Comet Dragon, breaking into the gravity field

Member A (with a ponytail) standing at the front seemed to be asking enthusiastically, but in fact she was looking sideways, challenging someone who was trying to monopolize the leader.

A fellow traveler at the back had no interest in the sport and just stood there aimlessly, looking around aimlessly.

Suddenly, she seemed to see something terrifying and instinctively took a step back.

She wanted to reach out and stop her companion from stepping into the abyss, but she couldn't speak. Her body trembled, and a meaningless cry rang out in her heart. In the end, she could only slowly close her eyes, not watching the tragedy that followed.

"I want to play with the deputy leader, is that okay?"

Hearing this, Naruse Ritsu looked at the figure standing opposite him. Seeing Sankaku Hatsuka lowering her head, he was about to refuse.

however--

"sure."

When she raised her face again, Sankaku Hatsuka was already smiling brightly. She winked at Naruse Ritsu and asked him to buy her some drinks.

She was a little confused, but since Chuhua said so, she had no reason to stop her - thinking so, Naruse Ritsu agreed to the table tennis match between them.

After watching Ritsu Narose leave and waiting for the footsteps outside the room to gradually fade away, Sankaku Hatsuka looked down at the racket in his hand.

——"If you're not good at it, I can give you a break, okay?"

Looking up, Sanjiao Chuhua quickly recalled the girl's identity from his memory. As one of the most active people in recent days, she was undoubtedly impressive.

"No need, just play normally." She replied with a smile, and then she saw the other party curl his lips in dissatisfaction.

——"Senior asked Big Brother to leave because he was afraid that Big Brother would see you fail?"

"No." Sanjiao Chuhua said calmly, exerting a little pressure on the palm of his hand holding the racket. "Besides, start when you're ready."

Seeing that the yellow-haired man who had been pestering Ritsu Narose finally dared to respond directly, the younger challenger let out an ambitious laugh.

When she thought about the fact that this unworthy "deputy leader" was about to be defeated by herself, who was known as the "No. 1 Breakthrough Player in Tenshin Elementary School", and that the leader was aware of her existence and might even appoint her as the second generation, she couldn't help but feel refreshed.

Look at this yellow-haired guy——

A sluggish reaction, a posture full of flaws, and a look without fighting spirit...

Just watch and see how I defeat you!

Member A bared his fangs towards the vice-captain and tossed the orange-yellow sphere without hesitation, delivering his ultimate blow.

The next moment——

There was a crisp sound in the air, and a yellow flash shot out.

It drew a straight line and hit the table with a thud. Then, like a cheetah leaping in a stream, it arrived above another table in a flash, leaving only an orange-yellow afterimage lingering in the sight of everyone present.

"Gudong..."

After swallowing, member A began to sweat.

7.Song I am

In sports competition, what counts is talent and hard work.

She was unbeatable in the girls' table tennis competition among all the elementary school players, and she believed that her skills were not much worse than those of the junior high school players.

but……

She caught a glimpse of the scoreboard showing ten to ten from the corner of her eye, and she felt her right hand, which was gripping the racket tightly, trembling.

This is by no means an even match.

As the challenger standing on the court facing the opponent, she knew clearly how this seemingly tense score came about.

From the very beginning, the points she gained were not "earned" by her. On the contrary, they were "given" to her by her opponent through obvious flaws.

Is this mercy? Or humiliation?

She clenched her hands in dissatisfaction, her nails digging into her flesh. Just as she was about to raise her head and roar, "Thirty Years on the East," she suddenly saw the regiment commander emerge from the doorway.

"Well, the fight was intense, huh?"

The surprise from the team leader gave her another blow. She forced a smile and looked at the insurmountable wall opposite her with her fighting spirit exhausted.

However, what shocked her was that the deputy captain who was just attacking her suddenly restrained his momentum. It seemed that his original all-out effort was just an illusion created by her hysteria.

I was confused and surprised, but the game continued.

Seeing that his serve, which was in poor condition and only used 70% of his strength, easily broke through the defense and scored, member A's mouth opened slightly.

When it was the turn of the yellow-haired deputy captain to serve, the ping-pong ball, which had accidentally bounced off the table and hit her forehead several times, now looked limp and powerless.

The brain sensed something was wrong, but the right hand had already fought back—

"Ah, I lost."

Putting down the racket neatly, Sanjiao Chuhua scratched his cheek embarrassedly and sighed with a little regret.

"Hasn't Chuhua played for a long time? To be able to achieve this score is already impressive."

Ritsu Narose comforted himself by catching the flying ping-pong ball.

On the other side of the room, the winner stared at the scene in astonishment, then let out a dark, low laugh like a broken toy: "Haha, hahaha..."

Just as she was about to expose the deputy leader's conspiracy, she suddenly felt a gaze coming towards her.

After staring at the smiling Triangle Chuhua for a few seconds, the elementary school student silently turned away. Glancing at the racket in her hand, her heart shattered, she let her comrade, who had just fought alongside her, fall to the surface of the table.

"What's the point of me fighting?"

She muttered to herself, but before she could figure out the problem, the next game began.

It's Ritsu Narose and Hatsuka Sanka.

The small ping-pong ball bounced back and forth on the table, lacking the terrifying momentum of a tiger descending from the mountain just a few minutes ago—it was just like a newborn orange kitten playing on a cat climbing frame.

Seeing the deputy captain's fighting ability, which was only at the level of a fourth-grade elementary school student, she first covered her face with her hands and smiled in relief. Then she looked at her friends and sighed, "Women are so scary."

My companion was puzzled: "But we are all girls, right?"

"This is totally different!" The real loser immediately got angry.

"So that's your problem," someone else said softly, rolling their eyes as they held the drinks that Naruse Ritsu offered them. "Sister Chuhua is obviously..."

Glancing at the two people concentrating on playing table tennis over there, she lowered her voice and whispered her thoughts into her companion's ear.

--"What!?"

Hearing a sharp explosion from behind, Ritsu Narose turned around curiously.

"What's up?"

"No, no, no! It's okay, it's okay!"

Hastily covering up the past, several elementary school girls who had never been in a relationship gathered together and continued to discuss the previous topic.

In a place that neither Naruse Ritsu nor Sankaku Hatsuka noticed, the eyes of several curious people flickered slightly.

"Gu...that woman keeps staring at the captain. I think she's trying to usurp the throne!"

"See, this is why no boys like you. People only like soft and cute girls, not weirdos who think about weird things all the time."

"Nonsense! I had a great time playing with them!"

"That's because they want to recruit you as their thug, idiot."

After watching quietly for a long time, one of them asked in an elusive tone, "But even if you say that... I heard the tour leader was a tourist who just came to the island yesterday. He's quite handsome, but Sister Chuhua shouldn't fall in love with him so quickly, right? It's only been a day."

"What do you know? This is called—"

"Haha, why are you pretending? You've never been in a relationship before."

"?, you tomboy!"

"Huh!? You want to fight, don't you?"

Ignoring the two fools, the elementary school student who had previously "didn't want to see anything" finally opened her eyes. With one arm folded in front of her and the other resting on her chin, she assumed the air of a thinker and said calmly, "Do you think the captain has a girlfriend?"

The two people who were still in a standoff were immediately poured with a bucket of cold water, and began to blink their eyes and think about this crucial question. Although they were elementary school students and had lived on the island for many years, it did not mean that they were ignorant of such matters.

It would be better to say that they have always been interested in this because they have been baptized by the street aunties and have been influenced by them.

After pondering for a moment, the radical strategist said, "In my opinion, a man as superficial as the leader might have had several girlfriends."

Upon hearing this, the conservatives immediately shook their heads: "A good man like the captain must yearn for pure and loyal love. If he has a girlfriend, there's no reason not to travel with her - so the captain must still be single!"

"..."

Hearing several elementary school students hiding behind and loudly arguing about him, Ritsu Narose finally found it difficult to maintain his expression.

As the game was over, he put down his racket and prepared to warn them not to talk about others in front of them - or at least to talk about them far away where the person concerned could not hear.

However, as soon as he turned around, he saw them running towards him with expectant faces, and loudly throwing out the issues they had just discussed.

……

Half an hour later, after watching the still-fighting elementary school students walk home, Naruse Ritsu looked down at Sankaku Hatsuka who was standing beside him.

"Let's go?"

"Ah."

Bathed in the moonlight, the two walked quietly on the streets, which had a completely different atmosphere from that of the big city.

There were bursts of distant dog barking in the distance. Before reaching home, Sanjiao Chuhua suddenly stopped and whispered, "I'm sorry..."

With his back to the moon, Naruse Ritsu's pupils seemed even brighter in the shadows. Looking at the dark-golden strands draped across the girl's cheek, he calmly asked, "Hatsuka didn't do anything for which you need to apologize, did you?"

"I..." As if his thoughts had been seen through, Sanjiao Chuhua avoided his gaze and looked at a small grass growing out of the crack in the wall of a roadside building.

"I lied before."

8. No one knows which side a tennis ball will land on after hitting the net.

People are different.

Some people like to show their strong side in order to gain the admiration of others; others like to make themselves look harmless in order to satisfy their own dependence and the satisfaction of those who are dependent on them.

Naruse Ritsu had reservations about both. Everyone had their own opinions, and he wasn't about to judge them.

Therefore, he turned a blind eye to the little thoughts shown by Sanjiao Chuhua.

But what he didn't expect was that his attitude seemed to be interpreted by Sanjiao Chuhua in another way.

——"Don't hate me..."

Just thinking of these cowardly words, an indescribable feeling made Ritsu Narose frown.

Of course, this is not a criticism of her personally.

only……

Sighing, Ritsu Narose began to doubt whether his previous action of saying that he already had a girlfriend was reasonable.

Just like what those elementary school students had guessed, he wasn't so narcissistic as to think that Sanjiao Chuhua would fall in love with him so quickly. In his opinion, this was at most the possessiveness and insecurity that naturally emerged when a lonely and withdrawn person made new friends.

Ritsu Narose had no interest in little girls of this age, nor did he take the opportunity to issue a thought stamp so that his big house would have another golden-haired resident in the future.

There was no need to make things so clear. Besides, the fact that the future Triangle Chuhua had a flat reaction when he first met him proved that what he did would not cause any waves.

So just let nature take its course.

As soon as he returned to his temporary residence, Ritsu Narose turned on his mobile phone and began to calibrate the time, preparing to find a suitable opportunity to return to the correct time.

The Mad Dragon Virus that had fused with his blood was diminishing, and the remaining restless elements were completely suppressed. The damage to his body caused by the "killing the enemy with his eyes" technique, which he had originally used as a temporary measure, was now steadily recovering.

There is only one question left.

In the next few days, Ritsu Narose obtained the information he needed from the townspeople.

The big crater caused by their hard landing that day has been discovered, but apart from the scar left on the surface, they have not found anything else related to it.

It was as if the meteor that fell from the sky had been burned into a ball of hot gas in the process of entering the atmosphere, leaving no residue at all.

This incident caused a stir in the small town, but since there was no further inside information, it was soon overshadowed by the news of the cruise ship arriving in the port in the past few days.

Not having to worry about covering his tracks is naturally a good thing for Ritsu Narose.

Now, he and Sanjiao Chuhua were watching the fun near the dock.

The weather today is exceptionally sunny, but far from comfortable for summer.