Primary School

It's a subconscious behavior.

It's also a kind of intuition.

Geto Suguru believes that he is not an intuitive creature, and he relies on hard work and experience in both life and combat.

His two classmates have already mastered the "whoosh" and "snap" reversal technique, but he can only swallow the disgusting cursed jades one by one and experience more intense battles again and again to become stronger.

But when it comes to summer sunflowers, his intuition is surprisingly useful.

The previous successful cases made him put aside his logical thinking and deal with it based on his feelings when facing summer sunflowers.

So what's wrong this time?

The strange thing was that this time his intuition gave him inspiration and then immediately abandoned him, so he could only use his own thinking to fill this gap.

"...Isn't that place closed? What are you doing in there?"

"Because I heard someone screaming inside." Xia Youkui replied obediently.

"You're going to run in there if someone screams? Why don't you go find the staff?"

"The voice was familiar, so I ran in subconsciously."

......

These were all answers that Geto Suguru expected. He knew his sister had a bit of a helping nature in her, and while this irrational way of saving people was a bit out of character for her, it was understandable given the emergency.

At this time, Xia Yujie did not realize that he had become accustomed to Xia Yukui's maturity, and had become the kind of person who would find excuses for Xia Yukui's words.

Compared to Geto Suguru who fell into silence again, Aoi Suguru was the one who took the lead in this conversation.

She knew a lot of things, much more than Geto Suguru knew, but she had never told anyone.

She was asked not to talk about her uniqueness to others, but now she finds that she is not the only one who is unique.

The sudden dessert party before made her feel that something was amiss, and then Geto Suguru's inexplicable refresh behind her intensified this feeling. Until today, when she saw Geto Suguru's junior fighting with an invisible thing with her own eyes, she was even more certain of one thing - her uniqueness had been discovered.

At the same time, she also discovered the other person's peculiarity.

There are people like her in the world who will not be harmed by "dirty things", and there are also people who can eliminate "dirty things".

She seemed to have found someone of her own kind, yet completely different.

So is she going to tell it? Is she going to tell her secret to the equally special Geto Suguru?

Her grandmother told her to trust her family and not to tell anyone about her abilities. Now that she has met a family member who also has some abilities, should she continue to hide it?

In the past, Xia Youkui would not have bothered about this matter at all.

But now Xia Yukui has left her grandmother who depended on her, and is treated wholeheartedly by the Xia Yu family. She can't help but want to rely on them and talk to them. She is like a child who can cry in front of his family if his knees are slightly scratched. She is fully accepted and gently cared for.

"...Why don't you leave quickly after the battle? What else do you want to do?" Or what can you do?

While Xia Youkui was hesitating, Xia Youjie had already successfully reviewed the situation in his mind, interrupting Xia Youkui's thinking.

"...Because the black-haired brother looked very bad at the time, I was so scared that I didn't want to leave."

The girl quickly thought of a solution and told half of the truth, and also secretly complained that her brother didn't care whether she was scared or not, but was only concerned with finding the answer to his vague thoughts.

"Brother, you guys are fighting something invisible, right? I can't see anything at all, and I don't seem to be hurt."

"What is it?"

She took the initiative again and broke the window paper that Geto Suguru had never said clearly.

"And isn't brother's update about him being on vacation at the beach abroad?"

Compared to Xia Yujie's bland questions, Xia Yukui's questions were much sharper.

This immediately made Geto Suguru raise his head from the guilt of not caring about his sister, and recalled the past that could be described as a journey through hell.

During that mission, he met the only existing Tianyu Jufu Zenin mentioned by Gojo Satoru, and almost died at his hands. The mission was a complete failure.

Compared to Gojo Satoru who mastered the reversal technique on the verge of life and death, he is a real loser. He wants to save someone but ends up destroying them.

He could only resent himself for not being strong enough and use training and fighting to suppress the bitterness in his heart.

Xia Yujie's expression became colder and colder, he looked at everything indifferently like a stone statue.

"...It was sent out after the summer camp ended." In order to show his current situation to his family, he deliberately erased any traces of the mission.

He thought of something unhappy and suddenly became irritable.

"That's all for today. I'm going back to the dorm now... Don't come up to me if anything happens next time."

"besides......"

"Don't tell Mom and Dad."

"Okay." Xia Yukui nodded and watched Xia Yujie leave home.

As the door closed with a click, Xia Youkui could no longer hide the disappointment in his eyes.

Being perfunctorily treated and rejected...

It seems that it was Geto Suguru who left home, but in fact it was Aoi Suguru who was isolated from his world.

She had asked so bluntly, but received no response. Her brother did not intend to tell her about the "dirty things," not even about the cursed spirits.

This is what she heard from the light-blonde boy.

Would the outcome be different if she told her secret?

What if she told Geto Suguru that not only would she not be harmed by the cursed spirits, but she could also protect the people around her from being harmed by the cursed spirits by touching them, then she could enter Geto Suguru's world?

None of this is known.

Xia Youkui is not someone who makes decisions on impulse.

Today she just didn't want to tell Geto Suguru about this.

Maybe she didn't like Geto Suguru's half-loose bun and thought it looked sloppy, or maybe she didn't hear what she wanted to hear from Geto Suguru.

Yes, she just wanted to hear Geto Suguru comfort her, and wanted to hear her brother ask her if she felt scared after seeing the chaotic scenes today.

She had never been scared in the past, but this time, she did not get a response from her relatives.

She felt a little lost, a little sad, and a little... wanted to cry.

A feeling of grievance hit her heart for the first time, coming on strong and fiercely.

Anyway, she extinguished the flame of her desire to talk and returned to a defensive posture.

Don't be so pretentious, summer sunflower.

She said to herself secretly.

Wait...when your brother changes his hairstyle back, then tell him.

But inexplicably, she felt that this day would not be far away, and her brother seemed to be walking away step by step...

——

Xia Youkui's campus life is proceeding step by step.

I don’t know when after-school exercise became completely volleyball training, even running laps in the playground became training for volleyball.

"Xiao Meijia, one more!"

"I'm so tired, Kuroo-senpai."

Despite complaining like this, the girl still worked hard to carry a ball for the boy with cockscomb hair.

The boy jumped high, and hit the volleyball that was in the perfect position with his palm steadily, accurately and fiercely, and a beautiful arc passed through the air at a high speed.

"Bang!" The volleyball hit the ground hard, bounced and rolled away.

"Nice!" Kuroo Tetsuro was not stingy with his praise.

"Xiao Meijia, your dribbling skills are really getting better and better!"

"Really?" The pink-haired girl asked doubtfully, but her face was filled with pride that could not be concealed.

"It's okay, do you want another shot?"

"Okay! I'll leave it to you then~"

Weren’t you just complaining about being tired?

Xia Youkui, who was sitting on the ground with her knees hugged to rest, saw it clearly.

He was really eaten to death.

Their meeting was just a coincidence.

Xia Youkui didn't want Meijia to break her exercise habit, so she found a volleyball training room that could accommodate them on rainy days.

Mr. Matsushita, the teacher in charge, saw the two unfamiliar faces and stood up from his coaching chair and walked over slowly. He smiled and handed them a volleyball.

"Rainy days are awful, aren't they?"

"Take the ball and find a corner to play~"

The girls were too embarrassed to refuse the elder's kindness, so they accepted the volleyball but didn't know how to play with it.

Mika held the volleyball in her arms, staring blankly at the seniors who were practicing blocking the ball next to her.

They stared intently at their volleyballs. Even at such a young age, they were already very skilled in the movements and barely needed to move their position to pass the ball.

"...Are we going to play like this too?" Mika looked at Xia Yukui who was also paying attention to the seniors' actions.

The girl's golden eyes were equally focused, drawn in by the senior's movements, as if she was analyzing frame by frame how to hit such a stable volleyball.

"No, we don't play like this." Xia Youkui came to the conclusion after observation.

"We only have one ball and two people are not enough."

Is this the reason why we don't play volleyball this way anymore?!

Could it be that we don’t know how to play volleyball?

Mika was stunned by her friend's train of thought. She was really worried that Xia Youkui would suddenly ask for a volleyball again, so she quickly suggested that the two of them play catch together.

The kind that you throw and catch with your hands.

She used to play volleyball, and it hurt so much when she got hit in the arm!

In the end, the monk could escape but the temple could not. Two children who obviously couldn't play volleyball were targeted by the volleyball idiot Kuroo Tetsuro.

"I haven't seen her before. Is she the new girl who joined, Grind?"

The volleyball club in the elementary school is more like an interest class than a club. Boys and girls mix together and gather here because of their own hobbies.

“…Never seen it.” The boy with black bob haircut responded without raising his head, his amber eyes fixed on the screen of the game console in his hand, his fingers almost leaving afterimages.

The boy with cockscomb haircut next to him couldn't stand it, and snatched the game console from the boy with bob haircut with a wicked smile.

The liquid inside the game console shook violently with his movements, shaking off more than half of the full small circle on the hook.

"Xiao Hei!" Gu Zhua's eyes shrank into vertical pupils, and he reached out in panic towards the direction where the game console was taken away, but he knew that he was powerless to do anything about it, and his outstretched hands turned into trembling claws.

Sensing something was wrong, Kuroo Tetsuro quickly stuffed the game console back into his young son's arms and said, "It's okay, Mamoru, I believe you will be able to achieve greater success!"

"It's obvious that those two schoolgirls over there don't know how to play volleyball. I'll go help them. Keep up the good work, Momo~"

The last sound of Kuroo Tetsuro's voice gradually disappeared in the air beside Momo, leaving Momo alone to piece together his broken heart and continue to struggle to put all the loops on one hook.

According to the law of conservation of bushi, if a bushi runs away from the grinder over there, a bushi will appear next to the girls over here.

The boy with cockscomb haircut smiled brightly and offered to teach them how to play volleyball.

"It's boring to just toss it around like this, right? Let me teach you~"

It's not boring at all.

Because exercise itself is boring enough, it won’t be boring anymore!

Mika Eto really wanted to say this bluntly, but although she was good at throwing tantrums at home, she was just a little quail who could be manipulated at will by others in front of others.

She didn't know how to refuse but didn't want to agree, so she bit her lip and looked at her friend for help.

Xia Yukui successfully caught Mika's gaze and said without hesitation, "Then I'll leave it to you, Senior."

Sell ​​your friends to death.

The girl who was not rescued was sulking the whole time, puffing her face and imitating Kuroo Tetsuro's movements of throwing, cushioning and dribbling the ball.

His face was full of complaints, but he studied seriously and meticulously.

It's really hard for Kuroo Tetsuro not to laugh, and he blurts out what he's thinking.

"Strawberry Daifuku, you need to use this position of your arm to hit the ball, so you need to control it well."

"Hmm...hmm?" Mika Eto responded subconsciously, and then instantly realized that there was something wrong with the address.

Kuroo also reacted, but he thought it was so funny that he couldn't help laughing. He said "sorry" but couldn't stop smiling.

Mika Jiangtou was angry but dared not say anything. She turned her head and looked pitifully at Xia Youkui who was seriously passing the ball beside her.

Xia Youkui lived up to her expectations, her brain was on the volleyball, and words came out of her mouth directly.

"Volleyball-senpai, please stop calling me Strawberry Daifuku like that, okay?"

"How can Strawberry Daifuku be Strawberry Daifuku?"

......

The volleyball fell to the ground and rolled away, and the three of them fell into silence.

“Puff.”

The grinding fingers that were still fiddling with the game console paused for a moment, and then he laughed inexplicably.

Anyway, afterward, Xia Yukui took a long time to appease Eto Mika before she was forgiven, while Kuroo Tetsuro was really put on Mika's blacklist, and he felt awkward for a long time before he could even speak a word.

But it may be because there are more rainy days in spring, or it may be because Kuroo likes to run to the playground to choose teammates, so the contact between the two sides gradually increased.

Now Kuroo Tetsuro can control Egiku Mika and even train her into a setter who can train with him.

No longer worried about no one passing the ball to him when he is tired of grinding~

"One more goal!" The boy wiped the sweat from his forehead, his voice still loud and clear.

"What a trouble~" the girl complained softly, but her eyes were sparkling as she took the volleyball from the boy.

Xia Youkui blinked her eyes and a smile appeared on the corner of her lips.

"It's dazzling."

The grinder next to him sat slumped against the wall, his fingers slowly and feebly pulling down the towel covering his face. A few meaningless humming sounds came from his throat, like a snoring cat.

"...It's obviously dazzling..."

It’s another day when I don’t feel like playing volleyball with You Xunran anymore.