The girl next door turns into a cat

Chapter 20 In the Kendo Department, Swinging the Sword
Although for Suzuki Mamoru, returning to school after a one-year absence does have a different meaning, it is a change, and it is the end of the inertia of life that has continued from the previous year.

However, other than that, the campus life is still the same as he is familiar with, calm and undisturbed.

As a "person outside the circle", the biggest emotion is nothing more than changing a group of observation objects.As for the other students, the second grade already had a relatively fixed social circle, and he, a transfer student from Tokyo, was a bit out of place.

Although his outstanding appearance did bring him a lot of attention, people like Suzuki Mamoru never thought of actively integrating into other people's circles.

There is a boy at the front desk, and there is not much communication except for exchanging names; there is a girl at the next table, who often looks at him, but it seems that he is afraid to strike up a conversation depending on the situation; Most of them silently dismissed their thoughts amid Suzuki's polite perfunctory.

The so-called new environment is nothing more than that, Suzuki Mamoru maintains the previous style of acting.

The only change is about Yucheng Michiyo, it is indeed the first time that he pays so much attention to a girl——

Of course, its essence is to pay attention to Tamaki Michiyo's ability to "change cats".

But regardless of the purpose, he did act for it.

At the time when various clubs were attracting new recruits this school season, when school was over at [-]:[-] p.m., Mamoru Suzuki knocked on the door of the Kendo Department.

"Please come in." The familiar cold voice belonging to Yucheng Michiyo was heard through the door of the activity room.

Suzuki Mori opened the wooden sliding door, and the activity room behind the door came into view.

A boxy room, simply furnished, with little decoration but clean.In the middle is a long table that doesn't seem to fit well—probably it was temporarily moved here for the recruiting event.

The open window welcomes the warm wind warmed by the sun in the afternoon of April. The wind blows the long hair of the girl behind the long table in a ponytail. She sits there and raises her face to look at the door of the activity room, meeting April Together, they brought this space back to March without contradiction—

It wasn't cold, just the slightly cool inhalation of refreshing March air—like that.

She sat quietly behind the table, except for a bamboo sword on the table in front of her, there was nothing else.It makes people wonder what this girl is doing in her free time when no one visits here.In a daze?

Suzuki Mamoru watched Tamaki Michiyo's calm eyes that had not fluctuated even because of his arrival. After some thoughts flashed in his mind, he turned around and closed the door.

"excuse me."

The wooden door was closed along the track, and the edge of the door lightly touched the door frame to make a small "bang" sound that matched the quiet environment at this time.Suzuki Mamoru turned around to face Tamaki Michiyo again.

"Please sit down." The girl nodded slightly to him.

"Thank you."

Suzuki Mori sat on the chair opposite Tamaki Michiyo.

"This is the Kendo Club?" He surveyed the surrounding environment for a while, and finally asked Michiyo Yucheng.

"Yes."

As always, a cold and brief affirmation.

"Not many people?" Suzuki Mamoru asked again.Because the activity room here is obviously too small, it definitely cannot support too many people practicing kendo here.

However, the answer was unexpected.

"Only me." Tamaki Michiyo replied.

Hesitating, Suzuki Mamoru and the girl looked at each other for several seconds, and decided to temporarily suppress the doubts in their minds.

"Student Yucheng, I want to join the Kendo Club." He declared his purpose for coming today.

"reason?"

"I want to try kendo and exercise, that's why."

"Have you been exposed to swordsmanship before?"

"Learn a little bit."

"a little?"

"Yes."

"How long is one o'clock?"

"One week." Suzuki Mamoru hesitated, but chose to answer truthfully.

"Why give up?"

"Not interested at the time."

"now what?"

"For some reason, I'm interested again."

"Some reason", in Tamaki Michiyo's understanding, is what Suzuki Mamoru said to her in cat form that day.

"Okay." She nodded slightly, without further questions.

Then, Suzuki Mamoru saw that Tamaki Michiyo's hand lying on her thigh finally lifted from under the table, and the girl's hand held the bamboo sword on the table.

"Try it." She handed him the bamboo sword.

Suzuki stared at the bamboo sword and the girl's white hand, "Try it?"

"Swing the sword."

"Oh."

Only then did Suzuki Mori take the bamboo sword from Michiyo Tamaki.

It is more than one meter long and weighs 480 grams. It will be heavier than many people imagined when you start it.

Perhaps in the cognition of laymen, the action of swinging a sword seems to be very simple - hold the sword, lift it up, and swing it down, that's all.

However, only those who have actually come into contact with it will know that the simple swing of a sword actually reflects a person's basic skills in kendo in many ways.

After taking the sword, Suzuki Mamoru got up from the chair and slowly walked aside.

At the same time, in his mind, the image of the character belonging to Michiyo Yucheng is becoming clearer.

She was wearing a kendo uniform, standing upright, and holding the same bamboo sword in her hand-this was exactly the scene he observed when Yucheng Michiyo was practicing with Rinka in the kendo gym.

Every move, the picture, posture, and every detail that has been observed, all are fully displayed in Suzuki Mamoru's mind through the imagination of Tamaki Michiyo's characters.

This is exactly what he observed.

Suzuki Mori closed his eyes, carefully comparing and correcting his posture according to the images that emerged in his mind.

The right foot is in front, the left foot is behind, the left hand holds the end of the bamboo sword, and the right hand assists in exerting force. The bamboo sword should be kept on the center line of the body from the step, to holding the sword, and to all aspects of posture.

Even, it belonged to Yucheng Michiyo's extremely serious aura when he practiced swinging his sword.They emerged from Suzuki Mamoru's mind and then projected into reality.

Suzuki Mamoru opened his eyes, and he took a deep breath.

He raised the bamboo sword held in both hands above his head, and then swung it down with his right foot very smoothly and steadily!

The bamboo sword crossed the air in the activity room, and then stayed firmly in mid-air with a sound of "ha".

Raise the sword, swing the sword, stop the sword.

Suzuki Mori maintained the posture of finally dropping the sword, paused for a moment, and then slowly put down his hand.

He turned to look at Michiyo Yucheng, she was always watching him, watching the whole process of his sword swing.

"All right."

Suzuki Mamoru walked back to the table, sat back opposite Tamaki Michiyo, and gently put the bamboo sword back on the table.

After that, there was silence, and there was no sound in the activity room.Only the open windows brought in the sounds of the rest of the student activity on campus.

But the girl in the midst of the noise was not moved, she looked at him with eyes as calm as a handful of clear lake water.

Suzuki Mamoru waited for Tamaki Michiyo's opinion.

　Finally finished yesterday's update

　　
　
(End of this chapter)