"It's okay. In fact, we just arrived." Wu Yi glanced at Ichinose and said, "By the way, Ichinose, can you ski?"
"Eh? This, I can't..."
When this question was mentioned, Ichinose Honami subconsciously avoided her gaze and admitted it somewhat embarrassedly.
That’s right. Given her family’s financial situation, she has probably never skied, let alone roller skated.
It should be said that most people have probably never skied in their entire lives, except in their hometowns or places like Hokkaido, where going to a ski resort is as simple as an ordinary person going out of their home to take a walk in a nearby park.
After all, not everyone has the family conditions.
"Would you like to try mine?"
Wu Yi tried to promote her oversized skis.
"Well...but I..."
Ichinose was a little hesitant.
It’s not that she was unwilling to accept Wu Yi’s suggestion, but for her, she couldn’t even ride the most ordinary double board, so she was afraid that she would crash on the spot if she tried such a weird thing.
"Of course I'll be the one driving." Wu Yi added, "I'll sit in the front, and Ichinose, you'll stay in the back, just like... driving a motorcycle?"
motorcycle?
Ichinose Honami carefully imagined the scene of herself riding a motorcycle, with Wu Yi-classmate driving in the front and she sitting in the back hugging Wu Yi-classmate's waist... Hmm!
The girl's cheeks felt slightly hot, and her anticipation suddenly rose.
Wu Yi put the skis on and sat on them first, then patted the only empty space behind him.
"Try?"
"……Um."
Ichinose Hoba responded shyly and nodded softly, pulling her warm scarf up to make sure her face was completely covered. Then, under the gaze of the three people, she sat down behind Wu Yi and reservedly grasped the handles on both sides of the skis.
"All right."
"OK, let's go."
As Wu Yi spoke, he grabbed the handle and sat forward. As his center of gravity shifted, the rear end of the ski tilted up, and the bottom of the front half suddenly hit the downward slope. Under the action of gravitational potential energy, it began to slide forward little by little, and gradually accelerated.
Horikita Suzune, who was still on the upper side, watched the two of them leave expressionlessly, exchanged a glance with Kito Hayabusa and Yamamura Miki beside her, nodded slightly, and slid down on her own.
Volume 485: Chapter : Kushida Kikyo asks a question
On the ski track leading from the top of the mountain to the foot of the mountain, a double ski carrying two people is like an arrow shot from a bow, rushing down the mountain in the wind and waves.
The whistling cold wind swept around her ears. Ichinose Hoba, who had been relatively reserved at the top of the mountain and only dared to hold the handles on both sides, now completely disregarded her image.
She almost threw herself on Wu Yi, wrapping her arms tightly around the latter's waist, like a little girl watching a horror movie for the first time. She was obviously scared but wanted to watch it at the same time, so she could only force herself to keep her eyes open.
"Um, classmate Wu Yi, aren't we moving too fast..."
"Wait, wait a minute, please slow down a little..."
“No… woooo!!!”
As Wu Yi sang along, Ichinose shouted all the way, singing a series of high-pitched soprano voices, and the subtle lines also attracted surprised looks from the other second-year students on both sides of the road.
I guess I thought it was someone having so much fun, skiing and doing something else at the same time.
As for brakes... of course they exist. The braking principles of all skis are similar. It's nothing more than turning the board sideways, adjusting the center of gravity and pressing hard on the side close to the snow.
Wu Yi can do the same, and can even produce an effect similar to car drifting.
However, this is already the easiest beginner track anyway, the kind that you can just lie on a door panel and slide all the way from the top of the mountain to the bottom without moving even if you try. Plus, there aren't many people on the track right now, so it's green lights all the way, so why not speed along?
Catch them all!
As the car speed increased, Ichinose Hoba's words changed from "slow down" and "too fast" to a series of meaningless shouts, and her initial panic and discomfort gradually turned into cheers with a hint of pleasure.
If it was in normal school, she would never have done such an inappropriate thing. However, now that she was out on a school trip and wearing such thick clothes, it would be impossible to recognize her identity at first glance unless you were very familiar with her.
Then let’s be unrestrained for once!
Finally, after five minutes of racing in the snow, the slope of the track gradually slowed down as we got closer to the foot of the mountain.
The speed slowed down little by little, as if realizing that this short but exciting journey was about to reach its end, Ichinose Honami also stopped shouting all the way and fell into a rather well-behaved state.
Her hands were still around Wu Yi's waist, but she made no sound. She quietly leaned her face on the latter's shoulder, watching the cable car station, whose outline was only vaguely visible before, getting closer and closer.
"Yoshi, we are the champions!"
Wu Yi controlled the skis to lightly sideways and stopped completely, then let go of the grip and gently patted the girl's hands that were around his waist.
"How's it going, feeling alright... huh?"
When I looked back, what I saw was not the frightened face I had expected.
From Wu Yi's perspective, Ichinose's eyes were shining slightly, and rather than being frightened, it would be more accurate to say that he was radiant.
"Yeah! It's very fun and I feel very satisfied!"
The girl stood up, stepped off her skis, and nodded vigorously, her joy not seeming fake at all.
I want to play it again...
It was a simple and innocent little request, just like when his father took him to the amusement park as a child and he saw his favorite ride, but Ichinose hesitated and couldn't say it out loud right away.
About ten seconds after the two arrived, another wave of flying snow also came.
What surprised Wu Yi was that the second place was Horikita Suzune.
The girl with short black hair was seen speeding all the way to the foot of the mountain at a speed no less than his just now. After noticing him and Ichinose, she changed direction slightly and drew a winding path on the track with a beautiful brake. When she stopped, she was right in front of the two of them.
"Whoo~"
As if feeling too hot, she pulled her scarf open a little, and without saying anything, Horikita Suzune let out a long breath of hot air that was like a thick white mist.
"You came quickly, Horikita-san."
Ichinose Honami could not help but admire the person sincerely after identifying her identity through the braided pigtails showing between her scarf and hat.
"It's nothing. The skills of this kind of sports are all the same." Horikita Suzune said calmly, "I once had some experience in roller skating, so I'm not completely new to this kind of sports that requires lower limb strength and stability."
“I see.” Ichinose nodded in understanding.
Horikita Suzune was about to say something else, but suddenly noticed that someone who had been silent from the beginning was now looking at her with a playful look, and she couldn't help but frown slightly.
“…What are you doing?”
"nothing."
Wu Yi answered very straightforwardly.
What he was thinking about, of course, was to see what would happen if he replicated the experience of Ichinose Hoba on the cold-faced girl in front of him.
But I knew that Horikita Suzune would not agree if I told her this, so I just let it go.
Ichinose, who was standing nearby, noticed Wu Yi's plan and took the initiative to speak.
"Anyway, we still have the whole afternoon left. Would you like to try out Wu Yi's snowboard, Horikita?"
"His skis?" Horikita Suzune glanced at him, "No need, I have my own skis..."
"No, no, no, that's not what I meant." Ichinose Honoki quickly waved his hand to explain, "I mean you can ask Wu Yi to take you for a skiing trip. It's very interesting!"
I can skate by myself, I don't need him to guide me...
Before Horikita Suzune could finish her words, Wu Yi sighed softly on the other side.
"I don't mind, but I'm afraid some people won't dare to do it. After all, the intensity is relatively high."
"Don't you dare?"
As if some sensitive nerve was touched, Horikita Suzune's eyebrows twitched slightly.
A strange desire to win or lose
After a little thought and organizing her words, the cold-faced girl accepted the challenge without hesitation.
"Okay, let's give it a try."
After saying that, Horikita Suzuneben took the lead and walked towards the cable car platform not far away.
However, perhaps the sweater under her ski suit was too thick, or perhaps she was too focused on the upcoming "duel" with someone, in any case, the cold-faced girl did not notice that the mobile phone in her inner pocket of her shirt was vibrating wildly.
At the same time, on the top of another ski track several kilometers away from here, Kikyo Kushida was frantically operating her mobile phone.
Because the ski gloves were too thick, there was no response when she tapped the touch screen, so she had to take them off.
What? Cold hands?
Then open your ski jacket and hide your hands inside your coat.
What? The angle is too narrow to see clearly?
Just be patient and it will pass!
However, after sending more than ten or twenty messages, there was still no reply from the person who was supposed to act as her spy.
Not... a human!? ?
Volume 486: Chapter It was fun playing with her, huh?
Thirty minutes later, as another wave of snow rushed to the foot of the mountain, Wu Yi stopped the skis with a superb sideways press.
He turned to look at the stern-faced girl sitting behind him and gave her a smile as sunny as the blue beast of Konoha.
"How is it, are you satisfied with this journey?"
"you you you……"
Horikita Suzune gritted her teeth and kept talking to you for a long time but nothing came of it. She could only get off the skis with a grim face, stumbling like a person who was carsick after taking a long-distance bus for a day and a night.
Her current mood can be described in two words: regret, and in three words: very regretful.
To be honest, she shouldn't have agreed to Wu Yi's damn challenge.
I thought that since Ichinose was fine, I shouldn't have any problems either.
But when she actually got in the car, she realized that Wu Yi was planning to torture her to death.
There was no problem at the beginning. Just like when she was riding Ichinose, she just went straight ahead and accelerated slowly. Horikita Suzune, who had already had one experience of skiing independently, let down her guard a little and felt that it was nothing special.
After all, she also skates at about the same speed, just a little slower.
But as the speed increased, after making sure the car door was welded shut and Horikita Suzune couldn't jump out of the car, Wu Yi started to behave like a human being.
Not only did this guy not have any intention of braking or slowing down, but he increased his strength and began to draw arcs on the track at a speed of 40 kilometers per hour, sometimes left, sometimes right, and several times he had to stick to the safety fences on both sides of the track to pull the direction back.
If she hadn't thought that there was no way this guy would actually crash into her, Horikita Suzune would have almost thought that she was going to die on this broken board.
"What do you mean, do you want to do it again?" Wu Yi took the initiative to invite.
Again?
Don't even think about it!
Horikita Suzune pursed her lips tightly, picked up the pair of skis she had brought with her, and walked straight towards the mountain cable car with her still slightly trembling legs.
Two minutes later, Ichinose also arrived at the finish line at a leisurely pace.
This was her first time to complete a skiing trip by herself, so she went at a slow pace.
However, even so, when the girl pulled down her scarf, she was still breathing out hot air from her slightly open mouth and panting, and it was obvious that she had consumed a lot of energy.
"Wu Yi-san, you guys are so fast. I can't catch up with you at all... Hey, by the way, where's Horikita-san?"
Realizing that one of the two people who were supposed to arrive before her was missing, Ichinose Honami turned around and looked around.
"Oh, you mean Lingyin."
Wu Yi glanced in the direction of the cable car going up the mountain.
"She went upstairs two minutes before you came. She must have been in a hurry to find the restroom."
"That's it."
Ichinose Hoba nodded, not quite understanding.
After a while, two people from Class B in the same group finally arrived.
Kito Hayabusa seemed to have some experience in skiing, but Yamamura Miki was a complete novice. Her movements were quite unfamiliar and she was the type that could easily fall over if she wasn't careful. It was only with the escort and guidance of the former that she reached the finish line safely.
They looked at each other and Guitou gave a look that said "no problem".
