what tennis

◎It's normal for cats and snakes to be incompatible! ◎

Mari Nishijima set an alarm clock for 01:30.

She woke up as soon as the alarm clock rang, turned over and skillfully took out the mask and peaked cap from the cosmetic bag and put it on - so that it would not be easy to be recognized after being fully armed.

"I'll go to stall No. 6 on the second floor, and I'll leave the books on No. 3 and No. 2 to you!"

She held Echizen Ryuya's hand, and the eyes exposed by the mask showed a very solemn expression.

Echizen Ryuya also shook hands with her, and smiled: "I promise to complete the task."

"But you're dressed like this, aren't you really hot?"

Mari Nishijima pulled the edge of the mask with his hands to breathe, and then quickly pushed the mask back.

She lowered her voice: "The Bull Warrior will never take off his mask!"

Echizen Longya understood: "It turned out that I was afraid of meeting acquaintances."

Her ears were red, she turned her eyes away, and muttered: "Going to buy a notebook and meeting acquaintances, isn't that the same as directly disclosing XP to them? Too bad..."

What a joke!She didn't dare to let Echizen Longya buy her favorite sets of notebooks, but she decided to do it for real!

After assigning tasks to Echizen Ryuya, Mari Nishijima went straight to the stall on the second floor that he had been eyeing for a long time.

Although she set the alarm clock early, and killed the last second of time; but by the time Nishidao Zhen arrived, there was still a long queue in front of the booth.

She stood on tiptoe and took a rough look forward, she was relieved: she can still buy this number!

As time went by, more and more people came behind Nishijima.After the number of teams on both sides increased, the air that was not considered cool was pushed to become sultry.

After finally getting her in line, Nishidao Mari tugged on the mask to let in a little fresh air, and said weakly, "Lai Qixiao's Narcissus and Passerby's books, Zenyuan Naoya and Wuyou's rag books, please..."

Soon a thick stack of books was in her hands, and the wife who set up the stall looked at her worriedly: "Well, are you okay?"

Mari Nishijima hugged the notebook tightly, with a happy smile on his face: "Thank you, I'm fine. By the way, please give me a copy of the cursed refrigerator magnet and the Butterfly Sisters stand."

Because Xidao Zhenli bought too many things, the stall owner specially found a small cardboard box for her to pack various peripherals.

She held the small cardboard box in one hand and held the cell phone in one free hand, wanting to send a message to Echizen Longya.Before she found Echizen Ryuya from the address book, she felt a light hand.

Mari Nishijima looked up and saw Echizen Ryuya who was carrying a bag of fanbooks, and helped her pick up the cardboard box very smoothly: "I bought it, check to see if there is anything missing."

He handed the bag containing the fanbooks to Mari Nishijima, and Mari Nishijima opened the bag and roughly clicked on the contents: the books she asked Ryuya Echizen to help grab were all inside, as well as many extra stickers and some cute ones. Badges, presumably as a random giveaway.

There is also a headband with red devil horns inside.

Mari Nishijima picked up the headband and looked at Echizen Ryuya: Echizen Ryuya was wearing a hat.

She is wearing a hat too.

Mari Nishijima put the headband back with some regret: "Well, I've bought everything... It's past five o'clock now, let's go home."

Echizen Ryuya: "Okay."

Because he was not in a hurry to go home, Mari Nishijima planned to take the tram to go back: this province should spend money.

It takes about 10 minutes to walk from the exhibition site to the tram station.They are not in a hurry, so they walk very slowly.

Echizen Ryuya was tall and long-legged, but he walked slower than Mari Nishijima.

As Mari Nishijima walked, she felt that the strap of her makeup bag on her back was being pulled.She turned her head and saw Echizen Ryuya grabbing the strap of her backpack.The two looked at each other, Echizen Ryuya tilted his head, a slightly puzzled expression appeared on his handsome face.

Nishijima Mari watched him grabbing his backpack straps, silent for a moment, and continued to walk forward as if nothing had happened.

Echizen Ryuya asked: "Do you still want to drink soda?"

He raised the unfinished soda in his hand and motioned to Mari Nishijima, there was a plastic straw inserted in the soda can.

Nishijima Mari took the soda can, bit the straw, and his speech became vague: "When did you get the straw?"

Echizen Ryuya: "Just now when I went to help you buy a notebook."

Mari Nishijima bit the straw and sipped the Coke slowly.She felt that Echizen Longya was very careful, and was afraid that she would choke on drinking soda while walking, so she bought a straw specially.

When we arrived at the train station, the train hadn't arrived yet.

Mari Nishijima sat down on the bench, took out her phone and looked at the unread messages, and accidentally found the message from her parents.

[Mom: Truth Sauce, can you help water the flowers at home on weekends?We may not be able to return home until next month.Please please please - I'll bring you a souvenir then! 】

Her parents took a team to Italy for exchange and study half a month ago, so the family house has been vacant.

Mari Nishijima replied 'OK', and then turned off the screen of the phone.

At this time, someone walked up to her and Echizen Longya, stopped in their tracks, and said with a hesitant voice, "Nishijima and... Brother Echizen?"

Mari Nishijima looked up and saw Kaidou Kaoru who was also holding a small cardboard box.

Mari Nishijima: "... Kaitang?"

Kaitang Kaoru was stunned: "It's really you——you're not—"

He originally wanted to say how you, a tennis phobic person, knew Echizen Ryuya.

But before he finished speaking, Echizen Longya stood up first, took advantage of his height and looked down at the cardboard box in his arms: "It's a kitten."

The simple-minded tennis club member was immediately distracted, and followed Echizen Ryuya's words: "Well, I just picked it up near the train station."

"I originally made an appointment with Echizen today..." He realized that the man in front of him was also surnamed Echizen, hesitated for a moment, and changed his name, "I originally asked Ryoma to play tennis today, but I picked up this little guy in the grass at the exit of the tram station .”

Mari Nishijima also stood up, stretched her neck and looked into the cardboard box.

Kaitang Kaoru noticed her movement, did not speak, and silently lowered the carton.

Inside the cardboard box was a white and green sportswear jacket, and a palm-sized orange-white cat was crawling around inside.

The kitten's hind legs didn't seem to be flexible, and a series of blood stains were rubbed on the sportswear jacket.

Mari Nishijima: "Did it hurt its hind leg?"

Kaitang Kaoru: "Well, maybe it was broken by something... But I don't know where there is a veterinary hospital near here."

Mari Nishijima took out his phone and checked the map: "The nearest veterinary hospital is still three stops away. Can the tram take the cat up there?"

Echizen Ryuya: "It is forbidden to take cats on the tram. And there are too many people on the tram, and the cat may be stressed."

He stretched out his hand and carefully squeezed the cat's hind legs with his fingers; the kitten let out a mournful meow, and Nishijima Mari and Kaidou Kaoru, who had no experience in raising cats, both showed nervous expressions.

Echizen Ryuya: "It's broken, I'll treat it first, and then we'll take it to the animal hospital on foot. It may still have a bit of stomatitis, look at its mouth."

Nishijima Mari opened his eyes wide and looked at it for a while, but found that he really couldn't see anything.

She gave up finding differences in the field she was not good at, and looked at Echizen Ryuya eagerly: "Then how should we deal with it?"

Echizen Ryuya: "Truth sauce, go to the nearby supermarket to buy a small piece of splint and gauze, the sooner the better."

Mari Nishijima nodded in agreement.

She was afraid of wasting time, so she ran all the way to find the supermarket; after entering the supermarket, Shinji Nishijima didn't spend much time looking for things, so she went directly to the shopping guide and told her requirements, and took four or five kinds of splints and gauze.

Since I didn't know which one was better, I just bought them all.

After paying the bill, Mari Nishijima ran back to the tram stop with a large bag of splints and gauze. Echizen Ryuya and Kaidou Kaoru were squatting next to the cardboard boxes waiting for her.

The atmosphere between the two is a bit strange.

Echizen Ryuya was looking at the cat in the box, while Kaidou Kaoru was frowning, not very happy.Although Kaitang Kaoru usually has an unhappy expression on his face, but now this 'unhappy' emotion is particularly obvious.

Mari Nishijima thought he was worried about the cat, and when he handed the splint and gauze to Echizen Ryuya, he comforted Kaidou Kaoru: "Longya is very powerful, I can definitely cure it, don't worry."

Kaoru Kaido: "..."

Kaidou Kaoru didn't speak, but glanced at Nishijima Mari with a strange and worried expression.

Echizen Ryuya also followed suit: "Don't worry, I'm very skilled in dealing with wild cat fractures."

Kaitang Kaoru's expression suddenly looked even more aggrieved.

Echizen Ryuya touched the cat's hind leg first, then found a usable splint from the bag, and fixed the fractured dislocation.

He did it smoothly throughout the whole process. Although the cat meowed a little bit when fixing the bones, Echizen Ryuya's hands were still very steady.Even when the cat tried to scratch him, he could preemptively hold the back of its neck.

"Okay." Echizen Ryuya closed the lid of the cardboard box after loosening the bandaged hind legs of the kitten, "Don't let it see the light, it will feel more at ease in a dark environment."

"Next, send it to the hospital as soon as possible. The stomatitis also needs to be treated immediately."

Nishijima Mari: "Then I'll check the map, it shouldn't take long."

She looked down at the map, and Kaidou Kaoru took the opportunity to stare at Echizen Ryuya in an extremely unfriendly manner.

Echizen Ryuya smiled all over his face: "Didn't you make an appointment with Xiaobudian to play tennis together? Leave the cat to me and Zhenjiang."

Kaitang Kaoru pursed his lips, but did not speak.

Nishijima Mari looked at the map again and again, and said again and again: "That's right... Haitang, you go to play first, Long Ya and I will send the kitten to the hospital."

Although she has a tennis phobia, she doesn't mind other people's love of tennis, so she understands and even supports Kaoru Kaido's obsession with tennis most of the time.

Anyway, as long as he doesn't pull me to play tennis together or let me watch him play tennis.

Kaoru Kaitang struggled in his heart for a while, but in the end tennis prevailed.He trusted and solemnly handed the carton to Nishijima Mari: "Then I'll come to see the kitten after playing tennis."

Nishijima Mari: "Yeah, I'll send you the location when I get to the hospital."

She wanted to carry the box containing the kitten, so she gave Echizen Ryuya the bag and cardboard box containing the fanfic.Echizen Ryuya wanted to help her carry her bag too, but Nishijima Mari felt that her physical strength was fine, so she refused.

Echizen Longya had no choice but to take her mobile phone and help her see the way.

At this time, the sun in the sky was no longer so exaggerated, and the temperature on the ground also dropped slightly, becoming a little cooler.

Mari Nishijima hugged the cardboard box: "Longya, did you quarrel with Kaitang just now?"

Echizen Ryuya: "No, why would you ask such a question?"

Mari Nishijima: "...It feels like the atmosphere was weird just now. Did you know each other before?"

Echizen Ryuya: "My younger brother is in the Qing Xue Tennis Club, and he and he are classmates, just in different grades."

Nishijima really thought about it, and recalled from his memory the little cool guy with a cold face in the restaurant.

"I think I've met your brother—is his name Echizen Ryoma?"

Echizen Ryuya was originally focused on the phone, and looked towards Mari Nishijima: "Have you met?"

Mari Nishijima: "I was in charge of the interview for the tennis club of our school before. I met him outside the court. At that time, I thought he looked a lot like you. I didn't expect that he was really a younger brother...a biological brother?"

That appearance, to say that there is no blood relationship, seems a bit outrageous.

Mari Nishijima was distracted thinking—then the backpack strap was caught and pulled back, and she backed up, hitting Echizen Ryuya's arm with her back.

Echizen Longya was still looking at his mobile phone, without looking up at all, the hand holding the small cardboard box was pulling the strap on Mari Nishijima's backpack: "Look at the road, there is a car."

Mari Nishijima: "...Oh."

Echizen Ryuya: "There is a blood relationship, but not the same father and mother."

"My parents died early, and it was Ryoma's father who adopted me. Later, my mother's relatives won my custody, so I changed to a host family."

"But it didn't take long for me to leave there and live on my own...it's a red light, look up when you walk."

He sighed, looked away from the phone screen, tightened his palm and tugged Nishishima Mari's backpack strap again.

Makoto Nishijima stood beside him obediently, and stopped moving forward rashly.She just listened to Echizen Ryuya's words, and really didn't pay attention to the road.

After a while, the green light at the intersection turned on.Echizen Ryuya tugged on the strap of Mari Nishijima's backpack: "Okay, let's go."

-Complete-