"Wei Yong" You are the Hua of Twilight Ice

Yes, it really doesn't make any difference to Victor.

As a certain kind of existence like now, he can't feel the temperature, his physical strength exceeds ordinary people, it is difficult to suffer from ordinary trauma, and he can have double the training time. There is nothing left.Victor slid into the ice rink, leaned on the edge, and secretly raised the corner of his lips, and the self-deprecating self-deprecation that had sprung up like mushrooms after the French station appeared again.Then, he continued to pull the wry smile on his face, yes, why bother to hide his feelings?At this time, no one would suddenly appear on the ice rink to see him anyway.

The past few days had squeezed time to the extreme. After Victor returned to the castle on the outskirts of St. Petersburg, he was a little uncomfortable because Hosenfeld and Molos consciously relaxed, which was almost unimaginable before.In order not to think too much, Victor almost escaped from the castle. He didn't bring his own CD. Today is the time to practice Axel's quadruples, which has never been formed yet!

Every time he studied Axel's quadruples without reference, he would practice until he was exhausted before being picked up by Andre Butler or Hosenfell.It's like a kind of venting, as if in this kind of non-stop repetition, the depression and depression in the heart magnified by the characteristics of the blood race will slowly calm down.To be more precise, when the body is tired to a certain extent, there is no mind to think about other things.

As a conscientious sweeper, when Butler Andre got Victor out of the ice rink today, he still didn't forget to clean up the traces left on the ice.It is also because of this that Yakov, Yuri, Mira and even Yuuri have always been given a wrong impression, that is, it seems that the staff of the ice rink have become more dedicated in the past six months.

No one thought of the person who had lost contact for a long time.

But Victor can get information about Yuuri from Makachin.

"Master, Master Yuuri has been practicing all day."

"Master Yuuri looks a little sad."

"It's been different since Master Yuuri came back from Japan!"

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"It's been a long time since Master Yuuri mentioned Master..."

"Master Yuuri worked really hard to prepare for the match!"

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"Master, I can hear Xiaowei's words. It seems to be related to changing this body. I don't know if the master can see it!"

All these things about Yuuri were "heard" by Victor through the contract with the familiar.When he heard that Yuuri had completed the construction of the two programs, Victor had already recovered from the lack of power.He raised his hand to cover half of his face, and opened his heart-shaped mouth that was a little cold as much as possible.It's certainly something to be happy about Yuuri finally being able to be fully, from every angle, to do his work without himself, isn't it?

But why can't you laugh?

The change he realized again in less than three days almost made Victor unable to resist.But at this time, Yuuri, who he couldn't restrain himself from thinking about, had already appeared on the ice rink on time.

These days, Yuuri has perfected his free skating [Claudio Fantasia] and short program [Halfway Through The Earth] for the second time, and now all he needs is the details, and further injection of deeper insights.As for Yakov, he kept his word and didn't tell Yuuri anything Victor said to him, he just dutifully taught his student's student for Viktor.

Maybe it's a tacit understanding, just like what Makachin told Victor, Yongli used the same method to make himself forget the anxiety and sadness in his heart.When he stepped into the ice rink, it was really early, and Yuuri was stunned for a moment before he realized that now only Yakov was sitting on the first chair in the first row by the entrance of the ice rink, thinking about something.Even Lilia, who often glared at Yakov on weekdays, has not yet appeared.

"To what extent have you practiced the jumping and movement details that you mentioned that day?" Yakov asked.Because he has a lot of students, he often takes this method of pointing out problems, letting them practice independently, and checking from time to time.After more than half a year, Yuuri has gotten used to it.

He put his CD into the machine, and greeted Yakov politely, "Well, there has been a lot of improvement, let me come over and ask you to take a look!" Then he took off his glasses .

Yakov nodded, "Okay, don't waste time if you come early, let's go to [Halfway] first!" Then, the serious little old man stayed still and kept silent.

Yuuri obediently slid to the designated spot, standing with both feet on the ice, his right hand seemed to be holding an old-fashioned black top hat of aristocrats.He lowered his head slightly, but turned his face sideways to stare at the direction where his left hand and the imaginary black saber were pointing.

This is another style that Yuuri has never tried before.When designing this action, without Victor's choreography, it became a challenge for him to complete the choreography alone, which made him feel overwhelmed.Even that first move gave Yuuri a headache for a long time.However, after spending two days and two nights in close contact with Shakespeare's works in the study, Yuuri finally managed to come up with this meaningful starting action.

After the last season, Yuuri has seen the importance of breaking through self-limitation, and he has always been inclined to ballet before, and he has also begun to try other dances.This song [Halfway Through The Earth] incorporates the pace of the traditional British Morris dance on top of the solemn tone laid by the symphony. This is the result of absorbing coach Yakov's suggestion and aiming to create a sense of dialogue.It can also leave people with the novelty of free and open oriental young people suddenly breaking into Shakespeare's solemn classical world.It is often said that the authorities are obsessed. Perhaps from this perspective, seeing Shakespeare and the classical world from the perspective of an outsider can reflect a different aesthetic feeling.As an Easterner, Yuuri uses his own understanding to interpret a Western gentleman, just to create a feeling of cultural fusion and collision, and there is no sense of disharmony.

The music sounded, and the tune was before Victor left. The two of them negotiated with Mr. Shostako and got the finished product. Therefore, Yuuri often thinks of Victor after training.

However, after training begins, the high-intensity tasks will not give him time to take a breather and think about whether he is still a lover's lover.

At the beginning, there is a piece of Sanban full of traditional Japanese colors, which is the sound of seventeen-stringed koto and ocarina.When Shostako was composing, he asked Yuuri what traditional musical instruments were in his country and what their timbres were like.But what Yakov heard now was Mr. Shostako's works that combined Japanese "bon music" and "foreign music".

The black-haired youth lowered his arms and began to slide on the ice. At the same time, he slowly raised his head.Yuuri's acting scores have always been almost perfect. At this moment, he is showing the confused look of an oriental boy who has just entered the classical world, and he has brought in the uneasy mood he had when he first came to Russia.Using one's own emotions to complete the program is Yuuri's unrivaled advantage.

He turns around, slowly smooths and then backslips, opening his arms as he does so, in a large syncopated Japanese two-note pattern with occasional Anglo-style triads. Lianyin is like in "Dance of the Elves", it seems that in the eyes of a young boy who has just arrived, one after another in the classical country, it is extremely small but very beautiful.It was at this time that a soft string quartet rang out from the playing of the seventeen-stringed zither and the ocarina, with some distant and solemn taste.

Maybe Yuuri's performance is really empathetic, even Coach Yakov, who was looking at him critically just now, frowned slightly after seeing such a performance.

"Hmph, I just don't know what jumping looks like," the duplicitous little old man muttered, staring closely at Yuuri who was doing a swallow slide on the field, "I hope it won't be like the beginning of last season..."

However, after seeing the end from beginning to end, Yakov took out the three quadruple jumps and Axel triple axel jumps in this program and thought about it. There's no big problem with that.

"Yuuri, pay attention when changing feet and land on the ice, and be more steady!" Yakov never praised others, especially the juniors he cared about.Even though he actually thought he was doing pretty well, what was shown on his face was that his brows were not so deeply wrinkled.

If someone who is not familiar with him reads this, he will definitely think that he has done something wrong again, although this is not the case.

However, after more than half a year of getting along with each other, Yuuri is no longer someone who is "unfamiliar with Coach Yakov". He has almost understood the character of this little old man in nearly a year.

Yuuri nodded without objection, accepting Yakov's advice and guidance.

After saying these few words, Yakov returned to the posture of sitting on the side with folded arms, and motioned for Yuuri to start his free skate.

So he obediently pressed the button on the remote control, and then returned to the preparation position in the middle of the ice rink, making the gesture to start the show.

Standing on one foot, the other foot is touching the ice surface, Yuuri's arm on the same side is bent, resting on the other shoulder, the elbow is raised upwards with the angle of the head, the other hand is clenched into a fist, and is placed on the body The rear side is slightly curved in an arc.

Well, it's a haughty gesture, not much different from Claudio himself.

The sound of music flowed from the stereo, and the rhythm of [Claudio Fantasia] filled the entire ice rink.Although this piece of music is called Fantasia, the composer ingeniously did not use the free and easy Fantasia form.

This is a completely different tune style from [HalfwayThroughTheEarth].As a member of an Eastern European family, Yakov certainly knows that such a brisk triple time is exactly the scherzo style that often appears as the third movement in symphonic suites.

The speed of the scherzo is generally between the allegro and the small wide. The active rhythm is not a big challenge for Yuuri, but the difficulty is how to express the character Claudius in the short four-minute free skating. Oh's sense of drama and storytelling.

This effect is similar to [YURIONICE], but not exactly the same. Scherzo wants more of a sense of irony and dance like comedy, which is probably not a small challenge for Yuuri!

Since he adopted a pure classical music form, Mr. Shostako also used a pure symphony orchestra configuration in terms of orchestration.He went straight to a colleague he used to work with in the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, and the CD was delivered to Yuuri in no time.After these hours of practice, Yuuri has probably found some feeling, but it's not enough, this is what he knows in his heart.

Feeling guilty, Yuuri glanced at Yakov, then temporarily put aside the messy thoughts in his head, and began to perform seriously.

He lowered his raised right arm and stretched it backwards driven by his elbow. At the same time, he raised his left hand and began to slide on the ice with one foot.Then he opened his arms again and took a Yan-style slide.

Different from the strict limit on the number of quadruple jumps of the same type in the short program, the same jump is allowed to appear multiple times in the free skating.Therefore, in [Claudio Fantasia], Yuuri set up a total of four quadruple jumps, namely a 4S, a 4F, and two 4Ts, but one of the four quadruple jumps is followed by a 3A A set of jumps.In addition, in the middle and second half of the program, there are two sets of combined triple axel jumps and two separate triple axel jumps.

It can be said that since last season, Yuuri has completely started his quadruple jump.Looking at all of Yuuri's jumps, although there were still some problems, they did not fail due to falls, which made Coach Yakov's face change from cloudy to cloudy, and it seemed that there was a trend of continuous improvement.

As for the issue of the 4F storage cycle, as well as the unstable landing on the ice and the touch of the hand on the ground during some jumps, Yakov only pointed out these points. Although the tone is still fierce as always, he is obviously kind. Not a lot.

As soon as he finished speaking, a girl's exclamation sounded, "Wow! Yuuri came so early!"

Yakov and Yuuri, who had just nodded and jotted down the practice points, looked back together, only to find that Mira was already leaning against the entrance of the ice rink.

"Yuuri is really hardworking! I don't know why someone is willing to play disappearing..." Mira said jokingly, but she was immediately pulled by the person behind her, " Hey! Old woman, do you think everyone is as lazy as you? If Pork Chop Rice is like you, you probably won’t even be able to make it to the finals!” Yuri, who looked displeased, put the ice skates on the table next to the entrance.

Mira immediately realized something, he only made a joke because he saw that Yuuri and Victor had always had a good relationship, and for a moment he forgot to consider Yuuri's mood after Victor left without knowing what to do.She stops the joke immediately and changes the subject before Yuuri can react. "What, Yurio is getting less and less cute. It's very rude to tell a lady that she's lazy!"

Yuri, who had already stepped into the ice rink, looked at the "old woman" in his mouth with disgust, "Tigers on ice don't need to be cute, and besides, how do you look like a lady?" He snorted from his nasal cavity Afterwards, he shook the blond hair on his head, stepped on the ice and slid towards the distance.Leaving someone who, in Yuri's opinion, "not a lady at all" messed up in place.

Seeing that other contestants have finished warming up and going on the ice, Yakov also explained to Yuuri the essentials of mastering the scherzo, and then walked to the other side of the stands.

Because it was the beginning of the season, Yakov's requirement for Yuuri's free skating was to solve the technical problems first, and then slowly and deeply understand the connotation of the program.After all, Yuuri's acting scores are perfect most of the time, so don't worry about that.

After the training, Yuuri returned home after eating the meals prepared by the team's nutritionist.Now without Victor's company, Yuuri, who was not very good at cooking, was not in the mood to learn, so he dealt with it like this.

After Yuuri came home, Makachin and Xiao Wei, who had been floating beside Yuuri, ran to the study with him.Yuuri, who didn't know Xiaowei followed him in a half-human soul state, didn't care at all, and went straight into the bathroom to take a shower.

Under normal circumstances, Makachin would learn about Yuuri's daily situation from Xiaowei, and then let Victor "see" the information he knew through the familiar contract every few days.

However, on this day, Makachin failed to contact his master through the contract.He sensed it several times, but Victor didn't respond.

Maybe the master is busy with something?Ma Kachin thought so in his heart, and didn't pay much attention to it.

This continued until two days later, Yuuri left St. Petersburg, and the American Grand Prix of this season was about to start in Philadelphia.

It's not the first time in a year that Yuuri has gone to a competition alone, and he's sitting on the plane with a stern-faced Yakov next to him.Mira, Agatha and another men's singles player who also participated in this competition sat in the back row.Besides them, there are two groups of pair skating and one group of ice dancers.Yuuri thought about Makachin who stayed in St. Petersburg to look after his house, and then thought of Victor who was still wronged or angry, and their relationship that they didn't know if they could find a way out, Yuuri, who was naturally sensitive and somewhat inferior, started to nose Li blamed himself sourly.

He thought about it, but couldn't resist the drowsiness that came as promised, his upper eyelids slowly closed, and finally let go of his front teeth biting his lower lip, and fell asleep leaning against the baffle on the side of the window.

In his sleep, Yuuri didn't know when he felt a slightly hot temperature, not from the surrounding external environment, but as if his body was heating up, as if his body was filled with a half-boiling liquid. so comfortable.

So Yuuri woke up not long after falling asleep, took out his phone to check the time, only more than four hours had passed.

But after waking up, he felt a little surprised.Although the air conditioner is turned on on an international flight in winter, it is still a bit cold. How can it make people feel like they are being boiled?

This is very unscientific.

But Yuuri, who was sleepy, was puzzled for a while, and without thinking much, he snored again.This time, Yurian slept peacefully all the way, and he didn't feel any strange feeling anymore, the feeling in his sleep before was like a dream.

The next day is public practice time.Rarely, Yakov didn't put on an angry face like "you owe me 80", but just reminded him some important points in a slightly serious manner, and even comforted him and encouraged him to play normally, standing by the side Looks like he's adjusted to the rink.

According to the usual practice, the short program of the men's singles competition starts at 07:30 in the evening. According to the ranking, Yuuri will play in the penultimate place. Unlike the previous lottery used to determine the order of appearance, the short program in this season has been changed back to the previous one. The rule of playing in reverse order of the world ranking is still used.This is the result of the ISU Council meeting in Helsinki at the end of March this year, which was officially published by the ISU at the end of April.

Changing back to the original rules is a good thing for Yuuri, because after all, he has not reached the point where Viktor will not be affected by the rules, and playing later can give him a greater advantage.

The players of the first group had already entered the ice rink to start practice for 6 minutes, and Yuuri and Coach Yakov went back to the waiting room to prepare.

In this round of competition, there are three people Yuuri is more familiar with, namely Leo, Emile, and JJ who is overconfident or arrogant.This season, Yuuri's races are perfectly staggered with his best friend, which makes him not very happy, so he has no interest in watching the live broadcast in the lounge. Originally, he wanted to watch Phichit's [Hou Ye Huan Song] Go! (T^T)

When he was lying on the mat and pressing his legs, he was also actively mobilizing his emotions.Gradually, other expressions were subdued, leaving only the curiosity and confusion that belonged to a teenager, showing from under the broken black hair on his forehead from time to time.

Yes, because of the needs of the show, it was very rare for Yuuri not to comb the broken hair back, but to keep it as it was.Together with his performance clothes, it gives people an indescribable sense of youth.

So, when the audience heard "The next one is the Japanese player Yuri Katsuki, he won the runner-up in the last grand prix! His short program is [HalfwayThroughTheEarth].", I saw a boy with short black hair slipping into sight in a lavender performance costume with a Japanese-style slanted front.

The upper part of his jacket is a small dress with a slanted front, which becomes softer as it goes down, especially the two long swallowtails that flow out from the back hem, making it look light and steady.As usual, the lower body is black trousers, the fabric is soft and supple.

"The coach of this game, Victor Nikiforov, was unable to accompany him for some reason, and coach Yakov will replace him!" Zhuoka anchor explained Victor's absence.

Yuuri stood still in the preparation position, and before the music started, he kissed the empty ring finger of his right hand, and then gently placed the hand on every position below the collarbone, and then released it, posing for the start of the show.

As for the strange gesture just now, only Victor and a few people close to Yuuri could guess part of what he wanted to express.If Victor could know this scene, then he wouldn't be so worried about gains and losses.But in this world, there have never been so many ifs.

The stereo beeped, and Yuuri's short program began.The melody of Sanban brings together the characteristics of Japanese "bonnaku" and "foreign music", and the seventeen-stringed zither and ocarina outline the traditional colors of Japan.

Yuuri dropped his arms, and in the time it took to raise his head, he was already gliding.It was the first time for a boy from the East to meet the classical gentleness of this world. He was confused and could hardly hide his curiosity.

Turning around, the smoothness turned into a backward slip, Yuuri opened his arms in such a movement, the two-note sound pattern in great syncopation, plus the triplet, everything seemed so fresh in this time and space belonging to the Middle Ages.From here, the main theme of the piece begins.The soft words of the viola and the cello lead to the duet of the two violins. The Si-style violin is clear and melodious, while the Guazi violin is calm and thick, like a dialogue between a pair of lovers.This is the delicate emotion of Shakespeare's love.Remote and solemn.

Yuuri's movements are brisk and full of curiosity unique to young people, and the music also jumps out even more.He slides along the side of the rink and changes edges.He slides on the outside edge of his right foot, accelerates, and touches the ice with his left foot.It's a quadruple jump!

4T is not difficult in quadruple jumps, but this time Yuuri can integrate the feeling of jumping with the artistic conception of the show. Although it is not yet perfect, it is already a big breakthrough.After all, this kind of jumping has a sense of expression, which is different from other contestants who embed technical movements into the performance and complement the performance.It can be said that Yuuri does have talent and acumen that others do not possess in terms of acting.

But whether this is his unconscious integration, or an attempt after thinking about it beforehand, no one can explain it, maybe after the match, even Yuuri himself won't remember it too clearly.

In fact, not many people noticed this, and the few people who realized it were quickly attracted by Yuuri's subsequent performance.The young man seemed to be really attracted by this beautiful and solemn world all of a sudden. He was doing a set of choreographed steps, and his pace gradually slowed down.

In the traditional silk and bamboo sound, there is something quietly sprouting. Those who have an absolute sense of pitch will know that behind the slowed-down jumping sound is the low humming of the brass group.The beauty and disillusionment from the Middle Ages, like melting ice, flowed into the beating heart of the young man, and the whole person began to become quiet.

Yuuri's knife-lifting swallow style is still the same as before. He is obviously 24 years old, but no matter his body, appearance, or heart, he looks like a teenager. If Victor sees this scene, he will definitely be attracted Can't restrain myself?

But Victor was not able to see Yuuri's sword-handling gesture, or rather, he didn't even see this match.