Chapter 70 Chapter 70 Daily Living Together (Part 3)
"Looks like it's too late. I was planning to take you to see the surprise I prepared..."
After hearing what Butler Yamaoki said, Atobe Keigo scratched his head and suddenly realized that the whole morning had passed like this. It was not quite what he had originally planned. He had talked to Yuyin during the break and wanted to tell her about the surprise and take her to see it.
"What surprise?" Yuyin was a bit curious. Although she also wanted to know what the surprise was, she urged him, "Go wash up first. You've been sweating all over. It's not good for your health to catch a cold. We can discuss the surprise in the afternoon."
"Yeah, okay." Atobe didn't want to stay in front of his beloved all sweaty, so he turned around, waved, and went to take a shower.
Butler Yamaoki watched all this with a smile. After Atobe had left, he led Yuyin to the lounge. On the way, he didn't forget to speak well of his young master: "The young master has been preparing a surprise for Miss Saionji since you agreed to stay at the Atobe residence last week."
Yuyin couldn't help but become more curious: "What's the surprise?"
Butler Yamaoki chuckled, "Haha, that's up to Master Jingwu to reveal it himself. I, an old man, wouldn't dare take the initiative."
After hearing what Butler Yamaoki said, Yuyin stopped asking questions. She would know after lunch anyway.
*
Lunch was still held at the super long dining table in the Atobe family's dining room.
Yuyin looked around for a moment, and finally couldn't help but ask, "Jingwu, aren't your parents home?"
At least during the day and night she stayed at the Atobe house, she didn't see Atobe's parents at all. You know, she had already prepared herself for how to explain to Atobe's parents that their commission had been reduced to 1/4 after she moved in.
Atobe Keigo said as if it was normal: "As for them, they are abroad. My mother lives in England all year round and only flies to Japan to visit me occasionally. My father is very busy with work and is also not at home all year round."
Yuyin thought about it and realized that this was somewhat similar to her family's situation, but her parents were sent overseas, while Atobe's parents were the ones who sent people out. "It seems that we are in the same boat."
Atobe Keigo also knew something about Tamane's family situation. Although the reasons for his initial investigation were completely different from his starting point now, it objectively promoted his understanding of Tamane.
However, Yuyin only sighed like this. If her parents really returned to China, she would be the one who was extremely distressed. How could she reasonably explain things like not returning home at night or staying at a male classmate's house so that they would believe and agree? She couldn't just lie and say that she was Atobe's girlfriend, right?
All in all, although she sometimes misses her parents very much, Yuyin still sincerely hopes that they will not come back to cause trouble in the next two years.
In this regard, the same is true for Keigo Atobe, who has been extremely independent since childhood and always makes his own decisions. Otherwise, he would not have rejected his mother's decision for him to prepare to enroll in Eton for the sake of the Hyotei Tennis Club and Tamane...
Atobe Keigo tilted his head to glance at her, covered his teardrop mole and smiled: "Yeah, we're in the same boat."
*
Noon was originally the lunch break time for Tobe. The sun was hotter in the afternoon, so he usually chose to read and study indoors, then have afternoon tea in the rose garden, take a walk in the evening, do night training in the evening, take a bath and then deal with some investments he accepted from the companies. It was almost time to go to bed and rest.
The above is what Yuyin learned from the housekeeper Yamaoki. Under normal circumstances, this is Keigo Atobe's entire schedule for a day at home.
But today, Atobe obviously planned to break his habit. After lunch, the two of them rested for a while, and then Atobe led her towards the old forest behind the mansion.
"arrive."
The two walked in the woods for nearly ten minutes before Keigo Atobe finally turned around and said this.
"This is..." Yuyin looked at the scene in front of her and was slightly surprised, "Open-air Kyudojo?"
"That's right," Atobe Keigo introduced proudly, "Isn't your Kyudo Club going to complete all the events of the National Tournament at the end of this month? I thought about it carefully and couldn't let you miss the competition, so I asked Yamaoki to prepare this dojo. I originally wanted to build an indoor dojo, but with only a week, I didn't have enough time, and my existing building doesn't meet the requirements of a dojo, so I had to give up. This open-air dojo is different. I asked Yamaoki to plan and set it up strictly according to the competition requirements. If you need it during the holiday, you can invite Goto and Morimoto from the Kyudo Club to come over for practice."
"This is really... such a surprise!"
Yuyin walked back and forth between the target and the shooting position once or twice. Without using any tools, she could compare them with her naked eyes and see that they were indeed set according to the specifications required for standard Kyudo competitions.
Once upon a time, when she was a child and had not yet started time traveling, Saionji Gyoen dreamed of having a kyudo hall of her own.
At that time, whether it was her peers who were training in shrine maiden etiquette or students in the kyudo dojo, many people actually had small kyudo dojos at home. For example, Kanda Rei had a large kyudo dojo inside her home Kanda Shrine. This is why Kanda Rei's kyudo skills were so superb, probably because she had her own family training ground since she was a child.
But it was not the same for the Yuyin family. Although she was indeed talented, the Saionji family only had a very small shrine, and the small inner courtyard of the shrine was the only place where she could practice archery. At that time, when she practiced, she would hang a target on the wall or on the trunk of a Yaezakura cherry tree, and then stand farther away for daily practice.
At first, when her archery skills were not good, she shot a lot of holes in the shrine wall and the trunks of the Yaezakura trees, which made her grandfather very sad about the repair costs.
Until later, when she was in the fifth grade of elementary school, she began to travel through time and space. In another world, she won the world championship in archery. Her love for Kyudo was not diminished, but it was indeed satisfied to some extent.
Moreover, after she saw a wider world, she returned to her own world and gave up Kyudo. It was not just to hide her weakness or not to discourage her peers, but because that small, immovable target could no longer satisfy her.
But this doesn't mean that she doesn't want a kyudo gym of her own.
Ah, although this archery dojo strictly belongs to the Atobe family, she has already received Jingwu's kindness to his friend.
She turned back to Atobe and smiled, "Thank you, Keigo. I like it very much."
Atobe Keigo said proudly: "Of course, my gift is the most gorgeous."
*
The next day.
Sitting in the luxury car again, following Atobe to school, Saionji Tamane had already gotten used to it.
Tomorrow is the day when Hyotei's grades are released, as well as the student union and first semester graduation ceremony. In other words, the student union will have a lot of work to do today.
The Student Union needs to coordinate all class committees and student organizations in the three grades of the school to make preparations for tomorrow and give the first semester a perfect end.
For Tamane and Atobe Keigo, although today's work location is the student council president's office, it is not easy at all. As an auxiliary secretary, Tamane watched Atobe giving orders and coordinating the behavior of various classes and grades throughout the whole process, and could only help him to the best of her ability.
"Move the first grade seating area ten meters to the left. Do the same for the second grade. This year's third grade enrollment is the highest ever. Setting up seating areas based on previous school years' arrangements is completely unrealistic!"
"...Aside from the speeches by the grade representatives, where's the part I mentioned about recognizing outstanding students this school year? Go back and redo it! Add in the sections recognizing clubs that achieved outstanding results in the Kanto Tournament and national competitions, and the outstanding individuals from each grade who placed in school ball games, opera appreciation events, and swimming competitions!"
"...each grade will finally coordinate a list of locations for this year's forest school training and sister school study tours. The student council will then select the final locations from the list."
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"Thanks for your hard work."
After finally waiting until no one came in or out to disturb her, Yuyin quickly brought out the brewed and then slightly warmed coffee and handed it to Keigo Atobe.
Keigo Atobe touched his throat which was about to smoke, and when he saw the coffee brought to him, his anger subsided immediately.
But he still couldn't help but complain to Yuyin a little: "What a bunch of people! When the time comes, on the last day, they tell me there are problems here and there. What were they doing before?"
Yuyin tried to persuade him, "The student union rotates every year, and only the third-year class committee members are more experienced. First-year students are handling these matters for the first time, so it's unavoidable that they'll make some small mistakes. You don't have to get so upset about it."
Atobe Keigo took a sip of coffee. The bitter liquid in his throat lifted his spirits a little. He snorted softly, "When I was the student council president and class committee member in my first year, I was also inexperienced, but I wasn't as useless as them."
Yuyin complimented him with a smile: "But Jingwu, you are not an ordinary person. Others can't easily meet your self-requirements."
It turns out that such compliments are very effective. Atobe blushed for a moment, but immediately concealed it: "Of course, not everyone can be as gorgeous as me."
*
In this flustered and busy atmosphere, time slowly passed to the next day.
"Oh my, the ranking has really dropped."
Yuyin waited until the initial crowd had dispersed a little before she looked at the ranking of grades in the bulletin board. She took a quick glance and found that because she hadn't finished the last big question, her grade ranking had dropped several places this time, but her ranking within the class had not changed.
And Atobe Keigo's name still undoubtedly ranked first with full marks in all subjects.
Standing shoulder to shoulder with her, Atobe Keigo glanced at her casually and nodded, saying, "Not bad." Then he turned back and said to her, "If you answer the questions seriously and put our names side by side, it would be even more gorgeous."
Jingwu, are you an elementary school student?
Yuyin was extremely speechless when she heard this. She only knew that good elementary school friends would hold hands and go to school together, but she didn't expect that Master Atobe even wanted to be ranked on the same level with his good friend in the exams.
"Ah, I can try for the entrance exam next January."
Didn’t she refuse to go into the school gate together this morning and asked to be dropped off 500 meters away from the school?
As it turned out, her decision was absolutely correct.
When she walked to the gate of Hyotei Academy, the noisy crowd surrounding Atobe had not even dispersed yet. This happened almost every school day. Yuyin no longer understood who had more energy, Atobe or the students of Hyotei.
If she got out of Atobe's car in this situation, the scene would be so beautiful that she would not dare to look at it.
This is what Yuyin thought.
But she had no idea that even if no one saw her get out of Keigo Atobe's car in person, her various intimate behaviors with Atobe over the past few days had already spread throughout Hyotei Academy, and almost everyone knew about it.
Not to mention the distant past, let's just talk about the fact that the two of them are now looking at the results and talking together shoulder to shoulder. From an outsider's perspective, it looks like they are having an intimate whisper, which adds another piece of solid evidence to the claim that Lord Atobe is dating Saionji.
Some people are watching, some are feeling indignant, and some are waiting for the reaction of the extremists in the fan club, not knowing that the extremists in the fan club have already taken action and suffered a crushing defeat.
Even at this critical juncture, a small group consisting of Kashima Ryoko, Morimoto Kyoko and Asami Saya has begun to form the "Saionji Tamon Personal Support Group". Anyone who wants to cause trouble for Saionji Tamon because of their relationship with Atobe Keigo must first pass the hurdle of Saionji Tamon Personal Support Group.
"Let's go, the ceremony is about to begin."
Atobe Keigo is used to being the center of attention, and in a sense, Tamane is also used to the ups and downs of life, so she doesn't care much about the outside world's attention.
Atobe glanced at those who he thought had "bad intentions" towards Yuyin, which was both a deterrent and a warning, and then he took her directly towards the auditorium.
"This year's chief representative's speech is from me, so we need to go there early."
Yuyin was helplessly led by him: "Just tell me which year it was not you who gave the general representative's speech."
Atobe Keigo stretched out his long legs and raised the corners of his lips: "Not this time next year."
By this time next year, they will have already entered higher education, and no matter where they are then, he will definitely not be the junior high school representative.
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