[Net King] Pilgrim

It was only when Machida stood outside the court and watched the intense game that started less than 5 minutes later that he realized what Echizen Ryoma meant by "not waiting too long".

Different from the previous game, this time he used his left hand from the beginning, and the speed and strength of the ball have improved significantly compared to before.

Taocheng was running to catch the lob, with an excited expression, "Echizen, I've seen through your purpose!" Then he got up and jumped, swung his racket straight and dunked the ball.

As soon as Machida heard the blunt sound of the racket, he was even a little worried that the net of A Tao-senpai's racket would break, after all, he seemed to have concentrated all his strength on the hand that swung the racket .

And this speed and strength... She immediately turned her head to look at Echizen Ryoma.

Before she could see it clearly, the ball flew over the net and returned to this side. After falling, it jumped up again, and finally formed two golden arcs on the ground.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhdssessesses) Taocheng looked at the ball that landed on the sidelines in surprise, raised the racket and tapped himself on the shoulder, "I thought you'd get caught with Fuji's brown bear." Woolen cloth."

He picked up the ball, regained his energy and raised the racket towards the opposite side, "However, the speed of your ball has become faster in Echizen!"

Echizen Ryoma raised his hand and pulled the brim of his hat, raised the corners of his mouth flamboyantly and provocatively, "Did you just find out now?"

"Senior A Tao." He held the racket at the bottom line, bent his body, the aura around him was dazzling and dazzling, "I will beat you with my tennis ball."

Taocheng's fighting spirit was instantly ignited, and he threw a ball without hesitation, "Don't talk too soon!"

Through the barbed wire net, Machida stared at the two fast-moving players on the court, the bright yellow ball flew back and forth between the two ends of the net, and neither of them missed.

She watched them pouring sweat on the tennis court, and suddenly felt a little moved in her heart. Although she was not standing on the court, she seemed to feel the enthusiasm and happiness in their bodies.

Gradually, many people watched the game from the sidelines, including members of the tennis club and students passing by after school. There were more and more cheering voices.

She used to pass by the tennis courts for one reason or another, and stopped briefly a few times with the mentality of "watching the fun", but she still couldn't understand why so many people were working hard in these small venues .But at this moment, she was standing here, eagerly feeling their wanton enthusiasm, and listening to the heartfelt cries of the audience outside, she suddenly understood.

How lucky and blessed to be able to find the field you love and fight for it.

"That's why you are so confident." Machida said in a low voice, his eyes fell on Echizen Ryoma who was jumping up to hit the ball, his proud face was covered with a layer of bright orange under the autumn sun Rose color, the whole person exudes a strange light.

Her eyes gradually softened, and after a while, she still couldn't help muttering, "But the attitude is the same as in the rumors."

From time to time, the exclamation of the staff came from the side:

"That Echizen guy, he got stronger after the national competition!"

"And A Tao, too, with a lead bag tied to his feet, he moves so fast! After fighting with Bingdi, his training volume has been increasing..."

……

Machida looked sideways slightly.

During the national competition, she was busy preparing for exams and debate competitions, so she didn’t go to see them. She just encouraged her close friend Fujisuke in advance. Later, she heard from her classmates about the grand occasion at that time. It is said that every competition was wonderful. Jaw-dropping.

She shifted her gaze back to the arena, and silently buried her face in her neckline.Thinking about it now, she seemed to have really missed a lot of important things.

After the game, the three decided to go to a ramen restaurant near the station for dinner.

Taocheng was obviously still a little bit unsatisfied with the competition just now, and couldn't hide his excitement analyzing this and that. When it came to the noodle shop, he was so relaxed and happy that he didn't look like he was losing at all.

Machida folded his arms on the bar counter, and smiled, "A Tao-senpai must like playing tennis very much."

"Of course!" Taocheng replied bluntly, and distributed the poured teacups to them, but was puzzled, "Why did you say this suddenly?"

Machida smiled and said, "That's right, it feels like you don't mind losing the game, Senpai. I can't think of any other reason than purely enjoying the fun of playing."

Taocheng has been immersed in the excitement, and she seemed a little embarrassed when she said this suddenly. She smiled and was about to be polite. Sitting in the middle, Echizen held his chin, and suddenly interrupted: "He just lost got used to."

Momoshiro: "...Hey Echizen! You kid!" He wrapped his arms around Echizen Ryoma's neck, and rubbed his hair vigorously.

Machida laid down on the bar counter and sighed, "Echizen, you are really..." She couldn't continue, she buried half of her face in her arms, and couldn't help laughing muffled.

After a while, Echizen Ryoma finally broke free from Momoshiro's revenge, glanced at her raised eyebrows, frowned and straightened his hair.

The waiter came over with ramen, the three of them stopped talking and thanked them for taking the bowl.

The salt-flavored ramen is fragrant, and the light soup base is crystal clear under the light, which looks very appetizing.

As soon as Machida bit his chopsticks, picked up a piece of char siew meat and fed it into his mouth, he heard Momojo ask: "By the way, Machida, I heard from Senior Buer that you will participate in the cultural festival performance. Is the program set?"

Suddenly being called, Machida turned his head and subconsciously glanced at Echizen Ryoma beside him.

He was sipping the soup without looking up.She looked away, "It's just decided to sing, but I haven't chosen the song yet." After a pause, she asked with a smile, "What's the program in the senior class?"

Taocheng froze for a moment, then scratched his hair, "Drama, "Romeo and Juliet"."

Echizen Ryoma picked up the ramen with chopsticks, "I heard that Momo-senpai has a role in it."

"Eh, really!" Machida was pleasantly surprised, "Who do you want to play, Senpai?"

Before Momoshiro could reply, Echizen Ryoma said with his usual expression, "Tree."

Taocheng: "...Echizen, you really talked a lot tonight!"

It is already the beginning of the Chinese lanterns when we are full of food and drink.

The sky rolled with gorgeous sunset glow, smeared on the horizon, bursting out colorful sparks.

Taocheng rode a bicycle and learned that the other two were going home in the same direction. Before leaving, he patted Echizen on the shoulder and told him that he must send Machida Kazu home safely if he was on the way. I can't help feeling, "Youth is so good..."

But having said that, Machida didn't intend to let Echizen Ryoma take her off, and she just looked at the bus stop sign and found that although the two took the same bus, the place where she got off was more than twice as far away as him, so she said Nothing can be given to him.

The two stood side by side, Machida turned his head, "Echizen..." suddenly stopped, noticing that he had changed his address at some point.

Echizen Ryoma looked at her.Seeing that he didn't mind, she said again: "My home is too far away, get off the car and go home when you arrive at the station, and you don't need to see me off."

He glanced at the stop sign and looked away, "It's okay."

Machida was taken aback for a moment, and was about to say something more, when he saw him looking at the intersection not far away, "The car is coming."

There were a lot of people in the car, and the two squeezed sideways to the back of the car, and found a vacant seat after a few stops.

It was approaching the evening rush hour, and the red taillights of the cars could be seen at a glance. I stopped and stopped along the way, and felt that all the cars in Tokyo were piled up on the road.

Seeing the traffic flow getting longer and longer, Machida thought that he had to let Echizen Ryoma get off the bus earlier, otherwise at this speed, he would have to struggle for two hours when he came back after she arrived at the station.

Echizen Ryoma was looking out the car window, she called him softly, "Echizen."

He turned to look at her.

The line of sight in the carriage was a little narrow, the lights were a little dim, and the amber eyes looked dark and bright under the reflection of the neon lights outside the window.

Machida was startled, and slightly staggered his eyes, "Go home first when you arrive at the station, the road is so congested now, I may have to sit for about an hour before getting off, and you have to come back after seeing me off, so you can get home It's too late."

After finishing the words, the corner of his mouth was bent towards him, "I take this bus every day, and I can walk home in a few minutes after getting off the bus, it will be fine."

Echizen Ryoma was silent for a while after listening.

The car was parked on the side of the road, and the evening wind blew in when the door was opened.

Machida raised his hand to brush away the broken hair blown by the wind from his temples. Among the crowd getting on and off the bus, he suddenly heard Ryoma Echizen say, "Can I borrow your cell phone for a while?"

She was taken aback, looked at him with some puzzlement, and at the same time took out her mobile phone from her pocket inexplicably obediently, "What's wrong?"

Echizen Ryoma took it, bowed his head and typed a series of numbers on it, and pressed the call button, and after a while, there was a slight vibration in the empty environment.

After a series of operations, he handed the phone back, "Tell me when you get home." After a pause, "I'll talk to Senior A Tao."

It took Machida a few seconds to realize that he had just saved the number in her phone.

Thinking that it was Senior A Tao who took the initiative to ask her to come with him after all, so that he could reassure him by telling him when he got home, he took the phone and nodded with a smile, "Okay."

The car left the station and dawdled past several traffic lights.When Echizen Ryoma got out of the car, Machida leaned on the back of the seat in front of him and waved to him, "See you next week."

He turned his head when he heard the sound, saw her eyes bent, and smiled slightly, "Well, see you next week."

It was already night when Machida got home.

The night fell, and the moon tore a corner of the clouds to reveal it.

When she was changing shoes in the hallway, she noticed that there were a few pairs of slippers in the shoe cabinet. She was slightly taken aback, stepped on the slippers indiscriminately, and ran into the house.After entering the living room, seeing the person sitting on the sofa reading the newspaper, he grinned in surprise, "Dad."

Machida Ken raised his head and saw his daughter, his eyes were filled with smiles instantly, "The girl is back." He folded the newspaper and put it on the table, and raised his hand to beckon her to sit down.

As soon as his father received the newspaper, Machida Kazu saw Machida Hisashi sitting on the other end of the sofa, lowering his head and peeling fruit.

She ran over in two or three steps, sat down and put her coat on the armrest of the sofa, "When did you come back? Have you eaten yet?"

"I just got home at night, and I've already eaten."

Since the old man retired to the second line, Machida Ken has often gone out because of work, but even if he is busy with work, he will try his best to spend as much time as possible with his family, and he is especially concerned about the growth of his children.

Although the couple's way of disciplining their two children has always been to give them room to grow freely as long as the general direction is correct, but at the same time, they also feel that daily communication is very important, so when he heard that his daughter had a new trend recently, he would Thinking about it simply.

"I heard from Ajiu that you went to dinner with your classmates tonight?"

Machida Kazu was about to ask how his father was doing with his work, when he was asked unexpectedly, he was stunned for a moment, "Yeah." After thinking about it, he added, "It's brother Zhou Zhu's friend in the tennis club."

"Oh, it's Zhou Zhu's friend." Machida Ken breathed a sigh of relief, but when he thought of the tennis club, he asked again: "So, is it a boy?"

Machida picked up the oranges on the coffee table casually, "Well, the seniors of the second grade, and my friends in the class." coat.

The two people next to her looked at her sudden movement and looked at each other.

Machida took out his cell phone from his pocket, looked down at the address book, completely oblivious to the quiet atmosphere in the room.After editing the message and sending it out, he stuffed the phone back into his pocket, and looked up to find that the two people in front of him were staring at him inquiringly.

She blinked and froze for a moment, "Report that you are safe."

Father said "Oh" knowingly, cleared his throat, and said with a smile: "It should be."

Thinking that her daughter has always been focused on her studies and has no friends, and now she is willing to go out with her classmates to relax, he, as a father, can't discourage her enthusiasm, so he doesn't ask any more questions, and just tells her to be safe when going out. If there was something she had to tell her family, she changed the subject and talked about her participation in the school festival performance.

While talking with his father for a while, Machida fed himself a bunch of oranges without knowing it, and felt a little full in his stomach when he went upstairs.

When I went back to my room and took out my phone, I realized that there was an unread message.Click in——

"Um."

Sender Echizen Ryoma

Machida checked the delivery time, and it was 1 minute later than her last post, "I'm home."

Maybe she didn't hear it because she turned the volume to mute, so she didn't care too much. She put the phone on the desk and went to change clothes.

When I was about to go to the bathroom with the laundry basket in hand, the phone on the table vibrated regularly.She paused while holding the doorknob, and looked back at the table, wondering who would be calling at this hour.

Putting down the clothes basket, Machida walked around the low table next to the carpet and walked to the desk.

When she saw the caller ID, she was slightly taken aback.He picked up the phone, put it in front of his eyes, and looked carefully before answering hesitantly, but he was still a little uncertain when he spoke, "...Hello?"

There was a moment of silence at the other end, and in the next second, a very enthusiastic voice came from the receiver, "Hello~!! Excuse me, are you my boy's girlfriend?"