Chapter 98 Welcome Party (Part 2)
Shortly after dinner, the welcome party officially began.
Just as Yuyin said, the team members of the selection competition were very positive about this activity and signed up to participate enthusiastically, so there was no need to worry about the program at all.
The welcome party was held in the large classroom where meetings were often held. Yuyin and other volunteers moved the tables and chairs in the front row to clear the space, leaving only seats in the back row for the participants.
The first program was a song sung by Atobe, Sanada and others.
After hearing Keigo's familiar opening remarks, Yuyin and Tachibana An clapped their hands in response, as a form of support, because not only Atobe was on the stage, but also Kamio and Fukashi from Fudomine.
"I didn't expect that the peacock-clad captain of Hyotei and the black-faced god of Rikkai University both sing so well." Tomoka Oita turned her head and whispered to Sakurano.
"Tomoka, stop talking..." Sakurano tugged at the corner of Tomoka's clothes, shook her head, and secretly glanced at Saionji Tamane who was sitting next to them.
"Pfft, Peacock..." Yuyin couldn't help laughing. She had excellent hearing and naturally heard the two people's whispers clearly.
"Ah!" Tomoka quickly covered her mouth with both hands, and then she realized that Saionji-senpai was from Hyotei, and according to the regular players in the team, she was suspected to be the girlfriend of that Atobe. Even an extrovert like Tomoka would feel embarrassed to hear her speak ill of her boyfriend in front of others.
"I'm sorry, Saionji-senpai, that's not what I meant... I meant to say he's a flamboyant person, ah, what I meant was..."
As a result, I was busy explaining, and things got messy and worse the more I spoke.
"It's okay, I understand. Jingwu likes to show off, which is also his cute side." Yuyin waved her hand with a smile on her face. "Actually, the name peacock is quite appropriate~"
Seeing her relaxed tone and nonchalant expression, Tomoka and Sakurano relaxed again.
Tachibana An also asked at the right time: "Saionji-san, I heard you signed up for a program, what is it?"
Yuyin blinked: "Let me keep it a mystery for a while."
After the opening song, Sadaharu Inui's terrifying magic tricks, Oishi Shuichiro's humorless antics, and Fuji Shusuke's tablecloth-pulling magic trick, host Horio announced, "Next, we welcome our volunteer representative, Mr. Saionji."
"Ah, it's my turn."
Yuyin stood up upon hearing the voice and picked up the program props she had prepared in advance.
She walked up to the front stage, bowed to everyone, and said with a smile, "The show I'm going to bring to you is darts."
The audience applauded. Hearing Yuyin say this, they subconsciously guessed that the bag contained a prepared dart board, which they planned to hang on the wall as a target.
Unexpectedly, Yuyin stretched out her hand, took out a long thin rope from the bag, threw it into the sky, and it went around the light tube on the ceiling. She pulled the hanging thin rope together and tied an apple at the bottom.
In the audience, Inui Sadaharu showed a look of sudden enlightenment: "I see."
Fuji Shusuke beside him clapped his hands with a smile: "This is much more difficult than ordinary dart shooting."
Afterwards, Yuyin bowed to everyone again, chose a direction where there was no one behind an apple, walked in the opposite direction to the farthest point, and then stopped.
At this time, everyone in the venue guessed what she was going to do.
Taocheng Wu couldn't help but exclaimed: "This is difficult, the apple is so small."
"More than that," Echizen, who grew up in the United States and was familiar with this dart game, said, raising his hat. "Because the apple is tied with string, there's no stronghold. Shooting the dart into the apple is incredibly difficult."
As the audience chattered, Yuyin had already thrown the first dart.
She didn't look serious, as if she was just throwing a sandbag, and threw the dart in her hand out casually.
There was a "whoosh" sound, and when everyone looked closely, the dart had already stuck into the apple.
“Wow, that’s amazing!”
Everyone applauded, and Yuyin followed the applause and shot the second, third, and so on darts until all ten darts were used up.
"One, two, three... ten!"
The audience who counted silently found that all 10 darts landed on the apple without any error.
Inui Sadaharu couldn't help but pull out his notebook and write furiously, "As expected of the ace of the women's team championship at this year's National Kyudo Championship. She's so accurate in this little game that tests her eyesight and wrist strength!"
“Thank you everyone!”
Yuyin bowed again, and just when everyone thought she was done and about to leave the stage, she took the apple and continued, "I have a second stage in my performance, and I need a student to come up on stage to collaborate with me. I wonder if anyone is willing..."
In fact, there was no second part in the original performance. It was just that when Tamane was preparing, Atobe saw her. Atobe thought this was a good opportunity to show their tacit understanding and close relationship in public, so he negotiated with Tamane and strongly requested to add this part.
Hearing Yuyin's words, Atobe Keigo straightened his clothes and said as a matter of course: "This should naturally be the case for me..."
Unfortunately, his voice was not loud enough, and before he could stand up, someone raised their hand and shouted, "I! I do!"
Atobe Keigo's face darkened and he looked in the direction of the voice. He recognized the voice as coming from Sengoku Kiyomizu, who had been attentive to Yuon before.
"Wow!" Momoshiro Takeshi hooked Echizen Ryoma's neck and couldn't help but sigh, "Sengoku is really brave."
Yuyin was slightly startled. She hadn't expected Qianshi to interfere. She quickly reminded him, "Well, Qianshi, this is dangerous. You should think carefully..."
Sengoku Kiyosumi touched his head and smiled, "Haha, no problem, I believe in your ability, Saionji-san."
It was not easy for Yuyin to refuse him at this time. She said that my designated partner is not you, but Jingwu. She had to give a soothing look to Atobe, invited Sengoku to the front of the stage, and then placed the apple on his head.
"snort."
Receiving the signal from Yuyin's eyes, Atobe Keigo had no choice but to sit on the chair with his arms folded, silently sulking about Sengoku Kiyosumi.
In fact, by this time, most people had guessed what Yuyin was going to do. After all, everyone had watched similar performances when they were children, including variety show performances.
Mr. Hanamura, who was sitting at the head of the front row, couldn't help but push his glasses and turned to Sakaki Taro next to him: "Coach Sakaki, isn't this too dangerous? What if it endangers Sengoku's life? We..."
Coach Sakaki hesitated for a moment and said, "I trust my student. She won't do anything she's not sure of."
Teacher Huacun said helplessly: "Okay."
In fact, Sakaki Taro also wanted to explore the abilities of Saionji Tamone. After all, when Atobe asked him to let Tamone become the manager of the Hyotei tennis club, he had revealed some unusual words.
Taro Sakaki comes from a wealthy family and is a billionaire himself. He went to Hyotei to be a teacher purely out of interest. As a successful person of his age, he naturally has a certain understanding of the reality of the world. Although Atobe only vaguely revealed part of it, he guessed part of the truth.
Yuyin no longer had time to care about the whispers in the coaches' booth. After regaining her position, she breathed a sigh of relief and threw the first dart as before.
In fact, if one wants to recreate the dart/throwing knife performance of the circus, the person throwing the darts should be blindfolded, but considering the audience and the cautiousness of the new partner who suddenly appears on the stage, Yuyin plans to remove this part.
To be honest, it takes a certain amount of courage to stand in front of a dart with an apple as a target. If it were the former Sengoku Kiyosumi, he might not be able to remain as calm as he is now. However, after experiencing a terrifying night in the underground boxing ring, Sengoku found that his tolerance for fear was much higher, and generally dangerous things could no longer scare him.
whoosh.
The dart landed firmly on the apple on top of Qianshitou.
Sengoku Kiyojun stared at the opposite side without blinking. The more he looked, the more he felt that the figure of Saionji Tamon throwing darts on the opposite side overlapped with the goddess who saved him with an arrow that night.
His dynamic vision has always been very good and his luck is also good, which makes him more confident that he has not recognized the wrong person.
Amid the amazement of the audience, Yuyin quickly shot 10 darts, bowed and left the stage.
There's nothing I can do. Didn't you see that a certain young master is a little unhappy?
She did not return to the volunteer seat, but walked straight to Hyotei's seat, and Oshitari Yuushi, who was originally sitting next to Atobe, was very considerate and made room for her.
"Here~"
She handed the peeled half of the apple to Atobe and said flatteringly, "Keigo, it would have been very embarrassing if I hadn't chosen Sengoku in that situation just now. I promise that next time I'll just tell you that you're my partner and ask you to come on stage. I won't let anyone steal your limelight anymore."
Is this a spotlight grabber?
Atobe Keigo really had nothing to say about Tamane's lack of understanding, but now was not the time to argue about it, so he could only sulk in silence.
He glanced at the half of the apple out of the corner of his eye. It was obviously the side that was not pierced by the dart. Just now, after Yuyin came down, she peeled the apple with the fruit knife on the table, broke it in half with her bare hands, and gave him the intact side. Her careful and considerate behavior was natural.
"I won't get angry over such a small matter." Atobe Keigo snatched the apple and took a big bite, as if he was biting Sengoku's pure flesh.
"Okay, okay, I misunderstood."
"snort."
In fact, Atobe's temper comes and goes quickly, and he doesn't think that Sengoku Kiyomi can pose any threat. If Tamane is so easy to pursue, he would have won the title of boyfriend long ago. Why would he have to hold on for so long?
After a while, the two reconciled and watched the rest of the show.
After one or two programs, the welcome party quickly came to an end. The host Horio asked Kunimitsu Tezuka to give a speech. Amid the applause of the crowd, a tall figure silently walked towards the back door, intending to leave.
Tamane and Atobe Keigo were sitting at the end of the row and immediately noticed the person leaving.
"That is..."
Before Yuyin could even recall the information she had just entered into her brain database, Atobe Keigo blurted out, "Ah, it's Sanada from Rikkai University."
Genichirō Sanada, the vice-president of Rikkai University, is a tennis player known as the "Emperor" of junior high school tennis. Now that the president of Rikkai University, Seiichi Yukimura, is hospitalized for illness and Kunimitsu Tezuka is away for treatment due to injury, he is recognized as the No. 1 in junior high school tennis.
This information flashed through Yuyin's mind quickly.
In other words, now that Kunimitsu Tezuka is not participating in the trials, Genichirō Sanada is Atobe's biggest competitor in the trials.
Perhaps Ryoma Echizen, the player from Seigaku who defeated Sanada in the Kanto Tournament, is also quite strong, but from what Tamane has seen and heard during the training camp in the past few days, it is clear that Ryoma Echizen is now in a stage where his fighting spirit is very low. Perhaps it is because he cannot find a new target after defeating a strong opponent like Sanada, or it may be because of the unstable mentality of a young man. In short, in terms of his current fighting spirit, he is not even as good as other ordinary players in the selection tournament.
In contrast to Echizen, the deputy director of Rikkai University is extremely determined. Yuyin has seen him training late at night or early in the morning before dawn several times. It is obvious that he has been doing this every day for more than one or two days.
Atobe Keigo looked at the direction where Sanada left thoughtfully, suddenly stood up and said to Yuon, "I'll leave for a while." Then he ran out of the classroom after Sanada.
Ah, there might be an exciting battle tomorrow.
Yuyin thought to herself.
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