Chapter 4 fourth quarter

After school the next day, I changed into my soccer uniform, and wandered around the campus, thinking about what Fujio had said.Those girls playing volleyball on the roof must have moved to other places.The place they are looking for must be a place where they will pad the ball in a circle or throw the ball inadvertently without affecting other people. In the open space behind the library, I found a group of people who looked like them.Although they are very close to the school's fence, it seems that their golf skills are not so bad that they will hit the ball over the fence.I walked towards them slowly.

There were six girls in that group.Fortunately, I once met one of them under the introduction of the juniors in the group. I remember that it was Hiromi. When her eyes met mine, she seemed taken aback, but then smiled again.She said to her companions, left the circle, and ran towards me shyly. I first asked her if she had ever played ball on the roof of the building. She stuck out her tongue and admitted that she had been there. "Senior, don't tell it. If it gets out, it will be troublesome." "I know that. Speaking of which, since you go upstairs to play ball every day, you should have seen the incident of falling that day, right?"

Hiromi looked around, covered her mouth with her hands, and whispered. "I did. It surprised us at the time." "and then?" I cheered up, "Can you tell me the situation at that time?" "It's nothing, nothing... At that time, Yukihara-senpai walked up to the corner of the top floor and then fell unsteadily." "Swayingly..." According to Fujio before, "it feels like I've lost my balance", but in comparison, Hiromi's statement is easier to understand. "What about before the fall? Did you see what Tatsuya was doing?"

Hiromi shook her head in confusion, "I haven't been staring at him all the time." "Maybe someone else will see something." "other people?" "wait for me a while." Hiromi turned around and ran back to the girls playing in a circle.She pointed at me and said a few words, then walked back with five other girls.Several girls of similar height surrounded me in the center.I subconsciously took a step back. "It is said that she was the first to discover it." Hiromi pointed to the second girl on the left.Guangmei called her "Xiaoyi", no matter her figure or face, even her eyes were round.

Xiao Yi touched his hair, and said first, "I don't see it very clearly..." This habit of delaying the pronunciation of the last word seems to be her usual speaking habit. "But I remember that something seemed to flicker at that time." "A flash?" "Then I turned my head and saw someone on the roof next to me. I was about to tell everyone...he fell." "Wait a minute, did you just say that the flash came from the roof next to it?" Xiao Yi nodded to explain. "What kind of flashing method? Is it flashing or alternating light and dark?"

I asked hastily.However, she looked at Hiromi with a puzzled face.I suddenly understood, and asked again. "Is it a flash? Or a flicker?" "Flash by..." Whether this has something to do with Tatsuya's death, I can't judge at all, I can only pretend to be contemplative. Just when I thanked them and was about to leave, the girl on the far right said "that...".I stopped. "Someone asked me the same question as you today." The girl has long hair, not only looks more mature than Guangmei and Xiaoyi, but she even speaks calmly. "Others? Who?"

"The gymnastics department..." That's it - I understand, and at the same time feel a little bit of satisfaction. "Yoko Saeki?" The long-haired girl nodded.Feeling like being scolded, she rolled her eyes and looked at me. Yoko may have heard the conversation between Fujio and me yesterday, or she may have found out about Hiromi and the others through her own means.But anyway, Yoko seemed to feel that Tatsuya's death was a little unclear. "What did she ask you, Saeki?" "It's the same as what you asked. In addition, I asked if Yukihara-senpai was alone at the time."

"correct." My eyes swept over Hiromi and the others' faces, "I wanted to ask you this question. So what happened? Besides Xingyuan, was there anyone else present at that time?" The long-haired girl glanced at the others, confirmed it, and shook her head slowly. "Should be only Xingyuan-senpai alone." "Really... Then, did Yoko ask any other questions?" The long-haired girl replied that there was nothing else.In this way, I was finally able to leave from their presence. Because of talking with Hiromi and the others, I was five minutes late for soccer practice.According to the penalty regulations, every minute late, I have to run around the playground, so I ran five laps in a row.

Running silently on the playground alone, I recalled what Yoko said two days ago.Ada Why didn't he join the football club - that's Yoko's question.A very straightforward question indeed.And the answer is extremely simple. Because of the high level of the football department, he held back - that's all.Perhaps Yoko didn't know that even in junior high school, Tatsuya was not the first-choice goalkeeper.Although he was highly anticipated when he first joined the club, there were others who progressed faster than him.In the competition in the county, he also failed to be selected.

"Leave football to you." That's how Tatsu turned down my invitation when I first entered high school and decided which group to join.At that time, I invited him to join the football department as a matter of course. And why bother to do the main election-although I could have said that to him at the time, I didn't say it.This kind of talk is purely deceiving.Try to be the right choice - I can't say that. It's not for me to say that. The only thing that was clear at the time was that in terms of football, I was more suitable than Da. The reason why Tatsuya gave up football must be kept a secret from Yoko.This is an agreement between me and Tatsuya, even if he is dead now, I can't go back on my word.

After finishing the group training, when I changed clothes and went out, the pointer of the watch had already pointed to seven o'clock.This is not a rare thing, as usual. I was pedaling my bicycle on the dark night road, and I used to go home like this when I was in the same time as Tatsuya's English conversation group.Sometimes I will compete with whoever rides faster. At the beginning, everyone wins and loses, but then it becomes me winning again and again.After that, the competition was suspended. The headlights of the vehicle appeared in front of him.At times like this, Tatsuya would get out of the car and dodge 100%.He is such a cautious person.Tatsuya fell from the roof?This fact is beyond my belief. I straddle the bicycle, intending to stagger with the oncoming vehicle.At this moment, the headlights suddenly shot upwards in front of me.The damn driver actually changed the headlights to high lights.And the timing of the switch is pretty bad.The light dazzled my eyes, I lost my balance and almost fell to the ground.I quickly pinched the car brake, took my foot away to stop the car, and avoided it.It's really dangerous. "asshole." I yelled at the car as it sped away with exhaust fumes.But in my heart, I have already started to think about other things.