"Yoko, drink yogurt."
"Yoko, have some snacks."
Sitting opposite Kazuya and Yoko were his good friends Yuma and Shin. Shin was always a very gentle person, and Yuma had also rarely become more serious. He didn't tell dirty jokes and was very polite and super attentive to Yoko. He was expressing his importance to his friend in this way in front of his friend's sister.
Yoko smiled sweetly and thanked him. She recognized these two people. She and Shin had seen Yuma played and beaten in the baseball stadium, so she knew that they were her Onisan's good friend, but she still asked Kazuya with her eyes. After Kazuya nodded, she took it and started eating.
After Yuma showed his courtesy, he turned to a page in the travel guide and asked cheerfully: "Matsuoka, Shin, let's go here to play!"
Kazuya glanced at the page speechlessly. It was a color page introduction to Hakata Amusement Park. He reminded him: "Uchida, we are going to compete, don't make a mistake."
Yuma said with confidence: "The three of us will definitely win together. We don't have to worry about the game so much. It's not easy to have time to travel Fukuoka, so we must have a good two days!"
Then he hesitated again, "But if we become famous, what nickname should we give? The Three Musketeers of Nagoya? The Three Musketeers of Hope Peak?" He said and glanced at Haruka on the other side and thought it was not good to be called a "short-legged tiger" or something like her. As a lesson learned from the past, was it necessary to think of a louder one first?
If I take you with me, I'm afraid I'll be nicknamed "The Three Bastards of Chubu"! Yuma was asked by Shin to fill up the team shortage. It was enough to buy rest time for Kazuya and no one expected him to win anyone. It didn't matter if he wanted to play, just don't miss the main business.
Kazuya was chatting with Yuma, and then looked down at Yoko. Yoko held up a chocolate bar and stuffed it into his mouth. She smiled sweetly and said, "Onisan, eat it too." "
Kazuya asked: "Are you okay for this travel, Yoko?"
"It feels good, Onisan! It's just not what I thought. I thought it would be very noisy in the car." Poor little Yoko had never traveled far, and the spring and autumn outings organized by her shabby national elementary school were not even far from the district. They went out the school and headed straight to a nearby park, purely for completing their tasks.
Kazuya explained to her warmly: "The noisy trains are ordinary trains, which use locomotives to pull the carriages, while the Shinkansen uses a power-decentralized operation mode, with electric drives installed on each carriage. That's why it's so quiet and fast. If you like the regular train, we'll also take it later. When we get to Echigo, we'll change to the limited express to Takaoka, and then take the intercity train on the Hokuriku Main Line. That one has the sound you image."
Yoko knew little about it, so she asked a little embarrassedly: "What is the limited express, Onisan?"
"It is the train with the highest priority. The automatic control center will ask all trains to avoid it along the way, so it rarely slows down and runs faster." He patiently spread common sense to Yoko. People like him would definitely check the map in advance and study the entire route before setting off when traveling far away.
"I see!" Yoko smiled sweetly. Looking at the soft-spoken Kazuya, she wanted to hold his arm, but she was worried that the impact would not be good. She was very happy to be able to travel with Kazuya.
Onisan is willing to take me with him no matter what he does. It feels so good to have someone who cares about me!
Kazuya and Yoko were chatting casually. When he noticed that Shin had been a little absent-minded, he comforted him: "Shin, don't worry, there is no point in thinking about winning or losing now."
Shin had also been working hard to adjust his condition during this period. Maybe he was a little worried about gains and losses. Hearing this, he calmed down and said sheepishly: "This is the first time in my life that I have such a strong desire to win."
Yoko clenched her fists at the side: "Shin Onisan, come on!"
Kazuya touched her little head. He didn't want to take the five-hour trip but return home after being eliminated in the first round. He decided to try his best to succeed and come back with a prize. How can a professional-level swordsman have no confidence to beat five people when participating in a high school-level competition?
Everyone chatted all the way, changing lines and trains, and finally arrived at Fukuoka. The station in Fukuoka is in the Hakata area, which saved their some effort.
After getting off the car, Haruka was the busiest of all. She hold Toutaro in her arms and held one of Chika and Ayaka in her hand. As long as one of the twins was grabbed, the other one would not be lost. She also kicked Haruna's butt and drove a group of girls out of the station carrying their luggage like herding sheep.
There were more than 800 teams participating in the Gyokuryuukou Competition this year, including more than 500 men's teams and more than 300 women's teams. Plus volunteers and staff who serve the competition, the number must be to exceed 5,000 people. not to mention the spectators and reporters who came from afar to watch the game. The accommodation near the Hakata Citizen Stadium was immediately extremely tight.
This competition was in the summer and it was also a voluntary participation, so there was no supervising teacher and everything was handled by Kanae personally and assisted by Shin. The group of people rushed to the hotel booked in advance. It was on a remote small street, and Kanae pointed far away: "That's it."
Chika and Ayaka covered their mouths together and said in surprise: "A big hotel?"
Wow, we have never lived in such a luxurious place in our life. We must take two selfies and post them on our Twitter later. we are really in the right place this time.
Shin said with some embarrassment: "It's not there, it's another hotel on the street."
Everyone walked closer together and found that it was an ordinary small hotel for business travelers, which was relatively shabby. Kanae booked two large rooms, one for boys and one for girls, while Shin booked a separate room for the Sakura family.
At this point, everyone was temporarily separated. Those who wa going to compete went to check in, and those who traveled went to play. Kanae gave everyone instructions to arrange their luggage by themselves and was busy going to the competition organizing committee to sign autographs and reports.
Tomorrow would be the opening ceremony and drawing of lots, and the official competition would begin that night. The conference only accepts teams with historical records and will be directly divided into men's and women's groups to start elimination rounds, so there is no preliminaries.
Kazuya couldn't ask Shin to book a small room for Yoko alone. He sent Yoko's luggage to the Sakura family's room, and told Haruka: "Help me take care of Yoko." Yoko was more suitable to live with the Sakura family because they were all girls, except Toutaro who was only a little over three years old.
He had helped Haruka look after the children for so long, and now it was her turn to look after the child for him. She said nothing but just complainted: "I know, you have said it seven or eight times. I don't need you to remind again."
Yoko stood aside timidly, but her little nose moved slightly. She was a little suspicious. Isn't this Haruka Sister not on good terms with Onisan? Shouldn't he entrust her to Haruna Sister? And the smell of this sister's is a bit familiar, as if I've smelled it somewhere before.
After Kazuya ordered Haruka, he also needed to arrange himself. Yoko habitually followed him for a step before stopping, watching him leave with some uneasiness, while Haruka looked at her and secretly weighed in her mind. Are the primary school students developing so well now? This girl is so tall...
However, she still raised her hand, touched Yoko's little head and said very kindly: "Yoko, if you need anything, just tell me. You don't need to be polite." It seems that she isn't that guy's biological sister, but if he said she is his sister, then treat her as his sister.