selective knockout

Chapter 4Q That Girl, Encounter

042,

Hanamiya really didn't know Aoi Sakai until the second grade started and the first-year freshmen entered the school.

This is the source of his earliest impression of her.

But Aoi Sakai knew very well in her heart——

043,

An occasional pass on the street.

This was the most romantic encounter in Aoi Sakai's life.

044,

After a long, long time, Sakai Aoi asked Hanamiya when he met this time, the other party thought hard for a long time.

In the end, I still didn't think of anything.

Because of such a trivial matter, Aoi Sakai was sulking for a while in the room alone.

045,

At that time, Aoi Sakai had just arrived in Japan alone.

A 12- or 3-year-old girl stands on a noisy street with a calmness that does not match her age, watching people come and go.

Not knowing where to go and having nowhere to go.

She even regretted coming to this place in a fit of anger——

Mother's hometown.

046,

Aoi Sakai was often held in the arms of a woman when she was a child.

Then, the woman will use a calm and nostalgic tone to tell about such a place-summer festival, yukata, takoyaki, cotton candy, fireworks, goldfish fishing...

Countless novelty things were recorded by little Aoi Sakai.

But when Sakai Aoi proposed to her father that she wanted to go to Japan with a woman, she saw the panic on her mother's face and the anger clearly expressed by her father.

She didn't know what she did wrong to be punished, so she disliked her father even more, and even began to hate her father.

Finally, when he couldn't take it anymore, he left.

047,

When she was in France, Sakai Aoi also learned Japanese and Chinese in addition to French and English.

European and Asian languages ​​feel distinctly different when spoken.

Even French, which is called the most beautiful language in the world, Sakai Aoi feels that it is not as beautiful as Chinese.

The blood flowing in the bones will not change no matter where you go.

048,

Carrying the suitcase, Aoi Sakai suddenly remembered a Chinese novel she bought not long ago.

There was a sentence in it that was still fresh in her memory.

"The Solitude of Light".

It seems that I am the only one left in the whole world, and everything else is like an old black and white silent film, playing silently and silently, but my own time is stagnant there.

Every minute of change is a luxury.

Staying in this space for a long time will make it difficult to breathe, and then slowly despair, and finally numb.

049,

She wanted to go up to talk to someone casually, but the pace of this city where people were coming and going was so fast that she couldn't keep up at all, and her heart rate was gradually speeding up.

This city does not know Aoi Sakai, and Aoi Sakai does not know this city.

As an intruder in this city, Aoi Sakai had no reason to refute.

050,

How to find a person in a city with the same rhythm?

Unless that person's rhythm is as out of tune as his own.

051,

That's how Sakai Aoi discovered Hanamiya's truth.

With a slower rhythm than myself, I am unique in this city.

There is no one else around.

Aoi Sakai just stood there, staring blankly at the figure from far to near, then passed her by, and finally disappeared slowly.

The words he was about to say were scattered in the air like this.

But Aoi Sakai believes that the two will meet again.

052,

The second time we met was after Aoi Sakai settled down in Japan and went to school.

Speaking of it, I would also like to thank her tablemate for three years in junior high school.

053,

Shintaro Midorima.

The great pitcher in "Generation of Miracles" can hit a hundred shots from beyond the three-point line and even from any position on the court.

To be honest, Sakai Aoi didn't like his deskmate at all when he first started school.

She still wonders to this day, she is only 162cm tall, how could she be seated at the same table as 195cm?

054,

Closer to home.

Although Sakai Aoi doesn't want to see her at the same table, it doesn't mean that others don't want to see her at the same table either.

I am used to girls from this school sending countless love letters to their deskmates, countless lunch boxes, countless pieces of handmade chocolates, and——students from other schools staring at their deskmates, boldly showing love, and chasing after them.

Aoi Sakai made a deal with her deskmate on the day she got bored.

"Lvjian," took a deep breath, "don't you think those little sparrows are annoying?"

Looking at her slightly in surprise, Midorima Shintaro replied solemnly: "Do you have any countermeasures? I would like to hear the details. By the way, what is your zodiac sign?"

"Don't worry about the method, anyway, I'll help you solve it. I'm a Pisces."

The last constellation was exchanged for a meaningful sight from Shintaro Midorima.

055,

Aoi Sakai later found out that her tablemate was a superstitious constellation.

The best partner for Cancer is Pisces.

056,

According to the performance of the contract, Aoi Sakai has proved her credibility with practical actions.

But one student from another school became the only exception.

Because this foreign student is very strange.

Never give anything or show love, just watch every game of Shintaro Midorima.

Aoi Sakai got to know each other by chance.

The reason is a bento.

057,

Ogino Akane.

Sakai Aoi's first impression of her was that she was a senior who made delicious bento, and then she was a student from another school who liked to sit at the same table.

She even enlightened Akane Ogino seriously, but the other party just smiled and told her a word after listening.

"When you have someone you like, you will have an epiphany."

Later, Aoi Sakai had an epiphany because of the truth of Hanamiya.

058,

But Aoi Sakai really didn't expect that it was through the unscientific network of "Aoi Sakai - Shintaro Midorima - Akane Ogino" that she would meet the boy she met on the street again.

This time, she knew his name.

059,

He happened to be on the way with Ogino Qian, so they came to Diguang together to have a look.

Then, Sakai Aoi saw his back when he left.

It's just a back view, but it can make Aoi Sakai orient herself.

She tried her best not to sound so trembling: "Sister Qian, he came with you, what's his name?"

"He, Hua Gongzhen. We are in the same class. I don't know what he is going to do in Tokyo today. Anyway, it happened to be on the way, so we came together."

Akane Ogino, who has always been cheerful, replied casually.

060,

Hua Gongzhen.

He repeatedly chewed this name in his mouth dozens of times, wishing he could swallow it whole.

It was the first time that Sakai Aoi thanked her tablemate so sincerely.

At the same time, she also decided to sell all her tablemates to Akane Ogino.

If possible, in fact, she would prefer to pack the tablemate directly and give it to Akane Ogino as a birthday present.

As Sakai Aoi's most sincere wish in middle school, it came true in high school.

Well, these are all later.

12.10.23