Lehigh High School Boys Tennis Club

Tokugawa arrived at Byodoin Temple after training in the afternoon.

Byodoin went to do its own rehabilitation training in the afternoon. Tokugawa couldn't find anyone in the training ground, so he completed his training first.He was a little absent-minded during training.The physical training itself is relatively boring, not to mention that the conversation at noon and the conversation last night are both affecting him.

"Tokugawa-kun, you have to concentrate." The trainer in charge of this venue came over to remind him.

Tokugawa immediately blamed himself, thinking of why he was still distracted at this stage, and forced his concentration.

After the training, he went around the various training grounds, but found nothing. He went to the cafeteria and had dinner before seeing Byodoin, who was sweating with a racket, at the entrance of the cafeteria.

"You..." He stopped in front of Byodoin and wanted to say something, but suddenly couldn't find the right words.

The Byodoin Court also stopped when they heard the words, and turned to face him, with a rare peaceful attitude: "What's the matter? What do you want me to do?"

"...Yes. I want to talk to you." Tokugawa thought he was crazy.

But the crazier one is obviously Byodoin.

"I haven't eaten yet. If you have something to do, see you in the sauna room of the bathhouse." Byodoin said.

Before Tokugawa could say "I'm kidding," he saw Byodoin turned around and left.

He was choked and speechless for a moment.

When he returned to the dormitory, he was still wondering why Byodoin made an appointment to meet in the bathroom.Isn't it embarrassing? !Although there is a large bathhouse in the training camp, the bathhouses are separated by more than a dozen rooms, but they are also public baths.There are also about ten shower rooms, but only two have small cubicles, and the others have two drain faucets.It is true that there are dedicated sauna rooms, but there are only six rooms, and they are usually used together!

Tokugawa packed the bath basket and sat on his bed for a while, hesitating for a long time.

When Yukimura came back, he found Tokugawa sitting on the edge of the bed looking devastated (no misadjective was used).

"Senior? What's wrong?" Yukimura asked curiously.

"...No, it's nothing." Tokugawa came to his senses, shook his head, and went out with the bath basket.

Yukimura: Why did he look like he was just taking a shower? I thought someone did something to him in the bathroom.

Tokugawa took a shower in the shower, wiped his body clean before entering the innermost sauna.Although he was apprehensive, the fact is that no one has been going here—there are not many athletes who like to take a sauna, and the innermost one is the smallest, which can only accommodate two or three people.

And Tokugawa hasn't turned on the sauna yet.

When Byodoin opened the door and walked in, he glanced at him, then backed out and opened the door switch box, set the temperature skillfully, and closed the door again.

White gas diffused little by little from the steam vent on the top.

Byodoin sat down boldly, the towel wrapped around his waist wrapped his buttocks into a rounded shape.

"Just talk about it, we have 15 minutes."

It is common sense that the steam room cannot be left for too long.

Tokugawa's gaze was involuntarily drawn to the back of Byodoin.

There is a very long scar on it, derived from the tailbone wrapped in a bath towel, until the middle of the back is suddenly divided into two, ending at the shoulder blades on both sides.

A few shoulders above that was a whole scar that looked like a burn.

Tokugawa hadn't seen this before.

Nonsense, he has never seen Byodoin undressing.Although the first army shared the locker room, he always avoided it with Byodoin, and never saw Byodoin changing clothes.

Probably because he didn't wait for the expected question, Byodoin turned his head to look at him in surprise, and found that his eyes fell on his back, and laughed out of nowhere.

Only then did Tokugawa come back to his senses, but he didn't know what to say for a moment.

"Why, didn't you ask me to tell you something?" Byodoin rubbed the back of his neck with his backhand, and the position of his fingers inevitably touched the ugly-looking scar, and Tokugawa frowned involuntarily.

His expression made Byodoin laugh: "That's not the case, your injury from my beating is not that bad."

Tokugawa straightened his face in an instant.

That's right, why should he sympathize with this guy from Byodoin?

This guy deserves any injury... No!He can't think like that!Thinking about it this way, what did he want to change?Hasn't he become the kind of person he hates the most?

"Whenever you are free, let's play a game." Tokugawa said.

Byodoin raised an eyebrow in surprise: "You asked me out just to play with me?"

"Yes."

Byodoin laughed again, the kind of smile that didn't make sense, or the kind that made Tokugawa feel uncomfortable: "Okay, since you are so persistent."

The sauna was silent again.

Byodoin looked at Tokugawa's embarrassed expression and suddenly found it funny.

"Is your obsession with me?" He asked, "If your obsession is with me, then you won't win this time."

"!"

"Other children have stronger beliefs and broader vision than you," Byodoin said.

Tokugawa couldn't help raising his voice: "Stop saying such hypocritical things!"

"What? Can't I say it?" Byodoin snorted softly, "Anyone can say this kind of thing, and I'm no worse than a ghost. I just didn't say it before. Don't be told by that ghost." I don’t know if I’m lying, that guy…”

Byodoin's face darkened.

Tokugawa stood up abruptly.

He felt that he really couldn't stay in the same space as Byodoin.

"When are you free tomorrow?" He said stiffly, "Let's play a game."

Byodoin leaned back lazily: "Afternoon, 01:30."

"it is good."

After Tokugawa went out, Byodoin leaned against the wall of the sauna room and closed his eyes, his face darkened.

Not because of Tokugawa.

After all, he has a little "dislike" emotion towards Tokugawa from the beginning to the end, but this emotion has nothing to do with Tokugawa, but completely comes from the ghost.

Oni Jujiro...

Byodoin would not tell others, but in his eyes, what the ghost did was undoubtedly a kind of betrayal.This betrayal irritated him all the more because a part of him was self-indulgent.

Yes, he was irritated by his own admission.

It was clear that it was the ghost who defeated him in the first year, but after he returned from the back mountain and regained his position, that guy, the ghost, naturally threw all the burden on him.

It's okay, the stronger people will naturally bear more pressure, and the sky will fall and the taller will bear it.

But when he came back from his study tour, when he finally digested his failure and was about to start again, what did the ghost do?

The ghost violated his original "belief" and became "gentle and compassionate".

Tokugawa Kazuya.

Is this kid more talented than I was a year ago?

Your vision, is that all? !

The Byodoin House knows too well where its anger comes from.

He cared more about ghosts from beginning to end.

He has always defined the behavior of ghosts as betrayal.

He studied abroad, and it can be said that he has been wandering for a long time, and he has played against players from all over the world. From the complacency of the first year of high school, to the depression of the second year of high school, to the determination to win in the third year of high school.

Is he really as extreme as other high school students think?

By the name of Byodoin, he has no such obsession.

It is very good to be able to win the championship, and he also got the result he wanted.If you don't win the championship, that's it.

Byodoin is more elegant than everyone thinks.

But he has always been a person who does five points and ten points.

His standards have always been different from others.

And those who are demanded by him with his own standards will often think that he is a devil.

Half a year ago, the Japanese team won the World Cup, and he and Duke said goodbye at the airport. Duke doesn't plan to go back to Japan, and he will transfer directly from Australia.But the Frenchman with a big belly and always a calm face rarely showed a shy expression to him: "Boss, you have to take good care of yourself."

"Worry! You should take good care of your sister!" Byodoin said impatiently, frowning.

Duke laughed when he heard that, and said, "Boss, I know. Also, although I have said it many times, I still have to say it again, thank you."

When Byodoin walked out of the sauna, he remembered the person who came to him the day before.

The handsome-looking young man said in front of him, "Compared to Tokugawa-senpai, I agree with your ideas more than Tokugawa-senpai."

He saw surprising ambition and ambition in Yukimura's eyes.

Byodoin turned off the switch of the sauna room, and opened the door to breathe again.

He re-entered the shower, and when the hot water was pouring down, he thought, Tokugawa, if you only see me, you will be left behind sooner or later.

He was caught by his trainer just before the game the next day.

"What are you going to do? You have no training arrangements this afternoon."

"I have a practice match," Byodoin said.

The trainer's expression changed immediately: "Byodoin! You can't play! Have you forgotten your injury? Are you still planning to play for the national team?!"

The trainer assigned to him by the national team is really annoying.

Byodoin frowned, ignored the trainer, and walked to the appointed court by himself.

"Byodoin! Did you hear me!"

He went out onto the court and started warming up.

Trainers babbled around him trying to talk him out of the game.

The Court of Equality pretended not to hear it.

It is true that the trainer can only persuade him, not command him.Although he is now a reserve member of the national team, the surname "Byodoin" is very useful in the upper echelon. Neither the coach nor the seniors who have entered the professional stage of the national team dare to do anything excessive to him.After all, Byodoin has enjoyed a lot of convenience because of this surname since it was a child, and also because of this surname, it has assumed a lot of extra responsibilities.

It's nothing, Byodoin is used to it,

He has never been different from others.

He straightened up and met Tokugawa's complicated eyes as he walked across the court.

"You..." Tokugawa glanced at the nagging trainer and frowned, "Can't you play due to your injury?"

"This does not mean that my strength has declined." Byodoin sneered, "Perhaps you should learn to seize this opportunity."

Tokugawa Ichirin: "I'm not your kind!"

The author has something to say:

I really don't have the enthusiasm to write CP literature when I write an update, sorry.

And my understanding of Byodoin is that he is more obsessed with ghosts, ghosts are more persistent with their own beliefs and then cultivated Tokugawa, and Tokugawa is also very persistent with Byodoin.

A triangle, not an equilateral, relationship.