Time is like a song

"Six to five!" The referee announced the tentative score and instructed us to proceed to the next game.

Now, I am six, she is five, and it is my turn to serve.

I flicked the tennis ball on the ground, relaxed my wrist, and adjusted my breathing.I feel a little uncomfortable, the other party's strength is not high, I can deal with her in a simpler way on weekdays, but Sanada warned me yesterday, saying that I am not allowed to use deceitful tricks until I get his approval, Every ball must be played aboveboard and cleanly.The first time I corrected the style of play, I played a little bit unsmoothly, so that I was dragged down by the opponent until now.

However, that's all there is to it.

I threw the ball in the air, jumped up, took a shot, and then, as expected, I served and scored.I have figured out the opponent's weakness, even if I don't spend my time trying to play tricks, my own serve is enough to overwhelm her.In this round, she won't score a single point.

"Game! Seven to five, Mayumi Hira wins!"

"Ah!" the cheerleaders in the auditorium cheered, "Tachikai Dai! Tachikai Dai! Yoshimichi Tachikai! The Queen is Masumi Hira! Tachikai!"

I shook hands with the opponent and turned back to the contest area.

"Good fight!" Sister Nitta smiled and handed me a bottle of water.

"Hmph," Mirai Utsunomiya-senior in singles [-] glanced at me, "You actually tried to change the style of play in the game. You don't understand the importance of victory at all, and you don't know how to respect your teammates and opponents."

I tilted my head and wiped my sweat with my sleeves, "You said earlier that I was not a teammate, and that victory is not everything. It seems that now you can finish everything. Sister Utsunomiya, according to your words, since you lost It means that you don't understand the importance of winning, and you don't know how to respect your teammates and opponents."

"You! You are simply distorting my words!"

"Okay, stop arguing!" Nitta-senpai separated us, "Shut up, go out and salute your opponent."

After the salute, I took the tennis bag and walked to the audience, ignoring the women's tennis team.Although this situation is caused by me, they are indeed prejudiced against me now, and it is useless for me to say anything, it is better to save your breath.As soon as I stepped into the auditorium, I saw those people in khaki uniforms.They are like the eye of a typhoon, there is a blank area around them that no one approaches, and I think it is difficult not to see them.As the champion of last year's national competition and the [-]th consecutive championship in the Kanto competition, Lihai men's tennis is well known in the academic tennis world. Only they can create such a vacuum.

They also played the first Kanto competition today.From the looks of it, it must have been an easy victory.

"Ping," Yukimura, who was wearing a coat, crossed his arms, "Your performance today was too poor."

I don't need you to tell me.

I bowed to him, "I'm sorry."

"Right now, run twenty laps. Double your training tomorrow."

"...Yes." I don't want to agree, but with Renji and Sanada here, I have no room for resistance.I put the bag on the ground, turned and ran.

"Mumumi Hira," the deputy head of women's tennis, Sayuri Imagawa, said as I passed by, "Are you from the men's tennis or the women's tennis?"

Without looking back, I said, "I'm a member of Men's Net, and my job is to do odd jobs." Huyamei is the female squad leader, so she should know which club I belong to in the school's records.This is also asking, how stupid.

Speaking of which, I really want to ask Principal Yoshizawa to find out.It's okay for me to say that it's from Men's Net, but I don't want my report card to say that my club position is a handyman.This will be the ironclad proof that I was bullied by Yukimura, I don't want it.

When I came back from running, only Lian Er was left waiting for me.

"Lenji, Yukimura is very angry today, buy some herbal tea to calm him down." I took the bag he kept.

"You're talking nonsense again, Seiichi has been very tolerant of you. You are the only one who can come back after leaving the club willfully and voluntarily."

"Don't think I can't hear you saying that I'm self-willed, Helmet Boy." Renji's hairstyle is always a good subject to complain about, "Whether you can come back again, Yukimura is looking at potential." That tennis demon.

With one hand on my head, he turned left and right mercilessly, "Your performance today was indeed poor. Write me a reflection book when you get home."

"don't want."

"Must, I won't trouble you, you don't even know the consequences of a business trip."

"That middle school in Chiba Yoneda is really miserable. If you lose, people will say that your opponent played badly. Renji's mouth is very poisonous, and he is about to catch up with Yukimura."

"Even if you emphasize that you won the game, a bad play is a bad play, and there is no commutation of sentence."

"It's still torture. Renji is S."

He gritted his teeth, "Then you are M."

"Lian Er knew this before, and pretended to be innocent when she was a child."

"... Mayumi, let's go eat." He turned his face away as if he couldn't hear anything.

"Lenji, don't pretend you don't hear it. It's very poor."

Renji turned to me and smiled, "Masumi, did I treat you so well recently that you forgot the order of the food chain?"

"...I thought kelp was at the bottom of the food chain."

"There are small shrimps on top of the kelp, and big fish after that."

I pouted, "Then Yukimura must be a great white shark."

"I don't know about this level," he tilted his head to look at me, "I just need to know that you are not on a higher level than me."

I silently looked at Lian Er.

I was bullied.

The next day, I went back to school to train with the men's tennis in the morning.For them, there has never been a rule of rest after the game, because they feel that every player should be so strong that even the opponent is not considered a thing.Due to my increased training volume, when the morning training ended at noon, I immediately collapsed on the sidelines.

"Get up, what do you look like!" Sanada scolded.

"No energy."

"too weak!"

I glanced at Sanada—it turned out that I had fallen to the point where even Sanada could beat me.Just as I was thinking, Sanada had already pulled me up and pulled me away.He said that my mind was loose and wanted me to learn kendo with a correct attitude.So, starting today, I will go to the Sanada family's dojo for special training every day.I really want to say that, in fact, I have never lacked patience. I have been tying up my horse and staying in the courtyard. For me, apart from my legs being sore, I can still snore in my heart.I don't see the point in him asking me to do this.

"Of course one day is useless." Sanada, who was wearing a Taoist robe, came out of the house and stood on the corridor.

"I can get through the first day, and I can get through every day after that." So, it's useless to train endurance and patience.

"If you ask this, it shows that you are impatient."

I froze, then pouted.Just stand there, and you won't lose a piece of meat.If I don't stand up, I think I will really lose a piece of meat──Sanada beats me.

"Your family is good?" Sanada asked.

"nonsense."

"speak nicely!"

"I'm just telling the truth."

He took a deep breath before speaking again: "How is your family doing now?"

"When I was in elementary school, my parents divorced, and I lived with my two older sisters and two younger brothers with my father. I went to boarding St. Rose Girls' Secondary School in the first year of junior high school, and was kicked out of school. My stepmother helped me transfer to Lihai University. Now I live in Kanagawa with my grandparents, but I don’t necessarily see their faces once a week.” I said like an endorsement.

"So you became like this?"

I look at him.become like this?What is this like?I am not missing an arm or a leg.

He did not continue, but continued to ask, "For what reason did you get expelled from school?"

"The theft of final exam questions."

"What?" He glared at me.

"I don't need it, stupid."

"Then why do you want to steal the test questions?"

"I didn't do it. The dean of training is very annoying. She searched our dormitory for several nights at that time, and she was so annoying."

"So, you are the one to take the blame?" He paused, and then scolded: "How can you admit that you didn't do it! It's a matter of personality!"

"I have a personality problem." These are the original words of the director of training, the bun witch, when I left Saint Rose.

"...Stand for another hour!"

"..." I thought that I would be punished lightly for cooperating with the investigation, but it turns out that the truth is that no tears will be shed when the coffin is not seen.

Honest people get bullied.

"Sanada-san, why do you like playing tennis?"

"Do you like something that needs a reason?"

"You are flirting."

"...you stand for another two hours!"

"I became angry from embarrassment."

Sanada clenched his fist.

During the summer vacation, I played several more women's tennis tournaments. Until the semi-finals, I always played the third point of the victory for Li Haida as a single player.When the competition was temporarily suspended, the annual school trip came again.Since Lianji and I are in different classes, the locations of our school trips are different.Since I couldn't go with him, I lost interest and didn't want to go to such troublesome activities.

However, the principal did not give me this opportunity.

"Little Mayumi~"

"...Morning principal." On the first day of the second semester, I was intercepted by Principal Yoshizawa at the school gate.

"As for the women's tennis, Mayumi-chan seems to be playing really well! Keep working hard."

I pulled the shoulder straps of the backpack with both hands, "This is the credit for you, principal, who threw me to those aliens."

"Hey, Sanada-san is right again, how can you hit a girl!"

"..." Principal, it's suspicious for you to say that.Even if it wasn't your order, you'd be happy to see me get beaten.Don't deny it, I see your teeth that are showing when you smile.

"Come on, who is Mayumi going on a school trip with?"

"Principal, if you want to laugh at me for having no friends, you can be more direct."

"Where is there?" The principal put his hands behind his back and smiled, "I know Mayumi has worked hard." He handed me a piece of chocolate worth [-] yen, and waved behind me, "Good morning ~ Yukimura-san, Sanada-san."

"Good morning, principal." Yukimura turned to me with a smile, "Good morning, Hira."

"..." I skipped this morning's morning training because I couldn't get up in the morning.This time, I am doomed.

"Ping, there are still 10 minutes before class, enough time for you to go to the tennis court for a while."

I curled my lips and was about to run for a penalty, but was stopped by the principal.

"That's right, how about this year's school trip, Mayumi-chan, Yukimura-san, and Sanada-san as a group?"

"No, you will be beheaded to death." As long as you study at Lihai University for a while, anyone will be able to discover how popular Yukimura is among the girls—it's simply terrifying.I don't know how Yukimura's hormones grow.

"Okay, no problem." Yukimura agreed.

"..." Obviously I haven't offended him recently, "Wait a minute, although Yukimura-san will not be suspected of going into the women's bathroom with me, but Sanada-san can't do this step. It will be inconvenient for men and women to be in the same group, principal."

"Ping." Yukimura called me softly, making me silent.

I really don't know, what am I doing wrong.At best, I'm just stating the facts.

"Hehe, that's how it is decided." The headmaster shook his Mediterranean head, turned and ran away.

Although the principal doesn't look domineering at all, I'm sure he is behind the scenes.

Fast-forward to the day of the trip, and our class arrives at the famous, but apparently rotten, city of Hakone.

"Ping, get up."

I wiped my eyes, turned around, and ignored it.

"Ping, if you don't get up again, I'll let Sanada carry you up?"

Yes, I understand.

I sat up with my backpack in my arms and silently looked at Yukimura.He wasn't so mean to other people - not including the tennis team.He must be a picky Jaws.

I got out of the car after Yukimura, looked at the other female students, and pouted.They looked envious and jealous, but they didn't know the reason of the siege.Luckily, Yukimura is quite personable, except for my own backpack, he and Sanada took all other travel items.

"Huh? Director, deputy director and handyman?" Miraculously, I saw Akira Kirihara, a first-year student, also appear here.

"Kirihara," Yukimura looked at him, "are you lost again?"

"..."

I glanced at him, "I lost my way from Hokkaido to Hakone, Kirihara Caodutou, you are really hopeless." I heard earlier that Kirihara's class was going to Hokkaido.I don't know how he managed to go the wrong way to such an extent.He can consider applying for the Guinness World Records and set a record for the most lost in the world.

"You're talking about my head again! Handyman!"

"I'm a handyman, I'm sorry, Kirihara Rabbit's first grade is not a regular selection, and he is a reserve player elementary school boy who is in the reserve."

Kirihara wanted to hit me but didn't dare to actually do it, he just hopped on the spot, shouting that he was a first-year supernova and other stereotyped, meaningless nonsense.I really want to tell him not to shout, the real first-year supernova is the future Echizen Ryoma, and you are just a cannon fodder rabbit.

As a result, after we reported it to the teacher, the teachers decided to let him follow us and forget it—this is to prevent Haidai from going the wrong way again.You can't find someone to take him to Hokkaido, can you?Asked him to notify his parents to pick him up, but he refused to let him live.

When I went to the girl's room to pack things, my roommate Suzuki Kumiko said in a strange way: "With two boys, ah no, it's a group of three boys, Ping-san really has a way."

"Suzuki!" Saiduri Imagawa, who was also in the same room as Huya, was the first to tell Suzuki Kumiko to shut up.

I glanced at them.annoying.

I threw my backpack on the ground and fell asleep on the bed.This study tour lasted for three days and two nights, so it must have been troublesome.

"Why didn't classmate Ping talk anymore? Aren't you usually very arrogant? Why, you were right, and you felt guilty, so you didn't dare to talk back?"

I huddled my head under the covers and didn't bother to pay attention to Kumiko Suzuki.

If anyone can be the girlfriend of those perverts, I'm sure she must be M.

Suzuki Kumiko did not give up, she kept talking nonstop with a small mouth: "It's really shameless for you to go to the men's net like a girl!"

I lifted the quilt, straightened up and looked at her: "I saw your application form for the position of male net manager. You are the shameless one, Afro."

"you!"

"If you bother me again, I will tell everyone that you have always wanted to be the manager of the male net."

Suzuki Kumiko's face turned red, but she didn't dare to say another word.

In fact, many girls know whoever wants to be a male net manager, but they just want to save face and refuse to admit it openly.

Things about boys and girls are troublesome.Obviously those teenagers just regard tennis as a lover at present.

fetish.

"Ping," Sayuri Imagawa came to my bed after Suzuki Kumiko left the room in a huff, "Are you really not thinking about officially joining the women's net club?"

I said without turning my head, "You have no right to say that."

She said nothing more.

Probably infected by men's nets, I also have a sense of jungle and natural selection.Sayuri Imagawa will not make a sound, it seems that she also understands this truth.

In the tennis world, I am better than her, so the right to decide whether to join the club lies with me, not her.

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