The Race Within My Heart Chapter 10

"Hello, Musa really wanted to talk to someone, so he greeted them out loud.

"Oh, come in." The two people in the room turned around and invited him in relaxedly.

Musa took the can of beer with water droplets on its surface and knelt down on the tatami.

"Brother KING, are you watching the quiz show again?" Musa looked at the artists rushing to answer questions on the screen and said with a little surprise.

Sakaguchi, the tenant in Room 202, loves quiz shows so much that he wants to record them. He wants to watch every quiz show until his death. People in Zhuqing Village used to call him KING, which means "Guessing King", semi-jokingly.

"That goes without saying!" KING said, banging the tissue box on hand, and then shouted the answer to the TV, "The Baths of Caracalla[7]!"

It turns out that the tissue box is a replacement for the answering bell.

"Watching the quiz show with KING is really fun, I never get tired of watching it," Sugiyama smiled and made a drinking gesture towards Msa, "because his reaction is so amazing."

Sugiyama's nickname is "Prodigy". Musa was puzzled at first: Why would this person who spoke so politely be called "Shock"[8]?

"It's not that!" The child prodigy quickly explained, "My hometown is a small village in the mountains. It takes two full days every time I return home. Do you know what 'returning home' is?"

"I know. But does it really take two days? Even I can fly back to my country from Japan in just over a day by plane."

"Oh, so, judging from time, my hometown is more remote than your country? It makes me realize once again that our village is really a remote place... Ah, do you know what a "backcountry place" is? "?"

"I don't quite understand this. Does it mean the countryside?"

"Yes, that's right. People in the village call me 'prodigy', but to be honest, I can only be a prodigy there. Ah, the so-called 'prodigy' refers to the child of God..."

When the tenants of Zhuqing Village talk to Musa, most of them will not deliberately slow down or avoid common sayings. Musa already has an intermediate or above level of Japanese proficiency, but when faced with common sayings, he could only throw up his hands in surrender. Among all the people, only the child prodigy would take the trouble to explain to Musa the slang and difficult words that he did not understand. As a result, Musa became more and more fluent in Japanese. Despite this, Musa was determined to be like the gentle prodigy and try not to use the idioms he had learned. Nico, who lived on the first floor, would occasionally tease him and say, "Musa, listening to you really makes me feel bad."

Musa drank beer and followed the two of them to watch the quiz show.

In Zhuqing Villa, only the KING, twins and Nico rooms have TVs. However, there was serious smoke damage in Nico's room, so few people wanted to get close, and KING watched quiz shows all day long, so most people who wanted to watch TV went to find the twins.

But now, although the sound of the TV was coming from the twins' room next door, no voices were heard. It seemed that tonight the twins were finally able to get away from these noisy seniors, and the brothers spent a quiet night by themselves.

KING took the trouble to bang on the tissue box and continued to answer questions outside the TV screen. When the program went to commercials, he immediately picked up the remote control at hand to fast forward the screen. Only then did Musa realize that it was a videotape.

Advertisements flashed by quickly and the program started again. Next, instead of answering questions, KING finally diverted his attention away from the TV.

"Oh, Musa. It's really exaggerated that a child prodigy can watch a quiz show without saying a word, isn't it?"

Musa tilted his head, obviously confused by KING's words. KING turned around and faced Musa and Shindong, who were sitting side by side.

"Most people will blurt out the answer when watching a quiz show. This is normal! For example, when the host asks: "Can I pronounce the word "fish" with the word "green" next to it?" Everyone naturally wants to answer "mackerel" !" But this guy is as silent as a mute, which is very boring to watch!"

"Brother KING would also scream when he was watching the show by himself." Musa recalled the scene of KING yelling and screaming next door every night, all of which were incomprehensible words.

"Of course it goes without saying! This is how fun a quiz show is to watch. I don't understand how someone can watch TV without moving, no different than a stone statue of Ksitigarbha!"

Yeah? Musa thought to himself.

"Really?" The prodigy really retorted now, "I think you are weird. You are obviously not a contestant, how can you be so fanatical? I really don't understand."

"Why don't you sign up for the show and be a contestant?" Musa also interjected.

KING browses all puzzle-related websites and studies puzzles every day. He was so enthusiastic that he even dared to step into the white smoke hell that everyone heard about and borrowed a computer from Nico. KING's enthusiasm for guessing puzzles was witnessed by all the tenants of Zhuqingzhuang (who stayed away).

"Only true connoisseurs understand how fun it is to answer more, faster, and more correctly than those famous quiz kings in front of the screen!"

KING puffed out his chest. He looks very cheeky, but he is actually very shy and has no guts to go on TV. After Musa noticed this, he said no more, and the prodigy just said lightly: "Is that so?"

Musa saw that King---Vice looked a little embarrassed and quickly started another topic.

"Do you two know that Qingzhu has a new tenant?"

"When did this happen?"

"what kind of person?"

The two of them immediately came over after hearing this, and KING even turned down the volume of the TV. It seemed that KING and Shindong were very interested in this topic, so Musa took the opportunity to explain how he met Grayson in the bathroom.

"I think he just came tonight. Brother Braxton said he was going to attend the Social Academy... Brother Braxton looked very happy."

"I have an ominous premonition." KING murmured.

"Why? Grayson seems to be a serious and good person."

"What KING is worried about is not the character of the new tenant," Shintong explained. "Musa, you know that Brother Hui wants to rent out Room 103, right?"