The tiring day finally passed with a smile full of satisfaction. Although the body looks tired because it plays two games at once with only five people without a substitute but it does not dampen the intention to show happiness because of winning consecutive wins.
That day finally passed and changed to a new day. With renewed enthusiasm, Gyo rushes to school and hopes that time flies in order to start basketball practice again.
"Hey Ren, let's go to practice ..." Gyo said after class.
"Didn't Mr. Yagami have warned us to rest today for fear that our bodies will be exhausted during the next match? Remember Gyo, three more days we will compete and tomorrow we will train to an end," Ren warned his friend.
"B-but we just practice for a short time, it won't take long," Gyo answered, a little stuttering at Ren's refusal.
"You can't, when you hold a basketball it can't be stopped anymore" Ren reminded.
"Okay"
Gyo was disappointed to hear Ren's refusal to practice basketball.
A few moments later, Gyo accidentally saw a poster displayed on the school wall magazine that made Gyo interested.
"Since we can't practice, it's okay if we just watch it," Gyo said while showing Ren the poster earlier.
"I don't know what street ball is, but the basketball image on this poster makes me interested," he continued.
"Basic basketball maniac who do not know anything, then after school we go there but remember that we are just watching it and will not play" Ren said a little annoyed.
When I got home from school that Gyo had been waiting for finally arrived, Gyo went straight home to change clothes and rushed to Ren's house not far from his home. With a little push, Gyo invited Ren to go directly to the street ball event listed on the poster earlier.
"Finally I can see the basketball game even though it's just watching," said Gyo.
"But by the way Ren, what exactly is street ball?" Gyo asked curiously.
"You are the dumbest basketball maniac I have ever met," Ren replied irritably.
"Later you will know when you get there" he continued.
Arriving at the destination, seen in the middle of a crowd there are groups of people who do attractions with basketball ranging from dribling to freestyle. But of all that is, Gyo's eyes are on the basketball court where a group of people are playing basketball but unlike basketball in general who uses the whole field with 5 players vs. 5 players. In this match they use a field with 3 people against 3 people or commonly called 3 on 3 and are not fixated on time but try to reach the target points.
Gyo, who was standing right next to the field, was astonished to see the match he had seen for the first time and made him feel excited and his hands felt itchy to hold the basketball but still held him for fear that Ren would scold him.
The match was seen and the commentator read the winner of the competition.
"The winner of the 78th street ball competition is Wolf's team with five consecutive wins in a row, and as usual the winning team will accept the challenge from the audience and if the team wins, the champion title will belong to the spectator team," commented the commentator through the microphone.
"Oh so this thing called street ball turned out like this huh Ren, just found out I had a match like this" Gyo said a little scream.
Ren who hears Gyo's words can only bow his head in shame at Gyo's behavior.
"If I could play it would be very fun," Gyo shouted accompanied by Ren's big blow to his head.
Gyo's innocent behavior made the audience who were present at the place burst out laughing.
"You bumpkin !!!" said one player from the Wolf team.
"Which man from the jungle came to this place, how could he even want to fight us, did he know to play basketball?" said the other Wolf team players underestimating the audience's laughter.
"How dare you insult my best friend, if you dare come against us" said Ren furiously his friend insulted.
"Ren, we can't fight them," Gyo warned.
"Mr. Yagami's problem is for me to be responsible" Ren replied.
"B-but Ren ..." said Gyo trying to stop.
"It's okay Gyo, let's keep their mouths shut" Ren said as he pulled Gyo's hand and entered the field.
"But Ren, we can't compete like this," Gyo said again.
"Rest assured we can do it," Ren said firmly.
"But Ren ... we're just the two of us and a street ball 3 on 3 match requires three people to compete," Gyo warned.
"Oh yeah yeah, how can I forget something this important?" Ren said, accompanied by the laughter of the audience who heard his chatter.
"It turned out to be just another idiot, trying to challenge us champions with just two people," said one of Wolf's team players.
"If there were Shin or Raito here we could compete as a team, but we only came together" Ren said, starting to be embarrassed because he only went forward with two people.
"Oh God, please send someone who wants to play with us as a team. Not being able to play well is okay," Gyo said in prayer.
Suddenly someone fell and entered the field ...
"With this we are complete, let's just start the match" Gyo said excitedly.
"But I just fell on the field because someone pushed me, I didn't mean to compete with you," said the person who fell earlier.
"Finally, the team of three idiots is complete with the arrival of other idiots," said team player Wolf laughing.
"I-I'm just an ordinary spectator, I'm not competing," said the person who fell earlier.
Without listening to the words of the fallen person the commentator immediately started the match.
"With this the match will start immediately between the Wolf team against the random team of spectators that we call the Eagle team," said the commentator eagerly.
The match finally started even though one of the Eagle team wasn't ready.
"Hey, thank you for playing with us, I'm Gyo and she is Ren," Gyo said, introducing himself and thanking him.
"Looks like I have no other choice but to compete with you guys. I'm Ryu, I beg for your help," said the man introducing himself.
"With this the game starts and the team that first gets 10 points will get the title" the commentator shouted through his microphone.
"Just a bunch of idiots, we play them first then score" said the team player Wolf.
"You're right Hibike, Taki let's use your technique" said the other players.
"Alright Tomoi, get ready"
As soon as the referee throws the ball upwards, Taki uses a technique that emits fog and immediately the entire field is shrouded in thick fog and covers the Eagle team's visibility.
Whats next ?
to be continued