Chapter 155 Tennis 43

On the way back to Osaka from Tokyo, Shiraishi Kuranosuke supported his chin with one hand and looked out the window. The dark night was reflected in his eyes, adding a bit of darkness and uncertainty.

The words that Keigo Atobe said just now hit his heart like a huge rock rolling down a cliff.

While it brought him sour pain, it was also like clearing away the fog in the skylight, giving him the answer to a question that had puzzled him for a long time.

If you think about it carefully, there were actually signs of many things already happening, and he was not completely unaware of them.

Some time ago, at a rare insect exhibition, Shiraishi Kuranosuke ran into Yukimura Seiichi from Rikkai University. Yukimura, known as the "Son of God," unexpectedly approached him, and the conversation inexplicably ended up turning to Sana.

"Does Shiraishi-kun also know Kurikawa-san?" - This is what Yukimura Seiichi asked him at the time. The Son of God had a pair of deep blue eyes. Thinking about it now, Shiraishi Kuranosuke finally understood.

I'm afraid she had already confessed to Yukimura at that time. Yukimura came to ask him just to see if Shiraishi Kuranosuke was also one of the people Sana confessed to.

I'm really sorry that Sana didn't confess to him.

But why?

Why were Hyotei, Seigaku, and Rikkai University all confessed to by her, but he was not among them?

Is there something not good enough about him?

“……!”

After realizing what he was thinking, Shiraishi Kuranosuke was stunned for a moment, then immediately closed his eyes and frowned.

Really, what is he doing...

Are you jealous?

What's the point of a confession that's clearly not sincere?

It is normal for him to make the judgment that "it is not sincere", and it is not difficult to infer.

Judging from Keigo Atobe's reaction, there is no doubt that he really likes Sana. Given his personality, it is definitely not a secret love but an open love. The young master has probably already confessed his love to Sana a long time ago.

But now they are still not together as a couple, what does this mean?

This means that there is something wrong with the other party and Sana is not in love with the other party. Otherwise, if both parties confessed their feelings to each other, they would have already become a couple, but now they are not.

From this, it can be inferred that, except for Keigo Atobe, Sana's confession to other people is the same and is not sincere.

But the strange thing is that Sana clearly doesn't like them, but she confesses to them one by one.

Why did she do that?

When I closed my eyes, the image of the black-haired girl at the top of the roller coaster, with her arms outstretched to embrace the sky, and her bright smile under the castle light show, all the scenes came to my mind again.

Shiraishi Kuranosuke sighed softly.

Just as Atobe Keigo said, Shiraishi Kuranosuke never thought she was a bad person. Only by personally interacting with her could one know what kind of person she was.

But why didn't she confess to him?

“………………”

Shiraishi Kuranosuke felt like he was stuck in a vicious cycle, a toxic one.

He rubbed his brows with a headache, took out his cell phone and made a call.

If you have any doubts in your mind, you should find a way to ask and never waste time on yourself. This is what his coach Watanabe Osamu taught him.

"Hello... Kuranosuke?" The voice on the other end of the line was that of Shitenhoji's team member Kenya Oshitani. He yawned and sounded a little sleepy. "What's wrong? It's rare for you to call so late at night."

"Kenya, do you know anything about Sana in Hyotei Academy and Tokyo? Anything is fine." Shiraishi Kuranosuke asked straight to the point.

Kenya Oshitari: “???”

"Sana? Is that the Sana Kurikawa from Hyotei Academy?"

Shiraishi Kuranosuke could hear through the phone the sound of Ken Oshige jumping up from the bed with excitement, and the person on the other end seemed to wake up all of a sudden.

"Why are you suddenly asking about her... Wait, did I hear you correctly? Did you just call her name? When did you become so familiar with her?"

"Well...it's a long story...so what do you know about her?"

"That's weird, why do you all want to ask me about Kurikawa Sana?"

Ken Oshitari also began to feel confused. "My cousin called me today and asked me about her... So why do they all think that someone like me, who studies in Osaka, would know about Tokyo Hyotei's school beauty?"

Shiraishi Kuranosuke: “…”

Ken'ya's cousin is Yuushi Oshitari from Tokyo Hyotei Academy.

They matched. Shiraishi Kuranosuke remembered that the man with glasses who was sitting at the table behind him and Sana at the Ginza sushi restaurant today was Ken'ya's cousin, Ozuchi Yuuji.

Yuushi Oshitari will also call Kenya today to ask about Sana. Maybe it's because he saw Sana having lunch with him, so he asked Kenya who goes to the same school as him.

So the question is, why does Kenya's cousin care about Sana?

"Why did your cousin ask about Sana?" Shiraishi Kuranosuke asked directly.

Kenya Oshitari: "Oh, because she confessed her feelings to Yuushi."

Shiraishi Kuranosuke: “………………”

Silence enveloped the train from Tokyo to Osaka, where he was the only one in it.

If he remembered correctly, the person that Atobe said she confessed to was not Oshitari Yuushi, so how many others were there?

So, Shiraishi Kuranosuke was the only one who was not confessed to by Sana.

Where's Echizen Ryoma, who showed up at the restaurant with Atobe Keigo today? Is that rebellious first-year student from Seigaku among them?

After taking a deep breath, Shiraishi Kuranosuke tried to make his voice sound calm: "When did it happen?"

"It was a while ago, but Yushi declined her offer." Ken Oshima also smiled. "I think Yushi is just a paper tiger. He really doesn't care about what she says. He wouldn't have called me to ask me today."

"What did he ask?"

"I asked Kurikawa if she had ever been to Osaka or something like that. I said yes, and even added our captain's contact information."

“………”

Shiraishi Kuranosuke's voice was already a little dazed, and he couldn't help but ask to himself: "...Why did she do that?"

"Oh, I think I know what you're wondering." Kenji Oshitani also sighed, "I was also wondering before, why Yushi didn't agree when Kurikawa was so beautiful. But Yushi said that she confessed to more than just him, so he rejected her. Today I couldn't help but be curious and asked Yushi why she did this."

"So why?"

Kenya Oshitari: "Yushi said it was because she was sick."

Shiraishi Kuranosuke: “…”

"Don't get me wrong, my cousin wasn't being abusive. It was truly a statement, literally and pathologically."

Ken'ya Oshitari's voice also sounded somewhat sympathetic. "Yushi truly believes that Kurikawa has a psychological and emotional disorder that has caused her to be unable to control her body movements, leading to such bizarre behavior."

"Otherwise, it's hard to understand. With a family as affluent as hers and a face as beautiful as hers, wouldn't it be easy for her to have a serious relationship with anyone? If they just take things step by step and get along normally, anyone would fall in love with her, right?"

The more Ken'ya Oshitari spoke, the more he felt involved. He muttered, "Anyway, if it were me, I'd find it hard to dislike her no matter what... She's so beautiful."

A girl who is already extremely beautiful may also suffer from a disease that others cannot know or speak of, which makes her sound even more fragile and can easily arouse people's desire to protect her deep in their hearts.

Seeing that there was no response from the other end of the phone, Ken Oshitsuka called out to him, "Kuronosuke, are you listening? Why aren't you talking?"

Shiraishi Kuranosuke paused, "I understand."

Kenji Oshima immediately became alert: "Huh? What do you know? Wait, you're not going to hang up, are you? No - don't hang up after arousing my curiosity, so why are you suddenly asking so many questions about her -"

Shiraishi Kuranosuke sighed, "Sorry, Kenya, I'll talk to you after I get back."

Now, he just wants to be quiet.

After hanging up the phone, Shiraishi Kuranosuke looked out the window again.

We are almost back to Osaka.

Now that I think about it, if Sana really had psychological problems, why was she so cold and cruel when we first met, as if she had two different personalities? Could it be that she had split out of another personality?

When he first met Kurikawa Sana, he felt that she was a person so beautiful that she seemed unreal and full of distance.

Coupled with the other party's cold personality at that time and her unexpected performance when playing with Xiao Jin, Shiraishi Kuranosuke had a deep memory of her, but that was all.

The real change came from the message she sent that day. She said she was coming to Osaka and asked if he could accompany her.

All the gears started to shift from that day.

When they met again, the girl seemed to have become a completely different person. She became more lively, dazzling, and vivacious, and her every frown and smile attracted his full attention.

Under the bright and colorful lights of the castle, when the girl stepped forward and hugged his waist, Shiraishi Kuranosuke could clearly hear the sound of his own heart beating like a drum.

——"Next time, it'll be Kuranosuke who comes to Tokyo to see me, okay?"

He arrived in Tokyo as promised, full of anticipation.

But he didn't expect that he would learn such unexpected information during this trip to Tokyo, which made his heart tighten and feel sore and swollen.

Shiraishi Kuranosuke is a very pure person, both in tennis and in love.

In his beloved sport, tennis, he pursues perfection and practices every basic skill to the extreme, and is therefore known as the "Tennis Bible."

A person's tennis playing style is the truest reflection of his personality. His character is pure and clear to the extreme. He should be someone who doesn't tolerate even a grain of sand in his heart, and the same should be true in his relationships...

But when it comes to her, there is an exception.

He had never cared about or liked anyone before, and he took a big fall the first time.

Looking down at the screen of his mobile phone, Shiraishi Kuranosuke gave a helpless smile at the text message that the girl had originally sent him.

But even so…

Even so, he still...liked her very much.

Can't let her go.

…She hasn’t been with anyone yet, hasn’t fallen in love with anyone yet, so he still has a chance.

If she really has any unspeakable difficulties or illnesses, he will accompany her to get through it.

If you really like someone, you should accept everything about her wholeheartedly instead of avoiding her.

Shiraishi Kuranosuke reached out and touched the white bandage on his arm, feeling the hard texture of gold underneath the bandage.

When he looked up again, the boy's expression and eyes had returned to clarity and determination.

In tennis, he is the perfect Bible, and in love, he also wants to be the "Bible" that illuminates the other person.

…

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On the other side, in a large flat in downtown Tokyo, a black-haired girl was curled up in a small ball on the bed, sound asleep.

With a "ding" sound.

[Shiraishi Kuranosuke, Favorability +7. ]

[Shiraishi Kuranosuke's current total favorability: 95.]