Chapter 654 Lost again
downstairs.
Another round of karuta has come to an end.
"Let's play another round! I was careless just now!"
Hanyu Kusunoki knelt calmly opposite, playing with a karuta card with his fingertips: "Ms. Sonoko, this is already the seventh game."
"Are you sure you can continue?"
"Of course...of course!"
"Let's get started." Hanyu Kusunoki arranged the Hyakunin Isshu karuta cards neatly. "What are we betting on this time?"
Sonoko rolled her eyes and suddenly showed a sly smile: "If I win, you have to wear women's clothes and accompany us to the Gaoyue Cup tomorrow!"
Hanyu Kusunoki raised an eyebrow: "What if I win?"
"Whatever you want!"
Yuanzi raised his chin and pretended to be heroic.
"make a deal."
The karuta duel begins again.
Hanyu Kusu recited the first line of the Japanese song: "Yuyu Kamidaishi——"
Sonoko made a lightning-fast move, but the moment she touched the karuta, Hanyu Kusunoshi got there first, and this happened to her for the next few times.
Not surprisingly, she lost again.
"I......"
Miss Sonoko, who lost the game, could not accept her failure.
Lost again...
Every time it was just a little bit off, and in the end I lost every time.
Unable to accept the reality, Yuanzi finally chose between giving up and continuing...
"Wait! I, I want to request a substitution!"
Ayako put down the teacup gracefully: "Finally you remembered me?"
She stood up gracefully, her kimono not a single bit disheveled, in stark contrast to Sonoko's disheveled appearance.
"Sister Ayako is going to fight for Sonoko?" Hanyu Kusunoki looked at this always dignified young lady with interest.
Ayako knelt in front of the karuta and tucked a strand of hair behind her ear. "The bet remains the same?"
"of course."
"Then let's get started." Ayako smiled slightly, "This will create a more competitive atmosphere, won't it?"
The karuta duel begins again.
Unlike Sonoko's impatience, Ayako adopted a steady and cautious strategy, staring at the cards intently, with her slender fingers suspended above the karuta like a bow and arrow ready to be released.
"It's better not to see each other—"
As soon as Hanyu Kusunoki finished reading, Ayako hit the correct karuta card at lightning speed. Her movements were graceful and precise, and the sleeves of her kimono fluttered like butterfly wings, bringing a gust of fragrant wind.
"Sister Ayako is amazing!"
Hanyu Kusunoki raised an eyebrow: "Looks like we have to get serious."
"Nan, focus!"
Ayako covered her mouth and chuckled, with a gleam of victory in her eyes.
"Don't get complacent too soon~"
Hanyu Kusunoki gives a warm reminder.
You have to know that the person you are facing now is the last disciple of the former karuta queen Ikeba Shizuka.
As soon as he finished speaking, he switched from passive defense to active offense.
The second line of the poem sounded: "Haruga no Yama snow——"
"!" Ayako paused while trying to grab the karuta.
"Mine."
Hanyu Kusunoki easily took the cards and said, "Sister Reiko, you are distracted."
"It was just a mistake."
"is it?"
Faced with Hanyu Kusunoki's fast break tactics, she was somewhat overwhelmed.
The main competitive karuta itself is very physically demanding. It tests the players' willpower and physical strength. If they can't hold on for even a little bit, they will be quickly defeated by their opponents.
The following karuta game became a one-sided situation.
Every time after reading the cards, Hanyu Kusunoki would be the first to take the karuta, and Ayako would take one step slower, step by step, until she gradually fell into his rhythm.
But Sister Ayako is also trying to defend and counterattack.
Listen carefully to the sound of the cards being read, waiting for it to finish so that you can be ready to go.