In early May, the sun was already very hot at ten o'clock.
At the request of Fujita Hiroshi and others, Nishimura Yitaka, a physical education teacher, readily agreed to be the referee for this friendly match.
5v5 naturally involves the whole game. Shiina Kiri was assigned the center position by several people because among the five players in Class C, he was the tallest.
Even if he is only 1.8 meters tall.
Compared with the regular league, this height is a bit short for a center, but as far as the class is concerned, it is still just right.
After all, Fujita and others are only a little over 1.7 meters tall. Even Hiroshi Fujita may not be 1.7 meters tall in Shiina Kiri's opinion.
Because he compared the monitor with Hiroshi Fujita, and he felt that the monitor was a bit higher...
However, Fujita Hiroshi himself insists that he is 1.72 meters tall, and Shiina Kiri is too lazy to challenge this.
The center of Class E is half a head taller than Shiina Kiri. He is about 1.9 meters tall and looks much stronger than Shiina Kiri. His name is Danno Yuryo. Shiina Kiri played against him once or twice when he was a freshman in high school.
All I can say is that I almost forgot the name.
Basketball is a sport that requires height and weight, there is no doubt about it.
But it was just for fun, and Shiina Kiri didn't intend to take it seriously.
When several people found Teacher Nishimura, the class had already been in class for nearly ten minutes. In order to avoid affecting the next class, the duration of this social match was set to thirty minutes.
Each half lasts fifteen minutes, with an intermission of ten minutes.
Teacher Nishimura is an impatient person. From the time he agreed to be the referee to the official start of the game, only two or three minutes passed.
He raised the ball above his head with both hands and threw it straight upwards. Kiri Shiina and Yuki Danno took off almost at the same time.
To Teacher Nishimura's surprise, it was Kiri Shiina who grabbed the ball instead of Yukio Danno, who was taller and stronger than him.
‘This boy has really good jumping ability.’ He couldn’t help but think to himself.
After Shiina Kiri got the ball, he threw it to point guard Hiroshi Fujita behind him and trotted to the opponent's court near the free throw line.
Not long after, Shiina Kiri received the first ball from Hiroshi. After receiving the ball, he subconsciously made a fadeaway jumper.
There was a "bang" sound, the board was broken.
Shiina Kiri was a little helpless. If it were before yesterday's extra points, he could say that he had an 80-90% hit rate on this ball, but now... the hit rate is zero.
Fortunately, Isamu Aoyama at position 4 grabbed the rebound and quickly passed it to Itoo who ran to the three-point line at a zero-degree angle.
As he caught the ball and jumped, the basketball hit the net.
Class c: class e scored 3:0.
There were chaotic cheers outside the stadium, including men and women, all students from three classes.
After that, Hiroshi Fujita fed Kiri Shiina the ball several times, but without exception, he missed all of them.
Shiina Kiri also felt a little embarrassed when she saw Fujita Hiroshi's look that looked like a resentful woman.
But there's nothing he can do, he really doesn't have any "touch" now.
Later, he learned the lesson and only grabbed rebounds and passed the ball, and no longer took the initiative to shoot.
As a result, his position as a center has lost its meaning, and it is more or less just filling the role.
Teacher Nishimura couldn't help but shake his head secretly when he saw his playing style. Sure enough, talent cannot represent everything.
He could see that Shiina Kiri's shooting and dribbling movements were very standard, but if he couldn't make the shot, it was as if he had drunk fake wine.
But if you don't score, you won't score. Because if you don't score, you just give up pitching. This kind of temperament is really not acceptable.
No matter what he does, he is most afraid of losing his energy. Shiina Kiri's behavior seems to him to be too petty.
When the game reached twelve minutes, the score between Class C and Class E had become 17:24.
Everyone on the field was sweating profusely and most of their clothes were wet, even Shiina Kiri.
too hot.
When his opponent was taking a free throw, he wiped the sweat from his face with his clothes, but suddenly he heard someone cheering him on.
He turned around and saw Aozora, who was wearing a high ponytail outside the court, making a shouting gesture with her hands and shouted loudly.
"Shiina-kun, come on!"
The group of women's "relatives and friends" beside her looked at each other in shock.
"Aozora-san, were you just cheering for the boy who didn't score a single goal?"
"Yes, Aozora-san, he...well, how should I put it?"
The girls around her spoke politely to each other.
"Actually, that classmate also grabbed a lot of rebounds..."
Some people even licked her hard, although Shiina Kiri did grab a lot of rebounds.
"Isn't Shiina-kun handsome?" Aozora turned to look at them.
"He is my darling!"
"!?"
Everyone seemed to have heard a thunderbolt from the blue, and they were all speechless.
However, Aozora ignored them and stood outside the venue and continued to shout loudly.
"Come on! Shiina-kun! I love you the most!"
Shiina Kiri. "..."
He looked around sadly, and at a glance he saw Gensei Yukari and Kobayakawa Kazuki sitting in the shade of a tree. She was holding a bottle of water and lowering her head.
Shiina Kiri looked at the supervisor, but saw that she just looked at him calmly, then turned to talk to Gensei Yuka.
In the stadium, Hiroshi Fujita looked at Shiina Kiri with an expression of envy and jealousy.
"Why is it that I have the most points but no one cheers me on? You damn boy Shiina! You can actually let Aozora-san come and cheer you on!!"
Shiina Kiri pondered for a moment and then said, "I remember Ito-san hit three three-pointers, right?"
Class C only has seventeen points so far, excluding Itoo's nine points...
Hiroshi Fujita choked. "Is this the point? Shouldn't the point be that I score more points than you?"
"Shiina, why are you such a loser now? You voted seven or eight times and none of them got in! You are not like this in your first year of high school. Are you pretending to be us on purpose?"
"No, I have agreed in advance to give the opponent a few balls at the beginning. Do you think I'm joking?"
Shiina Kiri waved her hands, looking a little embarrassed.
"I haven't played basketball properly in almost a year. Isn't it normal to be nervous?"
The good old Maeda Keiji smoothed things over. "Okay, okay, it's just a friendly match. Shiina-kun, you don't have to blame yourself."
Fujita Hiroshi was a little helpless. "Keiji, do you see that Shiina seems to blame himself a little? This guy is so thick-skinned."
"Hahaha." Shiina Wu smiled and patted his shoulder.
…
At the end of the first half, the score between the two sides reached 19:27, with Class C trailing Class E by a full eight points.
In the last three minutes, the center of Class E suddenly stretched his foot towards his foothold when Shiina Kiri was grabbing a rebound. Fortunately, Shiina Kiri believed in his "subconscious mind" this time and stepped down with his left foot diagonally, at the cost of a stagger.
Escaped a sprained ankle.
He stood up and glanced at the opposing center Duan Yexiongliang, but saw that he didn't react at all, as if it was just an unintentional move.
Shiina Kiri frowned and didn't say much, but she remembered this person in her heart to avoid being tricked next time.
Intermission.
A few of them walked to the shade of a nearby tree, and as soon as they sat down, they saw Aozora walking over carrying a bag of ice water.
"Shiina-kun, here you go."
She took out a bottle of ice water and handed it to Shiina Kiri.
"Thank you, Aozora-san."
"What did you call me?"
Shiina Kiri. "..."
"Xiao Nai."
He glanced at the people around him. Except for Ito-o, the other three looked like they had seen a ghost.
"You...you..." Hiroshi Fujita stuttered.
"What happened to us?" Shiina Kiri unscrewed the bottle cap and took a sip.
"Dear classmates, you have it too."
Aozora held the bag with both hands and handed them water one by one. Upon seeing this, Fujita Hiroshi stood up quickly, reached out and took out a bottle of ice water from the bag, looking a little inexplicably reserved.
This is the water given to him by the princess of Yuuki High School!
The rest of them were well-educated and humble, as if they were seeing a leader.
When he finally handed it to Itoo, he who had never spoken before today spoke suddenly.
"Thank you, sister-in-law."
"Pfft...cough...cough..."
Shiina Kiri almost choked to death.
"Giggle." Qingkong Nai was also stunned for a moment, then covered his mouth and smiled.
"Shiina-kun, your classmate is really good at talking."
"You're really good at talking nonsense, aren't you?" Shiina Kiri said angrily.
"Hmph." Qingkong Nai snorted, took out the last bottle of water from the bag, and was about to open it.
"What are you doing? Can you drink ice water?"
"I'll just take a small sip!" Qingkora wrinkled her nose and looked at him.
"no!"
Hiroshi Fujita. "..."
Maeda Keiji. "..."
"..."
Shiina Kiri also realized that the two people were talking a bit like dog food, so she said.
"Ahem, we still need to discuss tactics. Your presence here will affect us, Miss."
He took the ice water from Qingkora's hand and chased them away.
"All right."
Of course, Aozora heard what he meant. She actually gave him face. Shiina Kiri didn't expect this. He thought he would have to spend some words to send her away.
When Aozora left the rest area of Class C, Hiroshi Fujita had a look of despair on his face.
"Shiina, you really deserve to die!"
This time even the good old Maeda Keiji agreed. "Indeed."
"I didn't expect Miss Aozora to be your girlfriend. She just transferred to another school a few days ago, right?" Isamu Aoyama also looked sad.
This feeling is as if I have been playing with you since childhood, grabbing your farts with my hands and feeding you until you were small, and then suddenly married a popular female star.
Perhaps it would be even more explosive than marrying a female star, because Aozora Na is the eldest lady of the Aozora family!
Even the top female celebrities would humiliate and lick her when they see her.
"What about Gensei-san?" Hiroshi Fujita suddenly realized a problem.
"Don't ask, they are all my wings."
Shiina Kiri sighed.
"You deserve to die!"*3
"It really deserves to be damned." The taciturn Ito man also added.
…
After the halftime break, the game continues.
Just when Shiina Kiri thought the game would end with Class C losing, something unexpected happened.
While fighting for a rebound, Shiina Kiri suddenly felt someone push her stomach hard with her elbow.
Because there was no protection, this one felt like it had been hit by a bull. Shiina Kiri couldn't help but squat on the spot holding her stomach.
"Ha, ah." Shiina Kiri endured the pain and looked up, and saw that the center who pushed him still looked innocent.
"Shiina, are you okay?" Maeda Keiji quickly came over to support him, and several other people from Class C also gathered around him.
Hiroshi Fujita, the friend who always said he should be damned, walked up to Duanno Yuliang first and pushed him twice, but did not push him.
"Duan Ye, you bastard can't afford to play? You're playing dirty in a fraternity game?"
"I warn you not to slander people, maybe Shiina-san was hit by a ball!"
Seeing Hiroshi Fujita trying to pick up his clothes, he frowned and swatted him away.
As the whistle sounded, Nishimura Yoshitaka walked between Fujita Hiroshi and Danno Yuki with a gloomy face.
"what happened?"
"I don't know, Mr. Nishimura, I seemed to have lightly touched this classmate when I was grabbing the ball, and he suddenly acted like this."
Duan Yexiongliang quickly waved his big hands, looking a little honest.
But his words were completely different from just now.
Of course he knew that hitting the ball in the stomach would not fool the PE teacher.
Teacher Nishimura frowned and glared at him.
"Are you sure you touched him lightly? Then he would be like this?"
"Then I don't know." Duan Yexiongliang continued. "In this way, if you think I committed a foul, you can give him a free throw and I will admit my mistake."
"you…"
Nishimura Yitaka was a little angry. Duanno Yuliang's body blocked his sight at that angle just now. He did not see the foul action.
But this Danno Yuliang must have made some small moves.
"I'm fine." Shiina Kiri stood up holding her stomach.
"Shiina-san, do you want to take you to the infirmary?" Nishimura Yitaka asked.
"It doesn't matter, just finish the fight."
Shiina Kiri said calmly.
He silently glanced at the Duan Ye Yuliang who was playing dumb on the opposite side. He didn't understand that the opponent's actions were relatively clean in the first half, but at the beginning of the second half, they tried to trick him.
Because the two of them were in constant physical contact, [Fighting Expertise] reminded him many times, but he was afraid of hitting Yuliang Duanno back, so he usually restrained himself.
Speaking of which, towards the end of the first half, Yukio Duano seemed to be starting to play dirty tricks.
So he wasn't clean in the first half?
He had just been thinking about it for a long time, and he didn't remember when he had offended this person. He had played ball with him when he was a freshman in high school, but Shiina Kiri asked himself that he didn't seem to offend him.
"Are you sure you can continue now?"
Seeing that his hair was wet with sweat, Nishimura Yilong asked again.
"We won't fight." Hiroshi Fujita then walked up to Shiina Kiri and pulled him away from the field.
"Shiina, why are you holding on so hard? It's just a game. Your health is important, so don't die."
Shiina Kiri was a little moved, but still held him back.
"It's okay, just listen to me and finish the fight."
"Are you afraid of being embarrassed if you leave? It doesn't matter. You are already such a good person. It's embarrassing enough."
Shiina Kiri. "..."
He felt that Fujita Hiroshi's mouth was really damaging.
He pulled Fujita Hiroshi and whispered, "Pass all offensive balls to me later."
After he finished speaking, he didn't care what Hiroshi Fujita thought. He just took the ball and walked to the free throw line, saying as he walked, "I'm really fine. Let's finish this game. I'm going to play seriously."
"What about that, Duan Ye-san, you just said you committed a foul, right? I can't make two free throws, right?"
"Shiina-san, please don't talk nonsense. I said this because I saw you were injured. But if this makes you feel more comfortable, I can let you three free throws."
Duan Ye Xiongliang touched the back of his head and smiled, showing his big teeth.
"Is this in line with the rules, Teacher Nishimura?" Shiina Kiri looked at Nishimura Yitaka again.
But he hesitated for a moment and then nodded.
In fact, this game is not a regular game.
Seeing this, Shiina Kiri stood on the free throw line and shot the first free throw.
Didn't get in.
the second.
Didn't get in.
The third.
Still didn't get in.
There was loud laughter from outside the field, from all directions, and could no longer be suppressed.
Shiina Kiri glanced around and saw that it wasn't just Class E that was making fun of him, but also Class A, and even several people from Class C.
He glanced at Aozora and saw her frowning and talking to the girl next to her. She seemed to notice his gaze and turned her head.
"Shiina-kun! Come on!" Almost as soon as she saw him, she curled her lips, raised her right hand and waved, shouting loudly.
She really does look like a girlfriend.
Her voice was like a small boat in the sea among these laughters, and seemed a little weak.
But in Shiina Kiri's view, it was deafening.
He suddenly saw another small boat, which called him the same name, but it was a very recognizable neutral sound.
He saw the squad leader standing on the other side. Next to Kazuki Kobayakawa was Yuka Gensei, holding the bottle of water tightly and looking at him with worry on her face.
Shiina Kiri touched her nose, and finally looked at Duan Ye Yuliang, only to see the contempt in his eyes.
But when she met his eyes, she became honest again.
'It's such a fun little day.'
Shiina Kiri felt contempt in her heart.
The game continues.
Shiina Kiri blocked Duanno Yuliang's body, but suddenly heard him whispering behind her.
"Soft-footed shrimp."
Seeing that he didn't respond, Duan Yexiongliang continued.
"You are a weakling like you, but you are worthy of Qingzora-san. You are such a sissy, and you fell to your knees with just one elbow."
He turned his head and glanced at Duan Ye Xiongliang, only to see him smiling.
Shiina Kiri nodded slightly.
This makes sense, it turned out to be the reason why Aozora cheered for him.
That's why he was tricked after the free throw on this young day.
He had already taken action when he landed on the ground in the first half.
At that time, Shiina Kiri thought it was unintentional, but who knew that he was deliberately trying to do it to herself.
Shiina Kiri didn't utter a word to retaliate, which was no different from the aunt who cursed. He continued the game as if nothing happened.
Duan Ye Yuliang smiled even brighter when he saw this, he caught up with Shiina Kiri and continued to whisper.
"Soft-footed shrimp."
As the attacker changed to Class C, a group of people formed a formation in Class E. Kiri Shiina ran and got stuck in front of Yuri Danno.
Yuki Danno didn't argue with this. After all, in his eyes, Shiina Kiri didn't even make a free throw, and even if he caught the ball, he passed it to someone else.
He is located closer to the backboard and is relatively better at defending and rebounding.
In fact, Class C will definitely lose. The score has now reached 19:31, and there are only thirteen minutes left before the end of the game.
He suddenly saw Hiroshi Fujita pass a lob pass to Shiina Kiri in front of him, and then Shiina Kiri who was supposed to pass the ball suddenly turned around and jumped up!
Yuki Danno subconsciously jumped up to block his ball, but found that Shiina Kiri passed him and directly poured the ball into the basket with both hands!
There was a cry of surprise outside the stadium.
It's not just because Kiri Shiina dunked.
The most important thing is that he is riding on Duan Ye Yuliang's neck.
Yukio Danno was forcibly ridden by Kiri Shiina and lost his center of gravity and fell directly to the ground!
Shiina Kiri lowered her head and glanced at Yuki Duanno, her mouth slightly opened as if she was a little surprised.
"Ah, are you okay, Danno-kun?"
Shiina Kiri "panicked" and stood up, but then "unsteadily" sat down on his face.