[Black Basket] Warm Mist

Early the next morning, Hasegawa Shiho woke up just after six o'clock.

The morning light outside the window, she stared blankly at the translucent curtains for a while, then turned over, only to find that Aida Reiko, who was sleeping on the bed next to her, also had her eyes open.The eyes of the two people who were facing each other met, and they laughed knowingly.

Aida Reiko asked softly, "Can't sleep?"

Hasegawa Shiho replied in a low voice: "I think I may be a little sleepy. I haven't slept well all night, and I always have something on my mind. I just turned over a few times and was suddenly awakened by the sound of birds outside."

Aida Reiko said: "It's not that I'm in bed, it should be because I'm nervous. I have experienced so many games, and I still can't help being nervous. I can't fall asleep every time before a game. It is common to stay up late to read materials. You'll get used to it in the future."

Hasegawa Shiho said, "Really, last night I..."

Before she could finish her sentence, Yuki Mikoto, who was sleeping on the innermost bed, hugged the quilt and sat up: "Ha, I thought I was the only one who couldn't fall asleep, and I didn't dare to turn over, for fear of making a noise that would wake you up." ——In the end, you are the same as me! This is great, I think we should stop lying on the bed and pretend, we should just get up and discuss together how to deal with Yangquan today!"

"Ok."

"Yes you can!"

Yuki Mikoto's call was echoed by the other two girls.After the three of them washed and changed their clothes, Hasegawa Shiho opened the curtains.The sun has risen, and the bright sunlight outside the window fills the whole room at once.

The game starts at ten o'clock in the morning.The hotel is very close to the stadium, and the gymnasium can be reached within a 5-minute walk, so Seirin and the others plan to leave at nine o'clock.

Hasegawa Shiho deliberately washed and ironed the school uniform yesterday afternoon, and hung it meticulously on the hanger beside the bed. At 08:30, she changed into this clean and neat school uniform.When she was tying the ponytail in front of the mirror, she combed it and put it down, put it down and combed it again, and repeated it two or three times before she was barely satisfied.After carefully clamping the forehead hair on both sides with two hairpins, she flicked her ponytail and looked back and forth to make sure there was no problem with her image.

Everything was ready, Hasegawa Shiho helped Aida Reiko, who had also combed her hair several times, choose the position to wear the hairpin.After they finished dressing, the two walked out of the bathroom, only to see Yuki Mikoto putting on makeup while holding a small mirror.

Aida Reiko didn't know much about makeup, and Hasegawa Shiho's makeup is also very poor.Yuki Mikoto muttered "How can a girl not wear makeup before going to the battlefield", and forced the two to sit on the side of the bed, and put on light makeup for them.

When the three girls appeared at the same time, the boys all stared blankly.

Hinata stammered: "Rei, Reiko, you...you..."

Aida Reiko had a few intersections on her forehead, and punched Hinata in the stomach: "I just put on makeup! Don't say it's ugly! Don't say it's inappropriate!"

"Hiss!" Hinata, who was brutally beaten, gasped, feeling very innocent, "I just want to say that you have become beautiful, Reiko, there is no other meaning!"

"...Huh?" Aida Reiko's face turned red all of a sudden, "Yes, I'm sorry! Um... have I really become more beautiful?"

Hinata clutched her stomach helplessly: "Nonsense! Is it interesting for me to lie to you?"

"Hey!" Aida Reiko couldn't help punching Hinata after receiving the affirmation, "Hinata-kun, you hate it!"

—— Coach, hello girl!Our goosebumps are all over the floor!

Seirin's team members expressed their sympathy to the captain in silence: It seems that the punch in the back is not much lighter than the punch in the front. Captain Hinata, you have worked hard. No matter whether you belittle or praise the new image of the coach, you are sadly beaten. ah……

Fuhata standing next to Hasegawa Shiho also blushed slightly and praised: "Junior is very energetic today."

Vulcan yawned, and a teardrop blinked from the corner of his eye: "Aha... I said Hasegawa, I didn't expect you to be able to join the ranks of beautiful women in the army with a little dressing up! Not bad! Don't make yourself look like a panda in the future It’s like, does it make sense to have two dark circles under your eyes every day? You are a girl, how can there be a girl who doesn’t pay attention to appearance?”

Hasegawa Shiho just wanted to refute Vulcan, when Kuroko's elbow came back out of the river and lake, and hit Vulcan's stomach so hard that he almost smashed Vulcan's morning meal.

"Vulcan-kun, you are too rude." Heizi educated Vulcan, "Sister Hasegawa stayed up all night because of us, how can you say she looks like a panda? And Hasegawa-kun looks good even without makeup, Vulcan-kun, you You should get some glasses."

——No, Heizi-kun, you are the one who should wear glasses!

After seeing Yuki Mikoto's face, the boys compared the gap between Hasegawa Shiho and Momoi Itsuki in their minds, and actually compared the gap between Hasegawa Shiho and Yuki Mikoto.In good conscience, Hasegawa Shiho with makeup can at most draw with Momoi Itsuki without makeup, let alone Seirin's Hana Yuki Mikoto who has been meticulously dressed.

——So how on earth did you boast that Hasegawa-senpai is good-looking despite the beauty of Manager Yuki without conscience? !

Seirin's bachelors feel extremely embarrassed by Kuroko's distorted aesthetics.

After all the members assembled, Hinata's "go" sound boosted the morale of the whole team.Seirin, who had recharged his batteries for a whole night, marched towards the gym in a mighty manner.

As a result, Seirin started their journey to the national competition.

Seirin's opponent in the first match was Yangquan.Under Yangquan's upgraded version of "absolute defense", Seirin fought his way out and once again defeated Yangquan, whose average height was over 1.9 meters, and won a decisive victory.

After the two sides lined up to salute, Yangquan's coach Masako Araki, who is said to be able to predict the development of the game based on the analysis of data, walked in front of Hasegawa Shiho: "Are you Hasegawa Renichi's sister?"

Hasegawa Shiho stood up and replied, "I am Hasegawa Shiho."

"Very good, I remember you." Masako Araki, who used to be a member of the national team, looked directly at her coldly, "Let's compete again in the Winter Cup!"

"You're wrong, it's not us 'two'." Hasegawa Shiho said with a firm attitude, neither losing nor losing: "It's us Seirin and you Yangquan. And, no matter how many times we compete, we They all have confidence in our Seirin's strength."

Araki Masako was refuted by Hasegawa Shiho, and her tone became more and more cold: "Little girl, don't talk too much too soon. You Seirin still have a long way to go, maybe you will taste the taste of failure in some game. "

Hasegawa Shiho smiled back: "Hasn't the Yangquan led by coach Araki already tasted that taste?"

After Araki Masako left, Aida Reiko said to Hasegawa Shiho: "It's a good thing you can stand it. I heard from my father that Yangquan coach Araki was a well-known bad girl before entering the national team."

Hasegawa Shiho smiled: "She has a good relationship with my elder brother, at least she won't embarrass me too much for my elder brother's sake."

With the momentum of winning the first game, Seirin played relatively more easily in the next few games. In the knockout round, he defeated several other teams and successfully broke into the semi-finals.

On the afternoon of the fourth match day of the national competition, Seirin took a short break, and everyone unanimously decided to go to the gymnasium to watch the match between Luoshan and Tonghuang-this match will finally determine the top four lineup.

So far, there have been three finalists in the national competition: Seirin, Xiude and Haichang.

Hasegawa Shiho took the subway back to Tokyo due to a temporary incident at home, and missed the match between Tonghuang and Luoshan.When she returned from Tokyo that night and sat in the hotel room to watch the game video, she asserted firmly: "Tong Huang will definitely lose."

Aida Reiko asked her, "How did you guess that?"

"It's not a guess, but the point difference between the two teams is too wide, Tonghuang wants to score but can't make it back." Hasegawa Shiho sighed, "Although I expected Tonghuang to lose to Luoshan, but—— - More than 30 points, I can't imagine it! Even if we compete with Tong Huang again, I dare not boast that we can achieve the feat of throwing away our opponent by [-] points, and we really deserve to be the king of Luoshan."

Aida Reiko also sighed with her: "Yeah, I always feel that we are a bit..."

Hasegawa Shiho said: "If there are no accidents, we will face Luoshan in the next match, right?"

Aida Reiko said: "That's right, the game is scheduled for tomorrow afternoon. There are two videotapes of this game. I have asked them to study it first. Do you have any ideas?"

Hasegawa Shiho shook his head: "Originally I had a lot of ideas, but after watching the video, all my ideas have become waste products. As for tomorrow afternoon... let's discuss the coping strategies now! No matter how strong Luoshan is, we sincerely Rin can't just resign himself to fate and lose his fighting spirit. The solutions are all invented by people, and we have to find a solution quickly."

Yuuki Mikoto, who had just taken a shower, heard Hasegawa Shiho's words, and while wiping her wet hair with a towel, she snorted angrily, "Hmph! Let me tell you, we must defeat Luoshan tomorrow! "

Hasegawa Shiho and Aida Reiko looked at each other, but they didn't understand where Yuki Mikoto's dislike for Luoshan came from.

The next afternoon, Hasegawa Shiho saw a familiar girl while facing the main players of the Luoshan basketball team for the first time.This girl was sitting in the middle of the first row of the Luoshan auditorium, which was the closest to the Luoshan bench area.

This was the first time that Hasegawa Shiho saw the girl whom his second brother had a crush on with his own eyes.

There is a photo of this girl in Yuki Hasegawa's wallet.One time, Hasegawa Shiho accidentally glanced at her, and felt that this girl was quite ordinary, but her temperament was a little different, and there was nothing special about her appearance.

——It's not worth the second brother's sadness for her at all!Besides, why should she reject her second brother?What's wrong with the second brother?

Hasegawa Shiho couldn't help but want to complain for his second brother.

Sensing Hasegawa Shiho's strangeness, Kuroko who had been standing beside her reminded her in a low voice: "Sister?"

Hasegawa Shiho came back to her senses: "...Hmm." She decided to ask Kuroko who might know, "Does Kuroko-senpai know the girl who is talking to Akashi-senpai across the way?"

Heizi followed her prompts and looked over: "Oh, that's Asahina Nazaki. I remember that in junior high, she seemed to be in the same class as Akashi-kun for three years. She should be Akashi-kun's girlfriend. Doesn't the junior know her? She He used to be the chairman of the Diguang executive committee in our session."

For some unknown reason, Kuroko deliberately emphasized the words "Akashi-kun's girlfriend".

"...I don't know." Hasegawa Shiho tried to dig out the name "Teikou Executive Chairman" from his memory, but failed, "I have never cared about these trivial matters. What does who is the executive chairman have to do with me? "

Teiko Middle School respects the strong, so the super genius Hasegawa Shiho relied on his excellent grades to win special treatment for himself without participating in any club activities in middle school. normal.

Heizi smiled: "Indeed. Then why does the school girl pay attention to her now?"

——Could it be because she got closer to Akashi-kun?

"Because she is the girl who made my second brother's first love fail." Hasegawa Shiho clenched his fists, "Hmph, we Seirin will definitely defeat my second brother's rival in love today!"

The answer was beyond Heizi's imagination: "...I see."

——So Asahina-san is the girl Yuuki-san has a crush on?It's no wonder Mr. Yuuki was defeated by Akashi-kun.Sometimes, the length of time two people have known each other is very important, and Mr. Yuuki can be said to have completely lost at the starting line.

Heizi silently lit a red candle for Hasegawa Yuuki in his heart: Mr. Yuuki probably won't be able to get back his first love in this lifetime.

After hearing Hasegawa Shiho's words, Aida Reiko also encouraged Seirin's starting team members with great ambition: "That's right! As Koshiho said, we Seirin will definitely defeat Luoshan today!"

Yuuki Mikoto, who was sitting in the audience behind Seirin, murmured softly: "Damn Akashi! We Seirin will definitely defeat you bastard who dares to make Ozaki wronged!"

——In a sense, Seirin's coaches and managers are like-minded.

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