[Kuroko's Basketball] Our age

All the results proved that Akashi was right.

"Ha... It seems that I have also been underestimated. Although I usually just practice for fun, let's be a little more serious this time."

Haizaki's voice was still arrogant and arrogant, but it was slightly lowered at the end: "Don't regret it, Ryota."

It is obviously hot and dry weather, but I felt a chill down my spine for this sentence.

Haizaki is serious about wanting to destroy Kise.

"yellow……"

"It's an honor to be so respected, Shogo-kun, but let me say something before we begin."

After straightening the sweatshirt glued to his back, Kise lowered his body and was ready to dribble: "I don't like your basketball, and I don't like the feeling that something I like is easily trampled by you. So I, Must win."

Ten balls, the outcome is between the two.

Akashi, Aomine, Kuroko, Midorima, Murasakibara, Momoi, all those who came along with Kise Ryota were all on the sidelines, one yellow and one gray two teenagers, not a single subtle movement was missed .

"Shiraishi, let's play a game."

"Eh?"

The boy with red pupils hardly changed his expression, and his voice was so low that only I could hear it clearly.

"If you feel that you can't win shogi all the time, so you are not reconciled, you can take this bet." He said, with a trace of a half-smile across his mouth, "Who do you think can win?"

"W-what? What does Akashi-kun mean?"

"It's just a gamble, there's no need to be so nervous." He turned his head and looked at me, "Use your experience and judgment to tell me, who do you think can win?"

"this one……"

Concentrating, his eyes fell back on the two teenagers, and his thoughts immediately occupied his mind.

Who can win...?

The first reaction is the statistics and games I have seen before. I can basically recall everyone's development trend from the time they first joined the club to the present.

But, but no...

Is this what Akashi made me think about?

No, nothing but experience and judgment...

"...Kise-kun." I hesitated to call out the name of one of them, but I couldn't help emphasizing my tone when I called out, "I choose Kise-kun."

"Oh, is it?" I heard a chuckle, without affirmation or negation, "Then, let me teach you another lesson."

"Basketball is cruel."

"Varied……"

"Calm down and watch for yourself."

His eyes fell back on the two teenagers, and the next second, his breath was choked.

"When is..."

When did Haizaki take all these away?

"It's right after you..." The gray-haired boy panted quickly, but his movements were not chaotic at all.

Turn left, turn right, fade away, turn around, turn again in mid-air...

Haizaki performed such a difficult movement extremely beautifully.

Time and time again, Kise's offense failed, and Haizaki managed to score one goal after another.

"Just after you, I have gone to all the guys who have played against you."

"So, I snatched them all."

"Now I'm the right one...you, a counterfeit!"

boom--

At the last ball, Kise fell hard, staring at the ground as if he couldn't believe it.

"How is this going?"

"Why is this happening? Kise isn't bad in practice, isn't she?"

"Have you forgotten, idiot? Haizaki can take away other people's skills!"

"But it's too fast!"

"Hush—be careful not to be heard by him!"

"Well, how should I put it, it's still too early."

Finally, it was Aomine's voice, Aomine, who had practiced with Kise oneonone for so long, summed it up like this.

"Now, you should understand?"

Akashi turned and left, the voice sounded as if it came from another world, he didn't look back, he didn't look at Haizaki who was showing off his might, and he didn't look at Kise who was kneeling on the ground.

"Xiangwu-sama, are you done practicing?"

The sound of high-heeled shoes clicked, and although the girls who came in were wearing the same Teiko uniforms as us, but because of the deliberate modification of several details, they showed a mature atmosphere beyond the level of junior high school students.

"Isn't that person Kise's recent girlfriend?"

I don't know whose voice came to my ears, and I clearly felt Kise tremble.

"That's it, let's go first."

For some unknown reason, Haizaki deliberately greeted Kise.And the latter also stood up, with a mask on his face.

"Ah, goodbye then, Mr. Xiangwu."

Kise smiled, and then slowly stood up with his hands supporting his body, but he wobbled and fell to the ground again.

"Kose, go to the infirmary." Midorima stepped forward, motioning to help Kise up.

"It's okay, little green room, I can go by myself."

Kise smiled, pushed Midorima's hand away, then tried to stand up again, and left staggeringly.

Why does Kise, who is obviously smiling, make me want to cry?

On that day, Kise Ryota did not return to the gym.

The training went on as usual, and no one remembered the little incident just now.

It's not fair, it's so unfair...

I can see all the hard work of Kise Ryota.

But, but...

He lost to Ashizaki Shogo.

"Yeah~~ Xiao Huang's things are still here."

When the museum was about to close, Momoi picked up Kise's backpack, with a look of embarrassment on his face: "Is he still in the infirmary?"

"Probably so."

Staring at the backpack, I didn't know what kind of impulsive trend it was, so I took it over: "Let me go and have a look."

The sky has completely darkened, the heat that still occupied during the day has been dissipated by the coolness of the night, and there are almost no people on the campus. The overly quiet atmosphere makes me involuntarily take my steps lightly.

Passing through the corridor, the windows of the infirmary showed light. I raised my hand and was about to knock on the door, but was stopped by a certain voice, and I froze in place.

There were cries from inside.

It was the first time I heard Kise Ryota's tearing cry.

"Why, why not me..."

"Why can't I..."

He remembered Kise's smile as if nothing had happened when he left.

Oh, he is really a great actor.

Suppressing the pain while still laughing.

Double the smile, double the pain.

Kise Ryota, how did you endure it?

Biting my lip, I took a deep breath and raised my hand again to knock on the door.

"No."

A hand stopped me, and the voice of the owner of the hand was so soft that it couldn't be softer: "Not this time, classmate Baishi, you can't go in."

"Hei... Mr. Heizi?"

"Shh-"

Heizi immediately motioned for me to be quiet, glanced at the window of the infirmary, and pulled me away immediately.

"Student Shiraishi, it's better to leave Kise-kun alone for now."

Heizi raised his voice slightly after leaving the infirmary some distance away: "This failure must have hit him hard."

"I know."

Tightening the straps of my backpack, I lowered my head and bit my lip hard.

Of course I know what Kise Ryota's self-esteem is.

Also, how eager he is for basketball now, and how much effort he has spent practicing.

It's ironic that Haizaki, who originally liked basketball, and Kise, who originally despised basketball, are now in completely opposite positions.

but……

"It's so unfair."

"No, it's fair."

Heizi was the same as usual, without any emotional change in his voice: "As long as you can score, as long as you have enough ability, the sport of basketball will show these without omission. The results on the scoreboard are never would lie to anyone."

"However, Kise-kun has worked so hard for that, losing to Haizaki-kun..."

"No, ability cannot be equated with hard work, Shiraishi-san. There will always be people like that, no matter how much hard work they spend, they will always lose to some people who don't work hard, and they will even remain unknown forever. Akashi-kun is right, Basketball is a cruel sport."

The boy's calm expression and calm narration are like stones thrown into a pond.Staring at his eyes, those blue pupils were not as calm as they appeared on the surface.

Yes, that's right.

Heizi has the deepest understanding of this kind of thing.

At that time, looking into the boy's eyes, I suddenly realized that basketball, the fairest sport, is also the most unfair.

41 I want to play basketball

After that day, the rumors about Shougo Haizaki spread faster and faster in the basketball club. His head that is always raised proudly, eyes that always regard others as ants, and powerful skills that make people fear The newcomers in the department changed their expressions when they talked about it, and avoided him one after another.

Haizaki himself doesn't care about this kind of thing. He is full of conceit, and he has long since ignored training. It is common to be late and leave early every three days, but because of the oneonone with Kise, his starting position has not been affected at all. shake.As a result, he has built up more self-confidence, and no matter how long he disappears in the ministry, he will not be questioned.

Also missing during training was Kise.

The teenager, who took time off from training citing a foot injury, has not been in the gym for nearly a week.Judging from experience, the injury should have almost healed after such a long period of recuperation, but he himself still hasn't come back.

Anyone would guess that.

——He must have been scared by Haizaki.

——It won’t be long before I retire from the department.

boom--

The sound of the basketball slamming into the ground startled me. Just as I came back to my senses, Aomine had already picked up Ziyuan's body.