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I arrived at the pool and was told to get in the pool as soon as possible.
If it had been winter, I would not have felt this way, but in this season, which we can call summer, it is just so comfortable to be in a pool of cold water.
I looked at the athletes around me and saw that some high schools have changed their athletes from the breaststroke, since most of the high schools have changed their athletes, I don’t seem to stand out in any particular way.
“I guess I don’t have to think about that now …….”
I muttered to myself in response to what I was thinking.
I’m wearing a swimming cap, goggles, and an unremarkable men’s school swimsuit.
Since I don’t speak, literally the only thing you see here is my swimming ability.
I looked for Nanahoshi, who was probably in the audience, and ──── she looked at me.
“……”
For a moment, I wondered if she had found out that it was Toiro who was here right now, but thinking about it calmly, there was no way that was possible.
She must have just been paying attention to me because I came out to replace Mizushiro-senpai.
I stopped thinking about unnecessary things and turned my focus to this tournament.
“Five seconds before the start!”
I heard such a voice, and I got into the starting position for the backstroke, the event of this year’s competition.
And then the count dwindled down by one.
It is not like me to give my all with so many people watching me, but this is a situation where my true identity will never be revealed …… and, above all, ──── I can’t cut corners and lose after receiving such a big baton.
Soon after I was so determined, the whistle blew to signal the start of the race, and I began the backstroke.
The backstroke is simple.
Relax, keep your posture, turn your hands …… and kick carefully.
“H-hey, that special guy ……!”
“Yeah, he’s so fast. ……”
“Wow, maybe he’s faster than that person……? I mean, I don’t know! I’ll have to tell Magiri later that there was someone that fast!”
I swam the 50 meters in no time at all, the first serious sport I’d done in a long time.
What a moment it seemed to me. …… While feeling this way, I looked next to me on either side of me.
“No one else has finished the swim yet,…….”
No one else has swum out of the water yet,──── which means I’ve won first place.
I looked around the entire pool and saw that all the swimmers were still a long way from the finish line.
I decided to go up to the side of the pool and wait for the other swimmers to finish their swim.
◇Mizushiro side◇
A few minutes before ────.
Mizushiro was watching the pool alone from between the hallway of the athletes’ waiting room and the pool.
“I wonder what kind of swimming …… that boy is going to do.”
The athletes, including Magiri, were already in the water of the pool.
She was thinking about that while looking at Magiri.
And at the same time, she thinks.
“I’m sure my legs were swimming incorrectly, even though I was a member of the swimming club, and if I said I was nervous, I would have been able to hide it…”
One after the other, she thinks about Magiri.
…But then she heard a voice taking a count, and she remembered that it was a competition, so she stopped thinking about those things and decided to focus on Magiri’s swimming────The sound of a whistle sounded. And all the swimmers started swimming at the same time.
“……Eh?”
In such a situation, only one swimmer is swimming at a speed that sets him apart from the others.
It is ──── Magiri Iroto
“No way, eh…..? What is that speed …….”
But more than that, she felt it.
Swimming is a passion of Mizushiro’s, and she muttered a few words when she saw Magiri’s swimming.
“────wonderful…….”
The swimmer’s lean swimming and form caught her attention.
At the same time, she remembered what Magiri had said to her before.
[It was wonderful.]
When she remembered this, her cheeks flushed red and her eyes were drawn to Magiri’s swimming.
“You told me my swimming was wonderful, but ──── you look wonderfull.”
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