Psychological Control

Just as Dillon left the wooden platform to go to the target room, there was another bustling sound outside the door, and then Zoe and Joseph pushed the door and walked in.The one who led the way before them was a boy wearing glasses. From this point of view, Japanese Kyudo is indeed a sport of self-cultivation.

"Hi, Brian!" Joseph greeted me with a British accent and walked towards me. "It looks like your group is Dillon to do this task? Isn't that a small case! I have to hurry too, Tevez and Vera are right behind us, and I saw Sam and Dean."

Just as Zoe and Joseph and I greeted each other, as Oda Riko's arrow pierced through the air, a muffled sound of "Bang" hit the bull's-eye.Then look at the clear, loud and uniform sound of "good arrows!" from the target hut! ', with a strange foreign accent.It was Dillon's voice.

Then Oda Riko, who was standing here, retracted her bow and resumed her standing posture, and shouted loudly: "Please pick up the arrow!" I looked at this heroic girl full of curiosity. The temperament of the whole person is completely different from when he was wearing the school uniform before.

There were two light high-fives in the distance, and then the first grade who took Dillon to demonstrate also loudly replied: "We are coming!" Then he ran away with a first grade girl who was guarding there before After coming out, he bent down and picked up the arrows that fell on the ground, holding them in the bend of his hand.

Then they went back to the target hut, and there was another "Please continue!" from inside.Oda Riko came to us and explained: "After picking up the arrows, the soil on the arrows must be wiped clean before sending them. They will teach him face to face."

When Zoe and Joseph went into the dressing room to change their clothes, I sat on the high platform and watched Dillon obediently shouted unskilled slogans, and then came out and bent over to pick up arrows.

"About recording scoring data, if you hit a target, draw a circle under that person's name, and if you don't hit a target, write a slash. And the archery academy is not allowed to talk, and you must concentrate on the archery." After finishing the practice of picking up arrows, Dillon walked back to the high platform where we were, and listened carefully to Oda Riko's explanation together with Joseph who chose to finish recording the data first.

"I'm desperately trying to pull out arrows, are you holding a sorority here?" Maybe it's because of the stupid but serious things that are associated with children, but Dillon is in a better mood.After listening to Oda Riko's explanation, he came up to me and joked when he practiced recording scoring data.

I turned my eyes away from him in a daze, and looked around, only to find that the students of the Kyudo Club, who are usually kneeling and recording data, have surrounded Joseph and me.Especially girls.

"Hahaha, it's really like the scene of everyone doing homework at the girls' house during the summer vacation!" Joseph said out of the situation.If you stand up and look at him from above, it's like the standard cute expression of the cat in Puss in Boots, with a pair of watery eyes staring at you.

There was a sound of pulling the door, making everyone look at the door again.But it was Tevez and Vera, and Sam and Dean had arrived.Each of them brought their instructors, who were also senior students of the archery club of this school.

"Stop talking nonsense, let's start quickly." Seeing this situation, I turned serious and whispered in Dillon's ear.When he turned around calmly and continued to complete the task, I greeted the two teams who had just arrived. "Hey cowboys and officers!"

"Hello." This was the reply of the police officer and his wife who recovered their voices but were very brief and indifferent.It was a standard police style, which made me frown.

In contrast, Sam and Dean, a pair of cowboy brothers from Texas, came up to me with a very warm and hearty hug.Sam said with a smile: "Finally, in the third round of the game, I met you again on the mission. It is really not easy to catch up with you."

"It's like chasing the leader of the wild horses." Dean said suddenly, with a stern smile on his face. "Put the horse's hooves up, and in the blink of an eye, you can't even see the smoke and dust."

"Hahaha, what are you talking about." I'm not interested in sticking someone's cold ass with a hot face, especially when this kind of approach doesn't bring much benefit to me.So I no longer took the opportunity to talk to the police team, but turned to the two brothers and said, "Who are you to complete this task?"

"The girls in my hometown say that Sam has dog eyes. I guess that means he has good eyes?" Dean's cold joke strikes again, very cold. "So we decided to let him do the job."

"Uh," I put my arms around my chest and looked up and down the two of them. Except that Dean was not much different from me, Sam was almost the height of a little giant. "Then the Archery Club may have to worry about your attire. I hope that the program team will customize it."

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While Zoe and I looked at it with a smirk, Sam and Dean walked out wearing the samurai uniforms specially customized by the program team and started to complete the task.At this time, Joseph and Dillon had completed the practice task of recording scoring data, Joseph began to pick up arrows, and Dillon finally started archery practice.

"We're going to start practicing from the standing posture," said Oda Riko, who was sitting obliquely in front of Dillon, demonstrating the basic posture. "First measure the distance from the middle of the head to the fingertips, and spread both feet to the same distance." After speaking, she took out a bamboo ruler more than one meter long, and with some difficulty raised her head to measure Dillon's arm length.

"Let me help you." I smiled and leaned over, and took the ruler from Oda Riko's hand.He lightly touched the tip of Di Lon's nose with his fingertips, and watched him lean back slightly before regaining his upright standing posture.

My fingertips slide down from the bridge of his nose against the skin, across the lips and the tip of the jaw, all the way to the throat and finally stop at the midpoint between the two collarbones.At some point, the roaring voices of the surrounding Kyudo Club students gradually became quieter.I knew that the photographer who was following me was constantly taking pictures, but he continued my movements without paying attention.

He raised the ruler with one hand and held Dillon's outstretched left arm, and pressed the ruler on the tip of his middle finger, while the other hand held it on the hand that was at the middle of Dillon's collarbone.Then I pinched the ruler according to the distance, knelt down in front of Di Lon and raised my head to signal him to open the distance between my legs according to the length of the ruler in my hand.

"...The length of the feet spread apart is the most stable distance for you to stand when you draw the bow." Maybe seeing the scene was a bit awkward, Oda Riko broke the somewhat ambiguous atmosphere without hesitation.Continue to explain. "There are eight steps in shooting, as long as you remember it, you won't make a mistake. They are stepping, body building, bow structure, kicking, drawing points, meeting, leaving, and finally Canxin."

The name of the last step, Riko Oda, was spoken in Japanese, and she began to explain the meaning of these steps step by step. "Foot stepping is the action we just made. When facing the target in the shooting position, the action of stepping on the feet. The next step is the body building. After the foot action is done, the action of stabilizing the upper body is made."

While talking about the demonstration, Oda Riko clasped his fists on both sides of his waist, and then continued: "The bow construction is the preparation action of putting the arrow on the bow. The shooting is after the arrow is wound, and the arrows are separated by two hands. The action of raising the bow and arrow above your head. In the step of drawing points, you need to hold the bow with one hand and pull the string with the other hand, open your hands left and right and pull the bow and arrow to a place parallel to your line of sight."

Following Oda Riko's demonstration, Dillon accurately imitated her movements with almost no mistakes, including the aiming movement.The meeting is the action of aiming the arrow at the target after completing the introduction.To leave is to let go of the hand holding the arrow and shoot the arrow.Canshin is the posture that the body maintains after the arrow is released.

After all the instruction was done, Dillon was the first to take over the real longbow.Under the watchful eyes of all four team members including me, Dillon easily drew the bowstring in his hand. "The bowstring is very tight, so strength is very important." Oda Riko explained beside me while watching Dillon draw the bow.

Then I saw the police officer Tevez who chose to let Vera complete this task, and his face became ugly.At this time, Vera had just changed her clothes and came out, and Sam had already followed the first graders to the target hut.

From my point of view, Dillon's bow posture is very stable.As far as Oda Riko's explanation is concerned, the strength of the bowstring used by an adult male is referred to as the bow force, which is about [-] kg to [-] kg.This is really nothing to Dillon.Tevez's complexion improved a lot after hearing that the strength of the bowstring would vary with men and women.

Because we are beginners, our target to complete the task is controlled at a distance of 28 meters.Dillon imitated the archery practice of other archery club members just now, slowly pulled the bowstring slightly and raised it above his head, and then leveled the bow and arrow to his line of sight very slowly but steadily.

"Start the challenge!" Riko Oda shouted loudly at the request of the film crew.There are ten arrows in the quiver behind Di Long, and he needs to complete the task completion standard for three of the ten arrows to hit the target.Otherwise, he needs to repeat the steps of picking up the arrow and recording the scoring data just now.

With a muffled 'snap', under the attention of everyone, the arrow in Di Long's hand flew out quickly, but finally shot at a position tens of centimeters in front of the target.Without distraction, he turned around to take the arrow again, and then drew the bow and stringed it again.

'Snapped! ' With a louder sound, this time the arrow hit the top wall above the target.It could be seen that Di Long was trying to adjust his aim, and soon the third and fourth swords missed the target.

"It looks really difficult. Joseph is probably going to kneel here." Zooey looked leisurely at the target hut in the distance, and Joseph, who was waiting with Sam to pick up arrows for practice, said with a smile.Her game mentality is very good, basically the type that focuses on participating but not fooling around.

In contrast, Tevez, who was waiting for Vera to practice and record the scoring data, was a little anxious. In his opinion, the preparation posture before shooting, such as archery, was really slow and unbearable.Then he really complained, "Damn archery, if this was during the pursuit, the archer would have died long ago? It's so slow, you know we are still competing."

"Hey! Didn't Brian's instructor say that before? Kyudo is an ancient martial art in Japan, and now it is used for self-cultivation. Even if you complete the task in the competition, please show some respect for other local cultures." After hearing Tevez's complaint, Zoe spoke very unhappily.

"What does it have to do with me talking to myself?" Tevez obviously had some masculine ideas, and he gave Zoe a nonchalant look.Then he continued: "And the president of an archery club is a stinky girl, and this archery club is still the strongest in Japan? It's too ridiculous. Brian, brag about your man! Why are comrades so sissy? He was in the military before."

These words were too offensive, but I ignored his words with a sullen face and just watched Dillon's movements.Because of what Tevez said, his ears moved and his teeth clenched together.Zooey jumped up angrily, and shouted loudly: "You are so unreasonable!"

It seems to me that Dillon's aiming adjustment was done by the fourth arrow.So it doesn't matter what other contestants are clamoring about, as long as they complete this task first, it is the best face slap.But under Vera's cooperating with his man's sneer, Dillon seemed to turn around as soon as his shoulder muscles relaxed.

I had no choice but to shout loudly: "Focus on shooting arrows! Don't forget what our main goal is! Don't talk and don't be distracted!" Dillon finally stopped the next action under my order, tightened the muscles on his arms again, Aim at the target.

Wearing a Japanese black and white samurai uniform, Di Lung looks tall and straight as if he had traveled through time. Watch him stretch his bow and draw the string, and then the fifth arrow in his hand hits the bull's-eye with a 'snap' like lightning!

"Good arrow! The first one!" Oda Riko shouted loudly.When we had an argument before, she looked this way full of doubts, obviously she didn't understand Tevez's sarcasm.When Dillon turned around and picked up the sixth arrow, he gave Tevez a cold look, making him silent.

However, some people never see the coffin without crying. When Dillon turned around and stretched his bow, Tevez snorted angrily again.He muttered, "What do you mean by that? But isn't it great to be lucky enough to hit one?" Dillon and I didn't pay any attention to it, and I even held back Zoe.

'Crack', 'crack', 'crack', 'crack', after the ninth arrow hit the bull's-eye exactly the same as the previous four arrows, Dillon turned around and bent down to pick up the last one.Skilled bow and string. 'Snapped! 'Hit the bull's-eye again!

With Oda Riko and other academies in the archery club stunned but subconsciously shouting: "Good arrow! The sixth one hits the target!", Di Lon suddenly turned around and wanted to take a step forward. Giving no response aimed at Tevez.Then, halfway through his "No...!", he let go of the string-drawing hand.

"Ah!!!" Vera, who had just finished recording the scoring data, screamed.It took a while for them to realize that there was no arrow in Dillon's hand.

Under the sweaty stares of the two, and Zoe's eyes filled with joy, Dillon and I were the first to take the next clue card from the bow club coach.

"Go to Tokyo Tower to get the next clue." I looked at the hint in the clue card, "It's not a clue to the detour mission. It seems that we still need to visit Tokyo's landmarks."

"It's already off-duty time. If you take a taxi, the road will be very congested, especially in the direction of Tokyo Tower. I suggest you squeeze the subway, so you can experience the Japanese culture and customs!" The boy who led the way before and Also came out, he said with a smile. "And thanks to all of you, I finally decided to join the archery club!"

As Kazuya said, after passing the previous shrine to pray for blessings, and then rushing to Uehara High School to complete the roadblock task of the Kyudo Club, it is now the rush hour for get off work.After Kazuya's prompt, we decided to reach the JR Green Yamanote Line to the vicinity of Tokyo Tower.Then walk there.

At that time, we didn’t know how scary the Tokyo subway is during the rush hour... If we had known earlier, we probably wouldn’t take the subway even if we were stuck in traffic jams to death…

After saying goodbye to the cowboy brothers and Zoe and Joseph, and completely ignoring the police officer and his wife, we left the archery club.At the gate of the school, we also met James and Sid who finally caught up, and the cancer survivor father and son, David and Kurt, who finally met again because of the help of James and Sid.It seems that everyone is going to have a showdown in this roadblock mission.

And after James and Sid helped David Cotter and his son, I have a more sense of identity with this model combination.At least Dillon's eyes on James are not as cold as before.

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"My God... will there really be no stampede?" Under Dillon's protection, I finally had a little room to speak among the crowd squeezing out of the subway station.Thanks to me, the follow-up photographer, who was also covered up, poked the camera very close to me in front of me with trembling hands, and gave a super close-up.

"Hold my hand and go, I won't let anything happen to you." Dillon didn't hear that I was expressing and complaining to the camera, and stared at our target green Yamanote Line station with serious eyes.He stretched out his hand and motioned for me to support him, letting me lean on him and squeeze in step by step.

Because it is taller than the Japanese at least by a head, after going down the stairs, we at least have the distance of sight and the atmosphere to see the image in the distance.Taking out the posture of marching in the flood, Dillon sprinted left and right and led us to the door and squeezed into the subway car.

As the door slammed shut, I finally breathed a sigh of relief.Letting Dillon stretch out his arms to cover me in the gap between the door and the seat, I leaned my head on his arms, and gave us two clues in the little space he opened up. Card fanned the wind.

"I'm already exhausted after squeezing the subway. I don't know how crazy the detour mission will be..." I said to the photographer who was so aggressive that he simply put the camera lens on Dillon's other arm.Of course, I didn't say it to people, but to the camera.

While looking at myself in the arms of the camera, I flicked my hair and rearranged my hairstyle.Then he put his arms around Di Lon's waist without any shyness, and dozed off against him. "Call me when you arrive." After Dillon's affirmative reply, I closed my eyes.

'Uh uh uh! ! !Look at that couple over there, my God!I have a new comic idea again!This time I finally don't have to drag the manuscript, otherwise my editor will kill me! 'The voice of a girl's voice rustled not far away.

Because some of them were different from the lifeless office workers around them, they were extraordinarily energetic and excited. I raised my eyelids curiously, put my chin on Dillon's shoulder and looked over there.Unexpectedly, she was also looking at our side, her face blushed as she looked at each other, and she panickedly put away the mobile phone that was held up high for candid shots.

The companion beside her is a man who looks quite gentle and elegant, and he protects her in his arms like Dillon with a helpless expression.Then I saw him rubbing his chin against the girl's head and saying something.

'Seeing that there are still photographers following them, it should be some TV show.I don't know what TV show would abuse ourselves like that, filming our rush hour.And your procrastination, lack of creativity is not a reason.You're just late-stage lazy cancer...'

Then the girl punched the man on the chest angrily, not the kind of small punch, but the solid one.I obviously saw the man's face suffer a little before he regained his previous self-comfort demeanor.Watching their interaction, I found it quite interesting, so I couldn't help but look at that side with a smile.

'Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah!He smiled at us!God!Do you want ntr?Is it because I have a crush on you? 'I saw the girl say something to the man again, and the man's eyes were full of doting and helplessness.

'Stand up, stand still.Can I help you take a picture?And compared to the man he was hugging, I was just a victim in front of him.Do you think he will take a fancy to me? 'While the man was replying, I saw him take the girl's cell phone, raised it up and took seven consecutive shots towards me.

From my smiling face to my stunned face, it was fully recorded, and because the man held it up very high, it perfectly captured the pose of Dillon and me.One with both hands on the wall, one with hands around the waist, a camera on the arm of one wall like a light bulb, and the photographer grimacing next to him with a sad face.

'Did you get it?Did you get it? The girl bounced from the man's hand after taking seven consecutive shots, snatched back her mobile phone and looked through it. 'Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow ! !In addition, you and he can attack each other!Compared to the back view of such a man, I still like the beautiful boy and the beautiful boy! '

'...Again, I'm not a beautiful boy...Are you still stuck in ten years ago?You know we have been working for five years... Don't jump, don't jump, stand still and stop. '

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After the episode on the subway, we came to Tokyo Tower to enjoy its beautiful night view of lights.Then finally got the clue card for the next detour mission.