Toriizaka.

In a stadium.

"Good afternoon, the sunny guy."

Cao Zhenqingren, who had just finished training and was about to rest for a while, suddenly heard such an unfamiliar greeting.

"You are?"

He looked suspiciously and saw that it was a young man he had never seen before, dressed in a high school uniform, standing on the edge of the court, smiling friendly.

After discovering his retrospective, he immediately became enthusiastic.

"My name is Shogo Tokiwa, I'm your fan, we took photos together before, have you forgotten?"

"Huh? Picture? ”

"yes, you see."

Opening the photo album in his phone, Shogo Tokiwa showed Cao Zhenqing a photo he had taken with another Cao Zhenqing before.

"Well, I didn't lie to you, did I?"

"Ah...... Sorry, I don't remember exactly. ”

After taking a closer look at himself in the photo, after making sure that it was him, Zhenqingren rubbed his eyebrows and thought about it, but he just couldn't remember anything about that photo.

Tokiwa Shogo hurriedly waved his hand.

"No, no, no, if you can't think of it, forget it, don't force yourself."

He said with relief, and then immediately lifted the signature pad in his hand.

"But if you really don't want to go, how about signing it for me?"

"Huh?"

Zhenqingren blinked, and glanced at Shogo Tokiwa with some astonishment, expressing his ...... for his ability to change his face in an instant Admire.

"Oh, it's easy to say."

While smiling and taking the signature pad, Cao Zhenqing turned around and asked his friend who was still waiting for him to go to rest first, while he pulled out the signature pen that was clipped to the signature pad.

"Is there anything else I need to write besides a signature?"

Just as the tip of the pen was about to land on the blank signature pad, he raised his head slightly, looked back at Shogo Tokiwa and asked.

Hearing this, Chang Pan Zhuangwu raised his eyebrows slightly, and then said without hesitation.

"You have to study hard, excellent."

Cao Zhenqing didn't pause at all when he heard the words, and after hearing Shogo Tokiwa's words, he wrote this sentence on the signature board very smoothly, and finally left his name.

It was only when he handed the signature pad back to Shogo Tokiwa that he asked casually.

"It sounds like a girl's name, is it my sister?"

"Nope."

Shogo Tokiwa shook his head with a smile.

"It's just a school girl I just met."

Taking the signature board, Shogo Tsukiwa walked along the edge of the court with Cao Zhenqingren.

Shogo Tsukiwa began to talk about things about his childhood, such as his dream of becoming a king, such as the fight he had with a boy a few years older than him when he was a child, and for example, after high school, he would not choose to continue his education!

Cao Zhenqingren originally felt a little funny when he heard Shogo Tsukiwa say that his dream was to become a king, and he was a little embarrassed.

Children, there are few who don't like fantasies.

He also secretly fantasized as a child that he would become a great magician when he grew up, using brilliant magic to give hope to the desperate.

But when he continued to hear that Shogo Tokiwa had been working hard for this until now, his expression gradually became serious.

And when he heard that Shogo Tokiwa was even planning to give up the opportunity to go to school for this, a look of incomprehension appeared on his face.

"Changpan, if what you said is true, then, what is it that has sustained you to where you are today?"

"Well, what is it? Probably because of my deep love for the world. ”

Shogo Tsukiwa looked up at the sky.

The sky is blue and clear, and the white clouds are long, and they will not change for ten thousand years.

But in his dream, that piece of sky was occupied by the hideous Great Demon Divine Machine, and the black smoke of destruction filled the blue sky.

A man whose face he couldn't see clearly said to him in a dream.

You will definitely become the king and save this ruined world! 】

There is so much beauty in this world that needs to be guarded.

Among them, the first is everything that his uncle Shunichiro Tsukiwa has!

The older he grows, the more he fears that the end of his dreams will come to reality.

In particular, he has a very special power that constantly reminds him that the dream is very likely to be real!

[If there is a possibility that things will go bad, no matter how small the possibility is, it will always happen!] 】

He didn't want to wait until the end really came to regret it, that kind of regret was not worth it.

Since only by becoming a king can he save the world, then he should be a king.

To this end, he formulated a series of exercise plans, absorbing knowledge, controlling desires, hiding his greatest selfishness, summarizing and recording the self-cultivation of the king.

He told Cao Zhenqing about this dream, which caused Cao Zhenqingren to be greatly surprised.

"Just because of a dream?"

"Of course, it's not just because of that dream!"

Shogo Tokiwa replied with a smile.

But he didn't go into the details of why.

On the one hand, they are only two people who meet for the first time after all, and in this era, "becoming a king" is already a very whimsical thing, so don't talk to others about "saving the world".

And on the one hand......

I only heard Cao Zhenqingren frowning and couldn't help asking: "Since you don't want to say other reasons, I won't ask, but do your parents know about giving up your education in order to 'become a king'?" ”

Sadness spread across Shogo Tokiwa's face, and there was no smile anymore.

He stopped, looked at Cao Zhenqingren, who subconsciously turned around because he noticed his stop, and said, "I want to ...... Let them know...... If they scold me, maybe I'll change my mind. ”

As he said this, the corners of his mouth stretched to the sides, but it was definitely not a laugh.

It was as if he was crying silently.

This sadness came very suddenly but not abruptly, and the real emotion instantly hit the inner world of Cao Zhenqingren, making his eyes involuntarily and slowly widen, and a sourness stirred in his nose and eyes.

He took a deep breath and opened his mouth to say something, but after a long silence, he only softly spat out these two words.

"I'm sorry."

"No, nothing."

Shogo Tsukiwa shook his head and looked at the sky again, and this time, he just wanted to let the tears that were about to flow back from his eyes.

"Okay, let's not talk about that, it's just a traffic accident."

In this world, many families are torn apart by traffic accidents every year, and he is just unfortunate to be one of them.

So, there's nothing to complain about.

Cao Zhenqingren glanced at Shogo Tokiwa with complicated eyes.

Together, what about traffic accidents......

His parents also ...... because of a traffic accident

He didn't say anything more sorry, but he looked up at the sky as well.

After his emotions calmed down, Cao Zhenqing suddenly asked, "Is there anything I can help you with?" ”

Shogo Tsukiwa took out a knight's watch and said softly, "Perhaps, you can give me a watch like this." ”