blue fantasy

... "

Mitsui stared at Rukawa in shock, his face was ashen, he stood there blankly, with an unbelievable look.

"Rukawa Maple!"

Sakuragi suddenly called out.

"How about I come to compete with you?"

"……forget it."

Rukawa glanced at him blankly, turned around and left.

"Not interested in!"

"You want to run away?"

Sakuragi was distraught and furious.

"Are you so afraid of competing with me?!"

"Fear?"

Rukawa stopped in his tracks, squinting at him sideways.

"Isn't it?"

A sneer of contempt crossed Sakuragi's face.

"Can you say that you can definitely beat me?"

Rukawa looked back at him with a gloomy expression. The two faced each other as if the atmosphere was frozen. The entire basketball hall seemed to be filled with the strong smell of gunpowder.Mitsui, who was immersed in failure, suddenly woke up, winked at Miyagi, and waved away everyone with his arms.

"Today's practice is over, everyone can go back."

"Uh?"

Everyone rushed to the door in amazement, and they couldn't help complaining.

"Why can't we watch it? The match between those two seems very interesting..."

"yes."

Someone responded.

"According to common sense, Kaede Rukawa will win, but Sakuragi beat Captain Akagi...and he has accumulated a lot of experience in several consecutive games, maybe there will be unexpected results..."

Mitsui ignored everyone's comments, turned around and "bang" closed the heavy door, took a look at Miyagi, and sat on the ground.

"If everyone is looking at you, it will be a big blow...especially that guy."

**********

The night sky is like a boundless and transparent sea, quiet, vast and mysterious, with stars scattered around, shining brightly.Yang Ping was carrying a cooking bag, walking alone in silence, just about to cross the corner of the school building, suddenly his eyes lit up: Ayako was standing not far in front of her with a smile.

The two looked at each other, and Yohei stepped forward to meet him.With a brighter smile, Ayako waved lightly.Yohei cheered up and looked radiant...at least from the outside.

"Shimizu, what are you doing here?"

"Don't call me Shimizu."

Ayako smiled slightly.

"Mito-san, please call me by my name from now on...we are already very good friends."

As if she didn't care about such trivial matters, she said in a relaxed tone.But the expression on her face showed that this was a decision she had made after careful consideration.From "Shimizu" to "Ayako", the distance between the two, and the importance of changing the name, gave Yohei a new understanding.

"...Sorry, my mouth is too stupid, I can't correct it for a while."

Yohei lowered his head in embarrassment.Ayako responded with a smile.

"where."

In order to adjust the atmosphere, Yohei deliberately joked.

"I'll pay attention next time."

"Um."

"Are you waiting for someone?"

"No...no."

Ayako quickly denied, blushing slightly.She glanced sideways in the direction of the basketball court, and said na na.

"I'm a student on duty, and I don't know much about physics problems, so I asked the teacher for after-class tutoring, and I have to go home now."

"It's late."

Noticing Ayako's subtle actions, Yohei's heart sank.

"Girls won't be safe, I'm about to deliver food to Sakuragi, you wait here for a while..."

"Need not."

Ayako hastily stopped her and said with a smile.

"I trouble Mito-san every time, but it's fine for me to go home alone...please stay."

After finishing speaking, he bowed slightly and walked away.But she walked a few steps, stopped again, and turned her head to Yang Ping, hesitating to speak.Seeing her put away her smile, Yanghei straightened his expression.Ayako sighed softly, and said something that she had been hesitating tonight.

"That day... I met Mitsui. After playing Xiangyang's game, he appeared near the tram stop on my return trip."

"What did he go looking for you for?"

Ayako shook her head, expressing her ignorance, and continued speaking very cautiously.

"I didn't speak to him at all. Didn't I promise not to see Mitsui again? Because I promised you... I just saw it and didn't speak."

"..."

Seeing Yangping showing doubts, she raised her voice again.

"It's true, you have to believe me."

Yohei didn't answer, just nodded with a forced smile.Whether it was Yohei or Ayako, they all found that Ayako's tone of speaking had gradually changed into a tone of defense without knowing it.Ayako turned around, ready to leave.

"Shimizu."

Yohei shouted.

"You want to see Mitsui?"

Hearing what he said, Ayako's lips trembled, and under the dim streetlight, her face became unsteady.

"...No! I've already forgotten about him..."

"Go if you want, I won't change my mind for you."

Yangping lowered his eyes and smiled silently, ignoring her.

"Your smile is so cute tonight... I will smile more often from now on."

No matter how much she emphasized forgetting, Ayako still couldn't make up for the hole in her heart.Thinking that Yohei might have seen through her mind, Ayako couldn't help feeling a strong layer of self-loathing.Seeing Yangping's figure disappear into the vast shadow, she couldn't help asking herself softly: Can I really forget him?

**********

Yohei felt that he was the one who was truly selfish. While he pointed the finger at Mitsui, he also kicked the original intention hidden deep in his heart into a deeper bottomless pit.Mitsui seems to really like Ayako, and breaking them apart will give them the happiness they want, but how should they face other people's accusations in the future?

He was distracted thinking about his own thoughts, was it right to take Ayako away from Mitsui like this?From Ayako's standpoint, the best ending is of course that Ayako and Mitsui's lover will finally get married.For myself, everything within my reach will be lost in an instant, knowing that such pain will happen, why bother to bear it?Everyone has a dream, what is his dream?

The lights of the basketball hall were faintly visible, and suddenly a voice came to the ear, and after careful identification, it was Mitsui and Miyagi.He stopped, hesitated for a moment, and dodged into the nearby bushes.Looking sideways, under the dim light, Mitsui was sitting alone leaning against the door, staring at the distant sky in a daze.

"My existence...what does it mean to the team? Is it really indispensable?"

Miyagi rubbed his calf muscles and turned to look at him.

"Why do you ask such silly questions? The match against Xiangyang, without you, would have been lost long ago. The players respect you very much."

"You think so?"

Mitsui's eyes flicked to the red and black knee pads on his knees, his expression blank for a while.

"I worked so hard to get back to the team... All pride and self-esteem, in exchange for..."

It is not easy to frankly admit failure, he lowered his eyes and hummed softly.

"...I'm scared. When I see Hasegawa's confident face during the competition, I feel scared... Miyagi, I'm no longer the Mitsui Kotobuki I used to be. Now I will even lose to the freshman. Brat."

"Are you still concerned about what happened just now?"

Miyagi opened his mouth in surprise, seeing that he was depressed, he said.

"Actually, even I am not sure that I can beat him. That boy Rukawa seems to have an unprecedented power sprouting in his body... But now is not the time to be depressed, there are more difficult competitions waiting for us, isn't it?"

"Affiliated to Hainan University..."

Mitsui stared at the moonlight bent into a hook shape, standing alone in the night sky, and whispered with a wry smile.

"...that team that is more difficult than Xiangyang."

"We will find a way, and we will definitely come up with a countermeasure."

Miyagi obviously lacked confidence.Mitsui gave him a sideways look, but didn't expose his guilt, because he also had this kind of stubborn personality.Although deceiving oneself and others is better than admitting defeat at the beginning.It would be frustrating to talk any longer, and the two of them kept silent at the same time.It wasn't until there was a strong impact sound from the basketball touching the rack in the gymnasium that Mitsui opened his mouth helplessly.

"I didn't expect... I actually waited for more than an hour for a girl..."

"Are you talking about clear water?"

Miyagi asked sympathetically.

"You guys are not going well? In the match against Xiangyang, I seem to have seen her appear. Is she here to cheer for you?"

Miyagi came to the conclusion pretending to be happy.Mitsui was noncommittal, pondered for a moment as if lost, and finally shook his head.

"Maybe I came to watch the game as Mito's girlfriend."

He chuckled, not showing any signs of frustration, but inadvertently revealed the truth.

"Sometimes... I long to have people around me who can encourage and comfort me. When I encounter setbacks in the game, I will think that I am redundant, and that kind of depression cannot be experienced by others. I... am just a jerk... "

"Mitsui."

"I blame myself for bullying others first, so I ended up like this today."

He turned his gaze to the pitch-black night.The breeze was rippling, gently brushing on the skin like catkins, Mitsui stood up, looked back at Miyagi, pointed his chin to the location of Ayako's classroom, and smiled indifferently.

"I told her to go to Mito, so...it's over."

"..."

"...A woman like that..."

His expression was stiff, his tone was heavy, and he couldn't speak any more. In the end, he had to press his lips tightly and remain silent.After several months of being together day and night, Miyagi's reaction to Mitsui is clear. He has a strong appearance, but he will appear extraordinarily fragile when encountering setbacks.Listening like Yangping wooden sculptures and clay sculptures, a heart is like a fallen leaf, which is blown into the abyss by the wind for a while, and floats to the sky for a while.Mitsui waved his hand to Miyagi and walked away.

After changing his uniform, he stepped out of the locker room.he looked up