[Net King] Take away my heart

We all wear our own masks, but when we want to uncover them, we have to take off our own flesh and blood. —André Berthiaume

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When I got home, I rushed to the toilet and threw up on the edge of the toilet.

After vomiting out everything in my stomach, I went to the sink and started washing my hands non-stop.

So dirty, so dirty, it has to be cleaned.I felt that my whole body was covered with dirty germs. I poured hand sanitizer all over my hands and rubbed them repeatedly.A bottle of hand sanitizer was used up and I still felt that it was not enough, so I took out the body wash for bathing and washed my hands again, filled it up, filled it up, sterilized, sterilized, washed and washed, washed and washed.

But my nausea didn't go away.I desperately suppressed the feeling of vomiting from time to time, tried not to look at myself in the mirror, just stood in front of the sink and washed my hands vigorously.

I don't know how long I've been washing, but the feeling in my hands seems to be gradually disappearing. Washing hands has become an unconscious behavior, and I can't stop.

Erina walked gently to the door of the toilet, and looked at me with worried eyes.

"Brother...don't wash..."

Her small and feeble voice reconnected my broken nerves in an instant.

I stopped washing my hands, but the water from the faucet was still running.Only then did I notice that my hands were red, swollen and peeling from rubbing, and the burning pain hit my heart.

"Brother, don't be like this... Erina is afraid..."

Seeing my miserable and messy appearance, Erina burst into tears.

I turned around and squatted down, hugging Erina who was crying.

"I'm sorry... I'm sorry... Erina... I'm sorry..."

What echoed in my ears was not my own voice, but the voice of my mother crying and apologizing after torturing Erina.

My mother was sick, and maybe I was sick too.Does this mean that one day I will do the same thing as my mother?When I think of this, I feel terrified and tremble all over.

I thought, is it possible that Hui Rina and I can be relieved as long as we send our mother to the hospital?We live alone with our father's money, depend on each other, and will no longer be tortured and bullied.

But when I think of my father's indifferent face, I feel that I can't lock my mother in there for the rest of his life.If the mother is put in the hospital, the father will be relieved, and he can associate with those women more freely.

Mother is miserable enough.

Thinking of losing my mother in the future, my father bringing different women home, and even letting those dirty women take care of Erina, I feel unforgivable.

I can't forgive a father like that.

My mother's blood flowed through my body, and my mother was a madman, so I was born a madman too.

But what can I complain about?That lunatic is my mother, and she is my mother, so I will be like her, inheriting her advantages, inheriting her shortcomings, and also inheriting her madness...just like inheriting my father's wisdom and talent.

I can't complain about anything because I'm a mother's son.I was born to protect my mother and Erina, without them, I would have no reason to live.

"Erina...I will definitely protect Erina and mother...definitely..."

Holding Erina's thin body that seemed to disappear at any moment, I shed tears.

With a red nose, I hunched over and jogged in the cold wind, and was soon overtaken by the first-year freshmen chasing up behind me.

"Yagyu! Why are you in a daze! Concentrate!"

Sanada, who was watching everyone practicing not far away, yelled at me, and I quickly ran at a faster pace.

It feels a bit embarrassing, because usually I should not be easily distracted.

"Yo--"

Suddenly someone patted me on the back from behind.Turning around, it was indeed King Ni.

Nioh, who is not doing his job properly, always makes people feel like he is doing nothing. It was because of his invitation that I quit the golf club and joined the tennis club.

"Don't worry, Linlin, it's very good. I dropped a bag of instant noodles by the flower bed this morning. When I passed by just now, it was already eaten clean."

"Huh? Instant noodles...?"

Nioh and I only became classmates in the second grade, and the seats were not too close, and we didn't have much chance to talk at ordinary times, so naturally we couldn't be considered close friends.

The reason why he accepted his invitation may be because he happened to find the right time.The golf club with very few people left in the cold, me who has lost my enthusiasm for golf, and me who is worrying about my mother and sister——it was because I met Nioh at the right time that I agreed without thinking too much invited.

"You guy, you have to have a limit when you treat cats as lovers. You miss Rin Rin even when you're running. Aren't you afraid that Sanada will eat you? Boof."

"What does it mean to treat a cat as a lover, I don't have it—you are a topic that came out of nowhere."

King Ni likes to make jokes, usually he doesn't open his mouth, and when he does, he must be serious.But I know that Nioh is actually not as unreliable as it seems on the outside. He has a side on the court that can observe his opponents in detail, and usually things as long as he is willing to do it, he can do it.I think Nioh can still be trusted in some ways, so I also entrusted him to feed Rinrin when I was inconvenient to go to the backyard.

Having said that, what's the deal with giving cats instant noodles?If she really ate that kind of thing, Rin Rin would have diarrhea.

Rin Lin is a stray cat that often haunts the backyard of the school. Because of fighting with other stray cats, she lost a part of her tail.Originally, there were many wild cats near the school, but the so-called one mountain cannot accommodate two tigers. The wild cats often fight with each other because of grabbing the territory. Gradually, some wild cats were driven to other places. The school also ordered us to prohibit us from feeding these wild cats. Rin Lin was the only wild cat that haunted the backyard.

——Everyone is gone, leaving you alone is lonely, right?

One gray rainy day, I met a young girl while going to the backyard.

It was the day after the school ordered a ban on feeding feral cats.As a disciplinary committee member, I should obey the school rules and take the lead to set an example, but for a long time, almost every day at noon, I would leave some bread and other food for Rin Rin to eat. Lin Lin feeds, I am very worried that it will not live long.

I walked to the backyard with an umbrella, and when I was hesitating with the bread bag, I saw a girl squatting alone in front of the flower bed and looking at the shrill girl.

Lin Lin was eating lunch on the flower bed with relish, and in front of it was a package of dried fish that the girl put there.

"Mr. Principal said that we are not allowed to come here to feed you anymore... We may not see each other in the future. So, even if you are alone, you must live strong."

The girl took out her mobile phone and gently shook the chain hanging on the mobile phone.The string of chains made a light "ring" sound, and Rin Lin, who was eating dried fish, stopped eating lunch and called "meow" twice to the girl.

"You, I really like this voice." Saying that, the girl shook the chain again, showing a faint smile.

I didn't intend to disturb the scene in front of me, I just didn't know that someone other than me was feeding Rin Rin, so I was a little surprised.

After saying goodbye to the wild cat, the girl stood up, opened the umbrella, and turned around in the hazy drizzle.

At this moment, my eyes met hers.

The girl didn't say anything, she was surprised when she saw me, this surprise turned into panic, maybe she knew that I was a disciplinary committee member, maybe she mistakenly thought that I was caught on the spot violating school rules.

She left there in a panic.Before leaving, the chain of the mobile phone was still in her hand and made the sound of "ring, ring, ring".

"Meow--"

After she left, I walked towards Rin Rin who was eating with satisfaction.

"It's a strange guy who actually likes that voice. Since you like it so much... why don't you just give you a name?"

stern.

On that afternoon of light rain, I named the nameless wild cat like this.

"The two people over there! It is forbidden to chat while running!"

"Yes Yes--"

Even after being yelled at by Sanada, Nio still looked careless.This guy doesn't give a shit about anything, not even Sanada—no, he never puts anyone down, including me.

"By the way, have you started cram school today?"

"Well, I'll go when the work is over."

"It's really hard work—a top student. Just work hard and get ahead."

After lightly saying these words that didn't come from the heart, Nioh quickly ran up to me.

Looking at his back as if he didn't care about everything, I felt a sense of melancholy.

Looking around, except for Yukimura and Sanada who are in charge of supervising everyone, everyone is warming up and jogging.Jack Kuwahara, who always runs first in the team, and Bunta Marui, who occasionally plays tricks behind him.Akaya Kirihara, who would go berserk because of a little friction and suffer from pink eye disease, and Liu Renji, a military strategist who will always calm the enemy by his side.

Thanks to King Ni, I have come to this tennis club, which can be called my home.

I'm not afraid of suffering, I'm not afraid of the strictness of Yukimura and Sanada, and I don't care whether I have to earn a place here.As long as I can play tennis, I am happy, as long as I can stand side by side with all kinds of people, I am happy, as long as I can watch them push and joke with each other.

Only by staying here can I forget my troubles and find a sense of peace similar to home.

I never expected to be heart-to-heart friends with people here because I knew I couldn't.For Nioh, as long as he maintains the current state, it will not be too close, nor too distant, it is just the right distance.

However, such a distance still makes me doubt sometimes.

are we friends?Or just ordinary classmates?teammate?How does King Ni see me?What do you think of me?

For these people, am I dispensable or necessary.

"Yagyu! Run two extra laps! I'm in a daze again!"

"I'm sorry—" When I realized that I was thinking too much, I couldn't help shaking my head, trying to get rid of these distracting thoughts.

Everyone in the tennis club had already left me far behind. As expected, Marui quietly approached Jack, who was running No.1, and pasted a card with the words "I'm an idiot" on his back without anyone noticing. note.King Ni who was on the side smiled secretly after seeing this scene.

I like the people here.

I adore everyone in the tennis club and I want, want, want to be friends with them.

Running vigorously, I started to catch up with Yanagi and Kirihara in front of me.As the distance shrinks a little bit, my heart seems to be gradually becoming brighter.

You have to finish those two laps quickly—you can’t be late for cram school—on the way home, remember to buy a pack of dried fish——

While thinking this way, I got motivated and overtook the person in front of me in one go.

Then, in the cram school, I met the girl who could make the sound of "ring bell" again.

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The author has something to say: [Attention to notice]//

Girls ~ March 3th is coming soon!Do you know what day it is >///

That's right!The birthday of the great male protagonist Mr. Yukimura & the female protagonist Ms. Akiyama in this article~XDDDD

It's also Toru's own birthday~(^o^)/

In order to celebrate Mie's birthday, the next chapter will release a long-lost extra chapter!named:

[Minister Yukimura's Birthday Deluxe Bonus//BBS Confidential Archives of the Lihai Tennis Club Open--The Brilliant Event Book of the Industry! 】

↑It's a bit long XD

The plot of the extra chapter does not affect the direction of the main text~ It is a cheerful way of complaining, I just hope to make everyone laugh a little in the heavy plot~

Girls who don’t like extra episodes can skip it, it doesn’t matter~

So see you on my birthday~XDDD