"Gifts?"

Kyosuke Hojo was stunned, almost thinking that he had misheard. How could he receive a gift from Miss Snow? To say that there was a machine gun hidden in the bulging backpack, he still believed it.

"Well, gifts."

I don't know why, Yukishita suddenly turned to talking this time, although the gift in Japanese was originally a loanword, but thanks to her excellent English, Kyosuke Hojo still accurately recognized that it was English.

"Because you didn't give me a gift before? It's a return courtesy, you don't think I don't even know this basic etiquette, do you? ”

It's still English.,Speaking fast and fluent.,Sakura and Glass next to them were confused.,Although they learned English well.,But it's obviously not the same level as under the snow.。

"I see, but why do you suddenly have to speak in English?" Kyosuke Hojo was so puzzled that he almost subconsciously spoke in German.

Under the snow, his face became redder and redder, but he still stiffened his neck and continued in English:

"Check in advance whether you are qualified to tutor Kato-senpai's English."

"You really know how to manage time."

Kyosuke Hojo, who had already figured out why there was such a thing under the snow, smiled evilly and teased, but he was immediately glared at by the embarrassed girl.

"If you like to talk so much, why don't you join the rakugo club? If a big celebrity like you joins, they will definitely ask for it, and maybe even ask the woman Kasumigaoka Shiyu to help you write a new script, and fool others by fooling yourself to your heart's content. ”

It's really hard for you to know the words of rakugo, thinking so, Kyosuke Hojo didn't dare to say it, because he was obviously about to become angry under the snow.

Hahaha, this guy is really cute.

Do you think Sakura and the others absolutely can't understand English, or do you want to pretend that they can't understand? In that case, won't it be revealed when you take out the gifts?

Or are you so nervous that you can't speak properly, so you use English? After all, it was like a broken radio before.

Thinking so, looking at the big watery eyes under the snow that seemed to be about to cry out shyly, Kyosuke Hojo hurriedly stretched out his hand, ready to accept the gift of the goddess of justice. Oh, it's a gift, purezento.

Seeing the movements of the boy opposite, Xue Xia realized that he still hadn't taken the gift out of his school bag. Hurriedly holding the schoolbag in his left hand, he reached in with his right hand.

This action is more like pulling out a gun, you take a gift, don't look around, there is no professional killer at all.

"The invoice is also in it, so if you have any questions, you can go directly to the store. However, I had already checked it well when I bought it, and at least with my strength I couldn't do any damage. ”

When it comes to professional issues, Xue Xia is a lot calmer, although it is still English, but it seems to have some more local accents, which seems to be very playful.

"Thanks!"

Kyosuke Hojo smiled and nodded, although he was curious about what gifts would be given under the snow and what gifts would require a strength test, he still honestly held the blue-wrapped gift box in his arms.

"Nani Nani, is it Kyosuke's birthday today?" Sakura asked with an exaggerated expression.

"Huh!? Isn't Kyosuke's birthday February? Glass was shocked.

"Stupid nitrate-chan, I'm kidding Yukino."

Under the snow, he restrained his urge to turn his head and teach Sakura a lesson, and still looked at the boy opposite:

"I've thought about it a lot, and I don't know if it's to your liking."

Being stared at by those big pale cyan eyes for a moment, Kyosuke Hojo hesitated and asked:

"You want me to take it apart now?"

The girl's expectant expression suddenly became a little strange, and she asked in surprise:

"If you don't open it, how do you know if you like it or not?"

Now the words in her mouth have changed to Japanese, as if her tension has eased after the bomb in her school bag was thrown.

This guy always says things that are taken for granted but no one notices.

Kyosuke Hojo thought thoughtfully, the definition of friends under the snow before, and the definition of gifts now, are obviously things that are taken for granted, but ordinary people don't notice them at all. Or rather, it is deliberately avoiding.

It's the only girl who has no friends and is so nervous that she speaks a foreign language when giving gifts, and she looks at the world with such a simple eye.

"I'm happy just to receive the gift, but in order not to be considered perfunctory by you, I'd better open it and check it out."

When Kyosuke Hojo spoke, the girl's expression changed from surprise to happiness and then to nervousness.

When he put the gift box on the table, Sakura and Glass also gathered around, only under the snow walked over as if attracted by the sunset outside the window, his hands clasped in front of his chest, motionless, and turned into a stone sculpture.

Untie the bow and carefully unwrap the gift paper along the wrapping place, and a box with a baseball player printed on it appears.

Baseball gloves?

Kyosuke Hojo was slightly surprised, he thought that the gift under the snow would be a book? First, this should be her favorite thing, and when thinking about what gift to give, she may subconsciously consider this aspect. Sakura is the most typical of this, this guy occasionally gives good gifts, and most of the time he takes himself to a big meal in the name of giving gifts.

Because when you're happy, you have to be happy.

Sakura said that her gift was not so much a feast as a gift to herself for her happiness, her joy.

According to the appearance of speaking English nervously even when giving gifts under the snow, it should be very difficult for her to pick a gift, right? If you don't have a clue, you will definitely want to give your favorite book, right?

Second, under the snow, she said that she had a strength test, and that books are often used to slam the enemy's head, so it is natural to take the test. Although the cleverness under the snow should not have been knocked on the head by the teacher with a book, if anyone dared to do that, they would have been sent to prison a long time ago.

"It's a baseball glove." Sakura exclaimed.

"And pitcher gloves." Glass added.

"Huh? Aren't they all the same? ”

Sakura was stunned.

"No, the gloves of pitchers, catchers, first basemen, etc., are all different, you see, it's written here." Glass explained, pointing to the box.

"Oh! It's true! I've never paid attention to it before! But it's a shame that you remember, I don't think you're interested in baseball. Sakura asked.

"Hehe~ Because Kyosuke-kun didn't join the baseball club, I thought I wanted to understand the rules to better cheer him on." Glass said with some embarrassment.

"That's right." Sakura nodded, but then said nonchalantly:

"It's so hard to remember the rules, and even if I don't know the rules, I can tell how Kyosuke is doing just by hearing the audience cheer Kyosuke's name loudly."

Hearing this, the nervous snow couldn't help but turn around, it was really blind trust. Thinking so, she asked a ghostly question:

"What if Hojo's performance is not good, and everyone next to him scolds him?"

"Impossible!" Sakura is categorical.

"And if he's hurt? Or is it because of some other external factors? ”

"Why did Kyosuke get hurt? How could I possibly let him get injured and still play? Sakura asked in surprise.

"Hojo was invited by the baseball club as a savior, right? Based on what I know about the Sobu High Baseball Club before, if no miracle happens, they won't even be able to win the first round of the qualifiers, and according to the baseball manga, Hojo, who is carrying the hopes of the whole team, will play anyway, right? He's really that, isn't he? ”

Yukishita said that there was also a reason why she would choose pitcher gloves as gifts.

"What's my business with that? Kyosuke is injured and has to rest well, right? ”

"Uh-huh!" Glass nodded vigorously, how could he let Kyosuke-kun play with an injury.

"Eh...... let's say, for example, because you didn't sleep well the first night, and you don't have enough energy the next day......

"Oh, that's a possibility!" Sakura, who was still like a bar spirit just now, immediately agreed.

“…… Well, that's because of this, anyway, Hojo didn't perform well and was scolded by the audience? He was even more speechless under the snow, almost forgetting why he was asking this question.

"I'm going to smash popcorn on his head." Sakura takes it for granted.

"I think so." Sigh under the snow.

"There's not going to happen like that." Kyosuke Hojo interjected into the conversation of several people.

"Yes, there is a dedicated spectator seat during the game." Nodding under the snow.

"All I said was that the crowd would cheer me on, except for my opponents."

"That's what I thought, that's why I'm giving you pitcher gloves." Under the snow, there was an expression of "I knew you would say that, I really can't do anything about you".

"Huh? I was about to ask? I've only been to baseball club training a few times, and I haven't decided where I'm in a position, so why would you just give me pitcher gloves? Kyosuke Hojo asked.

"In Neon, in Koshien, is there anything more dazzling than a pitcher?" Asked rhetorically under the snow.

"I'm not the type of person who likes to be in the limelight."

"Although this sentence comes out of your mouth is inexplicable, I have to admit that you are already very low-key."

Snow nodded his head.

"I want to hold everything tightly in my hands, I don't want to let go of anything, and I try to do everything with my own strength."

The girl stared into Kyosuke Hojo's eyes and said word by word.

"As long as you are strong enough, you can keep pitching and pitching, keep striking out the opponent and keep sealing the opponent, and bring the game into the hell of the delayed game, I think this kind of role is the most suitable for you."

The sound under the snow drifted into everyone's ears like the wind that was still slightly chilly in early spring.

From the moment she heard "I want to hold everything tightly in my hands, I don't want to let go of anything", the smile on Glass's face gradually faded, and Sakura was slightly stunned and then filled with a brighter smile again.

And Kyosuke Hojo......

"What nonsense, I just don't want to put winning or losing in the hands of others."

He looked under the snow, staring at this girl who saw through his heart, although there was a faint smile on his face, his eyes were surprisingly cold, and his voice was as resolute as an iron and stone strike:

"Fate is such a thing, whether it is good or bad, you must choose it yourself."

The air suddenly froze, and only the sound of mahjong in the rugby club downstairs was still lively, and I really envy these guys who can spend their time on the things they like in the best of years.

Tear pull

At the same time as the carton opened, Kyosuke Hojo suddenly smiled:

"If you were to join the baseball club under the snow, what position would you choose?"

"Pitcher, no doubt!"

The person who answered was not under the snow but Sakura Yamauchi, who had her hands on the table and her upper body leaning over, almost touching the face under the snow:

"Scared me, what Xiao Xue Nai said just now, I thought you were introducing yourself."

"Don't talk stupid, where am I...... At...... Introduce yourself. ”

The sound under the snow was getting lower and lower.

"Stupid, how can you join the baseball club with your physical strength under the snow, aren't you very good at refuting it just now?"

Kyosuke Hojo, who was already wearing baseball gloves, grabbed Sakura's entire little face in his hands.

Ah, I can catch them all.

"Thank you, I love it." He thanked him solemnly under the snow.

"Great."

Awakened from his contemplation under the snow, his face unabashedly happy.

"Under the snow, my classmates are smiling so happily." Glass whispered.

"Mmmm, it's just child-like innocence, not like her at all, but it's also cute!" Sakura nodded repeatedly.

"I'm already so cute! It's cute no matter what you do! ”

Under the snow, he quickly restrained his smile and retorted dissatisfiedly.

Hahaha

The three of them immediately laughed in unison, and after humming twice with their cheeks puffed out under the snow, they also laughed.

After the whispering stopped, the extremely weak snow was already sitting on the chair, and his face was abnormally flushed, and the golden light of the setting sun turned into a beautiful pink.

Her expression was unusually soft, her right hand was lightly placed on her chest, and she whispered:

"It turns out that it's not just the person who receives the gift who is happy, but also the person who gives the gift."

It turns out that seeing the person who receives the gift so happy will make it ......

"Of course I'll be happy if my heart gets a response." Sakura said.

"I'll have a gift for you on your birthday this year." Kyosuke Hojo closes his gloves to imitate a hand puppet.

"Birthday present?"

I was surprised under the snow.

"Huh? We're friends, aren't we? Isn't it normal to give birthday gifts? Kyosuke Hojo was even more surprised than her.

"Woo woo, it's so pitiful, Xiao Xue Nai, haven't you received a birthday present?"

Sakura shouted and was about to pounce, and under the snow immediately panicked and made a defensive posture, but she didn't intend to hide at all, just like countless times before, she would not refuse Sakura's intimate interaction at all. Although I can see that I don't like it, I'm still clumsily adapting.

"How could it not have been received! I've received "Hello,da"! He said loudly under the snow.

…… Wait a minute, being able to tell exactly what birthday gift you received in a split second, instead of hesitating to say which gift to give, is very revealing and pitiful.

Kyosuke Hojo was a little stunned.

"What's that? Hello, Mr. Panda? Is it a book about pandas? Sakura, who had successfully hugged the snow, asked.

It is a story written by Mr. Rand McIntosh, an American biologist, for his son who did not adapt to the new environment after his family moved to China to study pandas and bears. I can lend it to you if you want to see it, but it's in English, and my dad gave it to me when I was a kid! ”

Under the snow, there are so many treasures that it looks like he can't wait to immediately pull everyone present and run home to hold a reading party.

"Si Guoyi, Xue Nai, have you been good at English since you were a child?" Glass was surprised.

"How is that possible? Of course I won't. However, at the time, I wanted to understand it, so I looked up the dictionary and read it, and it felt like I was playing a jigsaw puzzle, which was very happy. ”

Under the snow, he remembered the past many years ago, and his eyes were quite soft.

"That's why you like pandas so much?" Kyosuke Hojo has made a new discovery.

“…… The formation of preferences is very complicated, although because it is my birthday present, I am more affectionate about it......"

muttered quietly under the snow, but the tsundere refused to admit it frankly.

"If you like it so much, why don't you just send one to Kyosuke this time?" Sakura wondered.

"Huh? Can it still be like this? ”

My eyes widened under the snow, I don't understand! (End of chapter)