The news of Mio's admission to the hospital did not attract many visitors.

In addition to being busy with department work, everyone is more often preparing for the next final exam.

As a result, without the nagging of others, Mio's life alone in the hospital was quite leisurely.

It's just a little too leisurely, every time when she opens her eyes, Mio always has a little bit of doubt.

Where does she appear now has become a question that Mio must think about when she opens her eyes.

Xiao Ai and Fuji would come to visit Mio every day after school, and sometimes the two of them would sit together for a whole night.

At this time, Mio felt very at ease.

I always feel that when no one is around, she will start to think wildly.

Especially one day the doctor said after a ward round that Mio's days should be numbered.

Mio didn't expect her illness to come so suddenly.

In the year when Xiao Si became ill, the Saeki family had already taken her for the most comprehensive physical examination.

Unsurprisingly, Mio's next attack should be around the age of 18 to 22, not the current age of 12.

Lying on the bed, Mio stretched out her hands, and peeked at the dazzling white ceiling of the ward from between her open fingers.

12 years old... Mio smiled self-deprecatingly, she... still has many dreams that have not been realized yet.

For example, wearing a kimono at a summer festival, eating marshmallows and watching fireworks with Fuji Shusuke.

For example, after Qingxue won the tennis match, we went to eat a barbecue to celebrate the victory.

For example, relying on your own feet, you can climb to the top of the Eiffel Tower and overlook the scenery of Paris step by step.

For example, there are many, many ordinary dreams...

Mio's high fever finally subsided after a week.

"Ah...you are really scary," Xiao Di and Lan Xi brought a lot of homework, "It seems that you will stay up late again after you recover from illness."

Mio smiled, "Are you free today?"

Pointing his chin out of the room, "Senior Fuji told my brother."

"So," Nanami pulled a chair and sat down not far from Mio, "The minister and senior Kikumaru also came."

Miao and Xiao Di looked at the appearance of Meixu's ward curiously, "Ah, Meixu, why are you living in an isolation ward?"

Mio smiled, "This way, it's effective, isolates the germs, and spreads them outward."

"I don't like it," Mustard sniffled, "it makes people feel very uncomfortable."

At this time, Fuji opened the door and came in, "If you want to go in, you can go in wearing a disinfectant suit like Xiao Ai and I did before."

As a result, no one among the crowd wanted to challenge the ugly disinfectant suit.

But even through the glass, the vitality of them was still transmitted to Mio.

Mio lay quietly, occasionally laughing because of their conversations, and occasionally interjecting.

As always, be an opaque little vacuum.

After dark, everyone finally scattered and left the hospital.

Ran and Ai were the last to leave the ward—Minister Tezuka and Ai walked out of Mio's attending doctor's room with Fuji.

"Sleep well," Fuji's voice was distorted through the mask, "the doctor said you will be discharged from the hospital in two days."

Mio nodded with a smile, and after hesitating for a while, he stretched out his five fingers and gently combed Mio's sweat-soaked hair.

Mei Xu didn't speak, she was afraid that if she spoke, she would reveal the fact that she had sunk into the tenderness.

"Hey? Then it's too hard for you, you should pay attention to the balance between work and rest..."

"Brother Huci..." Mio's cell phone was on hands-free, and she was sorting out her notes, "You said it many times."

"Hey, is that so? Hahahaha..." Toranojiro scratched his head and smirked, "By the way, you're not going home this weekend?"

Mio subconsciously bit her lower lip, "Next week, the final exam, I need to study."

There seemed to be Tiger Jiro's sigh on the other end of the phone, "Xiao An and Kentaro want to see you very much."

When mentioning her elementary school friend, Mio inadvertently slowed down the work in hand.

In the end, she said, "Let's go to summer vacation, if you have time, go to them."

Toranojiro and Mio talked about some family matters, all about the news among the relatives of the Saeki family, such as who is graduating from Tokyo University, which cousin is getting married, and which cousin is lucky.

Mio giggled and laughed while listening, accompanied by low coughing sounds from time to time.

When he put down the phone, Toranojiro decided that no matter how busy he was, he would go to Tokyo to see Mio in the near future.

Everyone in Seigaku Junior High School was taking the final exam together, so Mio and the others got busy too.

At the beginning, the Chinese and history were not bad, but the science and mathematics that followed made Mio find it a bit tricky.

Even during the originally leisurely lunch break, Mio and the others were still discussing the exam questions.

"Hey, chaos," Qihai ate hand-rolled sushi with extra egg rolls today, "Can you solve this problem?"

In fact, Mio felt that the profile of his face when he was serious was really a bit like Minister Tezuka, "This question... probably goes like this..."

Miao hid aside with her textbooks, desperately trying to get everything in her head before the next exam.

Lan Xi, Xiao Di and Xiao Ai were on the other side, whispering to their ears with the mock exam questions provided by the teacher.

Mio ate blueberry bread in small bites - she hadn't had a good appetite recently, so she accommodated her and didn't prepare meals for her.

The exam time passed in the blink of an eye, and when Mei Xu found out, she had already handed in the last exam paper.

The cheers in the classroom were suddenly deafening.

"Okay, everyone," the homeroom teacher, Teacher Ogawa, also smiled, "Summer vacation is approaching, students, please relax."

The students couldn't hide their excitement even more, and some of them started talking about their summer vacation plans.

"Where are Mio and Xiao Ai? Do you have any plans?"

Xiao Ai yawned, "It's nothing, I'm probably going back to Chiba to spend vacation with my family, how about you, Xiao Di?"

"Maybe go to the summer camp with the tennis club," Little Di held his chin, "The local competition will start next week... Where's Mio?"

Mio slowly put away the stationery, "I don't know, but I told my brother that I will go to swimming training in August."

"Swimming..." Xiao Ai looked distressed, "Mei Xu, they probably won't accept you."

Mio froze for a moment, then continued to tidy up, but just lowered her head.

At the end of June, Xia Chan kept shouting "I know... I know..." outside the window endlessly.

Mei Xu glanced at the house for the last time, and then quickly walked towards the main road under Xiao Ai's urging.

"Hurry up!!" Xiao Ai dragged Mio to run together, "The men's competition is about to start!!"

Mio sighed helplessly, "Please, the first match, Yulin, won all in less than half a day."

Although Mio didn't know much about tennis, what Torahjiro said was always right.

"What do you know?" Xiao Ai was a little impatient, "Senior Taocheng and Echizen played doubles, doubles, what a historic scene!!"

Mio rolled her eyes slightly, "Little love, I, can't breathe!!"

"Sorry, sorry!!" Although she said so, Xiao Ai didn't slow down, "I can't miss the dispatch of all except the minister!!"

In the preliminaries of the men's tennis club of Qinggaku, the opponent, as Toranojiro said, was Yulin, a non-seeded school.

What makes people more curious is Seigaku's lineup: doubles are Momoshiro Echizen and Oishi Kikumaru, and singles are Kaido, Kawamura and Fuji.

As Xiao Ai said, Minister Tezuka didn't play, but just standing on the sidelines put a lot of pressure on people.

Compared with the men's competition, Mio is more concerned about the women's competition for the first time.

"Xiao Ai," Mei Xu tugged on Xiao Ai's sleeve, "I'll go to the women's group and the venue."

Xiao Ai couldn't take care of herself, so she could only pat Mei Xu's head, "Okay, be careful, I'm here to watch the game with the men's team."

Mio blinked and nodded, and took a look at the other two girls on the sidelines—it seemed that one of them was Miao's classmate and Echizen's fan.

If it was wonderful, she would not be so rude to make such a big noise on the sidelines.

Mio followed the route map on the sign board, but it had been a long time, and she still couldn't see the venue of the women's group.

When he was spinning around in a panic in a panic, a strange hand suddenly touched Mio's shoulder.

"Hey little sister," the visitor grinned wretchedly with a wide mouth, "Alone?"

Mio shrank her shoulders - she really couldn't stand outsiders touching her so casually.

"Since we are alone, then..." The boy put his arm on her shoulder and walked, "Let's go together?"

Without any explanation, he began to drag Mio away with a wretched smile.

Mei Xu was weaker than him in strength, unable to break free from the wretched man's hand, she was so anxious that she was about to cry.

The "Don't!!" sounded like a mosquito, and it was swallowed back under the pressure of the wretched man.

"Kaki noki, please let go of your hand."

Suddenly, an unexpected voice appeared, and Mio looked at the visitor in surprise.

"Hey... from Qingxue," the wretched man turned around as if putting his arms around Mio, "Isn't this the genius Fuji and Minister Tezuka?"

"What's wrong?" Another taller man walked out from behind the wretched man, "Minister Tezuka? It's really strange..."

Neither Fuji nor Tezuka answered, in fact, both of them were staring at the wretched man with Mio's arms around him.

Finally, Fuji said, "Nine ghosts, please ask your members to let go of my sister."

"Huh? Fuji's younger sister?" The man named Nine Ghosts looked at Mei Xu slightly, "Forget it, such a malnourished brat will suffer from indigestion."

Mei Xu bowed her head lowly, tears began to roll quietly in her eyes.

Kuki provoked Minister Tezuka, but ended up being thrown away by the minister.

Along the way, Mio silently followed Fuji and Minister Tezuka, as depressed as a doll who lost her soul.

Tezuka couldn't bear it, "Fuji, you can talk to her."

Fuji silently nodded.

Fuji took Mio and walked slowly towards the competition field of the women's division.

The women's match was earlier than the men's match, and at this moment, Aigaku had finished his first doubles match.

"Thank you, Brother Fuji." Mei Xu still lowered her head to thank, and walked slowly towards the venue.

Bu Er made up his mind and pulled Mei O, "Mei O..."

As soon as the words started, Fuji was surprised to see Mio crying in front of him.

"I'm sorry, Brother Fuji," Mio raised her hand, wiping her tears vigorously, "I, too timid, too scared."

The words that were originally held back in Bu Er's stomach all turned into a sigh for a while.

Fuji also raised his hand, and lightly combed Mio's hair, "Don't worry me, Mio."

Mio nodded silently.

"Also, don't cry."

Qingxue Men's Tennis Division won the match against Yulin and Shuiyuan without any suspense and advanced to the final of the regional qualifiers.

"I've done the calculations. If there is a chance, Liujiao should meet Qingxue in the Kanto Competition, although Qingxue has rarely made it that far in the past..."

The chaotic sound became smaller and smaller, and finally disappeared in the summer cicadas.

In the women's division, one win in doubles and two wins in singles in the preliminary round, one loss in the second round and three wins in the second round, they barely advanced to the final.

Losing the first match but winning the second match is considered a great improvement.

"Speaking of which," Qihai handed the water bottle to Luan, "Mio, why is your nose so red?"

Mio shook her head and remained silent.

"Ah, that's not good," said Miao Pai on the sidelines, "The match between Echizen and Fudomine!!"

Mio was actually very curious about how Miao, who was watching the women's competition, knew the current situation of the men's competition.

But seeing Xiao Ai and Lan Xi who were smiling and smiling at the men's arena, Mei Xu suddenly had a sense of clarity.

"Meio?" Fuji tilted his head, "Is the women's competition over?"

Mio nodded, "Same, final."

Director Tezuka looked in Mio's direction for a while, and then looked back at the venue as if nothing had happened.

"Mio," Buer picked up the towel, "Later, accompany me to the hospital to see Long."

Mio nodded again, and after a long time, said, "Luan, one defeat and one victory, yes, advance to the final."

Hearing this, Buer, who was wiping his sweat, also smiled.

Minister Tezuka frowned, "Too careless."

Now, even Miao, Xiao Di, Xiao Ai and Lan Xi, who were on the sidelines, laughed without embarrassment.

But when Fudomine's racket hit Echizen's eyelids, the smile stopped.

Echizen's injured eyelid was bleeding like a fountain. For a while, the field was silent, as if even the sound of blood dripping could be heard.

While exclaiming, another long-haired girl outside the field quickly ran into the field, trying to stop Echizen's bleeding.

It's a pity that Echizen pushed the opponent away mercilessly, and finally, under the order of the referee, he reluctantly went off the court to bandage him.

Miao took the medicine box, pursed her lips, and applied the gauze to Echizen's eyelids with the greatest force.

"It hurts... Kawamura," Echizen frowned deeply, "Can't you use less force?"

Miao rolled her eyes angrily, "It would be fine if you didn't get hurt!!"

Mio thought that Echizen would be pulled off, but Minister Tezuka gave him the last 10 minutes.

Miao stood on the sidelines, the wrinkles between his brows never disappeared from the moment Echizen came on stage.

In this very tense match, Echizen finally won and brought the tickets for the Tokyo Metropolitan Tournament to the Qinggaku Men's Tennis Club.

On the other hand, the women's tennis team also advanced to the Tokyo Metropolitan Competition with two losses and three wins.

After the match, Miao and Luan finally burst into the brightest smiles from the bottom of their hearts.

"Tezuka, you're not bad," the head of the women's department patted her on the shoulder, "You did well today."

Mio and the others hid behind the tense and stiff Ran, giggling and giggling.

"And you, Saeki," the head of the women's department looked at Xiao Ai, "I'm looking forward to meeting you in the summer camp."

Xiao Ai immediately opened her mouth like a fish on shore, closed it and opened it again.

After winning, Miao seemed relaxed, but she and Qihai led the others to make a big fuss about this year's first-year star Echizen and Luan.

Fuji smiled, and naturally pulled Mio along, "Go, let's go home."

Mio tilted her head, and under the setting sun, Fuji's face was stained with a blush, "Mm, good."

Let's go home together.

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