, this time, the boys and girls would pair up.

「Ahh… Err, if you please, Yuu-kun.」

「Yeah, likewise, Sati.」

「Mumu…」

The line from the previous Jenka dance split into two, and they formed pairs.

Yuu paired up with Yokota Satirat (nicknamed Sati), who had been right in front of him in the line, and Nakai Mao, who was in front of her, looked frustrated.

Since the inter-class ball game competition, the two had gotten so close that they called each by their first names, and on top of that, they had lost their virginity together, with Yuu as their partner, in the special male-female communication room at the beginning of July.

However, it appeared that the colors of their faces clearly diverged here.

At first, in order to learn the choreography, they tried to dance slowly to the instructions of the announcer without music.

Yuu’s right hand, which was wrapped around her back, held Sati’s right hand, which was raised up to her shoulder, and their left hands joined in front.

「Sati, don’t be so nervous. Fuu.」

「B, but… Hiin!」

When pairing up, there was no need to stick their bodies so closely.

Sati was a few centimeters taller than Yuu, and looked slender, but typical football players, she had well-trained arms and legs, and a toned body.

On top of that, her tanned skin looked healthy.

In order to be able to hold hands with her firmly, Yuu had deliberately leaned his body close to hers.

Sati’s long black hair, which reached the middle of her back, was simply tied in a ponytail.

Standing on tiptoes and stretching his back a little, Yuu brought his mouth close to her shapely ear, and blew on it.

「Geez! Yuu-kun… ah…」

As she turned around, Sati noticed that Yuu’s face was very close to her.

Moreover, the fact that he was smiling gently at her made her heart beat even faster, turning red all the way to her ears.

「We don’t get to dance often, so relax…ok?」

「Mm… Ahn.」

Still pressing his body against hers, Yuu pressed his left hand, which was holding hers, against Sati’s chest.

Looking at them from over her uniform, they didn’t appear to be that big, but when he touched them, they were surprisingly voluminous.

The gall they have to flirt so openly…..

The girls’ pairs to their front and back shared such a thought.

However, now that they had been split into two rows, the girl behind Sati would be paired up with Yuu next, and as she stared at Yuu’s back, her heart started pounding uncontrollably.

In Oklahoma Mixer, you change pairs one after another in a short time.

In Yuu’s memories, he got the feeling that when he was in fifth or sixth grade, when he started to become conscious of the opposite sex, there were even some boys who were so shy that they would only touch their partners’ hands a little.

In fact, among the first-year boys, it seemed that there were some boys that were like that.

However, Yuu would hold hands firmly with his partner, and lean his body and face so close to hers that they could feel each other’s breath.

This made both Yuu and the girl he paired up with happy.

Truly a win-win relationship.

During the song, which lasted about three minutes, it seemed that about half of the girls were able to pair up with a boy.

When the song ended and all that was left was to disperse, cries of 「Encore!」 suddenly rang out from the girls, so they decided to dance the Oklahoma Mixer one more time.