"Do you like basketball?"

If someone asks him like this, Yao Gang will definitely answer that he likes it. If it was an angel who looked like Haruko in the manga, and was looked at by her expectant gaze, he would definitely answer without hesitation-

"Yes, very much!"

The temperature in the magic capital in winter is very low, but it is not as good as in the north, even if you wear sports short-sleeved pants and exercise outside, you will not feel cold.

Spring is about to descend on the harbor city of Dragon Orient, and the gentle morning sun illuminates the newly built open-air basketball court. He was the only one on the entire court, and he seemed lonely and lonely.

His favorite is martial arts, he feels that playing basketball is the same as the practice in martial arts, it is the most important basic skills, so he will get up from bed at half past five every morning and go to this basketball court near his home to dribble and run 10 laps, shoot 100 times, and do 200 push-ups......

This is the homework he has set for himself, and he can barely move it.

In the past three years, the venue has changed several times, but he has always been the only one.

A month ago, a person suddenly came to this venue, his name is Cheng Lei, he is a freshman in the nineteenth middle school of the magic capital, and he can barely be regarded as his own junior. Yao Gang takes great care of this junior, and after completing his homework every day, he will teach him how to play ball.

Yes, Cheng Lei is a complete layman, but his enthusiasm impressed Yao Gang.

He thought it was just three minutes of heat, but he insisted on doing the same amount of training as himself every day, and even saw him practicing on the court alone when he came home from school at night. Yao Gang was puzzled by what made a layman who didn't know anything about basketball fall in love with basketball so madly.

Cheng Lei did not hide it, he handed over the collected "Wildfire" to Yao Gang and asked him to protect it well.

Here's the answer. ”

Just by glancing at the catalog, he set his sights on "Slam Dunk".

He had heard the name of this comic, and even his table mates loved to read it. But he doesn't like this comic, although he hasn't read it, but he knows at a glance that the guy called Rukawa Kaede is an idol comic.

When he really looked into it, he realized that he was wrong.

As the plot of the manga progresses, his heart also follows Sakuragi's actions. When he saw Sakuragi desperately snatching the basketball from the gorilla and slamming the dunk in the layman's way, he felt as if he had eaten a popsicle on a dog day, and his whole body trembled with excitement. It was a slam dunk, the most powerful goal in basketball, a goal that you don't see a few times in a game, and a goal that makes the crowd cheer every time you score.

A slam dunk can enhance his own momentum, suppress the opponent's momentum, and can even be said to be the winner or loser of the game, and it is also his favorite way to score goals.

Looking at Sakuragi, Yao Gang seemed to see himself when he first entered junior high school. With excellent academic performance and a tall man, he is the most outstanding among all his classmates, but he is excluded by his classmates. He didn't know why his classmates excluded him, and he tried to explain it to everyone, but no one listened, and some even laughed at him for "growing so big, but she is a crying sissy".

In order to get rid of the past, he chose the eleventh middle school, which was far away from home, and began a period of practice called "manhood".

"Basketball is a man's sport, a collision of muscles and strength. Every goal on the court is earned with countless hard work and sweat behind it, and this is a manly sport, so this classmate, do you want to join the basketball team?"

He has forgotten what the physical education teacher he invited looked like back then, but basketball has become an inseparable part of his life.

After reading the comics and asking Cheng Lei, he found that this Mitsui Shou was very similar to Cheng Lei.

Cheng Lei is the leader of their school, that is, the one who can fight the most.

He wasn't a problem student at first, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to get into the 19th Middle School. It's just that in the first few days of school, he was blocked in the toilet by the senior bastard and asked for "protection money", and because he refused to hand it over, he got into a fight with several senior students.

After that, the school criticized, the teachers criticized, and the parents also criticized...... The pressure of many parties made him choose to give up on himself, fighting, smoking, drinking, and doing all kinds of evil, the students of the whole school are famous, no one wants to be his tablemate, no one dares to approach him, he seems to be abandoned by the world, parents don't care, school doesn't care, teachers don't care, so he intensified, skipping class, calling people in society brothers, like big brothers in society.

However, by chance, he saw the comic "Slam Dunk", especially when he saw Mitsui Shou's sentence "Coach, I want to play basketball", he never cried, but he cried like a tearful man. Since then, he has often wondered how nice it would be if one day he had met such a group of friends.

He knows that as long as he doesn't change for a day, no one will be his friend for a day. He knew that the classmates in the school were out of play, so he set his sights on the outside of the school, and in addition to these idle people in the society, he was most familiar with basketball. So he went to the field next to his house to practice basketball, hoping to make friends through basketball.

This month, he didn't know if he was exercising because he liked basketball or because he had made new friends, but he just had a lot of fun.

Returning the magazine to Cheng Lei, Yao Gang asked with a little hesitation: "Cheng Lei, ask yourself, do you really like basketball?"

Yao Gang is a person who cares a lot about other people's eyes, especially after three years of junior high school. But he didn't want to give up this good partner, so he asked.

"I guess I like it!"

Cheng Lei had a little uncertainty in his eyes. To this day, he still doesn't know if he wants to make friends or play basketball. Looking at the basketball that was slowly rolling in the wind on the ground, he copied it in his hand and rushed to the basket regardless of it.

One-step, two-step, three-step...... One, two, three...... Run from midcourt to the basket.

Until the short five seconds from his start to jump, Cheng Lei made countless mistakes, but he didn't care, he just jumped with all his strength, grabbed the basketball tightly with both hands, hooked his legs, and jumped with the inertia of the sprint, his body crossed a beautiful arc, and the basketball was smashed into the basket by him.

Cheng Lei sat on the ground in prostration, and the leap just now not only used up his strength, but also made him understand his heart.

Rising from his breath, he looked firmly at his leader with a smile in his eyes.

"Brother Gang, I think I do like to play basketball. ”