Monday, May 15th, sunny.

More than a week has passed since the Mitsui incident. After that, Mitsui cut her hair short and returned to the basketball team, and everyone in the basketball team accepted him. Before the IH qualifiers came, it was a blessing for the Xiangbei basketball team to welcome a general.

Today, Sakuragi was the same as usual. After class, she was slightly in the classroom before she came to the department to change her clothes.

However, after Sakuragi opened the door today, she was immediately startled by the scene inside the department because the entire basketball team was all inside the department. After seeing him in, everyone in Xiangbei immediately turned around and stared at him at the same time.

"Uh... are you all here?" Facing everyone's eyes, Sakuragi could only say hello awkwardly. She thought that it wasn't that the people were late every day, were they angry? I'm going to punish me today? I'm so kind! What should I do? Are you going to run away?!

"Tsk, it turns out it's Sakuragi..." But the people of Shokui were obviously not waiting to punish Sakuragi. After they saw that it was Sakuragi, they immediately turned around in disappointment and continued to do what they had just done.

Seeing everyone's appearance, it turned out that it had nothing to do with me. Sakuragi immediately breathed a sigh of relief and walked towards his cabinet.

"Hey, Liangda, what's the matter?" After opening his locker, Sakuragi couldn't help asking Miyagi curiously.

Judging from everyone's nervous look, is there something big happening today? Didn't the qualifiers start on Friday?

"It's nothing. Today's qualifier group table came out. Acai went to Teacher Anxi to get it, so we were all waiting for her." Miyagi leaned against the cabinet and explained to Sakuragi.

Although his tone seemed to be very indifferent, from the look he glanced at the door of the department from time to time, Sakuragi still knew that Miyagi was actually very concerned about the grouping situation. After all, a good grouping is very important for Shonobe's qualifying.

"Oh." Hearing Miyagi's answer, Sakuragi said casually. Cut! It turned out to be a group table.

Sakuragi really didn't care much about grouping. He knew that with the current strength of Xiangbei, even if he encountered Hainan, he could pass the test safely as long as there was no accident. So he was not too concerned about grouping issues, so he changed his clothes directly.

Bang!

Suddenly, just as Sakuragi's clothes were taken off halfway, the door of the office was opened.

"Everyone is here! The group table is out!"

Ayako came in with the door. After entering, she scanned the situation inside the scanner room. She didn't care about Sakuragi, who was changing clothes now, and raised the group table in her hand.

"Uh...Sister Caizi!"

Sakuragi, who had been exposed for most of her best, was really unable to complain about the behavior of a tomboy like Ayako, and quickly put down half of her clothes.

However, it is obvious that no one in Xiangbei is concerned about whether Sakuragi has been seen. At this time, they are all attracted by the qualifying tournament group table that Ayako got.

After Aiko posted the group table on the wall, everyone in Xiangbei looked at the group table one after another.

"Oh! I'm so unlucky. Our seed team is Xiangyang."

"Yes, if you were in the same group with Buri, you would be lucky..."

"Ringnan is OK, after all, we won them in the practice competition..."

“…”

After seeing the grouping situation, Yasuda and others immediately complained. In their opinion, it was really unlucky to be assigned to the Xiangyang group. Xiangyang was the runner-up last year and participated in the national competition. For Xiangbei, who has never participated in the national competition, it is really under a lot of pressure!

"Okay, the group has been decided, don't think about these issues!" Akagi also spoke at this time. Although he didn't feel very lucky about such a group, as the captain, of course he could not show weakness in front of the team members. He looked at the group statement and said seriously: "Don't worry about what happened next, let's win the first game first!"

"Yes!" ×N.

Hearing Akagi's words, Yasuda and others immediately replied loudly, and at the same time they also looked at the first opponent of Shonoki, Miura Tai on the group table.

"Senior, is Miura Tera good?" At this time, the first-year-old Kurata asked curiously at the seniors of Xiangbei.

"Miuratai was eliminated after meeting Hainan last year. It was one of the quarterfinals last year..." When facing his junior's question, of course, Ayako spoke out for popular science.

"Miuratai?" After Ayako finished speaking, Mu Mu on the side also looked serious with a rare look. He looked at Akagi and sighed: "Akagi, our last summer has finally arrived!"

"Yes!" Hearing Mu Mu's words, Akagi also looked stern and said to the people of Xiangbei: "We will definitely win! Okay, go and practice quickly, it's too late today!"

"Yes!" ×N.

Obviously the last summer has arrived, and even Akagi feels pressured, and he blocks everything in this summer!

...

Friday, May 19th, sunny.

At 9:30 in the morning, the crowd in Xiangbei also arrived at the venue where they compete today, in front of the city gymnasium. The competition started at 9:45.

"Aha, it feels good to not have to go to class on Friday!" After coming to the gymnasium and seeing the sign "Overall of National Colleges and Universities, Kanagawa Prefecture Preliminary, Basketball Event", Sakuragi sighed. This feeling of comfort is not a day off, but can openly not go to class, it is really free of words!

"Yeah, yeah!" Hearing Sakuragi's words, Miyagi, Mitsui and Rukawa, the poor team of the Shobei basketball team composed of Mitsui and Rukawa, nodded in agreement.

"Okay, don't be embarrassed, go in quickly." Seeing Sakuragi and the other two looking happy, Akagi was speechless and could only urge them to enter the venue quickly.

"Yes!" ×4.

Despite their sighs, the purpose of Sakuragi and the other two who came today was impossible to forget. They immediately restrained their expressions and entered the venue with the Xiangbei troops.

When Xiangbei and others changed their clothes in the locker room, they found that there was already a noise in the museum. Although it was Friday and early in the morning, not only were the staff in the museum in place, but there were also many audiences.

"Wow, so many people!" Although it was not full, everyone was sighing at the scene of Sanda and others who participated in the IH qualifiers for the first time.

"Wow, Xiangbei team is here!"

"Yes, Xiangbei is so tall!"

"Which one is Akagi?"

"I heard that they won Lingnan in the practice competition. Maybe they will be the dark horse this year. I am looking forward to today's game!"

"That red-haired bald head is so strange..."

“…”

As soon as Xiangbei entered the venue, various discussions among the audience started to sound. Obviously, many people knew that Xiangbei's strength this year was no longer the same. Xiangbei's opponent today is already waiting for Xiangbei in their rest area.

"Okay, take out the momentum! Let's go!" Seeing the people from Miuratai looking at him, Akagi immediately shouted at his teammates behind him and walked towards the rest area of ​​Xiangbei. Coach Anxi and Ayako were waiting there at this time.

"Yes! Roar!" The people of Xiangbei couldn't understand what Akagi meant. They immediately shouted at Miuratai with full momentum and followed Akagi to Xiangbei's rest area.

"Tsk! I won Lingnan in the practice competition? What's the awesome thing? Our goal is to defeat Hainan! What is Xiangbei!"

Seeing Xiangbei so arrogant, Miura's captain Murasu, who was in the rest area, just curled his lips. He didn't take Xiangbei seriously at all. He said to his teammates: "Remember our goal today, teach me a hard lesson in Xiangbei later, so that they can know what a strong team is!"

"Yes!" ×N.

The players of Miuratai were all vowed to abuse Xiangbei once at this time, but they obviously would not know that today's game was, and neither the process nor the ending would be the same as they imagined! Because Xiangbei's strength was not something they would understand!
Chapter completed!