Let me see your shine!

You should fight more with Huang Quan and Kagura. Also, why not practice with some strong classmates? There are quite a few strong people in your class, like Guang, Nana and the like. "

"Oh...classmate...sparring?"

Xiangzi nodded thoughtfully.

After that, she fought with Huang Quan a few more times, but the progress was very mediocre.

108 Xiangzi's Change

In the evening, after Youren invited Huang Quan and the others to dinner, Xiangzi and Futaba went back to Shengxiang together.

On the motorcycle, Futaba asked, "Xiangzi, what are you going to do?"

"There's nothing I can do, I can only practice more."

"Ok."

Futaba thought Xiangzi already had her own idea, so she didn't ask.

After returning to the dormitory, Xiangzi sneaked into Claudine's room when Futaba went to take a shower.

"Ah, isn't this Xiangzi? What's wrong?"

Claudine was reading a textbook. When she heard a knock on the door, she let Xiangzi in.

"Aiba, I have something to ask of you."

"Please ask me? How strange that you're not looking for Futaba."

"She can't help."

Xiangzi hesitated for a moment, then finally mustered up the courage and said through gritted teeth, "I want to practice martial arts techniques with you tomorrow morning!"

Claudine asked in surprise: "Martial arts?"

She had never expected Xiangzi to take the initiative to make this request.

"Yes, that's actually the case..."

Xiangzi explained the reason.

"I see, it's for filming... Well, I'm fine. We haven't practiced together often, so I think we'll gain something from it."

Claudine agreed readily.

"Well, then it's settled!"

After Xiangzi finished speaking, she suppressed her nervousness and left with red cheeks.

Claudine thought her expression was really interesting.

the next day.

There were muffled bangs in Shengxiang's practice room.

Xiangzi and Claudine fought with wooden swords.

They had been fighting for more than half an hour.

Xiangzi kept panting, and Claudine was also tired.

"That's about it for the morning. If you keep fighting, you won't have the energy to attend class. Besides, you have rehearsal this afternoon, right?"

Claudine said to Xiangzi.

"Yeah, too."

Xiangzi leaned on the wooden sword and sighed, "Oh, I'm so tired..."

"How do you think it's working out? Are you getting more used to fighting?"

"The effect is good, but your pressure is still far inferior to Huang Quan-san's, ha...sigh."

Claudine is very confident, but she knows that she cannot compare to Huang Quan, who specializes in kendo.

She could only say, "There's nothing we can do. The other party is a true kendo master."

Xiangzi nodded: "Yes, we have to work harder."

Claudine heard her words and smiled: "You have changed, Xiangzi."

"Huh, what changed?"

"You didn't work so hard before. What's the reason?"

Xiangzi was silent for a while, put the wooden sword back on the shelf, turned his back to her and said:

"Well...I guess I was influenced by the other people on the set."

She couldn't deny that she was stimulated by others. Everyone in the crew was very serious without exception.

That's no joke, it's completely different from the atmosphere at school.

Especially Yuto and Akane, they would not compromise during the filming.

"On the set?"

"Anyway, it's just an environmental issue. It's not that important. It has nothing to do with you, Xiangyu."

Xiangzi was too embarrassed to explain, so she just forced herself to say this.

"Really? Well, that's fine."

Claudine shrugged: "Go take a shower first, I don't want to go to class like this."

"really."

Xiangzi agrees.

The two walked to the school's shower room and took a quick shower.

After coming out, they chose a girl with long hair.

When the girl saw the two of them, she said, "Ah, you guys are here really early."

Claudine: "Hmm? Isn't this Tomita?"

The visitor is Tomita Maya, the head of their class and also Claudine's good rival.

Maya smiled and said, "Why didn't I see you come to practice today? And you two are a bit of an unusual pair."

Claudine waved her hand and said, "Well, I have my own life too. It has nothing to do with you."

Xiangzi coughed and said, "It's just something."

"Really? Then I'll be rude first."

Maya nodded and went in to take a shower.

At noon, Xiangzi and Futaba went to the cafeteria together, and Claudine joined them under Maya's inquiring gaze.

Futaba chatted with Claudine for a while before finding out what happened in the morning: "Hey, so Xiangzi got up so early today, she went to practice."

"Correct."

"It's incredible. Xiangzi actually took the initiative to practice..."

"Idiot! I've been working hard, okay?"

Xiangzi and Futaba started playing around.

While eating, Claudine said, “By the way, I watched the battle video of Mizuhara Huangquan during my break, and it was really amazing.

I alone can't restore her momentum, I suggest you call a few more people to surround her, that should create the appropriate pressure."

Futaba said, "Oh, then count me in."

"Besiege...?"

Xiangzi imagined it and felt that it was going to fail.

But she immediately gritted her teeth and slammed the table: "Okay, come on!"

Futaba cheered, "Hey, Xiangzi, this is the way to do it!"

"What's going on? Need help?"

Hua Lian appeared out of nowhere and said with a smile:

"Then I'll come too. I'll go get Hikaru-chan and Mahiru-chan!"

She left like the wind.

"Wait"

Xiangzi extended Erkang's hand: "Hua Lian, come back here! We don't need so many people!"

But Hualian has disappeared.

After school, Xiangzi went to rehearse with mixed feelings and fought against Huang Quan.

the next morning.

Xiangzi held the wooden sword and trembled in fear under the watchful eyes of Claudine, Futaba, Karen, Hikari, Mahiru, Nana, and Junna.

"Aren't all of them here except Tomita?"

"No, I'm here too."

Maya came over, holding a wooden sword: "Sorry, I'm late."

Claudine waved her hand: "Xiangzi, don't thank me. I'll call her over for you."

Maya smiled elegantly, "I'm also very happy to be able to help my classmates. Ito-san, let's get started."

"Ahhh! Come on, come on!"

Xiangzi screamed in pain and was surrounded.

In the afternoon, Youren saw Xiangzi and found that she looked very tired.

"Are you OK?"

"No, it's okay. I'm just a little tired from practicing... I'll be fine after Yuto-san uses the stage equipment."

Xiangzi replied tiredly.

But as long as Yuto uses the stage equipment, her body will become stronger and this fatigue will subside a lot.

So she is not afraid of overtraining.

"Xiangzi practiced very hard today."

Futaba said, "Karaimei and the others are helping with the sparring."

"Xiangzi, you actually work so hard?"

Yuuto said in surprise.

Xiangzi was a little angry: "Hey, Youren-san! What do you think of me?"

He laughed and said, "A girl who is talented, but a little lazy and willful?"

Futaba: "Ah, very fitting..."

Xiangzi put her hands on her hips and retorted, "Damn it! I'm not willful!"

Yuto shrugged, "Don't worry, I'm not saying anything bad about you. I think you have a pretty cute personality."

Akane next to him snickered, "Hehe, Yuto-san, how dare you say that about others? You're obviously weird yourself too."

Xiangzi nodded vigorously. "Indeed, compared to Youren-san, I'm nothing. You often twist and turn suddenly during our performances. It's really weird!"

109 Intuition

Futaba said helplessly: "Xiangzi, don't say that, at least don't say it in front of him."

Youren disagreed: "How am I weird... Humph, Xinye, you must not understand."

Rikka complained, "So who is Xinye?"

"Don't talk to me if you haven't even read Literary Girl."

"What is a literary girl?"