Chapter 16 High School and Cane

Natsume Naoki used the words "I still want to join the sports club", indicating that he had thought about it before, but failed.

Beihara only heard about that incident later.

Natsume Naoki went to the sports club to sign up, but failed to pass the most basic physical fitness test. In addition, the sports club did not dare to apply because he had a history of many diseases.

"You..." Kitahara looked at Natsume Naoki's frail figure and swallowed back his words of dissuasion, "Why do you want to join the sports club so much?"

Natsume Naoki thought for a long time but didn't answer.

He also asked himself in his heart, why?

Is it because someone in the sports club attracts me?

Or is it just because you are unwilling to come back from the sports club last year?

Because I didn’t know, I didn’t answer.

Natsume Naoki feels that these two reasons are not conflicting, and the latter even accounts for a heavier proportion as the driving force.

"Since you insist so much, then I'll go with you." Kitahara Hayato suddenly said: "I remember that the sports club seems to have some special requirements, and I just found it when I was flipping through the brochure."

He took the brochure on the table again and started to look through it, and then saw this article in the introduction of the sports club and the instructions for joining the group.

"To join the club, applicants must submit the application form to the club activity room in person, and undergo the necessary physical fitness test in the activity room. The results will be recorded on the application form on the spot and submitted to the president."

Before Kitahara Hayato finished reading, Natsume Naoki already stated the rules of the sports club without even looking at them.

Verbatim.

Kitahara Hayato scratched his cheek when he heard this. Sure enough, this guy has a deep obsession with the sports club.

Even the rules of joining the society are memorized.

"Do you want to go today?"

"It doesn't matter any day," Natsume Naoki took an application form from the volunteer and sat down to fill in the information: "If it doesn't work today, just go back and exercise hard, and try again next time. I'm not afraid of your jokes. I won't lose when it comes to persistence.

For others, I always prepare for the worst and work hard for the best when I do anything. So it is very likely that I will fail today."

Kitahara Hayato crossed his arms across his chest, looked at Natsume Naoki who was writing carefully one stroke after another, and said softly: "I understand, I understand. You are the most sincere person I have ever seen."

Although the two were good friends who went to the same high school, they were never in the same class in high school.

Even before his second year of high school, Kitahara Hayato didn't know Natsume Naoki. He had only heard that there was a boy in the next class who was in poor health and was very withdrawn. He hardly talked to anyone and huddled himself in the corner desk of the classroom every day.

Study hard.

It is said that he had very little talent but his hard work was amazing. He would study hard even if it meant his life. He would get up at 4:30 every morning to study. This was also the case in the winter. The first thing he did after getting up was to go to the toilet, pour a basin of cold water, close his eyes and

Bury your face and wake up.

Kitahara heard an exaggerated statement when he was in high school. It was made up by teachers to motivate students——

Because it is an extremely rare full-time boarding school, there are rumors that when the school was first established many years ago, it accepted many children from the countryside. They studied so hard that those who went back to the dormitory from the classroom every night and those who got up early to go to the classroom to study.

It's possible to meet face to face.

Beihara didn't believe this at first, and except for the arrangement teachers, most of the other students didn't believe it either.

But after hearing the story of Natsume Naoki, Kitahara felt that if there were two Natsume Naoki in the school at the beginning of its establishment, then this statement would be much more reliable.

From hearing the rumors about Natsume Naoki to later getting to know each other, the two of them also experienced something that they will never forget.

It was at the beginning of the second year of high school that Kitahara and his classmates were laughing and playing at the stairs. As a result, they accidentally stepped on the stairs and fell down.

With his size and tonnage, if he hit his head on the edge of the steps or hit a wall, someone might be killed.

At this moment, Natsume Naoki turned up from downstairs and was hit by the falling Kitahara.

Natsume Naoki used his body to cushion Kitahara, but he himself lost consciousness on the spot.

The final result was that Natsume Naoki ended up in the hospital. He had to smell the smell of disinfectant in the hospital for half a year before he could even walk. That hard bump almost caused his youth to say goodbye to school for a whole year.

Natsume Naoki, whose world has been gray since childhood, didn't think anything was wrong. He didn't even think of blaming Kitahara Hayato.

He blamed everything on his bad luck...

There's nothing you can do about it, it's just bad luck.

It's the same thing as being hit on the head by a branch while walking on the road, or being hit by a motorcycle when the floor tiles happen to be loose and hurt your feet.

Who makes him born with only 3 points of luck, which is as weak as his physical strength and understanding.

But Kitahara Hayato didn't think so. Even though Natsume Naoki didn't mean to blame him, Kitahara still shouldered the responsibilities of a man well——

He advanced all the medical expenses to Natsume Naoki, including meals, nutrition, etc. during the hospitalization. He took leave from school every day to go to the hospital, sent Natsume Naoki notes, and sent him class videos recorded by his friends... He was afraid that Natsume would listen to him.

The teacher was not used to it, so he even asked a friend from Natsume's class to help him enroll in Natsume's class.

Natsume's family has excellent conditions, much better than Kitahara's. At first, Natsume's family saw Kitahara's good attitude and didn't even plan to let him pay for his medical expenses.

But Beiyuan insists on this, and there is no right to say who is poor.

Therefore, the Beiyuan family suffered a lot of hardship during that short half year, and even now Beiyuan still retains the habit of working hard.

But it was all worth it in his eyes. At least his conscience was passable and he could call himself a man openly.

I also gained a good friend who I have developed a friendship with since then.

Natsume Naoki’s house still retains the small walking stick that Kitahara gave him to celebrate his ability to walk, as a testimony of the friendship between the two.

It was the one Asai Mao saw on the first day she came here.

At that time, Asai Mao misunderstood that his health was so bad that he needed a crutch to walk.

"I've filled it out."

Natsume Naoki returned the pen to the volunteer and blew at the neat handwriting on the application form.

"I'll go with you." Kitahara patted Natsume Naoki on the back vigorously to cheer him up.

The huge momentum made Natsume Naoki's head buzz, but along with it came the courage that warmed his whole body.

"Thanks."

"Hey, why don't you be polite to me?"

"..."

There are many venues for sports club activities. Because the club is affiliated to the Faculty of Physical Education, a large college, the sports club, together with huge school-level clubs such as literature club, astronomy club, and physics interest group, are the clubs with the largest number of people in Waseda, so the resources are very abundant.

adequate.

Not to mention the outdoor activity venues, there are also many indoor venues for gymnastics, tennis and badminton, and even indoor tracks, but they are only dedicated to measuring 50 meters.

Even the gym on campus is right next to the activity room of the sports club. When there are a lot of people, it doesn't look like a club, but more like a fitness activity in a super large shopping mall.

When Natsume Naoki and Kitahara Hayato entered the sports club activity center, many people were already training.

The two of them went directly to the person in charge of the activity room, a boy wearing a basketball uniform.

Natsume Naoki recognized him. The accountant of the sports club, named Kai Shibata, was responsible for counting the loss and purchase of equipment for such a large club, such as the loss and purchase of basketball, football, badminton and the like.

Of course, as the only member of the sports club who is good at using a pen, he is also responsible for accepting new applications most of the time.

"Hey... let me see, Natsume Naoki?"

Shibata Kai took the application form and looked at it, then raised his head to look at Kitahara Hayato, who was a head taller than him, and asked with a smile: "Let's do some body side exercises to see your physique, classmate. It's just a formality.

"

Kitahara Hayato frowned slightly, "You called the wrong person."

"Eh?" Shibata Kai was stunned and looked at Natsume Naoki, who had a very obvious contrast in body shape next to Kitahara.

"Are you going to join the sports club?" Shibata Kai asked.

He looked at Natsume Naoki's face carefully, thought for a while, and suddenly said: "I remember you, did you come last year? I remember the last week before summer vacation last year quite clearly."

Natsume Naoki nodded. He didn't expect that someone could recognize him after such a long time.

"The one who only ran 12 seconds for the 50 meters?" Unexpectedly, Shibata Kai changed the topic and laughed, "Boys are required to run the 50 meters within 9 seconds, and 7 seconds is considered an excellent one. I think you'd better take it back, five seconds."

Running ten meters for 12 seconds...there is no need to measure it."

Natsume Naoki's face darkened, he was remembered for this kind of thing.

Shibata Kai's expression was not as kind as when he looked at Kitahara, and even his smile became uncomfortable.

An expression such as a smile can make the viewer happy, but there are always some people who even express this kind of expression of goodwill to the outside world, but it can also be full of playfulness and malice.

His finger tapped on Natsume Naoki's application form.

Even though the test hadn't even started yet, he felt that Natsume Naoki was not good enough.

Natsume Naoki and Kitahara Hayato looked at each other, and they could clearly see the other's displeasure.
Chapter completed!