Caught by Rikki in the Act

The baseball came out from the other side. Chihaya Anon mustered all her strength and put all the anger she had towards Riki into the bat, and swung it!

The baseball landed in the net behind him.

Chihaya Anon blinked, put the bat back, and whispered in a voice that Riki could hear, "It seems the machine here isn't very accurate; we need to adjust our technique."

You're pretending to be a professional, aren't you?

You swung your sword and missed, didn't you?

Xiao Ai, if you feel embarrassed, you can say so, and I'll just laugh once.

A hearty laugh echoes across the vast ocean.

"If you're so good, then you do it!" Chihaya Anon Aine angrily placed the baseball bat in front of Riki.

"If I hit the target, can you sit down with me and have a proper talk about the band?" Riki said.

"You go first!"

"You swear first!"

I won't send it.

"Then I won't fight, and I'll laugh at you for the rest of my life."

Chihaya Anon panicked, hesitated for a moment, and whispered, "Um... whatever..."

"Are you kidding me? Swear seriously!" Riki roared. "The Eight Million Gods of Japan are weeping!"

"Why are you so angry, you foreigner!" Chihaya Anon exclaimed, puzzled.

"That's because I have an uncle who really likes Japan..."

Chihaya Anon hesitated, then suddenly heard someone nearby speaking who was doing very well.

"Why are couples still arguing here?"

"Koshien doesn't need women."

I already said we're not a couple!

Chihaya Anon, her face flushed, glared at Riki and said irritably, "Fine, if you hit me twenty times, I'll agree!"

"Fine, if you go back on your word, you'll Oni Ninja!"

Riki took his baseball bat and stood in position. It was his first time playing baseball. The lack of a field was secondary; even bears could play in parks, so there was no reason why China couldn't. The main problem was the absurd rules. Most ball sports are about accuracy, but baseball is about range. And even if it's about range, it's not based on distance measurement, but on the distance a person runs. So, apart from the United States and its overseas colonies, nobody in the world plays this sport.

"Call out--"

A baseball is flying in.

Riki looked intently at the baseball and swung it hard, but it went astray and flew only a short distance.

Chihaya Anon replied, "You can't hit it either, can you?"

Suddenly she heard the person next to her who was fighting fiercely laugh, and she immediately became dissatisfied again.

Riki was already very good for her first fight, what are you laughing at!

Riki missed her second shot again, but it was an improvement over the last one.

Chihaya Anon, watching anxiously, put her hands in front of her mouth and shouted, "Riki, do your best!"

The high school students next to Koshien, who were initially watching Riki make a fool of himself, gradually lost their smiles when they heard Chihaya Anon for him.

He wanted to get into Koshien because he wanted such a beautiful girl to cheer him on.

But why is that boy playing so badly, and yet such a pretty girl is cheering him on?

Is it just because he's handsome?

This pink-haired girl is so pretty, almost as pretty as my middle school Student Council President. She's also my secret crush. She even played guitar in front of the whole school. I heard she went to study in England and has a handsome boyfriend... wait a minute...

Damn it, I absolutely mustn't hit that bastard!

"Smack!"

Riki swung his bat with all his might, hitting the baseball high into the air. A look of surprise and delight appeared on his face. It was a home run.

The boy, who aspired to reach Koshien, knelt on the ground, dumbfounded.

"Yay!"

Chihaya Anon jumped up excitedly, then suddenly realized that she seemed to be the one who didn't want Riki to hit her. She immediately stopped smiling, but her steps remained light and cheerful as she looked at Riki with her hands behind her back.

Riki found the trick. After all, the balls from the ball-serving machine wouldn't be too complicated, and the human body is amazing. How could a machine compare to a body that has been tempered and refined over thousands of years?

"Smack!"

Riki hit the ball more than a dozen times, and made the shot every single time.

"There's another one, right?" Riki asked, looking at Chihaya Anon as she got into her hitting stance.

Chihaya Anon gave a nonchalant "hmm".

She was frustrated. How could Riki be so talented? He hit the target right away. Was it because of his muscle mass? He did have quite a few muscles.

Chihaya Anon scrutinized Riki's body.

"Hmm?" Riki, puzzled.

"I didn't see it!" Chihaya Anon replied, then, realizing he wasn't talking about her, asked curiously, "What's wrong?"

"The pitching machine is broken," Riki said, pointing to the pitching machine opposite. Like a middle-aged man who had wet his shoes in the wind, the pitching machine struggled to spit out a baseball, which fell directly to the ground.

"What a pity, we can't play twenty balls now," Chihaya Anon teased.

"Yes."

Chihaya Anon was somewhat surprised. Riki looked troubled as she sat on the ground. She pouted, stood up from her seat, picked up a baseball, and let it fall freely onto Riki's helmet with a "thud".

"Is this some new form of bullying?" Riki asked, adjusting her helmet.

Chihaya Anon squatted down, propping her chin on her hand, and said irritably, "Consider that the last ball; consider it finished."

Aine really does want to become a saint.

"Red bean paste, arigato!" Riki said.

Although the challenge with Aine was completed, the challenge with the shopkeeper was not, and according to the agreement, they had to leave behind a Defeat CG.

"Isn't this too close?" Chihaya Anon asked the shop manager who was taking pictures in front of her, her face flushed as she leaned against Riki.

"That's good!"

Riki, who looked very photogenic, stood in the middle, Chihaya Anon Riki leaned against him, and they took a picture together.

Seeing the photos hanging in the store, Chihaya Anon's vanity was slightly satisfied.

I'm quite pretty, aren't I?

As Riki and Aine walked out onto the street, intending to go home, it was already getting late, and the streetlights had come on.

Riki looked at Chihaya Anon walking beside her; her mood seemed neither good nor bad.

"Riki," Chihaya Anon suddenly said.

"Riki is here."

"Do you know what I was thinking after the live performance?" Chihaya Anon asked softly.

Chihaya Anon was no longer as lively as before. She just stared straight at Riki, her voice filled with resentment, anger, and overwhelming sadness as she said, "Back then, I trusted Riki completely."

Chapter 127 Caught in the Act by Rikki

The moon was bright and the stars were few. Riki and Chihaya Anon walked down the street, with Lu Yi carrying Aine's schoolbag.

"Japan's terrain is too steep. Nine-thirds of the way uphill in Tokyo is more downhill. This lousy country really needs to rebuild its roads," Riki complained. He was a little tired from playing baseball and was carrying Chihaya Anon's schoolbag.

"No matter which country you're in, there are just as many uphill and downhill sections, okay?" Chihaya Anon irritably, walking ahead with her hands behind her back.

"Oh, right, Aine- kun."

"Please don't talk to me, we're strangers," Chihaya Anon scoffed.

"Then why did you ask a stranger to carry your schoolbag?"

"Because everyone in Tokyo is a good person, even strangers will help a pretty girl carry her schoolbag," Chihaya Anon said.

No, you sent me a Japanese citizenship certificate?

Dude, I don't care about being a foreign trash. Sakiko and Su Shi will both marry into our Chinese families in the future.

"Calling yourself a 'beautiful girl' is a little..." Riki said tactfully.

"Hmm?" Chihaya Anon pouted and looked over.

"Truly deserving of its name," Riki said.

Aine is indeed a beautiful girl, but then again, it seems like there's no one in BanG Dream! who isn't a beautiful girl.

Riki looked at Chihaya Anon walking ahead and tentatively asked, "It's very hot. Is there anywhere you'd like to go, Aine, like the beach?"

"The beach is nice, but the sun can easily tan your skin, so it's better to go to the mountains." As a fashionable girl, Chihaya Anon did have the idea of going surfing at the beach in a bikini. Although her previous school trip to Nagoya was quite nice, as a beautiful girl with a great figure and face, she really wanted to enjoy the admiring glances of boys.

"It's not good up in the mountains; we might run into Tetsuya, who's obsessed with the world," Riki said.

"Who is that?" Aine curiously.

"I mean ghosts. Aren't there many ghost stories in the mountains?" Riki said.

Although there are many ghost stories, they are not all bad.

For example, there are legends of the Snow Woman, Succubus, Hydrangea.

Tokyo is indeed a great place.

"Hmm, you're right." Chihaya Anon stuck out her tongue; she was indeed a little afraid of ghosts.

"So how about we all go to the beach together? Rikki got free travel vouchers, let's all go." Riki's wolfish ambition was finally exposed.

"No..."

There's a beach.

I said no...

"It's sunny."

"I already said..."

"And there's me, this handsome guy, as well as the icy-cold shaved ice and the Beach Volleyball full of life and death!" Riki said forcefully and seductively.

Ah... Chihaya Anon hesitated for a moment. To be honest, she really wanted to go, because she had almost spent all the allowance her parents gave her recently, and she wouldn't get another allowance until the end of June. It would be really great if she could go to the beach for free.

"Let's talk about it later." Chihaya Anon didn't give a definitive answer; her bottom line was when she would run out of her allowance.

"Then we'd better hurry, it's due this week," Riki said.

"Huh? So fast?!"

Chihaya Anon before walking to her front door and reaching out to Riki: "Backpack."

No, what do you take me for?

So you want to overthrow your superiors, huh?

Working backwards won't work for me, unless it's Sakiko.

"Here you go." Riki handed over the schoolbag, then asked, "Is it really impossible to reconcile?"

Why do I seem to be constantly making peace lately?

Chihaya Anon said calmly, "I'm very sorry, but I no longer trust you as I did before... Ah!"

Suddenly, a stray dog by the roadside started barking wildly. Chihaya Anon was so frightened that she quickly grabbed Riki's arm and trembled as she hid behind him.

What happened to the promise of no more trust?

You're really awesome.

One person, one city; love is like a gentle breeze.