About me getting up at 04:30 every day for the basketball and volleyball club

The front line of cherry blossoms that disappeared at the end of Hokkaido early has given a forecast of unusually hot this year.

For the first time in the past ten years, the typhoon engulfed the curved coastline of the Pacific Ocean in a cloud of white at the end of May.

And in the continuous gusts and showers, the annual celebrity battle is getting closer and closer.

The adoptive father has always valued Kiriyama Rei, and even the pre-war seminars of celebrities that his own children did not participate in, also took him to exchange and study with chess players who rarely get together on weekdays.

Think about what kind of blank stares you will receive if you see your "sister" and "brother" who have no blood relationship with you next time you go back to your "home".Kiriyama Rei couldn't help but want to close his eyes and sink into a dream.

The rain is much milder than the most violent one, at least the Shinkansen will not be out of service.They slammed on the glass, streaming down in strings like tears.

It was dark outside the window, and the reflections of the crowd in the glass aisle could be clearly seen.

The bangs blocking the view, the rigid black-rimmed glasses, and a dejected face.Crowds or trash cans—throw it anywhere and it will disappear.

When he was not playing chess, his mind was blocked by countless balls of wool.It is illogical and irresistible to frown to pull out something casually.

Kiriyama Rei looked at himself in the car window, and suddenly saw a figure break into the glass.

"Why am I sitting in a row by myself!!! You isolate me?!"

The one who was dissatisfied and complained was a tall and straight boy like a metasequoia tree, with brilliant blond hair, but the jet-black hair roots with straight sideburns, the facial features of a pure Asian, and the authentic Hyogo accent all showed one thing—— — Such beautiful blonde hair is dyed.

And just opposite the boy—as if there was a mirror—his silver-haired twin brother looked at the boy hopping on the spot with no expression on his face: "You got the ticket yourself, who is to blame?"

Blame the sky, blame the earth, blame his own bad luck.

The boy clutched the wrist of his right hand, and was still screaming weirdly after he sat down.

Until he found Rei Kiriyama who was always looking at the surrounding environment through the window glass sitting next to him.

"Hello." The boy nodded at him, looking more docile than before.He took the initiative to extend his hand to Kiriyama Rei, and introduced himself, "I'm Gong Yu, I'm sorry to disturb you just now."

"It's okay, really." Kiriyama Rei wanted to shrink back embarrassingly, but stopped himself from retreating to the thought, and shook hands with Gong Yu with difficulty, "I am Kiriyama Rei, please give me your advice."

"Is Kiriyama-kun a high school student?"

Gong Yoo spoke to him very familiarly.

But it's also possible that Gong Yoo didn't want to make his situation look so bleak.

After all, his classmates and teammates were sitting in front talking and laughing, and he was alone in the last row.

"Yes." Kiriyama Rei replied.

"What grade?"

"……one."

He was supposed to be in the second year of high school, but Kiriyama Rei was kept in the first grade because of too little attendance last year.

His adoptive father didn't blame him, and since he didn't even blame him for why he didn't pay more attention to his attendance, then no one would care about his repeating a grade.

"Then we are at the same level. I thought Kiriyama-kun would be a senior." Gong You twitched the corner of his mouth, his smile was not very sincere, but it was not perfunctory, it was subtly between pleasing and begging .

It's a wonderful look.

Kiriyama Rei nodded lightly, still maintaining his usual silence.

"Sister" has said countless times that Kiriyama Rei can only imitate wood clumsily.

No one is willing to talk to a log that doesn't even know how to respond. At most, they will treat the log as a tree hole and confide in it because it can't speak.

And it's clumsy because Kiriyama Zero really doesn't have the unique benefits of wood.

After all, in the final analysis, he is a person, but a person must be able to speak. No one can guarantee that Tongshan will not leak any secrets, so people will only say to him: Hello, Mr. Tongshan.Apart from that, there should be nothing else, because Kiriyama Zero can't do well in being a human being or making wood.

He can only play chess, chess, chess.

Playing chess non-stop, until the only father in the family who knows how to play chess and loves chess, he is the only one in his eyes and heart, the owl dove that has taken over the magpie's nest.

You are really disgusting.

There was a sticky and cold voice that penetrated into his cochlea like a snake, and whispered tremblingly against the eardrum.

"Tongshan-kun? Tongshan-kun!"

"--yes?!"

"Wow! Don't jump up from your seat suddenly!" Gong You seemed to be taken aback, but his expression was quite calm, "You look ugly, do you need to call the flight attendant over?"

"No need." Kiriyama Ling shook his head and said sincerely, "Thank you."

"Really?" Gong You raised his eyebrows.But seeing Kiriyama Rei's insistence, he only made a nasal sound with unknown meaning, and did not continue to persuade.

Afterwards, Kiriyama Ling asked the steward passing by the cart for a bottle of tea and two rice balls.

Gong Yoo also no longer expressed any opinions on his need to travel from Kobe to Tokyo alone.He was wearing headphones, eyes closed, as if asleep.

During the period, the boy who was sitting in two rows in front of them, who looked exactly like Gong Yoo, poked his head out from above the armchair, looked at him from a distance, and then sat back down.

Gong Yoo hung his head and didn't see it, but Kiriyama Rei saw it.

The departure of his parents and sister seemed to take away all his emotions together.For a while, Tongshan Ling couldn't cry or shout out. He himself wondered if he was numb, but every time he saw the parents who were guarding the street and took the child's hand home, and saw others being missed, he still got hands and feet. It's cold, and it feels like the few remaining souls have been taken away again.

After an unknown amount of time, Kiriyama Rei still fell asleep.

He leaned his head against the car window, the sound of the rain splashing through the glass and skull echoing in his empty chest.The weird rhythm reminded him of the song his mother used to sing to his younger sister every night before going to bed.

Then seeing his sister's flushed cheeks after falling asleep, Kiriyama Rei would also yawn.

At this time, Dad will come over and pick him up, and say in a very soft voice that it's time for Zero to go to bed, and say good night, shall we?

good night.

See you tomorrow.

Tomorrow is here.

They were all gone.

He stood before their portraits.

The adults who came and went around turned a blind eye to him. These people were all dressed in solemn black, holding white flowers in their hands, and placed them one by one under the portrait, stacked up, like a crumbling tower.

Kiriyama Rei burst into tears uncontrollably.

But still no one looked at him.

"Kiriyama-kun!!!"

The burning pain on his face indicated that he had woken up from the dream.

The wet touch on the face indicated that the tears flowed out of the dream.

Kiriyama Ling stared blankly at Gong You who was suffering from a terrible headache, and his first words were to complain: "I slept too hard, are you a pig?"

"No..." Tongshan replied nonchalantly, "I was born in the sixth year of Heisei, and I belong to the dog..."

Gong Yoo was so angry that he rolled his eyes.

After finishing this series of actions, he seemed to feel something was wrong again, scratched his blond hair, and his tone and expression softened a little: "Did you have a nightmare just now?"

Kiriyama Rei was silent for a while, then nodded.

In fact, Gong Yoo still wanted to ask about the content of the dream.It was the first time he had ever seen someone cry so deeply in their sleep.

But after thinking about it, I gave up, because there is always a premonition that if I ask someone, I will expose other people's scars.

He didn't want to dig into other people's past, nor was he interested in stirring up the atmosphere between the two.

Just when Gong Yoo was about to close his eyes again, Kiriyama Rei suddenly asked: "Is Gong Jun going to Tokyo?"

"Yes." Gong Yoo was a little surprised that he would take the initiative to find a topic, "Go to Tokyo to play training games with other schools."

"Is... what kind of game?"

"Oh, yes, I forgot to mention, I play volleyball."

Kiriyama Rei knows little about these ball games, but when it comes to volleyball, he will think of Sai Tsuru, who lives next door to the apartment: "Coincidentally, my neighbor used to be the manager of the volleyball club."

After the new semester started, Kiriyama Rei stayed in Kyoto all the time. He didn't know if Suzuru had stayed in the previous junior high school, let alone if she was still in the basketball club.

Fortunately, he occasionally stood on the balcony and chatted. He had heard that Tsurusheng said that before he came to Tokyo, he had been the manager of the volleyball department in junior high school.

"Boys?" Gong You followed suit.

Tongshan Ling smiled: "It's a girl."

"Wow." Gong Yoo sighed with emotion, "You seem to like her quite a bit."

Few people—no, they have never been teased like this by their peers—and Kiriyama Zero, who was not used to such unintentional jokes, blushed suddenly.

"No, no! It's just that she and her brother take care of her often!"

"I know, I know, it's just a joke, you are so serious that I can imagine it."

However, Kiriyama Rei was not comforted by his words, but became even more anxious: "It's really not..."

Gong Yoo, who did not expect the other party to react like this, was speechless.

To be honest, there are many people in this world who can make him unhappy, but there are very few people who can make him feel powerless.

This is similar to someone who has already raised his hand and is about to smash something to the ground to watch it break into seventeen or eight petals, but finds that such a thing is so precious that he has to hold his breath and handle it gently. Gong Yoo has only experienced the complex emotion of being willing to submit to Zuo Tsurusheng.

Kiriyama Rei has a story of his own.

It's a pity that he is not the best.

Under this premise, Gong Yoo is not very curious about the stories of passers-by who meet by chance.

He touched his eyebrows and said impatiently, "Come on, I shouldn't be joking with you."

Fortunately, although Kiriyama Rei is extremely weird, he can still wink at people.

His demeanor is like those children who grew up being oppressed and enslaved in the selected passages of "Orphan in the Twist".

The feeling that I probably did something wrong came back.

Gong Yoo was numb and dazed.He didn't expect to meet such a strange person just by taking a car.

However, my conscience was still throbbing.

He tried to open a new topic to remedy it: "You said your neighbor used to be the manager of the volleyball club, but now? Which school is she in? Is it so inappropriate?"

"I'm ashamed to say that I haven't met her this year." Kiriyama Rei scratched his cheek, "She transferred to Tokyo midway through junior high school. She just entered high school in April this year, so I don't know too much about the recent situation." understood."

"Hey..." Gong You narrowed his eyes, what happened to this inexplicably familiar life trajectory?

"May I ask, what's Kiriyama-kun's neighbor's last name?" He laughed, "It's nothing else, but I also have a friend in Tokyo who also changed schools halfway, and used to be in the volleyball club."

Maybe we know the same person.

"Kyose. Her last name is Kiyose."

However, in the next second, Kiriyama Rei's words made the golden fox's smile froze on his face.

Sometimes, thinking about it is one thing, but being able to accept it is another.

This principle is just like Ye Gong loves dragons.

It's best that the dragon is just a painting, and "Kiriyama Rei and Kiyase Motsuru are next-door neighbors" are best just a coincidence in Gong Yu's imagination.

However, long before this conjecture was put forward, Zui Hesheng had been neighbors with Kiriyama Rei for a year.

So she often takes care of the four-eyed boy in front of her who can't be found after being thrown into the crowd?

Including her brother taking care of her together? ? ?

However, he, Gong You, even the fact that Zuo Hesheng had an older brother, only just remembered! ! !

So what is this? !

Is it amazing that they are so close that they are only separated by a wall? !

The boy raised his foot and kicked the backrest in the front row, and Kita Shinsuke, who was sitting in the front row, looked back at him with freezing eyes, but he couldn't stop being upset.

— What a size!

--Pooh!