Chapter 9: The Promise Made Ten Years Ago 1
My woman...
My woman...
My woman...
Did I hear that wrong? Did I hear that wrong? Did I hear that wrong?
Facts have proven that Takamiya Suzaku definitely has special abilities and can see through every thought in my mind.
"You heard me wrong. I said stay away from my ape."
Orangutan? You are the orangutan, and your whole family is orangutan!
Suddenly, I remembered something important, so I went up to Suzaku and asked him, "Is Takamiya Naoto your father?"
He gave me a cold look and said, "Don't ask questions that you shouldn't ask!"
"You were the one who called him father just now. It was you who suddenly said..."
"Don't say what you shouldn't say!" His expression became even colder.
"Isn't he your uncle? Don't you and Yun Que have the same father..."
"I told you not to ask questions!"
"I obviously know everything, just tell me more, I..."
"Do you want to be sent to the zoo, gorilla?" he turned his head and asked me seriously.
I……
"You are the gorilla! Your whole family is gorillas!"
Zhuque smiled and took Xisai's black swan from my arms. The black bird had soft dark feathers and a hazy sheen on its curvy and elegant body, like a perfect decoration in a cartoon . The white-clad Zhuque stroking it quietly looked peaceful and serene in the quiet morning atmosphere, as beautiful as an oil painting.
He was still wearing a thin shirt, his beautiful neck was completely exposed in the clean winter air, the slightly raised clavicle curve under the shirt collar was faintly visible, with his peaceful expression and the black swan in his arms, I found myself staring at him in a daze.
"What are you looking at? You...pervert!"
"I'm just checking to see if you're cold, brother. The temperature today is only 2 degrees Celsius!"
"I know, so I called Qiu Qianyuan and told him that Gao Gong Zhuque was having an affair here, and asked him to come over and take pictures!"
"Senior Qiu Qianyuan..." I pronounced the man's name a little weakly. The image of this senior who was most admired by all the girls in the school had completely collapsed in my mind because of that iPhone 9.
"Dahong, give me...clothes." Just as I was thinking about Qiu Qianyuan, I heard the clicking sound of a camera and Qiu Qianyuan's overly pleasant voice from behind.
A silver-gray wool coat was thrown on Suzaku, who gently draped it over his shoulders, stroked the black swan in his arms, and turned to look at the busy street outside the cafe.
The location for today's breakfast is one of the most visited cafes in TK Academy, because this place is built on the only way to the main campus. Every knight going to school will pass by here, especially today is Monday, there are people coming and going, it is very lively.
Before Qiu Qianyuan came, many people couldn't help but whisper something when they passed by us. Now Qiu Qianyuan also appeared, more people turned their eyes to us, and this seemed to be exactly what Zhuque expected. Seeing that more and more people were coming, he smiled, put down the black swan in his hand, and stood up amidst the different looks.
"Ding ding ding..." He tapped his glass water cup with a small teaspoon very imposingly, attracting the attention of passers-by in that purely aristocratic way.
"Hello everyone, please stay and pay attention."
Oh... God! As expected, it was that annoying Y country aristocratic accent again. How annoying was this guy called Gao Gong Zhuque! That pretentious aristocratic posture, that extremely unnatural aristocratic accent!
"Thank you, thank you for staying." As if he could not see the huge "囧" on everyone's face , Zhuque tapped the water cup twice again, and then spoke slowly, "Do you know this elegant sport called squash?"
Oh…God!
I know his tone. He started his sentence with that exact same tone when he explained to me that kissing and hugging were a normal part of Western etiquette!
"As early as the beginning of the 19th century, in the center of the old city of the capital of Country Y, there was a prison specifically used to imprison debtors and nobles who violated criminal laws and religious rules. Please note that it was nobles! Okay, do you know how those imprisoned nobles spent their time in prison? They were nobles, so they naturally couldn't do heavy physical labor like ordinary people, so they invented a game of hitting a small ball against the wall with a racket-like device to entertain themselves. This can be said to be the earliest prototype of squash."
"Sometimes even I want to hit him." Qiu Qianyuan, who was standing next to me, suddenly said.
I nodded at him, and suddenly thought of the question that had arisen earlier, and asked him: "I never understand how you two became friends. Why are you so supportive of him?"
"Because of Suzaku..." Qiu Qianyuan laughed, and the expression on his face looked as if he had thought of something beautiful.
"However, the real squash game was invented around 1873 by students of the famous aristocratic school Ottings. Although the students of Ottings were children of the nobility, they lived a boring life like prisoners in the boarding school. Therefore, an indoor sport of hitting the ball against the wall was invented and became popular. Do you know? Squash got its name from the sound it made when it hits the wall violently. It was also from then on that the squash recognized today was born. And as I said, squash has belonged to the nobility since its birth. It is an elegant game that only the nobility will play!"
"Honestly, after hearing him introduce squash like that, I don't want to play squash anymore. I feel like vomiting when I hear the word 'squash'." Qiu Qianyuan said dissatisfiedly and glanced at me. He seemed to have just realized that he had not answered my question yet and was a little surprised.
"Suzaku is a very annoying person. Although he is really excellent, he is just annoying in an indescribable way. But... compared to me, he is a..."
"So TK needs a squash court!" At the same time Qiu Qianyuan finally decided to answer my question, Zhuque put down the water cup, took out the TK map from his pocket, and slowly opened it in front of everyone.
"But TK really doesn't have any extra space to build a new squash court. But look, what's here?" Suzaku pointed at the map, grinned elegantly, and said, "This is the old reference book library that has been identified as a dangerous building. It contains outdated reference books and broken books that are no longer useful. The library has been officially determined by the TK school board of directors as a building to be demolished, and it will be demolished and rebuilt into a squash court immediately. Immediately means that construction will start the day after tomorrow! Listen to me! The day after tomorrow, I will take a group of people to demolish this library and build a brand new squash court for everyone. Do you hear me?"
Zhuque finished speaking, holding the map and looking at everyone, and almost at the same time as he paused, Qiu Qianyuan's answer came inadvertently: "Because Zhuque is a better brother than me."
"Suzaku is a better brother than you?" I repeated, looking at Suzaku. Suzaku pulled his coat, and I could vaguely see a layer of fine sweat on his chest exposed under the coat. Looking at the growing crowd, he said loudly to the onlookers: "Did you hear it? The day after tomorrow, that library will no longer exist, and it will be replaced by TK's first squash court. If anyone has any objection to this, you can come to me."
"Oh..." As if he was about to sit down, Suzaku suddenly stood up again and said to everyone jokingly, "I'm Takamiya Suzaku from the Red Knights branch. You all know me, right? Hahahaha..."
It's not funny at all! Lord Suzaku!
"Is that library Mr. Skylark's..."
"seems like it……"
There was an immediate buzz of discussion among the crowd, but at this point, Suzaku had already focused all his attention on the milk tea in front of him and sat back in his seat, seemingly no longer caring about what anyone said.
"The day after tomorrow? Suzaku..." Qiu Qianyuan pulled out a chair and sat down in front of Suzaku, "The wound on your face hasn't healed yet. Are you sure it's so urgent?"
"Give him a few more days? If he had a few more days, Yaoyao would have been captured and imprisoned again." Zhuque put down the teacup, with a depth in his eyes that I couldn't understand. "If that guy loses the library and becomes devastated, and loses the confidence that Xisai gives him, he will be useless. Then he will really be hopeless in this life and will just remain an idiot. It's been ten years. I've taken care of him for ten years."
Putting down the teacup, Suzaku turned his head in a direction that none of us could see, as if he didn't want us to see the expression on his face at the moment.
"What I promised dad was not to take care of Skylark, not to take care of Skylark for the rest of my life. What I promised dad, what I promised him ten years ago, was 'I will take Skylark with me when he grows up.'"
"I will take him with me as he grows up. This is the promise I made ten years ago."
