Prince of Tennis: I am actually Echizen Nanjiro

"Stop!" He stopped Tezuka Kunimitsu from taking any further action. "I can understand applying ointment, but what do you mean by approaching me with gauze, Tezuka? This is too much. Tezuka, you have to know that wasting public resources is a serious crime."

However, Kunimitsu Tezuka did not intend to pay attention to his opinion. He still wrapped his wrist with layer after layer of gauze, and finally gently tied a knot, a bow.

I have to say, it's... quite cute.

They are now in a rest area, and all the students from Qingxue are here, preparing for the afternoon game.

His wrist was completely white, and someone who didn't know him would have thought his arm was broken.

"First it was your legs, then your hands. Dad, what do you want?" Echizen Ryoma's face looked very unhappy. "Have you ever taken the words 'Be careful' to heart?"

Echizen Nanjiro said guiltily: "I'm sorry, Ryoma."

"I didn't ask you to apologize." Echizen Ryoma stepped forward and held his hand, looking up at him, "So, Dad, what happened to this injury? Who did you run into again?"

After hearing Ryoma Echizen's question, the attitudes of Nanjiro Echizen and Kunimitsu Tezuka became unnatural.

Echizen Nanjiro would naturally not give Tezuka Kunimitsu away: "I accidentally scratched my hand on the weeds when I went to the woods behind. It's nothing serious."

He also glanced at Tezuka secretly, signaling Tezuka not to speak and to leave the explanation to Ryoma.

If Longma knew what happened not long ago, the consequences would be disastrous.

Fortunately, Ryoma was not there at the time, which was a blessing in disguise.

Echizen Nanjiro doesn't know yet that this is the credit of Fuji Shusuke, but even if he knew, he would not thank Fuji. Instead, he would say that he is a "black-bellied bear" with a belly full of "conspiracies and tricks."

Echizen Ryoma did not doubt his words.

After all, he knew exactly what kind of person his father was.

He is lively, active and loves to get into trouble, and sometimes even seems to be more troublesome than Carubin.

It seems normal for such people to suffer minor injuries occasionally.

After watching the game for half a day, the stupid dad should be tired.

Forget it, let him go home and rest. If he stays any longer, he might get hurt and get into trouble again.

"Hmm? It smells good..." Echizen Nanjiro sniffed the delicious aroma in the air. Is it Tamagoyaki?

He tried to find where the delicious food was, and sure enough he found it.

It turned out to be Fuji Bear who was eating a lunch box, with curved eyebrows and eyes, looking super cute and adorable.

but……

Echizen Nanjiro blinked. He didn't feel hungry at first, but after smelling the delicious food, he seemed to be hungry...

Fuji Shusuke said, "Mr. Nanjiro, are you hungry? I can share some with you."

Really? I'm a little moved.

However, he was obviously not shameless enough to eat Bu Er's lunch with a clear conscience.

Then he looked at his precious son pitifully: "Ryoma, I'm hungry."

Echizen Ryoma felt that he had lost all face in front of everyone today because of his stupid father.

"Got it. I'll give you half."

Echizen Ryoma took out the lunch box from his schoolbag, and Echizen Nanjiro watched him with shining eyes as he took out and opened the lunch box.

"It's a rice ball!"

Countless sparkles filled Echizen Nanjiro's eyes.

It was like getting some precious treasure, but in fact it was just an ordinary rice ball.

Feeling the complicated looks from everyone, Echizen Ryoma reminded him seriously: "Dad, be careful outside."

Don't give others the impression that you have never eaten rice balls in your life.

Echizen Nanjiro nodded, but his eyes were still fixed on the rice ball.

Echizen Ryoma had no way to deal with him, so he handed him a rice ball wrapped in nori.

Echizen Nanjiro did not take it immediately, but became a little hesitant: "Are you okay, Ryoma?"

If Longma was not full because of him, he felt so evil just thinking about it.

"Mom made a lot." Echizen Ryoma replied calmly, and took out another lunch box from his bag, "Here's some more."

"Hey, there are two boxes?"

Echizen Ryoma opened the second bento box, which contained meatballs, tamagoyaki, fried shrimp and other things.

"Mom prepared a double portion." Seeing his father's silly look, Echizen Ryoma pushed the lunch box towards him and said, "Eat when you're hungry, Dad."

There's nothing he can do, since this man is his father, he can only take better care of him.

"Yeah." Echizen Nanjiro nodded happily, took the rice ball from Echizen Ryoma's hand, and took a big bite, and half of the rice ball was bitten off in one bite.

In less than half a minute, he had finished the entire rice ball.

His naked, undisguised gaze full of "aggression" fell on the second rice ball again.

Echizen Ryoma patted the hand he extended lightly.

Hey, doesn’t Longma want him to continue eating? Woo woo woo, he’s not full.

Echizen Nanjiro immediately looked at him with a pitiful look.

Of course, Echizen Ryoma had seen him like this many times before, so he was not affected much. He said firmly, "Dad, eat slowly."

It turns out that he is not forbidden to eat. Echizen Nanjiro immediately nodded vigorously.

He took the second rice ball and took another big bite. However, he noticed that Ryoma was looking at him and did not dare to swallow it immediately. Instead, he kept the food in his mouth and chewed it bit by bit.

Seeing that Ryoma's expression had relaxed, Echizen Nanjiro finally let go of his worries.

From now on, he would eat when Ryoma was not around.

Everyone in his family knows that Echizen Nanjiro likes to stuff his mouth full when he eats.

However, compared with the hamster that hoards food, he actually eats all the food into his stomach.

He didn't do this because he was too hungry.

This is a state he is accustomed to.

Just like he likes sweet taste, he always becomes dazed when he is alone. He looks simple and innocent, but it seems that he has a lot of considerations and worries in his heart that are deliberately hidden and he doesn't want to show them to others.

Echizen Ryoma lived with him day and night. One time, he inadvertently gazed at his peaceful profile, one time, he watched him swallowing food in big mouthfuls, one time, he opened the door and saw him lying motionless in front of the window, looking up at the sky that had long lost its color, and one time, after walking for a while, he turned back with uneasiness and saw him still standing in front of the door. He seemed lost in the last second, and switched to his usual smile in the next second, waving at him happily.

There were many others at one time.

Whenever Ryoma Echizen noticed this, his heart would suddenly ache, briefly but intensely.

If it weren't for the fact that each pain occurred only after seeing his stupid father, and came and went quickly, Echizen Ryoma would have thought he was having a heart attack.

Dad has changed. He is no longer as powerful and insurmountable as I once thought.

Perhaps tennis was once the support of his soul, but when he lost tennis, he was no longer himself.

He became light, pure, and at the same time, fragile and vulnerable.

People who have been with him for a period of time gradually discover this and unconsciously show excessive care and concern for him, and even slowly begin to unconditionally tolerate everything about him and indulge him in everything.

But as long as no one tells him explicitly, he will never know.

Maybe if you tell him, he will still think you are weird, and then protest to you angrily: How could I? You are talking nonsense! It's not true!

So it’s better to save yourself the trouble of arguing with him and just stay with him quietly.

The big cat Kikumaru whispered to Oishi Shuichiro: "Mr. Nanjiro is like a child."

As usual, Inui Sadaharu opened the notebook he brought with him and wrote down the latest data he had collected: "At present, it seems that he likes rice balls, has a good appetite, has a simple personality, and needs someone to take care of him..."

Tomoka Kosakata noticed that her good friend Sakurano Ryuzaki had been looking at Master Ryoma. She pretended to think deeply for a while, then nodded as if she understood something.

She tugged at Ryuzaki Sakuno's sleeve and said, "Sakuno, let's go to Master Ryoma's place to eat lunch."

"Hey, Tomoka, this won't work." Ryuzaki Sakuno quickly refused.

She had no intention of eating lunch with Ryoma, she just accidentally stared at Ryoma in a daze.

But Tomoka Kosakata didn't wait for her to finish, and directly pulled her in front of Ryoma Echizen and Nanjiro Echizen.

"Hello, Mr. Nanjiro, I'm Tomoka Kosakata. Like Sakurano, I'm a friend, fan, and classmate of Master Ryoma."

"Hello, Tomoka." Echizen Nanjiro looked at Echizen Ryoma with interest, "Ryoma Young Master, haha, this name is very good."

Kosakada Tomoka took a seat beside her and called out to Ryugasaki Sakuno, "Sakuno, sit down quickly."

Unable to advance or retreat, Ryuzaki Sakurano had no choice but to sit down with her.

Ryoma Echizen did not have any special reaction to the arrival of the two girls, but Nanjiro Echizen chatted with them casually.

Ryugasaki Sakurano is a quiet girl. In comparison, Kosakata Tomoka seems much more enthusiastic and bright, just like a golden sunflower.

She was not afraid of strangers in the first place, and during the conversation she felt that Echizen Nanjiro was particularly easy-going and easy to talk to. He was not as reserved as other adults. She even felt that they had met too late, and once she started talking, she couldn't stop.

Because of this, Echizen Nanjiro also knew a lot about Ryoma's life in Seigaku. Of course, it cannot be ruled out that Tomoka Kosakata exaggerated the story subjectively.

"It goes without saying that Long Ma's English level is excellent. After all, he has lived in a foreign country for a long time."

Echizen Nanjiro smiled casually and stretched out his hand to "capture" the third rice ball.

Seeing this, Ryoma Echizen moved the lunch box containing the rice ball towards himself without leaving any trace. In contrast, the distance between the lunch box and Nanjiro Echizen became farther.

Before Echizen Nanjiro could protest and use his usual tactics such as acting pitiful, playing the victim, and showing weakness - these tactics had a 100% success rate when used on Takeuchi Rinko - Echizen Ryoma moved another lunch box towards him.

"Don't just stare at the rice balls, Dad." Echizen Ryoma picked up the chopsticks and asked him calmly, "What do you want to eat?"

The original dissatisfaction disappeared, and what followed was the dilemma of choosing which food to eat first: the round meatballs were plump and chewy, and looked very tempting; the golden tamagoyaki was sprinkled with crushed seaweed, sesame seeds, and drizzled with soy sauce, and I really wanted to eat it all in one bite; the small sausages were cut into cute little octopus shapes, so cute and I wanted to eat them too.

"Here, I want to eat this, Ryoma."

Echizen Ryoma looked in the direction of his finger and saw a small octopus called Octopus brevicaurus.

Of course I have to eat the cute little octopus first. Echizen Nanjiro thought so as a matter of course.

Echizen Ryoma helped him pick it up with chopsticks, and Echizen Nanjiro ate it in one bite without thinking too much.

It tastes delicious, worthy of the freshness from the ocean, a gift from nature.

Echizen Nanjiro chewed with great satisfaction. What to eat next? The tamagoyaki is ready.

Hey, something seems to be wrong. What is the problem?

He looked at Tomoka Kosakata and Sakuno Ryugasaki who were stunned and stopped eating, thought about it, and suddenly realized: "Yes, you have to eat by yourself."