The first day of the sports festival ended with a "ball battle" - taking the basketball from the opponent's basket and taking it back to your own basket.

Although it is expressly stipulated that the competition is about speed and no snatching is allowed, it is inevitable that it will eventually develop into a situation where a bunch of people are suppressing one person.

The referee couldn't yell or pull away. He could only keep reminding, 'Home! Home! Class one! All the balls in your home have been taken away!'.

The person who was suppressed was Toru Watanabe.

He first started to grab the ball from other people's hands, and he was so powerful that the whole class had to huddle on the grass and desperately hold the ball in their arms to avoid his vicious hand.

Then he couldn't really fight, so there was nothing he could do about being pinned to the ground by a "mountain of people".

"The game is over! Class 4 wins!"

The guys in the first class pretended not to hear it at first, but after the referee whistled desperately, they got up one by one with cheerful smiles.

With the help of his classmates, Watanabe Toru stood up slowly, holding his hands on his waist as if he couldn't help but with a painful expression.

All the teachers and students watched this scene on the big screen and burst into laughter. The boys even slapped their thighs hard and cheered in unison.

After the game, the other boys took the initiative to move the sports equipment back to the warehouse, and Toru Watanabe, who had worked hard and made great achievements, was allowed to rest early.

Rejecting the girl's kind help, he walked to the sink in the swimming pool area and washed his face on the faucet with the water outlet pointing upward.

After washing his face, he raised his neck and drank water with his mouth.

As soon as the slow water hit his lips and teeth, the originally dark sky was replaced by a delicate face.

Asuka Mai held her hair with one hand, bent her upper body, and also used her mouth to receive water from the same faucet.

The clear water sprayed upwards, and what she didn't hold in her mouth flowed into Watanabe Tetsu's mouth.

"Learn...cough cough cough!" Toru Watanabe choked.

"Are you okay?" Asuka Mai asked softly and slowly, patting his back with one hand and handing him a handkerchief with the other.

"Ahem, thank you!" Toru Watanabe wiped the corners of his mouth with a handkerchief, "Senior Mai, why are you here?"

Since entering October and swimming lessons have ended, there have been very few people coming to the swimming pool area, and today is no exception.

If it weren't for the enthusiasm of his female classmates, Toru Watanabe wouldn't be here.

"Let me see Toru come here..." Asuka Mai said, noticing that a few strands of Watanabe Toru's hair were wet and sticking to her cheeks.

She didn't speak, and instead stretched out her hand, gently plucked Watanabe's hair, and placed her fingers on his cheek.

Watanabe Toru felt warm in his heart and couldn't help but say: "Thank you."

"Yes." Asuka Mai's clear eyes showed a hint of uneasiness, "Toru, are you not hurt?"

She looked at her waist, and Toru Watanabe realized that she wasn't talking about choking on the water.

"It's okay, what are those people? If I wasn't afraid of breaking them, how could I be overwhelmed by them." He said with a smile.

Rin Kiyono would have said that he was blindly confident; Miki Kujo would have laughed at him for competing with a group of high school students.

Asuka Mai just nodded lightly, not interested in whether she could win or not. She just said softly: "It's good that Che is not injured."

This time Asuka Mai did nothing. She drank some water, took back the handkerchief from Watanabe Toru, wiped her mouth and left.

After she left, Toru Watanabe heard singing on campus, and "Fire with Fireworks" was played on the radio at some unknown time.

The sun was about to set in the distance, so he stretched himself, a tired and beautiful autumn evening.

The sports festival is in full swing.

The next day, Toru Watanabe deliberately said that he had not exercised for a long time and his muscles all over his body were sore.

As expected, Koizumi Aona was distressed and refused to let him play, but when she saw that he easily won the first place in the club entertainment competition, she was so angry that she knocked his head.

Huangzi smiled happily on the side. What she ate today was Pocky, pudding, Mushroom Mountain and Bamboo Shoot Village - a snack that combines chocolate and biscuits.

There was a little accident in the middle. When "running with a rugby ball", a third-year senior with a strong body collided with Toru Watanabe in order to block the road.

Watanabe Toru was afraid that he would be injured, so he withdrew a lot of force. In the end, he underestimated the opponent and fell to the ground.

Although I still got first place in the end, my hand was broken and it bled a little.

"Are you okay?" the senior said sheepishly.

"What does this mean?" Watanabe Toru said nonchalantly.

For boys, wounds of that level are really not worth making a fuss about.

"When I watched you compete, I thought you were very strong, so I hit you with all my strength. I didn't expect you to be so weak. I'm really sorry."

"...Senior, you'd better pay some of the medical expenses."

Finally, the wound was rinsed with water and wiped with the tissue given by Koizumi Aina, and the treatment was completed.

After the third-year senior returned to class, he was stared at by Asuka Mai for a long time, which made him feel embarrassed. He thought he had shown his manly charm just now, and he was so excited that he jokingly scuffled with a few friends around him.

After school, Toru Watanabe changed back into his Western-style school uniform, picked up his schoolbag and prepared to go home.

He was talking with Osamu Kunii and Keisuke Saito about what time he could go online to play games in the evening. When he walked out of the classroom door, he saw Rin Kiyono with his arms crossed.

"Looking for me?" Watanabe Toru asked.

"I don't want to answer the same question twice. If your memory is not good, I suggest you..."

"I have a notebook."

After being rushed to answer, Qingye Rin calmed down: "I suggest you stop being a human being."

"...Okay, okay, I'll do as you say. I can be a dog or a cat in my next life. If you don't say this, what do you want to do with me?"

"I have to go to the infirmary." After finishing speaking, Qingye Rin turned and left.

Not only Toru Watanabe, but also Osamu Kunii and Keisuke Saito, who were bystanders, didn't understand what she meant.

After walking about two meters, Qingye Rin stopped, turned slightly sideways, and cast a sharp gaze over him.

This means...

"...I want to go too?" Toru Watanabe asked in a tentative tone.

"Anyway, since you have nothing to do after school, why don't you play games when you get home?" Compared with his eyes, Qingye Rin's tone could not tell how angry he was.

"That's what they say, but I will do it..."

The girl's eyes began to turn to horror, so Toru Watanabe simply changed his words: "...You are right, I am indeed very free."

"Have a good time after school, goodbye." Toru Watanabe said goodbye to the other two people and followed the girl's pace.

"His expression looks good, but I know he is not happy at all." Osamu Kunijing looked sad.

"Nonsense, how can you be happy when you are interrupted while playing games!" Keisuke Saito agreed with experience.

The school building just after school was full of noise.

The girl chasing the boy with a broom, the man with glasses who was called to the corner by the teacher for psychological education, the girl group pointing at Toru Watanabe...

"Are you injured?" Toru Watanabe asked.

"No."

"Then why are you going to the infirmary? Are you helping me treat my wounds?"

"You're not too stupid."

"Don't bother, this little injury is nothing. It will be fine next week. Wait a minute," Watanabe Toru said suddenly as if remembering, "Is this the first way to make me fall in love with you?"

Qingye Rin's soft lips opened slightly, but he hesitated to speak, and finally explained: "You were injured because I wanted to win the first place in the sports festival, and I will be responsible for you."

"Be responsible for me... Qingye-san, even I have to admire you. If you were an ordinary boy, you would have fallen. But I am not ordinary."

"That's right." Qingye Rin responded calmly.

"Of course, even if it's me, the favorability level will still increase a little bit." Toru Watanabe pinched the tip of his little finger with his thumb.

Qingye Rin nodded and said in an indifferent tone: "As long as it works."

"...Your firmness of will scares me, really. It seems that I have to work harder. I have to make you like me first."

On the way to the infirmary, the two stopped talking. Toru Watanabe was thinking hard about how to let Rin Qingye fall without making Miki angry.

Because of the sports festival, in addition to Miyuki Miyazaki, the infirmary also has support nurses from the hospital.

When the two passed by, they happened to see Miyuki Miyazaki sending away the aid nurse.

"What's wrong?" Miyuki Miyazaki sat back on the roller chair tiredly, and the doctor's chest shook vigorously under his white coat.

As long as a human being with normal vision would pay attention to that scene, Kiyono Rin glanced at Toru Watanabe.

Watanabe Toru glanced at her legs.

After the eye contact between the two, Rin Kiyono said to Miyuki Miyazaki: "Teacher, his hand was broken. Please help him disinfect it."

Toru Watanabe showed his injured hand to Miyuki Miyazaki.

Miyuki Miyazaki grabbed her hand, glanced at the wound a few times, then lay back down and said feebly: "Young man, it's not okay to pretend to be seriously injured and deceive a girl."

"Don't expose me, Mr. Miyazaki, I am Mr. Koizumi's favorite student, shouldn't you help me?"

"Just because you are Qingna's favorite student, I won't help you."
To be continued...