[Net King + Patterns] Ugly Fish

Rijiruo has always been a curious guy. Anyone who is familiar with him knows that the dream of this ambitious rookie in the Ice Emperor Tennis Club is to experience the legend of strange stories in person, other than to beat their high-ranking ministers on the court. .

There are seven incredible events in the unwritten tradition of every school, and Ice Emperor is no exception, and Hikichiro's slightly weird hobbies are naturally taken advantage of by some girls who have thoughts about him.

Since the first grade of junior high school, Hikiraka has traveled all over the corners of the school where various legends have happened; but for some reason, no matter whether he is enthusiastically visiting the scene or meeting the trigger conditions with great pains, he always gets nothing in the end.

The people he encountered personally spoke convincingly, but Rijiruo's hopes often fell through. It's just that he was more determined, and the countless failures did not make him discouraged.

Disappointed are those girls who borrowed topics of interest to get close to the person they like, but after working hard for a long time, they failed to treat them differently; it was a pity that they became somewhat annoyed afterward.

Later, some strange rumors quietly flowed out in the school, among which the most widely circulated one was: if you want to be favored by Rijiruo, appearance doesn't matter, but you have to be 'not human'.

Hiyoshiruo knows nothing about the grievances in the hearts of the girls; it was the tennis senior who changed girlfriends more diligently than changing clothes heard it from a certain partner, and then half-jokingly asked about the rumors in front of his companions at the party authenticity.

At that time, Rijiruo's face turned green in an instant—you are not human!Your family is not human!

Ri Jiruo only dared to hold back his hatred for this rant, because the senior's tone and expression seemed to be teasing, but in fact it was a very subtle reminder to him.

After that, Hijiruo restrained his behavior and became Bingdi's famous lone ranger. Although his interests remained unchanged, he no longer allowed girls to use the excuse of investigating supernatural events to accompany him around the campus.

It's better to be criticized for being weird than to be given a reputation for playing with emotions for no reason—this is the earnest and earnest warning from the seniors of the tennis club, and Hijiruo thinks what the other party said is quite reasonable.

So girls are synonymous with trouble.

Rijiruo twitched the corners of his lips, staring at the figure who was walking more than ten meters away, and once again deeply understood the meaning of the emotion that Senior Xiang Riyue said.

……

Of course this is off topic.

As for the people around him, as long as they have nothing to do with the supernatural, Rijiruo has never been too interested. The reason why he is following the girl who is walking fast at this moment is not because he wants to do something weird, but... just happens to be walking together.

He is rushing to participate in the tennis club social activities.

The girl walked faster and faster as if frightened, and finally almost turned into a trot.

He walked along his own route at a leisurely pace, until the two of them opened up a certain distance, the girl looked back from time to time, and the expression on her face gradually returned from panic to calm.

The shade of the trees covering the sky became sparse, and the dark green towering barbed wire fence where the tennis club was located could be seen from a distance. At the fork in the road, the girl stopped, turned around and bowed slightly.

Rijiruo looked at her without saying a word, and waited until the other party's back disappeared before continuing on another completely different road.

A moment ago, the man raised his hand and brushed the hair on his forehead, revealing the pupils hidden in the hair, and the wind blowing from nowhere brought her whispers to his ears.

'thanks. '

The footsteps stopped unexpectedly, and Hijiruo turned his head to look at the direction the two came from——————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— The eclipsed darkness.

The girl was not ignorant, at least she finally guessed the reason for his following.

Hijiruo actually knows the route of Ice Emperor Campus very well. In the dense forest where he was earlier, there is another road leading directly to the tennis club. The itinerary is shortened by nearly half. The girl must also know it, so I thank him.

He followed her to ensure her safety.

Rijiruo raised his hand and scratched his cheek, slightly curling the corners of his mouth.

Although it's just a little effort... the feeling of being thanked is always a pleasure.

……

After some delays, Hijiruo is late for social activities.

As a result of being late, he was shot up and down by Mr. Atobu with his cold eyes, and the training task assigned immediately was 30.00% heavier than usual.

If Riji has no complaints about this, those who make mistakes will always have to pay the corresponding price. This is the rule and there is nothing to complain about.

After changing into the sports clothes, he took the racket and walked into the special training ground for the main selection, and then Hiyoshiru saw Mingo Ryo from the companions gathered in the field.

The man was full of impatience, but Xiang Hiyue was standing beside him, his dark wine-red hair was flying in the air with the boy's bouncing movements, Hijiruo heard fuss and shouts before he got close.

"Liang! Your chin... poof~ who made it?"

"Crap!"

Ryo Mingto roared ferociously, but when he turned around, he was grabbed by the corner of his clothes by Xiang Riyue, and asked persistently, "Hey~ it can't be a fight, right? With whom!"

"Who would be bored enough to fight!"

The face of the person who was caught was as black as the bottom of a pot, and his expression became more and more impatient; while Xiang Riyue was determined not to give up until he reached his goal.

Rijiruo walked past the two of them slowly, paused his pace, and cast a gloating look at Minghu, "Senior Xiangqian, Senior Minghu didn't fight, I can testify."

"Eh?!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the dark brown and dark wine red eyes looked over at the same time, and Xiang Riyue was full of surprise, but Mingto Liang's expression changed slightly and then suddenly twisted.

Hijiruo squinted his eyes, fixed his eyes on the redness that damaged Junxiu's face, raised it a few inches after a long while, and smiled maliciously at Mingo Ryo, who was a little nervous, "I was bitten by a squirrel in the woods." Arrived."

After finishing speaking, no matter how strange the expressions of the two people who stayed in the same place were, Hijiruo turned around and walked away, walking to the corner to start his own training.

……

——Yes, squirrel.

Generally speaking, girls use the creature 'cat', but Hijiruo believes that the one in the woods who had a dispute with Ryo Mingo has nothing to do with the elegant and agile cat, so it is a squirrel.

Dusty, at first glance, he doesn't attract the boys' interest at all, but he dares to show his teeth and claws when he disagrees with him. When fleeing, he will carefully look back to observe the enemy's situation, and he is super vigilant.

After relaxing, it seems like a harmless, soft little animal.

Thinking of this, Hijiruo looked down at the fluffy yellow sphere in his palm, and his thoughts fluttered slightly—the girl and Ryo Mingo... What did they do in the woods?

Hiyoshiruo went there because of the rumors he heard recently, to investigate the "looming cries in the dense forest of Ice Emperor Academy near dusk".

He saw Senior Mingto lead the girl into a remote forest like a bandit, even if Riji had never liked gossip, he would be very interested.

So he hid in the bushes and poked his head out to keep a close eye on developments.

But at the end, the doubts were deeper——Ryo Mingo had a dispute with the girl, and the atmosphere between the two could even be said to be full of gunpowder, and it was obviously not about a relationship between a man and a woman...

Thinking about it, if Hiyoshi didn't think that Mingo Ryo's gaffe was because of that girl, there must be other reasons.

If Hiyoshi heard some rumors, about the person Ryo Mingo likes, it is a taboo, to be exact, it is a taboo that all the third-year seniors of the ice emperor tennis club never mention.

Mingo Ryo had a crush on Yoshino Sayoko who jumped off a building and died a year ago. It was not news at all, but the name of "Yoshino Sayoko" gradually became a topic that no one dared to bring up. I don't know where the rumors came from, Yoshino Sayoko's death became a wound of Atobe Keigo, there are always girls trying to use that name to approach and comfort the heartbroken school idol.

Again and again, and finally lead to the current situation.

As long as a girl mentions it, Keigo Atobe's reaction is to fly into a rage, and then the person who violated the taboo is accompanied by the seemingly non-existent hostility of the main players of the tennis club.

As a bystander, Hiyoshiruo can somewhat understand the mood of his companions.

The act of using the dead as an excuse is a sacrilege in itself, both for the living and the dead.

After several times of merciless treatment, no one in the school used Sayoko Yoshino as an excuse to approach the tennis club, and Ryo Mingo, who was the most violent in the incident, seemed to calm down slowly.

So... Today, after a year, why did Mingo Ryo show such fierceness and hatred as if he had returned to those difficult days?

Rijiruo felt very strange.

……Dividing line……

Since throwing Sanjo Sakurako in the woods, Mingo Ryo's mood has been hovering between irritability and anger; he knows that treating girls like that is a bad behavior, but he can't control himself.

Of course, Sanjo Sakurako was not at fault at all, Mingo Ryo's loss of control came from the necklace hanging around her neck, to be exact, the photo.

The boy in the photo, Mingo Ryo, didn’t know the name of the other person before today, Sanjo Sakurako told him, but that person... the moment he saw it for the first time, Mingo Ryo felt as if he had been poured cold water on his head.

Apart from the bone-piercing coldness that surged in the blood, what remained was the anger that wanted to kill——he had seen him!A boy named 'Matsuyama Kiichi'!Absolutely no mistake!That boy, Yoshino Sayoko's secret lover.

……

Every adolescent boy has an unattainable goddess hidden deep in his heart, and Ryo Mingo is no exception; apart from the most important tennis, he also likes Yoshino Sayako, a senior who is two grades higher than him.

It was an admiration hidden deep in my heart, and I didn't even have the courage to try to confess it.

Yoshino Sayoko is gentle and generous, unlike the girls in school who are crazily chased by her appearance and family background, she treats everyone equally, kind, pure, and considerate.

I believe that there were many people who liked Yoshino in the tennis club at that time. Ryo Mingo believed that his shortcomings outweighed his advantages, so he never dared to get too close to the beauty in his heart. He thought that he only needed to look at it from a distance, and then...

No then.

Sayoko Yoshino rarely got involved in the affairs of the junior high school tennis club since she was in high school, and Ryo Mingo met the girl she had a crush on very occasionally, in an unexpected place.

Ryo Mingo recalled and regretted the scene that day countless times afterwards. If he hadn't been so ignorant at that time, if he had noticed earlier... maybe the tragedy would not have happened.

It's a pity that he was still a teenager who didn't know much about the world at that time.

When Ryo Mingo saw Sayoko Yoshino standing outside a certain clinic with a strange and amazing boy, his reaction was pure loss and avoidance.

At that time, he really thought that the dispute between Sayoko Yoshino and the boy was just a quarrel between lovers. Afterwards, thinking about it, Ryo Mingo always wanted to kill himself at that time.

Obviously there might be a chance to redeem it, but he missed it without knowing it. The girl he liked jumped from the tall teaching building three days later, and fell to pieces together with the love he had no time to reveal.

However, Mingo Liang coerced Ninzu Yushi to get an autopsy report through his relationship, which showed that more than one person died, and Yoshino was pregnant with an unformed child.

Regret and hatred gnawed at Mingo Ryo's heart day and night. For a while, he even wandered around the clinic, hoping to find the stranger.

The hateful thing is that he got nothing.

The passing Yoshino Sayoko left only a short sentence, 'I'm so tired, I can't hold on anymore. ', and there is no trace of the man who impregnated her and abandoned the world.

Mingo Ryo didn't mention that matter to anyone, perhaps because of selfishness, he still faced countless rumors after the death of the girl he didn't want to like, so let's stop here.

……

Mingo Ryo chooses to deliberately forget the past, and agrees with Atobe Keigo to use authority to suppress all rumors, in order to let Yoshino Sayoko rest in peace, even if it is only in his heart.

The oppressive calm lasted until he saw the boy again at Sanjo Sakurako, the murderer who killed Sayoko Yoshino.

With just one glance, all the fierceness that was sealed in his mind was out of control. Mingo Ryo couldn't contain the instant burst of hatred, so he made very rude behaviors after school.

He dragged the girl who probably knew nothing to a remote corner, and forcefully ordered the girl to cut off contact with the boy immediately, before he even figured out the situation.

If it wasn't for Sanjo Sakurako's quick move, Mingo believed that he would have grabbed her by the neck and forced her to hand over Matsuyama Kiichi's whereabouts. Fortunately, Sanjo Sakurako's punch woke him up.

The mind that was dazzled by hatred was briefly sobered up, and Mingto Ryo turned around and left in the next second. He was afraid that if he stayed for a moment longer, the situation would become uncontrollable.

On the way back to the tennis club, Mingo Ryo had already made sure that he would not let Matsuyama Kiichi go.

As for how to do it, it needs to be considered in the long run. The only certainty is that he will have to pay the price no matter what, but the hatred has not been so mad that it will implicate innocent people.

...Sanjo Sakurako...we must find a way to keep her away before that.

After being dazed for a long time, Mingto Ryo raised his hand and rubbed his forehead, and the chaotic hatred in his mind was replaced by gradually sober reason; he took a deep breath and straightened up from the rest bench, looking around and finally falling to one place.

……

Before, Ryo Mingo knew that he was not in good condition and could not participate in the training. After saying hello to Keigo Atobe, he sat on the bench at the edge of the tennis court and thought about it alone. At the moment when he was sorting out the confusion, when he came back to his senses, it was almost dusk. .

There were a few ordinary members left in the tennis court to pack their equipment, while the regular candidates gathered on one side of the court, presumably they were giving feedback on today's training, Ryo Mingo stood up, hesitated for a moment, and walked towards his companion's position.

As Mingdo Ryo saw that Keigo Atobe stopped speaking halfway, his gray and purple eyes fell on him through the crowd; he raised his hand and waved, silently indicating that he had adjusted his state, and then he Seeing the other party's usual arrogant face slightly relaxed.

Atobe Keigo looked away as if not paying attention, but secretly looked back at Hiyakeren with a look of hesitation, followed by Hikichiruo, with unquestionable worry on that stern face.

Mingo Ryo returned to the team quietly, his tense brows slowly relaxed.

It didn't take long for Keigo Atobe to end today's summary, turned around and walked towards the lounge with his hands behind his back, the condensed team dispersed, and Ryo Mingo pursed the corners of his mouth at Mukai Hiyake who came close to him.

His dark brown eyes slid over everyone who looked at him intentionally or unintentionally——Sorry, I made you worry.

"Liang! That squirrel..." Xiang Riyue yelled unobtrusively, "You didn't ask for leave because you were scratched by a squirrel, did you? Are you going to the hospital?"

"Nah~ Go to Atobe's house and start special training

Before, let Renzu take you to the hospital? "

There was worry hidden in Xiang Riyue's expression half hidden in the night.

The corner of Mingto Liang's mouth twitched, and he didn't know how to reply to the other party for a while, and was about to turn a deaf ear, when Hijiruo's voice suddenly interjected obliquely, "Didn't Senior Xiang Ri suggest that Senior Mingdo get vaccinated?"

"Huh, isn't that right? Squirrels are not wild animals." Xiang Riyue quickly stopped Mingto Liang's way, looked him up and down, his eyes gradually became strange, "Speaking of... squirrels... are they so powerful in combat?"

"Yeah—it's really big." Hijiruo raised his dark golden pupils, a sharp light flashed in his eyes, then he turned his head and started gesticulating at Xiang Hiyake, "It's about as tall as the ears of Akutagawa-senpai, and it's dusty." It’s fluttering...it’s okay to look closely.”

———囧, Mingo Ryo only felt a mouthful of blood stuck in his throat, and roared out without thinking, "Is there such a big squirrel?! It's not Resident Evil! Hiyoshi, you bastard!"

"Don't use strange adjectives to describe other girls!"

……

The scene fell into an eerie tranquility for an instant, and after he had time to react, Mingo Ryo was already surrounded by everyone, and even Keigo Atobe, who had already walked away, turned his head from a distance, staring at this place with extremely interested eyes.

"Girl..." Xiang Riyue's eyes were wide open.

"Who is it?" Akutagawa Jirou who appeared out of nowhere asked in a very sober tone.

Mingo Ryo's temple throbbed more and more, especially when Hiyoshi Ruo, who was in the crowd, raised his eyebrows and gloated.

After a long while, Mingto Ryo, who was defeated by his companion's scorching gaze, turned his face aside suddenly, and whispered with the intention of retaliation, "Ask Hiji, he sees very clearly."

In the next second, all his companions turned their heads to stare at Hijiruo, who was out of the way, and Mingo took the opportunity to squeeze out of the crowd, turned around and ran away.