Chapter 79 No One Can Win

"Kinomoto-san, it's your turn."

After Xia Yu sat back in his seat, the teacher looked at the list and called his name again.

"Yes!"

Hearing her name, Sakura stood up hurriedly. Looking at Sakura's nervous look as she answered, the teacher smiled gently and gave her an encouraging smile.

But even so, Sakura was still very nervous and had a hard time walking, so she just turned the other way and walked directly to the podium.

When the exam started, as expected, Sakura made a mistake in a syllable because she was too nervous, but the teacher did not blame her. Instead, he gave her some gentle encouragement.

After all, it's just one syllable that's wrong, and the overall result is still okay.

After a while, the music class ended.

Today, apart from the recorder test in music class, there were no other exams, so after finishing the daily classes, the day ended.

The students went home, and those who had club activities in the afternoon stayed in school to participate in them. Of course, some who did not want to go home would temporarily stay in the school playground to play.

Afternoon, playground.

The boys who chose to stay in school were playing football on the playground, while the girls were sitting on the stairs chatting. The air was filled with youthful vitality.

It's the kind that, just by looking at it, you can feel your stiff body warming up.

Sakura sat on the stairs, holding a gymnastics stick in her hand and practicing fingering as if it were a recorder. She couldn't help crying and said, "I made a weird sound, wuwuwu..."

Tomoyo at the side smiled and consoled him, "But Sakura is very good at playing other parts of the game."

“That’s because I’ve practiced before.”

Sakura raised her little face and said in an admiring tone: "But Tomoyo is just like Xia, both of you play perfectly. Compared with you, it feels like I am playing a different tune, alas..."

As she spoke, Sakura lowered her head again, somewhat dejectedly: "I should practice more."

Just at this moment, the sound of a recorder suddenly came from afar.

Tomoyo and Sakura looked up at the same time, and saw Li Syaoran at the top of the stairs, carrying a schoolbag and walking forward while playing the recorder.

It looked like he was going home, but he was practicing playing the recorder even on the way home. He was really hardworking.

"The exam is over, but Student Li is still practicing." Sakura was a little surprised.

"Maybe today's results are not ideal."

Tomoyo guessed, "But it's dangerous to blow while walking. It would be bad if you accidentally fall."

"By the way, Chise, did Li move here from Hong Kong alone? I didn't even meet his parents during the sports meet."

Sakura looked at Li Xiaolang standing alone and felt a little curious, as she had never seen Li Xiaolang's parents pick him up from school.

Hearing this, Zhishi thought for a moment and said, "That's right. I've never heard him mention his family. Could it be that he is the same as Xia..."

"Uh... shouldn't it be possible?"

Sakura felt a little embarrassed when she heard that. It seemed a bit rude to talk about whether the other person's parents were still alive or not behind their back.

No, it's not like that, it's very rude.

"Danger!"

Suddenly, a scream came from the playground where people were playing football. The black and white football was kicked hard by someone and flew towards Li Xiaolang.

If nothing unexpected happened, the football would have hit Li Xiaolang directly in the face, causing him to be slightly disfigured.

But obviously, as expected, something unexpected happened.

Seeing the football was about to hit him, the little wolf who was playing the recorder glanced, leaped up suddenly, and kicked the football with a flying foot.

In an instant, the football flew back at an even faster speed, spinning straight into the net, and even the goalkeeper didn't have time to react.

After the ball bounced twice, the goalkeeper finally realized what was happening and looked down at the ball. "Student Li, good kick."

Takashi Yamazaki on the court praised and led the applause, and the playground, which had been quiet, also burst into warm applause.

Hearing the applause, the little wolf scratched his head with the recorder and smiled proudly.

When the applause died down, Yamazaki Takashi touched Xia Yu, who was playing football with him, and exclaimed: "I didn't expect that Li was such a good football player. You Chinese football players must be really good."

Xia Yu: (.￣□￣)
Ah this...

How should he tell the truth?

In fact, he doesn't know what the Chinese national football team was like in the 1990s, but according to the future trend...

After thinking about it, Xia Yu decided to tell the truth. After all, he was a good boy who would not lie.

"That's right, our football and table tennis can both be described in one sentence: one can't beat anyone, the other can't beat anyone."

"Oh, that's really impressive! But why did you repeat the same sentence twice, Xia?"

"Guess~"

……

The daytime always passes quickly, and another ordinary day comes to an end.

At night, the sky is dim, with only the stars in the sky emitting soft starlight.

Tomoeda Town also fell into a deep sleep, with only a few lights still dimly lit among the thousands of houses.

At this moment, the hands of the clock on the clock tower of Tomoeda Elementary School are about to point to midnight.

In addition to telling time for students at school, this clock tower also serves as an important spiritual sustenance for the residents of Tomoeda Town and can almost be considered an indispensable building in Tomoeda Town.

However, at the moment when the pointer turned to zero, the next second did not come, but the dial strangely rotated counterclockwise, as if time had been reset.

But no one noticed this scene, and no one knew about it.

early morning.

Sakura was packing her schoolbag as Xiaoke wailed.

For some reason, the game save file that Xiaoke had worked so hard to get to the end last night suddenly disappeared again, and without any warning.

Faced with Xiaoke's grief, Sakura gave a few perfunctory replies. She was about to be late again and had no time to comfort Xiaoke.

Finally, amid Xiaoke's wailing of doubting life, Sakura hurried out of the house.

On the way to school, Sakura looked at a student who was practicing the recorder while walking, and couldn't help but feel a little confused. The recorder exam was over, so why were some people still practicing?
Are they the same as Li Xiaolang? Do they want to improve themselves even after the exams are over?
Not long after walking, Sakura saw Tomoyo and hurriedly chased after her, then walked towards the school with Tomoyo.

"Tomoyo, it seems that not only Li is working hard, but everyone else is also working very hard. I can't fall behind."

After walking for a while, listening to the sound of the recorder coming from time to time, Sakura clenched her fists to encourage herself.

"Ok?"

Just hearing this, Tomoyo was a little confused: "Sakura, what are you talking about?"

"A recorder."

Sakura didn't think too much about it and casually replied. Tomoyo nodded in understanding: "That's right, let's work hard on the recorder exam today."

"Eh?"

Hearing what Tomoyo said, Sakura was a little confused. Didn't the recorder exam end yesterday? Was there another exam today?

However, although she was confused, Sakura did not ask any further questions because she had already arrived at school and was about to start class.

But soon, Sakura noticed something was wrong. How come today's class was exactly the same as yesterday's? Even the content of the class was the same?
(End of this chapter)