Chapter 75 Chapter 75 Past Events

Xiangcheng went to the coaching staff's workroom to borrow a computer.

She flipped through several pages of densely packed posts on the forum but couldn't find anything relevant to her.

After some hesitation, she made up her mind and entered her name.

The webpages she was redirected to were all from a year or two ago. It was clear that Santa Maria no longer mentioned her.

It wasn't until she scrolled to the second page that she finally found out what Nishikawa Kai was talking about.

After trembling for a few breaths, Xiangcheng read through each message one by one, and finally chose the latter between reporting and closing.

She calmly thanked the coaches, then passed by Hitani and Rika who were about to say something at the door, and returned to her room, not knowing what she was thinking about.

She rarely needs to deal with her emotions alone.

"What should I do..." As the only person who knew the situation, Nana Hinaya looked conflicted, as if there were too many things she couldn't bring herself to say.

Sakurai Rika was confused: "So what happened?"

Ritani sighed deeply, "It's all because we're ignorant."

"you?"

Nana Hitani's eyes seemed to have returned to the day before the cultural festival.

It was the second Tuesday in April, and they were having their last club activity of the week.

Starting tomorrow, the Santa Maria Cultural Festival will last for three days. All the girls will dress up like princesses and travel between castles and gardens to experience the medieval European style.

Those will be the three busiest days in Santa Maria, and no one wants to be punished in any way that would spoil the mood.

So they work extra hard.

Even so, the coach, who was reported to the school office again, rushed in with anger and asked them to start by running two kilometers without saying anything.

From the school team to the non-starters, everyone had to stop the project they were doing and line up to run to the playground.

Senior Fengxia accidentally fell down when she was running to the end, so Senior Xiangcheng asked Senior Mizunotsuki to take the rest of the people back to report, so as to prevent the coach from making a fuss about it.

She carried Senior Fengxia on her back and slowly moved to the infirmary. Half an hour later, the two of them returned to the team.

The coach ignored them and instead criticized the girl who had made a mistake in the serving training.

As expected, several girls, including her, were scolded and cried again.

On one hand, the coach asked about the family's vulgar language, and on the other hand, there was my own love and family's expectations. Every day of training was so difficult.

Until senior Xiangcheng, who was completing the serving training alone, hit the coach's head with a powerful jump serve.

The coach knelt in front of them on the spot.

The senior student yelled sorry and ran over to help the coach up. However, the coach pushed her away viciously: "You did it on purpose!"

"No, coach, it was really a slip of the hand and a mistake."

"I must be hallucinating because I ran too much just now."

Xiangcheng-senpai spoke seriously, but they could hardly suppress their laughter.

It is better to believe that Ultraman will rule Japan tomorrow than to believe that Senior Xiangcheng made a mistake.

Obviously the coach thinks so too.

His gaze, like one filled with poison, shot straight at Xiangcheng, who had a concerned look on her face.

Ritani stood in the team and could clearly hear the dreamy voice of Kawase Rei coming to his ears.

I like... I like senior.

When she turned back, Ali had already looked away.

On the second day of the cultural festival, the two girls with the highest votes were asked to dress up as princes and light up the candle tower in the castle.

Senior Xiangcheng, who had just won the Best Newcomer Award in the national competition, was not far behind and secured the top spot, becoming a "prince" together with the captain of the basketball team.

The well-dressed Xiangcheng was greeted with screams from the audience as she appeared on the stage - she had short red hair, wore a silver dress with gold weaving, and appeared on the red carpet in front of the castle riding a horse.

After lighting the candles, countless classmates wanted to take photos with her.

Everything is too normal.

Until Kawasari finally came to her side, Ali took Xiangcheng's arm and smiled sweetly, and took several photos in a row. When the girl behind her began to urge her, Ali suddenly held up Xiangcheng's face and kissed her forcefully.

She had only one thought at the time.

It's over.

I won’t even mention how chaotic the scene that followed was… For a church school, such a thing was simply unimaginable.

Then, Xiangcheng and Ali faced repeated inquiries from the school and clergy. The situation was not temporarily resolved until Xiangcheng wrote a letter to resign as captain and Ali left the volleyball team.

However, Ali's behavior was just a fuse. The school began to investigate those real couples in more depth. Senior Xiangcheng suffered an unexpected disaster and was hated by many people for a long time.

It seems that no matter what sexual orientation you have, there are reasons to dislike her.

But she was not wrong from beginning to end.

Even in the volleyball club, the atmosphere became tense.

Senior Xiangcheng will never come to them to guide them in practicing basketball again, nor will she help them out.

It seemed that when her least favorite coach brought up this matter, she lost the strength to refute it.

In an instant, her world was filled with only practice.

Lonely, surrounded by rumors, wrapping herself in the sense of security brought by volleyball.

Ali, who suffered the same thing, wrote everything down in the school forum.

But by then several months had passed and everyone's attention was no longer on that matter.

Even if Ali blamed everything on herself, it couldn't offset the pain she felt during this period.

Rigu sometimes thought that Ali's starting point might be wrong, but was it really that serious?

Is it just because it is a church school?

She couldn't figure it out either.

"Maybe it's because Xiangcheng is so outstanding."

"Yeah...it's nothing actually..."

Several people from the volleyball club sat in the small conference room with sad faces.

"When will Yukimura and the others return from training?"

Li Xiang sighed: "Maybe it will take another hour or two."

Xiangcheng said he was fine, but he had already locked himself in the room for several hours.

Under their questioning, Ritani finally said something.

"As expected of a church school, there are so many rules to break. It's just a kiss..."

"that is."

"That Nishikawa too, it was clearly a clarification post, but he made it sound like there was something really wrong with Xiangcheng."

"Xingcun still knows what to do."

Rika lowered her head and finally explained some of the doubts in her heart.

That's why the junior schoolmate chased after Xiangcheng, but Xiangcheng was always lukewarm. Instead, when facing Brigida, she acted more like a senior schoolmate.

I don’t know what Xiangcheng is thinking at this moment.

Orange?

Xiangcheng had already arrived at the empty volleyball court and was very confused about what these people were doing.

Then warm up step by step.

There's nothing a game of volleyball can't solve.

If so, play two games.

When Yukimura Seiichi walked into the volleyball hall worriedly, what he saw was Xiangcheng lying on the floor throwing and catching the ball.

This scene seemed particularly familiar, exactly the same as what he saw when he walked into the volleyball hall one day last year.

He knew that Xiangcheng was trying hard to cultivate her concentration, so he tiptoed over to her and sat down, his yellow jacket still firmly draped over his shoulders as he moved.

Xiangcheng seemed to notice him, but continued with her actions.

Yukimura didn't say anything, but slowly adjusted his headband and fumbled to put the big orange in the front.

Xiangcheng couldn't help but burst out laughing.

The volleyball rolled to her side and was gently pushed far away by Yukimura.

Xiang Cheng slowly sat up with the hand he extended: "What are you doing?"

Yukimura blinked, "This way my girlfriend will notice me."

Xiangcheng hurriedly turned his headband back - it was too ugly.

Yukimura waited until she recovered before asking, "Is there anything you want to tell me?"

Xiangcheng thought for a moment and said, "It doesn't seem like anything."

"Really?" Yukimura tapped her nose. "Everyone in the volleyball club seemed very worried about you. They were waiting for me at the door and told me that you were in a bad mood when I came back."

"Didn't they tell me why?"

Yukimura nodded: "A little bit."

Xiangcheng's mood suddenly became nervous: "Which point?"

Yukimura Seiichi said in distress: "For example, the first kiss of Yui, actually..."

"I knew it," Xiangcheng interrupted him, "that's all you care about."

Yukimura laughed, "Of course not."

"I was just thinking, if you're still in your room, it must be serious, but if you're on the volleyball court, it just means you don't care."

Xiangcheng snorted, not wanting to be seen through.

Yukimura patted her head soothingly: "It would have been nice if I had met you earlier."

"You clearly said you don't like assumptions."

"yes……"

But this idea suddenly popped up in my mind.

How about earlier?

Or even like Kuroo and the others?

He would never allow such a thing to happen.

Xiangcheng turned around and comforted him: "Then you should think about it: if there weren't so many things going on, I wouldn't have transferred schools!"

Then maybe we will meet again many years later.

Yukimura covered her mouth: "Okay, stop talking."

After all, I shouldn't make assumptions.

"Let's go, it's time for dinner." Yukimura stood up and pulled Xiangcheng up.

Xiangcheng walked into the restaurant as usual and saw Nishikawa Kai at a glance.

She let go of Yukimura's hand and walked over to him while he was cutting steak. She said calmly, "I've looked at it. All the vague things you said are completely false."

Xichuanjie's hand suddenly stopped, without turning back: "Really?"

"Fengxia is a very outgoing and righteous girl. I don't know what she would say to you, but I know she would never say something like that."

"So I've come to the conclusion that people with a heart see everything as dirty, don't you agree?"

Everyone else looked up in shock at her words and looked at Nishikawa Kai.

Nishikawa Kai seemed to be wiping his mouth with a napkin gracefully, but the bulging veins on the back of his hand betrayed him.

"I really hate you people."

"It's just a club activity, but you act like it's costing your life."

"Even though there's so much pain, you try to pretend like nothing happened."

Nishikawa Kai stood up and kicked the stool away. Yukimura saw the situation and pulled Kaoru behind him.

"I thought we were the same kind of people." Nishikawa Kai didn't know whether he was looking at Yukimura, or looking at Yukimura through Yukimura.

"I'm so sorry. We will never be the same kind of people as you." Yukimura Seiichi rarely became fierce outside the court.

Xichuan's eyes became even darker.