must love tennis

"Music is magical." Said Irie Kanata.

By the time Ryoma felt that he understood this sentence, it was already the next morning.In the dream, the humming sounded endlessly, and when I opened my eyes, there was an empty ceiling, and there seemed to be the lingering sound of humming in my ears.

It was a terrible lullaby. She couldn't remember when she fell asleep. When she woke up, the quilt was on her body, and Karubin was curled up on the quilt and sleeping soundly.

She struggled a bit, pushed Carubin aside, and let out a long sigh of relief.The beloved cat also woke up, meowed, turned over, gave her a sleepy look, and lay down again to continue sleeping.

It was still early, but both Irie and Tokugawa were gone.The former was going to work, and the latter... probably was abducted by him too.

Ryoma finished his breakfast with a yawn and went to school as usual.

"Good day, Echizen!"

"Morning, let's work harder today!"

The classmates or other students of the same grade they met in the corridor greeted each other warmly. I don’t know when it started—when they first entered school, they only dared to talk secretly about this returnee. With a cold appearance, a little overwhelmed—maybe it's because they are familiar with each other, or maybe it's because the tennis club's performance is too outstanding.Especially when they learned about the early duel with the Ice Emperor recently, there was a lot of greetings.

Ryoma also gradually adapted to this atmosphere, waved his hand as a response, and then opened the locker.

Snapped.

An envelope floated from the top of the cabinet to the bottom, and the pink envelope paper was particularly eye-catching.

……what?

"Huh!" Ryoma was startled by Pengxiang's suddenly raised voice behind him, "Is it a love letter? Someone wrote a love letter to Mr. Ryoma?!"

Hey, isn't your address a bit too much?

"What?!" A louder voice appeared next to him.

Hearing the startled tone, it was undoubtedly Horio.

Long Ma was taken away before he had time to see clearly.Horio looked solemn, raised the envelope with both hands, checked it carefully several times against the sunlight, and then handed it to Ryoma: "It must be a love letter!"

He yelled so loudly that almost the entire corridor could be heard, and the certainty of his tone made her tremble slightly.

Sure enough, in the next second, several eager eyes chased after him like a shadow, and surrounded the dragon and horse firmly.Curious, gossip, explore...

common human nature.

"Who wrote it?!" Pengxiang also clenched his fists excitedly, and approached, a pair of brownish green eyes sparkling, bursting out a terrifying light.

Horio couldn't help shrinking his head, the old hen guarding the calf appeared in his mind, no, from the perspective of combat effectiveness, it should be the big white goose...

"I don't know." Ryoma said, and only then did his eyes fall on the front of the envelope.

Is it a love letter?

There is no signature, only her name is written.Judging from the handwriting, it is neat and orderly, and even gender characteristics cannot be seen-girls generally write in smaller fonts and use thinner refills, while boys generally write more casually, unrestrainedly and unrestrainedly, and love the cursive style.

"Take it apart and have a look?" Horio urged.

Ryoma let out an "oh", turned to the back, tore off the seal, shook it downwards, and pulled out a thin white paper.

"At three o'clock in the afternoon, see you in the grove behind the laboratory building."

In less than one morning, the news had spread throughout the school.

Just after finishing an English class, Ryoma heard some people at the back table throwing their books and discussing "the type of girl Echizen Ryoma likes" on the spot. All kinds of speculations were so logical that she almost believed it... Wait, she I don't like girls, and I'm not Ji Ji!

She was a little puzzled: "Didn't you say it was a confession? Why are you so excited?"

Horio raised his index finger and shook it.

"No, no, based on my years of experience—"

"Years?" Ryoma's suspicious gaze immediately turned.

"Cough, that's not the point!" Horio coughed heavily, "Anyway, based on my experience, using this kind of pink letter paper, the hesitant tone, and such a secret location... must be for confession!"

Where did you see that he was still talking?

It was obviously a very plain notice.

Maybe there is someone who sees her unhappy and wants to make an appointment to fight in the grove.

Thinking of this, Ryoma even became a little uncontrollably excited, gearing up and eager to try.

Her bamboo knife can't cut Sanada, so it's okay to cut an ordinary person, right?

"Why do you suddenly feel murderous?" Horio sneezed violently.

Long Ma Zhengse: "Where is the laboratory building?"

"Hey, don't you know? It's the building where the Horticultural Club is located, going east, and there is a small fountain in front of it."

"Well, I haven't been."

"It's normal if you haven't been there. I heard that before the higher department was divided, it was the place where high school students attended classes. Now only teachers and students from related clubs will use those laboratories." Horio waved his hand and said, "It's one of the places where the seven wonders of the campus are most likely to appear, understand?"

Sounds more like asking her out for a fight.

Ryoma moved his wrist silently: "There are three classes this afternoon, right?"

"Ah? Yes..."

"get out of class ends at 03:30."

"Hmm..." Horio blinked.

"Ask for leave for me."

"Hmm...ah? Are you really going?" He suddenly widened his eyes, "No, Echizen! Aren't you the least interested in girls? I thought you—"

Long Ma rested his chin: "Go and have a look."

"But, the foreign language test is in the afternoon..." Horio stammered, "You don't even want to skip the test, do you?"

Three in the afternoon.

It was only 10 minutes before the test in class, and the classroom was extremely silent, only the sound of mechanical writing, and the occasional crisp sound of arms rubbing against paper.

Ryoma put down the pen with a snap, and facing the astonished eyes of the teacher and classmates, stood up abruptly, took out the test paper from under the pencil case, and went straight to the podium.

"I'm done."

"Ah, oh..." Yamada-sensei was taken aback for a while, "Then Echizen-san, you—"

"I'm going to the toilet." Long Ma finished without blushing and ran away.

Do I need to carry my schoolbag to go to the bathroom? !

This is definitely an aboveboard skipping class!

After being stunned for three seconds, there was an uproar in the classroom.

"What are you doing? Don't make noise. Have you finished the test paper? Can you get a perfect score?" Yamada raised his voice and glared down fiercely. "If you can't, just shut up and be quiet!"

"But," a classmate raised his hand, "Echizen—"

Looks like he's on a date! ?

I didn't dare to say the second half of the sentence, and the sound was gradually silenced under the majestic gaze of the English teacher.

Yamada glanced at the profuse handwriting on the test paper from the corner of his eye, expressionless: "If you can get the score of Echizen, I don't care what you do."

……

Three past five.It happened to be the physical education class time for the second graders, Ryoma went downstairs, and when he passed the court, Momoshiro saw him sharply and called him to stop.

"Hey, first graders, shouldn't you still be in class today?" He tossed the basketball he had managed to grab casually, with his hands on his hips, looking down at Ryoma.

"I took a day off."

"Let's lie!" Taocheng hit the nail on the head, his eyebrows raised slightly, "Are you going to do something secretly? Don't try to fool me, I've heard about it, someone wrote you a love letter, right?"

"...I said it's not a love letter."

Ryoma really didn't understand why other people were more excited than her own client.

Taocheng looked at her meaningfully, as if saying, Xiao Mian, how dare you argue?

"Do you all know?" She paused and asked again.

"Well, senior A-gan told us all about it during lunch." Taocheng simply turned over from the court - completely ignoring his teammates who were still calling for him in the court - the railings were not high, for For a long-legged and tall guy like him, it is no different from decoration, it is too easy.

"Well, aren't you guys competing..." Long Ma pointed.

"Don't worry about it, it's just a practice match anyway, and I can win without me!" He patted the ashes on his hands nonchalantly, and then looked at her intently, as if it had been three days since she left, "Hmm... I can't tell !"

"what?"

"You have also reached this age." Taocheng held his chin with a deep expression on his face.

"……what??"

"But!" He changed the subject and said righteously, "Where did the weeds come from and want to attack the precious ace of our tennis club, have you asked our opinion?! Dad—bah, I won't allow it, senior." !"

"..."

Where did you come from to speak in the fan circle thinking? !

"You were not there at the time." Taocheng continued, "So, we discussed it."

Ryoma looked at him: "So?"

"Senior Qian said that it is necessary to prevent the accident of Yajiujin last time, so I will accompany you!" He announced with his chin raised.

Ryoma silently turned and left.

"Hey, hello! Did you hear that?" Taocheng chased after her, put his arms around her shoulders, and squeezed her shoulders, and couldn't help but comment, "Oh, you're the one with thin arms and legs, In case someone really wants to harm you..."

"Didn't you tell me to confess? Why is there danger again?" Ryoma was very calm.

"Well, I thought so too, but the seniors said, what if the other party loves but can't get it, and love turns to hate?" Taocheng thumped his palms, "Before the A○B girl group members were harassed by fans, everyone You've heard it all, it's scary."

"..."

She was silent for a while.

"You mean," she said slowly, "that person is a man?"

"It's not impossible." Taocheng said seriously.

"..."

"..."

Looking at each other, Ryoma couldn't find the meaning of a joke in his eyes, and was speechless for a while.

"You don't understand." Taocheng also said slowly, speaking earnestly, "Some perverts like young and cute boys."

"..."

Oh, the quality of this country is so worrying.

Although Ryoma didn't think it would be such an exaggeration, after all, people like Yajiujin were one in a thousand, but since Taocheng insisted on following, there was nothing she could do.

While looking for the direction of the laboratory building, she reminded coldly: "If it's really like Ajiutsu, even if you are A Tao senior, you can't beat it together, right?"

Seems to make sense?Taocheng rubbed his nose, and asked tentatively, "Then I'll call Senior Shanghecun together? He must be happy to accompany you!"

no more!

Imagine if one day the newspaper published "Shock! Gang violence in the main election of Qingxue Tennis Club, the target is the dispute between him and him?! Is it the distortion of human nature or the loss of morality"...

Just imagining Minister Tezuka's expression made Ryoma shiver.

Taocheng scratched his head, hesitating: "By the way, I said you are cute...doesn't you respond?"

Don't most boys react violently and express resistance?

When he accidentally said it just now, he thought he would be beaten.

Ok?

Ryoma reacted slowly, paused in his footsteps, and then turned his eyes suspiciously: "Could it be that Mr. A Tao, you are the kind of...pervert you mentioned?"

"Of course not!" The young man blushed and waved his hands carelessly, "Of course I like cute girls!"

Oh, I seem to have heard him say it last time.

Ryoma withdrew his gaze, casually recalling that Momoshiro had mentioned before that he likes cheerful and lively sports... Seems like this?

Probably, the orange apricot kind?

"What kind of eyes do you have?" Taocheng lacked confidence.

"Nothing." Ryoma thought for a while and asked again, "Are you still in touch?"

"Ah?" He was taken aback, "What connection? Me, with whom?"

"Fudo Peak... Tachibana's younger sister."

Taocheng was stunned for two seconds: "Huh? Nothing, me and her?!"

The reaction was so natural it seemed true.

"No way." Taocheng quickly calmed down, shaking her head and said, "She is very cute, but her brother is a bit scary, I think Bu Xing, Bu Xing..."

Just as they were talking, the two had already arrived at the door of the laboratory building. Looking left and right, neither of them took the first step.

Ryoma glanced at the time, 10 minutes had passed since the agreed time, but even if she was a little late, it shouldn't be a problem, right?Everyone knows the class schedule of the first grade, it is already very strange to meet at this time and place.

"I'm going." Ryoma said.

"Hey, wait." Taocheng held her wrist steadily, with a serious face, "I'm still worried, let's go together."

"What if there is nothing wrong with you and the other party is scared away by you?"

"That..." Taocheng was troubled.

Ryoma patted the back of his hand lightly, signaling him to let go.

Taocheng hesitated, and slowly withdrew his hand: "Then I'll wait here? Call me whenever there is any movement?"

"Ah."

Ryoma grasped the shoulder strap of the schoolbag that contained the bamboo knife, took a deep breath, and strode inside.

Go through a corridor, go out from the side door, and you will arrive at the grove behind the laboratory building.Because of the remote location, surrounded by teaching buildings on three sides, even the light is a bit dim. At first glance, it really has the atmosphere of a campus ghost talk.

In front of the grove was a small open space with benches and a few sparrows looking for food on the grass. When she approached, they flapped their wings and flew away and landed on the branches.

Ryoma stood still and looked around.

Hello?anyone there?

As soon as Huaying fell, a shadow suddenly jumped out from behind the bench. Judging by his figure, he was really a male.

"Echizen Ryoma!" The figure rushed towards Ryoma, and in the blink of an eye, he was in front of Ryoma.

Instinctively, she took a quick step back, leaving plenty of room for reaction.The man's motor nerves were obviously good, he had stopped ten centimeters ago, a gust of wind was blowing up, and he held her hand.

"I finally saw you." He said affectionately.

"..."

Ryoma raised his head, an unfamiliar face, black hair, black eyes, 1.8 meters tall, completely unrecognizable appearance of passers-by...

Who are you!