Chapter 60 Chapter 60 Memories and Reality
Yuyin finally carried the meal tray to the tennis club's regular player area.
The seat that Taketo Mukai was referring to, which was reserved for her, was next to Atobe.
Looking at Saionji Tamane and Atobe sitting together, Mukai Taketo's joy was written all over his face.
Yuushi Oshitari looked at his partner's actions and shook his head, thinking that Yueren had made a mess of things this time.
He was the only one present who understood the purpose of Yueren's actions. Yueren was extremely afraid of ghosts, and the previous incident in Karuizawa had revealed the existence of demons and monsters, leaving him sleepless for three days. Now that he knew Saionji could exorcise demons, Yueren must have wanted to cling to her thighs for a sense of security. It just so happened that Yueren and he were the only ones who knew the true relationship between Saionji and Atobe. Creating an opportunity for Saionji and Atobe to get along in Yueren's mind was undoubtedly a way to curry favor.
The only reason he was so active, Inuzuka thought speechlessly, was that he hoped that next time he encountered monsters, others would lend a hand first.
But Yueren missed one point. Oshitari said that the reason why Atobe has not announced the fact that the two of them are dating is definitely because Saionji does not agree. In short, Yueren is flattering the wrong person. Forget about increasing his favorability. If his favorability does not decrease, it means that Saionji is generous.
Tamane and Atobe were completely unaware of the complex psychological activities of Yuushi Oshizuka and Taketo Mukai.
Keigo Atobe was very happy. Originally, he had planned to have dinner together in a few days. As Tamane gradually became familiar with everyone in the tennis club, it would come naturally. He didn't expect Xiangri to be so helpful and pull Tamane over on the first day.
But he remained serious on the surface and said, "Well, you're a member of the tennis club now, so it's only natural for you to eat here. Let's eat together from now on."
"Yes, yes," Yue Ren nodded frantically, "Manager, you should stay with us. It will feel safer this way."
Before joining the tennis club, Tamane reviewed a set of information about the regular players. Of course, this information was provided by Atobe, and it mentioned that Taketo Mukai was particularly afraid of ghosts.
"I'm just a little uncomfortable. I've never been here before."
Well, in order to protect the child's sense of safety, she had better cooperate. After all, the original intention of Tezuka to find a bodyguard was indeed to protect himself and his friends and to enter the national competition together.
Yue Ren said nonchalantly, "You'll get used to it. The cafeteria in Junior High School didn't look like this originally. It was only later that Atobe had someone renovate it and set aside a separate area for our tennis club."
Suddenly remembering something, Yue Ren suddenly said, "By the way, Yuyin, you were already in Hyotei in your first year of junior high, right? Then you must have seen Atobe's outrageous speech at the ceremony, right? Let me tell you, after that, Atobe went to challenge the tennis club and beat all the seniors. Oh, I mean, in tennis. Later, Shishido and I were not convinced, so we challenged him. Of course, we were both defeated by him. Until Yushi suddenly appeared and fought Atobe to equal terms. Oh, they ended up in a draw that time."
With the purpose of building a closer relationship, he even brought up his own embarrassing stories. Shishido Ryo, who was sitting across from him, blushed and couldn't help but kick him under the table, glaring at him fiercely: "Why do you remember such things so clearly!"
Mukai Taketo felt puzzled and touched his head: "Shishido, why did you kick me? I didn't lie."
Inuzaka said, well, he almost forgot that his partner was someone else's childhood sweetheart. But when he thought about it again, it was only two years ago, but when he recalled it, it felt so long ago.
As Yuyin followed Xiangri's story, she recalled two years ago.
She came to Tokyo Hyotei Academy to study, partly because her parents settled in Tokyo for work, and partly to pursue the truth.
At that time, she had already experienced the two worlds of the royals and the Yokohama superpowers, and was not in a good mood.
Although her mood at that time had not deteriorated to the extent that it did later when she was in the cursed spirit world, compared with a normal person, her mood was already very low.
Worse still, she couldn't tell anyone about any of this, not even her closest relatives, her parents and grandfather. Yuyin had long understood that even if she told them, it would only make them more worried and wouldn't help them at all. She had long been accustomed to walking alone, whether battling those creatures or pursuing the truth.
She arrived in Tokyo earlier than she started junior high school, during the March vacation. During this time, she traveled all over Tokyo and Yokohama, looking for any place that had any resemblance to the special features of the world of kings or the world of superpowers.
But no, there was nothing, as if the time she was in a coma during the summer vacation was really just a dream. Apart from her own clear memory and the power that remained in her body, there was no evidence to prove the reality of the two worlds.
Just when she was feeling confused about this, Hyotei Academy opened, and she attended the opening ceremony as a new first-year student.
She had originally planned to stare blankly into the dull and boring occasion of the opening ceremony.
Until a man came to the stage and declared, "I am the king of Hyotei."
When Saionji Gyoon looked up, she was planning to laugh at the joke, to see who was speaking so arrogantly. If this happened in the world of the king, she could completely challenge the approval of the Dresden Slate.
Then she met a pair of large, sparkling cat eyes that overflowed with confidence.
Those were a pair of bright eyes, full of confidence and hope for the future.
The speaker was naturally Keigo Atobe, who at that time had not yet grown as tall as he is now. Yuyin was sitting in the audience at that time, holding her chin and listening to his arrogant speech, and she couldn't help but smile.
What a cute child.
That was the first time she met Keigo Atobe.
While most people around her were talking and claiming that Atobe Keigo was too arrogant and would definitely be slapped in the face by reality, she was actually looking forward to seeing that person fulfill his promise.
She didn't know why, but every time she saw that person full of confidence and high morale, she would feel very good. Even if there were any unknown difficulties in the future, she would no longer be so afraid.
Saionji Tamon didn't know why this happened. Perhaps it was the struggle of an ordinary person against the world that inspired her. After all, she had been to two worlds. She couldn't be worse than a real child, right?
However, in the following two years, she never took the initiative to learn about Keigo Atobe, nor did she ever watch his games. Although news about him always reached her ears through the girls around her who were gossiping, she couldn't help but know about it. For example, Atobe-sama became the tennis captain and student council president in his first year, Atobe-sama renovated the school cafeteria and gymnasium, and so on and so forth.
It wasn't until the start of the third grade when the classes were reassigned that she unexpectedly found herself in the same class as Keigo Atobe. Judging from their student numbers, they should have been sitting next to each other.
However, she was still a recluse at the time and made up her mind to avoid contact with the other party.
As for the incident after school actually started, when she suddenly heard Keigo Atobe's voice, which was very similar to that of her senior brother Shizuka, and was frightened by it, that was something that happened later.
*
In the corridor, Atobe Keigo, who was leading Yuyin to the student council president's office, finally couldn't stand Yuyin's constant scrutiny and asked, "What's wrong? Is there something on my face?"
That's impossible. He had just checked in the mirror and found that his image was perfect.
"No, no," Yuyin waved her hand, then looked him up and down, indicating his height. She couldn't help but laugh, "Didn't Yueren just mention that opening ceremony in the first year of junior high? I just remembered that someone was only this tall, with big eyes, and looked incredibly cute. Then, in the blink of an eye, they were like they took growth hormone and suddenly grew this tall."
Atobe Keigo was not without memories of those days, but he wasn't one to reminisce about the past. He just felt a little awkward when he heard Yuyin praising Guoyi's cuteness. Then he suddenly remembered something and asked, "You actually remember what Guoyi looked like and how tall he was?"
Yuyin's smile faltered, and she coughed. "Well, you're such a cute kid, of course I'm impressed. And as for your speech at the ceremony, Jingwu, I guarantee that there's no one in our Hyotei class who doesn't remember it."
But you are different, Atobe Keigo thought, seeing how you seem to be unconcerned about everything, I thought you hadn't paid any attention to me in the past two years.
A few months ago, Keigo Atobe would never have believed that there would be a day when he would not be confident in his influence.
"Well," Yuyin thought. Even if she was just admiring a cute little boy, it would be too embarrassing if the man himself knew about it. So she quickly pushed Atobe Keigo and said, "Let's go. The student council members are waiting for you. Isn't your appointment at 1 pm?"
Atobe knew that she was trying to change the subject, but looking at the time, it was indeed time for him to call a small meeting with some of the student union officers, so he didn't ask any further questions.
*
Saionji Gyoon sat next to Atobe Keigo, with a notebook open in front of her, taking notes of the meeting.
To be honest, she was never suited for this kind of clerical work in the past, as she was clearly a pure militant.
Less than a minute into the meeting, Keigo Atobe finished introducing her new position - secretary to the president - and glanced sharply at everyone else, asking if they had any objections.
Then of course someone jumped out to object, saying that as a student union position, the president's secretary should be publicly elected, rather than decided by the president alone.
After Atobe reiterated that Saionji's position was to assist him personally, and not a student council position to be recorded in the archives, the voices of opposition gradually subsided.
Yuyin stood there motionless as a mountain. She didn't join the student union for the position anyway. If it weren't for Atobe's disagreement, she would have stayed outside the window, on a tree, or on the roof. She had encountered even more difficult conditions while working.
After giving her a reasonable reason for staying in the student council president's office, Keigo Atobe decisively moved the meeting to the second item - the arrangements for the next student council election.
Yuyin paused at this point.
Yes, it’s already mid-July, and final exams and summer vacation are coming soon.
When the second semester starts in September, the student union will hold an election to select new members, and Atobe will step down from the student union.
Not only the student union, but also the tennis club he loves is like this. The national competition is a summer competition and will be completely over in August soon. After school starts in September, the third-year members will go through the withdrawal procedures one after another and hand over the club completely to the younger generations.
In a few months, when the unified examination is over in January next year, they will graduate from junior high school.
Yuyin herself planned to go straight to Hyotei High School if nothing unexpected happened, but it might be different for Atobe. She had heard several times that someone in the fan club swore that Atobe was going to study abroad in high school. Every time this topic was brought up, a lot of girls would burst into tears.
When Atobe discussed with her before, he said that this commission would last until the end of the national competition. However, Yuyin thought about it and felt that given the protection that Atobe's family provided to him, unless Atobe left the dangerous island country, this commission would probably continue. In other words, her long-term commission might last until January next year at the longest.
*
The meeting ended quickly.
After all, it was not a formal meeting. If it weren't for the tennis club training in the afternoon, the student union meeting should have been scheduled for discussion in the afternoon.
"Just now I saw you in the meeting, and you seemed distracted. What were you thinking about?"
With the departure of the other secretaries, there were only two of them left in the student council president's office. Yuyin tidied up the place where the secretaries had just sat, and then she heard Atobe ask this.
"Nothing..." Facing Atobe's unbelieving look, Yuyin thought for a moment and realized it wasn't something she needed to hide, so she said directly, "I was just talking to you about the opening ceremony two years ago. In the blink of an eye, the student council is about to be replaced, and in a few months, we'll all be graduating. Time flies by so fast."
"yes."
Atobe couldn't help but nodded. He wanted to recall his first meeting with Tamane, but he couldn't remember any details of their meeting on the first day of school in the third year of junior high school. It seemed as if that day was no different from any other day in his life.
If we talk about the starting point of his real impression of Yuyin, it was that time on the street tennis court. He had a conflict with someone and formed a doubles team with Huadi to play against the opponent. Yuyin happened to pass by on her way home from shopping.
If he hadn't accidentally overheard the conversation between Yuyin and that Fudomine girl, he probably would have no impression of Yuyin until now.
But if we were to talk about the starting point of the deep impression, it would still be the attack on the park. That was his most embarrassing day. Looking back now, it was really embarrassing to appear in front of his sweetheart in that state.
But Keigo Atobe was extremely grateful that he did not go home directly that day, but walked on the path in the park, as if that was his destined fate with Tamane.
There is still some time before the afternoon class. Usually, Atobe would stay in the student council president's office to rest during this time. Now, as his "personal" bodyguard, Yuyin naturally has to stay here.
She made a cup of coffee and handed it to Atobe.
"Thank you." Atobe took it with a smile.
Yuyin wasn't one to be secretive, so she asked directly, "Jingwu, are you planning on studying abroad in high school?"
Atobe Keigo frowned as he heard this while holding the cup, "Who told you that?"
"That's what everyone in school says." Yuyin shrugged and blew on her cup of coffee.
Atobe had mixed feelings. Originally, he had planned to study abroad in high school. This was also the agreement between him and his parents and the family's expectation of him. The three years of willfulness in junior high school were like the good times he had stolen. When the time came, he would need to return to his original identity to fulfill his responsibilities.
Atobe Keigo looked at the ripples on the black surface of the coffee cup and whispered, "That was my plan... but I'm not sure yet."
"Actually, going abroad is quite good," Yuyin thought, feeling like she was planning something for her friend. "As you can see, the island nation is not peaceful right now, with monsters, cursed spirits, and even criminal superpowers. That's why your family is worried about your safety and needs bodyguards. As for going abroad, although I don't know if there are monsters abroad, I have heard that there seem to be vampires and the like. As for cursed spirits, I know that for some reason, they are not as numerous abroad as they are in the island nation. As for superpowers, well... they are probably not as rampant as they are in China. Considering all these factors, going abroad is really worth it."
There was a knocking sound, which was made by Atobe gently tapping the porcelain cup on the table.
He looked at Yuyin deeply and said, "Is that what you think? I understand."
*
"Serve harder!"
On the court, Keigo Atobe, who was sparring with someone, shouted this to the opponent.
Why do I feel like Atobe is angry?
Yuyin sat on the sidelines in the same position as she had been this morning, looking at him with her chin in her hand.
I didn't say anything. We were discussing his studying abroad after high school. She got angry for no reason.
However, after watching for a while, Yuyin suddenly felt a faint breath of cursed energy.
She looked up and saw a reptilian curse spirit that had not yet taken shape, its body still transparent and ethereal, moving slowly towards where she was sitting, step by step, a few meters away.
Looking further away, towards the direction where the cursed energy in the cursed spirit's body extends, it is outside the tennis court, where the girls from the fan club are.
Yuyin frowned slightly, then raised her hand and flicked it, like hitting a marble, and a small amount of spiritual power popped out.
A small ball of spiritual power flew out from mid-air and hit the cursed spirit that had not yet taken shape. Almost in an instant, the cursed spirit disappeared without a trace, before it could even let out a howl.
Well, instead of worrying about the complex psychological reasons why Atobe is unhappy, she should consider her own personal safety more.
As for the cursed spirit, the source of its negative emotions came entirely from the girls in the courtside support group. Yuyin speculated that they had suddenly noticed a strange girl had entered the tennis club today, and then learned that she had broken the rules and become the club manager. In just a few hours, the resentment that had accumulated from this had almost given rise to a cursed spirit.
Saionji Tamane firmly believed that if she stayed in the tennis club for a few more days, Hyotei Academy might have the chance to produce its first special-grade cursed spirit.
"Yuyin, are you okay?!"
Before she could fully think about whether the current rate of cursed spirit generation was increasing abnormally fast compared to previous years, she looked up when she heard the words and saw Keigo Atobe standing in front of her with a worried look on his face.
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