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◇Magiri side◇
The day ──── Mizushiro senpai’s individual competition.
I arrived at the venue, sat in the audience seats, and waited obediently for the tournament to begin… The rules for this individual tournament were extremely simple, and the eight people participating in this individual tournament to decide the winner were the breaststroke, backstroke, and butterfly. At the end of the event, participants compete in freestyle swimming, and at the end, the overall rankings of each swimmer are combined to determine the winner.
The participants in today’s competition must be professional swimmers without exception, since they are still here to decide the winners of the individual competitions.
“…..”
────I will be watching with my own eyes to see if senpai will be the first place winner.
◇Mizushiro side◇
The tournament will start in a few hours.
In the locker room, only the sound of the hands of the clock moving echoes in the room,…… a place that should normally be tense, and probably the other players are also quite nervous.
However,──── Mizushiro, rather than being nervous, was rather relieved.
“Somewhere he is watching me swim, watching me,…… and that alone makes my heart so much warmer.”
There was so much anxiety in Mizushiro’s head before she called Magiri yesterday.
She did not want to lose in swimming, which she loves; she could not face her fellow swimmers if she lost; what if she could not show her true performance and lost?
There were countless other fears, but her biggest fear was something else.
If she lost the competition, the time she spent practicing with Iroto would be meaningless, she would make him sad, and he might be disappointed in her
That was her biggest worry …….but
Yesterday’s phone call with Magiri completely eliminated that anxiety, and now the only thing on her mind was to ──── give Magiri a report on her victory.
“Even if it’s only about swimming, it’s a place where I can give my best and have fun… By winning here today, I’ll prove that I’m the place for you… Watch me win the championship. Look at me properly, Iroto kun”
After telling this to Magiri, who was not present, she left the locker room and headed to the poolside with various thoughts in her mind, as the tournament was about to start.
◇Magiri side◇
The swimming competition opened and the first match, the breaststroke, was to begin immediately.
As each swimmer came down from the poolside and entered the pool, the signal to start ──── sounded, and each swimmer began swimming at the same time.
This time, since it was an individual competition, each and every one of them was faster ──── than in the previous high school competition, not to mention faster than in the previous high school competition.
“….”
When I saw senpai swimming, who was by far the fastest among them, I unconsciously raised the corner of my mouth a little.
I have practiced with senpai several times, but since it was only in the form of competitive swimming, I have rarely seen senpai’s swimming objectively like this.
That’s why it’s surprising to see that ──── her swimming speed has become 1.5 times faster without exaggeration compared to the previous high school competition.
It’s hard to believe that it’s only been a month since that swimming tournament… That’s probably because up until now, senpai hasn’t had many practice partners with whom she can really do her best, but while I can’t say I’m superior to her in terms of swimming, I can’t say that she’s inferior to me. Above all, it is the fruit of Mizuki-senpai’s efforts.
“….really, you’re a cool senior.”
◇Mizushiro side◇
────The fourth game, freestyle.
Mizushiro has placed first in the breaststroke, backstroke, and butterfly events.
As a result, even if she get a pretty bad ranking in this fourth game, it can be considered that she is almost guaranteed to win.
But she has to win first place in ──── everything, otherwise there is no point, Mizushiro told herself.
“Since the boy I like is really an amazing boy, he won’t look back at me unless I win first place in all of them.”
Muttering this in a small voice, she walked from the poolside into the pool.
And when ──── the signal to begin, the freestyle, she began swimming in her best style,…… the voices of the audience, the swimmers around her, such things no longer matter.
────I’m going to win first place in all of them, and tell Iroto-kun that I won!
Other than that, it doesn’t matter.
She then made a smooth quick turn at the 25 meter stage and swam the full 25 meters again,──── and when she looked around, there was no one else around, so it was decided that she had won first place and first place in all of the events.
At that moment, she looked for Magiri, who she had not looked for before because she thought it might break her concentration, but who was probably in the spectator’s stands.
“Iroto kun, Iroto kun….”
Then, when her eyes met with Magiri’s in the audience, Magiri raised the corner of his mouth a little, which was unusual, and waved his hand to heruki.
“!!!!”
The moment she saw this, tears welled up in her eyes, and at the same time, she waved her hands toward Magiri with both of hers.
──── you change your expression a little and wave at me, that alone makes me so happy and I’m glad I’ve worked so hard at swimming until now. …… Oh, …… mouu..
“I love you, Iroto kun.”
She conveyed her own feelings to Magiri, even though she knew that the distance to the bleachers and the cheers of the audience would prevent her voice from reaching Magiri.
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