Chapter three hundred and six swimming in the water
They found a flat boulder and placed their mobile phones, wallets and Hongzi's glasses on it. Zonggu also sat in the pool.
"It's so cool..."
The water was up to the waist, and the dry shorts were completely submerged in the stream. You could clearly see tiny bubbles floating on the surface.
Wow!
Suddenly water poured towards him. Soya looked over, and Akane Kirino smiled at him: "Soya, come over here too."
Hongzi floated next to her, waving her arms back and forth and looking at him.
"If you can't get up or get down, you might as well sit like this."
"What?" Kirino Akane was confused.
Zong Gu stood up and walked over until he reached the deepest point. The water in the pool did not reach his shoulders.
"That's it."
If you sit down, you will drown. If you stand, your chest will feel tight. If you want to swim, the water will become shallow. Moreover, with them surrounding you, you will not be able to stretch your arms and legs as much as you want.
"The troubles of tall people." Kirino Akane smiled slightly, swam around him, and held his shoulders when he stopped, "Then Souya should just stand here as a safety guard, just like the beach and the citizen swimming pool.
The kind that are all there.”
"No one can drown here."
Even in the deepest place, she and Hongzi stood on tiptoes and could still get their heads out of the water.
"There's no problem with Anko and I, but it's still a bit dangerous for Ling."
Zong Gu glanced at her and said, "You're done."
"Eh……"
Kirino Akane turned around and saw Chaogiri Suzu sitting on the boulder by the water, looking at her expressionlessly.
"Suya, come over and play together..." She smiled dryly.
Asagiri Suzu ignored it, and it wasn't until Souya nodded to her that she put down her phone and walked into the pool step by step.
Wow.
The water pool is a bit restrictive for Soya, but it has a lot of room for her to express herself.
When she reached the deep end, she swam nimbly twice, then lay down behind the temporary safety guard and hugged his neck.
Zonggu tilted his head, "Ling..."
She didn't let go, "I can't swim anymore."
"All right."
Kirino Akane floated aside, regretting for no reason, but such thoughts soon lurked again.
"Ah." Hongzi suddenly called out in a low voice.
"What's wrong?"
"I seemed to see something swimming in the water."
"Are you sure you 'saw' it...can you see it?" Soya asked.
Her glasses were still on the boulder by the water.
"It's so rude...that's why I said 'seems like'."
There was a splash of water, and when Soya turned around again, Kirino Akane beside him had disappeared.
She dived under the water, looked around with her eyes open, and finally came up after a while.
"I saw a small fish." She gestured with her hands. "It's very small, just this long, and its body is silver."
Hongzi nodded repeatedly and said that what he saw in Mohu Lake was almost the same thing. Then he looked at the place where the stream flowed down, "Are there any fish in this kind of mountain stream?"
"It's hard to say. It's possible that it came upstream from the downstream." Soya guessed, then looked at Kirino Akane, "Catch it and ask about its origin."
"OK!"
Kirino Akane smiled and plunged into the water again.
"Don't bully Akane." Hongzi said.
"How can you bully her?" Sogu patted Asaguri Suzu's hand and motioned for her to come down, "Isn't she enjoying it herself?"
Chaogiri Ling let go of his hand and didn't move far away, swimming slowly beside him.
Kirino Akane, who was busy catching fish at the bottom of the water, was as flexible as a fish, moving east and west. It took a long time to come up to take a breath, and then plunged down to continue searching.
After watching for a while, Hongzi swam up to Zonggu unintentionally, then stopped, paddling up and down in front of him.
The water-soaked T-shirt clings to the skin and outlines the curves of the body, especially the chest. Fortunately, the color is darker so that the inner contrast is not reflected outside.
"..."
Sensing his gaze from top to bottom, Hongzi pursed her lips, and then heard him say: "I'll go ashore early and go bask in the sun over there. Maybe I can dry it before going back."
He pointed to a huge boulder in the sun. It was flat enough for people to sit on it, or even lie down on it if the angle was right.
Hongzi pointed to another boulder next to it, "You stay with me."
"Um."
Summer clothes are thin and the sun is strong, so they can be dried quickly. This was his original plan.
Asagiri Suzu stopped again, grabbed Sogu's shoulders, and floated next to him.
Wow.
Akane Kirino emerged from the water. Sogu thought she was just taking another breath, but she folded her hands and staggered over with a mysterious smile on her face.
He was startled for a moment, "Did you really catch it?"
"uh-huh."
As she approached, the sole of her foot suddenly slipped, but this time she fell down without letting go of her hand, and let out a short "ah" sound.
Zong Gu, with quick eyes and quick hands, grabbed her arm and helped her stand up again.
"Thank you~"
Akane Kirino was very happy and opened her palms directly after standing firm.
"look--"
There was no small fish inside as he expected, nothing at all.
wrong……
Zonggu came closer and saw an almost transparent shrimp on the edge of her palm, trembling.
"shrimp?"
"Yeah, that's amazing!"
Soya thought it was even more amazing that she could see and catch it underwater.
Akane Kirino put her hands together, dipped into the water again, held a little water, and the shrimps began to swim on her palms again.
Asagiri Ling lay on Sogu's shoulder and watched, while Anko got very close to see clearly: "Akane's eyes are so good..."
"It's okay, I happened to see it, and it hit my face." Akane Kirino said. She is also slightly short-sighted. She just loves beauty but finds it troublesome, so she rarely wears glasses.
"Shrimps this small should grow here."
"Hmm. Big fish eat small fish, and small fish eat shrimps. This should be the food of small fish..." Akane Kirino suddenly fell silent and looked around thoughtfully.
"I want to use this for fishing."
"I think it's more reliable for you to catch the fish yourself," Soya said.
The bait was bouncing around, but the fishing line could not be replaced by foxtail grass. Akane Kirino looked around for a long time, but still couldn't find a substitute, so she had to give up the plan of using small shrimps to catch small fish.
"Forget it."
She opened her mouth, raised her palm to slap her mouth, frowned and chewed a few more times, "I'll eat it myself."
"..."
Hongzi was stunned for a few seconds, then grabbed her shoulders and shook her back and forth.
"Akane! Don't throw everything into your mouth!"
"Hahaha--"
Akane Kirino was happy for a while, then opened her other hand and said, "Here it is."
"Really!"
Hongzi complained, and Zonggu shook his head beside him.
After staring at the shrimp in her hand for a while, Akane Kirino dipped her hand into the water and chose to put it back into the water.
"Don't look for that fish either. It's probably scared away by such a big movement," Soya said.
She felt the same way, she just had nothing to do when she was free.
"Let's compete on holding our breath."
"Hmm..." Hongzi agreed with some hesitation. She didn't really want to get her hair wet. But when Sogu agreed, she nodded immediately.
"Will Suzuya participate?"
"Um."
Kirino Akane asked the three of them to stand on one side and form a circle so that they could see each other.
"Three, two, one, start!"
Taking a deep breath, the four of them dived into the water at the same time.
Although it looked clear and transparent, the underwater world was a different color. Souya looked around, and Asagiri Suzu was looking at him. Anko's hair was floating in the water for the first time, and there were some tiny smiles on her face.
Bubbles, and probably himself too;
Opposite him, Kirino Akane took a big breath before entering the water and puffed out her cheeks. When he looked at her, she narrowed her eyes, the corners of her mouth curved more and more obviously, and soon she spit out a series of bubbles "Wow",
It was the first to get out of the water.
"..."
She slapped the water and stamped her feet, and she seemed to say something, but Zonggu couldn't hear it clearly under the water.
After another ten seconds, Hongzi, who had been closing her eyes tightly, could no longer hold on anymore, and the second one surfaced.
Only Soya and Asagiri Suzu were left. He looked at her and she looked at him. It took more than half a minute for them to rise one after another.
"Soya is cheating." As soon as he emerged from the water, he heard Akane Kirino blaming her for her failure.
"I did nothing."
"When you stare at me, I just want to laugh..."
After holding his breath for a long time, Asagiri Suzu's expression remained unchanged. Sogu took a deep breath of the fresh air in the mountains and forests, "This is not my problem."
"Do it again!" Akane Kirino said, "Don't stare at me this time."
"no problem."
She looked at Hongzi again, "You can hold it in longer with your eyes open."
Hongzi can probably understand a little bit, "Because you can see other people's situations."
"Uh-huh."
"let me try……"
This time Soya called out the count, and the four dived at the same time again.
Having learned the lesson from the last failure, Kirino Akane quickly glanced around, then looked at no one, only stared at the rocks at the bottom of the water, paying attention to the movement of the three people with her peripheral vision;
After listening to her suggestion, Hongzi opened his eyes and looked back and forth at the other three people.
Soya and Asagiri Suzu remained calm and composed.
After holding on for about half a minute, Hongzi still couldn't hold on anymore and floated up first.
The sound came, and Zonggu glanced at Shuizhui. She was holding her chest and coughing, as if she had choked on the water.
He looked at Kirino Akane and Asagiri Suzu, pointed at himself, then pointed up, and then stood up.
"Is everything okay?"
"Ahem...it doesn't matter...I just accidentally took a sip of water...ahem!"
Zonggu reached out and patted her back, and Hongzi immediately felt much relieved.
"Thanks……"
She looked at the two people who were still holding on under the water, "I wonder who can hold on longer, Akane or Ling..."
Soya didn't hesitate, "Ring."
"I think it's Akane." Hongzi looked at him, "Do you want to bet?"
"What do you want to do again?" Zonggu was a little wary.
She smiled slightly, "Why are you nervous? I just want Zonggu to stay with me for a while."
The bet was over before the two of them made a bet.
Kirino Akane came out of the water, took a big breath, and then looked at Asagiri Suzu who floated up with some disbelief.
"I held it in for more than twenty seconds longer than last time."
"Um."
The two of them had compared each other several times in the swimming pool of the Ibusuki Hot Spring Hotel.
"Isn't the bell at its limit yet?"
"Um."
Akane Kirino waded over and touched her belly, "How much air can such a small belly hold?"
Asagiri Suzu just looked at her without saying anything, and Souya couldn't stand it: "The lungs are not there."
Her hand moved up again and stopped on her chest. Fortunately, she didn't say anything about "such small breasts" and quickly put it down.
"Hongzi choked on the water just now? Is it okay?"
"It's okay now."
Hongzi glanced at Zonggu, feeling a little thankful that the gamble had failed, but also a little regretful.
"Take a break and compete again." Kirino Akane said to Asagiri Suzu.
The latter nodded, expressing his casualness.
"I'll forget it."
Zonggu walked aside and sat on a stone in the water, with his chest above the water surface.
"All right."
"I'll forget it," Hongzi said to Kirino Akane, "I'll be the referee."
"Um...okay."
Akane Kirino's target for comparison was only Asagiri Suzu. The two of them withdrew from the competition, which eliminated interference for her.
"I'll call the start." Zonggu said.
"Uh-huh."
After resting for three or two minutes, Soya counted down three to two, and Akane Kirino and Suzu Asagiri dived into the water again.
Hongzi swam over, changing into a half-swimming, half-crawling posture, and finally sat down next to him.
Zonggu could sit, but sitting at this depth was still a bit uncomfortable for her, so she stood up again and held his shoulders.
"Want to continue the bet?"
"No."
"oh."
She moved closer to him again, closer to him.
Zong Gu glanced to the side. The raw-edged hot pants wrapped around his slightly raised buttocks were completely soaked. "You can even see it underwater."
"It doesn't matter... Akane won't care about this now."
Not long after, the two people under the water surfaced again, but the result was the same.
Kirino Akane moved closer to Asagiri Suzu again, groping randomly, and pressing it against her chest to listen to the movement inside, trying to find the reason why she could hold her breath without changing her expression, but naturally she still found nothing.
"Forget it." Soya said.
Kirino Akane also understood that she had no hope that could compare with hers, and was temporarily convinced.
"Let's compare next time."
"There's still next time."
"You can come over tomorrow too."
Sotani was unconvinced.
After sitting in the water for a while, he crossed the pool and came to the other side where the sun was shining brightly, and then climbed up the sun-heated rocks.
"This is too hot..."
He was in a dilemma and had no idea what to do.
"Want to bathe in the sun?" Kirino Akane swam up to him and looked at him in the water.
"No, let's dry the clothes."
Zong Gu gritted his teeth and sat down, and soon discovered that the temperature was not unbearably high.
"..."
Kirino Akane was startled, but quickly understood, "Soya doesn't want to play anymore?"
"Are you going to spend the afternoon here?" he asked.
Hong Zi also swam over here.
"It's not impossible." Akane Kirino took a deep breath, relaxed her body, and let herself float on the water, drifting freely, "It's so comfortable like this."
"You can't go back wet." Soya said.
"Well……"
Looking at the sky surrounded by branches and green leaves, she suddenly turned over and plunged into the water again.
"Then I'll come up later."
Hongzi stopped because Kirino Akane was swimming around her in the water, "Akane..."
After two circles, she swung her legs and swam elsewhere.
Walking to the water's edge, Hongzi touched the boulder in the sun and immediately shrank her hands because it was so hot.
"Wow... Teppanyaki?"
Zonggu smiled and said, "Then I'm already familiar with it."
"Too hot."
"Be patient and you will get used to it soon."
Hongzi hesitated for a few seconds, climbed up from the other side, and sat on another boulder next to him.
"Hot, hot, hot—"
Although she shouted that it was hot, she gritted her teeth and persisted for a while, gradually getting used to the temperature of the stone.
"My butt must have been burned red..."
Zong Gu was just silent for a moment, and she immediately reacted: "Don't imagine!"
"Um."
"Can I really dry it in the sun like this? I feel like I might get heat stroke first."
"Hongzi, you can just let your clothes dry here."
"...You think beautifully."
Hongzi laughed, moved towards him again, and looked down.
Kirino Akane was like a swimming fish that didn't know the size of the world. Even though the pool was pitifully small, she still swam freely and contentedly, immersed in her own happiness. Occasionally she looked at the two people on the boulder and smiled.
"If Akane were a boy, I would definitely like her."
Zong Gu glanced at her and said, "Gender is not an issue."
Hongzi curled her lips, "That's what I said, but I'm not recruiting a partner - I already have someone I like."
She looked over, and Zonggu looked down.
Chaogiri Ling was immersed in the pool on the other side, looking at him and her, as if considering whether to come up.
"Sogu..."
"Um."
"When will you respond to me?"
He pursed his lower lip, "I want to know when Hongzi will give up."
"I will not give up."
"I won't give up Jingzi, I can't respond to you."
Hongzi just sighed, she didn't have any expectations.
"Will we continue to have this ambiguous relationship?"
"Sooner or later it will end."
"The day Zong Gu and Senior Guan Yuan dated."
Zonggu didn't say anything, he didn't even know when this day would come.
She looked over again, "But I feel that Zonggu can't bear to leave me."
Seeing that he still didn't speak, Hongzi continued, "Sogu would rather maintain the status quo, right?"
"Maybe." He finally said.
Hongzi hugged her legs, rested her head on her head, and looked at him: "But in this case, neither party will be satisfied."
"..."
"As long as you get a little of what you want, you want to get it all. This is not greedy. Everyone is like this. I want to be closer to Zonggu. I want to kiss, hug, and make love with you... completely connected.
."
When she said the last word, her face was completely red, but her eyes were still firm, looking straight at him.
Soya took a deep breath, looked down, and soon noticed Asagiri Suzu's gaze.
He looked aside again, "I want everything about Jingzi even more, so you'd better give up."
"Don't... ah." She stretched out a leg to kick him, but she had a tendency to slide down. She fumbled for a while before she stabilized herself on the boulder.
After sitting down again, Hongzi noticed that Asagiri Suzu had swam underneath.
She looked up at Zong Gu without saying a word, and then looked at her after a while.