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After all, they are third graders. As long as they are third graders, they seem to be suddenly busy. Even the three-person group of girlfriends in everyone's eyes, it seems that the topic starts to revolve around "what kind of career are you going to do in the future?" "Which University" began to turn around.

Rui didn't tell Minamoto and Higurashi Arisa that she hadn't decided on the way out that she wanted to choose in the end, but she couldn't say much while watching them immersed in their sweet love.

Give them some opportunities to stay with their boyfriends, and don't want to cause trouble for anyone anymore.

The result of the second day of the county competition was also within everyone's expectations. The beautiful mixed relay made everyone stand up and applaud. As a new club (after all, it has only been established for more than a year), the results this time The principal couldn't help but start to pay attention.

The events that everyone in the swimming department is good at, as well as the mixed relay, all entered the regional competitions, without any suspense.

But no one will know, this will become another fuse.

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"Hey, listen to me, Awei!" On the roof, Rui was still eating bento in a circle with Minamoto Ami and Arisa Higurashi as usual, and Arisa Higurashi suddenly spoke, dumbfounded. Mao also trembled because of her being too cheerful, very energetic, "Makoto seems to have decided on a way out! He's going to go to a university in Tokyo!"

"Hey, isn't it good." Minamoto smiled politely, "Arisa originally wanted to get into a university in Tokyo, I remember you seemed to want to get into the Department of Literature?"

"Yeah, yeah! I'm super interested in literature!" Arisa Higurashi said, but her dull hair drooped, "But I'm not sure if I'll get in with my current grades..."

Higurashi Arisa's grades are actually not bad, but math seems to be a bit bad, physics is barely passable, science is still passable, and she can be ranked very high in Iwatobi High School.

"It's a big deal, I'll help you with your math, don't be cowardly." Rui knew the pain in Higurashi Arisa's heart, patted her on the shoulder, and encouraged her, "Of course, if you can survive, you can continue to flirt with Tachibana-kun Yes, and I absolutely—will be competently making a powerful electric light bulb, in Tokyo."

"Hey..." Ruyi is definitely using the excuse that she seldom talks to Tachibana Makoto again because she is stuck together with Tachibana Makoto every day.

Rui's ranking is basically very high, completely on par with Nanase Haruka.Of course, this situation is when Nanase Haruka is in a good mood, and that guy will only do well in the exam when he is in a good mood.

"What about you, Rui?" Minamoto Aya didn't bother to comfort Higurashi Arisa, and everyone has long been used to teasing each other. This is the feeling of being a close friend, so no one will take each other's so-called "sarcasm" to heart .

"According to my family's request, they want me to be admitted to T University, but I thought about it, or Tokyo University of the Arts, which is more suitable for me."

Rui thought for a while, and blurted out with some hesitation.

"You can wait a little longer, after all, it's not winter yet, and it's only summer now, so it doesn't matter." Minamoto Aya gracefully closed the bento box and said leisurely.

Then she discovered one thing. Recently, Haruka Nanase has been alienating her a little intentionally or unintentionally.In school, and during club activity time, Matsuoka Jiang dragged her to the swimming department as a supervisor, and even when she routinely checked her discipline, Nanase Haruka passed by her without raising her eyes.

Depressed, depressed, still depressed.

And regarding the trend that her relationship with Nanase Haruka has become a bit strange recently, everyone in the third grade has started to speculate wildly, and being watched and gossip... This makes her quite uncomfortable.

When she sent an e-mail to tell Guicheng about this, the other party didn't care about the basketball team teammates behind him yelling at him, "You're a guy who left the team" and just picked up the phone and laughed.

"……why are you laughing."

"I'm laughing at the same thing." Guicheng's tone was obviously smiling, probably a little out of breath, and his speech seemed intermittent, "He who obviously seems indifferent to everything... Poof... ...Did you know that before, Makoto was doing boosting in the swimming pool..."

Guicheng told Ruyi all about what happened before, in short, he said everything without choosing what to say.

Including when Nanase Haruka asked him about the bet coldly, he also explained it in great detail.

"That is to say, Rui, although I don't mind you using Haruka as a shield." The other party's giggling tone suddenly became a little suppressed, a little deep, "But as the same person who likes the other party, the other party has not seen clearly The same kind in my heart, I really feel a little pain for Haruka. You know, at that time he learned that you just lied to him, his eyes really didn't have any light..."

After the serious tone passed, Guicheng sighed when he heard the dead silence on the other side of the microphone. He just asked her a few words in his cheerful tone as usual, nothing more than "how are you?" Are you on it?" "Is there a way you want to go?" and so on.Afterwards, he added, "Come out and get together when you have time, please do your best." Guicheng hung up the phone resolutely. After all, he still had a basketball game to attend.

Her eyes were involuntarily empty, and she kept murmuring what Guicheng said to her, and she suddenly felt that she had no more strength in her hands, and the microphone of the landline slipped out of her hand little by little in her field of vision. .

She was wrong, this time...just this time, she also wanted to say "I'm sorry" to that young man who often has a cold expression but a delicate mind with a frank heart.

Haru...sorry...

Rui covered her cheek with her hand, sobbing softly.

Kaori, who was outside Rui's room, didn't intend to say anything when she heard the crying. She knew her sister's character, anyway, she would not cry in front of others after crying. Rui has such a character, even if Even if there is a wound, she will never take the wound away from her hands for others to see.

But what Kaori couldn't expect was that Rui cried in front of outsiders twice, but to the same person.

And they are all Nanase Haruka.

Rui couldn't stay alone in the room and feel sad for too long, because Yamazaki Sosuke had already called, hoping that she would go to Yugara once...well, help him pinch the stopwatch.

"Sousuke, you should take a rest once in a while, it's not very good for the shoulder wound." Pressing the stopwatch and glancing at him, Rui squatted by the swimming pool of the Samegara Academy swimming pool, and handed the towel to the person who was looking up. Sousuke Yamazaki looked at her.

"No..." The other party's tone was unexpectedly strong, "I, Rin, and others are going to form a team. What's more, the opponent is that guy..."

As Yamazaki Sosuke said, the hand that was wiping his face stopped, his emerald eyes were cold.

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For the upcoming regional competition, both the Samegaru Swimming Club and Iwatobi Swimming Club are doing their best to speed up their practice. Naturally, Rui is clear about this, so let's put aside that for now.

Everyone at Iwatobi High School has indeed made up their minds this time to pass the regional competition and enter the national competition.

Until the sky gradually began to turn to a dark blue background, and the splash in the swimming pool did not stop, the four of them occupied a swimming lane each, swimming back and forth, like the inhabitants of the sea who freely shuttle in the water and enjoy the water.

"Makoto, Makoto, you practiced so late today too..." Higurashi Arisa held her schoolbag, watched Tachibana Makoto jump up lightly by grabbing the railing, and immediately passed the towel over.

She muttered under her breath.

"I'm sorry, Arisa." Tachibana Makoto smiled very warmly, and rubbed Arisa Higurashi's head with his already wide palm, "This period of time has been until the regional competition, if you can't wait, then go ahead Let's go back."

"I want to go back with Makoto..." Higurashi Arisa puffed her cheeks, such a cute gesture made Tachibana Makoto feel good, and the corners of her mouth raised unconsciously.

Xiuxiuxiu!

Rui glanced over, and Arisa's dumb hair trembled instantly.

"Hey, that's great...Senior Makoto has a gentle hometown." Ryuzaki was stunned for a while, and then coughed lightly to cover up his gaffe, "But speaking of it, the relationship between Rui-senpai and Haruka-senpai The relationship feels like…”

Ryuzaki Rei consciously stopped speaking, did not spit out the words "somewhat stiff" in his mouth, and soon choked back all of them.He clearly saw that Rui and Nanase Haruka looked away from each other, which felt a bit weird no matter how they looked at it.

"Senior Haruka..." Ryuzaki Rei worriedly called Nanase Haruka who was still in the water.

"..." He poked his head out of the water, shook his head slightly, the water droplets on his black hair were shaken off by him, and stared at Ryugasaki expressionlessly.

"...Let's practice handing over the baton, isn't it very important." After a long time, Rui heard Nanase Haruka's non-salty tone behind her.

Ryuzaki Rei obviously breathed a sigh of relief, and agreed again and again, Nanase Haruka glanced at Rui who was looking at the other end of the barbed wire at the moment, and buried her face in the water again in silence.

For a moment, there was only the sound of splashing water.

A few days later, it was still the same, but this time the difference was that both the life guidance teacher and the principal came to the swimming pool in person.

Naturally, Rui didn't dare to turn her head, she just rested her hands on the barbed wire and stared at the scenery outside.

The principal's words are very clear. In that county competition, whether it was an individual competition or a relay competition, some professional teams had already taken a fancy to Nanase Haruka's ability, so he hoped that he could perform even better in the regional competition.

But for Nanase Haruka, this sentence is not something to be happy about.

As soon as those words fell, Nanase Haruka's indifferent expression was suddenly covered with a layer of confusion.

He swims...and for what?What are you swimming for?

In the beginning, it was just out of love for water, and swimming in water always brought him the purest joy, so what is he swimming for now?

Nanase Haruka nodded in confusion.

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The heavy burden, the confusion about the original intention of swimming, and the joy of being bound.

In the freestyle competition, Haruka Nanase felt as if her limbs were being wrapped by blue tentacles, and she couldn't use any strength to break free. She wanted to reach out and touch the front, but there was only a piece of cold water in front of her.

He suddenly remembered the scene of that day, the scene of the girl who tried her best to reach the finish line but almost drowned in the water after touching it.

On the way back, he stopped in the middle of the swimming pool, his toes touched the ground, and he raised his head in confusion. The water droplets ruthlessly slid down his cheeks and dripped back into the swimming pool.

In the end...for what? ——

At that moment, the principal's attention to him may be due to the vaguely felt gaze behind him from a professional team watching him... It was like a nightmare.

In that game, everyone who was looking forward to Haruka Nanase's excellent freestyle results couldn't help but sigh, Makoto Tachibana and the others were naturally worried.Rui volunteered and decided to go see what happened to Nanase Haruka by herself.

When she paused at the door of the men's locker room, she saw Rin Matsuoka in a uniform with a shark handle walking in aggressively.

"Haruka, do you know what you did!—"

With a bang, Matsuoka Rin pressed Nanase Haruka next to the cabinet, and asked him loudly, he obviously couldn't believe it, "Do you know what you just did?"

"I do not mind."

Nanase Haruka's indifferent answer made Matsuoka Rin's inner irritability and anger rise a few percentage points.

He obviously cared about him, but he still made a look of "you don't care about me"!Is Nanase Haruka really a cold-blooded animal?

"What are you kidding, do you know how many scouts were watching the game just now!—"

"So what?" Nanase Haruka's abnormally cold tone made Matsuoka Rin stunned. Half of Nanase Haruka's face was buried in the shadow, and it seemed that he couldn't see his expression at all. He gently Shaking off Matsuoka Rin's hand, "Because there are scouts watching? Because I want to swim well? What are you kidding, I don't swim for this."

"Then what are you swimming for?"

Before Matsuoka Rin could speak this time, Rui who was standing at the door glanced at the three people who came behind because of worry, and asked lightly.

"Me, and my companions."

But only she is missing.

Rui smiled self-deprecatingly, "At least..."

"Then at least swim well for your companions and yourself... Don't you know that this is related to your future?... Don't you have a dream? With your strength, you must..." It was Rin Matsuoka who spoke, His tone was almost pleading.

There was another "bang", but this time it was Nanase Haruka who slammed his fist heavily on the cabinet, making a muffled sound.

Shocked by this sound, Rui saw the anger ignited in the eyes of that indifferent person, and the flames bursting out from those sea-blue eyes were so fierce that they seemed to be able to swallow everything.

He was angry, an anger he had never seen before.

"The one who doesn't understand is you. What dream? What future, I don't have such a thing!—"

Rarely, Nanase Haruka's thick mocking tone combined with a touch of hysteria, he yelled this sentence at Matsuoka Rin and looked at Rui, he smiled, but that kind of smile made Rui's heart chill.

"Are you going to accuse me too? You obviously don't even know what your dream is, but you are qualified?"

My legs couldn't help but feel a little weak, and I wanted to blurt out that sentence of apology, but it just stuck in my throat. The past scene overlapped with the present, and there was another kind of bitter taste.

"Haru...you are really...an out-and-out idiot!——"

The second time, to be precise, it was the first time in front of everyone, Rui forced a smile, and she smiled, but the tears couldn't stop pouring down.

Drop by drop, as if each drop hit someone's heart.

This love is a double-edged sword.

Rui said that bitterly to herself.