Chapter 12: Volume 1 - CH 2.5

The next morning, I went into the living room, passing each other with Izumi. She had already put her bag over her shoulder and was leaving the house in her school uniform, which consisted of a skirt just above the knee and navy blue high socks.

"Good morning," Izumi said as she slipped on her leather shoes at the door.

"It looks like it's going to be hot today. It's going to be over 30 degrees in the afternoon."

The front door of the house had a slit in the polished glass. The light coming through the slit was brighter and whiter than it had been the past few days when the sky had been overcast.

I said to Izumi as she put on her shoes and reached for the door, "Have a good day," and she said, "I'm off," and left the house with a smile on her face.

In the living room, my mother was also getting ready to go to work, and on the desk was my breakfast and lunch box. I guessed that Izumi and my mother had shared the cooking task again.

After my mother left for work, I finished breakfast by myself, washed the dishes for the three of us, locked the door, and left the house.

The weather forecast on TV said that it was a sunny day during the rainy season. The clouds in the sky were not gray as they had been until yesterday, but pure white and as thick as cotton candy, giving me a strong feeling that summer was just around the corner.

On this day, I took the day's classes in a lighthearted manner, had lunch with Nagai, and after school, changed into my soccer wear and went out to the field.

Today, two of the twenty-three members of the club were absent, except for the manager (the third-year student had retired after the inter-high qualifying round earlier this month), so when it came time to practice the game, we were short one player to play eleven-on-eleven.

When it came time to divide up the members, we decided that it was okay to play with one person short, and when we were about to start the game with eleven against ten, Yuriko raised her hand and said, "I will join to the team that is short of players."

"Oh, okay. Well then, thank you," Nagai, who was in charge of dividing the members, said to Yuriko.

At her suggestion, the first-year students, including Tachibana, were taken aback.

"Mori-senpai, you can play soccer?"

Tachibana, who was standing next to Yuriko, said in surprise.

"I played with boys until the sixth grade."

Yuriko replied and took one of the bibs from her bib case.

"Is that so!?"

Tachibana looked at Yuriko with an amazed expression. Yuriko half smiled and annoyingly dismissed Tachibana, who said, "Wow, that's great."

In the past, Yuriko had participated in club practices when there were members absent like this, but this was the first time since Tachibana and the others joined the club at the beginning of the school year.

When Yuriko was in elementary school, she played on the same boys' soccer team as I did, from first grade through sixth grade. She still occasionally participates in a local women's soccer club. It is said that basic soccer technique is acquired by the age of 12, so her skills are solid. She was also knowledgeable enough to be able to plan practice menus in her place when the advisor teacher isn't around, so she was definitely more of an asset than the inexperienced boys.

After re-braided her hair, which was tied up in one piece with a scrunchie, Yuriko took white plastic leg guards from her own small handbag on the bench and began to get ready.

The club members, having finished their preparations, scatter onto the field. The sound of the track team's starter pistol popping could be heard, as could the sound of the tennis team hitting the ball. After 6 p.m., the sun was setting and it gradually became dim, and the lights on the roof were lit. The western sky, where the sun was setting, was tinged with dark reds and purples, the colors of a summer evening.

Our advisor, Nakata-sensei, was away at a staff meeting, so when the thirty minutes were up, Tachibana, on the bench, puffed out her reliance and blew a badly played whistle.

After thirty minutes of running around on the field at dusk, we were all sweaty. Yuriko also had a bunch of bangs stuck to her forehead. Sweat was dripping from the tip of her chin as well, and she was wiping her cheeks with her sleeve.

"Good work," I said to her as I stood nearby.

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Yuriko exhaled heavily and said, "Ah, it's so tiring."

"Mori-senpai, it's amazing!" said Tachibana, who had been collecting the players' bibs, and came running up to Yuriko.

"I didn't know senpai could play soccer like that. It felt like you were better than a first-year reserve! No one can even take the ball from you!"

Yuriko laughed, "It's not good for a defender to be taken off the ball, is it?"

"Why don't you just become a player already?"

"As you can expect, if you participate in a serious competition with boys, you will get injured. There's too much of a difference in our physiques, so it's dangerous."

Hearing Yuriko and Tachibana's conversation beside me, we returned to the front of the bench. After a short break and cleanup, today's club activities are over. The club members all sit on the ground, stretching their legs, massaging in pairs, and cooling down.

I sat down, loosened my spike laces, slipped off my soccer socks, and removed my leg guards. Yuriko sat down near me and did the same, pulling her socks down to her ankles.

With my hands on the sides of my body, I exhaled into the purple-tinged evening sky. The sand on the field was scorching hot after a day of sharp sunlight, but the tender breeze was pleasant. A few black shadows of birds slowly crossed the darkening sky.

The track and field club, who were using the same field--- by the way, the baseball club is using a baseball field that is shared with the softball club--- began to put away their hurdles and other equipment, and the sound of the wind instruments is echoing from the school building.

I turn my head lightly, then fold my knees and stretch my thigh muscles. Then, a piece of gravel flew in from the side and hit me on the leg.

"What?"

I said to Yuriko, who was diagonally behind me, and she said, "Push my back."

She put her legs together and stretched them out in front of her, stretching her calves. I sat up, moved behind Yuriko, and lightly pressed her shoulder.

"So weak. A little harder."

As such an order flew in, I pushed her body. Perhaps the force was right, Yuriko let out an "oooh" sound like an old man soaked in a hot spring.

I suddenly remembered that we used to stretch like this when we were in elementary school. Back then, we touched each other's bodies in a more sticky way, but now, as I expected, we were a little more conscious of each other. I was a little embarrassed to look at her curled up back, the shape of the strings of her underwear clearly visible through her sweat-soaked wear.

Even though she was a better soccer player than the boys, the shoulder I was holding was much slenderer than those of the boys I usually help stretch.

Then Yuriko said, "Thank you," and stopped stretching and stood up.

"I'll do it for you too. Sit down."

I did as I was told, sitting on the ground and stretching my legs. She grabbed me by the shoulders and pushed me forward. At first, she was gentle, but then she began to push harder and harder.

"Hey, that's too hard!"

I screamed in protest as Yuriko pushed me with her weight even though I resisted, and she giggled as I fell to the side to escape her hands.

"Gzz.."

I said as I brushed the sand from my arm when I fell, then, "Well, I've got to clean up," she blurted out and scurried over to Tachibana, who was gathering up the scattered balls.

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