Net King Returns to the First Generation

The stadium where the Japan-US Youth Friendship Match will be held is the venue where the national competition will be held later, and even the Japanese home stadium of the U17 World League will also be here.

The venue, which was built just a few years ago, is top-notch in terms of appearance and planning, which fully demonstrates the rising status of tennis in the hearts of the Japanese people step by step.

At this time, the one person who cannot but be mentioned is the one who contributed to this phenomenon. Echizen Minamijiro, who has retired for more than ten years, was the one who reached the pinnacle of tennis and triggered the tennis frenzy at that time.

How many people chose to watch this game because of the name Echizen Minamijiro, the so-called "tiger father has no dogs" and "generational entanglement"?

At least the US team is well prepared for this game.

Not to mention the gimmick prepared by Echizen Minamijiro, on the Internet the day before the competition, it was suddenly announced that the opening ceremony of the second day would invite the super-popular American idol Jerry Binns as a guest.

…Even before the game, the US team started selling souvenirs and memorabilia at the scene?

Isn't he just a foreigner? Is there anyone who is more handsome?

Witnessing this grand occasion, Natsuki holds a cup of hot chocolate for breakfast.She walked around the venue first, and looked at the so-called surroundings.Clothes, rackets, photos, support tapes...is this really a tennis match, not a performance or a concert?

After finishing the whole can of hot chocolate, Natsuki threw the empty can into the trash can and raised his hand to check the time.

She walked out of the venue where she was selling the surroundings, and walked half a circle around the venue, and she found the entrance with the sign "No entry for non-staff".Taking out his phone, Xia Shu started texting.

I'm here. —— Cone Health Summer Tree

Pfft, I'll be right out. ——Nio Masaharu

Li Haida came here by school bus.

It would be faster to take the Shinkansen, but from the perspective of the school, it is better to manage the students together.Therefore, even if Marui, Kuwahara and Yagyu don’t need to play, so they don’t need to arrive at the venue more than an hour earlier like the others (after all, they have internal tickets and don’t need to queue up to buy tickets), they still sit with everyone The venue where the bus came.

Of course, step on the strength.

"It's not easy, Chiya is late every time, how can we still be on time every time? Lianji, you are getting better and better." Marui, who looked at the time after getting off the car, couldn't help but sigh.

Liu smiled lightly.

The staff of the competition venue were already waiting for the people from Lihai University, and came over when they saw everyone get off the car.

As the team with the largest number of selected teams this time, it is only natural to receive such attention.

The staff came with tickets. In addition to assigning them to players who were not selected, if the selected players have any relatives and friends who want to watch the game, tickets can be given directly within a certain number of places.

Nioh walked over to take one, Marui chewed his gum a little strangely: "Your family is going to watch the game?"

"No." King Ni replied, "Friend."

"Friend?" Marui blinked, "Do we know each other?"

this problem……

King Ren thought for a while, then pinched his braid and glanced at Liu Sheng: "You don't know him. Liu Sheng should know."

After taking the tickets, everyone walked towards the venue.This episode did not attract more attention from the teammates.Those who want to play will naturally focus on the game, and those who will not play will also focus on the game.The only ones who got a glimpse of some clues from King Ni's little actions were Liu Sheng who was named, and Liu who vaguely knew something.

When Nioh received the text message, he had already changed into his sports clothes and was waiting for the start. He looked up at the other people in the lounge assigned to the Japanese team who were preparing for the game, stood up and walked out.

"Where are you going?" Sanada leaned against the wall next to the door with arms folded, closed eyes and rested, opened his eyes and frowned slightly.

"I have something to do, go out for a while." Niwang raised his hand, holding the ticket he took from the staff between his two fingers: "I will be back before the opening ceremony."

"...Don't cause trouble." That's all Sanada said, remembering the "friend" Nioh said in the parking lot.

Noticing this scene, Liu slightly raised the corners of his lips, and Kirihara caught Liu's expression.

Senior, what happened?Did anything happen to collect good data?He couldn't figure it out, squatted down again and started to stretch his legs.

King Ni walked along the passage to the door, and saw Natsuki standing sideways to the door.

The side profile of tall girls is always particularly attractive. The loose version of the plaid shirt is also very suitable for matching with the ball head. The dark blue rolled edge cropped pants outline the slender legs and match the red and white plaid of the shirt very well.

Have they not seen each other for a long time?I always feel that the outline of the girl is a little different from the memory - even if you are in adolescence, you can't make people feel this way if you haven't seen each other for a month, right?

...Hey, haven't we seen each other for a month?

Nioh, who communicated for a long time every day and didn't realize it, reflexively backhanded and pulled the little pigtail behind his back, and he softly called: "Natsuki."

The girl who heard the voice turned her head and waved to him.

For a short while the two just stood face to face without saying anything.

Natsuki also felt that the boy had become a little different from what he remembered, and in such an atmosphere, the palms of his hands were sweating unconsciously.She wondered endlessly whether the boy had lost weight again or had his muscles become stronger?Or grow taller?But I haven't seen it for a month. Such a change is not so big that it can be seen with the naked eye, right?

Huh... haven't we seen each other for a month?

She blinked, and saw the boy opposite finally made a move.

Nioh stretched out his hand, meaning clearly: "Let's go? I'll take you to the auditorium."

"The palms are sweaty." Xia Shu tried to wipe off the sweat secretly but found that it would ooze out again soon after wiping it off, feeling his heart beating a little faster.Hey, I didn't blush, did I?

"Why do you care about this kind of thing?" King Ren said.

Glancing at him, Xia Shu still raised his hand.

It's just holding hands. Why is my heart beating so fast... Uh, although Nioh boy is handsome and my boyfriend, yes, but Natsuki Kazuo, why are you so worthless!

Unknowingly, Xia Shu, who was burning all over his body, spurned himself and turned his head as if nothing had happened: "I saw the US team selling merchandise outside the venue just now, don't you have any?"

"Periphery?" Niwang raised his eyebrows, "Just outside the venue?"

"Yes, posters, signed photos, used tennis rackets and signed tennis balls." Xia Shu said, "There is a pair of twins that sell the best, although I think they are more like brother and sister."

"It's really capitalism." Nioh couldn't help but sigh, "Is it really a youth team that is playing against us today? It feels more like a club team raised by commercial sponsors."

"Maybe? Didn't they also invite Jerry Binns?" Xia Shu blinked, "Although I don't like those two women."

"Jerry Binns?" Nioh raised his head and thought for a while, "Does he sing?"

Xia Shu looked at him in surprise: "Are you kidding? Jerry Beans is famous, right? She's an American idol."

"I don't pay attention to these things." King Ren said while pinching his braid.

"No way? All the male students in the class like them very much." Xia Shu paused hesitantly, "I won't be angry if you say you like them."

"...Pfft." King Ren said helplessly, "I really don't like them."

"Oh, that's it." Nodding, Xia Shu asked, "Then who do you like better? I like Frank better, but he will definitely not come to this kind of opening ceremony to do commercial performances."

Frank is a very popular folk singer in the United States in the past two years. His fresh and realistic composition style has attracted many fans.

Of course, King Ni didn't know him either.

As a true sound idiot, Nioh's appreciation of music can only be said that at least the sense of rhythm is not bad.Now that the Internet has become popular, his habit of listening to music is just to turn on any music player (choose according to his mood) and then click on any recommended playlist to play it in a loop.

Who do you like...

How can I have a singer I like, who doesn't match the person and voice at all.

Thinking of this, King Ren chuckled and said, "I like you."

This kind of answer is an unassailable answer to any question, and of course, it is also unsolvable.

Unprepared for such an answer, Xia Shu couldn't hide her heartbeat. She turned her head to look at the delicate eyebrows and eyes in the boy's smile, and couldn't help puffing her cheeks: "It's against the law to say such things."

"What's the rule? We're a couple." Nio said, he looked at the girl's ear tips that suddenly turned red, and his mood became a little strange: bright and soft, and a little bit excited.

The subtle atmosphere of love that anyone with a discerning eye can feel at a glance emanates from the two.

There is no doubt that the two people who are particularly conspicuous in appearance have attracted the attention of many people without knowing it.

Not to mention that Nioh is still wearing the uniform of the Japanese selection team.

Yuta, who saw Nioh and Natsuki not far away, felt that the relationship between the two people walking through the crowd to the auditorium was very delicate even though they were more than ten meters away.The curiosity and gossip that all human beings have made him wonder: Is that Nioh's girlfriend?

Yumiko, who was next to Yuta, saw her younger brother staring in one direction, and looked over curiously, and saw the scene of the boy wearing the uniform of the Japanese national team and the tall girl walking together.

"It's really youthful." She sighed, "By the way, Yuta, you are also popular in school, right? Sister, I am looking forward to seeing you when you fall in love and bring your girlfriend back."

"Sister, what are you talking about!" Yuta retorted with a blushing face, "I'm still a middle school student!"

"It's not too early for junior high school students to fall in love. Your sister already had her first love in elementary school." Yumiko said.

Yuta, unable to refute, had no choice but to turn his head non-violently and non-cooperatively.

The big seat of Lihai is in a position with a good view.

The person in charge of the site did not arrange the seats of different schools together, but scattered them in different directions of the circular site.It is not easy to find a seat in a large crowd, but fortunately, Lihai University's team uniform is quite conspicuous, and Nio looked for the seat number on the ticket for a while and found his teammates who were chatting.

He pulled Xia Shu and walked over.

On the seat, Marui was holding a bag of chocolate beans and tilting his head to watch Kuwahara looking up information about the US team on his mobile phone.Yesterday's press conference only announced the name, and more detailed introductions have been announced on the official website of the "American West Coast Youth Team".The English interface made it a little hard for them to read.

"...Andrew Iglidev... Who is this guy? Why is his name so long... Good at... Is this word volley or volley? Yagyu?" He turned his head to try to find help from his top student teammates, and saw Yagyu Stand up suddenly.

"I can't tell the difference between a volley and a volley, Wentai, don't you usually watch the broadcast of ATP games?" A familiar voice sounded.

Marui conditioned retorted: "I watched with subtitles, who cares about the difference between these two words? Don't you have a competition with Nioh? Why are you running to the audience now?"

He didn't wait for King Nio's answer, and what he heard first was Yagyu's self-introduction: "Hi, I'm Hiroshi Yagyu, a third-year student at the High School Affiliated to Likai University. It's the first time we meet. Please give me your advice."

...What do you need to introduce yourself?

Marui's eyebrows twitched.And then Yagyu's ending was a gentle and low voice that one could tell it was a girl's at first hearing: "Hi, I'm Natsuki Kaishi, a third-year student at Youth Academy. It's the first time we meet. Please give me your advice."

Girl?

Marui finally came to his senses, and he also stood up, looking over Yagyu's shoulder, he finally saw the girl who was standing a little behind by Nio's hand in the crowded single-row aisle that he couldn't see when he was sitting.

...Wait, is this girl taller than me?

He blinked and turned his head to look at King Ni: "You said that a friend is coming—"

"It's Natsuki." King Ni said, holding his braids and smiling very calmly.

"friend……?"

"girlfriend."

Marui was stunned for a second: "When did you have a girlfriend?... No, it should be said, we are in the same class, right? You are still my back seat, right? I didn't realize that you were in a relationship at all and your girlfriend is still Qingxue... Huh? Qingxue?"

Nioh ignored Marui, and handed the ticket in his hand to Xia Shu: "It should be right here, um, these--" He compared his hands, including Liuyu Marui who was still standing and Sitting who hadn't reacted yet. Kuwahara, "He's my teammate."

Xia Shu smiled at the three of them a little embarrassedly: she was very straightforward when she sent the message, but she is indeed not a very outgoing and sociable person, facing strange boys... ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Did you get carried away? Why did you make such a request at that time? You should get up early and queue up to buy tickets!The villain in Xia Shu's heart was rolling.

King Ren noticed her discomfort at a glance, and said jokingly: "But you don't have to care about them, just look at me."

"...Young man, can you speak normally?" Xia Shu didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "The lines of this kind of idol drama are not really suitable for you."

"Then I don't feel at ease if you sit alone with these people and watch the game for several hours, puff." King Ren tilted his head and said.

"...Okay, don't be joking, there is nothing to worry about." Xia Shu raised his free hand and patted Nioh's shoulder, "The opening ceremony is about to begin, you should go back to the lounge."

"Are you alright?" Nioh confirmed.

"What's the problem?" Xia Shu twitched the held hand.

Nioh let go in a kind manner: "Then I'm leaving, and the phone will be turned off during the game. Will you contact me after the game is over?"

"Okay." Xia Shu nodded.

Nioh confirmed the end.Before he turned around, he was pulled aside by Marui before he could take a step. He staggered and looked at Marui who was holding his hand in a funny way: "What's wrong?"

"You just left? You haven't explained yet." Marui looked at the light called "Bagua" in his eyes.

"...What is there to explain?" Niwang was puzzled.

"Why doesn't this need an explanation?" Marui held on to him, "When did you fall in love and why didn't you show any signs?"

"...Do you want to gossip like this?" King Ren squinted at him, "It doesn't matter when I fell in love. You see, you dated Kitada-senpai not long after you broke up with Umura-senpai last semester I didn't ask much about breaking up again in a month, did I?"

"It makes sense." Marui blinked.

"Let go if you have reason, the opening ceremony is really about to start and I have to go back." Nioh shook his sleeves and managed to escape from Marui's grasp.

He didn't show any discomfort or guilt, so Shi Shi ran away.

After seeing his slightly hunched back gradually disappearing into the crowd of auditoriums, Marui realized: No!If that fellow Nioh didn't gossip, how would he know that he dated and broke up with Kitada-senpai shortly after breaking up with Umura-senpai? !

Sitting down resentfully, he grabbed a handful of chocolate beans from the bag in his hand and stuffed them into his mouth. Turning around, he found that Yagyu, who had sat down before, had chatted with "Nioh's girlfriend".

...Wait, King Ni seems to have said just now, did Yagyu know? !

While Marui was in a daze, Natsuki was already chatting with Yagyu.

It's easy to start a conversation when two people have a subjective intent to talk.

Yagyu was ridiculed by his teammates as a "pseudo-gentleman", at least when dealing with unfamiliar people and girls, he was very gentle and polite.He is also very skilled at introducing himself first, and finding topics when he finds girls uncomfortable.

...Hey, did something get exposed?

Cough, never mind what was exposed, in short, the conversation between Yagyu and Natsuki went smoothly.Natsuki, who has seen information about the teenagers and the so-called "interviews" on "Hai Na Bai Chuan" long ago, is not completely ignorant of Nioh's teammates even if it is the first time they meet.

She sighed that no wonder it was a boy who was called a "gentleman", while speaking as naturally as possible.

Taking the novels both of them dabbled in as a breakthrough point, they gradually relaxed.

When Marui came to his senses, they were already exchanging views on English literature.

Marui listened to it for a while, getting dizzy with the so-called "Wuthering Heights", "Charlotte", "Dickens", "Paradise Lost".After finally waiting for the conversation to come to an end, he immediately raised his hand and patted Liu Sheng on the shoulder.

After getting Yagyu's doubtful look back, Marui handed the chocolate bean in the other hand to the front: "Do you want to eat?"

"...No, thank you." Xia Shu blinked but did not respond.

Marui withdrew his hand naturally, and successfully joined their conversation with this gesture: "I am Bunta Marui, Nioh's classmate."

Xia Shu nodded.

"Has he said anything about me? In fact, I still find it quite strange. How did you meet each other in Tokyo and Kanagawa?" Marui asked curiously, "Can you tell me?"

"...It's not something you can't talk about." Xia Shu smiled, "I just met each other through letters."

"Writing a letter?" Marui blinked, "The pen pal kind? Random?"

"It's not random, is it?" Xia Shu hesitated.

"What magazine's communication activity is that?"

"……no?"

"If not, could it be that he suddenly became a pen pal?" Marui wondered.

Liu Sheng pushed his glasses: "It wasn't all of a sudden."

"Yagyu, do you know?" Marui turned his head to look at him.

Putting down the hand that pushed the glasses, Liu Sheng didn't change his face: "I know, Mr. Ren Wang himself said that he knew Mr. Zhui Sheng, but Mr. Zhui Sheng didn't know him, so he asked me if there was any better way to get close to Mr. Zhui Sheng. "

"..." Wait, is it really okay to say such things so naturally, and Nioh actually came to ask you about such a thing?Is this active-passive relationship wrong?Or... did I know some big secret that I shouldn't know... Marui complained in his heart, but teased on his face: "So you taught him to write letters?"

"I asked him to write a love letter." Liu Sheng said.

...Write a love letter... No, it seems that Yagyu and I have wrongly blamed you, and the advice I gave was only to write a love letter...

Marui was about to ask some other topics, such as when did he start dating and what stage is he in now, when the sound of fireworks interrupted his unspoken questions.

Fireworks in broad daylight?

Turning his head, Marui saw Jerry Binns, who was the guest of the opening ceremony, appeared through the lift amidst the smoke and the sound of cannons on the temporary stage set up beside the tennis court.

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!"

——The opening ceremony has begun.