Draw a card? Draw a card? !

"boom--"

"4-1." After reporting the score, Yukimura stopped shooting and walked to the bench.

His calm and calm voice and posture constantly stimulated Tangtang, making her jump in anger and fall into confusion again.

"How could it be? How could the star lock be useless?"

Yukimura put down the racket, flexed his right wrist, took out the water bottle from the tennis bag, and handed it to her.

"Drink some water, your lips are dry."

Tangtang looked at the water bottle and licked her dry lips, then lifted her neck quite backbone.

"Don't drink!"

"Wow," Yukimura's voice calmed down, "If you intentionally hurt her body, I will always find a way to make it difficult for you."

"You!" Tangtang held the racket in her arms, her fox eyes widened in disbelief, and her eyes were full of accusations, "It's too bad!"

The little girl didn't even know new words when swearing. She was so angry that the end of her eyes started to turn red unconsciously. Facing this familiar face but unfamiliar "Jiao Chen", Yukimura paused for a moment and unscrewed the bottle cap , to ease the tone.

"The star lock doesn't fail, it's just that you're not proficient in using it. Naturally, the effect is no better than Susu's use."

He has already discovered that the little girl is Susu's "brainless bragging". It is okay to say that he is strong, but it is okay to say that Susu is powerful.

Sure enough, upon hearing this, Tangtang became visibly excited again, "That's true, this isn't my move, it's Susu's!"

Yukimura didn't respond to this sentence, but just stretched out his hand again and shook it.

This time Tangtang took it, holding the water bottle but still not forgetting to make amends for herself: "I'm not afraid of you, it's because of Susu."

"Well, it's great." Yukimura praised kindly, with a smile flashing across his eyes. Although the little girl in front of him is much more arrogant than his younger sister, she still can't escape the nature of a child.

It's pretty cool.

"Where's Susu?" Seeing that the atmosphere was gradually calming down, Yukimura asked without missing any chance.

"I don't know," Tangtang tilted her head, tugged at the ends of her hair, and said uncertainly, "Did you fall asleep?"

"Even you don't know her status?" Yukimura frowned slightly.

"I usually come out at a fixed time." Tangtang propped one foot on and turned in a circle like a compass.

"But... it seems a little different this time?" She looked up and down Yukimura, straightforward and simple.

Yukimura didn't care about the impoliteness in her eyes and the jumping of her words, he stood there with a good temper and let her watch.

"What's the difference?"

"I will only show up when Susu is injured on the court and can't hold on," Tangtang lowered his head up and down, checking his body from left to right.

"But this time..."

She looked up at Yukimura again, and suddenly leaned closer, staring closely at those blue-purple eyes, and examined, "You don't have any thoughts of hurting her, do you?"

Yukimura approached her cheeks at a close distance, they could hear each other's breath, even a slight change in expression could not deceive the other party, and he could see the coldness and cruelty in her brown fox eyes at a glance.

It seemed to remind him that she not only has soft fur, but also sharp minions.

"..." Yukimura was silent for a few seconds, slowly raised his hand, pointed three fingers on her forehead, and gently pushed her face outward.

"Huh?" Tangtang tilted her neck in a daze, her eyes widened slightly, her upper body also bent back, and she had to stretch her hands forward to maintain her balance.

This posture made her look a little funny and cute, and the fierce aura she had just created was broken in a second.

Tangtang: Huh?

"Remember, I will never hurt Susu." Yukimura's voice was soft and gentle, but he kept pushing her with his hands until Tangtang was forced to back away and the two were half a meter away.

After retracting his hand, Yukimura flicked the non-existent dust on the jacket, folded his arms and said warmly:

"Sorry, although you and Susu are actually the same person, but I can't accept falling in love with children, so let's keep a distance between us."

"???"

Tangtang covered her forehead with one hand, and pointed at Yukimura with the other. She couldn't believe there was such a shameless person, but she lacked vocabulary, her fingers trembled for a long time, and she blushed before she could utter a word: "Who wants to talk to you?" You are in love!"

Yukimura smiled and nodded, "That's the best."

"No," Tangtang didn't know how to express her thoughts, and stomped her feet anxiously, "I mean Susu won't fall in love with you!"

"Oh? You can influence her decision?" Yukimura narrowed his eyes dangerously.

"Of course!" Tangtang puffed out her chest proudly, feeling that she had finally regained [-]% of her strength, "I'm her sister!! Even if she likes you, I won't agree with you, you stinky man!"

"..." Yukimura paused for a second, then his expression became a little unpredictable, looking at the complacent little girl in front of him with a complicated expression, he didn't know where to speak for a moment.

"You said... Susu likes me?" He raised his eyebrows, "Is this what she thinks in her heart?"

Tangtang was stunned for a moment, and immediately retorted loudly, "No! She doesn't like you! I didn't say anything!"

"Okay, don't like it, no."

To her successive denials, Yukimura nodded cooperatively to protect the little girl's face, but the joy and smile in his voice could not be concealed, so he quickly changed the subject.

"You are her sister?"

"Yes, sister!" After Tangtang finished speaking, she nodded vigorously, as if this could show how correct her conclusion was.

"But you look...much younger than her." Yukimura was talking about character.

"No," Tangtang puffed her cheeks, "I protect her, so it's my sister."

"Then, how do you protect her?" Yukimura sat on the bench, patted the position beside him, and said persuasively.

"When she was injured on the court and couldn't hold on." Tangtang sat down and picked up the silver-white racket again.

The answer was the same as what she had said before, and it seemed to be true.

Yukimura continued to ask calmly: "Can Tangtang only appear on the court?"

This was the first time someone called her by a formal name, Tangtang moved her body uncomfortably, but her hanging feet swayed slightly.

"Yes, Tang... Tangtang can only appear on the court."

Yukimura chuckled, looked at the empty court in front of them, and motioned to her, "Not necessarily, aren't you playing tennis now?"

"Huh?" Tangtang tilted her head and said confusedly, "Yes, and this time Susu was not injured, why did I come out?"

As the autumn wind blows, palm-sized leaves with the chill of late autumn leave the branches and fall in curls, and occasionally a few of them are blown into the stadium.

Yukimura bent down to pick up the maple leaf at his feet, and traced its leaf surface with his fingers. Under the sunlight, the deep red veins were like flowing blood, poignant and pure.

His eyes were blank, as if he was thinking about something.

Susu never mentioned that she had a second personality, obviously she didn't know about Tangtang's existence before.

But what she said before the game today, and the silver-white racket he had never seen before...

"Maybe, she was aware of your existence and took the initiative to let you out."

"Take the initiative, let me..." Tangtang murmured word for word, suddenly her eyes lit up and she became excited, "Then Susu thinks of me?!"

Yukimura withdrew his thoughts, turned his head when he heard the sound, the little girl's happiness and joy came quickly, and it was so obvious, with a strong appeal, rendering the cold colors of late autumn around him lively and energetic.

For a moment, Yukimura felt that it would be cruel to ask further questions.

"But why did she forget you?" But he still asked softly.

"I..." Tangtang was happy for only a few seconds, then became depressed again, holding the tennis racket with her head downcast, and she looked very depressed.

"Because when I first appeared on the court, I was so angry that I severely injured my opponent...Susu...Susu seemed to be frightened."

"But I didn't do it on purpose, the other party hurt her first!" Tangtang subconsciously looked at Yukimura and explained, her brown pupils were full of uneasiness and grievance.

"I can't help it... I can feel that Susu is in pain, and she really can't hold on anymore."

She was in pain and she couldn't hold on anymore.

Just a few words made Yukimura feel his heart shrinking. He closed his eyes involuntarily, his throat rolled, and his breathing became a little heavier. He clasped his fingers tightly in his palm. After a long while, he asked in a hoarse voice: Woolen cloth?"

"Then?" Tangtang's eyes were blank for a moment, "Then Susu appeared... I rested after the game... and then..."

Hearing the fuzziness and incoherence of her memory, Yukimura calmed down and stroked her hair with his hands.

"It's okay, just speak slowly."

"Well, then...it was heavy rain, she went to the bank to draw money..."

"Why are you rushing to get money?" Yukimura couldn't help but interrupted her with a frown.

"Because her debts are due," Tangtang lowered her head and stared at the ground at her feet, pursed her lower lip, and whispered, "Those people who don't pay her will keep harassing her."

"..."

Yukimura lowered his head, bowed, with his arms resting on his thighs, his blue-purple curly hair covered half of his face, he took a deep breath, and said in a hoarse voice, "Continue, and then?"

"Then……"

Tangtang felt the air pressure around her getting lower and lower, and looked sideways at Yukimura's face cautiously, but couldn't see anything, so she could only follow what he wanted to say.

"Heavy rain, she was injured and couldn't leave. Yes, it was a green-haired, English-speaking person... who picked her up."

Green hair, English, Chinese, knowing Susu... Yukimura was silent for a moment.

"Echizen Ryuya?"

"Maybe, it's the name." Tangtang scratched her cheek in confusion, "This person seems unreliable, but in fact... he is not bad? Anyway, Susu was sent to the hospital in the end."

That's it.

Yukimura couldn't help thinking sadly.

No wonder Susu is so familiar with Echizen Ryuya's attitude, it turns out there is another reason for this.

"You said, you think Susu is scared by you, so she doesn't remember you?"

Tangtang hugged the racket and nodded dejectedly, she didn't say a word, her chin was pressed against the racket net to form a grid, and her feet were hanging weakly under the chair, and she stopped shaking.

Yukimura was still in a heavy mood at first, seeing that the little girl was more listless than him, like a kitten abandoned by the owner, he couldn't help sighing and smiling.

"Okay, I think Susu must not have forgotten you because of your violence." Yukimura comforted her.

"Then why?" Tangtang asked weakly.

"It's probably because I don't want to recall those... not so good things, but I accidentally forgot you together. But if she knows that you have been protecting her, she will definitely not be afraid anymore." Yukimura stretched out his hand and gently combed her hair hair.

"Really?" Tangtang raised her head, and there was a glimmer of light in her eyes.

"Really," Yukimura looked at her seriously, with a smile in his eyes, "otherwise, why would she take the initiative to let you out?"

Tangtang smiled and jumped off the bench, the little tiger's fangs pressed against her lips, cute and mischievous.

"You're so kind! Hmm..." She propped her chin pretending to be contemplative, rolled her eyes, and showed a sly smile.

"Then I won't stop you two from falling in love!"

"...Okay." Yukimura laughed dumbly, and was about to pull the little girl back to tie her hair up, when he caught sight of something out of the corner of his eye, which made his outstretched fingers tremble suddenly.

"Candy?"

"Huh?" Tangtang looked over suspiciously, followed his gaze to the gradually disappearing racket in his arms, and smiled with eyebrows bent, "Ah~ my time is coming."

"What?" Yukimura was stunned, and saw the figure of the girl he was familiar with gradually becoming transparent and disappearing in the sky full of stars.

"and many more……"

"Shh, take it easy."

Yukimura got up eagerly, but Tangtang put his index finger to his mouth, and smiled meaningfully: "Your tennis is indeed very good, Yukimura, but our star lock..."

……

Su Tang came back to reality from the trance, and the racket in his hand fell to the ground with a "click", like the last finger snapping of a hypnotist, and he immediately woke up.

She immediately looked around, and found that she was still standing on the tennis court without moving half a step, and there was no familiar yet unfamiliar figure in her mind...

Looking up again, Yukimura on the opposite side also opened his eyes as if he had just woken up from a big dream. He was also looking for something immediately, the coat on his shoulders swayed slightly, and finally fixed his gaze on her.

The autumn wind blew, the maple leaves fluttered, and the two looked at each other across the net, feeling as if they had passed away.

"...Susu?"

"Yukimura, it's me."

Su Tang bent down to pick up the racket, carefully wiped off the dust on the handle with his fingertips, and then stroked it gently like holding a girl's hand, his eyes were a little melancholy.

"Just now, that was Yukimura's new trick - 'dream', it can make the opponent see illusory things, and then create illusions that can confuse reality."

"But for some reason, I was also pulled into Susu's dream." Yukimura also quickly realized, and walked to the net.

"It may not be accurate to say that it was my dream. Tangtang is real. I am very sure of this now." Su Tang handed the silver-white racket to Yukimura with a smile in his eyes.

"Oh?" Yukimura raised his eyebrows, folded his arms and didn't pick it up, with a peaceful expression, "But no matter which one it is, isn't it Susu?"

"That's right, but I still think it's amazing..." Su Tang shrugged and raised his racket in front of his eyes, as if he could see "her" through this medium.

"What Tangtang didn't finish talking about should be—our star lock, after reaching the third level, can connect the opponent and our own state."

"Doesn't Susu know about this effect?" Yukimura took her to the bench beside the field and sat down together.

"I don't know. The star lock is my experiment. You are the first person to try it. I don't know what it looks like after reaching the third level, and I don't know if I can go further. There is a fourth level and a fifth level."

Su Tang put the racket aside, took the water bottle from Yukimura while talking, and just when he was about to put it to his mouth, he suddenly smiled.

"It feels like repeating what happened in a dream."

"Then do you want me to comb your hair?" Yukimura teased, his gentle smile was more real than in the dream.

"That's unnecessary." Su Tang screwed on the bottle cap and waved his hand with a smile.

"But speaking of it, when did Yukimura activate the skill 'Dreamland'?"

"What about Susu? When did you break away from the five senses?"

"This...maybe I'm going to ask Tangtang." Su Tang put his hands on both sides of his body, supported the chair and swayed his feet, raised his head to face the sun, and squinted his eyes in enjoyment.

"Can you feel Tangtang now?" Yukimura asked curiously.

"No, we can't communicate now." Su Tang shook his head directly, "But I always have a premonition, since we met in the 'dream', maybe I can meet her in a dream."

"Meet you?" Yukimura caught a word, "In the dream just now, was Susu also present? In... In Tangtang's words, are you awake?"

"How should I put it..." Su Tang frowned and thought for a while, trying to express in common language, "In the dream, I should be in the perspective of God, so I can see Tangtang's face and her movements clearly. .”

"So that's why the 'dream' should still be Susu's 'dream'."

"How to say?"

Yukimura stepped over Su Tang's body, reached out to take the silver-white racket, and carefully inspected its net cable and handle.

"Except for the viewing angle, I guess Tangtang's tennis style is more like..." He paused, as if he didn't know how to describe it properly.

"Violence." Su Tang said bluntly.

Compared to Yukimura's worries, she was calm, "You don't have to be so tactful, Yukimura, I heard what you just said, you know, I won't blame Tangtang or anything like that."

Yukimura rubbed her head for reassurance.

"Okay, violence."

"Tangtang's tennis style tends to be violent, but you can see that the net cable of this racket has no trace of gravity or pull, and I have not suffered any damage from your side during the time period just now. "

Yukimura pointed to several bearing points of the net for Su Tang to see, and sure enough, even the shooting line was neat.

"Such a neat shooting line can only be achieved by a skill-oriented player like Susu, so the person who controls the dream is indeed you."

Su Tang raised his eyebrows, took the racket and knocked on its frame, pretending to be angry and said: "It's not strong, man! We didn't let us 'sons of God' feel the power of a violent girl."

"Hehe," Yukimura was amused by her funny words and deeds, pointed at her forehead, and his hoarse voice was doting and gentle, "Naughty."

"I'm not listening to your analysis just now. It seems that you haven't seen my violence. You are very disappointed." Su Tang joked while covering his forehead.

"Susu wants to hear the truth?" Yukimura picked up the water bottle and unscrewed it.

"Oh? Tell me about it." He asked, and Su Tang really got excited.

Yukimura did not answer in a hurry, but took a sip of water to meet her curious eyes, and then said in a more elegant voice after moistening:

"I think, because...Susu's tennis can reveal your heart, and I want to know more about your heart."

"..." Su Tang groaned, avoiding his gaze, raised his head and hummed, "I think, Yukimura, you already know too much."

"is it?"

Yukimura put down the water bottle, with a smile on the corner of his mouth, wrapped his arms around her shoulders from behind, gently held her flushed nape and pressed down, making Su Tang bow his head along with his strength, and looked back into his eyes unavoidably eye.

He knew very well how to take advantage of himself, and after deliberately lowering his voice to her girl, he suggested with a sense of confusion:

"Then Su Sukao doesn't think about it, and takes me as one of his own, so that you don't have to worry about the 'secret' being leaked?"

"..."

Su Tang stared blankly at the eyes that were close at hand, the tenderness and love inside seemed to overflow, spreading to her who had nowhere to escape, wanting to bury her in a sea of ​​iris-purple flowers.

Her eyes were also a little touched, everything in the past passed by before her eyes like a revolving lantern, and after a short time, the final picture belonged to the person in front of her.

Su Tang couldn't help laughing, and her dazed expression gradually became vivid, even when she bent her long and narrow fox eyes, the corners of her eyes were still a little seductive.

"Aren't you afraid...after becoming my 'one of my own', you will be sold by me?"

Inhaling the warm fragrance from the girl's breath, Yukimura's eyes unconsciously became deeper, like a flowing sea of ​​stars, magnificent and dangerous.

He lowered his eyes and whispered softly in her ear.

"You can try it, Susu."

With a deliberately soft tone and provocative hot breath, it passed through the girl's ear, dyeing it a thin crimson color. Yukimura noticed this crimson color, and a satisfied and joyful smile flashed in his eyes. Take control of the initiative in this offensive and defensive battle.

Su Tang closed his eyes, a look of embarrassment and annoyance flashed across his face, his waist was exerted instantly, and he withdrew his body, her earlobe seemed to have brushed against something soft, and she had no time to care about it, she just straightened her body, nodded reservedly and quickly.

"Then please teach me more...Jingshi."

Yukimura didn't stop her, and let go of his hand, but his smile was bright and undisguised, he turned his body half sideways to her, and nodded gently and politely.

"Please teach me more, my Su Tang."

Neither Su Tang nor Yukimura are very emotional people, and the development of their relationship is a matter of course. After confirming their relationship, both of them were happy and calm.

Even on the way back, they discussed tomorrow's game.

"I don't know how everyone's competition is arranged. Liu didn't ask me for information. It's almost dark." Su Tang couldn't help feeling a little worried.

"I think that no arrangement is the best arrangement." Yukimura smiled calmly.

"Ah? No arrangement?"

"Hmm—wait a minute."

Walking through the small path lined with maple trees on both sides, Yukimura stopped, and nimbly untied the leaves hanging from Su Tang's long curly hair with his fingers, and passed them directly to her to play without throwing them away.

"There are too many junior high school students, and it is too difficult to arrange a match. It is better to give everyone the information of the first army, and let them find their own partners or favorite opponents for those who want to participate in the 'shuffling match'." Yukimura said from his Starting from his experience and understanding of Liu, he analyzed it like this.

"What you said is also reasonable. Time is a little tight." Su Tang twisted the leaf handle casually, and the maple leaf kept turning like a small windmill.

"It's only one day, so it's okay for singles, but it's a bit difficult for doubles to find a suitable partner..."

Yukimura smiled and said "Yes", agreeing.

"That's right, I almost forgot that there is no external coach in Lihai University Tennis Club, the actual coach is you, Jingshi," Su Tang asked with great interest, "Then when the national competition needs to arrange a match, you and How long will it take Liu?"

Yukimura thought for a while and said, "Looking at the school situation, like this year's final opponent Seigaku, plus the time for Liu to update the information, I remember that it took about two or three days."

"So long?" Su Tang was a little surprised.

"It does take a long time," Yukimura said with a slight smile, "Because one of their doubles teams is not fixed, so the personnel and positions of the singles players are not fixed, and it is a bit troublesome to think about."

"It's easy if it's the Ice Emperor, their doubles combination is basically fixed."

"So it is."

After Su Tang listened, he realized how convenient it is for him to rely on the data analysis notebook and system to analyze the data and arrange the competition.

"Huh? There seems to be some noise over there?"