[Net King] Pilgrim
Chapter 36
Echizen Ryoma just kissed her very simply, and then backed away in an instant.
His breath fell on the tip of his nose, and Machida's brain slowly recovered as soon as he had emptied, there was still a layer of warmth on his lips, but it burned straight into her heart.
After a while, she smiled slightly, and touched his cheek with her fingers, "Are you blushing?"
Echizen Ryoma looked away unnaturally, and pressed her little head into his arms, "...you are really a master at ruining the atmosphere."
Machida couldn't help laughing, he didn't know if it was because of what he said, or because he saw a rare and embarrassed side of him.
"So you called me here to tell me this?" She asked softly, with his clean and pleasant breath in her nose.
"Yeah." Echizen Ryoma raised his hand to wrap the scarf around her shoulders tightly, tucked in the edge, and hugged her, "I don't want to talk on the phone."
Machida slowly rolled his eyes, then remembered something after a while, and raised his head, "Then what did you and the landlady say? That we are... um, so we won't live here?"
"Probably that's what it means." There was a smile on his lips, "I don't want to live, are you disappointed?"
Machida turned hot, and hurriedly said, "I'm just worried about where you live, so don't think too much about it."
"What am I thinking?"
"..."
I don't know who was so awkward just now.
Machida cleared his throat and forcibly changed the subject, "Let's go eat... I'm a little hungry."
Echizen Ryoma smiled lowly and asked her, "What do you want to eat? Go out to eat or make it yourself?"
"Do it yourself." She thought for a while, "Eat ramen?"
"Okay. Then let's go shopping first."
There is a medium-sized supermarket near Echizen Ryoma's apartment. Although the ingredients are not completely suitable for Japanese food, the goods are also complete and neatly stacked on the shelves.
The two went to the supermarket together. He was wearing a hat and a scarf covering half of his face, and he was pushing a shopping cart with one hand.
Machida threw the ingredients into the car one by one, and walked backward step by step, "I used to think that cooking was a troublesome thing, especially after living alone, of course I would prepare it carefully, but I still find it... troublesome." After saying that, she suddenly bent her eyebrows and smiled, "But now I feel that it's pretty good to go to the supermarket like this, think about what to eat and then do it."
Echizen Ryoma's eyes were calm, and he stretched out a hand to hold her, "Why do you always like to walk backwards, be careful and fall down again." He told her to turn around and clasped her fingers.
Machida wrinkled his nose and turned around as he said, walking obediently.
After a while, he suddenly heard him speak, his usual cold voice softened, "It will be like this often in the future."
She was startled, and then realized that he was talking about them, and they would often be like this now.
She curled her mouth into a smile, and with the other hand, she took a box of oatmeal cookies from the shelf and threw it into the cart, "I want to eat this."
Back at the apartment, Echizen Ryoma put the food bag on the cooking table, took out animal milk powder from the cabinet, turned around, and saw Machida Kazu was taking out vegetables from the bag to wash.
His eyes fell on the scar on her right hand, he frowned slightly, and walked over, "I'll just do it."
"It doesn't matter, one person will be too busy."
Echizen Ryoma had already embraced her, and gently took the things in her hands, "Then I'll wash these, and you can cook the noodles later."
Machida watched quietly as he washed vegetables by the sink.His sleeves were rolled up, revealing the sharp lines of his arms, and he was skillfully preparing the ingredients.
Carubin jumped on the cooking table and walked around. She held the cat in her arms and asked him, "How is your cooking?"
"Eatable."
She nodded understandingly, "Me too." She added, "I'm going to improve my cooking skills."
Echizen Ryoma smiled, remembering what she said in the supermarket just now.
He is not a person who can manage his life well, he can cook but he is not very good at it, and he is mostly casual when he lives alone.
But because of her, he is now willing to think and look forward to what to do to make life more interesting, such as planning a date, or just thinking about what to eat for three meals, these things he didn't care much about before, now But they kept popping up in his mind.
Thinking of this, Echizen Ryoma even felt a little disgusted that his cooking skills were only "edible".
He turned off the water, and handed a washed tomato to her mouth, "You still owe me a meal."
Machida bit the sour tomato and swallowed it indiscriminately, grabbed his sleeve and moved closer, "I remember, did you keep me for dinner on purpose?" There was a hint of cunning in her eyes.
He slightly bent the corner of his lower lip, stuffed another tomato into her mouth, and turned to make milk powder for Karubin.
Machida covered his mumbling mouth with his palm, knowing that he had acquiesced, and smiled silently with his eyes bent.
She walked over curiously, "Is it for Karubin?"
"Yeah." Echizen Ryoma prepared milk powder, looked at the cat with its eye sockets in her arms, "I'm going to turn on the stove later, you can take it to the bedroom and give it to drink."
"Okay." Machida nodded.Once the built-in stove was heated, Karubin's paws might be cooked if he jumped up and down on it.
With a pet bowl, she "lures" the cat into the bedroom.
In Echizen Ryoma's room, there was only one floor lamp left, the curtains were closed tightly, and there was a handful of warm yellow light in the room. It could be seen that the bedroom and the living room had the same color tone.
Machida put the pet bowl on the floor near the door, and Karubin immediately moved forward.
She squatted down, touched its head with a smile, and looked around casually.
The wardrobe and desk are light-colored and stand against the wall. There are many books on the bookshelf beside the table. The widened single bed is clean and tidy, and there is a well-designed bedside table beside the bed.
He really has very little.Machida rested his chin and moved his gaze upwards. Out of the corner of his eyes, he caught a glimpse of a photo frame on the desk. He paused and looked at it intently.
She stood up and walked to the desk, staring at the photo framed in the crystal photo frame, dazed for a moment.
During that impromptu trip by the tennis club, she was eagerly drawn to take the group photo with everyone.
It turned out that he also kept it.
Machida's eyes softened, happy and moved, and his eyes fell on the two people in the middle of the photo.
In the pure sky, she and Echizen Ryoma stood at the forefront, together with the clear and brilliant sunlight and tree shadows that day, they were embedded in the depths of time.
The photos were well preserved, making her feel as though she had just gotten them yesterday even though so much time had passed.
Karubin by the door suddenly "meowed", and the next second there was the sound of a key turning the door open from the porch outside the house, and there was a rustling sound.
Machida turned back his thoughts and was a little puzzled.
When I turned around and walked towards the bedroom door, I heard someone outside lazily calling "Ryoma" while closing the entrance door.
The moment she stepped out of the room, she heard a sentence, "My God, you are actually cooking! If you see such a homely side, your fans will be so excited. Hahahaha..." When the man turned his head and saw her, " Ha" did not come out, his expression still maintained the state of laughing a moment ago, and then he was dumbfounded, as if he was shocked that there was a girl in the room, and she came out of the bedroom.
Machida also thought that the boy who was chewing Japanese was a little familiar, but he didn't think about it for a while, and heard him talking incoherently: "She, she, you... uh..."
Echizen Ryoma glanced speechlessly at the person who lost the ability to speak, "Kaibin, she is my girlfriend." After finishing speaking, he put down the bowls and chopsticks in his hand, walked over to hold her hand, and looked in the direction of the bedroom, "It's finished drinking gone?"
"Nope."
Machida was held by his warm hand, nodded slightly at the boy, and smiled politely, "Hello, my name is Machida."
Kebin was obviously still confused. After reacting for a long time, he held back the "When did you have a girlfriend" that was about to burst through his throat, and then smiled at her, "Hello, I am Ryoma's friend... and life assistant, my name is I'm fine, Kevin."
He looked very energetic in American style, and his clothes were simple. Machida subconsciously thought of what Echizen Ryoma called "a half-assed assistant".
Walking to the brightly lit place, Kebin stared at her, and suddenly said, "Huh? Didn't we meet you... at the entrance of the bar before?"
Machida looked at him again, and then remembered that the boy who spoke Japanese as his native language that he ran into when he and Janice went to the bar before school started, matched the number with the person in front of him, smiled and said: "I have an impression, I Just now I felt as if I had seen you somewhere."
Kempin thought about it, and after a long while, he suddenly said "Oh" as if enlightened: "No wonder I thought you looked familiar at that time."
Seeing that Kaibin seemed to be about to say something surprising, Echizen Ryoma called him back, "...do you have anything to do with me?"
Only then did Kaibin think about the business, "Ah, I'm here to return the key to your apartment, haven't you come back now, and I don't need to see the cat." He walked over and handed him the key.
Echizen Ryoma paused, raised his hand to take the key, and said "thank you" to him.There is no ups and downs in the voice, but you can hear sincerity.
Kebin waved his hands, "Thank you for what you said to me." After finishing the sentence, he looked at Machida Kazu again, with a serious expression, and said with a smile, "Anyway, it's nice to meet you, Ms. Machida." He reached out and shook hands with her.
He shrugged, "Then I won't bother you, you guys go ahead." Carubin came out of the bedroom and rubbed against Kebin's feet twice, as if thanking him.He smoothed its hair, and left a sentence before leaving: "Ryoma, don't forget the weekend training."
After Kebin left, Machida asked curiously, "Did he compete with you before?"
"Hmm." Echizen Ryoma re-boiled the water, paused, and looked at her, "How do you know?"
"I've seen it." She said with a smile, looking down at the bubbling water below, "It was a long time ago, I can't remember clearly, I just remembered when I heard his name, and I played a few rounds with you at a stalemate , and finally...lost." She stuck out her tongue, "I didn't have the nerve to ask just now."
Echizen Ryoma watched her bow her head and earnestly cook the noodles, with a slight smile on her lips, and the billowing white mist rushed up, and under the light, her side face was softened for a moment.
He took a step closer and hugged her gently from behind.
Machida froze, "I, I'm cooking noodles..."
He gave an unmoved "hmm" and said after a while, "Do you understand everything? A tennis match."
"It's too professional... It seems a little difficult to have English terms, but I can understand what you taught me." She paused, "Actually, it's not for watching the game..."
As soon as Machida felt the arms around her waist tighten, he said, "I know."
Knowing that she just wants to see him on the field, to see him walking towards his shining dream.
"I can still teach you in the future."
She was startled, slightly curled the corners of her mouth, and then said seriously: "After teaching me, I will be your training partner again? I can't bear it."
Echizen Ryoma couldn't help laughing, "I didn't know you had such a big psychological shadow before."
Letting go of her arm, he leaned back to the edge of the cooking table.
Machida calmed down his heartbeat, pursed his lips, and said, "With a friend like Kebin, I guess your life should be very lively."
"It was very lively during training." Echizen Ryoma put the two bowls over, "But he is only helping me at this stage, and he also has his own affairs." He pondered for a moment, "I may have to take back the words that he was half-baked , Sometimes, he is still very helpful."
"Huh? What can I do for you?"
"I'll tell you later." He chuckled.
"...I found out, you just deliberately teased me."
"Well, that's right." He replied in a good mood, raised his eyebrows and looked at the pot, "If you don't fill the noodles, you won't be able to eat them."
"..."
It's still edible, but it's not chewy after cooking for a long time...
After eating, Echizen Ryoma threw the bowls and chopsticks into the dishwasher, and then commented: "I suddenly feel that my cooking skills are not bad."
Machida was annoyed: "...Isn't it because you bothered me just now!"
I used to hate her for baking cookies, but now I hate her for cooking...!
His breath fell on the tip of his nose, and Machida's brain slowly recovered as soon as he had emptied, there was still a layer of warmth on his lips, but it burned straight into her heart.
After a while, she smiled slightly, and touched his cheek with her fingers, "Are you blushing?"
Echizen Ryoma looked away unnaturally, and pressed her little head into his arms, "...you are really a master at ruining the atmosphere."
Machida couldn't help laughing, he didn't know if it was because of what he said, or because he saw a rare and embarrassed side of him.
"So you called me here to tell me this?" She asked softly, with his clean and pleasant breath in her nose.
"Yeah." Echizen Ryoma raised his hand to wrap the scarf around her shoulders tightly, tucked in the edge, and hugged her, "I don't want to talk on the phone."
Machida slowly rolled his eyes, then remembered something after a while, and raised his head, "Then what did you and the landlady say? That we are... um, so we won't live here?"
"Probably that's what it means." There was a smile on his lips, "I don't want to live, are you disappointed?"
Machida turned hot, and hurriedly said, "I'm just worried about where you live, so don't think too much about it."
"What am I thinking?"
"..."
I don't know who was so awkward just now.
Machida cleared his throat and forcibly changed the subject, "Let's go eat... I'm a little hungry."
Echizen Ryoma smiled lowly and asked her, "What do you want to eat? Go out to eat or make it yourself?"
"Do it yourself." She thought for a while, "Eat ramen?"
"Okay. Then let's go shopping first."
There is a medium-sized supermarket near Echizen Ryoma's apartment. Although the ingredients are not completely suitable for Japanese food, the goods are also complete and neatly stacked on the shelves.
The two went to the supermarket together. He was wearing a hat and a scarf covering half of his face, and he was pushing a shopping cart with one hand.
Machida threw the ingredients into the car one by one, and walked backward step by step, "I used to think that cooking was a troublesome thing, especially after living alone, of course I would prepare it carefully, but I still find it... troublesome." After saying that, she suddenly bent her eyebrows and smiled, "But now I feel that it's pretty good to go to the supermarket like this, think about what to eat and then do it."
Echizen Ryoma's eyes were calm, and he stretched out a hand to hold her, "Why do you always like to walk backwards, be careful and fall down again." He told her to turn around and clasped her fingers.
Machida wrinkled his nose and turned around as he said, walking obediently.
After a while, he suddenly heard him speak, his usual cold voice softened, "It will be like this often in the future."
She was startled, and then realized that he was talking about them, and they would often be like this now.
She curled her mouth into a smile, and with the other hand, she took a box of oatmeal cookies from the shelf and threw it into the cart, "I want to eat this."
Back at the apartment, Echizen Ryoma put the food bag on the cooking table, took out animal milk powder from the cabinet, turned around, and saw Machida Kazu was taking out vegetables from the bag to wash.
His eyes fell on the scar on her right hand, he frowned slightly, and walked over, "I'll just do it."
"It doesn't matter, one person will be too busy."
Echizen Ryoma had already embraced her, and gently took the things in her hands, "Then I'll wash these, and you can cook the noodles later."
Machida watched quietly as he washed vegetables by the sink.His sleeves were rolled up, revealing the sharp lines of his arms, and he was skillfully preparing the ingredients.
Carubin jumped on the cooking table and walked around. She held the cat in her arms and asked him, "How is your cooking?"
"Eatable."
She nodded understandingly, "Me too." She added, "I'm going to improve my cooking skills."
Echizen Ryoma smiled, remembering what she said in the supermarket just now.
He is not a person who can manage his life well, he can cook but he is not very good at it, and he is mostly casual when he lives alone.
But because of her, he is now willing to think and look forward to what to do to make life more interesting, such as planning a date, or just thinking about what to eat for three meals, these things he didn't care much about before, now But they kept popping up in his mind.
Thinking of this, Echizen Ryoma even felt a little disgusted that his cooking skills were only "edible".
He turned off the water, and handed a washed tomato to her mouth, "You still owe me a meal."
Machida bit the sour tomato and swallowed it indiscriminately, grabbed his sleeve and moved closer, "I remember, did you keep me for dinner on purpose?" There was a hint of cunning in her eyes.
He slightly bent the corner of his lower lip, stuffed another tomato into her mouth, and turned to make milk powder for Karubin.
Machida covered his mumbling mouth with his palm, knowing that he had acquiesced, and smiled silently with his eyes bent.
She walked over curiously, "Is it for Karubin?"
"Yeah." Echizen Ryoma prepared milk powder, looked at the cat with its eye sockets in her arms, "I'm going to turn on the stove later, you can take it to the bedroom and give it to drink."
"Okay." Machida nodded.Once the built-in stove was heated, Karubin's paws might be cooked if he jumped up and down on it.
With a pet bowl, she "lures" the cat into the bedroom.
In Echizen Ryoma's room, there was only one floor lamp left, the curtains were closed tightly, and there was a handful of warm yellow light in the room. It could be seen that the bedroom and the living room had the same color tone.
Machida put the pet bowl on the floor near the door, and Karubin immediately moved forward.
She squatted down, touched its head with a smile, and looked around casually.
The wardrobe and desk are light-colored and stand against the wall. There are many books on the bookshelf beside the table. The widened single bed is clean and tidy, and there is a well-designed bedside table beside the bed.
He really has very little.Machida rested his chin and moved his gaze upwards. Out of the corner of his eyes, he caught a glimpse of a photo frame on the desk. He paused and looked at it intently.
She stood up and walked to the desk, staring at the photo framed in the crystal photo frame, dazed for a moment.
During that impromptu trip by the tennis club, she was eagerly drawn to take the group photo with everyone.
It turned out that he also kept it.
Machida's eyes softened, happy and moved, and his eyes fell on the two people in the middle of the photo.
In the pure sky, she and Echizen Ryoma stood at the forefront, together with the clear and brilliant sunlight and tree shadows that day, they were embedded in the depths of time.
The photos were well preserved, making her feel as though she had just gotten them yesterday even though so much time had passed.
Karubin by the door suddenly "meowed", and the next second there was the sound of a key turning the door open from the porch outside the house, and there was a rustling sound.
Machida turned back his thoughts and was a little puzzled.
When I turned around and walked towards the bedroom door, I heard someone outside lazily calling "Ryoma" while closing the entrance door.
The moment she stepped out of the room, she heard a sentence, "My God, you are actually cooking! If you see such a homely side, your fans will be so excited. Hahahaha..." When the man turned his head and saw her, " Ha" did not come out, his expression still maintained the state of laughing a moment ago, and then he was dumbfounded, as if he was shocked that there was a girl in the room, and she came out of the bedroom.
Machida also thought that the boy who was chewing Japanese was a little familiar, but he didn't think about it for a while, and heard him talking incoherently: "She, she, you... uh..."
Echizen Ryoma glanced speechlessly at the person who lost the ability to speak, "Kaibin, she is my girlfriend." After finishing speaking, he put down the bowls and chopsticks in his hand, walked over to hold her hand, and looked in the direction of the bedroom, "It's finished drinking gone?"
"Nope."
Machida was held by his warm hand, nodded slightly at the boy, and smiled politely, "Hello, my name is Machida."
Kebin was obviously still confused. After reacting for a long time, he held back the "When did you have a girlfriend" that was about to burst through his throat, and then smiled at her, "Hello, I am Ryoma's friend... and life assistant, my name is I'm fine, Kevin."
He looked very energetic in American style, and his clothes were simple. Machida subconsciously thought of what Echizen Ryoma called "a half-assed assistant".
Walking to the brightly lit place, Kebin stared at her, and suddenly said, "Huh? Didn't we meet you... at the entrance of the bar before?"
Machida looked at him again, and then remembered that the boy who spoke Japanese as his native language that he ran into when he and Janice went to the bar before school started, matched the number with the person in front of him, smiled and said: "I have an impression, I Just now I felt as if I had seen you somewhere."
Kempin thought about it, and after a long while, he suddenly said "Oh" as if enlightened: "No wonder I thought you looked familiar at that time."
Seeing that Kaibin seemed to be about to say something surprising, Echizen Ryoma called him back, "...do you have anything to do with me?"
Only then did Kaibin think about the business, "Ah, I'm here to return the key to your apartment, haven't you come back now, and I don't need to see the cat." He walked over and handed him the key.
Echizen Ryoma paused, raised his hand to take the key, and said "thank you" to him.There is no ups and downs in the voice, but you can hear sincerity.
Kebin waved his hands, "Thank you for what you said to me." After finishing the sentence, he looked at Machida Kazu again, with a serious expression, and said with a smile, "Anyway, it's nice to meet you, Ms. Machida." He reached out and shook hands with her.
He shrugged, "Then I won't bother you, you guys go ahead." Carubin came out of the bedroom and rubbed against Kebin's feet twice, as if thanking him.He smoothed its hair, and left a sentence before leaving: "Ryoma, don't forget the weekend training."
After Kebin left, Machida asked curiously, "Did he compete with you before?"
"Hmm." Echizen Ryoma re-boiled the water, paused, and looked at her, "How do you know?"
"I've seen it." She said with a smile, looking down at the bubbling water below, "It was a long time ago, I can't remember clearly, I just remembered when I heard his name, and I played a few rounds with you at a stalemate , and finally...lost." She stuck out her tongue, "I didn't have the nerve to ask just now."
Echizen Ryoma watched her bow her head and earnestly cook the noodles, with a slight smile on her lips, and the billowing white mist rushed up, and under the light, her side face was softened for a moment.
He took a step closer and hugged her gently from behind.
Machida froze, "I, I'm cooking noodles..."
He gave an unmoved "hmm" and said after a while, "Do you understand everything? A tennis match."
"It's too professional... It seems a little difficult to have English terms, but I can understand what you taught me." She paused, "Actually, it's not for watching the game..."
As soon as Machida felt the arms around her waist tighten, he said, "I know."
Knowing that she just wants to see him on the field, to see him walking towards his shining dream.
"I can still teach you in the future."
She was startled, slightly curled the corners of her mouth, and then said seriously: "After teaching me, I will be your training partner again? I can't bear it."
Echizen Ryoma couldn't help laughing, "I didn't know you had such a big psychological shadow before."
Letting go of her arm, he leaned back to the edge of the cooking table.
Machida calmed down his heartbeat, pursed his lips, and said, "With a friend like Kebin, I guess your life should be very lively."
"It was very lively during training." Echizen Ryoma put the two bowls over, "But he is only helping me at this stage, and he also has his own affairs." He pondered for a moment, "I may have to take back the words that he was half-baked , Sometimes, he is still very helpful."
"Huh? What can I do for you?"
"I'll tell you later." He chuckled.
"...I found out, you just deliberately teased me."
"Well, that's right." He replied in a good mood, raised his eyebrows and looked at the pot, "If you don't fill the noodles, you won't be able to eat them."
"..."
It's still edible, but it's not chewy after cooking for a long time...
After eating, Echizen Ryoma threw the bowls and chopsticks into the dishwasher, and then commented: "I suddenly feel that my cooking skills are not bad."
Machida was annoyed: "...Isn't it because you bothered me just now!"
I used to hate her for baking cookies, but now I hate her for cooking...!
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