"Is something wrong?"

"Well, so Riyaxiang, you can go back first, you don't have to wait for me."

"Eh? Then I too... Ikuta-chan!"

Before she finished speaking, Ikuta had already run back a long way. Looking at her sullen back, Zhongyuan thought she had something important to do.

"I want to say that I can also help..."

Forget it, she sighed, it was Ikuta after all, it was probably a small matter like forgetting the charger in the practice room.

Most of the way home from the practice room, she and Ikuta passed by together, and she was rarely left behind. She looked at the students passing by in twos, threes and threes around her, feeling a little envious.

By the way, if I remember correctly, the front should be...

Zhongyuan quickened his pace a little and stood at the entrance of the baseball stadium. The signboards here have not changed, they are still the same as before. Last time, he found them while walking on the street with Wu Geng. Then, he met his friends inside.

Shiraishi, Hashimoto, and Gogeng also untied their dance worries in Shiraishi’s bat swing training class.

That was around the time of the fourth order.

Now, standing at the entrance of the guild hall, Zhongyuan actually felt like revisiting his old place.

Let's go in and have some fun, she thought.

The layout of the museum is still the same as when she first came here, with no changes.

However, when she stood in the batting box again, she was already alone, and her mood had changed a lot.

Over the past two years, she has really experienced a lot. Whether it is work or personal relationships, she feels that she has grown a lot.

Wait for a while, and then concentrate on the sound of the machine serving the ball, staring at the path of the baseball coming from the distance, imagining that there is a wall in front of you, using the power of your waist and abdomen to drive the rotation of your arms and body to break the wall.

The crisp sound of hitting the ball.

The baseball flies a long distance and is a very beautiful parabola.

Zhongyuan still remembers that her father taught her these things. During that period when she often played toss and catch with her father, she got blisters on her hands. Her sister didn't like playing these games, so Zhongyuan, as her elder sister, had to take on the role of accompanying her.

A father's responsibility. Well, I didn't insist on it after that.

But Zhongyuan still learned a lesson from baseball.

That is, don't give up easily. Even if you are in the outfield, you must always keep your eyes on the sky, waiting for that baseball that will fly over at any time.

Zhongyuan once again hit the baseball flying towards him and flew up. At the moment he reached the critical point, he fell and landed in front of the disc hanging high at the front of the field.

Sure enough, it’s still difficult, home run. Zhongyuan thought.

It was so good that Shixiaojiang got lucky that time.

"Can you teach me?"

"That's not something you can learn by being taught...eh?"

Zhongyuan responded subconsciously, only to realize that it seemed that the person next to him was speaking.

On the opposite side of the iron net, a girl with black-rimmed glasses stood there. She was wearing a school uniform, carrying a bat, standing on the batting box with a cold gaze, and a large black mask almost covered most of her face.

.

Although he gives off the impression that he has a cold temperament, but for some reason, he just gives off a bad feeling, all he needs is a banner behind him that says "Death at night is painful".

Maybe the opponent's posture of carrying the baseball bat was a little too cool, Zhongyuan thought.

"Ayushi-san, why are you here?"

Yes, Zhongyuan knows Ayoshi Hibiki.

Ayoshi had a part-time job experience. In order to reflect the sense of reality in her writing, she experienced different jobs, such as a cashier in a supermarket, a waiter in a Chinese restaurant, a handyman in a 100-yen store, and recording the traffic of vehicles on the road.

frequency, etc.

The shortest one lasted only two days, and the longest one was working as a shopping guide in Zhongyuan's natural stone bracelet store, briefly introducing the different effects of each stone. She herself did not expect that she would work for three or four months, and she would change it when school started.

Now that she has two weekends to work, she can read a book in most of her free time, which is quite relaxing.

It was during this period that Zhongyuan and Aushik got to know each other. Knowing that she was Wu Geng's good friend, Zhongyuan would not feel subtle when getting along with her.

It is worth mentioning that after Nogizaka became popular, except for the good relationship before debut, the members became much more cautious in making friends in private. Well, there are always various reasons.

"Ayushi-san, why are you here?" Zhongyuan was slightly surprised, and then a little dissatisfied, "Why didn't you tell me when you resigned? Suddenly one day I couldn't see you in the store."

By the way. When Zhongyuan resigned, Zhongyuan’s mother also gave Ayushi a bracelet that she personally selected and made, saying that it was kept as a souvenir. At that time, Ayushi coolly said that she didn’t have the habit of carrying things on her hands, so this was okay.

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Since then, the bracelet has been placed on the bookshelf in the bedroom at home.

Aushichi paused for a moment, "I'm sorry, because I don't have Zhongyuan's contact information."

"You can just ask your mother about that kind of thing."

"Is it okay?"

"Eh? What?"

"Contact information is known to unrelated people," Ayushoku said seriously, "Idols should be very taboo about this."

Zhongyuan was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "It doesn't matter, Ayushi-san is not an irrelevant person."

She felt very happy that Ayoshiki cared about this, because in life there were always people who claimed to be relatives and friends who asked her for their own or other members' contact information. Although they all refused firmly one by one, it still made her feel tired.

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"I want to take advantage of my free time to try more things, such as baseball, basketball, football, mountaineering and other sports, to enrich my experience as much as possible. I guess what I write will be weird and uncomfortable to read."

"I see, Ayoshiki-san is a writer, right? I heard it from my mother. I also bought your book, but I've been too busy recently and haven't read it yet."

After the selection of the 13th single was decided, everyone was busy practicing dance skills. The recording was just completed a few days ago. I heard that the selection team would go out to shoot the MV for two days, and then the post-production period. The time was tight, so everyone was nervous.

With a string.

"Can Zhongyuan teach me the swing just now?" Ayushoku said.

"Hey, but I'm not very good at playing either."

"It doesn't matter, I just want to hit the ball smoothly. It's best to fly farther and experience the 'fun feeling of hitting the ball' that is often written about in novels." Ayoshiki said seriously.

"What is that?" Zhongyuan said with a smile, "But if you just hit the ball, it's fine. I'll be Ayoshiki-san's baseball teacher."

Aushik is Wugeng's good friend, so when teaching her, Zhongyuan can't help but compare her with Wugeng. Facts have proved that the difference between the two is quite big.

Zhongyuan's detailed explanations were completely ineffective in Wu Geng, but Catfish absorbed it very quickly. After only two or three personal demonstrations, he had already grasped the essence of swinging, and he was able to hit the ball with style and accuracy.

The rate also increased significantly. Unfortunately, he didn't hit the home run he scored before the fifth update.

That's why Zhongyuan said that luck is the most important factor, and strength is less important.

Although Ayoshiki's expression didn't change much from before, Zhongyuan could clearly feel her mood rising when she hit several baseballs in a row.

"So this is how it feels..." Ayoshiki whispered as if talking to himself.

"When you have troubles, you will feel much better if you come over and play." This is what Zhongyuan's father told her, but before Zhongyuan tried it, most of his enthusiasm for baseball had dissipated.

Seeing Ayoshi stepping down from the beating mat, Zhongyuan stood up instead.

"By the way, Ayoshiki-san, did you come all the way to play baseball by yourself?" she asked while waving the bat.

"No, I made an appointment with a friend." Ayuushichi removed his eyes and raised his hand to wipe the sweat from his face. He didn't expect that just swinging the bat would consume so much energy, which was a bit surprising.

The next moment, there was a "bang" sound, and the flying baseball hit the protective wire fence and rolled to the feet of Anishi. She bent down and reached out to pick it up.

Looking up, she saw that Zhongyuan's back was facing her, and he was still about to swing the bat without moving.

"Zhongyuan?"

"Um...do you mind if I ask?"

Zhongyuan smiled bitterly and slowly turned around, "The friend Ayushi-san is waiting for... won't be Shixiao-chan, right?"

Ayushoku squeezed the ball in his hand, and it was not as hard as expected.

"Who else could it be?" she asked.

Then, I heard approaching footsteps in the distance.

"Hibiki, even if you ask me out, you should choose a suitable time. I just got home not long ago...Hika?"

Wu Geng stopped in embarrassment, and his eyes fell on Aushi's face. Perhaps he didn't receive any useful information from that poker face, so he had to fall back on Zhongyuan's face.
Chapter completed!