[Comprehensive] Straighten this arrow!

The so-called world, isn't it you? ——Osamu Dazai, "No Longer Human"

...Well, it seems to be considered a pervert.

The man clenched his fist and coughed a few times before stepping into the door.

Although it was the preliminary round, the auditorium was unexpectedly full, and there were still many people. After looking around for a while, Taoya finally saw the area of ​​Star Spangled High School.

"Kinomoto?" Seeing Taoya coming, Rino Sato was very surprised.

"Senior Sato." Taoya greeted, and seeing that there was a seat next to her, she took the opportunity to sit down.

"I heard Hayate said that you went to a training camp, so I thought you wouldn't come." Rino Sato was still wearing a hakama outfit, obviously she was going to play if Mayumi couldn't catch up.

"I finished the goal ahead of time, so it's over first." He wrote lightly.

Although he would watch the previous bow competitions, but this time when Sato Rino said it, he felt a little uncomfortable. He somehow didn't want his seniors to know that the main purpose of his coming was Makoto.

Although Toya successfully predicted Mayumi's troubles this time, she didn't know the specific situation, so she was a little puzzled: "Aren't seniors going to play?"

Sato Rino's expression darkened, and he slowly stretched out his hands.Under the bright white light of the venue, those beautiful hands were trembling constantly.

"I can't hold the bow anymore," she lowered her eyelids. "Rie didn't let me play, so she decided to let Mayumi participate in Group A. It's hard for her to come all the way."

Taoya didn't ask further, but instead said: "Why are there so many people watching the game today? It's obviously just the preliminary round."

"One is because this is the last event before the exam week. Everyone took this opportunity to relax, so they are very active, and the other is..."

Just at this moment, there was a burst of screaming from a girl in the arena, almost toppling the roof.

Sato Rino turned his head and looked at the team that was playing.With a wry smile: "And it's because of that person."

The chestnut-haired boy came out leading the entire Kyudo Department, smiled and straightened his arms and waved to the girls holding up the banners, which caused another commotion in that area.

"Hai Dou-kun is looking at me!"

Sato Rinoza was the exact opposite of the flushed girl in the opposite stand, her face was a little pale: "We lost in the quarterfinals last year, and we didn't meet Dounan High School. I didn't expect to draw a group with them in the preliminary round of this year. .”

Clenching his fists violently, Sato Rino said slowly: "He is the grandson of Honda Fanshi, and he has passed the fifth stage this year. I heard many people say that he is very strong, but after the individual competition this morning, I really realized it. To see how... scary he is."

She deliberated for a long time, and finally spit out the word "terrible".

The title of archery is divided into ranks. The smaller the rank, the better. After passing the elementary test, you can advance to the first rank. Afterwards, the assessment becomes more and more difficult, until it rises to the fifth rank or above. Only after strict assessment can you be awarded the title of alchemist. After that, the highest is the priest, and the highest is the fan.

Like Makoto, it is very rare to pass the first-level exam in just a few months.Taoya belongs to the category of cheating in this world. After entering the third dan of junior high school, he never went to the assessment again, and only regarded it as ordinary entertainment.

There are only one or two such people.

Mr. Tezuka is only [-]th dan. From this point of view, Kaito Honda is already a genius.

The participating teams played one by one. Except for the people from Dounan High School, all of them looked defeated. Obviously, they were hit hard in the individual competition in the morning.

Toya saw Mayumi at a glance.

Not only because he was looking for her on purpose, but also because she was completely different from the people around her and seemed out of place.

She looked nervous, but not as depressed as the others, and even a little eager to try.

The game started.

Several teams saluted each other.

Toya was a little surprised: "Senior, you let Zhen... Kinose be the former?"

The power forward is the number one player of the team, and the most important task of the power forward is to hit the first arrow, so as to arouse the fighting spirit of the whole team and calm them down.Because of this, the importance and pressure of the power forward is the greatest.

Sato Rino smiled helplessly.

"The first arrow must be shot. Honda must be the former head of Dounan High School. Among the team, only Mayumi has never confronted Honda. The others standing there must be thinking of what happened in the morning, right?"

Momoya felt the same doubts as Mayumi before.

——It’s just that everyone shoots arrows facing their own targets, why does it affect the people next to them.

"You're a new face."

Hearing the sound, Mayumi raised his head.

The chestnut-haired boy with "Hondo" written on his badge looked at her with a smile.Seeing Mayumi's puzzled face, he showed a "sure enough" look.

"Senior Sato is really cunning." He said, "I didn't tell you about me, did you want to use you who know nothing to calm down the hearts of the whole team?"

Mayumi was about to speak when Sakai Rie pulled him behind.The usually calm deputy minister interrupted their conversation, but did not look at Kaito Honda, and said in a deep voice to her: "Let's check it out one last time."

Mayumi Kinose took her hand, and when she touched Rie Sakai's hand, she was startled by the coldness.

"Please get ready before the big battle." The voice from the loudspeaker seemed to be coming from the sky.

Mayumi walked slowly to the front of the line, his mind was blanked by the pale light of the arena.She competed for the first time and was a power forward.

"Don't be nervous." Kaito Honda's chuckle came from her right.Mayumi looked sideways, and the other party put on glasses.

Eh, glasses?

"It's just a very ordinary flat mirror, which was checked before entering the arena, and there is no aiming technology." He said very easily.

Mayumi no longer felt nervous after being interrupted by him.

At the command to begin, she took a step and raised her bow.

Huh~ Calm down, take a deep breath, keep your mind free of distracting thoughts, and aim for the bullseye...

Thinking silently in my heart, nocking the arrow to the string, slowly drawing the bow, and concentrating all my attention.

Yes, stick to it, follow her sense of rhythm.

It's now!

"咻——" sounded in her ears, and she froze in her heart, no, it wasn't the sound of her arrows!

I was so stupefied in my heart, but I had already let go, and the arrow flew straight out, just touching the edge of the crosshair.

Mayumi still maintained the movement before releasing, but she turned her head to look at Kaito Honda.The arrow on the opponent's target paper went straight to the center, and she seemed to have expected that she would turn her head back. Looking at the opponent's face that was gradually turning pale, she showed a very sunny smile.

"This person..." Taoya stood up instantly.

Someone behind him asked his companion very puzzled: "I've been looking at that person since the beginning, it's so strange, I obviously don't know him."

"He is that Honda. He is really good at archery. I am too. I will be attracted unconsciously, and I am very nervous when I look at him."

Taoya grabbed the guardrail in front of her, frowned, and looked worriedly at Mayumi who had a grim expression on the field.

Good dark archery.

Just now, this person was fully cooperating with Mayumi's concentration, slightly staggering her timing to distract her, but he deliberately shot to the center.

Deliberately suppressing her.

After being patted on the shoulder by Yuya Miyagi and hugged by Rie Sakai, Mayumi still couldn't get back to his senses.

She slowly walked back, and someone came from behind, and when they passed by, the person said quickly in a low voice:

"It's still on the edge... an unexpectedly firm character."

"It makes me want to kill you even more."

After speaking, Kaito Honda left her behind and walked towards those confident teammates.

Mayumi stood where he was, and suddenly burst out laughing.

Which family released this second disease?She was suddenly aroused to fight.

She raised her head and looked towards the auditorium, which she had been afraid to look at before. Like a coincidence, she immediately met Taoya's worried eyes.

She stood up worried, she thought, Toya-kun, you still care about yourself, right?

Taoya-kun is too tolerant of himself, not only wrote their little pornography, but also kissed him just now, and he showed such a cute and delicious expression... If he continues to be so lenient, he will do whatever he wants even more.

Mayumi looked at her trembling hands, and couldn't help thinking, was it because of nervousness or excitement?

——Kinose, what are you pulling your bow and arrow for?

Mayumi suddenly smiled at Toya.

This time, let me do it for you.

After each of the five members of the group pulls once in turn, it is the Free Bureau.

Standing in front of the target again, Mayumi felt that the world suddenly opened up.

Only her, the bow and arrow in her hand, and the bullseye in the distance.

nothing left.

She took a slow step.

- Remember your sense of rhythm.

She was facing the target, nocking the arrow.

"Taoya-kun."

Toya seemed to be standing beside her.It seemed that a pair of warm hands climbed onto her waist and held her in place.

The hands around her waist moved slowly, straightening her back, straightening her shoulders, and supporting her wrists.

"Did you feel it?" The voice sounded in her mind.

Makoto slowly drew the bow, concentrating all his attention, imagining that the light pierced through the bull's-eye forehead.Then draw traces of light in your mind.

"me--"

As soon as the word ah fell, she let go of the handle, and the arrow flew out.

The arrow that turned into a bright white light beam made a pleasant sound of piercing through the air, turned into an arc, and pointed straight at the bull's-eye.

The moment the cluster of arrows sank into the bull's-eye, a voice sounded in her heart.

"I like you very much."

She hit the next five arrows one by one.

The world suddenly became quiet, and she could no longer hear the cheers of her colleagues in the ministry and the overwhelming applause.

Holding the bow, panting lightly, regardless of the sweat on her cheeks, she raised her head to look at Taoya, and instantly fell into his gentle eyes.

That was the tenderness she had been looking forward to, with a sweet color.

Sato Rino looked at Mayumi who was standing in the field and looked at this side, and then looked at the junior beside him.For a moment, I remembered my time in junior high school.

"Just now Mayumi she..."

"It's exactly the same as Kinomoto's shooting posture."