Lonely Rock: Love Songs Dedicated to the Stars

Yuuki noticed Yuuma's gaze and waved at him.

"Hey, hey, hey, don't take revenge on me! No biased whistling!"

Yuuma and Yuuki are exchanging glances.

'What are you talking about, you who treated your own brother like trash? I don't understand a word you're saying!'

This is the answer Yuma received.

"Are you OK?"

Xingge looked at the two brothers making faces at each other and couldn't quite figure out what they were doing.

"It's okay, let's focus on the game."

"Oh fine."

Chapter 48 Sports Meet (Part Two)

Yuuma and Hoshika completed their preliminary rounds quite easily, and Kenzaki Yuuki did not actually blow the whistle unfairly, after all, he also has a sense of honor.

After the preliminary rounds of the three-legged race, it was lunchtime. The only event in the afternoon was tug-of-war, which all teachers and students had to participate in.

Yuzhen and Xingge took their bags back to their class's rest area. Just as they sat down to have lunch, Youxing came over and naturally sat down next to them.

Just by looking at him, Yuuma could tell that this guy was so focused on joining in the fun that he forgot to bring a bento. Yuuma put down his chopsticks and then took out another bento from his bag for Yuuki.

"I knew you'd come to join in the fun, luckily I prepared an extra one."

"I knew you wouldn't have the heart to let me go hungry."

Yuuki took the bento box from Yuuma. He knew his younger brother too well; although the boy had a sharp tongue, he was actually very soft-hearted.

“You two have a really good relationship.” Xingge looked at the two brothers in front of her. “Have you always gotten along like this? It seems like Yuzhen, being the younger brother, has it harder.”

“That’s true, that guy is a real headache.” Yuzhen glanced at Yuxing, who was shoveling rice into his mouth. “I don’t know when I started worrying about him all the time, but after all these years, I’ve gotten used to it.”

“However, since you two got together, I’ve often been eating out alone.” Yu Xing swallowed the food in her mouth. “It’s so lonely. My dear little brother has been taken away.”

Xingge pointed to herself, "It sounds like it's my fault. Should I apologize?"

"No need at all. He was just saying it casually, don't take it to heart."

Yu-chan looked helplessly at her older brother, who continued to focus on eating.

“However, I still want to thank you, Hoshiga.” Yuuki quickly finished his bento and wiped his mouth with a tissue. “Yuuma used to be a very boring person. He only knew how to lock himself in his room to play games or read books every day. But after meeting you, he became more lively than before. I like the current Yuuma more than the old one.”

"Oh, you're welcome."

Xingge didn't know how to respond to Youxing's thanks.

"Hey, I'm still right here. Why are you suddenly saying such cheesy things?" Yuzhen looked at the two people sitting on either side of her. "But what you said is true. I do feel different after meeting Hoshika-senpai."

“That’s what growing up is all about.” Yu Xing patted Yu Zhen on the shoulder. “I still need to visit my former teacher, so I’ll be going now. You two enjoy your meal.”

"Suddenly, someone who's been through a lot says to me, 'You've finally grown up,' what does that mean?"

Watching Yuuki's departing figure, Yuuma silently muttered a complaint before lowering his head to continue eating his bento.

Xingge was still in a daze after hearing what they said. Were they just praising her?

"Senior Xingge, I have something I want to say to you."

She was still lost in thought when she heard Yuuma's voice, which brought her back to her senses.

"Just tell me, I'm listening."

Yu Zhen looked into Xing Ge's eyes and then said to her in a serious tone, "Senior Xing Ge, please don't end up like Yu Xing. You absolutely cannot become an idiot who needs Hong Xia to take care of you in the future."

"Huh? That's impossible."

Xingge was taken aback by his words, so she moved her chair so that she turned her back to Youzhen and continued eating her bento.

“That’s true,” Yuuma scratched his head, “After all, I’ll always be by your side, senpai.”

……

The afternoon tug-of-war competition was a single-round event. Each class sent a representative to draw lots. The two classes that drew the same number competed against each other. The winner advanced, and the loser could go home immediately.

"How about we just deliberately lose the game and go home? It's so hot this afternoon."

Yuma patted Aikawa on the shoulder and whispered something to him.

"Kenzaki, have you lost your sportsmanship?" Aikawa showed absolute devotion to this kind of activity. "Sports competition should be about giving your all and having a game without regrets."

'What sportsmanship? That was lost tens of thousands of years ago.'

Yuma just wanted to go home early with Hoshika while no one was home, and then cuddle with her in the air conditioning. But it seems like that's just a dream now, since everyone else in the class seemed pretty excited.

"Let's finish this quickly."

"Looks like you're full of energy too." Aikawa looked at Yuuma with satisfaction, who seemed to have rediscovered his sporting spirit. Then he turned to the other students in the class and shouted, "Let's cheer each other on!"

"Oh!"

Aren't they hot at all?

Yuzhen looked at this group of energetic guys and couldn't understand it.

The school also provided gloves to prevent everyone's hands from being cut by the ropes. Yuuma put on his gloves, and then he and Hoshika were assigned to the back of the line by Aikawa.

Yuuma was tall and muscular, and although he wasn't very heavy, he was quite strong, so Aikawa tied the rope around his waist. Since there were no heavyweights in the class, Yuuma had to stay at the back of the line.

Xingge stood in front of Youzhen, showing great interest in the activity and eager to try it out.

In fact, Yuzhen felt that their class had a very low chance of winning. At first glance, there were no other people with significant strength, so they could only go all out and leave no regrets.

As expected, their first opponent was very strong, and they gradually began to be pulled along.

Aikawa stood at the front of the line, unwillingly exerting all his strength, but unable to hide his dejection. However, he might have been suffering from chuunibyou (a Japanese term for someone with delusions of grandeur), believing that in times like these, as long as he believed, a kind of idealistic power would erupt like in anime, so he shouted out a lot of embarrassing things in an extremely chuunibyou way.

This guy's sudden bout of chuunibyou (middle school syndrome) did make the opponents a little more relaxed. The opponents standing in front were all suppressing their laughter, and Yuma felt that the pressure on him had lessened a bit.

Until Aikawa unintentionally shouted "I'll kill you!" with a slurred tongue. This guy was standing at the very front, so Yuuma and the others couldn't see his face, but the opponents in the front row couldn't hold back. Yuuma suddenly felt relieved, and then with a burst of strength, he and everyone else turned the tide and won.

"We won!"

After winning his first match, Aikawa was so excited that he slid to his knees and roared to the sky, seemingly oblivious to the scorching heat on his legs despite wearing shorts. But he was quickly doused with cold water.

"You violated the rules by using language to interfere with your opponents, therefore you are disqualified."

Yu Xing left after speaking to them.

"How could this be! We tried so hard!"

Aikawa had just stood up when he knelt down again. Yuma really wanted to pretend he didn't know this guy.

"So, didn't I still get sent home in the first round? The result is the same."

Yuzhen muttered a complaint from the side, then pulled Xingge back to the teaching building. They were still wearing the school-issued sports uniforms, and now they were going to the locker room to change back into their own clothes to go home.

Chapter 49 Sports Meet (Part 3)

The second day of the sports meet was cooler than the first day.

The three-legged race semi-final between Yuma and Hoshika was scheduled for noon. Right now, Yuma had been pulled to the sidelines by Aikawa to act as his cheerleader.

Aikawa asked the girls in his class to cheer him on during his long-distance run to boost his morale, but he didn't dare ask Hoshika to cheer him on, because if he did, he would most likely be killed by Kenzaki.

"I said, I feel a little out of place holding this thing."

Yu Zhen stood in the middle of a group of girls, holding a pair of pink flower balls.

"Doesn't this look fine? Besides, you've even worn women's clothes before, what are you afraid of?"

Aikawa patted Yuuma's arm nonchalantly, then went onto the track to get ready.

Everyone basically knew that Yuuma had participated in a beauty pageant dressed as a maid, since his name was posted on the school bulletin board for a month, making it hard for anyone to miss. However, what was unexpected was that he discovered that Kenzaki Yuuki had also participated in a beauty pageant before.

Yuuma discovered this by accident. He saw a page about a beauty pageant in an old school brochure. It showed a photo of several boys dressed as women standing in a row presenting awards, and the one in the middle dressed the most innocently was Kenzaki Yuuki.

"Big brother, you don't want Dad and Mom to see this photo, do you?"

Having obtained incriminating evidence against Yuuki, how could they not make good use of it? Last night, Yuuki barged into Yuuki's room with the photos in hand.

"Where did you find it!?"

Yuuki was also startled by the embarrassing history he was holding in his hand.

“Let’s talk this over. Give me the photos. Oh, Negoti, Vadashi…”

“Then…” To be honest, Yuzhen had no idea what to do. “Then I won’t be going home tomorrow. Figure out your own dinner. Don’t call me.”

This is the most distressing thing Yuzuru can think of right now.

"That's it?"

Yuuki felt that Yuuma was playing a trick on him, but looking at Yuuma's classic "still thinking" expression, he could tell that the guy's brain hadn't quite caught on yet. Although Yuuma was smart, he always needed time to think before he could trick someone. This was an opportunity.

"I promise you. Can I have the photos now?"

Yu Xing even deliberately put on an expression as if she had suffered a great loss.

Yuzhen didn't make things difficult for him anymore. He knew that the conditions he had proposed were not effective, and looking at Yuxing, he suddenly lost interest in playing tricks on him, so he gave him the photos directly.

"what are you thinking?"

While Yuuma was lost in thought, Yuuki came to his side and snatched a ball of flowers from his hand to play with.

"I wasn't thinking about anything." He handed another pom-pom to Yuuki. "Why are you here again? Have you become a regular at this sports meet?"

"It's true, I was even asked to give a speech as an outstanding graduate at the closing ceremony. Honestly, I was just here to kill some time, and now I'm going to be busy again."

Yuuki tossed the ball back to Yuuma and then went to sit down in the referee's box.

Yuma didn't look at him anymore. He still didn't know how to use the ball flower in his hand, so he could only ask the girl next to him for help.

Standing next to him was the vice class monitor, named Ueshiro Yuzuki. She glanced at Hoshika, who was sitting in the rest area behind Yuuma, wearing wired headphones and listening to music. Despite her seemingly indifferent expression, she kept looking this way.

"I'm not very good at it either, so why don't you just play however you want? Aikawa-kun probably won't mind."

"Okay, that's the only way. Thank you."

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