Even after the biggest Waterloo in the county assembly team competition in more than a decade last week, the mahjong club of Fengyue Women's High School still continued to practice daily club practice.

The shadow of the national competition still looms over the department that can put more than 20 mahjong tables.

However, whether it was the players who participated in the final or the ordinary players, even if they were depressed, sad, frustrated and unyielding, there were a total of 82 members in the mahjong club, and no one was absent in the training in the next week.

Perhaps, this is because of the historical background of Changsheng and the kingly demeanor buried in the hearts of each member.

Perhaps, this is just that they want to reverse the ride in the individual competition, prove themselves, and hold their breath.

On Friday evening, the Mahjong Club of Fengyue Women's High School ended its last club activity of the week, and the members began to leave one after another.

Tomorrow, the National Conference Individual Competition, Nagano Prefectural Qualifiers will begin. After losing last week's team competition and missing out on the whole country, in the following week, even during practice time, I could feel the depression that could not be dissipated by the infection of the members.

If you want to reverse this decline in one fell swoop, a victory in the individual competition is the best medicine.

Otherwise, you can only wait silently for the flow of time to slowly wash away this depression.

These players who will participate in tomorrow's individual competition have stayed for this reason to have one last exchange and encouragement before the start of the competition, and make the best preparations to look forward to the best results.

Juki Miyake and Anna Shuto, two girls in their final year of high school, are also the absolute main players who are expected to compete for the top three among the players participating in the individual competition. Their expectations for the individual competition may be higher than that of other players.

However, Zhu Xi found that Anna seemed too calm today, and there was no tension at all about the upcoming game, and she was full of confidence and excitement before the team finals last week.

After the event, on the way home together, because of Anna's abnormal behavior, Zhu Xi, who had been thinking crankily, finally stepped into the tram that was already full of people, and after holding the handrail, she could no longer press the doubts in her heart: "Anna, you have no problem, right?"

In order to avoid the negative effect of his own concern, Zhu Xi's tone was deliberately frivolous.

Then, this tone was successfully misunderstood by his peers.

"You have a problem, you and your brother have a problem!"

The girl's younger brother, who was still in elementary school, successfully suffered an unjustified disaster.

"Even you're not allowed to drag my brother in. When her brother was involved, Zhu Xi was obviously stimulated.

"Besides, we're not scolding you, it's obviously watching that the game is going to start tomorrow, and your state is obviously wrong, so I asked you out of concern as a friend!"

[Hey, have you still been discovered?] After three years of getting along together, Anna naturally won't misunderstand her companion's concern, but even if she involved her most precious brother to stimulate the other party, she didn't succeed in changing the topic, so the girl still sighed softly in her heart.

Seeing that Anna was still stiff and not ready to respond, Joo-hee's mind suddenly flashed, as if she had thought of something.

"It's clear that the game will start tomorrow, but you're like this......"

"You...... You don't want to give up the individual competition, do you?"

Anna still didn't respond.

"Is this really the case?" Although the truth was touched, Zhu Xi still couldn't believe it, "Because we didn't succeed in qualifying for the team competition, do you want to release water in the individual competition, so that the captain and Mihoko can successfully go to the whole country?"

Although I usually feel that the other party is a little nonsense, I didn't expect that her idea was discovered by her on the last day before the game.

In fact, this companion knows more about himself than she thinks?

Faced with the problem that had been put in front of her companions, Anna had no choice but to nod helplessly.

"Captain, this is her last tournament...... And Hana has never been to Tokyo at all......" The girl tried to explain her decision.

But her companions, who had received her answers, were completely unwilling to pay any attention to these excuses.

"Aren't these things the same for you? You've never competed in a national competition before, and this is your last chance in high school, can you give up like this?"

"But ......"

"There's nothing to do!" Joo-hee didn't give Anna a chance to continue explaining, "What's wrong with your head?"

This time, the girl is really "greeting" each other.

"Don't you think you're too arrogant?Captain, Mihoko and Hana, when did you have to deliberately give way to go to the whole country?

"That's not ......"

Anna still wanted to explain, but she couldn't interject in front of the excited Joo-hee.

"And, in the team competition, we eliminated our Longmenji...... Even if you do give way, can you be sure that the places you have given up will not be snatched away by them?As representatives of Fengyue, are you ready to watch them snatch their places in the team competition from us, and do it again in the individual competition?"

Anna: "I believe ......"

Similarly, Anna's pale explanation continues to be ignored by Joo-hee.

"And...... And also...... What about the promise we made?" mentioned the last point, and the emotional Zhu Xi was even on the verge of crying.

Zhu Xi, who couldn't understand Anna's choice at all, even completely disregarded her own safety, let go of her hands holding the armrest, and in the moving carriage, began to hammer her companion's body, crying and making trouble.

The two figures in sailor suits finally attracted the attention of the entire carriage at this time. If you listen carefully to the discussion of the onlookers, you will find that they generally understand this incident as the beginning and end of a young girl's abandonment of another girl, and they all express envy and jealousy towards the initiator.

However, the words of the onlookers could not attract Anna's attention at all, and this time, she didn't even have the idea of subconsciously explaining to Zhu Xi. Her mind was completely occupied by the "agreement" that Zhu Xi had just mentioned.

Two years ago, the two girls had not yet grown into the slim appearance they are now. Because he didn't bring an umbrella, after the training was over, the two young figures who were still in the mahjong room, one hurriedly got up and pulled the other up from the ground.

Then, under the pouring rain outside the doors and windows, the little fingers were hooked together: "Definitely, we must go to the whole country together." ”

Two years later, the two girls who were originally ranked in the middle and bottom of the Fengyue mahjong club have grown into regular players who carry the whole school on their shoulders. But one of them seems to have forgotten the original agreement. In this way, it is not difficult to understand why another person would become so excited.

"I never gave up on that promise...... It's just a team event that I thought it was referring to...... And although it is a pity that we lost in the team competition. Anna's words told Zhu Xi that she had not forgotten this agreement.

"Even if that's it...... We can all qualify for the individual competition and go to the whole country together. Hearing the answer, Zhu Xi finally stopped sobbing and was able to respond normally, "In the past two years, I have practiced unremittingly to realize this dream." ”

......As companions who have worked together for many years, no one knows better than each other how much youth the two have paid for this dream. When this agreement was brought up again by Joo Hee, Anna finally became resolute: the promise she made with her was more important than the captain or other teammates.

[In that case...... In this individual competition, make your dreams come true. 】

"Don't worry, Joo-hee. Anna comforted Joo-hee and said, "Tomorrow's individual competition, I will do my best." ”

"How can I afford to lose if I bet on my dreams?"

What responded to her was the smile that finally showed on Joo-hee's tear-stained face.

……

In this way, the two girls, Suki Miyake and Anna Zhouto, ushered in their individual competition.

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The final result of the individual competition.

Suki Miyake, third place, promoted.

Anna Zhouto, fourth place, eliminated.