[Comprehensive] Kazuya's happy life

"No? Where is it not?"

Huang Lai looked disapproving.

He was also not angry when he retorted in a very bad tone.

"Well... First of all, I probably don't have the talent you think." He tilted his head, seemed to be thinking very seriously for a while, and then replied seriously.

Seeing Kise pouted his lips, it seemed that he took his statement as a kind of self-effacing or showing off, Kazuya smiled wryly and shook his head.

"You may think that I am talking nicely, but I don't think so at all, but the truth is, I really think so-I don't have the same level of intelligence as you think. talent and talent."

It is obvious that they have just met for a short time, and the relationship is not deep at all, and it can even be said that they are the object of a stranger, but at this moment, perhaps the other party's question directly hits the faint barrier that always exists in Kazuya's heart, Although he seems to be gentle and easy to talk, he seems to be kind and friendly to everyone, but in fact, the true thoughts in his heart have always been hidden deeply, even to the closest twin brother and childhood sweetheart girl. Kazuya, but he has a desire to confide in the other party the true thoughts that have been buried in his heart for a long time.

He met the other party's bright golden brown eyes, and looked back with clear eyes:

"Kise-kun, you may not know that I have a twin brother."

"Brother, he—oh, by the way, his name is 'tatsuya,' Uesugi Tatsuya—is a very talented person."

"If you really want to talk about it, it's probably about the same as you, Kise-kun," Kazuya said, reaching out to compare with Kise who is opposite him, "Baseball, basketball, football, sprint... In short, as long as it is For sports, my brother can always quickly master the skills and tricks, not just sports, but other things including arithmetic, words, and handheld games, my brother always learns quickly no matter what."

"Obviously he is a twin brother, and obviously the two of them started studying together, but he can always be one step ahead. This has always been the case since he was a child. Speaking of it, it is really disappointing."

"That feeling of being left behind, no matter how hard you try to chase, it seems that you can't keep up with the other party."

"So Kise-kun, you said that I have the talent to reach the level I am today without hard work? I absolutely don't agree with this sentence."

Kazuya took off his sweat-soaked ball cap, raised the towel hanging around his neck and slowly wiped his sweaty forehead and cheeks, but kept his eyes fixed on Kise during the process.

Moved by the resentment, envy, and yearning pursuit in his tone that was almost suppressed to the point of being breathless, the expression on Kise's face was no longer the original disapproval and unmoved.

Seeing that he did listen to his words carefully, Kazuya's gentle and elegant smile hung on the corner of his mouth again.

"So, I can't compete with my genius brother in terms of natural talents, I want to follow in his footsteps, I don't want to be left behind by him too much, I want that person's eyes to not only stay on my brother, I want to How can I prevent the reward kiss from passing me by again?"

"The answer is simple. As long as... you work harder than your brother."

"Talent may be an important factor in determining a person's starting height, but Kise-kun, can we really assert that talent is all that determines a person's final achievement?"

"The answer is obviously no. Otherwise, there would be no such thing as 'hard work' in the world."

"If you don't have enough talent, you need to work a hundred times, a thousand times, or even ten thousand times to make up for it—this is all the thoughts in my heart at the moment when I discovered the huge talent gap between myself and my brother."

"My brother," although he said the name of his greatest opponent in this life, the expression on Kazuya's face at the moment was so soft that Kise's heart softened instantly, "Although you have He has such a talent that makes people jealous to the point of going crazy, but he is a lazy guy who is not even willing to put in a little effort and is content with the status quo."

"That's why I asked Kise-kun, have you heard of my brother, Uesugi Tatsuya from Mingqing Elementary School?"

"No." Seeing Kise's slightly embarrassed expression, Kazuya smiled again.

"It's not your fault, Kise-kun—you know, even in our school, my brother is well-known because he is 'Uesugi Kazuya's twin brother'."

"I don't want to say that my brother has lost the talent that I once envied so much that I wanted to exchange everything for it. It's not like that. My brother's talent is still there."

"However, he would rather vacate this talent than make any effort to realize it into a greater achievement."

"And I... from the moment I decided to rely on hard work to surpass my brother, as you said, I have paid many times, which is probably unnecessary effort in the eyes of others."

"And that's how it turned out."

"When mentioning 'Ming Qing's Uesugi', everyone thinks of Uesugi Kazuya, not Uesugi Tatsuya."

"Of the two, elder brother is the more talented one."

"So Kise-kun, are you saying that hard work is meaningless compared to talent?"

"I don't agree with this anyway."

The black eyes, which looked like the finest obsidian, were shining with dazzling sharpness, and the black-haired boy had a soft and calm smile on his mouth, and finally said this to Kise.

And since then, even though it has been several years, every time he thinks back, Kise still thinks that Kazuya who was smiling like that at that time had a dazzling light that made it impossible for anyone to take their eyes off him.

And Kazuya's heart-to-heart confession, although it didn't completely change Kise's mind, it also made him slightly shaken his once deeply believed view about the relationship between talent and hard work.

At the same time, Kazuya and Kise also took this conversation as an opportunity to become very good friends. Even after Kise transferred to another school and left, the two also exchanged email addresses and phone numbers. never interrupted.

Kise later came to attend Kazuya's funeral when he learned of Kazuya's death. Tatsuya said that he seemed to have skipped a very important club event, and he seemed to be ruthless by the club leader at the time when he returned. He gave me a hard training.

Therefore, apart from his good friend and baseball partner Matsudaira Kotaro, it is not an exaggeration to say that Kise Ryota is Uesugi Kazuya's best friend.

Now meeting the other party again by chance, Kazuya is of course very happy-originally in the summer of this year, Kazuya had never met the other party at all.

"Starting again, it seems... there will really be some wonderful changes that are different from the past."

Thinking this way, He also didn't notice that he looked sideways at his yellow-haired friend who was smiling and walking side by side with him. His mood, which was originally a little confused and depressed, became a lot lighter before he knew it.