In Tokyo, I just want salted fish

Chapter 352 National Qualifier Draw Ceremony
In the qualifiers, Uesugi originally thought that the outside world would not pay too much attention to this game.

But when he saw the huge gymnasium was full, he still felt that he had underestimated the degree of attention to kendo from the outside world.

The format of this qualifier is the standard elimination system.

In the five-person team competition, 16 teams participated in the competition, divided into four groups of ABCD, and each group of 4 teams met and advanced in stages.

"Coffee, would you like it? Or this bottle of green tea."

Kazuhiro Miyata is a group reporter of the newspaper. According to the usual practice, he also came to the gymnasium this year to complete interviews, investigations, and record writing.

In addition to the live broadcast of the TV station, they are the first line to spread the news of the event to the outside world.

"Coffee bar, staying up late yesterday to write the first edition was a bit drowsy."

The reporter who spoke to him was Eto Nanahiko, who was in the same team as him. They interviewed different objects, and their work was connected. In addition, the first draft they wrote would also be discussed in the group, edited, abridged, and proofread. Report the work progress to the executive editor at the regular meeting.

"Working overtime is not a good thing." Jiang Teng Qiyan said with a smile, unscrewing the cap of the green tea bottle.

Miyata Kazuhiro shook his head, but did not continue the conversation.

Longer hours mean greater success, and employees who put in 10 more hours a week have a better chance of being promoted to management positions because they are more trusted by the newspaper.

The group work is very particular about team spirit and teamwork, and has a unique cultural atmosphere: even if one's own work has been completed, one must accompany colleagues to work overtime to the end.

He just got married, and his wife was seven months pregnant.

The child is about to be born, and the responsibility is heavy, so I have to work hard to go up.

Contrary to him.

Jiang Teng Qiyan belongs to the employees who seem to work hard.

Commonly known as "fishing".

This type of person slows down the pace of work as much as possible, and will keep putting off work until night.

In this way, in the eyes of colleagues and leaders, he has been working hard.

If the work tasks are up to standard and the people try their best, the company is unlikely to be eliminated.

But because the real situation is "fishing", the performance has been standing still, and it has no characteristics, so there is no room for improvement.

The two are good friends, and occasionally go to an izakaya for a drink after a busy day.

"How do you feel this year?" Jiang Teng Qiyan drank green tea and looked towards the venue, where the opening of the lottery ceremony was being prepared.

"Hmm~ Those teams from previous years will advance." Miyata and Hiroshi put the coffee cans aside, lowered their heads and wrote, "I think the solo competition is more interesting than the team competition."

"Isn't the battle between genres attractive?" Jiang Teng Qiyan somewhat disagreed with his friend's point of view.

"It is more attractive to those of us who can understand, but for outside audiences and readers, they hope to hear and see different characters-after all, many genres are already familiar to everyone, and we only If we can focus on one of them, the interview in the singles competition is still simpler and the contrast is clear."

Miyata Kazuhiro stopped the pen and put it back into his chest pocket.

Then he glanced at the name of the person recorded in his hand.

Among the champions of the previous competitions, Fujimaki Asuka, who was the only one with a single sword, was highlighted by him.

Even after two years, he still remembers this young man's performance on the field.

"Is there nothing special about this year? If so, I can only write articles around Fujimaki's three consecutive championships."

"Really."

"What is it?"

Jiang Teng Qiyan looked at the lottery team in the venue: "It seems that Fujimaki Asuka is no longer in the Wuxin Pavilion team."

Miyata Kazuhiro suddenly looked up at him drinking green tea: "What do you mean?"

"Literally."

"You mean" Miyata and Hiroshi put together their notes, "is he gone? But he is a big disciple, he can be said to be the signature of the younger generation."

"It's literally, it's not that difficult to understand."

Miyata Kazuhiro suddenly got a little angry: "Qachihiko, do you know the value of this news? You just told me now."

"Ha - don't be angry, I just heard the gossip by chance."

"Gossip is also valuable. We have to work hard to find rumors, as long as it has a selling point."

"A few days ago, I also asked the disciples there in the Wuxin Pavilion. There is no such thing. I don't think it is necessary to tell such nonsense news. I think you are busy enough working overtime every day."

"Are you sure?" Miyata Kazuhiro knew that he was concerned about himself, and his mood eased a little.

"Sure, I ran over to ask the day before yesterday."

Miyata Kazuhiro suddenly thought of something, took out his mobile phone and found several commonly used websites.

And in that webpage, there is what Jiang Teng Qiyan just said.

"Look at this."

"what?"

Jiang Teng Qiyan looked at the mobile phone he held up, and there were several black and bold fonts on the page.

There is almost no difference with what I said just now.

"Impossible, I even asked specifically!"

Miyata Kazuhiro said calmly, "Since that's the case, what happened to this news being published by other newspapers first?"

Jiang Teng Qiyan took Miyata Kazuhiro's cell phone and glanced at it several times:

"The above only mentioned suspicions. They didn't even go through the process of verifying it. They even wrote two paragraphs, which were only circulated on the Internet and would not be published in newspapers."

Miyata Kazuhiro sighed: "What if it's true? Even if it spreads on the Internet, it will bring attention to the newspaper. Besides, what we do is to report these rumors and rumors to attract attention?"

"This is irresponsible to readers."

"But this will be responsible for the newspaper's sales and our own future."

Miyata Kazuhiro sighed and didn't continue talking.

He and Jiang Teng have different positions.

He had a family to support and had to move on.

Jiang Teng Qiyan has nothing to worry about, he can try to balance his bottom line at work.

But who doesn't want to be an ethical journalist.

If you can do it, you will naturally do it. If you can't do it, you can only follow the trend. It is more important to make a living and feed your children.

"The drawing of lots has begun."

Hearing Jiang Teng's reminder, Miyata Kazuhiro took out his notes again and began to pay attention to the teams entering the arena.

The lottery was drawn in the morning and the game was played in the afternoon, so the lottery ceremony this morning became the focus of many reporters present.

After advancing to the semi-finals, the team will represent the Kanto Division and compete across the country.

For all those who have followed previous years' games.

One of the places in the Kanto Division has already been determined in their hearts, after all, it is the champion team of the previous two sessions.

in the lounge.

"Who will draw lots?"

"According to the usual practice, of course the general will go." Nanmyomaru patted Uesugi Kai on the shoulder and said with a smile.

Kai Uesugi nodded, and followed the staff standing at the door reminding to go to the lottery scene.

In order to show fairness, the draw ceremony is in the middle.

Each team sends someone forward to draw a vote. If it is A, it will be assigned to Group A. If it is B, it will be assigned to Group B.

And so on.

Therefore, the qualifiers are all about luck, which group is drawn and which team is the opponent is very important.

Miyata Kazuhiro and Jiang Teng Nanahiko looked at the venue from the nearby audience seats.

"This year won't be a strong team vs. a strong team at the beginning of the year, right? To be honest, it was a pity that there were five people in the Takeuchi Dojo last year. We met Wuxin Dojo where Fujimaki Asuka is."

"It can only be said that luck is not very good."

The two chatted for a while, and not long after, the representative of the first-seeded team of the national competition, the Wuxin Dojo's Wuxin One-Sword Style, appeared.

The cameras and reporters in the stadium almost all looked at that person.

However, not the champions they've seen over the past two years.

is a young man.

do not know.

never seen it.

A strange but handsome face appeared in everyone's field of vision.

"Wait," Miyata Kazuhiro immediately realized the so-called gossip just now, and turned to ask his friend Jiang Teng Qiyan, "Isn't the general of Wuxin Dojo Fujimaki Asuka? Who is he?"

Jiang Teng Qiyan also understood what was going on, and patted his head: "I didn't expect that what I heard when I was drunk turned out to be true, and Fujimaki Asuka was really no longer in the team of Wuxin Dojo."

The temporary change of the generals in the battle was something that no one had thought of.

Neither believe nor understand.

Originally, according to the original configuration, Wuxin Dojo could basically win the championship unimpeded and win three consecutive championships.

Their team is full of young people, and it is a legend to win two championships in the hands of seniors from all walks of life.

It was already focused on.

But this legend was suddenly declared over, and even the most important soul figure in the three consecutive championships seemed to be squeezed out of the team abruptly and disappeared.

Very abrupt.

Whether it is from the outside world or from the inside of the Wuxin Dojo, it is incredible.

Reporters raised their cameras.

Kaoru Uesugi glanced left and right in the center of the gymnasium, and found that many cameras were snapping pictures of him.

Is this another name for him?
He still remembers.

When he participated in the bow competition system before, the title given to him by an unscrupulous reporter has been accompanying him to the position of the bow champion.

【Immortal Meteor】

When Uesugi Kai heard it, he felt his whole body tremble.

auditorium.

It was still the two reporters.

"Who is he?"

Jiang Teng Qiyan said: "The general of Wuxin, um~ obviously, he is the general of Wuxin Dojo!"

".That was not what I meant."

"No kidding," Jiang Teng Qiyan smiled, "I don't know him either, but based on his current position, he is indeed the champion seed general."

"I remember, I seem to have seen him somewhere."

Miyata Kazuhiro and Jiang Teng Nanahiko followed the voice and looked at the female reporter on the side.

She noticed that the two were looking at her, and smiled awkwardly, before saying, "I don't remember clearly."

Miyata Kazuhiro said: "I will come to every National Contest of Players Rights. According to my memory, I have never seen him anyway."

Jiang Teng Qiyan nodded, and echoed: "Well, and too young, much younger than the bunch of young people in Wuxin Dojo."

The female reporter looked at Kai Uesugi who was walking up to the lottery stage, and thought he was handsome: "Isn't he underage?"

Miyata Kazuhiro: "Being able to register for the competition means that he is an adult, but... who is he? Even if Fujimaki Asuka leaves the team, the position of general should at least be seen by Nanmiaomaru or Koshin mirror in their team Let someone take over."

He knew the seniority relationship in this team. Fujimaki Asuka was the first disciple, Koshin Kagemi, Higuchi Yoshiyuki, Tsujimoto Kiro came next, and the shorter Nanmyomaru came last.

who is it?

Several people discussed for a long time, and they could only think that he was a disciple in the dojo.

And began to focus on his possible identity, seriously thinking about how to write today's manuscript to attract attention.

Kaoru Uesugi stepped onto the stage, and at the prompt of the staff, stretched out his hand into the box.

Pick and choose, and took the bottom ball.

He didn't look at it, and directly held the ball in front of him.

Miyata Kazuhiro saw the number raised in his hand: "Group C."

On the big screen directly in front, immediately in the first column of Group C, the word "Wuxin" was displayed.

Kai Uesugi walked off the stage after showing the number in his hand.

He is wearing kendo protective gear, and his surname is written on the name pouch hanging around his waist.

Those who followed this game also knew that the surname of the general in Wuxin Dojo was Uesugi.

Because Wuxin Gymnasium was the team that won the championship twice before, everyone was very concerned about this general who suddenly appeared.

Who is the general who replaced Fujimaki Asuka?

Everyone is curious.

According to the surname written on his name bag, they began to search for his first-hand information.

"Have you found it?"

In the auditorium, Miyata Kazuhiro asked his friends after a while.

"Found it." Jiang Teng Qiyan said while staring at the phone screen.

"really have?"

"Have."

Miyata Kazuhiro originally had no hope, but he didn't expect to find it after a random search.

This shows that at least he is not an unknown person who has participated in competitions and has certain information on the Internet.

"Do you have any achievements?" Miyata Kazuhiro asked quickly, and began to take notes.

"National Champion."

"National Champion!? Impossible!?"

What Jiang Teng said exceeded his imagination.

Next second,
Kazuhiro Miyata frantically searched the kendo events he had experienced, but he did not remember that there was a national champion named Uesugi.

Just as he was about to pick up the phone and take a closer look at the details, Jiang Teng Qiyan added another sentence:
"National archery champion."

"Kowdo?" Miyata Kazuhiro was even more confused, "The more you say it, the more outrageous it is, let me see."

"Look." Jiang Teng handed him the phone.

I took a closer look at the titles of the articles on my mobile phone, and there was an article last year that indeed stated that Kai Uesugi had won the National Kyudo Emperor's Cup held in 3.

This report is still from their newspaper.

A bow champion, an unintentional general, and a young man who has just come of age.

Miyata and Hiroshi stroked their thoughts.

This is interesting. The archery champion came to participate in the kendo competition, and it was very booing.

He got up immediately.

"Walk."

"Huh? Why are you going?"

"Interview! It will be too late if you don't go."

"The lottery ceremony is not over yet."

"Look at the big screen later and you'll know, hurry up! There will be too many people to squeeze in later."

Miyata Kazuhiro hurriedly dragged Jiang Teng away from the auditorium.

And just as he said, the journalists with a sense of smell ran to the door to block people after they found out the news immediately.

(End of this chapter)