[Flower card love] turned into a thousand winds

Mahiru didn't understand why the development of things turned into what he was seeing.

In the event room of Utatome, Tamano and Hiroto, who were sitting opposite each other on the tatami mats, stared at each other, as if they could see the scorching fire in their eyes. With a "pop", as the last song card in front of Yuye was covered by his right palm, the atmosphere of the two people in the battle dropped to freezing point.

Mahiru sat kneeling on one side, unable to move.

The tape recorder beside him was still singing waka one after another, and the tape kept scrolling clockwise until it stopped with a "click", and Yu Ye's low head slowly lifted up.

"why."

She heard his unfriendly questioning from his throat in the condensed air.

Yu Ye slightly bent his waist and leaned forward slightly.The 25 cards in front of him were gone, but the young man on the opposite side kept the original formation neatly.

"Why don't you compete with me, are you underestimating me?"

The cold tone pierced Yuuto across his frozen eyes, but the other party still maintained a correct posture, not only did not reply, but also bent down towards Tamano.

"Thank you for your advice."

Hiroto's slightly sarcastic behavior completely aroused Tamano's anger, and he slammed his fists heavily on the tatami beside him, and the backs of his fingers were immediately stained with a row of red marks.Tamano didn't pay much attention to this, instead he stubbornly raised his head and stared at Hiroto's face: "Do you feel that your self-esteem will be frustrated if a person of A level condescends to compete with me?"

"The person whose self-esteem is really frustrated should be Tamano-kun, right?" Hiroto stood up and looked down at Tamano.He glanced at Yuye's slightly red and swollen fingertips, and asked, "Does Yuye-kun really like Gepai?"

Hiroto's tone was a bit cold, Yuye couldn't help but startled slightly.The previous silly baseball idiot suddenly turned into another person. There seemed to be a hint of sarcasm in his words, but his eyes showed regret and disappointment from time to time.

"People who really like Kapai will never make fun of their hands like Tamano-kun."

Yu Ye was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously looked at his red right hand.

"People who really like Kapai will definitely not use it as a boring bet like Tamano-kun to satisfy their humble competitive spirit."

For some reason, Yuuto-kun suddenly felt sharp eyes at that moment.Mahiru saw him standing there, clenched his fist tightly with his right hand, his shoulders trembled slightly, as if he was suppressing the anger in his heart.

For Hiroto who was forcibly "invited" by Tamano to come to the activity room of Ruize Geliu, he originally thought that since he was willing to sit opposite Tamano, it meant that he had accepted his challenge.On the one hand, he hoped that Tamano would win so that he could add more power to Ruizawa's Utabe, but at the same time, Mahiru felt deeply uneasy.

On the tatami covered with fifty singing cards, Tamano and Hiroto stared at each other silently.After the recitation time was over, she pressed the start button of the tape recorder beside her, and the words of the prelude came out of the loudspeaker soon.

However, what happened next seemed to fully confirm the girl's previous uneasiness.

After the first harmony song was sung, Tamano quickly seized the opportunity to get his own card, but Yuto-kun on the opposite side kept his head down motionless, not even intending to make a move.

At first, I just thought it was a tense relationship, or that Yu Ye's attack was too murderous, but the second, third, and fourth pictures that followed were the same.

Seeing that the opponent had no fighting intentions, Yuye shouted at him irresistibly: "Why don't you attack! Do you want to lose all your cards to me!"

Regarding this, Hiroto just silently glanced at Tamano, but did not take any action.

In the end, under Hiroto-kun's "watching" like a woodcarving, Tamano easily won the victory, but such a victory was an insult to him at all.

"Are you...competitive?" Yuye lowered his head, his slightly longer hair blocked his expression, "Isn't it okay to be competitive? Since this is a competitive game, isn't it inevitable to want to win?" ?”

Hiroto put away his previous anger, and his tone turned calm: "Maybe for Tamano-kun, kotatsu is just a competitive game, but for me, kotami is not a game, but a belief."

"Eh?" Tamano raised his head in a daze, looking up at Yuuto Qingxun's eyes.

"In the competition just now, I couldn't see Yuye-kun's respect for Gepai. Yuye-kun doesn't love Gepai. To you, Gepai is just a soulless thing."

"..."

"A person who doesn't love Gepai will definitely not be able to defeat me. This is my answer."

After that, Hiroto bent down and picked up the baseball cap that was originally put aside, and put it on his head obliquely. Then, as if he was used to it, he pressed the cap heavily to block his eyes.

At that moment, Mahiru seemed to see a long scar on the inside of his right arm through the afterglow of the setting sun.

Then, she suddenly understood something.

Everyone has a past that others cannot guess, some scars are covered up, and some pasts are buried.Maybe she and Yu Ye who have only been in touch with the competitive song cards for a few months are still too immature, just superficially misunderstood the sweaty figures of the seniors as the desire for victory, but before that, each of them , all hold their untouchable emotions towards Gepai.Similarly, Gepa also brought them unforgettable memories or pain.

"Sudou-kun, your hand..."

He hugged his right arm subconsciously, covering the scar on his arm with his body.After a few seconds of silence, he turned his head and silently said to Mahiru: "Sorry, I can't respond to Yura-chan's invitation."

Hiroto's figure looked a little bleak as he straddled the white sports bag diagonally.

"That..." Mahiru opened his mouth, but couldn't even utter a word to persuade him.

The golden sunset fell into the activity room, and there was a noise in the quiet corridor. The hourly bell rang throughout the campus. After the noise, everything returned to tranquility.

A faint voice sounded from the tatami: "Sudou, I'm sorry."

Tamano, who had been silent for a long time, finally raised his head and stared at Hiroto's dark gray eyes, he bowed down to him heavily, and continued the etiquette he had just finished before: "Thank you for your advice."

"..."

"This time I lost, next time, please compete with me again."

Looking at Tamano, who was kneeling on the ground and bowing to him, Hiroto's eyes froze for a moment.

The crowd of people in the night dilutes the figures of Mahiru and Tamano walking side by side, colorful neon lights illuminate the sky of Tokyo, and the dark sky is shining brightly.

After the embarrassing duel in the evening, Mahiru stayed alone in the club room and sorted out the activity notes for the past week.However, when he was packing up his things and preparing to leave the school, he unexpectedly found Yu Ye leaning against the school gate.

Under the dim streetlights, his profile was somewhat unclear.After discovering Mahiru, he straightened up, turned towards her silently, and said to her, "Mahiru, stay with me."

Such emotions seem to be a little low.

So after following him aimlessly through the four streets, Mahiru couldn't help but stop him.

Yu Ye turned around, looked at the girl's expression silently, and smiled bitterly: "Sorry, are you bored, I want you to accompany me."

As if seeing Tamano with an uncontrollable expression at Omi Jingu at that time, Mahiru couldn't help frowning, and walked up to him in three steps at a time: "Has Tamano-kun given up yet?"

"What?" He looked slightly startled.

The girl stretched out her hand angrily and tugged at his cheek, only to realize that his face was so cold: "Because Sudou-san denied the victory I had been pursuing all along, and found that I was so far away from my seniors, what I saw The song cards I received are completely different from what everyone has seen, because of these reasons, should I start to doubt myself?"

Yu Ye was stunned as if his heart had been told, and there was a look of disappointment between his brows.

Mahiru reached out and stroked the center of his brow, trying to wipe away the sadness on his face.

"It doesn't matter, because I am also like this. What I see now is just as superficial as Tamano-kun thinks in his heart. I practiced desperately before, but I didn't think about why I did it. For me, maybe I just want to fill my fear of coming to this city for the first time, I want a companion, I want to get the attention of others, just like Sudou-san said, I have never really loved Karata before this, Tamano-kun and I, it's the same."

"Mahiru..."

"But I will never be depressed because of this. Maybe each of us has a different opportunity to come into contact with Kara, but as long as we continue, I believe that we can feel the same happiness." Mahiru grabbed Tamano's arm, deeply Looking deeply into his eyes, "Just keep going, keep going, this is the only effort we can make now."

The sound of vehicle horns surrounded our ears and disappeared at the next intersection as we went further and further.At the end of the shopping street, there was a new CD song that was sold recently, which seemed to be a song that eulogized youth.

The colorful lights swept past Yu Ye's eyes, and he stared at Mahiru quietly, as if filtering what she just said in his mind.

"As long as I'm here, Tamano-kun won't be alone."

What came out of his mouth was so serious but seemed a bit outrageous.

It's just that she remembered, to speak directly and directly, this is the fourth rule of Shiwanshi people.

"Hey boy, did you make your little girlfriend angry?"

A figure wearing a huge costume interrupted their conversation immediately. They followed the sound and saw a man dressed as a clown wearing a tall yellow top hat and holding a bunch of colorful balloons in his hands, smiling happily. He shook his hand, trying to get their attention.

Probably because the shopping street is close to the event week, it seems that such strange creatures will always appear unexpectedly on the streets of Tokyo. In Shimanto City, this is almost unheard of and unseen.

The clown looked curiously at the boy and girl in front of him, stretched out his hand and took out a balloon in his hand, and handed it to Yu Ye: "Young man, give it to your little girlfriend. Boys who make girls sad can be the worst."

Being so teased by Mr. Clown, Mahiru's cheeks blushed instantly.

The two who were not arguing at first were misunderstood for some reason, and Mahiru let go of her hand suddenly, but she didn't know where to put it, so she turned her back in embarrassment.

"Tamano-kun, if there's nothing else, I'll go home first..." The instinctive habit is to escape.

"Wait a minute." Yu Ye suddenly took her hand, a gentle smile slowly appeared on his face.

He handed the red balloon in his hand to Mahiru, then turned to the clown and said, "Sorry, you guessed wrong about one thing, we are not arguing." Then he took a breath, and a warm color spread in his eyes , "But there is one more thing, I hope you guessed right."

The clown tilted his head, showing a puzzled expression.

Yu Ye turned to the girl, and the strength between his fingers tightened slightly: "Mahiru, there is something I've always wanted to tell you."

"what?"

"I seem to have fallen in love with you since a long time ago."