[Mizawa] Umbrella Drop Sky

With the summer in Nagano, there has always been cloudy weather and endless rain.

One day when Sawamura opened his eyes in the morning, he found that the room he was living in was dark due to the rainy weather, so he was too tired to get up, and struggled for a while before barely getting up from the bed.He had nothing to do in Japan today, so he stepped on the floor barefoot and walked straight to the window in boredom, and stretched out his hand to open the venetian blinds - only to see the normally wobbly Sunny Baby drooping his head listlessly at this moment, but suddenly a flash of lightning struck The splitting illuminated the smiling face of the villain.

He opened the window, and poked the sunny baby's smiling face that had dimmed again after the lightning and thunder.

Everything in the world seems to be silent in the heavy rain. The street lights that have been on all night are extinguished, the old people who get up early to exercise turn off the radio, the students who chatter on the road that must pass by school have returned home from summer vacation, and the garbage truck that sings has passed today. The time has not yet come... Everything seems to be quietly hidden under layers of dark clouds.At the moment of lightning, although the sky was completely bright, the muddy leaves and dusty petals were nakedly displayed in front of people's eyes.It seems that only the lavender hydrangeas on the balcony are still full of vigor in such a situation.

The rain puts a hazy makeup on it, and the drops of water falling on the clusters of petals also become decorations, as beautiful as the clear pearls dotted on the girl's lace dress - hydrangea can be so uninhibited in the rainy day The splendid openness is also thanks to its never-bending stems and leaves, desperately absorbing everything all the time, regardless of sunshine and wind and rain.

Just like he used to be with him.

The slanting wind that brought the drizzle slipped into the warm room without paying attention, pulling him out of the honeypot of memories like a pair of cold hands.He shook his head with a self-deprecating smile, closed the window and took a deep breath, and his thoughts returned from the past to the present along with the exhalation and inhalation.

The shutters kept out the wind and rain, and the room darkened again.The lavender hydrangea finally disappeared from his world-the flower that was hailed as "hope and future".

The current problem is actually a phone call from Hulei City last night.

In fact, the two are not familiar with each other. They met on the court in high school, and they were deadly rivals in the game. Of course, they would not have any contact in private.Later, it was only intermittently heard that he and Sanada-senpai both played for the Yokohama Baystars - when Miyuki mentioned this to him, he even coyly expressed his envy for the two being on the same team again, as if being comforted by the other party Feeling relieved by rubbing his hair, he couldn't immediately make a fist and use "Sawamura-style" confidence to express his expectation that they will be on the same team in the future.

Thinking about it this way, although his relationship with Miyuki is full of trivial things that are meaningless and easy to be lost, except for baseball, but once he thinks about it, he will not consciously smile.Even if we look back at such a "future" time point, apart from the eye-catching bright moon in the vast starry sky, there are still more twinkling stars in the vast starry sky - countless mobile phones that have been hot for an astonishingly long time The calls and the content of the calls were nothing more than some gags, the short cohabitation during the college vacation, the blushing and heartbeat when the two accidentally touched hands at the dinner table at the beginning, the sudden hugs and faltering confessions in the locker room in high school .

——Talk back to Hulei City's phone call.

The guy who was so noisy and restless had nothing else to do. He suddenly remembered that he was off the game for some reason and had a two-week break. It happened that someone mentioned that Sawamura was also on summer vacation. Unemployed at home, so he sincerely invited Sawamura to Yokohama as a guest.

"You are the most idle person among the people I know! Hurry up and come over - I feel itchy after not catching your ball for a long time! Or you can invite me to eat pork chop rice."

Sawamura recalled the wording of a certain person on the phone, and couldn't help complaining one by one in his heart, "The only one who tells the truth so frankly is 'the most idle'." It’s about the wounded.” “Why should I invite the host to dinner when I’m a guest?”…

However, even though Hiroshi's words were full of gibberish, Sawamura thought that it was fine for him to stay at home if the students went home during the summer vacation and the teachers went on vacation.What's more, he has never been to Yokohama in summer, and the temperature seems to be a little hotter than Nagano... When his thinking has diverged to how much luggage he needs to bring, he finally remembered to send "I will come over in a few days "Information.

However, it wasn't until he had already started to pack his luggage that Sawamura realized that he had overlooked a very important issue. He had vaguely heard that Honglei City had been in a relationship with Sanada Toshihei for a long time, and that the two were on the same team and were lovers. ——Could they be living together?

If they lived together, wouldn't it seem appropriate for him to go to the other party's property to be a light bulb or an abused dog?He looked hesitantly at his half-packed luggage and the messy room, shook his head and continued to stuff the spare clothes into the suitcase.

——No matter how stubborn that guy is in certain things, he shouldn't be able to find someone to disturb his two-person world, right?

——He was too naive to apply ordinary people's practices to Hong Leishi.

Sawamura, who was standing at the door of the apartment and looking at Toshi Sanada in dismay, slandered expressionlessly, and when he saw Hong Leishi showing his head from behind Sanada, he immediately rolled his eyes at him.At the moment, Hong Leishi was looking at him with messy hair and a banana in his mouth. Seeing him turn his gaze to him, he even raised his hand in a gesture of swinging a bat—such a pitcher's instinct Huo Da's gesture successfully stopped Sawamura who was about to turn around and escape his fate of the light bulb.

At first glance, both Sanada and Toro have changed a lot—most directly, they seem to be a little taller than when they were in high school.

The three people who were not familiar with each other didn't seem to have any other topics except baseball-fortunately, although Sawamura no longer pitched, he paid attention to professional baseball games all the time.After the three expressed their views on the current situation of the alliance, they compared the current strength of the Zhongnichi Dragons who belonged to Sawamura before he retired with the Yokohama Baystars.However, because Sawamura always added useless assumptions such as "if I were...", the three argued for a long time, and neither of them succeeded in convincing the other.

The three of them stood at the entrance for a long time without feeling tired. After all, it was Sanada Shunpei who came back to his senses and dragged the two juniors to the living room.

The living room of the two men living together is monotonous: on the dining table in front of the TV there are still uncollected plates left over from lunch, because they have been eaten too clean to be able to tell what kind of food was once contained; the wallpaper is the simplest solid color, Because of the age, some parts have been rolled up; there is only one simple wall clock as decoration on the entire wall.

"It's already five o'clock." Sanada glanced at the wall clock, the minute hand and the second hand coincided with the "12" position, "Sawamura and Leiichi watch TV for a while? Can you play the video to watch the Chunichi Dragons match last night?" .”

He said and picked up the key on the table.

"I'm going to buy the pork chop rice from the shop you like. You will eat less bananas, and I will eat when I come back!"

——These words were undoubtedly addressed to Hulei City.

Hu Leishi nodded and quickly agreed, and fished out the remote control from under the sofa with an obedient look.However, when the sound of closing the door came, his ears moved, he quickly put down the remote control, picked up the second banana from the coffee table, and began to peel it very naturally.

Sawamura thought amusedly, "These two people haven't changed at all...especially in the way they get along."

"Oh oh oh! It's not!"

Sawamura was taken aback by the sudden excited cries from Honglei City. He looked up and found that the TV screen had been turned on, but the content playing was obviously not a game video—a beautiful female reporter was passing the microphone to the side with a decent smile. Wearing it looks like a player with a dirty blue jersey just after the game.

Knee pads, armor... Sawamura's eyes moved upwards from the lower body of the person who took the microphone, and finally settled on a familiar yet unfamiliar face.

The lips that used to stay on his face and lips opened and closed, answering the question from the female reporter that he hadn't heard just now, "... I hope that next time, on the court, I don't ask any serious players on the court. No personal questions about baseball."

If Sanada Shunhei was present at this time, he would have immediately taken the remote control board and changed channels as if nothing had happened-but standing next to Sawamura at this time was Raichi who was about to finish eating the second banana.The guy with a heart as big as the sea turned his head excitedly, waved his arms and shouted at Sawamura, "Hey! Your partner!"

Hearing what he said, Sawamura frowned slightly.He is sincerely glad that it is not someone else standing here, but this guy who can frankly talk about his initial relationship with Miyuki and knows nothing about everything except baseball, so he won't be deprived of the kindness of others to hear this voice he has missed for a long time He has the right, and he can let the voice sweep over him with the warm past, making him break down and cry as much as he wants.

"This is the last time... let's make an exception. Since you asked, I'll... answer it once."

The eyes of the catcher on the TV screen were curved like crescent moons, their drooping eyelids suppressing emotion.

Sawamura stared at this man—how could he forget, countless times he stood on the mound and looked at the golden pupils that couldn't be hidden by the protective gear and goggles, and countless times he looked directly at him when his face was held by the opponent Those piercing eyes with no frame mirrors and no goggles to cover them-there is a sea of ​​stars, and there is a little Eijun Sawamura in the sea of ​​stars.

The other party's voice was a little hoarse and nasal, and Sawamura guessed with some distress whether the other party had a cold, "Although I am often said to be frank, I never lie."

"I can tell you with certainty that some of the things in the recent reports are all false, and it is not because of these things that affect my state, not to mention that winning or losing a game is not determined by my state alone. I I hope the media will stop writing these gossips in the future, I don’t want to misunderstand someone—although I don’t know if he will read these...”

Miyuki, who was flat in the two-dimensional space, also touched the back of his head helplessly, "After all, this person disappeared without a word."

"So the answer to that question—yes, like someone. As for who he is...I haven't seen him in a long time either...I miss him a lot."

Unexpectedly, she would get such an answer. The female reporter seemed to be stunned for a while by the "he" in the other party's words, and then she reacted and hurriedly changed the subject, asking a lot of questions related to the game.Sawamura vaguely heard that this should be the next game after Miyuki's team lost to the old rival San Francisco Giants a month ago. After the game where he and his teammates won the Chicago Cubs 7:2 - he glanced at the reporter The microphone in his hand should be an interview from TV Tokyo.

The weather in Los Angeles should have been fine that day. The night was low, and a ball flying into the outfield seemed to have been swallowed by the dark blue sky before it even landed.Miyuki and the female reporter stood at the exit of the stadium, facing the white capitalized "L" and "A" on the green grass. A little further away, the straight trunks of the coconut trees outside the stadium were as bare as electric poles. The lush branches and leaves that are about to penetrate deep into the sky are like mushroom clouds.The searchlights turned on at the brightest level during the game hadn’t been turned off, and the reflections of the coconut trees and people on the green lawn were stretched very long——Sawamura recalled the reflections of the bright sun and the bustling people in Koshien in summer, for no reason I really feel that the shadow of Miyuki alone on TV is a bit lonely.

"The most exciting thing today was Miyuki's home run in the 5th inning! From that ball onwards, the game completely turned to the Dodgers!"

"Our pitchers played really well today."

"Ah, that's right...the main reason why we broadcast this game is also because the Dodgers have two players from Japan on the Dodgers team. This is the first time that Narimiya boarded the board after he dropped the board in May, right? "

……

This is a stage that Sawamura is not familiar with - the stadium surrounded by coconut trees and hills is like a dazzling diamond, which will always shine on Miyuki Kazuya's life trajectory.

"Sure enough, let's watch the video of the game." Hong Leishi seemed to be very bored with these boring scenes, grabbed the remote control panel and wanted to switch channels, but was attracted by the sound of rain coming from the window.

Rumble.

—It seemed to be thunder.

"Yokohama...does it often rain in summer?"

Sawamura curiously poked his probe in the direction of the window, but Hong Leishi suddenly jumped up and ran straight to the entrance.

"Hey, why are you so excited? Don't you want to watch the video?"

"I knew Sanada-senpai didn't bring an umbrella!" Sawamura looked towards the door—Horeiichi with his hands on his hips had a wonderful facial expression, his thick eyebrows stood upside down, the corners of his mouth turned down, and the tips of his hanging eyes were raised high, staring at the door Umbrellas in a bucket.

The sky outside the apartment flickered from dark to bright, and lightning sprang out like a swimming dragon inadvertently, making people jump.A burst of thunder passed, and the living room was extremely quiet, only the hands of the wall clock could be heard "tick-tock"-it turned out that an hour had passed.

Sawamura looked out the window, complaining in his heart about the "seemingly reliable" Sanada-senpai and the "unreliable" Hongleishi many times, it may be because the emotional accumulation in front of the TV has not recovered just now, he Unexpectedly, he didn't say anything irresponsible, he hesitated for a long time before phrasing, "It's normal to forget to bring an umbrella to go out on a cloudy day... If Sanada-senpai would definitely buy an umbrella at a convenience store, or wait for the rain to stop Come back again."

Unexpectedly, his words did not comfort the idiots in his eyes, Hong Leishi still shook his head like a rattle after hearing his words, "Last time and the last time he went out to buy dinner without an umbrella, it was raining It’s raining heavily, but I still ran back in the rain, and even plausibly said that I was worried that I would faint from hunger.”

Sawamura, who was still wandering outside, did not hear the point of Toro's words, and only thought silently in his heart, "This is indeed a very likely situation."

"So this time I'm going to send him the umbrella!"

There was a thunderstorm outside the window, and Sawamura was taken aback, staring blankly at Hong Leishi who was putting on his shoes and preparing to go out.

What should I do if I don't bring an umbrella or drop it? If I don't catch up with an umbrella, how do I know that the other party must not need it?

How many times have their lives been missed because of "I think he should do this"?

"Hey kid, at least bring your phone with you to find someone, okay?"

As for the two of them still coming back like drowned chickens, both of them caught a cold, and Sawamura, who was a guest, simply packed up and went home the next day to let the two of them rest at home.