Double AS

"How, from here you can have a panoramic view of the entire Tokyo landscape──it's beautiful." Kise lowered his head and looked at the slowly flowing lights under the window, the candlelight reflected his face very dimly and beautifully.

Aomine just kept staring at him like that.Either way, the eyes just can't be taken away.

They are now sitting in a restaurant overlooking the entire city of Tokyo, and the waiter arranged them in a box by the window; Aomine turned his head and looked, all the curtains, tables, chairs and floors were covered. Deep purple velvet, no lights, the surroundings are pitch black, only the flickering candles on each table reveal a little bit of warm light.In the farthest distance, bands in well-fitting suits were playing strings, and everyone was talking softly, only the soft sound of strings flowing gently, as if the time in the whole world had slowed down.

The whole person felt uncomfortable, and his brows were tightly frowned──that bastard Kise actually said, "It's fine to wear normal clothes", this place is not normal! ?

Almost all the people he saw were wearing suits or dresses!He's the only one wearing jeans, a down jacket, and sneakers!

"I want to book a place here temporarily, and I managed to get it by asking Xiaomeixue to use my relationship." The person who said that he could just wear whatever he wanted, sat in front of him in a suit, and looked so elegant He started to operate the knife and fork with an angry attitude.

"Is it a prank game now?" Aomine said in a low voice, his expression looked like a murderer who killed a hundred people.Damn Kise Ryota bastard!See how he fucked him after going back!

"It's too much. Most people should be moved to tears when they receive such a well-arranged romantic date from their lover." He was so angry that his cheeks puffed up.

"What strange TV series did you watch again? Then the plate is so big, why is there only a little food?" The fork was gone.

"...Of course there's only a little appetizer, Xiao Qingfeng." Kise rubbed his temples and said helplessly.

It seems that such a high-grade place doesn't seem to be so suitable for him...

He combed back half of his bangs, revealing more than half of his white forehead. His hair was hooked back, revealing his ears. Under the flickering candlelight, a round of cyan earrings stood out on the white earballs.Kise gently held the goblet, turned the mouth of the cup to the candlelight, squinted his eyes, carefully admiring the color of gemstones in the cup through the light.

Aomine just stared at him like that.

"Come on, you invited me here suddenly, and you said something like "I will pay all the expenses for today" this kind of rich words──What do you want to ask me? Cool." Aomine went straight to the point.

"... Xiao Qingfeng really hates you for saying such things." Kise laughed, "I just thought... If I can watch such a scenery with Xiao Qingfeng here, and then have a meal together, we will live together later. One night...it's good to be romantic once in a while. It's rare that I'm free now."

Close to a whole side of tempered glass windows, the high-altitude view of more than ninety floors looks dazzling and splendid at night.Kise was inlaid in such a bright night, wearing a dark black fine-striped suit, as if blending with the background.

"Don't you need to wrap the gauze anymore? Head." Stretching out his hand, Kise gently touched the scar on Aomine's forehead; the bandage was removed, but the stitches were still there.

"Well, it's all scabbed."

"The needle marks are so obvious...will it leave a scar?"

"A man can't die with one or two scars on his face, and I'm not you, I live by my face."

"Damn it, I really can't refute it."

The two chatted endlessly like that.

Each other has their own concerns, but they also carefully cover them up.

"I heard that North Carolina scouts put Xiao Qingfeng in the first place after watching our battle with Yangquan." The waiter put the dishes on the table, and Kise leaned forward, narrowing his eyes He squinted and showed off his latest first-hand news.

"Where did you get the news?" Qingfeng's reaction was surprisingly flat.It seemed that the main meal on the plate aroused his interest more than the attention of North Carolina scouts.

"That's what everyone says..."

"Although I want to be recommended by the University of North Carolina...I want to go crazy...But instead of relying on such illusory things, it's better to play the championship game in front of me first. We watched Seirin several games in a row this afternoon. It's very tricky...that Vulcan Tai I'm especially troublesome..."

Aomine Daiki is undoubtedly an idiot in other respects, but extremely shrewd when it comes to basketball.

"Hmm...I agree, Little Vulcan's ability to stand on his own now is no less than that of Xiao Qingfeng."

"Don't compliment other men in front of me."

"Pfft," Kise quickly covered his mouth with a handkerchief to prevent himself from laughing out loud, Aomine stared at him coolly.It seemed he didn't think there was anything funny about that.

"Okay, I'm not joking, I'm serious. In my situation, I may not be able to suppress the current little Vulcan for the whole game... And then Xiao Heizi... Even if he is not on the field... His ability to see the overall situation ...He's very threatening both on and off the court..." Of course, that passing skill that can only be used as a surreptitious one is also the main threat. In the championship match against Seirin the day after tomorrow, he should cut off Kuroko's assists, and then Xiao Heizi Qingfeng concentrated on suppressing their trump card with super air-staying ability, pulled the main battlefield from the air back to the ground, and shattered their dream of becoming king with all their strength.

"I really didn't expect Zhe to grow to such a level... Although he can't be alone, as an independent trump card, but as an assistant to win the championship, no one is more terrifying than him." In this way, his former partner Aomine Dai Hui said it was particularly shocking.

"Even Xiao Qingfeng can make the captain so impressive, I don't think it's surprising that Xiao Heizi grows into the Ace of Spades..."

"Don't think I can't hear that you're scolding me."

"How dare I, Master Xiaoqingfeng."

Aomine twirled the knife in his hand, dipped it in the steak sauce, and drew a lineup on the plate—Seirin on one side, and them on the other.

"Seirin's style of play is very similar to ours—both are teams that take the initiative to grab points. Whether it's their running and gunning or our triangle, the aggressiveness of scoring and the flow of the ball are very similar." They The team lacks a really tall center peak, and the aces in the penalty area are also power forwards, and they all have strong assist players at the same time (Kise's scoring ability is excellent, but how much can he play when he is injured? Not sure), both teams are known for having good duos.

Although the two sides are different to some extent, it cannot be denied that the tone is very similar.

Staring at the attack route he had drawn, Qingfeng frowned.

Originally, Emperor Tong still had the trump card of double aces, but now Huang Lai's situation may only be able to play two quarters... at most three quarters...

"A fight like this... I'm afraid it will be like two knives slashing at each other desperately. Whoever can't hold on first will be finished first." Kise understood what he was referring to.

"...As long as you grasp the rhythm and wear them down, it's fine? Little Heizi can't stay on the court for the whole court. In this regard, I'm just like him."

"Go all out. Ryo."

Hoseok was taken aback for a moment.

"...I thought Xiaoqingfeng said "don't force it". I didn't expect that such words would encourage me to go all out." After the surprise, a moved expression followed.

"Because it's useless even if you say that, it's better to let you play to your heart's content. ──Tonghuang three years, our last match."

"I'm...really glad...to come to Emperor Tong..."

Looking down at the ring on his hand, when Kise said this, his eyes were extremely soft.

he said softly.

"Do you know? At that time, Xiaoqingfeng said "Come to Tonghuang, come follow me", although you may have said it casually, but that sentence really saved me...every time...appeared in front of me The timing is so just right... It's as if fate led you to save me..."

Although many things happened in the middle, there was sadness, pain, love each other, but also hurt each other; but looking back all the way now... If there is no youth and frivolity in the past, no one is complete.

"I also once thought, if Xiao Qingfeng hadn't said that sentence at that time, what would I be like now—maybe I went to Haichang according to the original plan, became the first person there, and then every year If you keep challenging you in the same place, you may lose to you all the time, but you still don’t want to give up.” He looked at the ring on his ring finger and said softly.

Three years is too much time, leaving too many marks on each other.His lapis lazuli ring, Xiao Qingfeng's amber earrings, the wound on his knee, and the scar on Xiao Qingfeng's forehead.

Three years is too much time, leaving too many traces on each other.

"The first time you gave me the color of the world, the second time, you gave me courage."

Kise confessed sincerely.

"I have been chasing you Xiaoqingfeng...whether in the past or now...I want to reach the same height as you, I want to see the same scenery as you...For this reason, I continue to work hard..."

"It's no longer necessary, you don't need to chase after me anymore, Ryo."

Qingfeng stared at him, a familiar smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.It is the smile of a tyrant.

"──You have caught up with me a long time ago." Aomine Daiki said in person.

Whether it's skill, will, or a crazy passion for basketball──

They have already reached the same height as themselves.

"Is that so...?" Even if I heard it with my own ears, it was still hard to believe.Kise blinked in surprise.

"Although there is still a long time to pass me, congratulations, you are also a basketball fool now." Aomine said.

"So what's our name? Basketball Dumb Couples?" "That sounds stupid enough." "Hahaha, really, it sounds super stupid!"

The two laughed like that for a while, and the people next to them couldn't help turning their heads to look at them.

"──I will always watch you, even if I can no longer play in the future, my eyes will still be chasing you, Xiao Qingfeng." Kise said while wiping the tears that fell out of his smile.

Although he will leave the game early, although he will never be able to play oneonone or play again, but he believes that he will replace him and continue to run with his own share.

"──So please fight for my share. No matter what happens in the future, don't give up lightly. Please realize my dream together."

With tears in his eyes, he said to Qingfeng with a smile.

"Of course, isn't this nonsense?"

Qingfeng gave him a hard look.

"No matter what happens, I will never give up." He said firmly.

"It's an appointment." Kise stretched out his fist.

"Well, we have an appointment." Qingfeng also stretched out his fist.

It tapped lightly.

This is their second appointment.

Turning over lightly, Kise quietly stared at the sleeping man in front of him──as soon as he entered the restaurant, he picked him up and threw him on the bed, and then pressed him directly on top of him. to the feet.It was really gnawed──Kise took a look at the tooth marks on his body.

They laughed, yelled, quarreled, tossed and turned, kissed and licked all night in the room, and finally both of them were tired from the quarrel, and fell asleep hugging each other.

Gently stroke the long scar on the forehead with fingers, from the corner of the forehead to the top of the brow bone, the thread on the wound has not been removed, and it is crawling on it rudely.A deep scar.

He just looked at the scar like that, almost in a daze.

Skin rubbing against the smooth and soft silk quilt, Kise got off the bed lightly, picked up the bed cover that fell on the ground, and wrapped her naked body.

He walked to Qingfeng's coat that he had thrown on the chair, took out his mobile phone, entered his birthday without thinking, unlocked the password, then opened the phone records inside, walked into the bathroom, and went to the bathroom. locked.

"I want to negotiate with you on a condition. If you accept it, I will agree to your request—other than that, it is impossible." In the middle of the night, the voice of the young boy came from the son's number.

"...You say, whatever the conditions, you can do it." She immediately reacted, "No matter what it is, I will agree."

On the other end of the phone, the man was silent for a while, and for a few seconds, only the sound of his breathing remained in the cold and dead space.

"... Please, please support his dream unconditionally no matter what happens, please support him to continue pursuing his dream." Kise said word by word.

"Basketball is just a small part of my life for me, but for Xiaoqingfeng──it is the whole of his life...

Please, please, always support him...I know better than anyone the hardships of chasing dreams; The path of a player is difficult. Even if he is successfully selected into the NBA, it does not mean that he really has a chance to perform. Maybe he will sit on the bench for several years, or he may be released to other teams before he can play at all. An opportunity that will arrive at an unknown time──The brighter the place, the deeper and greater the pain inside...

Without your backing, he would have fought very hard alone..." That kind of pain is not something a human can bear.

No one understands better than him how much blood and tears there are under the brightly lit stage──This world is very cruel, especially on such a first-class stage, where thousands of people compete, or even more──

Only those who persevere have the chance to touch their dreams.

The torment and pain in between.It's not something one person can bear -- no one understands it better than he does.

"Please support him... If my aunt can agree to my request, I am willing to break up with him after graduating from high school. Otherwise, it is impossible for me to leave him." He said decisively.

"It doesn't matter if you say I'm threatening, in fact, I'm threatening. I'm here to negotiate, not to seek peace."

On the other end of the phone, Kise seemed to be smiling.

"If I break up now, he will definitely not agree...It just so happens...I'm going to study in Paris after graduation. I think that would be a good timing. Let me mention it." After a pause, Kise continued to speak.

"Xiaoqingfeng's temper aunt should also know that as long as it is something he has made up his mind, no matter who it is, it is useless; so, auntie, your only choice now is to accept my conditions...you have no other choice. "

"...I promise you." Aomine Hui replied seriously.

"I will remember what you promised me today. I will not tell you about the fact that you came to me, Auntie, and the things we agreed in private---so, please give me this last bit of time, Don't let anyone bother us anymore." He was cold and firm, not negotiable.

"...Why? I want to do that."

"Does this need a reason?" On the other end of the phone, the boy seemed to be smiling.

"I accompanied him all the way up, and I saw his persistence in his dream and all his hard work, so I hope more than anyone else that his dream will come true—no matter what method is used, I must push him up to the top. That position. Either way."

Finally he closed his eyes.

No crying, no choking, no emotional words, no words like I love him.From beginning to end, sobriety is cold, bone-chilling.

Megumin Aomine said tremblingly, "I assure you, no matter what happens, even if it's bankrupt, even if it's risking my own life... I will fully support Dahui's basketball dream. For the rest of my life."

But she clearly felt that the person she was talking on the phone with now, this boy, was second only to the person she loved Dahui the most in this world.

"Thank you... Kise-san." She knelt down deeply, even though he might not be able to see it.But she really sincerely thanked him for his fulfillment.Thank him for his willingness to quit.Thank you for his willingness to sacrifice so much for your son.

"...Please remember what you said tonight." Kise said.With his head down, bangs completely covered his real expression.

"Please...you...support his dream on my behalf."

Because I can no longer ride on the same battlefield with him.

The call was cut off just like that.

Hanging up the phone, he hugged himself tightly, his nails dug deep into his skin, if he didn't do this, he couldn't stop the trembling all over──

It was the same when Xiaotao asked him about studying in Paris this morning.

"I failed."

──he whispered in her ear.

"So don't tell Xiao Qingfeng, I've failed the exam anyway, it's embarrassing." He also gave her an embarrassed expression.

Flawless acting.

The perfect lie.

He hugged himself tightly.

He is really a very selfish person.

He is really a very selfish person.

Selfish enough to value someone other than himself──As long as he is good, other people... don't care.

He smiled self-deprecatingly.

──If it was him three years ago, would he do this?