I waved my hand halfway to the oncoming Hongcun Xiuzao, "Good morning." The men's basketball team is also having a sleepover, although Hongcun has refused to play with me recently, I still bump into Hongcun from time to time during meal time .

"Ah." He responded to me, put his hands in his trouser pockets, turned and left listlessly, and walked to the table next to the men's basketball team.

I also went to the women's basketball team and sat down at the table of the second army, "Good morning."

"Morning." Takai Satomi, a student in the same grade, enthusiastically offered a bowl of hot soup, "Takahashi, try it, this one is delicious. The others, all, are terrible."

──Have you tried them all?

I took the soup in silence.

"Takahashi," Mayo Harada, a student at the same level of the Sanjun at the next table, called me, "Today, the Sanjun gymnasium is being cleaned. I'll tell you the location later."

I waved my hand to signal that I knew.

Ichikawa Asahi, a student of the same grade from the second army as soon as he entered the basketball club, asked while wearing his hair in a bun, "Takahashi, do you train with members of the third army every day?"

I was drinking soup with a bowl in one hand, turned my wrist with my left hand, and pointed my thumb at Satomi Takai.

Takai Satomi said: "I have it too, don't ignore me! When I was in the armed forces, Takahashi was doing extra training by himself first, and then the rest of us joined, and we had extra training two days a week. But recently, in the camp, Just train every day."

Ichikawa Asahi took off the rubber band that was biting his mouth, and fixed the hair bun on the back of his head, "I advise you not to do more unnecessary things. Fighting with people weaker than yourself will never make progress. .We are Diguang, victory and strength are the only ones."

"Hey!" The girls from the third army became angry when they heard the words, and Mayo Harada was the first to choke, "You can join the first army if you have the ability. The senior sisters in the first army didn't make a sound, so it's none of your business?"

"I also think," Takai Satomi put down the food in his hands, and became serious, "Ichikawa-san said it's too much. No one is born to play basketball." Her face flushed a little, "You are from elementary school I just started fighting, is that fair?"

Ichikawa Asahi did not back down, "Do you want to say it is fair when you are on the field? It's so naive! I don't want to preach, but as someone who entered the second army before you, I will give you a little reminder." Other former second army The people who have just been promoted and the people who have just been promoted look at each other with hostility.

I glanced at them, drank all the soup, then put down the bowl, stood up, and said, "What Ichikawa said has two points, one is meaningless, and the other is that it is useless. Whether it is meaningful or not is a subjective intention, and it is useless to say it." ; and whether it is useful, let alone just talking. How about a fight between the second army and the third army during the break at noon? But the newly promoted will be temporarily included in the third army."

"Ah?" Ichikawa Asahi also stood up, "Hey, Takahashi, don't you think you can beat us with this? I didn't expect you to be such a naive person. You have time to care about so much, why don't you work harder , be promoted to the first army as soon as possible."

"I don't mean strength first when I say this, don't get me wrong," I raised the corners of my mouth, "I just don't agree with your point of view. You can keep your ideas, as you said, I'm actually not free at all, I don't have time to go Teach other people's daughters, but you stepped on my friend's tail. Besides, I think we will have many opportunities to cooperate in the future, so it's better to clarify things once and for all."

"They're not strong enough, but they're talking big," Ichikawa Asahi choked, "What's wrong with them? You all know that we are our future teammates."

"Fuck!" Harada Mayo of the Three Armies shook her freshly dyed blond hair and shouted, "You are so contemptuous of a woman! Do you think it's great to win against me in elementary school?"

"Give me a chance," I looked at Ichikawa Asahi, "please give me a chance, for the sake of your willingness to remind me."

"..." Ichikawa Asahi looked at the other girls from the Second Army, then nodded, "We promise you. I will explain to you clearly what is Teiko Women's Basketball."

"What Teiko women's basketball is, I don't think it's up to anyone else to say," I said, picking up my dinner plate.Fuck me, I don't have the meat buns I want anymore, "The Diguang women's basketball team is us now."

"Sounds so nice," Kaori Matsumoto, the vice-captain of the first army table, crossed his arms and said, "Have you guys ever asked us? Huh? Arbitrary decisions about games, disputes between players, and tomorrow's morning training. I'll add [-] circles! Now the Diguang women's basketball team belongs to us, the second and third armies, don't get it wrong!"

The captain, Hirami Sara in the third grade, wiped his mouth with a tissue and threw me a bunch of keys, "After the game is over, we will be fined another [-] laps. The original training is not allowed to fall."

"Yes." I turned the key ring, stuffed it into my trouser pocket, and walked out to the food table with a blank expression.

Nothing, nothing, nothing.

"Hello." A plate full of food was placed on my tray.

"...Ah, there are no meat buns."

"Tell me thank you honestly." Hey, there were veins throbbing faintly on Hongcun's forehead, "I'm sorry, I was late, so I couldn't grab it." He pouted.

"Just kidding. Thanks." I laughed.

"...Cut." Hongcun turned her face away, "Hey, what happened to you just now?"

"I've just been promoted, and I still need to get used to it. It's okay."

"Your supervisor over there is very dependent on others. He used to be in the men's basketball academy." He looked at the things on the dinner plate, picked and picked casually, and pouted, "I've asked, and the senior said his style is very good. problem, but his team wins awards every year."

I lowered my eyes and stuffed the meal bag into my mouth casually, "I can tell."

"Actually, I personally don't think there is anything wrong with aiming at victory."

"I don't deny the importance of victory." I bit the bread and gave him more things on the plate. "It's just that I have more thoughts."

"Stupid-ass."

When someone came this way, Hongcun stopped the conversation and walked away with a look that was very unfamiliar to me, with a fierce expression on his face, and I was also expressionless.

──Does he really think that if we do this, others will not think we are familiar?

At noon, the second and third armies had a duel, and the three armies lost by one point, but through this most brutal and direct method, they finally got them to admit each other.If you don't fight, you don't know each other. Sports clubs are sometimes so simple and cute.After the game was over, I stood on the sidelines and raised my head to drink water, curling up the corners of my mouth.The smaller the point difference, the better, so that the two sides can play fiercely and maximize the feelings honed in the game.

"Takahashi!" Ichikawa Asahi didn't even care about the bun on the back of his head, and ran over in a bit of a hurry, "The first army that played today is back."

I raised my eyebrows.

Ichikawa Asahi continued: "They won the Tokyo Metropolitan Championship, but narrowly won by three points. Now everyone is standing on the track and field, and the supervisor is giving lectures." She pursed her lips.

Takai Satomi strode over and added: "I hate it! Captain Hirami was punished to kneel at the front of the team! Even vice-captain Matsumoto was scolded!"

The other girls all looked gloomy.We say we want to win and not be weak, but the seniors from the first army still help us often, and most of the basketball team respect them very much.

"You guys!" The coach of the second army came over, "Don't mind other people's business! Anyone who breaks the rules, now let me abide by the agreement and punish you to run away! For the third army, if you can't finish running today, I will also tell your coach Said, continue to run tomorrow!"

I twisted the cap of the water bottle and asked, "Coach, do you think it's appropriate for the players to be exposed to the sun at noon?"

"Gaoqiao, you are the one who took the lead in making trouble. I haven't even mentioned you yet, so don't bother to help others. This is not the three armies with no rules and no rules!"

"Wait!" Ichikawa Asahi interjected, "I was the one who picked things up first, so if you want to punish Takahashi, you should punish me first, right?"

"Very good, is it team spirit? I'll punish both of you together. Tonight, a thousand jump shots!"

I raised my eyebrows high, "Please don't confuse it. I am making trouble and punishing the army are two different things. Do you really think it's okay to do so?" When he wanted to say more, I held the water bottle in one hand and crossed it with the other. At the waist, a voice interrupted, "Answer my question directly. Is there a problem or is there no problem?"

"What happened?" Supervisor Miyoshi Lairen came over, he glanced at all of us, and then fixed his eyes on me, "Sakura Takahashi, it seems that you can't wait to express yourself. Very Okay, very good, after today's training, come to my office. I never refuse players who want to show their intentions."

I looked at him, "See you this afternoon, Supervisor Miyoshi."

At the end of training in the afternoon, I helped Ichikawa Asahi re-coil her hair with one hand, and said softly, "Don't give up on making a thousand jump shots. If you can't finish running laps, let everyone forget it. Just finish the report." .”

Ichikawa Asahi paused, handed me the rubber band, and stretched his right arm horizontally to relax his muscles, "Of course, I didn't mean to destroy myself." She glanced at me, "Be careful yourself, don't hit me casually." Miyoshi Supervisor. Don’t say I didn’t remind you, he is not easy to mess with.”

I smiled, patted her on the shoulder, then turned and walked towards the teacher's room.When I got closer, I heard the captain and deputy captain arguing with the supervisor inside.

"I don't agree!" Deputy captain Kaori Matsumoto said in a deep voice, and she could hear her trying hard to suppress her anger, "Takahashi still has a lot to learn, promoting her too quickly will only destroy her. It's like before... I don't agree!"

"I don't agree either," captain Hira Misara said in a warm voice, "Our current lineup is enough, and it's too late to get in touch with the team after adding her in. I don't think there's any need to be so anxious. It's okay to slow down a little bit. Supervisor, I hope you can think about it again."

"Of course I don't intend to ruin the excellent player, I just want to give her a chance." Miyoshi Lairen suddenly smiled, "Why don't we ask Takahashi himself?"

I pushed the door and walked in, "Hello, three."

"Your two seniors are worried that promoting you to the first army too soon will be bad for you. What do you mean?"

"I mean," I looked at the supervisor, "I don't think I can be destroyed so easily."

"Takahashi," Matsumoto Kaori held me back, "You girl, don't be too arrogant, what do you think our Teiko First Army is? Retire as a first-year student!"

"A place to play basketball." I smiled, and continued to look at the supervisor, "Isn't it? Why do you want to turn middle school girls' basketball into something weird? I'm just here to play basketball." The coach's personal honor?I raised the corners of my mouth.I remembered the scene I saw in the locker room of the First Army.

"Very good." The supervisor said, "Then you will join the First Army starting tomorrow."

"Wait a minute," I raised my hand to stop him, "I hope to stay in the Second Army first. Captain Pingmei also said that it is now during the game, and I don't want to disturb everyone. How about waiting until after this summer?" Being led by the nose It's obviously wrong to go.

"..." Director Miyoshi's smile gradually fell, and he said with a hint of arrogance: "I have always been tolerant to promising players, but Takahashi Sakura, you have to seize the opportunity. I am not the only candidate for the next vice-captain One. If necessary, if you are all useless, I can also ask the school to add foreign excellent sports students."

I also put away my smile, "Come on, there is no need to say more about these disgusting words. All in all, the meaning of both of us is very clear and we have reached a consensus, right?"

"That's right."

"Goodbye then." I bowed to the two seniors, "Goodbye, two." After leaving the teaching building, I turned back to the gymnasium.

"Gaoqiao," the others surrounded him, "are you alright?"

I waved my hand, "It's okay. Ichikawa, I want to talk to you."

Ichikawa Asahi and I walked out and sat on the sidelines of the track and field. She shook a hair bun that couldn't fall off. After listening to my words, she said, "You mean, the other person that the supervisor refers to is me?"

"Yes. Although there was no example of going directly to the first army as soon as you entered the team before, the future captains and candidates will join the first army one after another two months later. The current first army does not have a single freshman, which is very strange. Well, leaving the first army aside, you are the most outstanding one among the freshmen, one of the members who went straight into the second army, and you are also the best in the second army."

"Of course it's not that I don't have confidence in myself." Ichikawa Asahi sat cross-legged, "I've paid attention to what you said. I heard that there was a very outstanding senior in the second grade class, but she was trained by supervision last summer. Excessive, useless. This is in line with Vice-Captain Matsumoto's reaction. Unless you ask for it, she has been pressing you to not let you go up through channels other than the promotion test. And, before you come in, the rest of us I didn’t know you were in Diguang at all. The vice-captain is protecting you, and the seniors are also protecting other people. Do you want us to be more prepared to join the first army?”

I put my hands on the ground and leaned back slightly, "I happened to be late on the day I entered the department. The deputy captain should have decided to keep me in the army at that time."

"Late again? You really love being late, so make up for it!"

"You little sisters, you really think too much. I am very grateful to her, but she will be overwhelmed." I used my left hand to push back the a little too long forehead hair, "The problem is the supervisor, and Schools that allow this to happen. Honestly, I don’t think they’re helping.”

"..." Ichikawa Asahi brushed away the hair that was wrapped around her neck, "Then what do you want to do?"

I smiled, "Anyway, let's get out of the senior sister's umbrella first. You, okay?"

"Who are you talking about? I can't?" Ichikawa Asahi raised his head, "I know who you are, Sakura Takahashi, the captain of Green Light No. [-] Elementary School, right? We've been on different lines, I haven’t faced you head-on, you’ve even cut your hair, and I didn’t recognize that you were in Diguang. But, I’m the captain of the Lianxiao national champion, fuck, who are you talking to in that tone?”

──Probably because she spoke to Vice Captain Matsumoto in an old-fashioned tone.

I smiled and turned my face away.

"Takahashi, you, what are you laughing at!"

I put my hand on her shoulder and pressed it hard, "Smile, basketball is basketball, at least it's not professional basketball." I looked at the sunset on the track and field field, and said softly, "Any other adult things? , just let them die."

"..."

I turned my head, looked at Ichikawa Asahi, and said with a smile, "You just need to play basketball."

"...I told you not to underestimate me!"

I withdrew my hand and shrugged, "I'm just honestly stating the scope of your ability." It's convenient to talk about it.

"You!" Ichikawa Asahi became mad.

"Hey──" Satomi Takai called out standing outside the Second Army Gymnasium, "The manager said he was coming in for a massage. We fucked too much today! Senior sister will come to help! Also, Takahashi, the vice-captain left an apple Here you go."

"Tch," Mayo Harada of the Three Armies passed by wiping his sweat, "It was just a fight, it was like wearing a pair of panties, you two are naive enough, aren't you?"

──It was you and Ichikawa who got better all of a sudden.

It wasn't me who was arguing with Ichikawa.

One day, I had just finished a practice match with girls from the Second Army and the Third Army. I came out to the sidelines of the track and field, turned on the faucet, and quietly slapped my face with water.At this time, even in summer with long days and short nights, the sky has already darkened.I went to the drink vending machine and pressed a bottle of drink, walked to the door of the gymnasium, and saw Hongcun practicing the offense under the basket over and over again from between the doors.I put the drink and the candy box in my trouser pocket in front of the door, then turned and left without disturbing him.

In the summer of this year, when all the first-year members of the Diguang women's basketball team did not play, the seniors took home the trophies of the Tokyo Metropolitan Championship, the Kanto Third Place and the National Third Place.The captain, Hirami Sara, and other third-year seniors quit the club to prepare for the high school entrance examination. The vice-captain Kaori Matsumoto was promoted to captain, and Ichikawa Asahi and I were promoted to the first army at the same time.

One day, I climbed over the wall and ran to school as usual, and when I accidentally ran into Hongcun, who had been late lately, I suddenly realized that Hongcun and I hadn't spoken for a long time.He was getting more and more troublesome every day, and even the male squad leader with glasses almost didn't want to bother him anymore.

In the second semester, when Ichikawa Asahi and I were promoted to the regular bench, Nijimura was still at the bottom of the first team and failed to get a jersey with a back number.

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