[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-tokyo-you-call-this-normal-equipment":3,"chapter-tokyo-you-call-this-normal-equipment-tokyo-you-call-this-normal-equipment-chapter-106":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Tokyo: You Call This Normal Equipment?",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},1951670,2739,"Chapter 106","tokyo-you-call-this-normal-equipment-chapter-106",106,"\u003Cp>“And everyone was relatively conservative about love, not as direct and open as it is now.”\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>“Plus the school strictly prohibited students from dating...”\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>“That girl used this point and thought of a ‘ghost idea’.”\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>“She started spreading rumors in the school every day, saying that previous graduates had buried a ‘pink card’ under the cherry blossom tree in the school.”\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>“As long as you put this card into a love letter and give it to the person you like, and the confession is successful, the two will definitely be able to grow old together.”\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>“But she also said that the card seemed to have been dug up long ago and is now hidden in the Broadcasting Club.”\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>“At that time, many students who had long had a crush on someone ran to the Broadcasting Club to look for it.”\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>“That girl was very smart, saying the card was on her, but you had to join the club for a full year before it would be randomly given to members.”\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>“As a result, quite a few students believed her ‘evil’ and joined the Broadcasting Club.”\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>“Just like that, the Broadcasting Club’s disbandment crisis was temporarily resolved.”\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>“However... the rumor that ‘confessing under the cherry blossom tree can lead to growing old together’ has spread from then on and never stopped.”\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>“It even intensified.”\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>“Every day, many students secretly ran to the cherry blossom tree to confess, which seriously affected the learning atmosphere at that time.”\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>“The school therefore once wanted to cut down this hundred-year-old cherry blossom tree.”\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Fujiwara Aoi covered her mouth and asked worriedly:\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>“Then... was the cherry blossom tree cut down later?”\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Natsume Chikage looked at the huge cherry blossom tree in front of him, then looked at her, wanting to say something but stopping, and finally chose silence.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Otsuka Takuyuki smiled:\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>“Of course not.”\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>“The students resisted this decision by the school very strongly.”\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>“So much so that every time the school tried to take action, there would always be students surrounding the cherry blossom tree to block it.”\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>“There were even students who didn’t sleep at night, guarding there, for fear that the school would take advantage of the night to find someone to cut down the tree.”\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Natsume Chikage pondered:\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>“This situation is a bit wrong.”\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>“Just for a cherry blossom tree, students shouldn’t have such strong motivation to do these things that might lead to police and school punishment.”\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Otsuka Takuyuki nodded approvingly.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>“You’re right.”\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>“Actually, the real reason behind it is related to the background of that era.”\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>“Thirty years ago, at the end of the Showa era, society was in a period of intense movement. Many students were dissatisfied with Japanese society and would go on the streets to demonstrate.”\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>“And the cherry blossom tree incident... was actually just an ‘excuse’ for students to confront the upper-level system.”\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Natsume Chikage understood.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>“I see.”\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Fujiwara Aoi asked curiously:\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>“Then what happened later? What happened to the school and the students in the end?”\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Otsuka Takuyuki sighed:\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>“The confrontation between the school and the students at that time ended up making a big noise, and even brought in the police, making a big fuss.”\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>“In the end, both sides reached a compromise: students could not be so blatant, must take into account their studies, and no longer engage in similar activities; while the school turned a blind eye to students who occasionally confessed under the cherry blossom tree.”\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Fujiwara Aoi said happily:\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>“It’s a good ending.”\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Natsume Chikage was a bit confused.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>“However, I heard Teacher Sakai mention the hundred-year-old cherry blossom tree, but she never mentioned this history to me?”\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Otsuka Takuyuki smiled helplessly.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>“Teacher Sakai is very young, she has only been working for two years, it’s normal not to know this history.”\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Fujiwara Aoi was confused:\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>“But... it seems no one else in the school knows about this? In the few days since I enrolled, I have never heard classmates mention it.”\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Otsuka Takuyuki explained:\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>“Because the school thinks this is not a glorious thing, the relevant records have been deliberately erased.”\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>“It can be said that except for those who experienced it personally back then, basically no one knows this history of the school.”\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>“Even in order to ‘beautify’ this matter, the school chose to let the rumors continue to spread.”\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>“So the legend of ‘confessing under the cherry blossom tree can lead to growing old together’ that you hear now was born this way.”\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Fujiwara Aoi suddenly realized.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>“The origin is actually like this...”\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Natsume Chikage was also a bit surprised, but at this moment he faintly sensed something wrong.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Because for such a big event, someone always has to take responsibility.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>But Otsuka Takuyuki didn’t mention the follow-up of that Broadcasting Club girl at all in his narration.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>He frowned and asked:\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>“The Broadcasting Club girl you mentioned at the beginning... what happened to her in the end?”\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>“Was she pushed out to... take the blame?”\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>“You... are unexpectedly sharp.”\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Otsuka Takuyuki was stunned, clearly not expecting Natsume Chikage to capture this key point instantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Fujiwara Aoi heard Natsume Chikage’s inquiry and also covered her mouth in surprise.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>“Teacher Otsuka, that girl in the end... could it be that she was really pushed out to take the blame?”\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Otsuka Takuyuki didn’t hide it, just smiled with a hint of helplessness, shaking his head repeatedly.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>“As for the scapegoat you mentioned, there was indeed one.”\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>“But it wasn’t that girl from the Broadcasting Club.”\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>“I said at the beginning, that girl was very smart.”\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>“After she realized the situation was starting to get out of control, she immediately started playing dumb.”\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>“In order to completely clear the relationship, she even pulled out the two seniors who had been expelled because of causing trouble in the Broadcasting Club and fighting with school leaders.”\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>“You also know that the confrontation between students and the school and society at that time was very intense.”\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>“Those two expelled seniors were fooled by that girl.”\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>“She said that as long as they were willing to stand up, they could become heroes for all the ‘movement’ students.”\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>“Many boys in that era had a sense of hot blood in their hearts, longing to become leaders.”\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>“The two of them heard they could be heroes, and even knowing they were taking the blame for others, they stood up without hesitation!”\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Fujiwara Aoi was dumbfounded.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>“Ah?”\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>“This... this is okay too?”\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>“That girl is too witty, right?”\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Natsume Chikage nodded.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>“Indeed.”\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Otsuka Takuyuki slapped his knee and laughed:\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>“See, you think so too.”\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Natsume Chikage asked:\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>“What was the ending for those two seniors?”\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Fujiwara Aoi asked worriedly:\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>“Don’t tell me... they have to go to jail for a long time?”\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Otsuka Takuyuki shook his head and smiled:\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>“That’s not the case.”\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>“If it were an ordinary student, doing this would definitely be expelled.”\u003C\u002Fp>",1156,"2026-06-15T07:08:26.586Z","2026-06-17T08:41:32.805Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","4a9e8440b53c23b457bf3e3f99dfcd0a986f00aa1c78c2345426202bbab6b448","tokyo-you-call-this-normal-equipment-chapter-107","tokyo-you-call-this-normal-equipment-chapter-105",624,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Ftokyo-you-call-this-normal-equipment-cover.jpg"]