"Suzuki!"

"Hey!"

While!

"Ahh Damn it. ”

Mikagehama High School, soccer field.

The player named Suzuki took a pass from Kazumura Kontamura and kicked it into the far corner of the goalpost, which unfortunately hit the post.

In the practice match after the physical training of the football club, the score was 1:0, and the Konda side, who wore a white turban, had the advantage of having at least five minutes before halftime.

After Yu Narumi went to the Classics Department to change into his school uniform, he found a seat next to the soccer field and watched the practice game to pass the time.

The ball hits the outside of the goalpost and rolls out of bounds, which is a goalball.

Although Muraichi Konda often talked to him about football, he rarely mentioned the rules. Before that, his knowledge of football was only at the stage of "kicking the goal and adding a point".

The goalkeeper of the blue scarf team kicked the football to the midfield, and the players in the corresponding position judged the landing point, received it accurately, and began to counterattack, and the white turban team quickly snatched the football back.

Squeak –

The referee's whistle blows, and the first half ends.

Narumi Yu looked down at the time on her phone, forty-eight minutes had passed since the opening.

As soon as Okita Village bent down to take the water, he waved at him when he looked up.

“……”

Narumi hesitated for a moment, then got up and walked over.

"Yo."

"Yo ......"

The jersey on which Omada Village was already soaked with sweat unscrewed the cap of the water bottle and poured it into his mouth with his head up. The uncatchable drinking water, mixed with the beads of sweat on the face, fell on the plastic floor of the rest area together, leaving a little trace.

"Goo, goo, goo...... Hah! With half a bottle of water down, Okita Mura let out a sigh of relief, put the water bottle back on the table, and asked, "Why do you have time to watch and play football today?" ”

"I can't think of what to do for a while."

"Where's the student council?"

"Exited."

"...... like this"

Not far away, the team members waved to Okita Village.

"Hey! That's it! Kondamura shouted, turned around and patted him on the shoulder, "If it's okay, just sit there and enjoy Uncle Ben's heroic posture of breaking through the opponent's goal!" ”

“……”

Narumi returned to the stands, turned on his phone, and spent ten minutes learning about the rules of football and watching a practice match to pass the time.

Omada Muraichi does have a good strength, at least in the football club of Mikagehama High School, which is a cut above most of the members.

The speed of dribbling, the reaction to passes, and the timing of passing shots are all good.

Even if the opponent assigns three players to watch together, he can always find an opportunity, tear a gap in the defensive line on the right side of the court, and create a shooting opportunity with Suzuki in the center position.

Squeak –

At the end of the game, the White Turban team won 3-0, and there was no suspense in winning.

"This draw is not fair! Suzuki and Omada are on the same side and can't kick at all. ”

"That's it!"

The voices of the girls watching the battle, one of the voices sounded familiar.

Narumi Yu looked at the source of the sound, a girl with a single ponytail, carrying a shoulder bag and a black box about seventy or eighty centimeters long.

Standing next to the girl, complaining about the unevenness of the team, the companion with a violin behind him.

The voices in my impression coincide together, and it was the girl who played the wrong practice score at that time.

It seems that the practice of the wind club is also over.

"How? I just had that amazing shot. Kinda Muraichi drank the water, took a breath, and asked him proudly.

A goal in the 84th minute, the arc of the inside of the foot was beautiful, but in the end it was just an ordinary half-high ball.

"Okay." Narumi Yu doesn't know much about archery skills, so he doesn't know how to evaluate it, so he deals with it casually.

"What do you mean it's okay? You kid......" Kondamura gritted his teeth in anger at first, and then shook his head regretfully, "Sure enough, you can't talk to someone who can only understand the score." ”

"Perhaps......"

"Training is over, let's go have a barbecue together?"

"No, I have something to do."

"It's a pity ......"

Leaving the playground, the sky was already dyed red.

Narumi walked around the protective net surrounding the playground and walked towards the club building, where he saw the girl with the violin on her back just now, handing a letter to the center of the Blue Turban team in the corner of the playground, bowing in a panic, and then running away quickly.

The flute followed, and because it ran slowly, it was getting farther and farther away from the violin.

There was almost no one in the club building, and outside the art department classroom, there were still two paintings of Shiina Miyo.

I don't know if Shiina Weiyang took the gold reward and held an art exhibition, which convinced the minister of the art department.

Walking to the entrance of the classical literature department, Narumi Yu raised his hand and knocked on the door, and after confirming that Yayoi Aki was not there, he walked into the classroom, picked a random book, and sat by the window to open it.

It wasn't until I heard the patrolling teacher shouting that I put down the book, left the key in my hand on the table, turned off the light and left.

When I got back to the rental house, it was already eight o'clock in the evening.

Walking up the staircase one person wide, he inserted the key into the lock hole by the faint light of the street lamp not far away, turned the handle, and squeaked open the door.

The hallway was pitch black.

I didn't feel it some time ago, but when I saw it at this time, I suddenly fell into a trance.

said that she was going to forget Yayoi Autumn Morning, and after making up her mind, she couldn't help but think about what she was like when she was there, and the picture flashed and lingered.

Click-

Turn on the lights, change into slippers, throw your shoulder bag far away on the couch, and turn on the water heater in the bathroom.

When you're done with that, sit on the couch and read a book.

Either way, he probably made a choice......

After today, let's follow this trajectory and return to daily life. I went to school, wrote a book, married Chisaka Imadegawa after graduation, and discussed the names of my children......

Narumi Yu lay on the bed and tossed and turned, like drinking three cans of coffee in a row, and finally couldn't help but send a message to Imadegawa Chisaka.

After sending a glance at the time, it was already half past eleven.

The inexplicable rules of the Imadegawa clan......

The warm yellow light of the desk lamp shone on the desk, and Imadegawa Chisaka sat at the table in a nightdress, pressing the open book with the little finger of his right hand, holding the mobile phone in both hands, and reading the message from Narumi Yu.

Imadegawa Chisaka turned on the voice, and then read the passage he had just seen, "The mind can only serve one of the two masters at a time. Either he executes whatever thoughts happen in your mind, which is called memory, or he executes inspiration. ”

"Stop! It's a book I'm not interested in......" Hearing the voice of Imadegawa Chisaka, Narumi Yu felt a little calmer, "It's better to read me Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale as a bedtime story." ”

"Find the second and third to read to you."

"Actually, the content of this book is also very suitable as a bedtime story."

But there was no sound on the other end of the line.

Through the voice, Narumi Yu didn't know what her expression was now, thinking of Yayoi Akizao's inference about the interception accident, and changed the topic, "Does Chisaka remember an accident like this afternoon?" When, where, what's going on......"

"There are two more, but they don't necessarily happen."

He pondered the words and asked, "Wouldn't it be better to lock down the identity of the perpetrator and intervene in advance?" ”

The answer was unexpected.

"It doesn't make sense." Imadegawa Chisaka said to him in a voice, "The purpose of saving them is to make you fall in love with me completely, and intervening in advance can count me as doing a good deed that no one knows about." ”

"I fell in love with Chisaka over a hundred years ago, and this kind of thing is completely superfluous."

"Second, third?"

"I forgot about them right away, and I only love you."

Not lying is for Yayoi Akiha, and now I have to forget her, and those promises should also be forgotten together.

"Huh." The voice was full of contempt and suspicion.

"I've quit the student union, I'm going to help you with the work after school."

“…… No, you don't. This sentence is much gentle, but you can hear the tiredness between the words, "You will only make more work when you come." ”

"Just to meet? I don't do anything. ”

"These days, I'm integrating the companies under my name and handing over with other executives, so if it goes well, I can go to school next week."

Imadegawa Chisaka had closed the book, turned off the lamp, got up from the desk, sat down on the edge of the bed, relieved his strength, and collapsed on the bed with his upper body, and continued to say to the mobile phone held up in his ear,

"If you come, you have to introduce them repeatedly, it's troublesome."

"Then I'm not going."

"That's what you think of me?" Imadegawa Chisaka's voice gradually became softer.

"I can't sleep at night."

“……”

Narumi waited for Imadegawa Chisaka's next response, but only heard the sound of the other party's gradually steady breathing.

Hanging up, he stared at the ceiling for a long time, then stood up again and went to the balcony to count the stars.

By the time sleepiness hit, it was already gray.

Set an alarm clock, take an hour's break in a daze, and take the tram to school.

Then, a morning of chaos.

At noon, when he was pulled out by Natsume Hanari to lecture, he almost fell asleep standing up.

"Coffee is truly one of the world's greatest inventions."

On the football field, Narumi Yu and Okita Mura sat in the rest area, holding a 250ml can of canned coffee in both hands, squinting and sighing.

"Obviously Teacher Natsume has asked you to go to the health room to rest, why do you still insist on class?"

"I have insomnia, and the infirmary can't save me."

"Because of Yayoi-san?"

"Because of love."

"......" Kinda Muraichi knew his relationship with Imadegawa Chisaka, and it involved Shiina Miao, so he could only stop the topic.

During the free training time of the football club, Omada Mura should go to practice penalty kicks, and it is lazy to sit in the rest area and chat.

"Hey! Konda, are you still practicing? "The goalkeeper standing in front of the goal waited for five or six minutes and couldn't help but shout.

“…… Here it comes! Omada Mura hurriedly got up.

Narumi thought about it for a moment, followed along, and stood aside to watch him shoot.

Place the ball at the penalty spot, step back, run, occasionally change before your foot touches the ball, and then kick the ball with the inside of your right foot towards goal.

The first ball, a half-high ball on the left, is saved.

The second goal, still a half-high ball on the left side, deceived the goalkeeper with a variation.

The third ball, a half-high ball in the middle, deceived the goalkeeper's center of gravity, but the height was not tricky enough and was hooked by the goalkeeper with his foot.

The fourth ball, the left corner, rubbed the edge into the net.

"Good shot!" The goalkeeper who threw himself in the air got up from the grass and kicked it to Muraichi Konda, "Come again." ”

The fifth ball, on the left side of the ball, was so fast that the goalkeeper didn't have time to fall to the ground.

The sixth ball, a half-high ball on the right side, hit the right side for the first time, which the goalkeeper did not expect......

In the past 20 rounds, he has been saved four times, and the goal rate is 80%.

"Stop! I was not in good shape today...... "I received the ball from the goalkeeper again, and Kontamura put the ball at the penalty spot, stepped on the ball and waved his hand.

"You guy, don't look down on me, Konda!" The goalkeeper gritted his teeth and said this in a relaxed tone.

'The new penalty rules are already good for the attacking side and a good right winger should be able to score 100 per cent of the time.

"Those guys who have already gone to the academy are not as big as you."

The goalkeeper's words probably poked the pain point of Muraichi Konda, who let go of his foot on the soccer ball and suddenly shot at the goal.

"Damn, if it weren't for my father's objection, I would have gone to train at this time!"

The ball shot into the left corner, was blocked by the net, and rolled to the goalkeeper's feet.

“…… This ball doesn't count! "The goalkeeper kicked the ball over.

"I know!" Kondamura didn't help running and kicked the ball into the goal again.

After kicking it six or seven times like this, Muraichi Konda suddenly kicked the ball to Narumi Yu, "You can try it." ”

“……”

"It's ...... Ready to join the Football Club? The goalkeeper had already noticed Narumi Yu who was standing next to him watching the game, and took the opportunity to ask.

"No, it's just my friend, who doesn't know how to play football at all, so I'll give you some confidence."

"Huh?"

Narumi Yu recalled their kicking action when watching the game yesterday, and kicked the ball back to the foot of Okitamura, "I'll forget it, wasting your time." ”

"It's just a few minutes." A soccer ball was set up at twelve yard points.

Narumi sighed and had no choice but to go over.

Follow the example of Kintamuraichi, step back to the right, run to the ball, and stare at the goalkeeper's movements.

Clang!

Kicked on the post.