Awakening Chapter 177.1

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The next morning the students were divided into several groups under the leadership of several instructors to begin the Tour of Kagoshima.

The first stop was Sakurajima, the symbol of Kagoshima, not far from Kagoshima City.

Sakurajima was a large active volcano. According to records, Sakurajima erupted more than thirty times. In 1914, Sakurajima erupted out a massive amount of lava which filled the strait between Sakurajima and the Osumi Peninsula so that the two were connected.

Until now, from near Sakurajima, one can see the thick white smoke ejected out from the crater like a huge steam boiler. In fact, the distance between Sakurajima and Kagoshima, the city of 500.000 people, was only about 4 km, and either way can be reached by ferries for about 15 minutes. In other words, if Sakurajima erupt like it was in the past, the harm that it will cause to Kagoshima is no less than when the atomic bomb exploded in Hiroshima. But the locals did not seem to have the slightest tension or even made the necessary precaution. In Lei Yin’s view, this was the classic example of ‘refuse to be convinced until one is faced with grim reality.’

The several groups of people have been walking halfway up to the Sakurajima, and along the way, from time to time, they saw the handicrafts stalls as well as the local products stalls.

The local products in Sakurajima were also quite famous, which supposedly to be the world’s largest radishes and the smallest oranges. Although he did not know whether this was true or not, seeing the thicker than the thigh radishes as well as the finger size oranges, Lei Yin wanted to try but did not have the appetite. He did not like these excessive looking foods.

But Amy and Take Asasei were very interested in those small oranges and were very excited to hold it in their hands and play with it.

At about 10 o’clock in the morning, on the halfway up the mountain, the students finally reached the Yunotaira observation deck. Because the weather was good today, one can see the distant Kirishima.

Here they have the free time. Some people chose to rest there, but more people chose to enter the nearby volcano theater to watch the projections on the split screens on three sides, with the special sound effects, of the movie The Burning Earth – Sakurajima. The good sound coupled with the visual effects made many people seemed to have an ‘eye-opening’ sense. Amy watched it without blinking.

At the return trip, when Lei Yin’s group arrived at the foot of the mountain, they saw, in front of them, many students stopped and huddled in a group.

“I do not know what happened at the front, let us take a look at it.” Take Asasei revealed an excited look.

“38.” The nearby Takeda leisurely said a word.

“Dead pervert, what did you say?” Take Asasei was furious.

“I only said 38, I did not think somebody would reply, haha.”  Takeda purposely laughed twice.

“Dead pervert, you remember this. Kazumi let’s go.” With that, she pulled her good friends away to the front, and Kazumi had to follow her.

After they left, Takeda immediately said to his friends: “Let us go and see.”

Lei Yin laughed, “Didn’t you just curse someone else as 38 (Is referred to people or girl specifically who always want to talk about, or intervene other people’s business, privacy, etc. – The word 38 came from the International Women’s day), what do you think about your behaviour now?”

“38 specifically refers to women, for men it is invalid. Stop it, let’s go take a look, maybe someone is fighting.” Takeda said while pulling him forward.

When they walked to the front, Takeda saw a foreign language instructor from literature department constantly using hand gestures while talking in English to a blond foreigner.

The foreigner seemed to be stirred up emotionally as he tried to convey his meaning to the instructor with a flushed face. But because what he said was not in English, the English instructor looked at his action with confusion.

Takeda asked on of the male students, “What does that foreigner want?”

That man casually replied: “I don’t know, just now he suddenly came up and told us a bunch of words, but no one can understand what he says.”

That instructor was helpless so he turned around toward the students on his back and said: “Do you guys know where instructor Gosan is? This foreigner is speaking French, and only instructor Gosan can communicate with him.” He deliberately said the last sentence to the students. He did not want them to think their spoken English were bad.

“Teacher Gosan seemed to not have come with us, he should still be in the Hotel.” A student thought for a moment and then replied.

“This is not good. You go and call him.” The English instructor said to him.

“But it is far away from here.” He regretted that his big mouth answered the instructor’s question.

Suddenly he had a flash of idea, and said to the instructor: “Teacher, you can call teacher Gosan to translate via telephone.”

“That’s right, why didn’t I think about it.” [Read this on subudai11.com] The English instructor immediately took out his mobile phone to make a call.

But for a long time, teacher Gosan did not answer his call.

The English instructor cursed in his heart, That guy must have been sleeping while the students are away.

Finally, he had no other choice but to say to that student: “The phone can’t get through, just go and call him over.”

That student’s face suddenly sank, in the end, he still had to run down.

The Frenchman saw that they did not understand his meaning. Because his heart was anxious, he pulled that instructor’s hand, wanting to lead him away.

Being pulled by the hand, the instructor instinctively wanted to break away from his hand. But because that foreigner’s strength was bigger than him, in the end, he was suddenly pulled down to the ground.

“What are you doing?” The English instructor very embarrassedly got up from the ground and shouted at the Frenchman.

“Sorry, sorry!” That Frenchman quickly used the only apology word that he knew. Then he started to anxiously gesture once again.

Although many French people know English, apparently he was not one of them.

Seeing this ‘talking at each other in different languages’ scene did not seem to be making any progress, Narimura Haruko felt very irritable.

I really don’t know why these many people want to stop in this d*mn hot place just for this random foreigner.

If she knew this educational trip would be so boring, she would not participate in it. Now she just wanted to go back on the plane right away.

Seeing her look so upset, Yoshikawa very tactfully said: “Haruko, why don’t we just go back first?”

“Can we? If later they count the number of students, then what to do?”

In order to prevent students from getting lost, in every major tourist attraction, the instructor will count the number of students.

“It does not matter, anyway, we are just going back to the hotel. When the others come back to the hotel, we can join them again.”

“There is really not going to be any problem?” She was a bit excited. She really wanted to go back immediately.

“Rest assured, nothing would happen.”

“Okay then, let’s go.”

Yoshikawa soon led the way.

Seeing his proud look, the several other trailing boys could not help but feel jealous and angry.

Suddenly, Narimura Haruko halted her steps and then looked at the front with strange eyes.

At this time, not only her, the other people also looked at the front with the same strange eyes.

They saw a young man hugging a little girl went to the front of that foreigner and said a few words to him.

That foreign man froze for a moment, and then, with a face filled with pleasant surprise, he said a bunch of words.

Hearing his words, the young man thought for a moment and then told him a few words.

That Frenchman immediately nodded his head.

Then, in front of all the others, that foreigner suddenly went to the other direction together with the suddenly appeared young man.

Watching the Frenchman talking with that young man scene, Yoshikawa’s chin almost fell down.

This has got to be a mistake, that guy can actually speak French?

Not only him, almost all of the people there looked at the back of that young man with unbelievable expressions.

Chapter end