Sonata of Xin Wang Wang

Aoi stayed at the back of the mountain until the sun was about to set before returning to U-17.

After watching Mifune's special training method - climbing and catching the ball, Aoi felt that Mifune was getting stronger and stronger.The training he thought of was very interesting and not too difficult, of course, compared to his second brother.

Aoi didn't go to the restaurant, because she knew that Irie would be waiting for him there, so she made a detour and went directly to the teacher's restaurant. Most of the people were eating at this time.

"sunflower?"

As soon as Aoi walked into the faculty cafeteria, he heard someone calling him.

"Kurobe~" Aoi saw Kurobe sitting alone and cutting the steak on the plate, "Where's Saito?"

"Why do you always ask me where that idiot is?" Kurobe looked at Aoi suspiciously.

"This reason is like why you call him an idiot~" Aoi took a steak and a glass of lemon juice and sat down in front of Kurobe.

Kurobe narrowed his eyes, "I heard...you have agreed to enter the river?"

"What... cough, cough..." Aoi was startled, "How do you know?"

"Details, monitoring." Kurobe raised his eyebrows, "I always want to know before others."

"Boring~" Aoi pouted, picked up the knife and fork to eat the steak.

"It's very interesting, gossip is everywhere~" Kurobe said casually.

"What? Is there any gossip?" Aoi looked at Kurobe with glowing eyes, full of expectation.

"Find it yourself." After Kurobe said this, he ate his steak leisurely and ignored Aoi.

Aoi puffed up her face, lowered her head in disappointment and continued eating the steak.

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After eating two steaks and one cake, Aoi followed Kurobe to the monitoring room to pass the time.During dinner, Irie called, but Aoi didn't answer, but sent a text message to reply that he couldn't go back to the dormitory for the time being.

Although the relationship has just been confirmed... and it was Aoi who confessed first, but now Irie has taken the initiative, and Aoi, the person who confessed first, is more like the one who was confessed.

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"Xiao Si is here too~" Aoi who followed Kurobe to the monitoring room laughed when she heard Saito's voice.

"Hmm~ I'm free, let's see if there's any gossip~" Aoi ran to the front of the monitor excitedly, and watched.

"What gossip?" Saito looked at Kurobe suspiciously.

"Well~ nothing."

......

Aoi stayed until eight o'clock before returning to the dormitory.

"It's so late...?" Aoi was about to take out the key to open the door, but the door was opened from the inside first.

"Kanata..." Aoi hesitated to look at Irie.

"...Forget it, let's talk about it first."

Irie pulled Aoi into the bedroom and sat by the bed.

"What are you afraid of?"

"what?"

Irie held Aoi's face up to him, then slowly approached, his lips gently pressed against the other's, his eyes reflected Aoi's surprised look, he couldn't help but bend the corners of his mouth, poked his tongue in, chasing after the shy and evasive sunflower.

After letting go, Aoi blushed and lowered her head without saying a word.

"Hehe~ Are you so shy..." Irie looked at Aoi whose ears were red with a smile on his face.

"..." He lowered his head even lower.

"Xiao Si, do you still remember what you promised me to do?"

"...Well, tell me?" Aoi raised her head pretending to be calm and said.

"..." Irie whispered something next to Aoi's ear.

"What!?" Aoi stood up in surprise, and the blush that had just faded was stained on her cheeks again.

"Don't you want to?" Irie showed a sad expression.

"Neither..."

"Then you will promise me?"

"......All right."

"Hehe~"

......

"I hope I'm not late~" A few minutes before nine o'clock in the evening, Yukimura appeared in front of Aoi with a slightly apologetic smile.

"No, I came early~" Aoi picked up the white porcelain teapot on the table, "Do you want milk tea?"

"Well, thank you."

"Is there something Yukimura-kun wants from me?" After drinking the hot milk tea, let's stop drinking today's milk~

"I want to ask Kuisang to do me a favor."

"Ok?"

"Has Kuisan's training with Atobe-kun ended recently?"

"Yeah~ Xiao Jing just made a breakthrough in the game, I hope he will get used to it first." Aoi drank the milk tea in the cup in one gulp, "Yukimura-kun means..."

"Yes, I hope Aoi-san can be my training partner. I don't know...Will Aoi-san agree?" Yukimura picked up the teapot and poured tea for Aoi.

Aoi sipped her milk tea instead, but didn't answer.

Yukimura didn't ask any further questions, he picked up his cup and took a sip.

After a while, Aoi spoke first.

"I should...can't help Yukimura-kun much, can I?"

"No," Yukimura put down his cup and looked at Sunflower with a smile on his face, "Kui-sang can help you more than you think."

"Oh...really..." Aoi wondered, then relieved, "It's not that I don't want to help you, but I have to go home recently, and I won't be back in a few days, so I don't have enough time ...if you don't mind, I can give you a training plan and advice on tennis."

"That's really thankful Kui-sang."

"I heard... Yukimura-kun is called the 'Son of God'?" Aoi leaned in front of Yukimura with a gossipy face.

"Hehe~ It's just a nickname~" Yukimura smiled indifferently, looked at Aoi with a smile on his face, and then frowned suspiciously.

"what happened?"

"This is..." Yukimura pointed to the fingernail's neck.

"...!" Aoi, who suddenly realized that there was something on her neck, shrank back and raised her collar with both hands, "No, it's nothing..."

Only then did Yukimura realize that the collar of Aoi's coat had been turned up all the time, was it covering up some traces?

"Since the matter is settled, I'll go first!" Aoi bid farewell to Yukimura in a panic, and walked out of the restaurant.

Yukimura was left alone sitting on a chair with a confused face, "If I'm not mistaken...it should be...but how could...could it be...!" I want to understand Yukimura showed a magnificent smile, "So that's how it is~"

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After leaving the restaurant for a while, Aoi saw Kazuya Tokugawa (let's name it) with an expressionless face.

"Tokugawa?"

Tokugawa glanced at Aoi, but didn't stop.

"Are you going to practice so late?" Aoi walked beside Tokugawa and followed.

"...Why did you choose to lose?" Tokugawa said this at the beginning.

"Don't Tokugawa understand?" Aoi looked at him with a smile on her face.

"...understand what?"

"The meaning of U-17~"

"The winner is king."

"Tsk tsk~ That's not it, it's to give other people a goal~" Aoi smiled, "This can motivate them to surpass and become stronger~"

Tokugawa stopped, lowered his head (...) to look at Aoi, "...this is your understanding." He raised his head and continued walking.

"Tokugawa, would you compete in a match you knew you would lose?"

"...Do you want to compete even though you know you will lose?"

"Hehe~ Yes~ Those who know they will lose and still compete will become stronger~"

"..." After a pause, he continued walking.

"Okay, I should go back~" Tokugawa's direction and Aoi's dormitory are not in the same direction, Aoi said goodbye with a smile, "Bye bye~"

Tokugawa silently watched Aoi go in the opposite direction.

Did you mean to say these words just now?That's why I followed my own path.

The corners of Tokugawa's mouth turned up slightly, and he turned and continued walking towards the training room.

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