Chapter 112 - Sports Meet, Commence (2/2)
The animation department’s freshmen and sophomores continued to flow out, with Meng Fan’s year following close behind. The first to appear were the cheerleaders, from basketball animes and visiting characters from other animes. In short, they were all holding cheerleading pom-poms, shaking them as they headed for the main podium, lively and youthful.
Following them was the most important act—Zhang Zhou Wei came out with a basket on his back, detonating the rhythm of the audience immediately. Cosplaying a basket could only be something you see but do not want to do.
Staggering to the front of the podium, he was closely followed by the handsome appearance of the “basketball players”. Each one held a basketball in their hands, and regardless if they knew how to dribble or pass, their postures were very handsome. As they neared the stage…They began to shoot. An array of balls came flying at Zhang Zhou Wei, who took off running with the basket on his back.
It was a chaotic scene, but the atmosphere was happily heating up.
Lastly, Meng Fan entered, wearing his suit and wig, slowly heading over. He was a far distance away from the podium. Once Zhang Zhou Wei had stopped and ran a few steps, Meng Fan threw the basketball he had in his hand across at him. At this time, the distance between them was about that of a basketball court.
Whoosh.
He scored!
The audience went silent in an instant. It was as if the BGM had been crushed right before the stadium erupted in cheers. Even a few of the school leaders on the podium had stood up in applause.
What kind of godlike luck is this!
Hearing the roaring cheers, Zhang Zhou Wei let out a deep breath. Although they had practiced this several times yesterday, he was still frantic when he stopped to wait for the ball!
During their rehearsal, Meng Fan did not score each shot, trying to keep his hit rate at once every three or two times; otherwise, it would be too excessive.
Of course, for Zhang Zhou Wei to cooperate, they allowed him to wear a hard hat so he didn’t get smacked in the back of his head.
After the shot, Meng Fan stood amid the cheering, comfortably striding leisurely like coach Anzai towards the podium. At this time, two people in the cheerleader squad pulled open a banner with a few words on it—
Your elder will always be your elder!
The text on the banner faced the field; they weren’t arrogant enough to show it to the school leaders.
The school superiors had guessed it wasn’t anything proper, but they still followed along.
With the godlike entrance of the third year animation department, the senior year’s entry seemed a lot more normal. Only, the audience blew up again when the graduate students entered in their uncle like lady outfits.
“Hahaha, this year’s animation department is too savage!”
“The best this year!”
“They’re even better than last year’s calligraphy department!”
“If senior Ah Nin dressed up as a girl, it would kill everyone here!”
“This iron hero is the most savage!”
“I’ve seen him live-stream his basket shooting, he’s super accurate!”
“If I didn’t know he also streamed drawing, I would have guessed he was a specially enrolled athletics student!”
At the end of the entrance ceremony, the school’s leaders began their speech. There were people who listened carefully, but most of them forming small discussions on the side. Both, however, grasped the timing for each applause.
Once the speech ended, they announced the end of the opening ceremony. Next came the charity sale. Extending across the entire track field, the entire venue became a market.
Part of this event was so the students could sell the costumes from today’s opening ceremony, where customers could line up in an array and grab whatever they fancy.
The other part was so people could sell their own work, as well as other items.
Aside from the faculty and students who participated in the sales, there were members from the community as well.
Compared with the sports meet itself, the charity sale was an even more important aspect of the meet. After each charity sale, the school would donate the revenue to a charity each year.
The festivities continued until noon when the charity sales’ stalls were withdrawn from the track field. However, the stalls outside the track continued to stay in business and would stay until the end of the sports meet.
At one in the afternoon, the sports meet officially started.
Meng Fan only had one event to participate in this afternoon, and that was the men’s shot put. There were less than 20 people in total who had signed up, so there was no need for group preliminaries.