[Net King] Pilgrim

After staying in Japan for ten days, coach Sherwood called to urge Echizen Ryoma to return to England for training in preparation for the summer training camp in London and subsequent games.

Machida was also busy with rehearsals, and the two had final exams next month, so they changed their tickets and went back to school early.

The weather in Glasgow is beginning to warm up, but when there is no sun or rainy days, the wind is still cold and bleak, and it is suspected that it is in autumn and winter.

Machida Kazu quickly helped the landlady find the next tenant. It happened that a friend of a classmate came here for a visit and study tour and urgently needed to rent a house. She gave her contact information. I heard that there were no mistakes from viewing the house to signing the contract.

When Janice knew that Machida was about to move out, she moaned and grumbled. She was about to comfort her, but the little girl was sad for two seconds, so she changed into a joking tone, "It seems that your previous trial experience was good."

Machida Kazu: "..."

During his free weekends, Machida moved to Echizen Ryoma's apartment to live with him.

She slept in the master bedroom the night before, and Machida thought that Echizen Ryoma would give her a place to live, but when she moved in, she found that the room hadn't changed much since she lived in it last time.

Echizen Ryoma explained that he slept in the second bedroom, and the master bedroom was reserved for her when she moved in.

He was teasing Karubin with a cat teasing stick at the time. The cat didn't pay much attention to him these two days, and seemed to be dissatisfied with sending it to a pet foster center.

Machida smiled and said, "Are you so sure that I will move here?"

"Aren't you moving here now?"

"Will you sleep uncomfortable in the second bedroom?" The master bedroom faces the sun, and the bed is obviously much wider than the second bedroom.

"Well, kind of." He pretended to be serious.

"Then we can..." Machida wanted to say that they could switch, she could sleep in any room, but Echizen Ryoma looked at her with raised eyebrows and said, "Sleep in the master bedroom together?"

"..." Machida blushed, "It can be changed!" She gritted her teeth.

Ben was also joking, Echizen Ryoma laughed, lowered his head and continued to tease the cat, "No, I'm fine."

Until the end of the vacation, seeing that he was resting well, Machida decided to switch with him without pretense, and took up the extra wide bed in the master bedroom with peace of mind.

The small frictions in cohabitation life do not involve issues of principle, and often the two of them will take a step back. It may be because they want to cherish this relationship from the bottom of their hearts. Since they have decided to go on for a long time, they naturally have to accept the small things in each other's life. shortcoming.

In the evening, Echizen Ryoma finished his training, and after taking a shower, he did his professional homework in the living room.

Machida studied the script rehearsed for several hours in the bedroom, and when he went to the living room to drink water, he saw Echizen Ryoma sitting on the carpet in front of the sofa, staring intently at the computer on the table.

Still holding the script in her hand, she ran to sit beside him, "What are you doing?"

"Modeling."

She glanced at the computer, which was full of difficult charts and terminology. She opened excel and eviews, and she didn't know what it was for. She wrinkled her face, "I only know 3D modeling."

Echizen Ryoma smiled, "Two different things." Seeing the notebook in her hand, he asked, "Rehearse tomorrow?"

"Ah."

He took the notebook, glanced at the title of the play, ""Into the Woods"?"

She nodded, "Actually, "Miss Saigon" was originally proposed, but everyone's suggestions for it were inconsistent, so they were replaced."

He flipped through it curiously, and there were a bunch of notes densely written on it, notes marked with pens of different colors, orderly in chaos, "So what is your role?"

"Cinderella."

Echizen Ryoma gave a hand.He had watched the show and was forced to go to Broadway by his mother and sister Nanako when he was in the United States. Although he fell asleep halfway through the two-hour musical, he probably remembered the plot.

"You're busy, I'm going to practice..." Machida Kazu was about to get his notebook, when he suddenly heard Echizen Ryoma say: "The Cinderella with the prince?"

She froze, and looked up at him.

His gaze was still on the page, but his tone and expression told the truth. He wasn't unhappy, but he wasn't happy either.

Machida leaned over and hugged his arm, resting his chin on his shoulder, "They separated later, in the second scene." After a pause, "...jealous?"

In fact, Machida is very separated from her profession and life. Although she will do more life experience for professional needs, observe all kinds of people, and do her best, she will not let her life deviate from the existing track.

More importantly, she didn't want Echizen Ryoma to be unhappy.

Echizen Ryoma didn't turn his head, so Machida reached out and turned his face, kissed his lips, and said softly, "It's just a partner."

Echizen Ryoma looked at her clear eyes, which were hidden by the broken hair.

The next moment, he raised his hand to cover her cheek, bowed his head and kissed her.

The kiss that wasn't gentle at all made Machida's heart flustered, and he put his hand on his shoulder.

She pressed her back against the sofa, and for a moment, she suddenly felt that her lips were pried open, and something invaded and grabbed her.Caught off guard, she couldn't help but shrink back a bit, but was held tighter by his arms, and her breath gradually became unstable.

Echizen Ryoma admitted that he was jealous, but in fact it was just a few words of dialogue, no matter how much, he could see Prince Cinderella's dance written on the page, and that alone could disturb his mood.

But he knew from the very beginning that whenever Machida had a performance, he would choose to understand and respect Machida's occasional words and deeds that were slightly intimate on stage.At this time, the feeling that still pops up from the bottom of my heart, wanting to ask for more, in other words, it may be...possessive.

Turns out he was possessive too.

Machida was breathless from the kiss, and pushed him lightly, "...Are you unhappy?" He asked him out of breath with a heavy nasal voice.

Warm breath swept over, Echizen Ryoma rested his forehead on her shoulders, shook his head calmly, his voice was hoarse, "I may... think too much about myself."

Machida opened his mouth, but Echizen Ryoma seemed to know what she was going to say, and said first, "...just do what you like."

After a while, he whispered: "I believe in you." He said that he would accept all of her, including the things she loved.

Machida was stunned for a moment, his chest seemed to be flooded, swollen and painful, and he couldn't help reaching out to hug him.

He will not let her make a choice, nor will he interfere with her too much, she is grateful.

Echizen Ryoma's breath was stagnant, and after a long while, he still took her arm to back away some distance, and suddenly changed the subject, "...Aren't you going to rehearse tomorrow?"

Machida stepped back in confusion, "Yeah."

He looked away and looked at the time, "Then go to bed, it's getting late."

In the delicate silence, Machida suddenly remembered the kiss just now, and the residual heat around her mouth made her whole face burn.

She stammered, "Oh...then I'm going to bed, and you go to bed early too." She didn't dare to look at him anymore, picked up the script, got up and went back to the room.

Echizen Ryoma stared at the numbers on the computer screen. After a while, he sighed and leaned his head back on the sofa.

...can't learn at all.

The next morning, the two went out together.

Echizen Ryoma went to school for morning classes, and Machida went to the hospital before morning classes.

The medicine for removing scars has run out. She asked the pharmacy and family doctor's clinic last week, but was told that the medicine she needed was temporarily out of stock, and she was advised to go to the hospital to ask.

Unfortunately, the hospital is also out of stock.

The female doctor who received the treatment explained that the medicines were really in short supply, and they should have to wait another two weeks or so.

The female doctor knew that Machida was in charge of seeing Machida when she was first injured before Kaede Amuro took over, so she kindly said that if the medicine arrived, she would call her.

Machida was surprised and quickly thanked.Before leaving, he changed the home address of his personal information by the way.

When he caught sight of the column next to the address out of the corner of his eye, he paused.

After thinking for a moment, I filled in a number.

Taking a taxi from the hospital to the school theater, I still have plenty of time.

It's just that the atmosphere in the room today is a bit strange. Generally speaking, during classes in the theater, it is forbidden for irrelevant personnel to enter, but today there is a man and a woman sitting in the auditorium, and the teacher is also acquiescing.

Amid doubts and curiosity, everyone finished warming up the basic skills and sat around the stage to study the script together.

Starting from practicing the dialogue, to setting up the scene, and then walking while discussing.

It didn't take much time to prepare as everyone had done considerable homework.Then, combined with the script, a lot of impromptu rehearsals were carried out, slowly experimenting and discovering the deeper plot and character relationship in the play.

Machida had long hair tied up in a bun and was wearing an exercise uniform. After a while on stage, he was sweating from exhaustion.

When get out of class was about to end at noon, the two middle-aged talents who had been sitting in the audience strolled over, with smiles on their unfamiliar faces.

The teacher called everyone to the front of the stage and introduced that these two are drama workers.

The woman, Chloe, and the man, Harper, a musical director and producer, are looking for new stage performers for their West End summer repertoire.

The West End of London is a theater art center as famous as Broadway in New York, and it is an international stage that many theater professionals yearn for.

Machida is no exception, and if she has the experience of performing in the West End of London, it will be of great help to her future development in a theater company.

Sure enough, after listening to the students present, they felt refreshed after the rehearsal just finished.

But unexpectedly, the producer Harper said that the results of the initial test had been finalized, and the daily rehearsal in the morning was one of the interview sessions. In addition, they also watched the videos of everyone's previous performances two weeks in advance and made several rounds of evaluations, and now they are directly announcing Shortlisted.

After class, Machida walked out of the theater, still feeling a little confused, subconsciously took out his cell phone and called Echizen Ryoma.

She finished the story in a hesitant tone, and smiled at the other end, as if amused by her reaction, "So you were selected?"

"Well...it's just the first test, but the interview setting is a bit unexpected..."

Of course, Machida hoped to be selected, but he was still surprised that he entered the re-examination so soon.

At noon, the two of them ate at the off-campus restaurant and sat in the corner. Echizen Ryoma asked her, "When is the retest?"

"Three days later." Machida took a sip of the vegetable soup, pondered for a moment, "It will be prepared together with the final rehearsal."

"The content of the retest has been notified?"

Machida nodded, lost in thought.

Echizen Ryoma looked at her, fell silent, and put his hand on the back of her hand, "Let's eat first, and then we'll think about how to prepare it when we get back." With a clear voice through the light, he pushed the main meal a little while talking.

He could sense that Machida valued this opportunity, especially since she had missed the performance at the art festival.He knew that she was strong against pressure, but he was also worried that she would put too much pressure on himself because of this.

"Yeah." Machida nodded slightly, and asked about Echizen Ryoma's training camp in London.

"It depends on the exam time, it will pass after the exam week is over."

She counted the time, "That will be soon, less than a month."

If she was finally selected, she might be able to meet him in London.

With an extra layer of motivation, Machida started preparing for the interview more seriously as soon as he returned.

Among those who passed the initial test, including her, there were a total of four students, two men and two women.But I also know that there must be competitors from other schools and organizations for this kind of performance, and there are others, so the difficulty can be imagined.

The project is still in the confidential stage, and Chloe and Harper did not introduce too much relevant information.Machida prepared a monologue, at least thirty performance materials, and all the materials that will be used in the audition.

On the day of the retest, the three interview teachers, Chloe and Harper, did not show up.Machida's interview process was fairly relaxed, and he always remembered the sense of faith and reality on stage.

Maintaining this state, in more than two weeks, she passed the re-examination and the third test all the way, and finally entered the fourth round of interviews, which was also the final interview.

After the final interview, it was time to wait for the notification, which was also the most frustrating period of time.

But there are still final exams to be busy, and the interview has come to an end, so Machida adjusted his state and continued to engage in intense rehearsals.

In early May, the sun sets late, but the weather has been gray in recent days, and there is still not much light in the daytime.

On Friday evening, when Machida finished rehearsal, he saw black clouds spreading from the sky outside the window, which seemed to be a sign of rain.

When I got out of the theater, I suddenly received a call from Janice, asking her anxiously, if you have time, help me print out a paper due tomorrow morning, "I misremembered the time, but I have something to do here, I don't know what time it is at night I can go back, I'm afraid it's too late..."

Machida responded and asked her to send the thesis to the mailbox, and he went to print it now.

After I hung up the phone, I saw that there were three missed calls, all of which were from the same unknown number.

She called back, only to realize that it was from the hospital, saying that the medicine she wanted before was already available.

Machida apologized quickly and said that he didn't pay attention to the phone, and he could get it before five o'clock.As a result, the other party said in a gentle voice that Mr. Echizen had come to help her get it.

She was surprised for a moment, hung up the phone and called Echizen Ryoma, but she didn't get through, so she sent another text message.

"Are you going to help me get the medicine?"

After a while, the other end replied, "Yeah. I'm ready to go back."

When Echizen Ryoma finished class at 02:30, he received a call from an unknown person.

It was a call from the hospital, explaining that Ms. Machida already had the medicines she needed, but her phone was still not connected, and the medicines were in short supply, so I had to contact him, hoping that he could help me to come and pick them up as soon as possible.

Echizen Ryoma remembered that Machida hadn't been prescribed medicine when he went to the hospital before, looked at the time, and guessed that she was busy rehearsing and didn't check her phone.He didn't arrange training tonight, so he told that end that he would go to pick it up now.

Just in case, he went back to the apartment to get Machida Kazu's medical records before going to the hospital.

On the way, he flipped through the medical records. It wasn't very thick, but it used up a lot of pages.

He read page by page, his expression gradually became serious, and his heart became more and more uncomfortable as if it was being clenched tightly.

Most of the medical records are in English, and only Japanese appears on the last few pages - it is the treatment of the disease when the finger is injured, and the inscription reads, KennethAmuro.

It didn't take long for Echizen Ryoma to see Kaede Amuro.

In the quiet consulting room, there was only the sound of typing on the keyboard, and the gauze curtain was blown by the cold wind outside the window, and it was sucked on the glass with a "snap".

A few minutes ago, the moment Echizen Ryoma stepped into the consulting room, both of them could read the surprise in each other's eyes, and after a while, they both calmed down again.

That meeting in the library was the only time the two met.

During those ten minutes or so, many things changed from vague to clear, from unwilling to relieved.

When all the dust settles, what needs to be understood is already clear, and it doesn't matter if the unnecessary part is confused.

An Shifeng typed out a medicine list and pushed it forward.

Echizen Ryoma reached for the list, and when he walked to the door, the phone in his hand vibrated.

He looked down at his phone and paused.

All of a sudden, she remembered the pages of handwriting on the medical records, each of which was truly experienced by her.

After standing still for a while, Echizen Ryoma turned around, looked at Kaede Amuro with a calm expression, "Thank you."

Amuro Feng was slightly startled.

He knew what Echizen Ryoma was thanking, but he was surprised that he took the initiative to express his thanks.

He didn't believe that Echizen Ryoma didn't notice his feelings for Machida Kazu, and besides, with such a proud character, he would do this for the person he likes.

An Shifeng laughed at himself from the bottom of his heart, these two people really resemble each other, they are both big-hearted masters.

He still clearly remembers the scene when Machida was injured, broken glass all over the place, blood on his hands, sweat on his forehead from pain, biting his lips tightly, and the terrified expression he saw clearly forced himself to calm down.

He thanked him for doing his duty as a doctor and helped Machida with emergency treatment.

At least it made her less isolated and helpless under the circumstances at that time.

After a moment of silence, Amuro Feng suddenly said, "Do you know why the hospital contacted you?"

Echizen Ryoma frowned imperceptibly. He was puzzled before, but he guessed that Machida had left his phone number.

"In Ms. Machida's personal information, the emergency contact column has always been empty before." Kaede Amuro glanced at the computer screen, speaking in a narrative tone, "but now there is a phone number."