"I'm going to win the Ranbu Reward!"

In Naha City, on the island of Okinawa in the Ryukyus, a man wearing a sunhat and facing the sea, put his hands to his lips and shouted loudly.

He looked almost thirty years old, and the move was undeniably naïve.

Naturally, it attracts strange eyes from others.

But he didn't pay attention.

The Ranbu Award is a fiction award from RB.

Well, he should be a novelist.

In fact, he has already taken the last step in this year's Ranbu Reward, but unfortunately he finally hated it.

This time I came to the south to play, and I was not afraid of other people's jokes.

He wanted to hide from his new wife.

That woman was horrible.

Seeing the sea, the novelist couldn't help but swear at this magnificent blue.

Roar out, it's much more comfortable.

Woohoo......

The wind was a little strong, and the visor was almost blown away.

"It's worthy of the southern country, go back to the hotel, and start the trip around the island tomorrow." The novelist smiled and muttered to himself.

One hand holds the hat and the other hits the taxi.

Naha is just a small city and there aren't many cars.

I can't hit it for a while.

The novelist was not in a hurry, he closed his eyes and greedily inhaled the salty sea breeze.

The wind is different from that in Tokyo, so wait a minute, it looks like a car is coming.

He opened his eyes again and saw that someone had opened the door first.

"Hey, wait! This is the car I called. ”

"Oh yes, what are you fighting with me! My wife is about to give birth!"

"Huh?"

"Hurry up and get out of the way, if anything happens to my wife and children, see if I don't beat you!"

"You, you ...... man"

Taxis are preempted by others.

The novelist saw that the other party was a couple, and the woman did have a big belly and sweat profusely.

Forget it, forget it.

I couldn't rent it for a while, but the wind was getting stronger and stronger.

"Could it be a typhoon? It's November, so it shouldn't be. "The novelist talks to himself and does not pay attention to his head.

A billboard, a metal shelf that has been corroded by the salty sea breeze.

Suddenly, the wind was a little stronger and creaked.

"Nani?!"

The exclamation was accompanied by the sunhat flying into the air, floating higher and higher.

This day, November 7, 1984.

......

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April 1, 2000.

Nearly 16 years have passed, and not much has changed in Naha City.

Takai Commercial Street.

As one of the busiest streets on the island, there is an arcade hall with the English letters SEGA written on it.

Two boys in middle school uniforms, holding school bags, walked to the door.

Nankoku's school uniforms are all shirts and trousers, and there are only embroidered words on them, and both of them have 'Dazato Middle School' embroidered on their chests.

To the east of Naha City, there is a village of Osato, which should be there.

Underneath the name of the school, there is an East Field and a Hirano Field.

The two are very different, Higashino is about 170 cm, and Hirano is a lot shorter.

"Well, you're going to break your fifteen-game winning streak?"

"Hmm. I did it, you invited me to drink. ”

"Good!"

The two boys, after speaking, walked into the arcade hall, and Higashino found a KOF97 and sat down.

It didn't take long.

Under the SEGA brand, a lot of people slowly gathered.

Some of them walked directly into it, came to the edge of Higashino, and threw coins.

Others are looking inside.

More, head to ear.

"It's appeared!

"Si Guoyi!Yagami!"

"Ha! The opportunity has come! One for two! Yagami and Chen Kehan have been killed!"

"Stupid! I haven't been killed! There are three gases in the last gate!"

"What? It was turned over by the gate alone!"

"There it is! Legend has it that even a god will slam the gate for you to see!"

The battle in the arcade was fierce.

There were many people outside, and the discussion was also very burning.

I don't know how long it took, but no one around Higashino sat down to put coins anymore.

Yah!

Hirano cheered and rushed out of the arcade, and he came to brake with a nice sliding step.

"Wow!" made a BGM with his mouth, and then put on a welcoming posture.

All onlookers automatically got out of the way.

It was as if waiting for the king to come.

Higashino walked out of it with his schoolbag and an indifferent smile on his face, and shook his head helplessly when he saw this.

Hirano was excited, as if in praise, "Let me introduce to you, I just defeated all the martial arts masters on Okinawa Island and created a twenty-one consecutive winning streak. The king of KOF97.

East, wild, most, strong!"

This last sentence is quite imposing.

Everyone was stunned for a while, and decided that the guy in front of them was an idiot.

Higashino walked over and punched Hirano in the head, then pulled Hirano away, "Okay, okay, don't forget that you're going to invite me to drink." ”

"OK!" Hirano had a smile on his face, as if the twenty-one consecutive wins just now had been won by Hirano.

It wasn't until the two walked away that the onlookers seemed to wake up suddenly.

"Si Guoyi!"

"Twenty-one consecutive wins! Sure enough, Higashino is the strongest in Dazato!"

"He is the first KOF on our Okinawa Island!

"Higashino is the strongest!"

Si Guoyi, this sentence is written in Japanese in Chinese, that is, 'strong', and the meaning is similar, 'strong, so powerful', most of which are used as exclamation particles, but if you say it ruthlessly, it also means 'terrible'.

So, Higashino is the strongest, is it so powerful or terrible?

......

The breeze is coming, the sea is blue and the sky is blue.

A few seagulls, making a squashing sound.

Higashino is the strongest, holding on to the railing to take in the scenery.

He has a calm complexion and is very handsome.

In the spring light, in the sea breeze, it is impossible to despise.

Maybe only those players of fighting games will find him scary.

By this time, Hirano had already bought a drink.

"Si Guoyi, is it okay to have a black coffee?"

“OK。 ”

Black coffee, handed it over.

"Haha...... Twenty-one wins in a row!Si Guoyi, why aren't you happy at all?"

Higashino took it, pulled the pull ring, and poured it, "Ah Chun, how can you tell I'm unhappy?"

Hirano, whose name is Jun, pointed to Higashino's face and said, "You can't hide the Buddhist expression on your face." ”

"Hah......" Higashino had to give a smile, "Actually, it's not that difficult, didn't I tell you the trick of KOF97?"

When Jun Hirano heard this, he said as if he had endorsed it, "Yes, yes." As you said, in this game, the strongest characters are four, Yagami, Chen Kehan, Damen, Kagura, as long as these four characters are practiced well, then you can discharge two sets of the strongest lineup, Eight Pig Gate, Eight Pig Crane...... But, I just can't practice well. ”

Higashino looked at the desperate look on Hirano's face, and he couldn't help but complain in his heart.

'I'm a traverser, KOF97's know-how has been shared with you, and it's not okay, I can only say that your gaming talent has been thrown into the Mariana Trench. ’

Dongye is the strongest, originally called Liu Qiang, Chinese.

Crossing such a trivial matter is not worth mentioning in his opinion.

I remember November 7, 2019, that day, as a street writer and dead fat house, he went out for a walk, his mind was full of plots, he didn't pay attention to his feet, stepped on a piece of watermelon skin, and fell. Probably too rounded, rolled onto the motorway and was hit by a big car.

When he woke up again, he found himself in Naha's hospital, and a man and a woman were looking at him.

In his last life, he was an orphan, but in this life he has parents.

It didn't take long for there to be good news again.

Although the nationality is RB, but, according to the contemporary head of the Higashino family, the third generation of Higashino Grocery Store, Higashino Steel.

Our ancestors of the Higashino family came here to escape the war.

Higashino is an ancient Chinese surname.

You are Chinese.

As for his friend, Hirano often calls himself 'Si Koichi'.

Higashino is the strongest and doesn't care, because it's not wrong to call it that.

'Strongest' is his RB name, and his Chinese name is Higashino Qiang.

This is from Higashino Steel.

Strong, as a Chinese name, is good.

But in RB, a single strong word, pronounced 'Si Guoyi', is used too often.

Therefore, the RB name is called 'strongest' and pronounced 'saikyo'.

Higashino is the strongest, and it is duonuosaikyo (Donosai Q).

Hirano, on the other hand, prefers to call his friend 'Si Koichi'.

The two have been classmates since kindergarten, and Jun Hirano witnessed his friend's 'Si Koichi'.

Academic performance, number one!

Sports, number one!

Even a fighting game like KOF97 is the first!

Jun Hirano is worshipped, and it is an honor to be Higashino's strong follower.

However, since entering middle school, Higashino has changed.

Although he is still the first, he doesn't seem to care about these things.

There is always that kind of old monk-like look on his face.

Hirano couldn't help but be a little worried when he saw it.

Higashino's explanation is simple.

"I'm just a Buddha. ”

Hirano thought the word Buddhism was interesting when he heard it, so he memorized it.

At this time, Hirano saw that his friend did not speak, and he thought of something.

made a reporter's interview, "Mr. Strongest, are you still thinking about Mr. Dahe's question?"

This question made Higashino strong.

Mr. Oga, whom Hirano was talking about, was their homeroom teacher.

RB is a nine-year compulsory education, and the middle school is our Chinese junior high school.

Higashino and Hirano are in their third year of junior high this year.

Maybe it's because it's the last year.

At the beginning of school today, Mr. Dahe asked a question.

"Students, what is your dream?"

The students all answered well, and the classroom was full of laughter.

For example, Hirano.

"My dream is to be an NBA player!"

Everyone applauded.

But it was Higashino's turn, and he replied like this.

"I don't have dreams. ”

This answer silenced the entire classroom.

Higashino Qiang, the strongest student in Dazato.

How can such a person not be surprised that he has no dreams?

But Higashino didn't explain anything.

Hirano felt that it was probably because of this incident that his friends came to Naha to take a break.

He took back his 'microphone' and said: "It's nothing if you don't have a dream, you are the strongest and strongest student in Dongye, you are absolutely OK, by the way, this has no dream, it seems to be very suitable for Buddhism." ”

Hirano's last words were correct.

It's just that he doesn't know that the shell of Buddhism itself was specially created by Higashino Qiang for this sentence 'no dream'.

Higashino didn't want to explain too much, he knew that his friend wouldn't understand, he smiled again, drank all the black coffee, played with the jar, and looked at Hirano.

"Ah Chun, your dream is really to enter the NBA?"

Hirano, if the game talent is in the Mariana Trench, then the basketball talent should be outside the solar system.

Higashino wants his friends to be more practical.

But.

Hirano nodded vigorously and said solemnly: "Saikyo, have you read the "Slam Dunk" comic? Wow, that's great! Do you know? There is a guy in it who has grown tall in high school all of a sudden, and I think I may be like him." I planned it, I was going to win the national championship first, and then ......"

Higashino Qiang really wants to complain, the village is connected.

But I thought it was funny, because there were no other nets in Dali Village except fishing nets.

Hirano didn't know what his friend was thinking at all, and he seemed to be afraid that Higashino would feel that he was not firm.

"Look at my crotch dribbling, how's it going......?"

Just do what you say, even if you don't have the ball.

I saw that he dribbled without the ball, dribbling while walking, floating under his feet, and shaking his upper body.

With a bang, the jar of black coffee was flattened by Higashino.

Higashino was forbearing, and he was afraid to say that.

'You don't play as well as XXX'.

More than ten years have passed, which proves that Higashino Qiang's memory is quite good.

Hirano shouldn't understand this stalk, but Higashino Qiang really doesn't want to hit his friend's dream with words.

So, it was quite uncomfortable.

Close your eyes and can't bear to look at them directly.

He understood that Hirano was kind enough to enlighten him.

Even, this current dribble without the ball may be to amuse him.

Thinking of this, Higashino Qiang opened his eyes again, he wanted to help his friend and establish a dream that was slightly in line with reality.

Hirano stopped.

Higashino Qiang felt a little strange, so he asked, "What's wrong?"

But Hirano didn't respond, he seemed to have found something.

"Saikyo, come on!"

"What's wrong?"

"It's written, you're dead!"

Nani?