Naoki Natsume used the word "I still want to join the sports club", indicating that he had thought so before, but failed.

Kitahara only heard about that later.

Naoki Natsume went to the sports club to sign up, but he didn't pass the most basic physical fitness test, and he had a lot of medical records in his body, so the sports club didn't dare to ask for it.

"You ......" Kitahara looked at Naoki Natsume's weak figure, and swallowed back the words of persuasion when they came to his mouth, "Why do you want to join the sports club so much?" ”

Naoki Natsume thought for a long time but didn't answer.

He also asked himself inwardly, why?

Is it because there are people in the sports club who attract you?

Or is it just because I was unwilling to come back from the sports club last year?

I didn't answer because I didn't know.

Naoki Natsume feels that these two reasons do not conflict, and even the latter is more important as a driving force.

"Since you insist so much, then I'll go with you." Kitahara Hayato suddenly said, "I remember that the sports club seems to have some special requirements, and I found it when I was flipping through the booklet just now." ”

He took the booklet on the table again and began to rummage through it, and then saw such an entry in the profile of the sports club and the instructions for joining the group.

"To join the club, the applicant must submit the application form to the club activity room in person, and the necessary physical fitness test will be carried out in the activity room, and the results will be recorded on the application form and submitted to the president on the spot."

When Kitahara Hayato hadn't finished reading, Naoki Natsume had already said the rules of the sports club without looking at it.

Word for word.

Kitahara Hayato scratched his cheek when he heard this, and sure enough, this guy has a deep obsession with the sports club.

Even the rules for joining the company are reversed.

"Do you want to go today?"

"It's the same every day," Naoki Natsume took an application form from the volunteer, sat down and began to fill in the information: "If you can't do it today, go back and work out and try again next time." I'm not afraid of your jokes, when it comes to perseverance, I don't lose to others, I always prepare for the worst and work hard for the best in everything I do. So today it is quite possible to fail. ”

Kitahara Hayato clasped his hands around his chest, looked at Naoki Natsume, who was writing carefully with one stroke, and said softly, "I understand, I understand." You're the most authentic person I've ever met. ”

Although these two people are good friends from the same high school, they never got into the same class when they were in high school.

Even before the sophomore year of high school, Hayato Kitahara didn't know Naoki Natsume, but he had heard that there was a boy in the next class who was very physically poor and very withdrawn, barely talking to people, and hid himself in the corner of the classroom desk every day to bury his head in studying.

Legend has it that he has a very poor talent but his hard work is discolored, don't study the same life, get up at half past four in the morning to study, the same is true in winter, the first thing he does when he gets up is to go to the toilet and pour a basin of cold water, close his eyes and bury his face in it to wake up.

When I was in high school, I heard an exaggerated statement, which was arranged by teachers to motivate students-

Because it is an extremely rare full-time boarding school, it is rumored that many years ago, when the school was first established, many children from the countryside were accepted, and they studied so hard that those who returned to the dormitory from the classroom every night and those who got up early to go to the classroom to study in the dormitory were likely to meet each other.

Kitahara didn't believe this statement at first, except for the teachers who arranged it, most of the other students didn't believe it.

But after hearing Naoki Natsume's story, Kitahara felt that if there were two Naoki Natsume in the school at the beginning of the school, then this statement would be much more reliable.

From hearing the rumors of Naoki Natsume to meeting later, the two also experienced an event that they still remember.

It was the beginning of the second year of high school, and Kitahara and his classmates were laughing and playing at the staircase, but accidentally stepped on the empty stairs and fell.

With his size and tonnage, it would have killed him if he had hit his head on the edge of the stairs or hit the wall.

And at this moment, Naoki Natsume turned up from downstairs and was bumped into the falling Kitahara head-on.

Naoki Natsume used his body to cushion Kitahara, but he lost consciousness on the spot.

The final result was that Naoki Natsume lay in the hospital, and he smelled the smell of disinfectant water in the hospital for half a year before he could walk on the ground, and the sturdy bump almost made his youth say goodbye to school for a whole year.

Naoki Natsume, who has been gray since he was a child, doesn't feel anything, and he doesn't even have the idea of blaming Kitahara Hayato.

He blamed everything on his own bad luck......

That's no way, bad luck is like this.

It's like being hit on the head by a tree branch while walking on the road, and getting hit by a motorcycle when the floor tiles are loose.

Who made his luck born with only 3 points, as poor as physical strength and understanding.

But Kitahara Hayato didn't think so, even if Naoki Natsume didn't mean to blame him, Kitahara still took on the responsibility of a man-

He paid all the medical expenses for Naoki Natsume, including meals and nutrition during the hospitalization, etc., and asked for leave to go to the hospital every day after class, sent notes to Naoki Natsume, and sent him a video of the class recorded by a friend...... Afraid that Natsume would not be used to listening to other teachers, he also made a special trip to ask a friend in Natsume's class to help record Natsume's class.

Natsume's family is in excellent condition, much stronger than the Kitahara family. At first, Natsume's family saw that Kitahara had such a good attitude, and they didn't plan to let him pay for the medical bills.

But Kitahara insisted on this, and there is no reasonable statement that no one is poor.

So that little half a year made the Kitahara family a lot of hardship, and until now Kitahara still retains the habit of working hard.

But all this is worth it in his eyes, at least his conscience is passable, and he can call himself a man in a dignified manner.

I also gained a good friend who has been friends ever since.

Naoki Natsume's house still has Kitahara's small crutches that he gave to celebrate his ability to walk on the ground as a testimony to the friendship between the two people.

It's the one that Mao Asai saw on the first day.

At that time, he also misunderstood that his body was so bad that he needed crutches to walk.

"I've filled it in."

Naoki Natsume returned the pen to the volunteer and blew on the neat handwriting on the application.

"I'll go with you." Kitahara vigorously patted Naoki Natsume on the back and cheered him on.

The tremendous momentum made Naoki Natsume's head buzz, but with it came the courage to warm his whole body.

"Thank you."

"Harm, you are polite to me, you horse."

“……”

There are many sports clubs, and because the club is affiliated with the large faculty of physical education, the sports club is tied with the large school-level club such as the literature club, the astronomy club, and the physics interest group as the club with the largest number of people in Waseda, so the resources are very abundant.

Not to mention the outdoor activity venues, there are many indoor venues in the key, such as gymnastics, tennis and badminton, and even indoor runways, but only 50 meters are dedicated.

Even the gym on campus is next to the activity room of the sports club, and when there are more people, it doesn't look like a club, but like a fitness activity in a super-large shopping mall.

When Naoki Natsume and Hayato Kitahara entered the sports club activity center, there were already many people training.

The two of them directly found the person in charge of the activity room, a boy in a basketball uniform.

Naoki Natsume recognized him, the accountant of the sports club, named Shibata Hai, who was responsible for counting the loss and purchase of equipment for such a large club, such as basketball, football, badminton, etc.

Of course, as the only member of the sports club who is good at using a pen, he is also responsible for recruiting new applicants most of the time.

"Huh...... Let me see, Naoki Natsume? ”

Shibata Hai took the application form and looked at it, then raised his head to look at Hayato Kitahara, who was a head taller than him, and asked with a smile: "Let's do a body side, look at your physique, that is, go through the motions." ”

Kitahara Hayato frowned slightly, "You're calling the wrong person." ”

"Huh?" Shibata Hai was stunned for a moment, and looked at Naoki Natsume, who had a very obvious contrast in size around Kitahara.

"Are you going to join the sports club?" Shibata asked.

He looked at Naoki Natsume's face carefully, thought for a while, and suddenly said, "I remember you, did you come last year?" Last year, the last week before the summer vacation, I remember it quite clearly. ”

Naoki Natsume nodded, he didn't expect someone to recognize him after so long.

"Fifty meters in 12 seconds?" Unexpectedly, Shibata Hai changed his words and said with a smile, "Boys are required to run within 9 seconds in 50 meters, and they are considered excellent within 7 seconds." I think you'd better go back and run 50 meters for 12 seconds...... There's no need to test it. ”

Naoki Natsume's face sank, he was remembered because of this kind of thing.

Shibatakai's expression was not as kind as when he looked at Kitahara, and even his smile became uncomfortable.

Smiling is an expression that can delight the viewer, but there are always people who can be full of playfulness and malice even if this only expression of kindness to the outside world is the only expression.

His fingers tapped Naoki Natsume's application form, causing many wrinkles in the flat paper that Naoki Natsume had carefully protected along the way...... It's as if this application form has been invalidated.

But obviously he hadn't even started the test yet, so he felt that Naoki Natsume couldn't do it.

Naoki Natsume and Hayato Kitahara glanced at each other, and they could clearly see a trace of displeasure in each other.