[Free! ] Water world

We..." Matsuoka looked at his brother, then at Yumi Ito, and finally focused on the hands they were holding.

"Hey, Matsuoka. What did you do to Yumi? Why didn't Yumi speak?" Maeda Aki looked at Ito Yumi and asked Matsuoka Rin.

"Yumi? I'm Mai, why don't you talk anymore?" Mai Yamanaga waved his hand in front of Yumi Ito and asked with a frown.

"... Mai?" Ito Yumi slowly raised his head and asked expressionlessly.

Yayaga Mai breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Fortunately, I can still talk."

"Brother, where are you going with Xiaowei?" Matsuoka Rin asked, tugging at Matsuoka Rin's clothes.

"The minister asked me to take her back to the minister's house." Matsuoka Rin looked at Ito Yumi holding hands with himself with complicated eyes.

"Eh? Then I'm going too." Matsuoka hesitated for a moment, then said.

"I'm going too! How can you see Yumi and the boy alone together!" Maeda Aki immediately followed, and pulled Mai Yayagami together.

"...It's really troublesome." Matsuoka Rin scratched his hair, very irritated.Then he said to Ito Yumi: "Ito, let's go."

"..." Yumi Ito followed obediently with his head down.

Miko Chai's house.

"Ah~ As expected of being the head of the Swimming Department of Yuzuru, the family is very big." Matsuoka sighed.

"Where are you going, Yumi?" Seeing Ito Yumi pulling Matsuoka Rin upstairs, Maeda Aki asked strangely.Then Matsuokae, Maeda Aki, and Yayaga Mai followed.

Yumi Ito's room can be described in two words.

Hollow.

All white, all white.

Ito Yumi took out a diary with a purple-red cover and a Q-version shark printed on it from the drawer, opened it and took out the paper sandwiched between the first and second papers.

It's paper, but it should be a photo to be precise.

"Ah! This is when my brother won the relay race with Haruka-senpai and the others in elementary school!" Matsuoka recognized at a glance when this photo was taken, but soon Matsuoka frowned and asked : "But how did Xiaowei have this photo?"

"..." Matsuoka Rin frowned and stared at the expressionless Ito Yumi, but overlapped with a girl in his memory.

"Hey, you've been following me, what's the matter?"

"..."

"Ah... you're that girl at the club."

"Why don't you go swimming? You're in a swimming club and you're wearing a bathing suit."

"..."

"Why don't you talk? Are you shy?"

"..."

"What! It's okay!"

"Can you swim? If not, let me teach you?"

"..."

"Hey, what's your name?"

"I am... Yumi, Ito Yumi..."

"ItouYumi? What a nice name."

"..."

"Ito...what's the matter with you? Eh... have you gone back?"

"This is the last time... I can't come here again..."

"ItouYumi?" Rin Matsuoka muttered to himself.

"Brother?" Matsuoka tilted his head and looked at Matsuoka Rin strangely.

"Ah... what's wrong." Matsuoka Rin came back to his senses.

"It's getting late...then, let's go, Mai." Maeda Aki stood up and pulled Mai Yamanaga up, and Mai Yamanaga smiled at Yumi Ito and said, "I'll see you next time, Yumi .”

"The competition is coming soon! Get up and train hard!" Miko Shiba Kiyojuro said with great enthusiasm.

Just after finishing speaking, a member of the swimming department raised his hand: "Minister... I haven't seen the manager for a long time, what's wrong with the manager?"

Then the team exploded like a pot and became noisy in an instant.

"Stop it all! Youwei is not feeling well and needs to rest at home for a few days. You all give me [-]% of your energy to face the game, don't think about things here!"

"Senior Matsuoka...is it alright, senior?" Aiichiro Nitori asked Rin Matsuoka in a low voice.

Rin Matsuoka scratched her hair irritably, and said, "I don't know."

Nitori Aiichiro also stopped talking.

Yuuki told him that senpai had a relapse of an old disease... What kind of disease is it?To rest at home for so many days.And is it really okay for Matsuoka-senpai to be in this state?This will affect the game...

"Get ready-start!" As the referee blew the whistle, Matsuoka Rin jumped out with the help of the springboard, leaving the other contestants behind.

"Go, go, Matsuoka! Go, go, Matsuoka!"

Rin Matsuoka, who was in the water, couldn't hear the yells of the members of the Swimming Club very clearly, but there would always be some words to cheer him up, right?

What kind of feelings do I have for Ito Yumi...?Front and rear tables?classmate?The manager of the swimming department?What is the reason—I am drawn to her again and again? !

What does it feel like...?It's like seeing Yumi Ito?This feeling... what is it - how did it come about? !

When turning back, Rin Matsuoka was overtaken by Haruka Nanase.Of course Rin Matsuoka would not be reconciled, and used all his strength to swim with his life-then, he saw a dazzling white light, and then he touched the wall of the swimming pool.

"I won. From now on... I won't swim with you again." Rin Matsuoka proudly said to Nanase Haruka who was still in the water: "Never... never again." Smiling, Matsuoka Rin walked to the shower room.

Sitting on the bench outside the shower, Rin Matsuoka smiled brightly, as if he had won the game.

"So that's how it is..."

"The question that was bothering me before - I finally found the answer!"

"It must be because - I like it."

World.08

"I already knew that,"

"I like you,"

"Matsuoka Rin,"

"I like you more than anyone..."

"Minister, please let me join the relay team to participate in the next competition." During the squid festival (... what a bad name!), Matsuoka Rin suddenly said to Miko Shiba Kiyojuro.

Nitori Aiichiro who was standing next to Miko Shiba Kiyojuro was surprised: "What are you talking about, senior!"

"Huh?!" Miko Shiba Kiyojuro frowned and looked at Rin Matsuoka who bowed.

"Actually, when I lost to Haruka, I didn't despair about swimming. What really made me despair was when I was studying in Australia... At that time, I felt that participating in the Olympics was like a dream." The day before the competition In the evening, Rin Matsuoka called out Ryuzaki Rei and told him what happened in Australia.

"..." Rei Ryuzaki was silent.

"I'm going back." Rin Matsuoka turned and left.

Go back to dorms.

"Matsuoka-senpai, the minister just came to you and said he had something to tell you. It should be about the relay, Matsuoka-senpai..." Back in the room, Nitori Aiichiro and Matsuoka Rin talked endlessly.

"Understood." Rin Matsuoka walked out of the room.

corridor.

"Matsuoka, this is the list of members for this relay." Miko Chai Kiyojuro took out a piece of paper, but there was no Matsuoka Rin's name on the paper.

"Minister?!" Rin Matsuoka asked incredulously, "Why not me?!"

"Do you have your teammates in your eyes? How can you participate in the next game in your current state?!" Miko Shiba Kiyojuro became emotional, turned and left after speaking.Leaving Matsuoka Rin clenched his fists in place.

"Matsuoka...Rin...?" Not long after Mikoshiba Kiyojuro left, Ito Yumi appeared with rubbing eyes. She frowned and looked at Matsuoka Rin whose back was facing her in confusion, and then called out softly.

"..." Matsuoka Rin didn't speak, and raised his foot to leave.Ito Yumi panicked, grabbed Matsuoka Rin's arm, and was about to say something but was interrupted by Matsuoka Rin: "Leave me alone!"

Ito Yumi's eyes were wet, but Matsuoka Rin didn't notice it because his back was facing her. He shook off Ito Yumi's hand vigorously and left.Ito Yumi watched Rin Matsuoka leave with empty eyes, then looked down at his hands, tears ran across his cheeks and fell on his hands.Ito Yumi's legs went limp, and he fell to the ground, muttering, "Matsuoka Rin...Matsuoka Rin...Matsuoka...Rin...I'm sorry..."

Freestyle competition.

"What the hell was I thinking yesterday! Damn it!" Rin Matsuoka blamed himself.Yesterday Rin Matsuoka had his back to Ito Yumi, so he didn't see Ito Yumi's expression, but from the sound, it can be judged that Ito Yumi must be very sad.

"Senior Matsuoka?...Senior Matsuoka?!" Aiichiro Nitori, who was standing by the closet taking clothes, saw Matsuoka Rin standing not far away with a gloomy face in a daze, and called out several times worriedly.

"..." Rin Matsuoka, who woke up from his memories, ignored Aiichiro Aiichiro.But Aiichiro Nitori said to himself: "Senior Matsuoka, it doesn't matter even if you don't participate in the relay race. Senior is so strong, as long as you earnestly win the freestyle competition..."

bang——

Matsuoka Rin punched the wall and said, "What are you talking about over there?! What do you know?!" He retracted his hand and left.

"Everyone... get ready, start!" The referee whistled.Matsuoka Rin slowed down others when he took off, Nitori Aiichiro comforted himself: "Senior Matsuoka will definitely catch up."

Rin Matsuoka did not catch up with his opponent at all, Nitori Aiichiro continued to comfort himself: "Senior Matsuoka will definitely catch up when he turns back."

Matsuoka Rin still failed to catch up with his opponent, the last place in this freestyle competition.When I landed, I didn't even have the strength.

When Matsuoka Rin went to change clothes, Yayong Mai and Maeda Aki were in a hurry