Chapter 16 Basketball 15
"Kurikawa, is this... for me to see?"
In the classroom of Class A, second grade at Teiko Junior High School, Akashi Seijuro was holding several light novels with pink covers in his hands and looking at the black-haired girl who gave him the books.
Kurikawa Sana nodded: "Yes, this is a literary work that I like very much, so I want to share it with Akashi-kun."
Literary works...
Not so sure, take another look.
Akashi Seijuro lowered his head, and the huge titles on the pink covers of the light novels caught his eye—"The Domineering Student Council President Falls in Love with Me," "Please Date the Awkward Me, I Still Can't Say I Like You," and "Reincarnation: Re:Zero -Starting Over: The Student Council's Forbidden Love Journey"...
Akashi Seijuro: "..."
...So she likes this kind of thing? And isn't the keyword "student union" a bit too frequent? Can this even be considered a work of literature?
If this continued, he would soon become a complainer. Suppressing the doubts in his mind, Akashi Seijuro said, "Kurikawa, thank you. I will read it carefully."
Kurikawa Sana was immediately overjoyed: "Akagi-kun is really the best! Then I'll go get busy first? Remember to watch it~"
Akashi Seijuro smiled, "Okay, I will."
He stared at the black-haired girl's obviously cheering back as she left the classroom, until her figure disappeared. Then Akashi Seijuro hesitantly opened the first book "The Domineering Student Council President Falls in Love with Me".
After a few minutes, Akashi Seijuro's head ached from reading so much that he closed his eyes and shut the book.
But as soon as I closed my eyes, the black-haired girl's sparkling blue eyes and her voice full of excitement and anticipation as she recommended these books came back to me.
Even the image of her playing the piano inexplicably popped into my mind again.
“…”
He opened his eyes, and the image in his mind instantly disappeared.
The young master of the Akashi family sighed and helplessly opened the pink cover of the book again.
*
After delivering the high-quality literary works to Akashi Seijuro, Kurikawa Sana had just walked out of Class A's classroom and was about to go to the wisteria corridor to have lunch with Murasakibara Atsushi. When she reached the necessary stairs, she was blocked by an unexpected person.
——Haizaki Shogo.
"You are really capable, the new manager of our first army." The handsome and evil gray-haired boy leaned against the wall of the stairs with his arms folded lazily, his long legs stretched forward, and his tall body invisibly blocked her way.
Haizaki Shogo raised his eyebrows at her playfully. "First, he had lunch with that big idiot Murasakibara every day. Last night, he lay on that Aomine guy's lap by the river. Today, he gave Akashi a book to read...Every move of the manager is really intriguing."
Kurikawa Sana: "..."
Goodness, how come he saw everything she did? It was so accurate that it was like a camera was installed.
Besides, when Haizaki is in front of other people, doesn't he always call them by their first names like "Atsushi" and "Daiki"? Why is he calling them by their last names now?
As if he had guessed what she was thinking, Haizaki Shogo sneered sarcastically, "Don't get me wrong, I didn't do anything stupid like stalking you. If you want to blame someone, blame yourself for being too conspicuous. I could have seen you just by passing by on my way home from school."
"So?" Kurikawa Sana tilted her head and looked at him puzzledly, "Are you going to report me?"
Haizaki Shogo: "..."
What's going on? Her nonchalant reaction... Shouldn't someone like her, who maintains a gentle and noble image in public, be worried about her true self being exposed to the public?
"Ha, you really underestimate me. How could I possibly do something like reporting you behind your back?"
"So what are you trying to say, Haizaki-kun? ...I understand." Kurikawa Sana thought for a moment and pulled out another light novel from behind her back and gave it to him. "You want to read light novels too? Just say so directly. I'll give this one to you."
Haizaki Shogo: "..."
Looking at the light novel stuffed into his hand with the cool title "Long Aotian's Journey to Another World: The Great Devil is Myself", Haizaki Shogo fell silent.
So she really loves watching this kind of stuff and shared it with Akashi?! There's no way Akashi would watch it!
It was obvious that Kurikawa Sana deliberately approached all the starting players of the first team, but her eyes would not fall on him.
Why? Was he not as good a basketball player as those guys? Or was he not as handsome as them? Haizaki Shogo had never experienced such a profound humiliation of being completely ignored.
Haizaki Shogo frowned and was about to say something, "Hey, what the hell are you..."
Kurikawa Sana waved her hand, "Okay, okay, like you said, you know~ I'm going to have lunch with Murasakibara-kun, Kana."
“…”
A vein popped out on Haizaki Shogo's forehead, and he suddenly clenched the Long Aotian light novel in his hand.
This woman...what on earth is she thinking about all day long?!
The girl held down the hem of her Teikou school uniform and gracefully leaped down the stairs, deftly avoiding his long legs that were lying across the middle of the stairs. She was as graceful and agile as if she was dancing the ballet she was good at.
As she jumped over herself, her long black hair fluttered, bringing with it her unique fresh and elegant fragrance.
“…”
For a moment, Haizaki Shogo froze, his face showing a dark and unclear expression.
…
*
In the evening, in the office of the Teiko Student Council President.
There was a knock on the door.
"Come in."
When Midorima Shintaro entered the student council office, he saw Akashi Seijuro working diligently as usual.
The setting sun shone in at dusk, illuminating the high-quality mahogany office desk even more deeply and making the red hair of the student council president in front of the desk even redder.
Akashi Seijuro seemed to be reading something carefully with his head down, making marks with a pen from time to time, with a serious and focused expression.
Seeing this, Midorima Shintaro, the vice president of the student council, felt a sense of relief and admiration.
As expected of Akashi, he juggles family pressure, maintains top academic performance, leads a basketball team of hundreds of people, and at the same time, he is meticulous in his responsibilities as the president of the Teiko Student Council.
No matter what he does, Akashi is so serious and responsible. Recently, the school festival has been complicated, and it is thanks to Akashi's hard work and overtime after school that everything in Teiko can run normally.
At this moment, Akashi should also be looking at documents related to the student union work.
"Akashi, this is the information Momoi compiled about Kirisaki First Middle School, our opponent in tomorrow's match. I just ran into Momoi, and she asked me to bring it to you."
"Thanks, Midorima."
When Midorima Shintaro approached the long table and put down the documents in his hand, he inadvertently glanced at the book Akashi was reading and couldn't help but stand there in a daze.
No, when did their student union’s documents become so pink?
"...Akagi, what are you reading?"
"It's a light novel." Akashi Seijuro handed over the book in his hand.
The huge pink title "Reincarnation: Re:Zero -Starting Over: The Forbidden Love Journey of the Student Council" instantly caught Midorima Shintaro's eye.
Midorima Shintaro: "..."
"Akagi, you... so you like this?"
"Kurikawa gave it to me. This is my first time reading this type of literature, and I found it surprisingly interesting."
Midorima Shintaro couldn't help but be stunned for a moment.
...Kurikawa gave it to Akashi?
After flipping through it briefly, I roughly understood Midorima Shintaro. The literary language of light novels is concise and efficient, with frequent paragraphs, vivid illustrations, and a compact and fascinating plot. It feels quite easy to finish reading a whole book. No wonder it is called a light novel.
I didn't expect that Kurikawa would like to watch these.
The bold title is a bit impactful, but perhaps it is also a way to attract people to buy. In fact, the content is surprisingly good, telling the heart-pounding love story of the hero and the heroine in the campus student union... Wait, student union?
Midorima Shintaro suddenly stopped holding up his glasses.
I always feel like something's wrong. Isn't Akashi the student council president? And Kurikawa gave this...
Moving his gaze to the other side, Midorima Shintaro noticed that there was another light novel on the table with an equally incongruous pink cover, and the shocking title was "The Domineering Student Council President Falls in Love with Me."
The most important thing is that Akashi has pasted a lot of transparent fluorescent labels with index points on the side of the pages of this book, and Midorima Shintaro fell silent.
"Do you mind if I take a quick look?" Midorima Shintaro looked at the marked light novel.
"No problem." Akashi Seijuro didn't care at all. He took the book and continued reading.
Picking up the book "The Domineering Student Council President Falls in Love with Me" on the desk, Midorima Shintaro took a deep breath and opened the page.
"Woman, you're funny, but as the student council president, I've triumphed over everything, and everything I did was right."
How dare you disobey me to such an extent? Woman, you are too arrogant. Bow down before me and remember this—I am absolute.
Midorima Shintaro: "..."
Isn’t this too childish?!
This book is much more impactful than the previous one. The whole book is filled with Mary Sue love stories that are so awkward that it makes people unable to take care of themselves. It feels like it can ruin a person's brain.
Fortunately, Akashi didn't seem to be very interested in those love plots. He just used a marker to draw various domineering and second-year syndrome quotes of the overbearing student council president and put indexed sticky notes on them, as if he could resonate with them.
Midorima Shintaro fell silent.
Calm down, Shintaro, this isn't surprising.
Hadn't he already realized that there was "another Akashi" inside Akashi a long time ago?
The other personality of Akashi is cold and ruthless, and indeed seems like someone who would like the male protagonist's second-year quotes.
At least Akashi isn't too interested in the gooey romances in this book, right? Overall, Akashi is still pretty normal, the reassuring Teiko Student Council President and Vice-President of the basketball team.
With this thought in mind, Midorima Shintaro turned over the page with the eye-catching red sticky note.
The illustration on the page with the sticky note is a blushing wall-bang scene.
The male protagonist, the student council president, stretched out his arms domineeringly, forming a small space on the wall of the campus stairwell. The beautiful female protagonist with long, smooth black hair was surrounded and trapped in it with a blushing face, unable to escape.
"Are you avoiding me?"
"Don't even think about running away. In this world, the winner takes all. Victory belongs to me."
[I cannot forgive anyone who goes against my wishes, even if it’s my parents.]
Midorima Shintaro: “……………………”
With a "snap", Midorima Shintaro closed his eyes tightly and closed this shocking literary masterpiece in a second.
I actually took notes and highlighted this plot seriously...
As expected, is Akashi's brain broken? !
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