Chapter 168 Tennis 56
That night.
The cruise ship room with a night light on was quiet and peaceful, with warm light emanating from the room. However, outside the room, under the balcony, the sea was surging in the middle of the night, with no end in sight, as dark as ink, as if posing a huge crisis.
On the large bed in the cruise ship's cabin, a young man with violet hair and an extremely handsome face slept restlessly. He unconsciously frowned, and even cold sweat dripped down his smooth, fair forehead.
Late night.
Yukimura Seiichi suddenly woke up from his sleep.
The boy's deep blue pupils constricted rarely, he gasped for breath, his heart was beating violently, he still couldn't recover from the fear.
He had a nightmare.
Yukimura Seiichi dreamed that Kurikawa Sana had a heart attack in front of him and suddenly collapsed. The girl's body gradually became cold, and no matter how he called her name, she could not open her eyes again.
“……!”
Yukimura Seiichi immediately took out his cell phone and the screen lit up. When he saw the girl's steady heart rate index on the software, which obviously showed that she was sleeping soundly, he slowly breathed a sigh of relief.
Fortunately, it was just a nightmare and not real.
He raised his head, panting. The temperature in the room seemed to be set too low. The cold touch of the girl's body in the dream was probably caused by the central air conditioner blowing cold air at him.
It was already four o'clock in the morning. Yukimura Seiichi rubbed his eyebrows with a headache and began to think about why he had such an unlucky dream.
After thinking about it, there seems to be only one reason.
Before going to bed tonight, Seiichi Yukimura saw a video on Twitter. It was a surveillance video of the last ten seconds of a kitten's life before it suffered a heart attack and died at home.
The kitten in the video had suffered a heart attack. In the last seventeen seconds of its life, it struggled to shake its trembling body and came to the surveillance camera in the living room of its home.
The kitten rubbed its nose and touched the surveillance camera with its paws, with tears in its big eyes, as if saying, "Mom, I'm leaving. See you in the next life" - finally, its small body suddenly drooped to the ground, twitching violently and painfully for several seconds, and then it was never able to get up again.
With the sad music playing, the comment section was filled with people crying. Some said pet owners couldn't watch this kind of video because it made them cry. Some posted photos of their cats that had already gone to the "meow planet" to express their longing for them. Some prayed that their cats would be reincarnated and return to them in their next life.
But the comment with the most likes was about popularizing the early signs of heart disease in pets, as well as methods of prevention and treatment.
Yukimura Seiichi was stunned for a long time.
He also likes small animals. In the past, he would stop and watch such videos, and feel sorry for the cute strangers outside the screen... But this time, he had more complicated feelings than before.
Heart attack, he thought of Kurikawa Sana.
Will she one day become like the kitten in this video, alone in her living room at home, or somewhere in an unknown corner, suddenly fall ill and die in pain?
This is entirely possible.
It was completely understandable why she wanted a lot of love.
Her parents were not around, and she lived alone in Tokyo. He was far away in Kanagawa, and if something really happened to her, even if he had seen her abnormal heart rate through the screen of his mobile phone, it would be too late by the time he rushed to Tokyo.
A heart attack can take a life in just seconds, and even if he called an ambulance for her immediately, it would be of no use.
Thinking of this, Yukimura Seiichi clenched his mobile phone and stared at the popular science content for a long time.
[Early signs of heart disease: purple tongue, lack of exercise, difficulty breathing, rapid heartbeat, fainting...]
[Prevention methods: Take heart-nourishing and protective medications in advance that can effectively prevent heart failure, strengthen heart contractility, and maintain cardiovascular function, such as Pimoxin, Shushunkang for cough and asthma relief, and F5 for stress relief...]
Yukimura Seiichi slowly breathed a sigh of relief.
Fortunately... At the moment, her condition does not match the early symptoms. She does not have a purple tongue, difficulty breathing, or a lack of exercise. The tennis match she just had with Ryoma Echizen is the best proof of this.
When Yukimura Seiichi saw Sana playing basketball with Sakuragi Hanamichi and others in Kamakura before, he already felt very sorry. This time, her tennis made him feel even more regretful.
Her skills were certainly impressive, but Seiichi Yukimura saw another side.
She was so full of vitality on the court, but she was plagued by such a serious illness and could not sweat as freely as them.
Yukimura Seiichi had once faced a similar fate as her. He couldn't even imagine being unable to pick up a racket or play tennis again.
Now, he has recovered from the illness, but she has not.
How wonderful it would be if she were safe and healthy?
Seiichi Yukimura's thoughts gradually drifted away until he saw the last sentence in the popular science comment: "Furosemide is used to drain ascites." He suddenly came to his senses. This is an early sign and treatment method for heart disease in cats, not humans.
…Really, what is he doing?
Too much concern leads to confusion.
Yukimura Seiichi smiled bitterly and rubbed his brows.
Then there's the saying "What you think about during the day, you dream about at night." Perhaps it was because he watched this video before going to bed that he had that nightmare.
The most terrifying thing is that the kitten showed no signs of illness before dying of a heart attack. Everything happened so suddenly, and a life was taken away in just a few seconds.
...Will Sana be like this too?
Kurikawa Sana in the dream and the kitten in the video both suddenly fell ill. They collapsed in pain within a dozen seconds and no longer breathed. Their bodies gradually became cold and stiff, indicating that they were gone.
“……!”
He couldn't fall asleep anymore, so he simply got up, picked up the coat hanging on the coat rack, put it on his shoulders, and walked out.
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Standing on the deck of the cruise ship at four o'clock in the morning, Yukimura Seiichi looked out at the dark and deep sea in the middle of the night, silent.
Even the Son of God did not expect that something that had never been confirmed would be actually confirmed because of this Twitter video today.
Perhaps he has fallen in love with Kurikawa Sana.
That's why I can't imagine or accept that she might be like in the video, fine one second and pass away from a heart attack the next.
Just this kind of association immediately caused me to have a one-to-one replica of the nightmare, which shows how deep the fear is in my heart.
Yukimura Seiichi looked down at the sea beneath his feet. The white waves stirred up by the propeller were reflected in his eyes, as if flashing with some light.
Ren Wang is right. Now that he has confirmed his feelings for her, he should cherish the precious time he spends with her... No one knows when she will have an accident.
This is also the reason why he decided to give the phone to Niou instead of Renji during the operation.
He could see that Niou had a good impression of Sana, so Niou would naturally pay more attention to Sana's heart rate.
This wasn't because he didn't trust Renji, it was simply a matter of fact. Renji was a rational person who sought to maximize efficiency, so it was impossible for him not to be paying attention to Sana's heart rate every minute. In fact, it would be safer to leave it to Niou.
Thinking of this, Yukimura Seiichi paused.
It turns out that my love for her had already begun from that time.
If she didn't like him, why would she spend so much time and effort to think carefully about who to entrust her heart rate monitoring to for the duration of just one operation so that she could feel most at ease, safe and appropriate?
It was because I liked her and cared about her that I was afraid something might happen to her even during those few short hours.
So, now that we know this, what should we do?
Yukimura Seiichi looked up at the sky, the moonlight falling on his face like a layer of flowing jade.
At the same time, a magnetic and gorgeous voice sounded behind him, it was someone's iconic voice.
"Ah, so the dignified 'Son of God' is not sleeping at night, looking up at the stars?"
Yukimura Seiichi looked back and saw that the person coming was indeed Atobe Keigo.
Keigo Atobe has a calm temperament, and the way he strolls leisurely on the deck of the cruise ship is like taking a walk in his own back garden, but it is true that this cruise ship is also his back garden.
He was wearing a thick, pure white bathrobe, with water droplets on his hair, as if he had just come out of the swimming pool on the deck.
But even though he was dressed like this, Keigo Atobe still put a crushed ice blue rose in the breast pocket of his bathrobe. The blue and white flower was cool and beautiful.
Yukimura Seiichi keenly sensed something amiss.
At four o'clock in the morning, Tobe still had flowers on his chest. This was probably not due to his clothing style.
These days, he could see Keigo Atobe carrying a flower every day. Every day it was a different variety, but coincidentally, the flower language was the same, implying a confession of love.
Seiichi Yukimura likes plants, so he has some knowledge of the language of various flowers.
For example, the broken ice blue rose on Atobe's chest now, the flower language is "The hope I give you is the stars and the sea, which means I am very lucky to meet you."
Yukimura Seiichi's room was on the same floor of the cruise ship as Kurikawa Sana's. If he saw it correctly, the floor's exclusive butler had pushed a large bouquet of crushed ice-blue roses into her room today.
Combining all the signs, the answer to the question is already obvious.
Yukimura Seiichi smiled faintly and replied, "Didn't the mighty 'Ice Emperor' also fail to fall asleep?"
As soon as he finished speaking, even Yukimura Seiichi couldn't help but secretly clench his fists to cover up his inner embarrassment.
No, it’s really hard to bear hearing such childish words coming out of his mouth.
But the other party asked him right from the start, "Why is the Son of God not sleeping in the middle of the night?", which made him involuntarily respond with the second-year student nickname "Ice Emperor".
Sometimes I really want to interview Atobe. How does he manage to not feel embarrassed at all and even enjoy it?
Atobe Keigo curled his lips, "It seems that we all can't sleep for the same reason - it's all because of the same person."
Yukimura Seiichi was silent, and he had already guessed in his heart why Atobe suddenly came to see him.
Atobe Keigo: "I know she went to accompany you for the surgery."
Yukimura Seiichi said "hmm" in response.
Neither of them said the name of "her", but both of them knew it well.
"I heard that when she went to Rikkai University to look for you, you rejected her in front of everyone." Atobe Keigo's eyes were sharp. "I didn't expect that time has passed and you have changed after all."
——You smell so good.
Although Keigo Atobe didn't say it explicitly, Seiichi Yukimura already understood the meaning of his words.
——You got slapped in the face.
“………”
I don’t feel any pain on my face or anything, but if I have any regrets…I do have some.
I regret that I might have hurt her.
Yukimura Seiichi slowly lowered his eyes, hiding the expression in his eyes.
"It seems my judgment was correct." Atobe Keigo curled his lips, "But it's not surprising at all. I know how charming that girl is. It's natural to fall in love with her after having come into contact with her."
“…”
Yukimura Seiichi did not object to the fact that what Atobe Keigo said was true, but he was really confused about Atobe's behavior.
If he heard correctly, he even felt that there was a hint of pride in Atobe's tone.
What on earth is this young master doing?
She stayed up late at night and came to tell him all this. Is Atobe keen on personally selecting a love rival for himself?
What is he proud of? Is he proud of how good the girl he likes is? Well, she is indeed good.
However, given Atobe's personality, it's not surprising that he would have such thoughts.
Atobe is flamboyant and extremely confident, and possesses a strength and status that matches his personality. Therefore, when the person he likes is liked by more people, Atobe not only does not feel threatened, but it will only urge him to work harder.
The best proof is the roses on Atobe's chest that change every day, and the fact that he, Yukimura Seiichi, and Seigaku were invited to the cruise ship at the same time.
Seeing that he hadn't replied, Atobe Keigo pressed on, "Huh? If you don't say anything, I'll take that as your agreement."
"It's not a tacit agreement." Yukimura Seiichi finally spoke, returning the other person's smile. "I can admit it directly."
Yes, I like her.
There's nothing to deny.
"Ha, the 'Son of God' is actually using the same trick as that first-year kid from Seigaku." Atobe Keigo raised his eyebrows.
Yukimura Seiichi maintained a distant and polite smile. "What's wrong? Does Hyotei's student council president need to control his classmates' love lives?"
"Oh, I'm not that boring." Atobe Keigo was confident that he wouldn't lose to anyone. He was concerned about another issue at the moment. The boy's sharp dark eyes locked onto him, "I want to ask about something else."
"When she was playing against Echizen, everyone was amazed at her skills, but only your eyes and expression revealed worry and nervousness. Why?"
Atobe Keigo's sharp dark eyes locked onto the other person, "Is there something about her that you know that I don't know?"
“………”
Yukimura Seiichi fell silent.
It seems that Atobe doesn't know about Sana's condition yet.
The young master's love was ostentatious and dazzling, but he didn't know that her life was gradually slipping away.
…He didn’t even know.
With Atobe's family status and resources, it would be easy for him to find out information about her physical condition. But Atobe still seems to be unaware of Sana's physical condition, which only shows that he respects Sana very much and would not steal her information without her knowledge.
Atobe is upright and honest.
However, even Tobe, who was in the same school as her, didn't know about her physical condition. It seemed that she had not told anyone about her condition. He only discovered it because she fainted in front of him.
When he thought of this, Yukimura Seiichi couldn't help but be stunned for a moment.
Whenever he thought of the stinging and hurtful words he said to her before she fainted on the beach in Kanagawa, Yukimura Seiichi would find that his heart would feel sour and swollen, as if it was being gripped by an invisible big hand.
If she hadn't fainted that day, and he hadn't accidentally learned about her condition in the hospital, she might have been completely hurt by his indifference and rejection, and would never have set foot in Kanagawa again.
Then they will never meet again.
He had no idea what a good person he had missed.
Everything seems to have been destined.
Yukimura Seiichi closed his eyes and began to think about another problem.
Should I tell Atobe about Sana's condition?
As expected, Atobe has excellent insight. In a football game, he can find the incongruity from the smallest details and immediately notice that his reaction is different from that of others.
On the one hand, the illness is ultimately Sana's own privacy, and he cannot make the decision on his own.
From the fact that Atobe still doesn't know about Sana's illness, it means that Sana doesn't want him to know.
But on the other hand…
If one more person knew about Sana's situation, wouldn't they be able to protect her better? Atobe was in Tokyo Hyotei, even in the same class as her. No one was closer to Sana than him.
The scene of the girl falling down in the nightmare was still vivid in his mind, and Yukimura Seiichi couldn't help but clench his fists tightly.
Seeing his reaction, Keigo Atobe became even more certain that the other party had some information that he didn't know, and he also had an unprecedented bad premonition in his heart.
For some reason, Keigo Atobe had a strong intuition that the "unspeakable reason" that Sana had been hiding for a long time and that caused her to behave inappropriately was related to the information that Seiichi Yukimura knew.
During that game, everyone present was cheering for the girl's amazing skills, but only Yukimura Seiichi's eyes were filled with worry and tension, even with a hint of subtle fear, which was out of tune with the reactions of everyone else.
Others might not notice this, but it cannot be hidden from his unique insight.
Atobe Keigo gritted his teeth.
"So, what is the reason?"
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