Chapter 68

"Ono Ono, how about this name?" Qingshan Li asked.

"Absolutely not!" Ono Mizuki strongly refused.

"Then why are you laughing?"

"I'm not?!"

"You are, it's obvious, right, Mika, Mika you're laughing too."

Ono Mika tried to turn her smile into a wry smile, but couldn't do it at all, just like moon-landing astronauts, unable to make themselves walk as they do on Earth.

"Li," she said with a smile, "it's best if the pen name is still related to you yourself."

"Exactly!" Ono Mizuki also agreed.

The name 'Ono Ono', to them, might be too heavy; even parents, if they disregard themselves and devote themselves entirely to their children, the children would also find it hard to bear.

"Qing Shan Si, how about this one?" he asked.

"Does it have any meaning?" Ono Mika asked.

"No, I just purely like the character 'Si'."

The System has no brain; a brainless System is 'Si'.

—System, I didn't take advantage of you; the author is still you, I only possess the reputation and profits of this book.

The System did not respond, just like those geniuses thanking fate for bestowing talent upon them, fate does not respond either.

"Whatever." Ono Mizuki said.

"I think it's not bad either." Ono Mika said.

Qingshan Li sent the three characters 'Qing Shan Si' to Mikami Ai.

Naming things, it's best to be quick and decisive; otherwise, no matter how much time and energy you spend on it, it will feel insufficient.

"I suddenly thought of something just now." Before the break ended, Qingshan Li started chatting idly.

"Hm?" Ono Mika was curious.

"People born into happy families, don't they generally think that people from unhappy families definitely have personality defects?"

Ono Mika thought for a moment: "Some psychologists do indeed think so."

"Think about it carefully, this is also an innate thing, right? Like wealth, talent, whether the family is happy has almost nothing to do with the child."

"That makes sense." Ono Mika responded.

"Thinking like this, the three of us, in terms of origin, our luck is too terrible; if reincarnation were decided by archery, we would definitely all be bullseyes."

"As long as we can be together, bullseyes are fine too." Ono Mika said with a smile.

"What you just said is full of prejudice; people from unhappy families really do have personality defects." Ono Mizuki, without raising her head, played with her mobile phone.

"You yourself too." Qingshan Li reminded her.

Ono Mika sincerely felt that the two people exposing each other's scars both had personality defects.

However, their relationship is also truly very good.

"Alright, continue studying!" she said with hands clasped, "If all three of us get good grades this time, we'll go traveling during Golden Week!"

"Really?!" Ono Mizuki immediately put down her mobile phone.

The travel brochure Qingshan Li brought back, she looked at it every day.

"But there's no time, right?" Qingshan Li said, "Golden Week we have to move, choose furniture, buy new clothes, these all take a lot of time, and the school also has the Ball Games Tournament."

"I want a mobile phone! And a big soft bed, if you can buy me a super~ big plushie, I'll die without regrets!"

They chatted about moving for a good while longer before the three started studying.

Around 10 o'clock, Ono Mizuki went to boil water, then told Qingshan Li to go wash first.

Qingshan Li finished showering, returned to his own room, and started writing his book.

In the quiet night, noisy voices came from outside the window; a group of considerably drunk people passed by, their voices loud enough that even he, immersed in A Book, could hear them.

He listened quietly.

Previously, there had been an incident nearby where a drunkard went to the wrong house and crazily knocked on someone else's door, and it seemed a fight even broke out in the end.

It hadn't happened at the Ono house, but this group of drunkards brought fear like real ghosts.

After the voices disappeared, confirming the surroundings had returned to quiet, Qingshan Li only then continued writing.

People from unhappy families, the majority of them indeed have twisted aspects to their personalities.

And those with no adults at home, rushing to work part-time after school every day, helping cook, with drunk adults roaming nearby, only able to wear 100-yen underwear, are more prone to being cynical, inferior, coldly indifferent, and lacking a sense of security.

It's still not too late now.

Especially Ono Mizuki, she just turned sixteen in March, a month or two ago she was still a middle school student.

Starting from now, letting her live in a wealthy, safe, warm family, it will definitely still be in time to make her personality optimistic and cheerful.

"Detective A", saves not only Ono Mika's high school life, but also Ono Mizuki's personality.

And lets his heart obtain peace.

12:30, he put down his pen, looking at a blank test paper, doing problems in his mind to switch gears, while giving his fingers a relaxing massage.

Ten minutes later, he picked up his pen and continued.

Previously noted materials were vividly described.

Just a simple shift in thinking, a slight embellishment, could turn materials into fabricated stories, and the course of events became more vivid and interesting.

Characters even more so, full of charm, with colors of extraordinary significance.

1:30, Qingshan Li stopped writing, did five minutes of stretching exercises, then drank water, went to the toilet, and went to sleep.

Wake up at four o'clock.

—System, morning exercise!

Wall Sit, Slow Push-up

After moving, he didn't have to be so nervous, and could even spend money to add a set of fitness equipment.

With fitness equipment, the system should be able to do fitness better.

——System, am I considerate?

After asking, Qingshan Li passed out, then woke up again.

Qingshan Li seemed to be on a ship steered by the system, battling harsh weather in the vast sea, being devoured by all sorts of bizarre fish, enjoying the sense of accomplishment of walking the line between life and death?

Six o'clock, morning practice ended.

Even with the system's massage techniques that defied common sense, when Qingshan Li walked out the door to shower, he still had a sense of separation between consciousness and body.

Occasionally, a person feels like they're controlling their own speech; he currently had this feeling, only the condition was more severe.

After showering, it was much better.

Water between soul and body could actually have an effect.

Walking onto campus, passing the baseball field with the sign 【59 Days Until Koshien Prelims Countdown】, entering the teaching building, a day's life officially began.

Exams were tomorrow, the whole morning, the loudest time in the classroom was during class.

Lunch break, Qingshan Li, Kobayashi Shiki, Aizawa Jun ate together.

"The scariest aren't those writing furiously!" Kobayashi Shiki said, "It's those burying their heads sleeping, no one knows how late they studied last night!"

"I like secretly studying best." Qingshan Li took a bite of fried pork cutlet.

After eating stew and curry for a long time, these fried meats were simply A-grade delicious.

"Despicable!" Kobayashi Shiki cursed angrily.

"Shiki," Aizawa Jun asked curiously, "Heard a scout went to the soccer club?"

"Almost forgot about that, it's a senior student, the scout said if the senior performs outstandingly in the summer competition, they'll contact him."

Finished speaking, he sighed again: "Professional soccer, huh."

Qingshan Li had not the slightest thought of playing soccer; as a Chinese person, he had self-awareness.

It was all the national team's fault, even making him think Chinese people really aren't suited for soccer.

And if he played soccer, joined the Japanese team, what would that count as?

This soccer path, no need to go see the farthest scenery, better go to the band with five girls and one boy first.

Qingshan Li sped up his eating.

Must go to the club as soon as possible, can't miss the time to change clothes.

"Classmate Aoyama!"

The three looked over, Kobayashi Shiki revealed a despicable smile, it was the baseball club's female manager Nagami Na.

"Good afternoon." Qingshan Li greeted.

"Classmate Aoyama, how's your arm?" Nagami Na was very worried, even wanted to reach out.

Qingshan Li moved first, moved his arm to show her.

"It's fine now." He smiled, "Thanks for the concern."

"That's good." Nagami Na breathed a sigh of relief, "Right, Classmate Aoyama, are you interested in baseball?"

Qingshan Li glanced at 【Koshien: 12%】.

"A little." He answered.

Nagami Na's face lit up: "Then want to join the baseball club?"

"I really want to join," Qingshan Li said, "but I'm still a member of the Kendo Club and Sunny Band Club, so no time to train, forget it."

"No problem no problem, come whenever you're free!" Nagami Na immediate response.

Get the person in first, after training, discover they're very talented, naturally they'll participate in training, fight for Koshien.

"If it's 'come when I want, leave when I want', I have no problem." Qingshan Li said.

"No problem!"

"Really?"

"Really!"

"Can the manager decide?"

"The baseball coach is my grandpa! When my grandpa was in high school, he made it to Koshien, the black soil brought back from Koshien is still at home!"

"Grandpa's so amazing!"

Nagami Na took out the club application form and pen on the spot, Qingshan Li joined the baseball club.

After Nagami Na left, Aizawa Jun asked: "Qing Shan, can you play baseball?"

"No." Qingshan Li ate a mouthful of white rice, "But her skirt is really too short."

Thus, Aizawa Jun and Kobayashi Shiki felt it was only natural.

As a baseball club member, writing a Koshien novel, counts as reasonable?

(Chapter End)