Chapter 23: Did You Take Stimulants?
Kawachi Mika and Echizen walked past a photo studio, thinking about the many photos they took with Hyotei today. Kawachi suddenly pulled Echizen into the studio. Well, it's the weekend anyway, and we've already taken plenty of photos, so let's take one to commemorate running into each other.
Ryoma Echizen looked at her in puzzlement as she pulled his hand and walked into a store. Just now, he hadn't noticed the sign of this store, but now that they were inside, he saw the camera equipment and realized it was a photo studio. Did she want to take pictures with him? Wouldn't that mean he would have photos of just her, and also of the two of them together in the future? Thinking about it, his heart rose with anticipation.
Akane Motomiya smiled faintly and pulled Ryoma Echizen in front of the camera, took a photo, developed two copies, gave one to him and kept the other for herself, taking the negative as well, and walked out of the photo studio with satisfaction.
They just didn't know that after they left, Qian quietly asked the owner of the photography studio to rewash a copy of their photo for him.
Staring at her pure and lotus-like smile, elegant and chrysanthemum-like figure in the photo, he was dazed for a moment, muttering to himself, "Good data, good data..."
Later, the two of them strolled around a few places and then bid each other farewell to head home, walking in opposite directions with their backs to each other. Hakozaki didn't look back, but Koshiro stopped after taking a few steps, turned around, and gazed at her figure under the sunset, shrouded in a soft, beautiful glow that grew fainter as she walked further away until she disappeared from sight...
Returning home, Ryoma ignored Nishinari's usual teasing and silently returned to his room, leaving Nishinari thoughtfully stroking his chin as he stared at the tightly closed door, before immediately regaining his usual composure.
Ryoma Echizen lay on the bed, took out the photo he had just taken with her, and carefully examined it. He gently rubbed his fingers over her outline in the picture. In the photo, she was leaning against him closely, her slender waist slightly curved, her delicate hands lightly wrapped around Ryoma's arm, the corners of her mouth raised, revealing two shallow dimples, her golden hair softly fluttering, her blue eyes filled with laughter and starlight. Beside her, his own small face also had a rare gentle expression, his large cat-like eyes full of delight and subtle happiness. The two people were both smiling faintly as they gazed ahead...
Put the photo into his wallet, the action was gentle as if treating a lover, closed the wallet and placed it on his chest, closed his eyes, savoring the time spent with her...
Cedar... silk fragrance...
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Seigaku Tennis Club——
The Qing Xue Zheng Xuan were training as usual, but there was one person who was acting strangely. Qian was constantly summarizing the number of times Yue Qian smiled: "At X hour X minute X second, Yue Qian smiled 32 times... At X hour X minute X second, Yue Qian stared blankly 46 times..."
He knew why he had become like this, that girl...
Ryoma and Atobe are in the middle of a match practice, Ryoma doesn't know what kind of stimulant he took but his attacks are getting stronger and stronger, Atobe is running around the court with sweat dripping all over his face, his physical strength is almost depleted!
Taichi's physical strength was exhausted, he bent his waist and panted, looking at Echizen who still had plenty of energy, discontentedly stomping his feet: "Echizen you bastard! What kind of stimulant did you take?! I won't play anymore! You're killing me!!!"
Echizen Ryoma looked at Taichi's jumping figure and just pressed down on his hat brim, but still couldn't completely hide the upturned corners of his mouth. Taichi glared at him even more discontentedly! Even if you're excited, don't look at me like that!!! He's really tired!!!!!
Kikumaru Eiji looked at Echizen who was visibly excited and wondered, "Why is Ryoma so excited? Did something good happen to him?"
Taiitsu also looked at Koshiro's mouth corner rising and muttered, "Ah, yeah, rare indeed"
"Hehe, it seems like a lot of fun, huh, Tezuka?" Nifūji smiled and admired the excited look on Echizen's face as he jumped up and down in front of him, his mischievous expression making people want to retreat three steps back.
...... stood with his arms coldly wrapped around his chest, ignoring him completely.
"Hmph!" Haitang looked at Taicheng with disdain, who was beaten so badly and lost face. Fortunately, Taicheng was on the scene, otherwise she would have to get up and quarrel with him again.
"Burn it up!!! Echizen! Let's have a match against me!" Kawai's eyes blazed with fire, holding his racket and rushing into the court to challenge Echizen.
"Hehe, I wonder what kind of excitement Koshun will show when he's on the court?" Nishinoya smiled as he gazed at Kawanishi and Koshi with his eyes closed, but everyone could still feel the sharp glint in his eyes, including Tendou. The regulars all shifted their positions to avoid being targeted by him.
Although the battle between these two is quite anticipated, that ruthless person can do anything, sigh... poor people who were secretly calculated by him...
Ryūzaki Sakuno, who was outside the court, looked at him and felt a pang of sourness in her heart. Was he that happy because of that girl? Later, he left with her, something must have happened between them.
It's true that Ryoma-kun really likes that girl~
Ryūsaki Sakuno tightly grasped her hands, holding the racket as she left the tennis club. She had to work hard to prove that she wasn't weaker than that girl, and Ryōma-kun would see her good side one day! Raising her racket towards the blue sky, she absolutely couldn't lose!
"Shōbu! Let's go eat sushi meow!" Kikumaru Eiji exclaimed, bouncing up and down on top of Ryoma.
Ito sighed helplessly in his heart, even if he didn't plan to grow taller himself, there was no need to press down on himself all day! It's so hard to breathe! However, for this senior, saying more is useless, and can only let him be.
"I'm fine" with a slight pout. Others didn't have any issues either, usually they would find some time to gather at the He Village's house and chat.
"Alright! Let's get going!" Kikumaru Eiji said cheerfully, about to drag Echizen along with the rest of the group towards the Kawamura shop, when a female voice called out.
