Torii-zaka.
In a stadium.
"Good afternoon, fuck it, Haruto."
Just after training, Cao Zhenharuto, who was about to take a break, suddenly heard such a strange greeting.
"Who are you?"
He looked doubtfully and found a young man he had never seen before, wearing a high school uniform, standing on the edge of the court with a friendly smile.
After noticing his looking back, I immediately got interested in him enthusiastically.
"My name is Tokiwa Shogo, and I am your fan. We have taken photos together before, have you forgotten?"
"Eh? Take a photo?"
"Yeah, look."
Opening the photo album on his phone, Tokiwa Shougo showed Kou Maharuto a photo he had taken with another Kou Maharuto before.
"How about it, I didn't lie to you?"
"Ah...sorry, I can't remember clearly."
After taking a closer look at himself in the photo and confirming that it was him, Kao Zhenqingruto rubbed his brows and thought about it, but he just couldn't remember anything about that photo. .
Tokiwa Shougo waved his hand quickly.
"No, no, no, just forget it if you can't remember it. You don't have to force yourself."
He finished speaking with relief, and then immediately raised the signature pad in his hand.
"But if you really feel sorry for yourself, how about signing your name for me?"
"Eh?"
Soma Haruto blinked and glanced at Shougo Tokiwa in astonishment, expressing great... admiration for his ability to change his face in an instant.
"Oh, easy to talk about."
While taking the signature pad with a smile, Kao Zhenharuto turned around and asked his friend who was still waiting for him to rest first, while he took out the signature pen clamped on the signature pad.
"Besides signing, is there anything else I need to write?"
Just as the pen tip was about to land on the blank signature pad, he raised his head slightly, looked at Tokiwa Shogo again and asked.
Hearing this, Tokiwa Shougo raised his eyebrows slightly, and then said without hesitation.
"You have to study hard, Yu."
Kao Maharuto didn't even pause when he heard this. After hearing Tokiwa Shougo's words, he wrote this sentence on the signature board very smoothly, and finally left his name.
He only asked casually when he handed the signature pad back to Tokiwa Shougo.
"It sounds like a girl's name. Is it my sister?"
"No."
Tokiwa Shougo smiled and shook his head.
"Just a school girl I just met."
After taking the signature board, Tokiwa Shogo and Soma Haruto walked along the edge of the court together.
Tokiwa Shougo began to talk about some things from his childhood, such as his dream of becoming a king, such as the fight he had with a boy several years older than him when he was a child, and for example, after high school, he would not choose to continue his studies. !
When Soma Haruto heard Tokiwa Shougo say that his dream was to become a king, he felt a little funny and smiled slightly.
As a child, there are very few who don’t love fantasy.
He also secretly imagined when he was a child that when he grew up, he would become a great magician, using gorgeous and magical magic to give hope to desperate people.
But after he continued to hear that Tokiwa Shougo had been working hard for this, his expression gradually became serious.
And when he heard that Tokiwa Shogo was even planning to give up the opportunity to enter higher education, a look of incomprehensible astonishment appeared on his face.
"Jiban, if what you said is true, then what is it that has supported you to this day?"
"Well, what is it? Probably, it's because I love this world so deeply."
Tokiwa Shogo looked up at the sky.
The sky was blue and clear, with white clouds that remained unchanged for thousands of years.
But in his dream, the sky was occupied by a ferocious demon machine, and the black smoke of destruction filled the sky.
A man whose face he couldn't see clearly said this to him in his dream.
【You will definitely become the king and save this broken world! 】
There is so much beauty in this world that needs to be protected.
The top one among them is everything owned by my great-uncle Junichiro Tokiwa!
The older he gets, the more he fears that the apocalypse in his dreams will come in reality.
Especially since he has a very special power that constantly reminds him that the dream is very likely to come true!
[If there is a possibility that things will go bad, no matter how small the possibility is, it will happen! 】
He didn't want to wait until the end of the world to regret it. Such regret was worthless.
Since only becoming a king can save the world, then he should become a king.
To this end, he formulated a series of exercise plans to acquire knowledge, control desires, hide his greatest selfishness, and summarize and record the self-cultivation of being a king.
He told Cao Zhenqingren about this dream, which aroused Cao Zhenqingren's great surprise.
"Just because of a dream?"
"Of course it's not just because of that dream!"
Tokiwa Shougo replied with a smile.
But he did not explain the reason in detail.
On the one hand, after all, they are just two people who met for the first time. In today's 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 heard Cao Zhenqing frowning and couldn't help but ask: "Since you don't want to tell other reasons, I won't ask, but your parents know that you gave up studying in order to 'become a king'. ?"
Sadness spread on Tokiwa Shougo's face, and there was no more smile.
He stopped and looked at Kao Zhenharuto, who turned around subconsciously because he noticed his stop, and said: "I also want to...let them know...if they scold me, maybe, I Maybe he will really change his mind.”
When he said this, the corners of his mouth stretched to both sides, but it was definitely not a smile.
He seemed to be crying silently.
This sadness came very suddenly but not unexpectedly. The real emotion hit Cao Zhenqingren's inner world in an instant, making his eyes slowly widen involuntarily, and there was a sour feeling in his nasal cavity. With excitement in the eyes.
He took a deep breath and opened his mouth to say something, but after a long silence, he only softly uttered these two words.
"Feel sorry."
"No, it's nothing."
Tokiwa Shougo shook his head and looked at the sky again, but this time, he just wanted to let the tears that were about to flow out of his eyes flow back.
"Okay, let's not talk about it. It was just a traffic accident."
In this world, many families are broken up every year due to traffic accidents, and he is just unfortunate to be one of them.
So, there is nothing to blame.
Soma Haruto glanced at Tokiwa Shougo with complicated eyes.
Together, what about a traffic accident...
His parents also died because of a traffic accident...
He didn't say anything sorry, but just looked up at the sky.
After calming down, Cao Zhenqing suddenly asked: "Is there anything I can do to help you?"
Tokiwa Shougo took out a knight's watch and said softly: "Maybe you can give me a watch like this."
