Ema's younger brother

I couldn't believe it, but actually walked back to Risheng Apartment.

Looking at the tall and gorgeous house in front of him, Hinata fell into deep entanglement—is his physical strength becoming more and more inhuman?

"Chen?" Yimulian next to him called him suspiciously, "Risheng Apartment has already passed by."

Hinata Moto: ...

Hinata boy who silently walked back and stood in front of the apartment felt a little embarrassed in his heart, he hesitated and touched his pocket - it was empty.

Well, no keys.

He withdrew his hand very calmly, feeling even more embarrassed in his heart and even wanted to dig a hole to bury himself. After thinking for a few seconds, Hinata boy looked at Mokuren with a serious face: "Lian, let's go in through the window?"

"But wouldn't it be good to break the window?" The monster seriously discussed with him the suggestion he made on the spur of the moment, "I can use the wind to isolate the sound, don't worry about it."

Hinata Moto: ...

"I was just kidding."

"Does Chen find it interesting?" Yimulian tilted his head and blinked.

Hinata Moto: "Very boring! Not interesting at all!"

"That's it." The monster nodded thoughtfully, and deleted the goal of learning to tell bad jokes—he suddenly looked towards the empty street, "Someone is coming."

As his voice fell, a man with short dark blue hair ran out from around the corner, sweat slid down his handsome face and dripped onto the ground.

"Brother Subaru?" After the man ran close, Hinata called out his name softly, "Good morning, Brother Subaru."

"Xiao Chen?" Subaru, who was jogging in the morning, stopped, picked up the towel hanging around his neck, wiped the sweat off his face, glanced casually, "You came back from Fengdou? "

He looked around: "Didn't Fengdou send you back?"

"Um... I went out when Fengdou was asleep, and I just sent a text message to tell him that I had left." Ryu Xiangchen touched his nose guiltily, "Sorry, I made Brother Subaru worry."

"Ah, it's nothing—it's good to be back." Subaru looked at the elegant youkai again, his dark blue eyes filled with curiosity, "Who is this?"

The monster standing quietly beside Ryu Xiangchen glanced at him: "My name is Yimulian."

"Oh." After being keenly aware of Yimulian's casual attitude, Subaru consciously stopped trying to talk to him, "Chen, if there's nothing else, I'll continue my morning exercise?"

"Wait!" Hyuga Chen quickly grabbed his arm, "Brother Subaru, I don't have the key."

"Eh?" Subaru, who stopped again, scratched his hair in embarrassment, "But I don't have a key, I usually do morning exercises until Ukyo-kun wakes up...he will open the door."

Hinata Moto: ...

"Brother Subaru, can I climb over the wall and smash the glass to go back to the room?"

"Ah? What did you say?!" Subaru thought he might be hallucinating.

Didn't Chen just say it was a joke?So now he is teasing this human being?But his tone of voice seemed very serious?

Yimu frowned in confusion.

"I... just kidding." The young man sighed depressingly, and once again suppressed the thought of jumping out of the window that came up in his heart, "I can't get in anyway, brother Subaru, do you mind bringing one more person to do morning exercises?"

"I don't mind, it would be more enjoyable to do morning exercises with one more person." Subaru smiled heartily, "But does Ichimoku-kun want to come with us too? Would it be inconvenient for him to wear a kimono?"

puff.

What the hell is Ichimu-kun.

The Hinata boy who almost laughed out loud covered his mouth and shook his shoulders, his lowered brows and eyes were full of smiles.Yimu glanced at him, then shifted his gaze to Asahina Subaru: "I follow Chen."

Pleiades:……

So this means to do morning exercises together?

A little dazed, Subaru gave up thinking, and patted Hinata on the shoulder: "I'm about to start running, if you can't keep up, please tell me, I will stop and let you rest."

"it is good."

Ryu Xiangchen nodded obediently.

After jogging for 10 minutes—

Subaru wiped the sweat off his face, and took the time to glance at Hinata Moto - the boy who was watched looked back at him, his breathing was steady and relaxed, not even sweating.Subaru, who felt a little bit shocked, looked at Ichimoren who was following Makoto Hinata again—the expression of the youkai did not change at all, and the running posture was also graceful and pleasing to the eye.

"You guys, are you tired?" Subaru asked resolutely.

"I'm not tired." Hinata Moto, who didn't limit his ability at all, said that the jogging was very easy this time, and he smiled back and asked Subaru, "Are you tired, Brother Subaru?"

Subaru Asahina, male, 19 years old, a regular member of the basketball team, felt his physical strength was questioned during today's morning practice, and his competitive spirit was aroused.

So he shook his head as if nothing had happened, indicating that he was not tired at all, and then silently accelerated his running speed.Hinata Chen, who didn't want to be left behind, naturally followed, while the monster was silent for a while, then disappeared and followed the young man in a levitation.

After running for 5 minutes -

Subaru's breath became short of breath, and Moto Hinata next to him panted a few times, sweat finally dripped from his forehead.

"Hey, have you specially exercised your physical fitness before?" When he ran to the door of Risheng Apartment again, Subaru slowed down and walked forward slowly, so as to relax his body muscles and calm his shortness of breath. .

"No, what's wrong?"

"……Really do not have?"

"Really do not have."

Subaru looked at Ichimokuren who didn't know when he turned into a solid body, and noticed that he was not even breathing, and immediately became more troubled: "You...haven't practiced either?"

"Why do you practice physical fitness?" Yimulian asked him strangely—whether it is a god or a monster, he is naturally powerful, and his combat power is the wind that is everywhere, and he does not need to deliberately exercise physical strength.

Pleiades:……

"Brother Subaru, don't be sad, you run really well." Hinata Chen hesitantly comforted Subaru, who looked shocked, "I and Lian have better natural qualities, so it will be easier to run."

Inexplicably, Subaru felt even more congested: ...

Chen, who realized that he said something wrong: ...

Seeing Hinata Chen's dejected look, the monster couldn't help but reach out and rub the boy's hair—"You've done a good job." He moved his lips silently when the boy looked over, "So don't get lost."

The boy blinked, then suddenly stood on tiptoe and rubbed Subaru's hair: "You did a good job, so don't get disappointed."

Yimulian: ...

Caught off guard, Subaru, whose hair was rubbed, looked at Hinata Chen trying to stand on tiptoe, and laughed out loud. He pressed the boy's shoulder helplessly, making him put down the heel that he had worked so hard to stand on tiptoe: "Talent is such a thing. , Sometimes it really makes people feel powerless - talented people like you can probably easily surpass those who work hard but are still mediocre."

Subaru, who has witnessed countless players sitting on the bench all year round or giving up their dreams in despair because of talent problems, felt a little emotional for a moment, and sighed unconsciously.

However, when it comes to giving up, a figure of a certain person pops up in his mind unconsciously—Brother Zao, he also gave up because of his talent, right?

Subaru lowered his head with dim eyes.

"Xiaochen, can I ask you a question?"

He clenched his hands tightly, his voice hoarse because of the tension.

"sure."

"If you have something you love very much and put a lot of effort into it, can you give it up easily?"

"Probably not possible? Because I am a very willful person, so I will do everything I want to do, and I will not consider any consequences."

Subaru looked at Hinata Chen with some surprise.

"I will." Ichimokuren, who was subconsciously ignored by Subaru, suddenly said, "If there is something more important than the thing I love, I will give up the thing I love without hesitation."

"Choices are always inevitable, it's just that different people have different choices."

The monster came to a conclusion in a flat tone.

——"Xiao Subaru...I'm sorry, I may have to give up track and field."

The dusty memory was opened unexpectedly, and the words that were deliberately ignored became inexplicably clear.

"Why can you give up without hesitation?! You obviously loved it so much, didn't you?" Subaru growled as if he couldn't accept it, his dark blue eyes stared at Yimulian without blinking, and he supported himself That vulnerable, self-deceiving stubbornness, "Could it be that you can't do it even with a desperate struggle!"

"Can't do it."

The pure golden eyes showed an inorganic indifference.

"Since you have decided to give up, don't tarnish what you love anymore—you have already abandoned it for the sake of reality, so you should stride forward without squinting, instead of staying in the same place hesitating."

It was like him who decided to protect Hinata Chen.

Without hesitation, he left the land he once held firmly.

—without any nostalgia.

His words made Subaru stunned—he obviously wanted to say something to refute, but he couldn't seem to find the right words, and there was no way to deny the determination he showed.

"Has anyone important to Subaru-san given up something they love?"

After watching for a while, Hinata Chen slowly joined the conversation while kicking the pebbles at his feet.

"I used to like painting very much for a while, so I seized all the time to practice painting skills every day...but ah, those ubiquitous ghosts and monsters would tear up my paintings, and classmates who thought I was a strange would say to me 'paint How can I still have the face to continue painting when I’m so ugly’, the adults think I’m playful and not doing my job properly—so in the end I tore up all the paintings and sealed up all the colored pens.”

He spoke casually, but his eyes were filled with a thin, fleeting mist.

"I gave up my only hobby - the whole world cheered and applauded me for giving up, only myself crying heartbreakingly holding a pile of shredded paper in the middle of the night."

So it was decided early on.

Never let anyone stand in your way again.

"Brother Subaru, do you really think that giving up is an easy thing?"

——"Xiao Subaru...I'm sorry, I may have to give up track and field."

The hero he had always admired in his heart covered his eyes and said this embarrassing sentence to him like a bereaved dog in a bitter tone, breaking all his longings.

He seemed to hear the sound of the dream world he constructed breaking into pieces in an instant. The sound stunned his brain and made him selectively ignore the tears that slipped down between the hero's fingers.

The door of Risheng Apartment was opened by You Jing.

So Hinata turned around and walked back with Yimulian: "Most people choose to give up for the sake of others. If possible, no one is willing to give up what they love."

"Brother Subaru, the new brother is very disappointed in you and very angry."

A person who vetoes his enthusiasm for the future of others.

How can you be called a coward?

Between hurting others and hurting yourself, the person who chooses to hurt himself.

It's obviously so tender that it makes people feel distressed.

A real coward.

Even with Ema's support, it's me who shrinks from the negative voices of others.

As for the cowardly me, I have always wanted to say something to gentle people——[If only you could live as recklessly as I do]

and so.

Brother Subaru with a single-minded mind.

Brother is very angry with you.