fall in love with Echizen

"Come again."

In a temple, on a mottled tennis court, a shaggy man dressed as a monk is laughing with a tennis racket.

"No, Ryoma, if you don't know enough, you will suffer."

On the opposite side of the tennis court, a young man with dark green hair was sweating from his cheeks. He was very young, but he could already see how handsome he would be in the future. Echizen Ryoma paused, and lowered his tennis racket: "It's over."

"Huh? Hey, I haven't played enough yet!"

After Echizen Ryoma finished speaking, he took off his hat and left, Echizen Nanjiro shouted dissatisfied.

"What are you doing, kid?" Nanjiro scratched his head.

"Eh? Do you want to make lunch?" Nanako in the kitchen was surprised, and looked at Ryoma at the door, "Ryoma, isn't lunch delicious?"

"No." Ryoma said and stopped.

Nanako also smiled softly, waiting quietly without urging her.

After a long while, Longma turned his head away, his face was calm, but his eyelids drooped: "It's for Lihua."

Nanako tilted her head: "Huh?"

"Huh—? Who is Lihua!" Nanjiro, who was passing by and eavesdropping, immediately came over, "Who! Did you lose the bet!"

Echizen Ryoma: "..."

Both looked at him silently, waiting for an answer.

Nanjiro: "Say it!"

Echizen Ryoma rolled his eyes: "Girlfriend."

Nanako: "Huh?"

Nanjiro: "...huh?"

I packed the dessert with great anticipation and put it in my schoolbag.

"I'm off to school—" I opened the door.

Many people on the road in the early morning are office workers or students. I took the old way to school.

"Good morning Yui." I put down my schoolbag.

"Good morning pear sauce." Yui Aoi looked very happy today and kept smiling.

I sat down and said, "What's wrong?... Did the math teacher ask for leave today!"

"No..." Yui waved his hands and said with a smile, "Because tomorrow weekend, Yixiang and I made an appointment to go out tomorrow...to play."

I became depressed: "So it's a date."

"Eh?!" Yui blushed, faltering but did not deny it.

Nozaki Umetaro turned his head: "There is a tennis match outside. As expected of Seigaku, who is very strong in tennis."

I propped my chin, didn't rush to look at it, and turned around: "Mei Taro, your tablemate hasn't come for a few days?"

Nozaki Umetaro glanced at the empty seat next to him. He still doesn't know the face and name of his deskmate.

Nozaki didn't care: "I guess there must be some delay."

I rubbed my chin, hummed thoughtfully, thought of something, walked to the window, the tennis court was crowded with crowds as usual.

Yui and Nozaki also came over.

Yui: "I always feel that the people in the tennis club are amazing..."

Umetaro Nozaki: "Protagonist configuration."

"Huh...huh?" I was staring at Ryoma, he seemed to be losing, but it seemed to be reversed again.

That's not what I care about, what I care about is that Echizen Ryoma's hat fell off, he said something with a smile, hooked the top of the tennis racket on the hat, and put it on.

It's completely different from those people who bend over to hold their hats and put them on.

I:"………"

……etc!This operation is so handsome!

I touched Yui: "Hey Yui, did you see it?"

Yui worried: "Yes, I saw it. Echizen-kun seems to be losing."

Me: "Not this one!"

I look at Ryoma like that, I don't care about losing quickly, so I don't worry at all.

Nozaki: "It's that cool move."

I was excited: "That's right! I've always wanted to learn some cool moves!"

Yui was confused: "...Eh? Like?"

I cleared my throat: "For example, one-handed cans! The casual one! Super cool!"

Nozaki complained: "I think you can't open the can with both hands."

"..." I said, "I can't help it. I can't open it without nails. I left a little bit, but the nails are too soft. I feel like my nails are about to fall apart before I open them."

Yui said with interest: "It turns out that's the case, then just grow up and be stronger."

Nozaki: "That's right, there aren't many people around the same age who know how to do it."

"..." I thought for a moment, "You're right."

Give up instantly.

After school in the afternoon, because Ryoma doesn't have time at noon, we agreed to make it after school.

I sat on the roof and said seriously to the boy standing opposite: "I'm ready."

Then push the dessert to him.

Echizen Ryoma raised his eyes, and I looked up at him excitedly, without moving.

He also had to sit cross-legged, and he put the huge backpack aside.

"Bento." Echizen Ryoma took it out of the bag and handed it to me.

I happily took it, it was a light blue wrapping cloth.

When I took it apart, Ryoma also slowly took it apart, and inside were the small biscuits I made.

"Thank you for the hospitality." He picked up a piece and took a bite without expression, his cheeks puffed up.

Although Ryoma looked like a jerk, the politeness on his lips was not bad at all.

I asked curiously, "How?"

Echizen Ryoma swallowed, looked up at me and said, "Yes."

I breathed a sigh of relief: "That's good."

I open the bento...

How should I put it, it has nothing to do with what's in the magazine, it's just an ordinary bento.

But I'm happy to think that this is what Ryoma did.

I thought.

The charm of being in love.

"I'm starting." I took a bite with chopsticks, and it tasted like an ordinary bento.

I swallowed it and said with a smile, "It's delicious!"

"That's good." Echizen Ryoma's expression was calm, but his lips were raised for a second, and he took another biscuit.

"Oh, that's right." Ryoma suddenly took out two soda cans from his backpack and handed them to me. His amber pupils stared at me, "soda."

"Thank you." I took it over and wanted to open it, but I buckled it a few times with my fingers, but it didn't work.

Echizen Ryoma casually put the drink aside with one hand, flexed his fingers, and opened it with a pop.

Me: "...You actually know this skill!?"

Echizen Ryoma raised his hand to take away my soda, opened it, and said flatly, "What skill?"

I took a sip of the drink he had opened, and opened my eyes wide: "That's right, open the can with one hand!"

"...What is that?"

Me: "It's amazing!"

"..." Ryoma tilted his head, took a sip of the drink, didn't speak, and didn't look at me.

I pause for a few seconds.

I always feel that Ryoma is shy and awkward, it is an illusion.

Picking up the chopsticks, I quietly started eating the bento.

……

The hustle and bustle after school gradually subsided, I put down my chopsticks: "It's over!"

"Hmm." Echizen Ryoma didn't know when he opened his backpack, took out his tennis racket and sat there gesticulating, occasionally chewing on a piece of biscuit.

I stared at him for a while and said, "I thought you would be very sad."

Ryoma stopped the beat: "What?"

Me: "It's just... I was about to lose at that time, right?"

"It doesn't matter," Long Ma thought of today's game, and raised the corners of his lips. "I'm still far from winning. And to defeat different styles of play, Lai Qingxue seems to be right."

I:"………"

Because I was full, I leaned back on his shoulder and looked down at my knees: "I said Ryoma, it doesn't matter if I don't know tennis?"

"...Why did you say this all of a sudden." Ryoma sat on the ground with his knees bent and let me lean on him, because I was leaning on his left side, and I took advantage of the opportunity to switch to the right side to hold the racket.

"I don't know." I looked up, the sun was about to set, and the school was quiet.

I stared at the sky: "I think you like tennis so much, and you want to play tennis in the future. Is it boring that I can't talk about tennis with you?"

Echizen Ryoma put down his racket and held down the brim of his hat: "I didn't date you because of tennis."

"Eh……"

I turned my head, and Ryoma just turned around. His amber pupils looked like real amber in the setting sun. He looked at me and said, "I don't have the competition, but I also practice tennis. Don't I give you the rest of the time?"

I thought for a while: "It seems to be..."

"Don't think about what you have." Echizen Ryoma threw a biscuit into his mouth, his cheeks puffed up again, "It's better to think about math problems."

Me: "...although I am very touched, but this is hurting me."