Song of Light and Shadow

The next day, November [-]th, the high-profile winter selection group preliminaries will begin.

The Winter Qualifiers, referred to as wc, each region has entered the top eight of the i·h qualifiers over the years to compete for two places in the local region.However, since this year is the nth anniversary of the establishment of the winter selection competition, the top two from each region that enter i·h do not need to participate in the preliminary competition, and can directly enter wc, while the remaining six schools in each region will compete for this The two places added.In other words, this year's WC will have twice as many teams as in previous years.So to some extent, the situation is much more severe than in previous years, after all, the number of games has doubled.But it's a good thing for the audience.

Seirin was not far from the qualifying venue, so Supervisor Reiko chose to gather at the school gate.When Vulcan arrived while playing with the ball with his left hand and puffing, the team was basically full.

"Oh! You are already very proficient with your left hand." Jiang Qi said with admiration as he watched Vulcan play various tricks with the ball with his left hand.

"Well, now I am very proficient in holding chopsticks with my left hand. After all, I have been practicing since the camp. Even a tortoise can learn it." The four-month practice is not a joke. I only use my left hand every day. The writing on the screen suddenly became even uglier, but he still survived the accusations, and now he can write at the same level as his right hand.

Vulcan bounced the ball and caught it with his palm, and let out another breath.

"Speaking of Vulcan, are you still unable to sleep before the competition? Hasn't it improved a lot?" Reiko looked at Vulcan's red rabbit-like eyes and said with a frown, "This is not okay, next time you might as well eat Sleeping pills."

"Ah, it's not... Forget it, I get it." Vulcan wanted to explain that it wasn't because of nervousness, but he couldn't tell everyone that it was because he was worried about what would happen to Kuroko by Kise, and couldn't sleep all night so he couldn't sleep. It became like this, it will definitely be ridiculed.

"Okay, it's almost time to go!" Lizi blew the whistle, attracting the attention of all the staff, "Everyone is here."

Everyone was about to answer yes, but they all seemed uncertain. Even Lizi murmured that someone was missing, so she counted them one by one.Vulcan frowned, and asked, "Where is Heizi?"

"Ah! That's right! Heizi!" Everyone remembered that Heizi had missed again.

"That... I'm here." However, when Heizi's voice came faintly as usual, everyone sighed in unison. Although they knew that Heizi's invisibility skills were very powerful, they still couldn't get used to it.

Vulcan continued to frown, he did not see Heizi just now, it is absolutely impossible for him to miss Heizi.Had his eyes been troubled by lack of sleep?

"Have you been here since the beginning?" Vulcan asked suspiciously.

Heizi paused for a moment, and said seriously: "Yes, from the beginning." But because he was actually running over desperately, he was still panting, and he couldn't hide it, and was finally discovered by Vulcan.

"I'm lying, I managed to catch up." Vulcan looked at Heizi, and didn't make a loud noise, but said as he walked, "Why didn't you let Kise bring you here? That guy has a car."

Heizi didn't speak, just walked beside Vulcan silently.

Originally, he woke up very early and slept well, but because he couldn't bear to disturb Kise, he didn't move, but unexpectedly fell asleep again, and it was already past eight o'clock when Kise woke him up up.Gather at nine o'clock, but it will take half an hour at the fastest to get there from Kise's family, Seirin.So, after eating the breakfast prepared by Kise, Kise did propose that the driver drive him, but he refused.It's not that I care about other people's eyes, but I feel that if I really agree to it, it seems like I have given a promise.Now he can't do it...

"Sorry..." Heizi said softly after silence.

"It's nothing but..." Heizi suddenly apologized, and Vulcan was a little uncomfortable. After all, Heizi's apology seemed unnecessary, but he seemed to be a little happy because of this apology for which he didn't know why, but Also a little embarrassing.

When passing by the vending machine, Heizi remembered that he didn't bring water because he didn't come out from home, so he bought two bottles, put one bottle in his bag, and opened the other bottle to take a sip.

Vulcan was still a little dazed because of Heizi's apology just now, so he kept looking at Heizi until Heizi thought that he also wanted to drink water, so he handed over the water in his hand.

"Do you want to drink, Lord Vulcan?"

"Ah, oh, thank you..." Vulcan took the water in a daze, took a sip, still glanced at the expressionless Heizi from the corner of his eyes, and then suddenly realized that the bottle of water in his mouth was just gone. After drinking it, I almost choked to death on the unswallowed water.

Looking at the water bottle in his hand, Vulcan swallowed, blinked twice, feeling a little agitated in his heart, this is the legendary indirect kiss... It always feels good... Thinking of the latter word, Vulcan's face froze It turned red, and he quickly screwed on the cover, stuffed it back into Heizi's hand, took the ball back from Heizi, and quickened his pace embarrassingly.

Heizi didn't understand why Vulcan walked so fast suddenly, so he also quickened his pace and at the same time pulled the chain of the bag to put the water in. At this moment, the phone rang.He took out the phone and glanced at the number on it, then trembled his fingers, hesitated for a while, finally opened the cover, and pressed the answer button.

The voice from the handset was still so familiar, but it had long since lost the intimate tenderness of the past.

"Hello, Aomine-kun..."

"...Today is the qualifier, right?" Aomine's voice seemed a little nasal, and he didn't know if he had a cold.

"Ah."

"...The opponent is Cheng Cheng."

"Ah."

"...Come on, I'll be waiting for you at WC."

"Ah."

"...Then, goodbye."

"See you."

Heizi didn't say much, or he didn't know what to say, so he was about to press to hang up, but suddenly there was a loud "wait a minute" from the receiver, which made Heizi stop his finger that was about to press the button, He put the earpiece back to his ear again.

"Is there anything else, Aomine-kun?"

"...The match between me and Kise that day, why don't you watch it." Qingfeng's voice was a little hoarse.

"Ah."

"Then did you hear me..." However, at this point, Qingfeng suddenly stopped talking.

Heizi waited quietly, although he knew what Qingfeng wanted to say, but he really wanted to hear Qingfeng say it clearly.

"...No, it's nothing...goodbye." But in the end Qingfeng still didn't say anything, and hung up the phone.

Hearing the beeping sound from the receiver, Heizi clenched his fingers and closed the phone.

Realizing that Heizi was not by his side, Vulcan turned his head and saw that Heizi was moving forward slowly with his head lowered, so he stopped strangely, waiting for Heizi to come over.But when Heizi walked up to him, he clearly noticed that Heizi's body was trembling, and he was holding the phone tightly in his hand. Then he said "coward" in a soft voice without thinking, and quickened his pace.

"Hey, what's the matter with you?" Vulcan was a little worried about Heizi's state.There are still too many things he doesn't understand, so it is difficult for him to understand what Heizi is thinking, but he wants to understand, even if he uses the most clumsy method, he wants to get closer to Heizi.

"No, nothing." Heizi replied immediately.

"How can you act like nothing? Who was calling just now?" Vulcan frowned.

"This has nothing to do with Lord Vulcan." However, Heizi rarely stopped Vulcan's question in a harsh tone.

It's definitely not like nothing!Vulcan was not angry at Heizi's attitude, but rather worried. Whether such a Heizi would perform abnormally in the next game is a question that needs to be considered, and more importantly, Heizi's distrust of his attitude is indeed true. It's a bit annoying.

"It doesn't matter? Didn't you say that we will become the number one in Japan together? If you can't even be honest, how can you be together? Did I hide anything from you? Heizi, you said that you are my shadow, so you can't Do you trust me a little bit as the light?!" Vulcan lowered his voice, even he knew that if the seniors knew about this kind of thing, it would definitely shake the morale of the army.Heizi is the starter, if there is a problem with the starter, the whole game will be disadvantaged.

Heizi stopped after hearing Vulcan's words.

This sentence seems to have been said to him before, trust or something, you are my shadow or something... But in the end, the light and shadow are still separated, right... Although Vulcan seems to be different, but...

"Vulcan-kun... If one day, you become as powerful as Qingfeng-kun, what will happen to you?" Heizi asked sullenly.

Vulcan raised his eyebrows, and immediately realized that the phone call just now must be from Qingfeng. Although he was indeed not smart, his intuition seemed to be quite accurate.Moreover, the only one who can make Heizi's emotions fluctuate so much now is Qingfeng.

"How should I do it? It's still the same as now." Vulcan sighed, stretched out his hand and patted Heizi's head, and then said in a serious tone: "Although you keep calling me an idiot, I don't think it's wrong. Okay. I’m an idiot, so I won’t think about extra things. For me, whether it’s now or in the future, there are only two things that are most important. One is basketball, and the other is to become Japan together with everyone. First. So, this is Seirin, not Teiko."

Heizi stared blankly at Vulcan, stopped in his tracks, and then suddenly lowered his head after a long while, opened his legs again, and accelerated forward.

"Hey! It's rare for me to say so much without expressing anything. It's too uncomfortable." Vulcan muttered and caught up with Heizi.

"Vulcan Lord is indeed an idiot." Heizi said calmly.

"Huh? You bastard! You bastard is not qualified to say anything about me. Also, I'm not an idiot!" Vulcan stared.

"Thank you." Heizi whispered quickly when Vulcan howled.

"Uh... what did you say?" Vulcan was stunned for a moment, unable to react for a while.

"It's nothing." Heizi raised the corners of his mouth slightly, and looked up at the blue sky in front of him.

Now he has a group of good partners, so he will not give up his ideal no matter what, although he still likes playing happily with everyone in Teiguang the most.But what if even he gave up hope.

So, no matter what, we have to go on and get to the moment where we can get together and play with a smile again.

Aomine-kun, Akashi-kun, I will not give up.Heizi said firmly in his heart, and moved forward resolutely.