[SD] Logic of Wild Dogs

There were only two classes on Friday afternoon. In the activity classroom of the photography club, Arimoto Sankichi was busy quietly in the darkroom.

The dark room is not completely dark. After the eyes get used to the darkness, the interior layout will soon appear before the eyes.The dilapidated wooden table is full of bottles and jars filled with medicine, fragmentary charts and sticky notes with precautions are pasted on the wall, and a few drawstrings divide one part of the darkroom from south to north. On the side, film and photos are hung with small wooden clips.

Gently shake the shallow potion in the enamel tray, and a faint picture gradually appears on the snow-white photo paper.Using tweezers to carefully remove the photo paper, Arimoto Sankichi quietly examined the photo in his hand, he took a long breath, and the expression on his face was a bit complicated and unspeakable.

"Bang bang bang." The door of the photography department rang several times.

"Sanji, are you in there?" It was Kentaro Seki's voice.

"Wait a minute, I'm in the darkroom." Youyuan clamped the wet photo paper on the drawstring, turned around and lifted the blackout curtain to open the door.

"Developing photos?" Guan fiddled with the camera hanging around his neck, followed Youyuan into the classroom, and sat down on the desk, "Hasn't the photo editing of Class [-], Grade [-] already been done?"

"It's not that." Umoto scratched his hair and said with a bitter smile, "Kentaro, come with me."

"What, so mysterious..." Guan stood up a little confused.

"You'll know it when you see it." You Yuan stretched out his hand and lifted the curtain into the darkroom without looking back.

"Tsk." Guan frowned dissatisfiedly, and followed into the darkroom.

"Look." Youyuan pointed to the two photos hanging on the rope.

"Huh?" Closed the first few steps, in the photo, the long-haired boy is holding a Labrador dog and laughing arrogantly, "Is this taken by that girl? It looks pretty good. What's wrong?"

"Look carefully at the second picture." Youyuan reminded dryly.

Guan's eyes fell on the second photo. The large expanse of sky was a little whitish under the high light, and the figures and close-ups were like a freeze-frame picture of a black and white silent film.The long-haired boy in uniform looked up at the crows in the air. His back with his hands in his pockets blended into the sky and the earth, looking infinitely lost.

"This is..." Guan's eyes changed, "This is him?"

"It's him." Youyuan smiled a bit ugly, "Long hair, senior, I should have thought of it earlier——that girl took pictures of Mitsui."

Guan's fist clenched tighter, and his anger was instantly ignited: "What does that guy mean? Is he here to mock us?! What right does he have! What right does she have to say that!"

"Kentaro! Calm down!" Youyuan grabbed Guan's hand that wanted to tear the photo, "Calm down, it's just a photo..."

Guan panted heavily, his whole face turned red with distorted: "What does he mean...that guy...that guy...you abandoned us first! Mitsui!"

Yumoto: "Kentaro..."

……

Time went back to two years ago, the first snow in winter, outside the stadium of Wushi Junior High School.

Kentaro Guan patted the snow on his head, smiled and distributed the roasted sweet potatoes to several people in the stands: "Be careful, it's hot."

"Well, thanks, Kentaro." Mitsui took the sweet potato with a smile, and was blown away by the heat.

The roasted sweet potatoes were constantly thrown between his hands, Arimoto Mikichi was amused by Mitsui's expression: "Haha, Mitsui, you are still so afraid of being burned."

"Whispering!" Mitsui pursed his lips and hissed as he peeled the skin, but it was messed up.

Masayoshi smiled lightly and took the sweet potato from Mitsui's hand, and handed the peeled one to him: "I heard that coach Tian Gang from Lingnan invited you a few days ago? You are indeed Mitsui!"

"Well, I've already refused." Mitsui couldn't wait to take a bite, and said inarticulately.

"Huh? Did you refuse?" You Yuan asked in surprise.

Guan casually peeled the sweet potatoes: "That's because Hainan also invited you, right? Free recommendation for admission."

Mitsui nodded: "Well, but I also rejected Hainan."

Lian Guan was also surprised at this moment: "Huh? Hainan is the best basketball player in Kanagawa High School. Could it be because of Xiangyang? If we talk about private elite schools, Xiangyang..."

"No, I'm going to Xiangbei." Mitsui interrupted Guan.

"Xiang, Xiangbei?" Several people stared at Mitsui in astonishment.

Guan: "Basketball in Xiangbei, to be honest, is not popular at all, right?"

Zheng followed suit and nodded: "Yeah, it's just an unknown little character! Why did you go there, Mitsui?"

Youyuan: "Hainan, Xiangyang, Lingnan, whichever is good. Mitsui, are you really not thinking about it anymore?"

"Well, there's no need to think about anything else." Mitsui swallowed the sweet potato in his hand, "Basketball in Xiangbei is really unknown now..."

Youyuan looked at Mitsui suspiciously: "Then you still...?"

"But it will be different with me." Facing the wind, Mitsui said confidently, looking into the distance firmly, "I want to follow Coach Anxi and repay his great kindness."

"I will lead the Shonhoku basketball team to dominate the country and become the No. [-] in Japan!" The north wind blew the snow in front of him, and the boy looked back at his partners, smiling vigorously.

"Xiangbei?" Guan was the first to laugh, "Then let me join, Xiangbei basketball team."

"Kentaro!" Mitsui's eyes lit up with joy.

"And me." Youyuan smirked while leaning on Guan's shoulder, "comrades."

"Sanji, that's great!"

"Don't forget me." Zheng put his arm around Mitsui's neck, "Dominate the country or something, how can I be missing?"

"Taizao!" Mitsui couldn't help punching the curly-haired guy hard.

"Then—let's go to Xiangbei together! In order to dominate the whole country!"

"Whoa whoa--!"

……

In northern Hunan in the spring, after the entrance ceremony, several people followed Mitsui to hand in the application form for the basketball club.

"Student Mitsui? Woohoo, MVP player! You came to Xiangbei too!?" A bespectacled guy almost fell over in shock from Mitsui's name.

You Yuan walked over with a smile: "You're really famous!"

"As expected of Mitsui." Guan Yu Yourong said.

After submitting the application for joining the ministry, several people walked out of the office while chatting.

"Hainan University Affiliated, Xiangyang and Lingnan and other strong teams have invited Mitsui to join, but Mitsui has already set his goal in Xiangbei, so they all declined." Guan chuckled and introduced to Mu Mu, "Give up the free recommendation for admission. The generous treatment, willingness to join the obscure Xiangbei, this is not something ordinary people can do."

"Haha, don't praise me in front of others!" Mitsui stroked his hair proudly.

Youyuan and Zheng exchanged a look with a smile.

"Genius is really different." Mu Mu said excitedly, "The MVP of the junior high school took the initiative to join, the seniors in Xiangbei must be surprised!"

"We will continue to play supporting roles in the next three years, and Mu Mu is probably the same, right? Hahaha..." Guan said and looked at Mu Mu.

"Uh, um." Mu Mu couldn't help but replied, if Mitsui Shou joined, it would be impossible to play a supporting role or something.

"What nonsense are you talking about!" Mitsui Lang smiled and turned his head and shouted, "How can you create an excellent protagonist without an excellent supporting role?!"

"Mitsui?"

"We must work together to make Xiangbei stronger! Then we will dominate the country!"

"Whoa whoa--!"

"Okay! Let's go to the gymnasium now!" Mitsui Shou strode ahead of the crowd, as if he was walking towards the golden road of Xiangbei's hegemony, with the wind blowing under his feet.

As long as we work together, the dream will come true soon.

Guan and Youyuan never wavered and followed that person.

Follow his back, run forward, every day of life is full of brilliance.

Because we are the closest partners and the best comrades-in-arms.In the previous summer, sweat and tears were shared, laughter and victory were shared... Such days should have lasted forever.

Should have lasted forever.

……

"Hehe...what kind of nonsense such an excellent supporting role...what kind of nonsense...dominating the whole country!" Guan's fingertips sank into Yuyuan's palm, "It's you, Mitsui, it's you who abandoned us!"

Your depression, your evasion and sinking, your indifferent clapping of our outstretched hands...

It was you who left first.

It was you who abandoned us first...

Youyuan's eyes dimmed: "Kentaro..."

……

[As long as my superstar Mitsui is here, our Takeishi Junior High School will definitely win! ! 】

If you leave, we will keep losing.

[How can an excellent protagonist be created without an excellent supporting role? ! 】

The protagonist is not there, and the existence of the supporting role is so ridiculous.

[We must work together to make Xiangbei stronger!Then it is to dominate the country! ! 】

We agreed to work hard together, we who follow you...

[My goal is to make Xiangbei University dominate the country!Be the number one in Japan! 】

We who followed you have long been forgotten.

[As long as I don't play basketball for three days, I will feel so uncomfortable that I will die! 】

Do you still remember... the days when you used to play together?

……

Don't you remember what you said, Mitsui?

Youyuan silently looked at the photo, the white sky, the black silhouette, the boy's expression was bewildered and fragile.

That was the back view of the person they had sworn to follow - Mitsui Shou.

The author has something to say: Some men pin their dreams on the people they follow.

Just like Mugure is entrusted to Akagi, Yumoto and Seki are entrusted to Mitsui.

Mitsui's past is told by Mu Mu, an outsider, so what about the comrades who will follow Mitsui and join Xiangbei?