[Comprehensive] Kazuya's happy life

As expected, the next afternoon, Kazuya and Tatsuya conveyed the invitation for a practice game from Shitenpoji Temple to Chisato during a break in the club work, but Director Nishio rejected it without hesitation.

It's not that Supervisor Nishio is unwilling to sell the face of his two ace pitchers.

It's just, "Osaka... is still too far away from Tokyo after all."

He pondered.

If you take the Shinkansen back and forth, half a day will be removed. If you get off the bus and start the game directly, the team's state will be affected to some extent, but if you rest there for a night, it will be too much to start the game the next day. Too much time wasted.

That's right.

Training is just that busy.

Kazuya and Tatsuya haven't spent weekends since last week.

Therefore, in the consideration of Nishio Supervisor, although the practice game will help the team to a certain extent, it is not worth consuming a precious weekend at all.

In particular, the strength of the opponent's Shitianbaoji High School is still very average, basically at the same level as Mingqing before the Uesugi brothers joined, and has struggled in the regional preliminaries for several consecutive years.

Compared with their school's tennis team, which can break into the top four of the national competition almost every year, the results are really compared to scum.

"If the schools in Saitama, Chiba, Yamanashi, Kanagawa, or even Ibaraki come to invite you, and you two are in favor, it doesn't matter if we agree. But Osaka... just forget it."

He patted the shoulders of the two lovers.

Kazuya and Tatsuya didn't intend to agree to this invitation at first, and they came to ask the supervisor for instructions just to let Chisato go back to do business, so of course there would be no dissatisfaction. The two bowed to Supervisor Nishio, and He ran away to practice, leaving this smiling good old man sitting in the supervisor's seat silently touching his chin, not knowing what he was thinking about.

Xiaonan, who was helping Sachiko sort out yesterday's practice match data, looked at the supervising uncle who was obviously very kind, but somehow made her feel a little unpredictable. She blinked and didn't speak. She lowered her head and continued to check the data went.

It's just that when the day's practice was over and the three of them went home together, she still expressed her doubts during the chat.

"Director Nishio seems to be a very easy-going and easy-going person. This can be seen from the atmosphere of our team. Although everyone also competes with each other, the relationship is very good, and the whole team is also very united."

Xiao Nan nodded his chin, "From this point of view, it seems that the supervision should be based on virtue, right? But recently, it often feels that it is not just like that."

"Occasionally, I feel that the supervisor seems a little unpredictable."

"Like today..."

She talked about the "mysterious and deep" look that Director Nishio became a little strange when Kazuya and Tatsuya left for practice.

Kazuya smiled and hadn't spoken yet, but Tatsuya had already sneered at it:

"That's definitely your illusion."

"Eh? Why?" Xiao Nan blinked.

"That uncle just seemed a little unpredictable. If you had asked at that time, you might have gotten an answer like 'I'm thinking about dinner'."

"No way... the supervisor is a very good person, huh? Tatsuya, you feel it too? It's only been less than a month to train according to the menu given by the supervisor, and you and Kazuo have already adapted to the rhythm of high school baseball. .”

"I don't want to deny this." Tatsuya folded his hands behind his head, "Supervisor's ability to be a supervisor is very qualified, but it doesn't mean that he is the kind of hidden person you think. .”

That uncle seems to be an ordinary easy-going person.It would be troublesome if Xiaonan made his image taller.

Tatsuya reached out and grabbed Kazuya: "Hey, Kazuya, stop watching the fun over there, hurry up and wake up this fool."

"What does it mean to be a fool! A fool!" Xiao Nan protested dissatisfied.

But Tatsuya ignored him, and simply put Kazuya between the two of them:

"You ask him!"

"..." Innocence was implicated, Kazuya looked helpless against Xiao Nan's puffy gaze.

"My brother just wanted to say that Director Nishio is indeed an excellent baseball supervisor, but in terms of his personality, he is not the type of supervisor who is good at planning."

It's just that sometimes, an overly harmless appearance can also give people a certain degree of illusion, such as thinking that this person looks innocent with a smile on his face, but in fact, he might be super dark and trembling inside. some type of……

Kazuya himself suffered greatly from it. (not)

"...Really." Xiaonan was calmed down by Kazuya's explanation, but she still nodded her chin, with an inexplicable little persistence on her face: "But I still think that supervision is not such a simple person. Maybe Kazuya and Tatsuya were also deceived."

"What nonsense. It's not good to underestimate a pitcher's instincts."

"Na Tatsuya, is it okay if you underestimate women's intuition?"

"..." Tatsuya was instantly choked and speechless.

Kazuya consciously took a step behind, walked behind and watched the two people bickering with a smile.

Different from getting along with him, Xiaonan is always a little coquettish in front of Tatsuya.

She is obviously a gentle and generous girl, but she only shows such a different style when facing Tatsuya.

It's a pity that at that time, I couldn't see through it all the time.

Kazuya raised his head, the golden-orange afterglow of the setting sun sprinkled his cheeks, and there was a faint fragrance of cherry blossoms that had not completely dissipated in the air.

This small road that has been walked countless times feels very different today.

Maybe it's because he and the two people walking beside him have different moods?

The anxiety, impatience, annoyance, and sorrow of the past, this time I didn't feel it at all.

Kazuya's mood at this moment was unprecedentedly gentle and peaceful.

So you won't ignore the scenery along the way.

I no longer feel that when I am walking on the road, I just want to get home sooner and spend more time with that girl.

The footsteps then unknowingly slowed down.

——Sometimes it’s okay to walk slowly.

"And also?"

Noticing his gradually slowing down, Tatsuya and Xiaonan, who had been bickering all the time, stopped at the same time and turned to look at him.

Under the watchful eyes of the two, He also accelerated his pace and caught up:

"Come on!"

Don't worry, let's go forward, brother, Xiaonan.

He raised the corners of his mouth, smiling warmly and peacefully.

because……

I'm already, won't be left behind.

***

Woke up early this day, the sky was a bit dark, and Kazuya and Tatsuya were worried that it would rain during the morning run, but until the brothers finished the run, the raindrops that seemed to fall at any time did not really condense into condensation.

"To be on the safe side, it's better to bring an umbrella. Xiaonan asked Baozhi before, and said that it should rain."

Kazuya took two umbrellas from the study room and handed one of them to Tatsuya.

Baoji sat in the yard wagging his tail.

Like Kotaro, he and Tatsuya don't get along very well. One person and one dog often meet each other and start pinching each other. Tatsuya flirts with Baozhi and is hugged and bitten by him...

Tatsuya took the umbrella, leaned over and asked Hoji:

"Hey, is it really going to rain today?"

Baozhi wagged his tail, but didn't shake him.

Tatsuya curled his lips, expressing that he was not as knowledgeable as a stupid dog.

He also pushed him with a funny face and took him out: "Okay, okay, let's go to school."

When he walked past Baozhi, he winked at the big chubby dog ​​sideways. Baozhi wagged his tail, and then wagged his tail again. After twitching its head and smoothing its fur, it turned around and lay back in the nest, and began to hum in a low voice and contentedly.

Tatsuya stood beside him with a look of disgust:

"I eat and sleep all day, no wonder I'm so fat."

"Woo!!!" Baozhi seemed to hear that he was mocking him, and poked his head out to bark his teeth at him.

Tatsuya made a face at it.

The moaning in Baoji's throat became louder and louder.

Kazuya stood helplessly and amusingly between one person and one dog, preventing them from provoking each other:

"Brother! Don't bully Baozhi. Xiaonan will be angry again when he finds out."

"Obviously this fat cat is provoking me, isn't it? Kazuya, you are biased!" Tatsuya was immediately dissatisfied.

He also pulled his arm and dragged him out calmly:

"I do not have."

"……lie."

"Really not. On the contrary, brother, who is in high school and still fights with dogs. Your admirers may be disillusioned if you tell me about it."

"I am who I am, a different fireworks→_→"

"..." What the hell ==

The brothers arrived at the school smoothly (?) all the way.

Although there was no movement in the rain clouds in the sky until Kazuya and Tatsuya entered the teaching building, and the promised rain seemed to be lingering, but from the afternoon, the downpour fell from the sky almost in the blink of an eye, until it was almost When it was time to leave school, there was still no sign of a stop.

The baseball club rarely has a holiday due to the heavy rain.

Kotaro, who has lost several weekends, said very happily that in order to celebrate this rare day of vacation, he would eat the long-lost Monjayaki after school, and invited Kazuya and Konan to join him.

However, both of them politely declined.

"I'm sorry Kotaro, when I went out in the morning, my mother said that I will cook hot pot tonight, so my brother and I should go back as early as possible." Kazuya apologized.

Xiao Nan smiled and put her hands behind her back, "The business of the coffee shop is relatively quiet on rainy days, and I have already agreed with my father to clean up the shop today."

Kotaro patted his stomach regretfully, "Then there's no other way. Alright! It's decided! I want to eat with both of you, Kazuya and Konan!"

Kazuya and Xiaonan: "..."

In fact, you really don't have to work so hard.

As school was approaching, the penultimate class in the afternoon was over, and the atmosphere in the classroom had gradually become impetuous. Everyone gathered in twos and threes to discuss the next move.

Kazuya was chatting with Kotarou beside him, when suddenly the front door of the classroom was opened from the outside, and then, three men and two women who looked like seniors in the second and third grades walked in, saying "Excuse me!" , went straight to the podium.

He also saw the ribbon of "Questionnaire Enthusiasts Association" written on the leader's senior, and he remembered what was going to happen next.

He and Xiaonan were selected as the "best couple" in the first grade in the investigation activity launched by this association this time, and they won certificates and prizes from them. In the school, everyone would watch overtly and secretly, and some would applaud and whistle at the two of them, saying "support you!" and other blessings.

For Kazuya, this selection was one of several factors that drove his decision to confess his feelings to Konan soon.

It is precisely because he feels that in the eyes of many people, he and Xiao Nan are already recognized as a well-matched couple, so he feels that it is a little natural for the two of them to be together...

Shaking his head, shaking off the memories of the past that gradually surfaced in his mind, Kazuya now only feels very distressed about the result of this selection.

This time, he managed to get out early this time, expressing his feelings, and then guarding the slow progress of Tatsuya and Xiaonan's relationship as an outsider who is happy to see what happens.

What if there are any strange follow-up effects caused by the results of this selection?

He didn't want to add any more obstacles to the already entangled relationship between the two of them!

And also sighed slightly.

However, when he was thinking hard about how to eliminate the possible follow-up effects of this incident, he must never let his relationship with Xiaonan become "a perfect couple" in everyone's eyes. An announcement from the upload interrupted all his thoughts in an instant——

"This time we specially came here to commend. Congratulations to Kazuya Uesugi and Tatsuya Uesugi in your class, who were selected as the best couple in the first grade! Congratulations!"

"........."

……and many more.

What did he just say?

"Congratulations to Kazuya Uesugi and Tatsuya Uesugi in your class for being selected as the best couple in the first grade"? !

Kazuya sat in his seat, at this moment, he only felt that there seemed to be something serious wrong with his hearing...