Double AS

"What did you say to Mom?" As soon as the phone was connected, the elder sister Natsuko began to interrogate her.She sounded annoyed.

"No... what..." Obviously lack of confidence.

"Mom has been very strange since she came back from your school. I don't know what willful things you said to Mom again, but Mom is the person who loves you the most in the whole family; since childhood, Mom never gave you what you wanted. What request does Mom not agree to? I feel jealous. Also, every time you quarrel with Dad, who will clean up the aftermath for you, and who will apologize to Dad and appease him instead of you?" The voice came from the other end of the phone.Obviously it was a very common quarrel, but now it sounded like needles pricking him.

"You are really unfilial, Aomine Daiki. I will never let my son become like you."

Xia Zi's unintentional words seemed to have slapped him on the spot.

Aomine Natsuko didn't realize that her younger brother was unusually silent today, and continued to talk continuously.

"You won the prize yesterday, but Mom secretly cried all night." When she woke up last night, she found her mother sitting alone in the living room. The living room was very dark and only a small light was turned on.

"Mom is sitting alone in the living room, flipping through the photos of you when you were young... and crying while flipping through..."

Xia Zi's voice also became flustered, one could imagine how much that scene had impacted her.

"I have never seen my mother cry, never, and my father doesn't seem to know about it." During the day, my mother still helped the family's business and took care of the housework as usual. Only at night, when everyone was asleep, the night was quiet. Only then did she sit slumped in the living room like a puppet whose strings were suddenly broken.She shed tears in a daze.

She couldn't find the reason and didn't dare to speak up until yesterday's quasi-finals.

The whole audience was cheering Qingfeng's name, and the audience was boiling, but Mom covered her face and rushed out.

Finally, she found her mother hiding in the toilet crying silently.That's not how to cry with joy.

"I don't know what you said to Mom. I know you have a championship game this weekend, so I will ask for leave tomorrow—even if you kneel, you must kneel back! You are the person in the whole family who has no right to make her sad!"

After finishing speaking, he slapped and hung up the phone.

He gripped the phone so tightly that it almost exploded.

Aomine sat heavily on the chair.

That feeling of overflowing to the point of exploding, but with nowhere to vent.

He literally felt like he was going to explode.

XXX

After the Tongyang battle yesterday, sure enough, almost all Japanese university scouts came, including professional teams.And today is particularly annoying, whether he is going to the welfare agency to buy lunch or go to the toilet after class, as soon as he leaves the classroom, the group of scouts guarding the door will all rush out like hounds──"Student Qingfeng, take a step to speak Okay?" "Just interrupt your time for 1 minute! Just give me 1 minute!" "As long as you can drive it, we can accept any conditions!" "Student Aomine!" "Student Aomine!" "Student Aomine! "

"Ah~~~Damn it! I just said I'm not in the mood right now! Get out of the way! Don't bother me!" He yelled at the scouts who had been following him since the morning.

His mood is already bad enough, will he die if he is left alone?

Slamming the back door of the gymnasium.The scouts and sports reporters were getting more and more annoying, so they simply locked the door of the gymnasium, and all those who wanted to practice could only enter and exit through the back door.

Otherwise, there is really no way to practice quietly.

After changing into his sportswear, Aomine walked into the gym as usual.

As soon as I entered, I saw the players gathered in the center of the field, not knowing what to say.

"What are you doing!" Aomine walked over while opening his throat when he saw this, "I'm just messing around when I'm not here, right? My skin is itching!"

He walked forward while doing something, rudely pushed the players away, and screamed at the same time, "You are all watching something, don't let me go──"

Suddenly, he froze.

Pupils are wide open.

Kise, in tracksuit, was warming up.

A look that is ready to start practicing at any time.

He also wears knee pads and compression strips on his legs.

"What are you doing!" He dragged his arm directly and forced him up.Aomine growled at him.

Facing Aomine's roar, Kise just smiled.

"Practice." He replied to himself with a smile.

As if nothing happened yesterday.

He also wears a medical compression knee brace on his right leg, with compression strips underneath to fix his loose knee, and a patellar tendon compression strap for jumping knee patients on his left leg.

That scene is as miserable as it looks. "──Xiao Huang's knee, it will be impossible without an operation. The situation... is more serious than we thought..."

Last night, he called Wuyue, and Wuyue told him in detail about Huang Lai's visit to the doctor.

The patellar tendinitis in the left knee has reached the point where surgery is not possible, and the anterior cruciate ligament in the right foot is also in danger.

"The opponents in the finals are really Kuroko and the others...Although I know they have improved a lot, I am still shocked knowing that they defeated Akashi-chan. It seems that we have to do our best here──"

Seeing Kise giggling like nothing happened.

──That guy must have taken an unknown number of drugs and injections behind his back to stand here pretending nothing happened.Smirking as usual.

Anger surged up like that.

"Get out." He said coldly.

"Eh?"

"I said it, didn't you hear me!"

As if afraid that he didn't hear clearly, he repeated it again.

"Didn't I say it yesterday, from now on, you won't use anything, everything, whether it's practice or competition!"

"Go out." His indigo eyes stared coldly at Kise.

Kise bit her lower lip tightly, no matter what Aomine said, she was indifferent.

Faced with Kise Momo's tenacious resistance, Aomine is not easy to save fuel. "What did you guys do? Didn't I tell you not to let regular members in? Don't let me chase them away myself."

That meaning could not be clearer.

"That... Kise-senpai... I'm sorry..." The juniors approached him cautiously.He bowed his head guiltily, no one dared to be the first one to reach out.

"No. I won't embarrass you." Kise raised his hand to interrupt them.

Still stumbling a bit, he walked up to Aomine Daiki himself.

"What do you mean, Xiao Qingfeng." Asked him directly.

"Isn't my meaning obvious enough? I don't want a wounded soldier to hold me back."

"Are you going to kick me off the team?"

"If you are willing to settle down, there is a place for you deep in the bench."

"Stop joking!" Kise immediately roared, "Stop looking down on people!"

"Why do you think I came to Tonghuang for whom?" He roared loudly, and his voice quietly echoed in the gymnasium of Nuoda University.

That Huang Lai, who always smiled at everyone and was very gentle, was so angry and roared like this.

And the target is Aomine Daiki.

"Now you want me to leave with just one word! Treat me as something! Something that comes and goes when you wave it at will?!" With a raised face, he directly faced Qingfeng.That expression was as angry as it could be.

Facing Kise's unprecedented fury, Aomine only took a deep breath, "You said you came for me, okay." He nodded.

"Then I'll tell you right now──"I don't need you. "" he said coldly.

"" I, Aomine Daiki, don't need Kise Ryota anymore. ""

One sentence at a time.

"──You can go."

Hit him hard.

Huang Lai froze for a moment, his face turned pale instantly.

No one expected that Qingfeng would say such hurtful words, and everyone was dumbfounded and couldn't react at all.

Aomine just looked at him like that, thinking that tears would fall from those beautiful eyes like a broken faucet.It keeps falling.

But Kise just looked at him in a daze, looking at him in disbelief.

"Bastard!" he erupted.

Kise rushed forward and grabbed Aomine by the collar, and punched him with a raised hand──"What are you talking about! There is a limit to self-centeredness, you bastard!"

The two of them twisted into a ball on the ground in an instant.Huang Lai was really beating him hard.

"Kise!" "Little Huang!" "Senior Kise!"

Tonghuang's two trump cards actually scuffled.Everyone panicked, and the stadium was like a frying pan.

"Come when you tell me! Leave when you tell me! What do you think of me! What do you think of me!"

The fist fell down unceremoniously.He is serious.

"Have you had enough trouble, you!"

Aomine's strength is great, but Kise won't lose him when he gets mad.The two wrestled together on the ground, and no one dared to step forward to stop them.

"I gave everything! It's hard to come here! Even Xiaoqingfeng has no right to take it away!"

Roaring mixed with tears, Kise roared at the top of his lungs.I can't tell if I'm crying or yelling.

Aomine managed to suppress him, and pressed him to the floor so hard that he couldn't move, Kise just stared at himself like that, tears flowed slowly from his staring eyes like that.

"...You said you want to play ball, okay. May I ask what else you can do with your current physical condition?" Qingfeng reprimanded coldly, "Just with your half-crippled feet, don't laugh so hard!── ─This is the championship game! For all the third graders, it is the last game of their high school career! We have come here with great difficulty! But we are going to be dragged down by your willfulness!"

"──Now you will only hold us back."

Qingfeng let go of his hand.

Kise didn't struggle anymore.

Just lying on the ground, weeping in a daze.

I couldn't bear to look at that expression any longer, so I just turned my face away.

"I……"

Just as Aomine was about to leave, Kise spoke in a low voice.

"I... just want to play... I just want to play... work hard with everyone to the end..." Tears couldn't stop falling.

"Of course I know that my current situation will only drag everyone down...but I still want to be willful..."

"──Because this is the last ball game in my life." With a hoarse voice, he trembled and said painfully.

"Even if the surgery is done now, it won't help, and my feet will never go back." Kise trembled, hissing.

"──This is the last game of my life! This is the last time I play in my life!"

"Do you think you're the only one who likes basketball──I also──very──like it." Finally, he covered his face and cried bitterly, unable to continue.

All the youthful time, the simple memories, all of them are all on this court without reservation!

Here he made his best friend, met his best partner, and then--also fell in love with the person he loved the most in his life.

All the memories, laughter, tears, even if they are bitter at times, are all the most precious memories in this life.All the most precious, brightest and brightest things in his life are all here!

But now he has to turn around and leave, never to play again.

Who can understand his pain?

Aomine just looked at him like that.

Just look like that.

"Ada... Please... Let Xiaohuang play..." Seeing Kise cry like that, Momoi's eyes were also red, and she also stood up with a straight heart, just like that in front of Aomine.

"You just let him play!" Xiao Huang has been from Diguang all the way to the present, from a complete layman to a first-class ace player; she has seen all his desperation and hard work, but now he is forced to play due to injury. Leaving forever—she could feel the pain.

"Let Kise-kun play, Aomine-kun...Captain..." Sakurai also stood up.

"All our first graders also ask the captain, please let the captain let Kise-senpai play!" All the first graders bowed ninety degrees, "──Please!" They shouted in unison.

"All the second graders too! Please let the seniors play!"

"I am willing to share Kise-kun's work, I can support the striker!"

"Me too, I will fight against the restricted area!" One by one, all of them stood up. "I'll steal and pass the ball!" "I'm willing to be a substitute!" "Me too!" "Me too!"

Kise stared at everyone blankly.

In these years, except for Qingfeng, he has never been close to anyone in Tonghuang.

Always distant, alone watching them.

Anyone who wants to get close should politely avoid it.Swing leisurely.

I never really thought I belonged here.

"Xiao Huang has worked so hard to support Tonghuang for so many years and fulfilled our dream of winning the championship twice, so this time it is us who support him—Xiao Huang's last dream. The final game."

Tears can't stop no matter what.

Kise sat on the field, crying in embarrassment.Tears can't stop.

──Obviously I am such a willful and selfish person!

Qingfeng turned his head to look at the supervisor who was just standing aside watching the fire from the other side.He frowned tightly and looked at the supervisor.

"You are Tong Huang's head, no matter what decision you make, I will respect it." The supervisor also spoke.

"..."

"Ada!" "Captain!" "Captain!"

Tonghuang people shouted one after another.

The furrow between Qingfeng's brows deepened again.

"...but he can't come to practice," he finally said, turning his head away.

"Cold feet can no longer be a burden."

He also made a lot of determination.

"Xiaoqingfeng...thank you..."

"Thank you for what I did, you should thank everyone who pleaded for you, right?"

He is the most helpless person, okay?

"...I'm sorry...Thank you for tolerating me...tolerating my last waywardness..." Kise thanked while crying; the original cold and noble supermodel aura disappeared, and now there is only one sitting on the court, crying A messy high school boy.

Say how embarrassing it is.

"You will be self-willed, this is the true nature of double kings." The third grade students laughed.They met each other with a smile, as if recalling the domineering Tonghuang twin kings when they first entered school──

"I still remember how arrogant and domineering you were when you first joined the team in the first grade──Let's be self-willed until the end. Let's create a legend of three years in a row. Let's run to the last moment together."

Then they stretched out their hands together and pulled Kise up.

"I really regret that I smashed your ball back then." Half sighed, half sighed.Aomine shook his head, then stretched out his hand to catch Kise who was standing staggeringly, and hugged him tightly.

"No... It's because of Xiao Qingfeng's goal that my world has color." Kise also hugged him tightly.

You are my light.Always.

It has been decided.

Many, many things.