The flag is flying, and the crowd is crowded......

This is not the grand opening of a shopping mall, nor is it the scene of a supermarket sale, this is just the annual club recruitment meeting of Beihu Middle School. The second- and third-graders dressed in various costumes set up the booths of their respective clubs, from the booth decoration to the reception staff, all of which showed the characteristics of each club: the flower club with all kinds of flowers piled up on the stall shelves, the football club wearing jerseys and juggling the ball, the shogi club wearing kimono coats and swinging the chessboard, the music club and the chorus club playing the violin in small dresses and the girls singing in small chorus beside them, wearing the costumes of European swordsmen who only appear in movies, The Western kendo club fights with foils, and of course, the kendo club and judo club, which slash each other with wooden knives and throw each other around...... Nao stared blankly at the performance in front of her, feeling as if she had fallen into some kind of incredible assembly. Shumi Sakamoto, who was beside her, winked playfully, and her bandaged finger pointed to a stall that had been surrounded by everyone.

Dozens of teenagers in white uniforms were sitting there, led by the boy Nao had seen in the morning, Kyogoku Shin. With so many members and the new students watching around, it is obviously the largest and most popular club in Kakudo Middle School, Karate Club. The members of the karate club did not perform like other sports clubs, but just sat quietly, creating an aura that could not be ignored. Especially the young man in the center with his eyes closed and an OK taut on his forehead, that is the center of the entire aura. There were a few girls in Taoist uniforms handing out pamphlets and introducing the club, and there was nothing wrong with their sweet smiles and gentle gestures, but these made her feel a subtle sense of disobedience in Nao's eyes.

-- These female karate club members have lost the sharpness that a martial artist should bury in their eyes, and they have all been smoothed out by the men's department, buried in the shadow of the champion halo, and have become the foil of the men's department. It's like a cold orchid, you only need to enjoy the leaves and not the flowers.

"It's ugly...... Nao frowned and muttered, pushing aside the crowd of onlookers and striding up.

Nao, who is 1.65 meters tall, is very tall among first-grade girls, and with that dazzling bright red hair, she will be followed wherever she goes. But at this time, because there was a living sign of Kabito Junior High School, Kyogoku Shin Zài, the students gathered near the karate club booth did not notice her, and only the members of the women's department who distributed the pamphlets saw Nao's appearance. One of the girls with long brown hair wiped the beads of sweat from her forehead and pulled back her stiff smile to come up.

"Classmate, would you like to learn more about the karate club?" The girl handed over a flyer with a close-up of Kyogoku Shin and explained to Nao, "Our karate club has a men's division and a women's division, and if you participate in the women's club, you will have the opportunity to receive guidance from Kyogoku Shin......"

"A chance to get Kyogoku Shin's guidance?

Nao's golden eyes narrowed, and the cold light almost pierced the girl's body. However, the member of the department misunderstood what Nao meant, and put down the already soft voice even softer: "Kyogoku-kun has his own training, so he is very busy, and we can only guarantee that he can come to guide once a month......"

"Liangxiang, didn't I tell you not to say this kind of thing again!" Before Nao could react, a roar mixed with anger came from behind the long-haired girl: "Our women's department is not a love shelter, I want to see that Kyogoku really let them roll to the opposite side and line up!"

"Ministry, minister......" The long-haired girl was taken aback, and hurriedly explained to the person who came menacingly behind her: "But if you can't receive anyone again, the principal will ...... there."

"What's wrong with the principal? Even if the club is abolished, there is no need to recruit some to support the façade!" The girl, who was almost the same height as Nao, crossed her arms and snorted coldly at the poor long-haired girl: "From this year onwards, I will be the minister, and I will decide where the women's department goes! The women's department is an independent club, not an attachment of the men's department. Those who joined the club in order to get in touch with the men's division have already asked them to go wherever they like, and this year we can only recruit players who can play!"

Nao looked at the girl approaching them, and invisibly raised the corners of her lips. This girl, who has her black hair tied in a bun on top of her head, should be a person who truly loves karate. It seems that this almost became the women's department of the Kyogoku real cheerleading team, and the luck in the misfortune is that there is still a minister who adheres to his own principles. It seems that it should be interesting to build the women's department with this minister.

"Ouch, Nao! Where have you gone!" The diminutive Shumi squeezed in from the crowd with great difficulty, and as soon as she saw Nao and the women's department member beside her, her eyes lit up, and she couldn't wait to fly over, "Is it the women's department? I want to enter the department!!" she raised her finger and pointed at herself and nodded Nao, "She and I are going to join the department, please give us the registration form!"

"Huh, but ......" The gentle long-haired girl looked at her minister, her face was a little embarrassed, but she still said according to her minister's meaning: "Although the training of the women's department is with the men's department, our training is very heavy, and we can't have any contact with the men's department......"

"Huh?" Shumi scratched her blond hair full of curls and made a question mark, "It's just a matter of practicing karate and then competing in competitions, does it have anything to do with the men's department?"

"Heh, is there finally a genuine one?" The minister who combed the two balls smiled interestingly, walked up to Shumei and bent down: "It's okay to want to enter the department, but I want to remind you before that." Our women's division is currently very short of regular players, and the current regular players are very weak, and their ranking in the Tokyo Metropolitan Tournament is not very good. Even then, do you still want to join the ministry?"

"The purpose of learning karate is not to compete for a place, as long as you achieve the goals you set for yourself. Listening to her words, Nao, who was silent on the side, sneered, "If you are weak, you can practice hard, and if you are low, it is good to rush to the front, are these things that need to be considered?"

"That's right, as long as you have fun practicing, why do you care about so many things?" Sakamoto Shumei raised her fingers and gestured with a V, revealing a mouthful of white teeth, "I'm not strong, but my body is great!It doesn't matter what kind of training you have, as long as you can get stronger after training, and then win the national championship!!"

"Hahaha, national champion! What a good dream!" The dango girl laughed heartily, patted Shumei on the shoulder and said to the two: "OK, I approved the matter of joining the ministry! I am Minister Ujigawa Natsuki, and I will give me a lot of advice in the future, junior!"

"I'm Shumi Sakamoto, and it's Saotome Nao here, please give me a lot of advice!" Shumi bowed to Ujigawa Natsuki, straightened up and pointed at Nao and said to her, "It's absolutely no problem to have us! No matter how I say it, I'm also a disciple of the Hiyoshi Dojo, and Nao is also a master of ancient martial arts from Okinawa! The martial arts match of the last tournament ......"

"Please, Shumei, don't say the words 'martial arts competition', okay?" Nao interrupted Shumei with a wry smile, "Aren't we going to practice actual combat this time......?"

"The disciple of the famous Hiyoshi Dojo, and the authentic Okinawa Ryugu martial arts?"

Hearing Shumei's astonishing speech, all the members of the team who distributed brochures in the crowd gathered around, along with the members of the men's department who were sitting in the opposite side. Kyogoku Shinya, who was sitting still, opened his eyes, and when he saw Nao, his eyes paused slightly, and he smiled again. He stood up and pulled his crumpled robe and walked towards the women's booth, and all the men around him got up, automatically dodging a path.

"I felt familiar when I heard the name just now, but I didn't expect it to be you!" Kyogoku nodded to Nao, "I'm the head of the men's department, Kyogoku Ma, a second year. ”

"Nao, a first-year Saotome who met for the first time. ”

"In the last tournament, I played against a player from Okinawa surnamed Kite, who is very strong in Okinawan Ruku martial arts, and he is also a fighter worth fighting. Kyogoku Shin got straight to the point as soon as he came up, "I also saw your martial arts competition, and that kind of move can't be practiced in a year or two." So in the future training, please also talk to me. ”

"There's no need to fight, I don't know much about 'inch'. If it's a fight, I'm more than happy to accompany you. Ignoring the surprised eyes of the crowd around him, Nao raised his head and looked at Kyogoku Shin with a smile: "I have long wanted to learn about the strength of the national championship champion!" (Note: "Inch stop" is the rule of karate competitions, you must not touch the opponent's body, you must leave an inch of space.) ）

"Oh, don't you need to stop an inch?" Kyogoku was a little surprised, "With my strength, if you don't stop an inch, you'll get hurt." ”

"Rest assured, nothing can hurt me except bullets. Nao shook her hair confidently and narrowed her eyes at Kyogoku, "And your famous kick may not hit me." ”

"Hey, junior, what's the origin of that friend of yours? Just provoked Kyogoku to come so straight?" Ujigawa Natsuki looked at the confrontation between the two, and touched Shumei's shoulder with an incredulous expression, "Although I believe that she is not weak, Kyogoku's kick is not ordinarily strong, and it will kill people if she kicks her body!"

"I only met her today, senior, I don't know what her actual combat strength is......" Sakamoto Shumi excitedly clenched and loosened her fist wrapped in bandages, released her clench, and stared straight at Nao, who suddenly made her feel extremely tall, and swallowed nervously, "I only know that she is from Okinawa, the champion of the women's category of the last championship...... Although it is a martial arts competition. ”

"Heh, it seems that there is hope for our women's department this time!" Ujikawa's big dark eyes revealed a little starlight, and he smiled with a look of relief, "Although we don't have a master in our department, and we are not strong in Tokyo, I am sure that there will be a lot of improvement in this year......! Damn, how could he succeed!"

"Don't worry, of course there will be strong people in the women's department. Nao, who was looking at Kyogoku Mako, slowly turned her head, and a cold golden green streamer flashed from her eyelids, "It doesn't matter if there is no strong person, I'll be the first one in Naotome!"

**

"I'm back......"

"Ah, welcome back, little Nao! How do you feel about going to school?

"Well, the school is very good, thank you Aiko Grandmother!"

"Hehe, that's great! Today's dinner has the Japanese-style barbecue that Xiao Nao likes to eat and the fried bitter gourd that Xiao Natsu likes to eat! Go up and take a rest, and we'll have dinner when Jinping comes back!"

"Okay. ”

Nao was talking to Aiko, who was busy in the kitchen, as she ascended the stairs weakly. Today, she was overwhelmed by the enthusiasm at the club recruitment meeting, and actually took the initiative to provoke the national champion Kyogoku Shin...... It's not a big deal, but after the incident, she was surrounded by those curious classmates and members of the women's department and asked, so that she didn't know what to do at all, who was not very sociable, and finally relied on Sakamoto Shumi to relieve her. But this alone can't defeat her, what makes her whole body weak is what Kyogoku Zhen said.

"You're as competitive as Yue Ren said, but even though you say so, I'm still afraid of hurting you. My goal is to outperform all the opponents in the match, so let's fight again when you have a full grasp of the game. ”

With such a sentence, the battle that came to his lips flew away again. It seems that what she has to do after that is to practice in the ministry how to make her fist stop just one inch outside the opponent's body, and how not to let herself think about the pleasure of hitting the human body with her fist. What made her even more depressed was that Kyogoku really knew Yueren, but Yueren never told her......

Nao pushed the door into the room and threw herself on the bed as if she had unframed, but the next moment she jumped up like an electric shock, clutching her waist and screaming.

- She was caught with a mobile phone in her pocket.

She pulled out her phone with a small talisman attached to it and lifted the cover. The goal is Matsuda Jinpei's big face, and there is a silly thumb gesture next to his face. She grinned, as if tainted with the sun-filled silliness. Thinking of the sun, Nao suddenly thought of Kanagawa, the boy who was said to melt in the sun. She turned over and took out the note that had been pressed by the book from her schoolbag, took out the instructions for using her mobile phone, and pressed it one by one.

"I'm Saotome Nao, this is my new number, and I'll keep in touch when I'm free!"

It took nearly five minutes to type these words, and she filled in the mobile phone numbers of Nioh Masaharu and Mukaidake in the recipient column and sent them out. Less than a minute later, a short electronic bell sounded. She opened the cover of her phone and looked at the screen, and the words Xiang Riyue were displayed on the LCD screen.

-- "Yo Nao, you finally have a mobile phone! It's much more convenient to come out and play now! Today is the first day of school, right, how about the new school? I'm watching the game in the ministry right now, and a guy who came back from a foreign country actually announced at the opening ceremony that he is the king of the tennis club! He's now challenging for the main selection, and I'll contact you when the game is over! Bye! -- By Yueren. ”

Nao couldn't help twitching the corners of her mouth when she looked at the content of the information, she was eye-catching enough at the recruitment meeting today, and there were even more arrogant people in Yueren's school...... Just as she was thinking about it, the prompt tone of the new text message rang again, and she returned the screen to her inbox according to the instructions and saw the four big characters "Nioh Masaharu". She rolled over and lay flat on the bed and clicked on the email.

――"Miss Tokyo tour guide from Okinawa, didn't you lose your way in today's enrollment, did you? How about the new school and the new club, did you have a guy who made you shout in dialect, 'I like you' a lot?PS: Tachikai is very cool, and it is suitable for my habitat. - By Nioh. ”

Looking at this relatively brief message, Nao's hand holding the phone trembled slightly. Didn't you just say a few words of the Okinawan dialect to him, and actually remember this incident until now?!" she pursed her lips and continued typing on the keyboard.

"Mr. Wolf, a half-breed from an unknown place, congratulations on finding a habitat without sunlight. I'm sorry, I'm quite satisfied with the school and the club, but it's a pity that no one made me feel the urge to shout in tongues at him, but I did a stupid thing very irrationally, and I'm afraid that there will be no easy life in the future. PS: Have you joined the club?"

Nao pressed the send button, then threw her phone on the bed, got up, took off her uniform and changed into a home kimono. While she was changing her clothes, the text tone rang again.

"Oh, you don't even speak in tongues? I'm still the only one to say that, it's a great honor! You can't be talking about stupidity that provoked the head of the Society, right? Based on your sentence, 'There will be no easy days to live in the future,' I believe this is the only stupid thing you can do. PS: I'm having a meeting with the people in the tennis club, so I'm afraid my life won't be so easy in the future! ”

Before Nao could finish reading, another text message came in.

- "It's miserable to be lazy and be discovered, stop for the time being, and talk later." PS: Don't forget the Umibara Festival. - By Nioh. ”

"The Kaiwon Festival is almost there......"

Nao closed the phone cover and muttered softly, threw the phone on the bed and got up and went downstairs. For her now, eating up her beloved grandmother's Japanese-style yakiniku is a big deal.