"Zong Lin" chronic death
Chapter 26 26. Everything Is Reasonable
"Very good! Then we'll start laying the floor!"
——Where did this guy get so much interest?
Seeing Takasumi Shigino arranging the floor with great interest, a drop of cold sweat ran down Matsuoka Rin's forehead.
I have to say that he is actually very grateful to Takasumi Shikino for his timely help, which gave him and Sosuke Yamazaki a place to hide from the limelight.During the day, Takasumi Shimino was busy shooting commercials, and now it was late at night, so of course he should lie down and have a good rest.
"We are the guests who bother you. If you have a bed and don't sleep, you insist on sleeping on the floor like us. Is it really okay?"
"Ah, it seems that this is the first time I've heard from Sousuke that he cares about my friend." Takasumi Shikino raised his head, smiled at Sousuke Yamazaki, then lowered his head again, and continued to straighten the bedding, "It's okay , I won’t be able to sleep if I sleep on the bed. If it’s just the two of you sleeping on the floor, I’ll be very sorry, and I won’t be able to sleep.”
"In other words, laying on the floor will allow you to sleep, it's cheap sleep."
As for him, after going through so many things in one day, it might be difficult for him to fall asleep.
Rin Matsuoka looked at the floor in a daze.
It took him a long time to realize that something was wrong—Sousuke Yamazaki and Takasumi Shiino didn't say a word, and they all looked at him thoughtfully.
"Sorry, I'm going to wash up first."
Unable to stay in this atmosphere for a while, Matsuoka Rin just made an excuse, left the scene of the floor shop, and got into the bathroom.
"I feel like I'm going to lose sleep."
The topic focused on the runaway man, but in fact, Shigino Takasumi's eyes were focused on Yamazaki Sousuke.
"As a team doctor, you should also solve the insomnia problem of the players, right?"
"That's right, it should be like this, but Rin probably has the kind of personality that can't solve a certain knot if he doesn't do it himself."
"'Probably'?" Shikino Takasumi raised his eyebrows, "You know him only to the extent of 'probably'?"
"Um."
Yamazaki Sousuke watched with fascination that the dark red pattern of the quilt was laid flat on a corner of the bed sheet.
"Because I'm still holding it, I can help him a little bit, not a fluke mentality of letting him survive the difficulties alone."
"Sousuke..."
Finding that there were only two spare toothbrushes in the bathroom, Matsuoka Rin, who wanted to ask if there were any more toothbrushes, accidentally heard what Yamazaki Sousuke said when he was about to walk to the door.
So he put his outstretched hand on the door frame, and he didn't move one centimeter forward.
Since when did he cause Yamazaki Sousuke to have the so-called fluke mentality because of his character?If the strength he believes in can be turned into reality, then he should have overcome all difficulties with his own strength, instead of procrastinating like now, making others who have witnessed everything anxious, on the one hand wanting to help him, On the other hand, his self-esteem must be taken into account.
"..."
Matsuoka Rin's toes curled up tightly, then let go, and so on.
the next afternoon.
When Shimono Takasumi, who was busy at the shooting location, received a call from Matsuoka Rin, he almost kicked the sand a few meters away with a jerk.
"What are you talking about? Are you going back?!"
"Yes, I'm going back, thank you for accepting us these twenty hours, Guicheng."
"That's not the problem at all, okay! I said Rin, the limelight has not passed, so why don't you just go back?"
"It's true that the limelight hasn't passed. It's better to say that if I don't show up for a long time, the limelight will never pass, so I must show up."
The voice on the other end of the phone sounded so relaxed yet stubborn.
This is precisely the kind of tone that Takasumi Shisino is the least good at coping with, and has no strength to fight on.
"Okay, done."
At the end of the call, Rin Matsuoka snapped his fingers in satisfaction, telling the person standing beside him that Takasumi Shigino knew about it.
"That's good."
After nodding, Yamazaki Sosuke hesitated for a few seconds before saying the next sentence.
"But Rin, are you sure you've thought it through?"
Before going to bed last night, he observed that Matsuoka Rin seemed to be thinking about something. Not long ago, he heard Matsuoka Rin's decision-go back.He looked into Matsuoka Rin's eyes, and felt that the other person's eyes could be believed, and even must be believed. He just couldn't rest assured that he would go back so soon.
"Sure. And even if I don't think about it, it's not right for me to go back, is it?"
A subway going in the opposite direction passed behind, and the howling wind blew the hair hanging outside the hat wantonly.
5 minutes left.
Matsuoka Rin looked up at the subway arrival time displayed on the electronic screen.
In five minutes, he will catch the subway back to the place he fled earlier.He couldn't predict what the consequences of going back would be, but——
Matsuoka Rin turned his head, receiving the reassuring breath emanating from the face that was mostly covered by the hat, but was only exposed in his direction.
However, no matter what the consequences are, he can no longer stand still.
Sosuke Yamazaki and Rin Matsuoka returned to the hotel in the evening.
At this time, the daytime schedule of the third match day of the World Championships was all over. Ishikawa Kyotaro, who had received contact from the two earlier, did not go to dinner first, but rushed back to the hotel - the room that had been left out for nearly two days.
"coach……"
Seeing his most respected coach Ishikawa walk in, Rin Matsuoka instinctively wanted to run for a moment.Yamazaki Sousuke may have foreseen his instinct, so he held Ishikawa Kyotaro's right hand when he knocked on the door as a signal, to keep him, and even more to encourage him.
"You really surprised me, Matsuoka."
This was the first sentence that Ishikawa Kyotaro spoke, and it had been more than ten seconds since he sat down.
"You're actually an omega."
"Sorry, Coach Ishikawa, I know I shouldn't hide my real gender, but, but Coach—"
The excitement caused Matsuoka Rin to break free from Yamazaki Sousuke's hand, clenched his fist, and then threw away all the discomfort, and went straight to Ishikawa Kyotaro's sight.
"If I don't do this, I won't be able to enter the national team at all under FINA's regulations; if I can't enter the national team, I won't be able to stand in the ranks of the world!"
"Then, Matsuoka, let me ask you a question first."
Ishikawa Kyotaro had to be moved by the aura of resistance emanating from this young man, but right now, he had to calmly explain something to this young man.
"In your opinion, why did FINA reject Omega from becoming a professional player?"
This question made Matsuoka Rin stunned.
"Isn't it because the omega is born with a physical deficiency?"
"This is indeed one of the reasons, but it is not the main one. You must know that FINA was established in 1908. At that time, they did not prohibit omega from participating in professional competitions. The rule you see today was changed midway of."
"Why is there such a rule?"
Matsuoka Rin actually knew that early professional swimming was open to athletes of all genders, but he never figured out why.
"Because the only omega that has left outstanding records in FINA's archives—Canals Hewitt of the United States."
Ishikawa Kyotaro's expression became serious.The past about Canals is a painful one.
"At the beginning of FINA's establishment, although no threshold was set for omega, which is recognized as a disadvantaged group in the world, there were still few omega shadows on the field, and Canals was one of the special cases. He was nearly a hundred years ago As far as the level has been reached, many athletes who use high-end swimming equipment today may not be able to reach it.
"As an omega, how does Canals survive the estrus period? There is no doubt that it is by taking inhibitors. The problem also appeared in taking inhibitors. Since it has been taken since the beginning of gender differentiation Inhibitors, and as the schedule became tighter and busier day by day, the frequency and dosage of the medication began to become abnormal, and even out of control, Canals’ health finally went wrong. In the last few years of his career, Kanals Canales spends almost a third of his time in the ward. If it weren't for that incident, Canales might still be hanging on.
"At that time, there was an alpha who was admitted to the hospital where Canals lived. One day Canals suddenly went into heat, and he seduced that alpha to passively go into heat. The other party tried to have a relationship with Canals, and persuaded him , "Been marked by me, you don't have to take inhibitors anymore, and you don't have to go to the hospital frequently", Canals was confused for a while, and agreed to the other party's request.
"At that time, Canals didn't think that the alpha mark was just to vent his desire for a while, and the other party was discharged from the hospital soon, and he was never contacted again. Later, someone investigated, and it turned out that the alpha's private life was very chaotic. Not only did he tag several omegas, but he also had physical relationships with several betas and even alphas. He himself suffered from AIDS because of these chaotic relationships. Later, Canals was also found to be suffering from AIDS. The body was not good, and he contracted the disease of AIDS. At that time, not to mention the cure of AIDS, even the surgery to remove the marks had not yet appeared, and coupled with the blow to the mind, so in the end, Canals was in the hospital Li passed away.
"This incident caused an uproar at the time. No one thought that an outstanding omega athlete would end up in this kind of fate. Not long after, FINA officially announced the new regulations that omega cannot become professional swimmers."
The true story told by Ishikawa Kyotaro ends here.
The impact was too great, and Rin Matsuoka didn't know what to say for a while.
He always thought that omega was rejected by FINA simply because of its lack of physical fitness, and was generally looked down upon by people all over the world.After learning about the experience of Canals, a once brilliant omega athlete, he realized that there was something else hidden about what he had been puzzled and angry about.
Ishikawa Kyotaro's words continued.
"Matsuoka, you are a smart person, you should understand what I'm talking about. FINA is not like you think, looking at omega athletes with colored glasses. On the contrary, they are actually better than any other sports governing body. To maintain the safety of omega. Swimmers and divers, especially male athletes, how much time do they wrap themselves tightly during training and competition? The body is exposed to the air for a long time, and pheromones are more likely to spread , if it is not done well, it will cause chaos after another. There is also the estrus period, which is also a big trouble for Omega. Relying on inhibitors to survive the estrus period will lead to lesions in the organs and tissues in the body over time. Matsuoka, tell me honestly, have you been taking inhibitors for these years, have you really not experienced any abnormalities?"
"..."
Rin Matsuoka couldn't say no.What Ishikawa Kyotaro said is true. He did have a symptom similar to "drug resistance" to inhibitors before. If it wasn't for the fact that he met Yamazaki Sousuke later, maybe he is now the same as Canals back then. Same, I have to run to the hospital from time to time.
This silent reaction did not surprise Ishikawa Kyotaro.
"Of course, apart from inhibitors, there are other ways to help omega stabilize pheromones, and thus stabilize estrus, that is to be marked."
Ishikawa Kyotaro's gaze shifted to Yamazaki Sousuke.
"Yamazaki, you are the alpha of Matsuoka, right?"
"Yes, but Coach Ishikawa, Rin and I chose each other on the basis of sufficient affection, not because of any signs that we came together."
"Haha, I understand, you won't be the kind of character who plays on the occasion, and Matsuoka, he is also a person who prefers lack to excess. But you have to understand that you are the exception, and it doesn't mean that other people in the world will be like you "Exception". Matsuoka, I think you also don't want to see omega athletes randomly find an alpha to combine with them in order to stabilize their estrus period. The misfortune brought by this has already been reflected in Canals Yes. You are very lucky to be with Yamazaki, but how can you guarantee that other omega will be as lucky as you?"
"Coach Ishikawa..."
This conversation made Rin Matsuoka ashamed of his impulsiveness.He only cares about whether his dream can continue, but completely ignores the interests of people who are omega like him. He is really...too selfish.
"If you are admitted this time, it means that FINA will overthrow the previously established rules and reopen the career path for omega. In order to open this door that has been dusty for many years, how many doubts and obstacles you have to face , How do you answer those questions that are not unreasonable, have you thought about all these?"
"I... didn't think it through."
It's not so much that I didn't think about it, it's better to say that I didn't think about it so much at all.
"Well, then Matsuoka, I hope that starting tonight, you can think about these issues carefully. It is related to your dreams, and maybe the future of omega athletes. Now, it is all in your hands .”
After speaking the last words, Ishikawa Kyotaro was about to leave. After all, he had to rush to dinner and prepare for tonight's game.
"Ah, that's—"
As soon as he gave Matsuoka Rin a comforting look, Yamazaki Sousuke inadvertently caught a glimpse from the corner of his eye, and a piece of white paper folded squarely fell out of Ishikawa Kyotaro's pocket.He immediately stepped forward, leaning over to pick up the piece of paper.
"Give it to me, Yamazaki."
Ishikawa Kyotaro snatched the white paper.
His speed was so fast that Yamazaki Sousuke didn't have the slightest chance to unfold the paper.
——Where did this guy get so much interest?
Seeing Takasumi Shigino arranging the floor with great interest, a drop of cold sweat ran down Matsuoka Rin's forehead.
I have to say that he is actually very grateful to Takasumi Shikino for his timely help, which gave him and Sosuke Yamazaki a place to hide from the limelight.During the day, Takasumi Shimino was busy shooting commercials, and now it was late at night, so of course he should lie down and have a good rest.
"We are the guests who bother you. If you have a bed and don't sleep, you insist on sleeping on the floor like us. Is it really okay?"
"Ah, it seems that this is the first time I've heard from Sousuke that he cares about my friend." Takasumi Shikino raised his head, smiled at Sousuke Yamazaki, then lowered his head again, and continued to straighten the bedding, "It's okay , I won’t be able to sleep if I sleep on the bed. If it’s just the two of you sleeping on the floor, I’ll be very sorry, and I won’t be able to sleep.”
"In other words, laying on the floor will allow you to sleep, it's cheap sleep."
As for him, after going through so many things in one day, it might be difficult for him to fall asleep.
Rin Matsuoka looked at the floor in a daze.
It took him a long time to realize that something was wrong—Sousuke Yamazaki and Takasumi Shiino didn't say a word, and they all looked at him thoughtfully.
"Sorry, I'm going to wash up first."
Unable to stay in this atmosphere for a while, Matsuoka Rin just made an excuse, left the scene of the floor shop, and got into the bathroom.
"I feel like I'm going to lose sleep."
The topic focused on the runaway man, but in fact, Shigino Takasumi's eyes were focused on Yamazaki Sousuke.
"As a team doctor, you should also solve the insomnia problem of the players, right?"
"That's right, it should be like this, but Rin probably has the kind of personality that can't solve a certain knot if he doesn't do it himself."
"'Probably'?" Shikino Takasumi raised his eyebrows, "You know him only to the extent of 'probably'?"
"Um."
Yamazaki Sousuke watched with fascination that the dark red pattern of the quilt was laid flat on a corner of the bed sheet.
"Because I'm still holding it, I can help him a little bit, not a fluke mentality of letting him survive the difficulties alone."
"Sousuke..."
Finding that there were only two spare toothbrushes in the bathroom, Matsuoka Rin, who wanted to ask if there were any more toothbrushes, accidentally heard what Yamazaki Sousuke said when he was about to walk to the door.
So he put his outstretched hand on the door frame, and he didn't move one centimeter forward.
Since when did he cause Yamazaki Sousuke to have the so-called fluke mentality because of his character?If the strength he believes in can be turned into reality, then he should have overcome all difficulties with his own strength, instead of procrastinating like now, making others who have witnessed everything anxious, on the one hand wanting to help him, On the other hand, his self-esteem must be taken into account.
"..."
Matsuoka Rin's toes curled up tightly, then let go, and so on.
the next afternoon.
When Shimono Takasumi, who was busy at the shooting location, received a call from Matsuoka Rin, he almost kicked the sand a few meters away with a jerk.
"What are you talking about? Are you going back?!"
"Yes, I'm going back, thank you for accepting us these twenty hours, Guicheng."
"That's not the problem at all, okay! I said Rin, the limelight has not passed, so why don't you just go back?"
"It's true that the limelight hasn't passed. It's better to say that if I don't show up for a long time, the limelight will never pass, so I must show up."
The voice on the other end of the phone sounded so relaxed yet stubborn.
This is precisely the kind of tone that Takasumi Shisino is the least good at coping with, and has no strength to fight on.
"Okay, done."
At the end of the call, Rin Matsuoka snapped his fingers in satisfaction, telling the person standing beside him that Takasumi Shigino knew about it.
"That's good."
After nodding, Yamazaki Sosuke hesitated for a few seconds before saying the next sentence.
"But Rin, are you sure you've thought it through?"
Before going to bed last night, he observed that Matsuoka Rin seemed to be thinking about something. Not long ago, he heard Matsuoka Rin's decision-go back.He looked into Matsuoka Rin's eyes, and felt that the other person's eyes could be believed, and even must be believed. He just couldn't rest assured that he would go back so soon.
"Sure. And even if I don't think about it, it's not right for me to go back, is it?"
A subway going in the opposite direction passed behind, and the howling wind blew the hair hanging outside the hat wantonly.
5 minutes left.
Matsuoka Rin looked up at the subway arrival time displayed on the electronic screen.
In five minutes, he will catch the subway back to the place he fled earlier.He couldn't predict what the consequences of going back would be, but——
Matsuoka Rin turned his head, receiving the reassuring breath emanating from the face that was mostly covered by the hat, but was only exposed in his direction.
However, no matter what the consequences are, he can no longer stand still.
Sosuke Yamazaki and Rin Matsuoka returned to the hotel in the evening.
At this time, the daytime schedule of the third match day of the World Championships was all over. Ishikawa Kyotaro, who had received contact from the two earlier, did not go to dinner first, but rushed back to the hotel - the room that had been left out for nearly two days.
"coach……"
Seeing his most respected coach Ishikawa walk in, Rin Matsuoka instinctively wanted to run for a moment.Yamazaki Sousuke may have foreseen his instinct, so he held Ishikawa Kyotaro's right hand when he knocked on the door as a signal, to keep him, and even more to encourage him.
"You really surprised me, Matsuoka."
This was the first sentence that Ishikawa Kyotaro spoke, and it had been more than ten seconds since he sat down.
"You're actually an omega."
"Sorry, Coach Ishikawa, I know I shouldn't hide my real gender, but, but Coach—"
The excitement caused Matsuoka Rin to break free from Yamazaki Sousuke's hand, clenched his fist, and then threw away all the discomfort, and went straight to Ishikawa Kyotaro's sight.
"If I don't do this, I won't be able to enter the national team at all under FINA's regulations; if I can't enter the national team, I won't be able to stand in the ranks of the world!"
"Then, Matsuoka, let me ask you a question first."
Ishikawa Kyotaro had to be moved by the aura of resistance emanating from this young man, but right now, he had to calmly explain something to this young man.
"In your opinion, why did FINA reject Omega from becoming a professional player?"
This question made Matsuoka Rin stunned.
"Isn't it because the omega is born with a physical deficiency?"
"This is indeed one of the reasons, but it is not the main one. You must know that FINA was established in 1908. At that time, they did not prohibit omega from participating in professional competitions. The rule you see today was changed midway of."
"Why is there such a rule?"
Matsuoka Rin actually knew that early professional swimming was open to athletes of all genders, but he never figured out why.
"Because the only omega that has left outstanding records in FINA's archives—Canals Hewitt of the United States."
Ishikawa Kyotaro's expression became serious.The past about Canals is a painful one.
"At the beginning of FINA's establishment, although no threshold was set for omega, which is recognized as a disadvantaged group in the world, there were still few omega shadows on the field, and Canals was one of the special cases. He was nearly a hundred years ago As far as the level has been reached, many athletes who use high-end swimming equipment today may not be able to reach it.
"As an omega, how does Canals survive the estrus period? There is no doubt that it is by taking inhibitors. The problem also appeared in taking inhibitors. Since it has been taken since the beginning of gender differentiation Inhibitors, and as the schedule became tighter and busier day by day, the frequency and dosage of the medication began to become abnormal, and even out of control, Canals’ health finally went wrong. In the last few years of his career, Kanals Canales spends almost a third of his time in the ward. If it weren't for that incident, Canales might still be hanging on.
"At that time, there was an alpha who was admitted to the hospital where Canals lived. One day Canals suddenly went into heat, and he seduced that alpha to passively go into heat. The other party tried to have a relationship with Canals, and persuaded him , "Been marked by me, you don't have to take inhibitors anymore, and you don't have to go to the hospital frequently", Canals was confused for a while, and agreed to the other party's request.
"At that time, Canals didn't think that the alpha mark was just to vent his desire for a while, and the other party was discharged from the hospital soon, and he was never contacted again. Later, someone investigated, and it turned out that the alpha's private life was very chaotic. Not only did he tag several omegas, but he also had physical relationships with several betas and even alphas. He himself suffered from AIDS because of these chaotic relationships. Later, Canals was also found to be suffering from AIDS. The body was not good, and he contracted the disease of AIDS. At that time, not to mention the cure of AIDS, even the surgery to remove the marks had not yet appeared, and coupled with the blow to the mind, so in the end, Canals was in the hospital Li passed away.
"This incident caused an uproar at the time. No one thought that an outstanding omega athlete would end up in this kind of fate. Not long after, FINA officially announced the new regulations that omega cannot become professional swimmers."
The true story told by Ishikawa Kyotaro ends here.
The impact was too great, and Rin Matsuoka didn't know what to say for a while.
He always thought that omega was rejected by FINA simply because of its lack of physical fitness, and was generally looked down upon by people all over the world.After learning about the experience of Canals, a once brilliant omega athlete, he realized that there was something else hidden about what he had been puzzled and angry about.
Ishikawa Kyotaro's words continued.
"Matsuoka, you are a smart person, you should understand what I'm talking about. FINA is not like you think, looking at omega athletes with colored glasses. On the contrary, they are actually better than any other sports governing body. To maintain the safety of omega. Swimmers and divers, especially male athletes, how much time do they wrap themselves tightly during training and competition? The body is exposed to the air for a long time, and pheromones are more likely to spread , if it is not done well, it will cause chaos after another. There is also the estrus period, which is also a big trouble for Omega. Relying on inhibitors to survive the estrus period will lead to lesions in the organs and tissues in the body over time. Matsuoka, tell me honestly, have you been taking inhibitors for these years, have you really not experienced any abnormalities?"
"..."
Rin Matsuoka couldn't say no.What Ishikawa Kyotaro said is true. He did have a symptom similar to "drug resistance" to inhibitors before. If it wasn't for the fact that he met Yamazaki Sousuke later, maybe he is now the same as Canals back then. Same, I have to run to the hospital from time to time.
This silent reaction did not surprise Ishikawa Kyotaro.
"Of course, apart from inhibitors, there are other ways to help omega stabilize pheromones, and thus stabilize estrus, that is to be marked."
Ishikawa Kyotaro's gaze shifted to Yamazaki Sousuke.
"Yamazaki, you are the alpha of Matsuoka, right?"
"Yes, but Coach Ishikawa, Rin and I chose each other on the basis of sufficient affection, not because of any signs that we came together."
"Haha, I understand, you won't be the kind of character who plays on the occasion, and Matsuoka, he is also a person who prefers lack to excess. But you have to understand that you are the exception, and it doesn't mean that other people in the world will be like you "Exception". Matsuoka, I think you also don't want to see omega athletes randomly find an alpha to combine with them in order to stabilize their estrus period. The misfortune brought by this has already been reflected in Canals Yes. You are very lucky to be with Yamazaki, but how can you guarantee that other omega will be as lucky as you?"
"Coach Ishikawa..."
This conversation made Rin Matsuoka ashamed of his impulsiveness.He only cares about whether his dream can continue, but completely ignores the interests of people who are omega like him. He is really...too selfish.
"If you are admitted this time, it means that FINA will overthrow the previously established rules and reopen the career path for omega. In order to open this door that has been dusty for many years, how many doubts and obstacles you have to face , How do you answer those questions that are not unreasonable, have you thought about all these?"
"I... didn't think it through."
It's not so much that I didn't think about it, it's better to say that I didn't think about it so much at all.
"Well, then Matsuoka, I hope that starting tonight, you can think about these issues carefully. It is related to your dreams, and maybe the future of omega athletes. Now, it is all in your hands .”
After speaking the last words, Ishikawa Kyotaro was about to leave. After all, he had to rush to dinner and prepare for tonight's game.
"Ah, that's—"
As soon as he gave Matsuoka Rin a comforting look, Yamazaki Sousuke inadvertently caught a glimpse from the corner of his eye, and a piece of white paper folded squarely fell out of Ishikawa Kyotaro's pocket.He immediately stepped forward, leaning over to pick up the piece of paper.
"Give it to me, Yamazaki."
Ishikawa Kyotaro snatched the white paper.
His speed was so fast that Yamazaki Sousuke didn't have the slightest chance to unfold the paper.
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