Infinity Starting with Hikaru no Go

Page 268

From this day forward, there will be no more Sharon Vineyard, only Chris Vineyard...

'Only, Vermouth...'

......

Chapter 399 Hattori Heiji's Tsundere, Ooka Momiji's First Appearance! (Please Subscribe!)

Osaka, Japan, Kaifang Academy High School.

A rumor caused all the students at Kaifang Academy's high school, especially the girls, to become excited and thrilled.

The rumor is that Chen Anxia, ​​currently the hottest and most popular actor, hailed as the modern-day Sherlock Holmes, will be quietly returning to Gaifang Academy today.

Class 2, Grade 1, High School Department, Gaifang Academy.

This is the most exciting class among the students at Kaifang Academy.

The reason is that Chen Anxia is a student in this class.

Imagine if Chen Anxia really did return to Gaifang Academy today, wouldn't the most likely place for her to go be her own class?

At this moment, Kazuha Toyama was surrounded by girls from the class.

They were all vying to ask the question.

"Kazuha, Kazuha, is it true that Anxia is coming back?"

"Kazuha, given your relationship with Anxia, ​​you should know, right?"

"Hey, will Anxia go back to class after she returns?"

"He Ye, do you know why An Xia came back this time?"

"Heye, why don't you call Anxia now and let us hear Anxia's voice in advance?"

......

Meanwhile, Toyama and Kazuha, who were in the crowd, appeared very calm.

Clearly, Kazuha Toyama has gotten used to this.

Over the past three years, Toyama Kazuha has encountered many such situations because of her relationship with Chen Anxia.

Not only Toyama Kazuha, but Hattori Heiji was also surrounded by boys asking similar questions.

Hattori Heiji rolled his eyes repeatedly, appearing very impatient, and kept giving perfunctory replies.

Naturally, the reason why Hattori Heiji received such treatment, like that of Toyama Kazuha, was related to Chen Anxia.

For nearly three years, Chen Anxia has spent most of her time away from school due to her profession and status, and therefore is not familiar with her classmates.

However, although Chen Anxia was not familiar with her classmates, she was very familiar with Hattori Heiji and Toyama Kazuha, and they considered each other to be friends.

The reason for this is that after that skiing incident three years ago, Hattori Heiji decided that Chen Anxia was his lifelong rival.

After that, Hattori Heiji frequently challenged Chen Anxia to reasoning duels, but he lost to Chen Anxia every time.

After realizing that his reasoning ability was not yet comparable to Chen Anxia's, Hattori Heiji began to accumulate detective skills under the tutelage of Hattori Heizo while continuing to challenge Chen Anxia.

However, from then on, Hattori Heiji's challenges to Chen Anxia were no longer limited to reasoning duels, but rather focused on the skills that Hattori Heiji possessed.

In Hattori Heiji's view, even if he couldn't beat Chen Anxia in a reasoning duel, he could still beat Chen Anxia in other ways.

only...

Meanwhile, Chen Anxia and Hattori Heiji's relationship grew better and better with Hattori Heiji's constant challenges, until they recognized each other as friends.

As for Toyama Kazuha, she gradually became acquainted with Chen Anxia during this process, and now considers Chen Anxia to be her friend.

Unlike Kazuha Toyama's straightforwardness, Heiji Hattori always treated Anxia Chen as an opponent when they were together, and often spoke harshly to him.

It's fair to say that Hattori Heiji would never let any opportunity to strike at Chen Anxia pass by.

But Chen Anxia, ​​who was already familiar with Hattori Heiji, knew that Hattori Heiji was just saying one thing and meaning another, and it wouldn't be an exaggeration to call him tsundere.

However, Heiji Hattori and Kazuha Toyama really didn't know in advance that Chen Anxia was coming back this time.

They only learned about Chen Anxia's possible return through rumors.

Therefore, in their view, this rumor is probably fake news.

Similar fake news has appeared many times in the past three years.

If Chen Anxia really wants to come back, based on past experience, he would usually call Hattori Heiji or Toyama Kazuha in advance.

Therefore, they didn't pay any attention to it.

Meanwhile, in a private car on her way from Osaka Airport to Kaifang Academy High School, Chen Anxia, ​​who was browsing information on her phone, suddenly received a phone call.

Upon seeing the caller ID, Chen Anxia's brows furrowed slightly, and she felt a headache coming on.

Chen Anxia originally intended to ignore the call and deliberately not answer it, but after thinking about who was calling, she answered the phone anyway.

After Chen Anxia answered the phone, she heard a pleasant female voice on the other end saying, "Anxia, ​​I heard you're going back to Gaifang Academy today, is that right?"

Chen Anxia directly denied this, saying, "No, I'm still in Tokyo, and I haven't had any plans to go to Osaka recently, so how could I possibly go back to Gaifang Academy?"

Upon hearing this, the person on the other end of the phone said meaningfully, "Oh, really? Then is the flight information I have for someone flying to Osaka today fake?"

Upon hearing this, Chen Anxia's lips twitched slightly, and he said, "Hongye, did you specifically go and retrieve the internal flight information? Aren't you abusing your power for personal gain? Aren't you afraid that people will gossip about your Ooka family behind your back?"

Ooka Momiji, the one who called Chen Anxia at this moment, said nonchalantly after hearing Chen Anxia's words, "What's so trivial about abusing power for personal gain?"

"Besides, so what if people are gossiping behind our backs? Can they change the fact that the Osaka family is a shareholder of Osaka Airport?"

Hearing this, Chen Anxia was full of helplessness and said, "Aren't you afraid that I will complain about you? With my influence, if I complain, your Ooka family will have a lot of trouble."

Upon hearing Chen Anxia's words, Ooka Momiji snorted in dissatisfaction and said, "If you dare to complain, I dare to say that I'm pregnant with your child, and we'll see who gets more affected then."

Ooka Momiji's words startled Chen Anxia, ​​leaving him speechless.

If this were to come out of Ooka Momiji's mouth, the one most affected would actually be Ooka Momiji herself.

Since Ooka Momiji is currently a high school student, how would outsiders view her if she were exposed for being pregnant out of wedlock?

Labels such as lack of self-respect and immorality will be attached to Ooka Momiji.

Moreover, it will also have a significant impact on the Ooka family behind Ooka Momiji.

But based on Chen Anxia's understanding of Ooka Momiji, he knew that she was actually capable of doing such a thing.

Of course, Ooka Momiji said it was all a lie; she and Chen Anxia were completely innocent, and nothing happened between them.

But nowadays, news media don't care whether the news is true or false. As long as the news is profitable, they will exaggerate it, and then the false will become the true.

Chen Anxia reached out and gently rubbed her furrowed brows, a sense of regret rising in her heart.

If I could turn back time, I would never have participated in that Hyakunin Isshu competitive karuta tournament two years ago.

That way, I wouldn't have defeated Momiji Ooka in competitive karuta, and I wouldn't have been entangled with her...

......

Chapter 400 The Darkest Day Two Years Ago, The God's Name in Competitive Karuta! (Please Subscribe!)

After agreeing to accompany Ooka Momiji to practice competitive karuta, Chen Anxia was finally able to hang up the phone.

Then, Chen Anxia sighed helplessly and said, "Sigh, I should have known better than to participate in that year's Satsuki Cup. Now it's all so troublesome."

It was rare for Watson to see Chen Anxia so helpless, so he couldn't help but laugh and said, "Hongye is a first-class beauty after all, and the Ooka family behind her is a powerful family that can rival Sonoko's Suzuki Group."

"With such a beautiful woman clinging to you, countless people would envy you, yet you still find it troublesome. If word gets out, who knows how many people would want to beat you up."

Upon hearing this, Chen Anxia couldn't help but roll her eyes and said, "The reason why Hongye sticks to me is entirely because of competitive karuta, not because of anything else."

"To be honest, I'm not really interested in competitive karuta. I only started playing it because I accepted Heiji's challenge."

"I just didn't expect so many things to happen later."

Upon hearing this, Watson's face showed a look of reminiscence and sigh. He said, "Yes, who would have thought that you, who had only been involved in competitive karuta for a short time, would become a taboo and legend in the world of Hyakunin Isshu in Japan?"

As he spoke, Watson couldn't help but look at Chen Anxia and ask, "So, it seems you only had less than three days of contact with the Satsuki Cup before participating, right?"

In response, Chen Anxia nodded slightly and said, "Ah, to be precise, in these less than three days, excluding time spent eating, drinking and relieving myself, I only actually spent about 6 hours playing competitive karuta."

Upon hearing this, Watson couldn't help but say, "If the people of the Japanese Hyakunin Isshu world knew that you only spent about 6 hours to reach a level in competitive karuta that is worthy of being called a god, I wonder what they would think."

Upon hearing this, Chen Anxia did not respond. Instead, she looked at the scenery rushing past the car window, her thoughts gradually drifting back to that day two years ago.

Two years ago, on that day, Hattori Heiji, as always, challenged Chen Anxia once again.

That challenge was to participate in the Satsuki Cup, organized by the Satsuki-kai, which leads the island nation's 100-person poetry world, with the winner being the person who achieves the highest ranking.

Chen Anxia naturally agreed.

Although Chen Anxia had never been exposed to the Hundred People's Poetry before, he had heard of it.

The Hyakunin Isshu (One Hundred Poets) is a collection of 100 waka poems from Japan spanning seven hundred years, and is the most widely circulated collection of waka poems.

During the Edo period, it was also made into karuta, which are karuta cards, and began to circulate among the people.

To this day, Hyakunin Isshu has become one of the most representative games of the Japanese New Year, and it has always been popular, passed down from generation to generation, and is known to every household.

Competitive karuta is a competition derived from this.

Competitive karuta comes in many varieties and has a variety of ways to play. The basic process is that after hearing the reader read out the short song written on the card, the players need to quickly find the card with the next line of the corresponding song.

The winner is the one who takes the most cards.

This also shows that the competitive karuta tournament of Hyakunin Isshu is actually testing the players' familiarity with Hyakunin Isshu, their reaction speed, their action speed, and their ability to withstand pressure.

Chen Anxia, ​​who possesses almost all the physical talents of the main characters in the Prince of Tennis world, is naturally not afraid of this and has absolute confidence in defeating Hattori Heiji in the Satsuki Cup.

Under these circumstances, Chen Anxia and Hattori Heiji participated in that year's Satsuki Cup.

Naturally, Momiji Ooka, who was the high school champion in competitive karuta and was regarded as the 'candidate for the next karuta queen', also participated in that year's Satsuki Cup.

At the time, neither Hattori Heiji nor Chen Anxia knew Ooka Momiji, but Ooka Momiji did know Hattori Heiji.

According to Ooka Momiji herself, it was when she was in elementary school that Hattori Heiji suddenly appeared in a competitive karuta tournament she was participating in and defeated her.

Heiji Hattori said he had some recollection of it, but couldn't remember it clearly.

This was originally a matter between Hattori Heiji and Ooka Momiji, and had nothing to do with Chen Anxia.