[Free! ] Dolphin rearing posture

Rolling her eyes at Rei Ryuzaki, Rui turned her face away and refused to answer.

"Ah...Senior Tianhai..."

"...you can call me Miss Rui, or just call me by my first name."

"... Rui."

"Did I ask you to call me by my name, Nanase Haruka!" Rui threw the black knee socks on Nanase Haruka's head without saying a word, while Tachibana Makoto called Nanase worriedly remote name.

... However, Nanase Haruka continued to stare blankly, with a still expression of indifference, unable to tell what he was thinking at this time.

So the scene suddenly became chaotic.

"—You guys should hurry up and practice!" Finally Matsuoka couldn't help shouting, and the few moments of intense quarrel just now were quiet.

Tachibana Makoto let out a long breath as if she was saved.

I have to say that Matsuoka Jiang is still very deterrent.

however……

"Where the hell are you looking, Nanase!——"

"...your delusion."

"It's not an illusion, okay!—" Quickly pulling down the hem of her skirt, Rui snorted softly.

Don't pretend that she doesn't know Nanase Haruka has the attributes of a gentleman! [strike out]

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Then soon, five days passed, Ruyi was disturbed in her dream early in the morning, she touched the phone in a daze, and she pressed the answer button.

"Ah, Ruyi-sister, you answered the phone! - Come on, come on! Today is the freestyle competition between Rin and Haruka!"

"...you're so noisy." Ruyi plucked her ears, and in the blink of an eye, Rui hung up the phone, turned over and fell back asleep.

"...Sister Rui." However, Kaori Amami woke her up with a scratch.

Yes, it's scratching and waking up.

"Pfft ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, please forgive me, I will get up and go!"

"Oh."

"The reaction is so cold!" Rui, who was complaining, was already biting her hair tie and heading downstairs.

"Ah, good morning, Rui." Amami Oruki smiled softly at her, "Let's go after breakfast, it looks like there is a game today?"

"Yes, Mom." Rui, who was biting a poached egg until her mouth was almost full of golden yellow liquid, raised her eyes, and answered vaguely, "I was invited by people from our school's swimming department to watch the competition..."

"That's it." Putting the last piece of sushi in his hand into the bento box, Oriki Amami placed the bento box in the center of a piece of cloth and began to tie a knot.

"……Eh?"

"Give these as condolences to those who participated in the competition." Amami Oruki held his face in his left hand and said, "Ah~ Rui has reached this age..."

"And, Rui, didn't you tell us yesterday that you would prepare sushi to watch their competition today?" Amami Oruki saw that her expression was a little stiff, and added another sentence.

"Zoriki, just let them have a good love."

"Yeah, honey..."

"So Mom and Dad, did you automatically make up something in your own brain!—" She didn't plan to get up early in the morning!The competition starts in the morning, right?Even if she sleeps until she wakes up naturally, she can catch up!

So when she arrived at the meeting place, she could clearly feel Ye Yuezhu's star eyes shining, and then the others remained the same as before, but Rei Ryuzaki looked a little nervous, and even had dark circles under her eyes.

"...So, Lian, how did you get the dark circles under your eyes?"

"Ah...that..." Rei Ryuzaki turned his head in embarrassment, "Sister Rui..."

"I thought Miss Rui wouldn't be here today..." Matsuoka blinked with joy, "Is it because of some special reason? Huh, this is...?"

Matsuokae naturally noticed the bento box in Rui's hand.

"...Sushi made from the extra rice in our house." Rui glanced to the side, stretched out the bento box in front of them, and stretched out her index finger with the other hand to scratch her cheek in embarrassment, "... Absolutely not on purpose!"

"Pfft ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! - Does Ruyi sister have the tsundere attribute!" Ye Yuezhu on the side has already laughed, and by the way, he also complained about the dark circles under the eyes of Rei Ryuzaki.

"... Long-winded!——"

"Speaking of which, sister Ruyi won't sign up. For swimming competitions, if you're not in the swimming club, you can also sign up for individual competitions, right?" When he got to the auditorium, he looked at the one who was lying on the railing and watching the warm-up exercises below. Rui, Matsuoka asked curiously.

"I'm probably unfamiliar." Rui's face is much better than before when she heard swimming, although she said that her expression was cold, "If you want to participate, you must adjust your condition before coming back. Since you want to participate, you must do your best. Go for it, right?"

"Makoto—~~" Higurashi Arisa could be seen waving her hand from a long distance, but... she didn't call the name of good engine oil first.

Rui suddenly felt heartbroken.

Recently, the relationship between Higurashi Arisa and Minamoto Aya is also a bit weird... Is it her illusion, it feels that the relationship has become much colder.

Minamoto seems to have not seen herself recently, even if she met her, her tone is very unfamiliar, like a familiar stranger, no, maybe this is not as good as this.

"Ah, Awei, you're here too~" Handed the sports drink in his hand to Tachibana Makoto, smiled happily at him, and the two looked at each other affectionately for a while (in Rui's view), she seemed to be Rui was found lying on the railing.

"Focus on sex and despise friends." She raised her eyebrows, seeing the hair on Higurashi Ari's veil moving and then slowly bending down, Ruyi turned her head away guiltily.

"QAQ Zhenqin!—I'm not what Awei said I value sex over friends, right?"

"Xiaosha, dear..."

Seeing the inexplicably subtle sugary sweet atmosphere centered on Tachibana Makoto over there, Rui frowned and covered her mouth with her hands, with a look of disgust.

"QAQ, Ah Wei, don't do this!—"

"Stay away from me, my heart hurts." Singles, let us see the torches and gasoline in your hands!As the world says, the FFF regiment is justice!

"Rin... isn't here." Seeing Nanase Haruka's slightly lost look, Tachibana Makoto smiled gently at him.

"Maybe you've already prepared it?" Arisa Higurashi tilted her head and added following Tachibana Makoto's guess.

"..." There was a flash of light in Nanase Haruka's eyes. He didn't speak, but turned around and bent down to pick up the swimming goggles placed on the auditorium. When he walked behind Rui, his heart suddenly felt like There was a glimmer of anticipation, and I don't know where it came from.

He looked at Ruyi's naked back exposed in the translucent clothes, and stopped in his tracks.

"...Come on, Nanase."

"...um..." In fact, what he wanted to hear more was Tianhai Ruyi calling his name by himself.

**********

However... Rui didn't expect that the boy who liked water so much that he could even surpass everything around him would...lose, to Rin Matsuoka, who was in Samegara.

"I won't swim with you again in the future."

"Never."

Matsuoka Rin looked down at Nanase Haruka who was still looking at him in the swimming pool, his bright red messy short hair revealed a hint of arrogance, and he showed his shark teeth, his tone was even more ironic.

Nanase Haruka grabbed onto the railing with her hands and came out of the swimming pool. Her short black hair was tightly pressed against his cheeks at the moment, and the sea blue that had no emotion at all was a little muddy at that moment. Not a single ray of light can be revealed.

Haruka Nanase shouldn't care about winning or losing, but he was confused. Why didn't he get free after a match with Rin Matsuoka?

The cool water slapped on his back, neck, and flowed from the collarbone.He bent down and propped his hands against the wall of the shower room, staring blankly at the water sliding down the spout.

"Nanase hasn't come back yet?" Rui raised her hand and looked at the watch on her wrist. It was almost the match point of the swimming event Tachibana Makoto signed up for, but Nanase Haruka never showed up.

Rei Ryuzaki was anxious to find Nanase Haruka just now, but after the boys went together, they still came back with a bit disappointed face.Ruyi looked at them quietly with a hint of worry, and she didn't want to speak, for fear that what she said would hurt others.

"Come on, Makoto~" Higurashi Arisa saw that Tachibana Makoto did not show a gentle smile as usual, but was a little worried, so she made a victory gesture to him.

"Hmm...Xiaosha, thank you." Tachibana Makoto chuckled softly, seeing the hair on Higurashi Arisa's head moving there, feeling inexplicably at ease.

"A Wei will definitely go to find Yao, because..."

"...Because of what?"

"...QAQ, Ah Wei, didn't you feel restless when you were sitting just now, as if you were being pricked by a needle?"

"..." Guy who sells teammates, I remember you.

"Sure enough, I'd better go find Xiaoyao!—" Ye Yuezhu said as he pulled off Ruyi just like before, "Sister Ruyi is also very worried about Xiaoyao, right?"

"...Ah, hello!" Rui felt heartbroken several times already. Is it so easy to see her worry? She thought she was covering it up well.

What's more, how could that person named Nanase Haruka make her worry.

It was in the corridor outside the shower room that I found Haruka Nanase who was sitting on the seat, leaning against the wall, with a slightly confused expression.His short black hair still had some drops of water that hadn't been wiped clean, and the hair couldn't bear the weight of the water drops and slipped down, looking as if he had shed tears.

"Ah, Xiaoyao!—You are here!—" Ye Yuezhu had already run over, Ruyi actually wanted to stop him, but she didn't grab Ye Yuezhu's clothes.

Ye Yuezhu ran a little impatiently, and when he stopped beside Nanase Haruka, he bent down and put his hands on his knees, panting for a while and said: "Xiaozhen's competition is about to start, let's go!"

"I'm not going." Turning her face back, Nanase Haruka's tone was no longer cold, but there was a feeling of being awkward.

"Sister Ruyi is also very worried about you!" Ye Yuezhu added after taking a few breaths.

"..." Nanase Haruka was stunned for a moment, her sea-blue bright eyes looked at Rui who was leaning against the wall with her right foot raised on her left leg.

"At any rate, Tachibana-kun is your childhood sweetheart." Rui folded her arms, turning her face away so that Hazuki and Nanase Haruka could not see what her face would look like.

She turned her head to look at Nanase Haruka, and continued to say word by word: "I know you need to be alone and quiet now, but not now, wouldn't it be nice to enjoy being quiet by yourself later."

People persuaded them to go back, but sadly, all of them... failed the preliminaries.

Compared with the eagerness to try in the morning, everyone's expressions have been much more depressed.

"Hey, why didn't you see Haruka?" Higurashi Arisa tugged Ruyi's hollow short sleeve curiously, "Awei, do you know where he went?"

"...Wow, that's so strange." Ruyi Doudou looked at Arisa Higurashi who was pulling her sleeve aside, "You actually asked about the situation of people other than Tachibana-kun."

"...Hmm QAQ."

"Nanase said that he was not feeling well, so he went back first." Looking at the gradually changing orange sky, Rui sighed softly.

"I guess it's true to want to be quiet."

"Huh... Yao Wan Jing Jing? Ah Wei, your big crisis..."

"... Jingjing is not a name! Hey! And I don't like that dead Tsundere! Not at all!"

"Arisa-senpai didn't say anything..." Rei Ryuzaki pushed the red-rimmed glasses, "Tiankai-senpai seems to be true...ah no, we can't make a decision based on theory..."

"What's the decision? Hey!—You must have thought of something again!"

"That's actually..." Matsuoka was hesitant to speak when he looked at them, then Rui slowly withdrew his facial expression, tilted his head, and motioned for Matsuoka to speak first.

"Sorry!—Actually, I signed up for the mixed relay for you without telling everyone!——"

**********

So what is before everyone is how to persuade Nanase Haruka, who seems to be resistant to participating in the mixed relay, to participate in the mixed relay.However, everyone ran to Nanase Haruka's house and tried hard to open the door, but found that it was locked.

What's more, Nanase's house is completely dark, either sleeping or not at home.

"Go through the back door!" Ju Zhenqin immediately gave up the idea of ​​opening the sliding door, and immediately ran towards the back door.

"En!—" Ye Yuezhu immediately responded and followed.

"Is it really okay to break into someone's house like this..."

"Um... Ruyi, you go upstairs to Yao's bedroom to have a look; Xiaosha will go to the other upstairs rooms to check, we're downstairs, just call us if there's anything wrong."

"Ah."

"Ok."

Higurashi Arisa then took Rui and ran upstairs, the upstairs was pitch black, and Rui immediately stopped in her tracks to prevent Higurashi Arisa from continuing to run forward with her.Ruyi panted lightly, and groped along the wall for the uneven place on the wall. After finally touching it, she immediately pressed down.

The walkway is lit up.

"Shasha, go over there and have a look, I'll go to the bedroom!" When Higurashi Arisa waved her hand and ran towards the room closest to the stairs, Rui took a deep breath and walked towards the depths of the corridor. run.

"Excuse me." Stopping in front of the sliding door of Nanase Haruka's bedroom, she took a deep breath, knocked lightly on the sliding door, and heard no sound from inside, she pulled the sliding door open.

As expected, there was no one there. She put one hand on the door frame and leaned in. After turning on the light in the room, she moved a few steps in.

The scattered things on Nanase Haruka's desk attracted her interest.She heard her breathing suddenly became a little faster, step by step, she was getting closer and closer to the desk.

The part touched by her sight made her tremble slightly inwardly.

Ah...these are...

It’s true that the desk is very neat, but on the open album, there are also line drafts, half-colored ones, and finished ones.She flipped it a few times casually, her eyes flickering involuntarily.

The finished picture is a girl in a swimsuit. Although her expression reveals a little bit of displeasure, she is still very energetic, including some long dull hair, and also reveals a little bit of vitality.

A classic black and white swimsuit, as well as a ball head... and slightly long hair.

But without exception, the person in the painting is clearly her.