weekend

Echizen home

"Ryoma, you woke up so early today!"

It was only six o'clock in the morning, and Echizen Ryoma got up early to do simple exercises.

"Cousin Nanako, morning!" After a few quick responses, Ryoma began to sit and move on his own again.

"Oh, by the way, my aunt made a Japanese breakfast today, I'll bring it to you!"

Nanako suddenly thought and hurriedly ran to the kitchen.

Echizen Ryoma looked at Nanako's hurried back and remembered what Minister Tezuka said the other day.

"Three days later, we'll fight at the bottom of the viaduct!"

The gaze is a little deeper.

In less than a few minutes, Nanako came out with a beautiful breakfast made by Echizen's mother.

"Thank you" sat at the dining table, and Echizen Ryoma ate unhurriedly.

"Is there something wrong with Ryoma getting up so early?" Nanako looked at Ryoma, who was up very early today, and asked.

"Well, the senior asked me to play."

Then he continued to bury his head in eating, and when he was almost finished, he packed up his things, got up and walked to the door to change into sneakers.

"Then I'm leaving!"

After the words fell, he opened the door and walked out.

……

In the two days after the Karubin incident.

The relationship between Eri and Ryoma is one step closer, and she picks up her tennis bag and walks on the viaduct.

Looking down, there were two familiar figures playing tennis on the tennis court with a low viaduct not far away.

"Huh?"

A tall, thin, brown-haired, purple-and-white stand-up collar shirt with a pair of gold-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose and another teenager with a white ball cap, dark green hair, and a height of about 160 were fighting.

"Isn't this Ryoma and the minister?" Eiko quickly raised his feet and ran over.

……

Inside the stadium

"Echizen, go on!" A high-speed serve galloped by, and the fast serve that was impossible to catch came out of the hand of Minister Tezuka, and Echizen Ryoma on the opposite side was a little overwhelmed.

"Is tennis enough just because you want to take down a person, Echizen?" Tezuka's face was cold and serious.

"What do you mean?"

Echizen Ryoma was a little exhausted after fighting him, and he gasped slightly.

"What about after you defeat that man? What do you have left? ”

Tezuka didn't give him any respite and continued to hit the strong tennis ball.

"I don't know what will happen in the future, I only care about the enemy in front of me!"

Echizen Ryoma's hat was blown off by the wind, his dark green hair fluttering in the wind, and his eyes flashed with determination.

"And what about after that? Come try it, try to beat me! ”

The strength of each ball of Tezuka is much stronger than Ryoma expected.

Yes, what about after that, what else can you do after that, Ryoma's eyes were full of confusion.

"Then let's try it and become the pillar of Qingxue." A gleam flashed in Tezuka's eyes.

But in the end, Echizen Ryoma was defeated by Tezuka Kunimitsu.

Tezuka was still expressionless, condescending in a victorious posture, looking at Echizen Ryoma propped up on the ground and saying word by word, "Echizen, I'm waiting for you to defeat me"

When the words fell, he turned and left.

Ryomamo fell silent, and when he tried to reach out and pick up the cap on the ground, he saw a pair of white hands, which picked it up faster than himself, and then handed it to him.

Ryoma looked up and saw the man's face, but after a moment he looked away from the girl standing in front of him.

Without saying a word, he put on his hat and swung his racket against the wall behind him.

Eiko looked at Ryoma's back

I saw that he hit the ball quickly and powerfully, hitting the same place every time he served, and after repeating it several times, he knocked a small hole in the wall.

I don't know how long it took, but he kept "venting" against that wall.

As the evening wore on, he stopped swinging his racket and struck, put on his racket and tennis ball, put on his coat, put on his bag and left.

The tanuki kept up with him, and the two of them didn't say a word along the way, one after the other.

"How much did you just see." After taking a few steps, he suddenly stopped and said to Ei Li, who was behind him.

Ei was slightly stunned, and stopped following the footsteps, "I... I saw it all."

However, Echizen Ryoma suddenly turned around and looked at her with a wry smile, with a slight gloom in his eyes.

"Are you disappointed in me?"

Ei Tanuki stared at him, lowered her eyes, and raised her own determined gaze at him.

"Not disappointed"

"Oh, is it...," Ryoma scoffed

A moment later

"The minister is right, after defeating the enemy in front of me, what do I have left, what can I do."

"Even the minister can't defeat him, what else can I do..."He lowered his hand, lowered his head, and spat out frustrated words.

……

silence

"You still have me"

Eikoon slowly walked towards Ryoma and couldn't help but stretch out his hands and hug him into his arms.

"You can help me, and I can help you"

Soft, thin, Eiko's voice reached Ryoma's ears.

After a long time, Ryoma slowly raised his head, leaned on Eiko's shoulders, and gradually raised his hands to wrap around the girl's thin waist, and the two hugged each other tightly.

The darkness in the boy's eyes was replaced by a glitter.

"You're right. I can help you and you can help me too."

"It's good to have you."

……

The two hugged on the viaduct for a long time, and their mood gradually returned to normal.

"Gollum~" There was a sound from Ekoi's belly, making the two of them let go of each other at the same time.

Eiko scratched her head embarrassedly.

"Uh... I'm hungry..."

"Poof," Echizen chuckled

Then he took her hand and continued walking.

"Let's go, I'll take you to eat"

On the viaduct, a man and a woman held hands under the neon lights and walked forward.