[Comprehensive] different hearts

"咚咚-"

The crisp and monotonous knock on the door spread in the silent corridor, and no one answered. He stared at the closed door with the name of curry rice, tilted his head in doubt, and murmured: "Is Akashi-kun here?"

As soon as the clear and shallow voice fell, accompanied by a slight "squeak", the door opened in front of the eyes.

"Is it a rational name?" The declarative sentence and the young man's clear and clear voice sounded above her head, and the faint moisture came silently like a feather that was as light as nothing. She raised her head slightly and faced the A pair of clear and warm pupils of different colors.

The red-haired boy seemed to have just finished taking a shower. Tiny drops of water dripped down his soft hair onto his neckline, slightly dampening the white T-shirt he just changed into, revealing his slender and beautiful collarbone.

"Aka, Akashi-kun...!" The unexpected situation made Rina take a step back in a panic, she quickly lowered her eyelashes, stared at the ground, and said indiscriminately, "Just now...well, there are so many people in the kitchen. The ingredients are just..."

--Well……!wrong!The excuse is not this.

The girl's excuses are so clumsy that they can be seen through without discernment, both Akashi and Rina know it well.She bit her lower lip lightly, just wanting to quickly hand over the things to Akashi and leave. It may be that the mechanism of self-protection has affected her actions, and Rina's subconsciously retracted wrist was tightly clenched by the young man.

She raised her head in a daze, Akashi gently raised her lips, lowered her eyelids, and asked in a calm tone, "Aren't you going to leave it to me?"

"...Well." Anyway, the lie has been exposed silently in front of the other party, and Li Ming was awkward, but still admitted, she lowered her head again, looked at the slender fingers of the young man on her wrist, and reminded without a trace , "Curry and rice don't taste good when they're cold."

Akashi let go and took the food plate.Rina took a step back, she had already sorted out her emotions, so she showed the perfect etiquette that the "Miss Yongshan family" should have, and said with a smile: "Akashi-kun, the training in the morning was hard, and today's lunch seems to be too much. It suits your appetite, so I made some curry rice, I hope you like it. Then, I will go back to my room first."

Aware of the slight sound of closing the door, Akashi glanced thoughtfully at a door farther away in a diagonal direction, then he nodded, looked away and said, "Okay, sorry for the inconvenience."

Noda Maki still rested her hand on the doorknob.

She has maintained this action for more than a minute.After Nagayama Rina told her that Akashi didn't like to eat red ginger, recalling the dishes that the boy didn't eat much at noon today, and this was a good opportunity to be alone, Maki decided to return to the kitchen while everyone was on lunch break, and make a new one. Cooking, but as soon as she opened the door of the room, she found that her plan had been preempted.

What came into view was the boy's gentle expression and gaze when he held the girl's wrist. He raised his lips slightly, as if he was full of spring breeze.

In my impression, Akashi is not a gentle person. He is like a king in shogi when he is on the court, strategizing and strategizing. When facing her in private, he is not shy, but more indifferent and alienated.

But this does not prevent Noda Maki from liking him.

Noda Maki is naturally proud and arrogant, and she also has the capital of pride. After all, she is very beautiful and has been sought after by many boys since she was a child.Although her boyish personality and hobbies make her very popular among boys, and she spends more time with boys than girls, Maki doesn't think she will like anyone, most boys are in her eyes They are all childish, and even she herself finds it easy to look down on others.

Sometimes it's really just the little things, like someone's trash not being thrown in the trash, or a shirt that's wrinkled and buttoned in the wrong place.But as long as a negative impression appeared in front of her eyes once, her dislike for this person would multiply.

Until she met Akashi Seijuro.

Completely different from those boys, whether it is etiquette, culture, or competition, he is a perfect person in every aspect.

——So, it's only natural that I like him.

However, she thought that Akashi was cold by nature, but when he faced Nagayama Rina, it was clearly not like that.

Noda Maki stared at the closed door, and after a long time, let go of the doorknob.

·

The next morning, when Li Ming woke up, he heard the patter of rain outside the window.

She drew the curtains and opened the window, and the cold breeze mixed with rain from outside suddenly blew in, blowing her light gray hair.The light in the rain was a bit hazy and dim. It started to rain in the middle of last night. The rain was not too heavy and the whole ground became wet. Some places were full of puddles and mud. The air is filled with the smell of jasmine and earth from nowhere.

"Speaking of which, the weather forecast said it would rain today... Coach Platinum also said that if it rains, you don't need to train and you can take a good day off."

Recalling what the other party said when she contacted the coach yesterday afternoon, although Li Ming had told him about it when she ran into Dai Qianxun while pouring water in the kitchen last night, she was not sure if the others had been notified, I plan to tell the story in the living room where everyone gathers before training usually starts—and also go to have breakfast.

After washing and changing clothes, Rina opened the door.

At the same time, with the slight sound of gears turning, the door of the diagonally opposite room also opened.

"what."

Subconsciously, she opened her mouth and uttered a monotonous syllable.

"..."

"Good day, Akashi-kun." She greeted after a few seconds after getting up in a daze in the early morning.

"Mm, good morning." He nodded slightly, agreeing.

Logically, the two people who happened to meet in the morning went down the stairs together. Before reaching the first floor, they heard laughter and laughter. When they could clearly see the scene in the living room, Li Ming saw Ha Shan and others in the room. There was a circle around the coffee table, and there were uno cards piled up on the coffee table from nowhere.

"Hey, Akashi, manager, do you want to play this?" After hearing the footsteps from upstairs, Hayama waved at them with a few cards, and said loudly, "The lottery is to tell some stories, anyway, it's also played outside." It's raining."

Noda Maki, who was sitting next to Hayama, folded the cards in his hand and put them on the table. Early this morning, when the people in Luoshan gathered in the living room, one of them conveyed the notice of the coach to arrange a rest, so Maki suddenly thought We can use this opportunity to inquire about Akashi's information, such as his likes and dislikes, so as not to cause unnecessary misunderstandings like yesterday.

"Are you going to rest today? You've already woken up, and it would be boring to lie down again. Do you want to play uno?" Noda Maki, who appeared in front of them, buried her true thoughts in her heart and suggested with a smile.

But now she has a new plan.

Noda Maki raised her head, she looked at the two who were going downstairs at the same time, and then her eyes fell directly on Nagayama Rina, and said with a smile: "Let's play together, Rina. It's boring to stay anyway."

"...Okay." Rina nodded, tilted her head and asked, "Do you want to join Akashi-kun?"

"If you want to go, I can accompany you." Akashi glanced at her and said.

Reasonable name: "..."

No, she didn't particularly want to play, either.

Uno is a card game. The basic principle of the game is: the person who first plays all the cards in his hand wins.At the beginning of the game, each person distributes 7 cards, and then plays cards one by one in a counterclockwise order. The game adopts an elimination system.

Li Ming didn't want to play too much, but she didn't want to appear too disappointing, and she didn't intend to show it too obviously. After all considerations, when she played the third game, Li Ming lost the game.

Because it is a punishing game, the loser needs to tell a story, but this is not an excessive requirement. Said that he once went to a burger restaurant to challenge thirty burgers and fooled him.

"Then what kind of story does Rina want to tell?" Shibuchi asked the loser of the game, Rina.

Tell me anything.

Thinking of this, Rina said that once she went to the billiard club to wait for someone, but the other party misunderstood the address and went to the completely opposite gym.

"...It sounds like Rina knows a lot about billiards." When Rina finished speaking and was about to find an excuse to leave, Noda Maki, who had been silent all this time, suddenly spoke. Maki sat diagonally across from Rina, and she looked at Rina. eyes, and said in an unhurried tone, "It just so happens that there is a billiards room next to it. After sitting for so long, it's time to move your body. Let's go together."

This time, even Wu Gu, who was as dull as Gen Gen, could feel the stagnation and condensation of the air.

Before the others reacted and smoothed things over, Li Ming responded casually: "I'm not very good at playing."

After all, what she said before has already revealed that she knows how to play billiards. Rina couldn't categorically deny it like Noda Maki asked her if she knew how to play basketball, so she chose a compromise answer.

"It's okay, I'm also a beginner." Noda Maki didn't intend to let her go. She pretended not to understand rejection and air in an ignorant tone, and continued, "Anyway, it's just a game."

"Noda-san." Mibuchi frowned slightly and stopped.He subtly switched from "Maki" to Noda Maki by his last name.

"I see." Rina thought for a while, then stood up from the sofa. She looked down at Noda Maki who hadn't gotten up yet, and said in a flat tone, "It's just a plate..."

The outermost activity room on the first floor is the billiard room. The rain outside has gradually stopped, and the indoor light is just right in the rainy weather.After choosing the clubs, Noda Maki removed the tablecloth covering the billiard room, rubbed the club head with shell powder to enhance friction, and said without looking up: "You go first, using snooker rules?"

There are several styles and rules of billiards, and snooker rules are the most common one.

"Well, it's decided by lottery." The first player has a unique advantage in billiards, especially under the rules of snooker, the first player may take the last ball off the table first.But Li Ming rejected the favorable conditions thrown by Noda Maki.

"Aren't you bad at billiards?" Noda Maki raised her eyebrows.

"Aren't you a beginner?" Li Ming imitated her attitude and asked with a smile.

"What, what's going on, sister Lingyang, suddenly the atmosphere has become so scary!" Ye Shan lowered his voice and asked in surprise.Don't they just play uno?Why did it turn into a large group of people watching two girls play billiards in the billiard room!

"I don't understand what they are talking about, foreigner?" Ye Shan continued, "Sister Lingyang, do you know billiards?"

"Know some rules." Mibuchi nodded with a wry smile, "One thing is for sure—neither the manager nor Noda-san are beginners."

After the lottery was used to determine the first mover, Noda Maki was the one who got the first mover this time.

On a pool table, the white ball is the cue ball and the rest are the object balls.

在斯诺克规则下，选手们使用相同的主球击打目标球。目标球共有21只，其中：红色球15只，各1分；黄色球2分；绿色球3分；棕色球4分；蓝色球5分；粉色球6分；黑色球7分。

Players from both sides alternately pocket the red balls and colored balls until all the red balls leave the table, and then follow the order of the color balls from low to high until all the red balls leave the table.

As the first player, Noda Maki has a unique advantage on the table. The basic tactic of the table tennis game is to try to keep the cue ball where the opponent has no live ball to play, and create obstacles for the opponent.Noda Maki is very familiar with both the basic skills of hitting the ball and creating obstacles. When it comes to the occasion of Liming, it is difficult for the trajectory of the cue ball to touch the red ball as a live ball.

Both sides used the same tactics and methods, and the score gap was not big, but when there were not many target balls left on the table, the points that Li Ming dropped at the beginning were not made up until the end.

"You're about to lose." After missing a shot, Noda Maki took back her club and stood aside, but she didn't panic, but provocatively said with a pun.There are three balls left on the table, a red ball, a blue ball and a yellow ball.

The blue ball is near the sideline on the edge and is also far enough away that there is no chance of hitting it.After the cue ball hits the red ball, it will move in the opposite direction to the blue ball, and it is even more impossible to hit the blue ball.Assuming that Nagayama Rina does not make a mistake, it is only 3 points to allow the red ball and the yellow ball to be pocketed, and Rina is now 5 points behind her.

Rina sighed softly.

She picked up the shell powder, wiped the cue stick, and her eyes fell on the table that was almost dead. After a long time, she raised her lips helplessly, and said to Noda Maki: "Sure enough, I haven't played billiards for too long. Yes, the feel of the ball has become dull."

Noda Maki was taken aback. She admitted that Nagayama Rina was a difficult opponent. She originally thought that girls would only put on airs, so she wanted to embarrass Nagayama Nagayama in her field of expertise. "Not very good at", the score between the two has been at a stalemate, if it wasn't because she was the first mover and created obstacles in advance, I'm afraid they would have lost the game by now.

Thinking of this, Maki frowned unhappily and said, "What, can't afford to lose and make excuses?"

"I didn't say that." Li Ming carelessly perfunctory, she observed the positions of the three balls on the table, and finally decided on the plan of hitting the ball.

The cue ball was hit by the club head that had been wiped off the shell powder. As Noda Maki expected, the cue ball ran towards the red ball. However, the next scene made Noda Maki stand there, showing astonishment expression.

The red ball didn't go into the closest pocket. The red ball hit the edge of the table, bounced off the yellow ball, and went into another pocket.The bumped yellow ball became another "main ball" in the center of the court to hit the blue ball which was far away, and rolled into the bag together with the blue ball.According to the "free ball" rule, the yellow ball that entered the bag at the latest was counted as a red ball. The score of this stroke is 7 points, which is 2 points ahead of Noda Maki.

So far, there is no target ball on the table except the white cue ball.

"Before the game is over, it's better not to be overconfident." Li Ming put the cue back to its original place, and her spirit relaxed. She suddenly felt empty in her stomach. She said, "Then I'm going to have breakfast" and left Table room.

Before she reached the living room, she heard menacing footsteps coming from behind her. Rina stopped and turned around to look. Noda Maki, who was unwilling, finally couldn't suppress her anger anymore. She walked up to Rina, frowned. Frowning, he asked coldly: "You did it on purpose."

on purpose?

"Ah... that," Noda Maki questioned suddenly and thoughtlessly, and Rina thought for a while before realizing what she was referring to, and she replied truthfully, "No, I haven't touched billiards for more than half a year , You don’t have to be so excited about the feeling you just got back in the last few shots, I don’t mean to make you happy.”

——Although judging from the results, it is true.

"Hey, I wanted to ask you before." What came to her mind was the scene after lunch yesterday, Noda Maki looked at her with her lips pursed, and asked condescendingly, "What is the relationship between you and Akashi-kun? "

again...

Nagayama Rina, who was provoked by Noda Maki one after another, and who has always maintained the face of Yamato Nadeko, is a little angry this time.

"It's a natural tone." However, although she was angry, she didn't show any dissatisfaction on her face. She looked at Noda Maki, thought for a while, and said, "Before, Noda-san said that I was not straightforward. I originally didn't intend to destroy the beautiful longings and delusions of my teenage years, but now it seems that my intention for Noda-san's sake has made Noda-san push her forward. What is the relationship between us? It is Noda-san's longing but not A relationship of opportunity."

Li Ming thought that what she said was clear enough. Just as she was about to leave, Noda Maki angrily accused: "Then you are really dating? Why..."

"Why didn't I tell you?" Rina, who wanted to end the topic as soon as possible, interrupted Noda Maki, she said coldly, "Although I'm sorry to say that, I have no obligation to satisfy your thirst for knowledge."

Noda Maki was full of enthusiasm, it was the first time she was so embarrassed in front of others, her eyes turned red, she blinked vigorously, and raised her hand.

The raised wrist was firmly clasped, and Noda Maki raised her head in a daze. In her eyes, there was no warmth in the pupils of the red-haired boy who was dazzling like light.

She subconsciously withdrew her strength, and Akashi let go of her wrist.

"I'm sorry." He said this, but he didn't look in the direction of Noda Maki, but held the hand of Rina who was also in a daze, and led her away.