Snow white gown, brown belt. The blonde-haired and blue-eyed girl stared at the opponent in front of her, her chest constantly rising and falling. The girls sitting around her looked stunned, not only impressed by her strong skills, but also shocked by the momentum that erupted from her shouts. But several members of the department who were facing her could see that the fists held by Sakamoto Shumi at this time were trembling slightly, and the expression on her face was a palpitation.

Opposite her was a maiden dressed in the same way, but the color of the girdle around her waist was the same snow-white as her dress. Her bright red hair was tied high behind her head, and her long, narrowed eyes shot a cold light that made her heart chill. She let out a low breath, retracted her stance, straightened up, and bent down to the blonde girl opposite.

"Shumei, I'm sorry. ”

"No, it's okay......" Sakamoto Shumei suddenly seemed to be drained of the strength of her whole body, and her calves softened and sat on the ground. She lifted her somewhat pale cheeks and waved her hand weakly at Nao, "Don't care, don't care, I just almost hit...... Whew, it seems that I still haven't practiced enough. I will be frightened by your momentum, and the teacher will definitely punish me if he knows it, hahaha!!"

"No, it's not. Nao bit her lower lip tightly, and her face was full of chagrin under the cover of Liuhai, "If you hadn't dodged just now...... I didn't know what was going to happen. ”

"This shows that my sense of crisis is strong enough, even if the bullets fly, I will subconsciously dodge it!" Shumi put the bandaged fist in front of her eyes, clenched and slowly released, although she had a smile on her face, her eyes were full of mist, "But to be honest, I felt like I was dead at that moment...... Obviously, he didn't even have a powerful shout, just his eyes and tricks had such a strong deterrent power......" Shumei lay on the ground in such a big shape regardless of everyone's eyes, covering the light with the back of her hand and muttering dryly, "I thought I was already very strong, and I can deal with five people by one person in the dojo, damn it......"

"Shumi Sakamoto, it's too ugly!" Mizushima Advisor, who had been watching with his arms crossed his arms from the sidelines, stood up and walked up to Shumi and looked down at her condescendingly, "I was shocked by the opponent's momentum from the first move, this is the strength of your tea belt? Have you forgotten the teacher's teachings? Don't dodge the opponent's attack, if others have the momentum to kill, you should return with several times the momentum! If you lose the momentum on the field, no matter how strong your skills are, you can't take the lead, don't you understand?"

"I'm sorry, please don't sue Sù Teacher, OK?" Shumi stood up on the ground, smirked at Mizushima and scratched her head, "Oops, I didn't expect Nao's tricks to be so aggressive, I didn't even shout and made my legs tremble, don't you sin if you don't know, hahaha!"

"Stupid, that's how the orthodox Okinawan Ryugu martial arts are. Go back and learn more from the teacher teacher and see more! The competition is not an ordinary rank exam, and you will encounter all kinds of schools in the field in the future, so don't prevaricate with the lame reason of 'I haven't seen it' when the time comes!" Mizushima Taichi curled up his finger and tapped Shumei's head, and suddenly turned to stare at Nao, who was speechless, "And you! What do you think of the game? If Shumi hadn't dodged that side kick at the end, she would have been at least unconscious now!Why did the ancestors invent it?" Why is it forbidden to attack the opponent's head and neck in the rules of the game? Don't forget that karate is not only a sport, but also a lethal killing technique!"

"I'm sorry, Mizushima-sensei. ”

Nao lowered his head and never lifted it, condemning himself ten thousand times in his heart. It's not that she doesn't want to use the inch that stops attacking at a distance from the opponent's body, but it's that the habit of years is not so easy to change. Not only did her grandmother teach her the concepts of "killing with one blow" and "subduing the opponent in one go", but even the usual training with Pingguba and Zhinian was a real battle, not to mention the tricks used to sweep away all the bad boys near the school. Every punch and kick was actually on the opponent's body, and she didn't seem to know what it meant to be in moderation at all. Unlike real dojo training, Nao's moves, except for the teaching of his grandmother, are simply made with his own fists. It is completely a skill that focuses on actual combat, a traditional martial art to defeat the enemy.

Slowing down your punch for fear of hitting your opponent can result in not attacking quickly enough and creating gaps for your opponent, but it is relatively difficult to maintain your speed and power by stopping hard before you hit. It must be a little more difficult to make such a person who is accustomed to aggression suddenly use the inch, especially the "self-flow" of Nao, who has not been systematically trained, than to make a right-handed person write with his left hand.

"From today onwards, your training will be accompanied by Shumi. What Shumei needs to strengthen is to respond to unexpected situations, and the goal you want to train believes you should also understand. Even if Mizushima reprimanded Shumi, he had always maintained a gentle expression, and suddenly became stern, lowered his voice and said to Nao: "If you can't hold your fists in time during the game, you are not a qualified martial artist, what is the difference between a game without measure and a hooligan fighting on the street? If you can't overcome this, you won't need to participate in this summer's middle school league." Even if the women's karate club of Kakudo Middle School is abolished, there is no need for a player who only knows how to beat people to participate in the competition!"

"Hey, Uncle Mizushima, it's too much!" Nao was still listening carefully to Mizushima's teachings, but Shumi couldn't bear it, "It's my fault that I'm so scared of Nao's attack that I'm so scared that I dodge left and right, but Nao didn't hit me at once!

"That's right, Mizushima-sensei, Nao's strength is enough to compete, and the women's department must have players of this strength if they want to enter the national competition!" Ujikawa listened to Mizushima's words, and also felt that this kind of punishment was a bit too heavy, "Except for the three of us, the other team members are only at the level of green belts at most, and they can't win anyway......"

"Two girls, don't forget your own strength!" Mizushima glanced at the other nine team members sitting around the dojo, turned his head and said to Shumi and Natsuki: "Ujigawa has just passed the Guò Tea Belt exam, and Shumi also has the level of the second stage of the tea belt. But the opponents in the game may not be as strong as you, and the attacks you can dodge may not be able to dodge them. If being disqualified in a game drags the team back, it is better not to play in the first place. ”

"I see. Nao raised her face and nodded heavily at Mizushima, "If I don't master the inch before the fight, I'll quit the karate club." ”

"Oh?" Mizushima squinted his eyes and looked at Nao with interest, his thin lips curled up and made an extremely angry sound, "Tsk, I didn't expect you to set such strict rules for yourself!

"That's right. Nao regained his usual look, and there was no trace of remorse or chagrin in his eyes. She shook her hair and returned Mizushima's arrogant smile, "But Mizushima-sensei, that kind of thing like not being able to participate in the competition will never happen to me!"

"Okay, I'll wait to see your watch. -- Will you stand on the field in high spirits, or will you go home crying? Mizushima chuckled softly, turned around and walked out of the dojo, waving casually to everyone behind him, "--Try hard, girls!"

"Ahh Despite his handsome appearance and popularity among the students, Nao expressed great disgust at the way he spoke. Such a merciless and venomous remark should not appear in a student or teacher, no matter how you look at it. For this teacher, who did not teach at all, but only appeared as a consultant and class guide for the women's karate club, Nao was very skeptical that the principal had seriously evaluated him when he first entered the school.

After Mizushima left, the karate club, which had only twelve members, became lively. All the second- and third-year members gathered around, patted Nao's shoulder, touched Shumei's head, and asked them enthusiastically about their training life. Although he knew that the overexcited seniors were well-intentioned, and understood that they were happy to have two new strong teammates, Nao still couldn't adjust to their overzealous enthusiasm. Not only the seniors, but even Shumei, who had just lost her strength because of the battle with Nao, was also in high spirits, and accompanied by Ujigawa, she and Nao had an hour-long "inch" practical combat teaching. Although Nao's body lì is considered to be the best among the girls, it is also exhausted under the double attack of these girls.

So after the ministry was over and everyone said goodbye to each other in good spirits, Nao shuffled out of the school gate as tired as yesterday, staggering and looking drowsy, but unlike yesterday, her appearance was seen by someone who suddenly appeared at the school gate, and laughed in a fiery tone.

"Yo, little girl Nao!" the young man with slightly curly black short hair rolled down the window and raised his right hand and waved it, his arm lazily resting on the window and curling the corners of his mouth at Nao, "What kind of expression do you have? I remember that there doesn't seem to be a field work course in the cup middle school?"

"Ah, compared to today's events, working in the fields is a trivial. Nao was obviously powerless to refute his words, and those things that she was not good at made her brain cells seem to be in a state of paralysis, and she was stunned for a while before she reacted, "Why are you here, it's not time to get off work yet, right?"

"I didn't get off work, and now I'm going to do something. Come on, Mom and Aunt Sakurako are out with little Natsu today, and we'll have to take care of the dinner ourselves. Matsuda gestured to the passenger seat beside him, "If you're hungry, bear with me for a while, and go to Kanagawa with me first." ”

"Why do I have to accompany you to run errands......"

"Because I pay for the dinner. ”

Looking at Matsuda's "amiable" smiling face, Nao sighed and pulled the car door and sat in. Since Natsu didn't have to worry about dinner, she didn't care about what she did next. Matsuda closed the window, saw Nao fasten his seatbelt and kicked the accelerator, and the black Toyota headed straight for Kanagawa. Nao looked out the window at the scenery that was receding faster and faster, relaxed and leaned back in her chair to glance at Matsuda.

"So, what is it that requires you to come and pick me up with you?" Although Matsuda's face was covered by sunglasses, most of his expression could not be seen clearly, but the keen Nao still sensed his abnormality, "Don't tell Sù that I took me out just to eat, if that's the case, let me get out of the car, I still have training to do." ”

"Oh, can you not be so smart?" Matsuda took out a cigarette from his pocket and put it in his mouth, lit it with a cigarette lighter and spit out a smoke ring, turning his head to look at Nao playfully, "Girls have to be stupid to be liked by people, and girls who are too smart will make people shy away!"

"Let me get out of the car. ”

"Okay, okay, I'll just say it...... It's really funny. Matsuda restrained his smile and looked at the winding highway in front of him, his expression seemed a little excited, "I found the person involved in that case, and he once saw the face of 'that person'. ”

"That person?" Nao was slightly stunned, then frowned again, "You mean the prisoner in the Suwa Stadium apartment bombing two years ago?"

"That's right. Matsuda slapped the steering wheel and pressed the accelerator even tighter.

Nao looked at Matsuda, who seemed to be a little impatient, and silently played with the portable phone in his hand. She had heard about that incident from Aiko, a case that happened when she was about the fourth grade of elementary school. At that time, a bomb was planted at the Suwa Stadium apartment in Kakuto Town, and it was placed in two separate apartments. Matsuda was one of the main police officers in charge of bomb disposal, and the other main bomb disposal officer was his deceased friend Kenji Hagihara. In that case, Matsuda was responsible for the unexpectedly simple structure of the bomb, but his friend unfortunately encountered a genuine product. Originally, the prisoner had already received the amount he was asking for and stopped the countdown on the bomb, but when Hagiwara was about to defuse the bomb, the number of the timer began to beat again for some reason. There was no time to do anything with the remaining six seconds - including escape. The only thing Matsuda could do was watch the apartment until it burst into a disgusting red fire.

Since then, Matsuda has not only often asked for more work, applied for overtime, but has even been involved in bombing incidents in other prefectures. Aiko is very worried about the situation of the family, but she can't ask the loss of his close friends and relatives to give up the investigation of the case. So after the relationship between Nao and Jinping became more and more familiar, he made a request to Nao to enlighten Jinping and not let him do something extreme. But for Nao herself, even if Aiko didn't tell Nao about the incident, she herself would see the clue from the way Jinpei acted.

Matsuda Jinping him, except for an empty space where an unfinished puzzle was placed, there were a large number of case materials piled up in the rest of the room, and there was almost no place for people to put their feet.

“…… What do you want me to do. Nao groaned for a moment and said affirmatively to Matsuda, "Relax the vigilance of the witnesses, or assist you in your words." ”

"Yes, but it's not as complicated as you think. Matsuda curled the corners of his mouth at Nao, "The witness was only in the fourth grade at the time, so he should be the same age as you now." Children of the same age are much more effective at getting information than adults like me. ”

"Same age...... ? ”

Somehow, Nao suddenly remembered her friend in Kanagawa. If it's him, it's better to ask directly than to talk about it.

――Because I'm still far from competing with that person in the art of speaking.

Thinking of this, Nao couldn't help but wonder. Kanagawa is so big, and there are probably many people who happened to appear in Tokyo on January 6th when they were in the fourth grade, how can there be such a coincidence in the world? She didn't speak again, just sat silently in the passenger seat, and headed towards Kanagawa with Matsuda's eagerness.