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Chapter 277 Time Capsules
"Don't say that."

Shaking his head and moving the topic away from his hair, Yagi looked at Takahashi with white temples and couldn't help asking.

"By the way, Takahashi, how have you been in the past 20 years? I haven't heard from you since graduation."

"I'm not as great as you, Yagi. Up to now, I'm just an ordinary section manager in the company. After I got married a few years ago, I even got a mortgage on my back, and I'm working hard to support my family every day."

"Speaking of which, why didn't you inform me when you got married? Unfortunately, I thought our relationship was very good."

"I would like to inform you, but I don't have your address at all. I asked someone to ask them and they said that you were transferred abroad. I thought you would not attend this class reunion."

"It's my fault. A few years ago, the club sent me abroad for development, and I only returned to China in the past one or two years. Speaking of which, if the class meeting had been earlier two years, I might not be able to participate. indefinite."

Patting his bare forehead, Yagi said belatedly.

In the school hall.

Just when Takahashi, Yagi and others were communicating, on the podium.

The person in charge of the main itinerary of the classmate reunion this time picked up the microphone and interrupted everyone's reminiscence.

"Okay, students, I'm very glad to meet again after so long, but please put the reminiscences aside for the time being, and let's proceed to today's main event, burying the students in the school. Time capsules on campus dug up."

"Time Capsule, speaking of which, I've already forgotten about it."

In the auditorium, after hearing the reminder from the person in charge, Yagi said something with emotion.

"Do you still remember what you put in the time capsule back then, Takahashi?"

"How can I remember this? It's been 20 years."

The history of time capsules first appeared at the World Expo in 1939, when Einstein, a world-renowned physicist, received a call from President Roosevelt of the United States, hoping that he would write a letter to human beings 5000 years later as a A gift from the New York World Expo that opened the following year, and since that World Expo, the time capsule has become a tradition of the World Expo.

At the Osaka World Expo in 1970, a spherical time capsule with an inner diameter of one meter was buried, which triggered the popularity of time capsules in Japan at that time.

Takahashi's class of students was affected by this, so they buried a time capsule as a commemoration before graduation.

It's just that they who buried the capsule at that time did not expect that their group would really go back to school to dig out the capsule 20 years later.

Under the urging of the person in charge, everyone came out of the auditorium in twos and threes, and came to the place where the time capsule was buried.

"Thank you for remembering where the capsule was buried."

"Speaking of which, thanks to the teacher, he reminded us that in order not to forget the location of the capsule, he deliberately buried it near the grove, otherwise we might not have found it."

Everyone in the class reunion felt a little excited about the time capsule that had been buried for 20 years was about to be dug out.

They took the prepared shovels, and a few strong students began to dig the soil.

"Speaking of which, I've noticed you since just now, Takahashi..."

Standing in the crowd, Yagi looked at Takahashi with a somewhat absent-minded expression on his face, and couldn't help asking.

"Why do I feel that you seem to be looking for something? Is there a classmate you were looking forward to meeting who didn't come to the class reunion?"

After all, 20 years have passed.

Naturally, it was impossible for all the classmates from back then to be present. In fact, there were a few classmates who were unable to attend today's class reunion due to various reasons.

For such a result, everyone is more or less regretful.

"No, I just thought she was back?"

"Her? Who?"

"Keiko Watanabe."

"Watanabe Keiko, you're talking about that person."

Hearing the name that appeared in Takahashi's mouth, Yagi's expression froze for a moment, and then he scratched his bald forehead uncomfortably.

"Speaking of which, at that time, what we did was indeed a little too much. Even from the current point of view, it is not appropriate to treat a female classmate like this."

"That said, it's only natural that Watanabe Keiko didn't come to the class reunion. After all, her junior high school days are not very good memories for her."

Hearing Yagi's words, Takahashi's expression was a little silent.

"Hearing what you said, I really want to remember it. Just yesterday I really wanted to receive a call, which mentioned something about the classmate reunion. I thought that some classmate would stand up when I came to the classmate reunion today. , but now it seems that this call is very likely to be made by Keiko Watanabe, it's just..."

"You also received a call?!"

Hearing Yagi's words, the expression on Takahashi's face couldn't help being a little surprised.

Seeing what he said, Yagi immediately looked at Takahashi and said, "So, Takahashi, you too?"

And just as Takahashi and Yagi looked at each other in blank dismay, the voices of two other female classmates came from behind them.

"What, Yamato-san, you have always been in contact with Keiko Watanabe."

"Only occasionally, I would receive a call from her. Watanabe Keiko kept talking about things in high school on the phone. She still remembered clearly what everyone did to her even after 20 years had passed. I still feel a little sorry when I hear the phone call, but she kept calling, and I was a little scared, and she called yesterday as well, talking about the class reunion, and saying that I was looking forward to it, I thought she would come, but it turned out..."

"Fortunately, Watanabe Keiko didn't come over. Although we were isolated from her in junior high school, it was also related to her gloomy personality. At that time, everyone was just a teenager. For that kind of weird guy, there would always be subconsciously disliked..."

"And from what you've said, it's been 20 years, and she's still brooding over what happened at that time. It's definitely not normal."

"makes sense."

Hearing what classmate Akiko said, Yamato-san nodded in agreement.

Bang!

"Finally dug it."

While they were talking, the students who were in charge of digging the time capsule in front finally breathed a sigh of relief, wiped their sweaty heads, and looked at the pothole next to them that was as tall as a person.

"I don't know what we thought at the time, but we actually buried the time capsule in such a deep place..."

"Maybe we don't have any ideas at all."

"Haha, what you said makes sense."

(End of this chapter)