[Jiren] Sea Salt and Roses

What does marriage represent?

Nioh thought about it as he walked back into the room.

When he first differentiated in his teens, he also had panic attacks.After all, OMEGA has too many weaknesses.But that panic disappeared when he found out that Alpha wasn't a big deal either.

In other words, the friends around him who split into ALPHA are friendly and gentle enough.

What about marriage?

He thought more deeply about the positive and negative effects of marriage, and he could probably write a [-]-page sociology paper.

But there is no need.

The rules of this world are not unbreakable, nor are the laws set in stone.

So just be happy.

After dinner, there will be training, which is more theoretical and tactical. The members gather in the conference room of the rented hotel.This time Tokugawa and Atobe were absent.

After the Byodoin and others arrived, they apologized first with a dark face.

"Because of my personal reasons, today's team training progress was delayed." He said, "In any case, I don't want today's events to affect our next week's game. Tokugawa-kun can promise to come and guide, it is yours." Please don't waste this opportunity."

"It's more frank when Tokugawa is not around." The ghost taunted below with his arms folded.

Fortunately, the sound is not loud, only a few other coaches sitting nearby can hear it.

Shishido has always held a respectful and distant attitude towards the grievances and grievances of the original high school group.

He also witnessed several shocking matches back then, but he didn't have the opportunity to get along with these seniors further. He only knew that the entanglement between these few people was not that simple.

He chose to ignore the ghost's complaints.

"Will Atobe stay here until the end of the game?" He turned his head and asked Nioh, who had a slightly subtle expression, "Or do you plan to come and be a 'special coach'?"

"Pfft." King Ni raised his eyebrows, "He hasn't played an official game for a long time, so you believe that he can still be a special coach?"

"If it doesn't work, he won't come down in his tracksuit today." Shishido said, "Trust Atobe's style."

King Ren chuckled twice.

"Or the two of you can do doubles coaching for these brats." The ghost suddenly interrupted, "Although you can play doubles with anyone, and there is no problem with Shishido's demonstration match, you are actually not very good. Let's get along."

Upon hearing this, King Ni glanced at Shishido with a smile.

He flicked his pigtails, and said, "Senior, did you see it?"

"Anyone can tell that the two of us don't get along." Shishido complained, pressing the brim of his hat.

When Nioh returned to his room after the meeting, the Time Trace Department was still facing the computer, but it didn't look like he was doing work, but casually browsing some financial news. The small window was a graph of some fluctuation lines.

He approached the Time Trace Department from behind and turned back naturally: "Are you back?"

King Ren hummed.

He sat on the edge of the bed and didn't look at the computer screen in the trace department: "Speaking of which, I don't know your current tennis level yet."

"Want to play a game?" Atobe turned around with great interest, "Ah, didn't you say you didn't want to play this morning?"

"Shishido asked you just now if you want to be a special coach." Nioh said, "You are now competing with Senior Tokugawa, can you win?"

The questioning tone he used, but the look in his eyes when he looked at Atobe was clearly a little provocative.

Atobe stood up and walked directly to the closet: "You will know if you try it."

"Pfft." Nioh licked his lips and watched Atobe change his sportswear, "I can't beat Tokugawa-senpai."

"Do you mean that you will lose to me by default?"

"What a joke."

Counting them, they have never played a serious singles match.

However, there have been similar practice matches in private.

It also started from entering the U17 training camp and getting familiar with it because of a doubles.

Before that...

"You didn't take me seriously either." King Ni said.

"Huh?" Atobe was a little confused.

"I mean, before you were selected for the U17 national team, you didn't think much of me, did you? The reason why you are looking for me for doubles is because I can 'phantom' into Tezuka." Nioh paused, hooked his lips, "No, not necessarily. Maybe you remember me from the time I became a 'phantom' and you and Huadi sang together?"

"Don't use the word 'one song and one harmony'." Atobe was angry when he remembered that Huadi had obeyed Nioh's order in the pillow fight.

"Besides, as Ice Emperor's minister, do you think I won't pay attention to Rikkai's main election?" Atobe snorted.

"Pfft." King Ren stuck out his tongue.

They descended the elevator and walked through the back door of the hotel to the reserved tennis court.

Considering that the members may have the habit of training at night, the appointment of the tennis court is 24 hours.

But when Nioh opened the door, he found that the venue was completely dark.He turned on the wall lamp.

"Senior Ghost suggested that I invite you to a doubles exhibition match." He said.

"You promised?"

"No. I haven't played doubles seriously with anyone for a long time."

The training match against Shishido in the training camp is certainly not a serious doubles team.

However, the proposed "exhibition match" is not necessarily a serious doubles group.

Nioh also participated in the singles and doubles matches back then, but he didn't have the awareness of those top three players in the world to improve their singles strength through doubles matches. He just took into account his advantages in doubles matches.So much so that the results of him and his partner at the time were questioned to a large extent after the gender was made public.

Of course, there was no problem after the review, but this incident had a great impact on his partner at the time.

Later, Nioh retired and became a coach. He would also participate in exhibition matches and demonstration matches, but he no longer played doubles in public.

Yukimura once came to ask him if he wanted to try a doubles match, but he still refused after thinking about it.

"Anyway, forming a doubles team is not a good thing for you or me."

"You shouldn't be someone who cares about public opinion."

"No, I really care." Nioh said with a smile, "Everyone likes to be praised rather than scolded, piyo~"

Doubles of an ALPHA and an OMEGA?They've had enough gossip.The love triangle alone (Nioh feels sorry for Sanada, occasionally.) is enough for a 180-episode TV series.

And Yukimura hasn't retired yet.

He really doesn't care about public opinion, but he doesn't want to bring trouble to Yukimura.

After all, when he was a member, when Li Hai was still elected, he had already caused a lot of trouble for Minister Yukimura.

"I don't care, it doesn't matter if you fight or not. I'm asking for your opinion." Nioh said so.

"You can make the decision for me." Atobe pointed out.

King Ni hesitated for a moment, and rejected it flatly: "No, we haven't reached this level yet."

They warmed up and went to the court, Nioh's serve.

He glanced at the trace department and exhaled.

In comparison, Nioh's physical fitness and skills have not regressed much compared to the professional player period.

This was expected by Atobe.

He's fully focused on the kickoff.

Nioh seldom described his life after retirement when he appeared on TV programs, and talking about the era of professional players was mostly a joke.But Atobe heard from Shishido that Nioh has always had a daily training plan, and the amount of training is still considerable.

"It can't be helped, there are many middle school students who challenge him." Shishido described it this way, "Maybe the title of 'OMEGA player beyond ALPHA' is too flamboyant."

"King Nio doesn't seem like someone who would care about this." Shinozu commented at the time.

Atobu didn't speak.

He thought, care?

So much for caring...

Nioh Masaharu is a person who is so stubborn in some aspects that it is incomprehensible.

He's someone who can't see through at first glance.

In the second half of the game, he began to lose his strength.

He has always been an endurance player, and he can't stand sitting in an office for a long time after he grows up. At most, he goes to the gym occasionally to maintain his type. ALPHA's physical bonus is not so magical.

So the second half of the game became less serious.

In the end it was still not over.

Nioh tossed the tennis ball and said that he was not happy if he won or not happy if he lost.

Ah huh?

I should have had a serious fight with you in middle school.

Tracebe laughed.

He said that Lihai University's playing order has always been very random, but you were unlucky and didn't meet this uncle when you were ranked in the singles.

Every time I played against Ice Emperor, it happened to be Sanada's turn in singles...

King Ni snorted, saying that it was obviously you who were unlucky.

The tennis hall is very close to the hotel, but they put away the rackets and looked at each other, then walked to the locker room in the hall tacitly.

The shower in the locker room also provides 24-hour hot water, and the air conditioner is turned on just right.Atobe walked behind, watching Nioh put down the tennis bag.

"Is your estrus coming soon?"

"Pfft. Do you remember?" King Ni raised his head slightly and raised his voice, "But my endocrine disorder cycle is not allowed."

"..." Atobe was speechless for a few seconds, "So?"

"So you can't count."

"Then you forgot to bring the safety sticker that time because you miscalculated the estrus period?" Atobe raised his eyebrows.

The overlap rate of this scene is too much.

Although the area is not the same, the structure of the locker room and shower room is quite similar in each gymnasium and gym.

So the two of them simultaneously remembered that night of chaos.

King Ni let out a sigh of relief, half complaining and half complaining: "I was shocked that day too."

"Ah, my uncle still thinks you are too courageous."

"It's even worse downstairs, isn't it? How did I know I'd meet you? There's usually not many people going to that kind of place."

Besides, he also sent a message asking Mrs. Wen to buy safety stickers for him.

Atobe happened to bump into it.

"It's really not gorgeous." Atobe said.

"Returning old accounts?" King Ren laughed.

He took two steps back, leaning against the locker in the locker room.

It's very hot in Australia in January, but the air conditioner didn't make the two of them sweat much.

Atobe leaned over: "Speaking of turning over old accounts, there is a question I've been wanting to ask for a long time."

"Puff?"

Nioh was stunned for a moment, wondering if Jibu is the kind of person who has a problem and doesn't talk about it for so long?

"In the U17 training camp, I had special training at night, and you watched for a long time outside the door. More than once. Why didn't you come in?"

"……you know?"

"Half knowing and half not knowing." Atobe said, "The smell of your pheromone is more attractive than you imagined. And before that, there should have been. I was stared at for so long. Probably never noticed."

"Pfft." King Ni was a little annoyed, thinking how to answer this question?

"It's better not to bring up old accounts." He straightened up and pushed Atobe towards the bathroom.

"Can't answer?"

"This is a question that does not need to be answered," Nioh said.

He opened the shower curtain of the cubicle, and said, "I think you don't mind being together."

The cold water in the shower poured down, and it took a few seconds for it to turn into hot water.

He hooked Atobe's neck through the mist, trying to push him against the bathroom wall.

"Ah, this is indeed a question that does not need to be answered."

Atobe's voice became indistinct in the sound of water.

The author has something to say: The focus of this chapter is to turn over old accounts.

And why Nioh didn't go in after watching it for a long time...

how could I know!

This is how TV is drawn!

The TV ending song, simply, ignited my, yes, cp, heart!