The sky was covered with a layer of gray veil. It was supposed to be a colorful morning, but the ground was wet by the drizzle. The autumn was mixed with the drizzle, and the coolness made the people who had just woken up suddenly wake up a lot.

On the long road by the river, a young man was jogging along the river in a rainproof hoodie. His figure was out of place with the people wearing raincoats holding umbrellas around him.

“Huh~Huh~”

“Huh~Huh~”

The rhythmic breathing sound came from the young man's mouth. Mitsui Shu has turned morning running into a daily necessity. This little rain cannot stop his determination to practice morning exercises. The Akira Country Sports competition has just passed, and the training of the Xiangbei High School basketball team has not returned to normal.

As a public school Xiangbei High School, the basketball team's training time will start a little later than other schools. During the period before the basketball team started training, the basketball players had plenty of time to enjoy the happiness of autumn vacation. However, for Mitsui Shou, it is the same whether the basketball team started training or not. Even if the basketball team did not practice, Mitsui Shou could still practice by himself.

When Mitsui Shou saw players at the national level through Akino National Sports, he deeply realized the shortcomings of the current Shokubei High School basketball team. Mitsui Shou, who has always aimed to dominate the country, finally saw the strength of the national overlord, the Sanno Industry, which requires the power of a county's top players to defeat.

The group of people in Akita Prefecture are the main players of Sano Industry, and they all play!

When Mitsui Shou learned the news at that time, he was stunned. He thought that the powerful Akita Prefecture team was also a coalition force like their Kanagawa Prefecture, but he didn't know that they were just one team at all, and players from other schools in Akita Prefecture didn't even have the chance to play.

It was from that battle that Mitsui Shou realized how shallow he had always been talking about the country. If Shonoku High School now faces Sanno Industry, he will probably lose 50 points. His desire for strength urges Mitsui Shou to train, although he knew that it would be impossible for him to win the national championship alone.

But Mitsui Shou also knew that if he didn't work hard, it would be even more impossible.

The gap between Shonobei High School and Sanno Industry is too big. No one can stop Kawada Masashi and Kawamura Masayoshi. It is impossible for Akagi to be alone. Without considering other players, Sanno already has the strength to defeat Xiangbei. Not to mention that the players in other positions in Sanno are also first-class players.

Mitsui Shou thought he had national strength, but with Mitsui Shou's confidence, he felt that he could only guard against the next person, but Sanno needed to be wary of more than one person. Shotano did not have singles and unsolvable Simiya Tano, no genius immortal, and no super point guard Amu.

Whenever I think of Sanwang's strength, Mitsui Shou feels a sense of suffocation.

"Dominate the whole country! Dominate the whole country!" Mitsui Shou murmured in his mouth, dreams are all the motivation for his training!

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"Drip! Drip!"

The rain outside the house not only did not get smaller, but began to get heavier and the weather turned completely colder.

Inside the house, Akagi Takaki stood by the window on the second floor, staring at the basketball rack in the yard in a daze. In Akagi Takaki's eyes, faces reflected on the rebound, and scenes flashed, including Masashi Kawada, Masayoshi Kawamura, and Shimiya Tano...

The Akino Country Sports competition gave Takaki Akagi a huge impact. He experienced the national-level event for the first time and knew what a national-level team was. The powerful Sanno Industry made him question his dream.

"Is it really possible for me to lead Xiangbei and dominate the whole country?" Akagi looked out the window, his hands unconsciously pinched into fists, and with Akagi's firmness, he doubted himself.

Although Akagi Takaki has always been talking about dominating the country, this time he truly understood the strength of the national overlord. How difficult it was to win this game was to be won by Akagi personally. When Akagi was once beaten by Masashi Kawada and Masayoshi Kawamura, he felt that the team had no hope of winning. Unexpectedly, Shimiya Tano's strength was so terrifying that he took over almost all offensive tasks by himself.

It brought Kanagawa Prefecture to the national championship position.

Sanno Industrial's strength made him desperate, and the strength of the three players of Ryonan High School also suffocated him. However, even such a powerful Ryonan High School lost to Sanno Industrial in the summer season. Even the strongest Shimiya Tano could not lead the talented Ryonan High School to win the championship. How could he, Akagi Takaki, lead the weak Shonobu to win the championship?

"Click."

"Brother, I've had breakfast~"

"Why are you still standing there? Don't train?"

Haruko Akagi pushed open the door of Akagi Gangheng and asked Akagi Gangheng to have breakfast again. She had been here once. When she came before, she saw her brother standing by the window in a daze. Unexpectedly, he was still dazed when the breakfast was ready.

"Haruko..."

"You said, can I dominate the country?"

Akagi turned his head and looked at his sister. Now he seemed to be heartless.

"Brother, what did you say?"

"Didn't you just won the Akira Country Sports championship?"

Haruko tilted her head and didn't understand why her brother suddenly asked this.

"It's different, the Aki Country is different from the IH."

"What I want to dominate the country is not the autumn country."

Akagi seemed even more melancholy when he heard his sister mention the Akino Country.

"Even if it's different."

“But isn’t your dream to dominate the country all the time?”

"Why do you ask that?"

Although Haruko acted cute, she keenly grasped Akagi's mental state at this moment.

"Dream...the dream of dominating the country?"

"This time I went to Qiuzhiguo Sports and saw many powerful players. I truly realized the strength gap between me and national players."

“That gap made me desperate.”

Akagi looked out the window. His mood was as cloudy as the weather now.

"But if you don't work hard, how can you realize this thing?"

"If there is a gap in strength, then you need to train harder to make up for it?"

"Although I don't know how powerful players at the national level are, I think those people must have experienced a lot of exercise!"

Haruko's words hit Akagi Takaki's heart. Doesn't he understand such a simple truth? No, he understands the truth, but he just fell into a state of self-doubt. Haruko's words are actually an identification with him. Similarly, the identification of his own relatives gave Akagi Takaki's infinite power.

"Yes! If there is a gap, just train well and make up for it!"

"Haha, go for a meal."

Akagi came out of confusion. At this moment, he became more determined in his beliefs, and Takaki Akagi, who had seen the Sanwang Industry, had the clearest goal. His previous dominance of the country was more like a slogan. But now Akagi is targeted, his future has become clearer, and he has new ideas for improving his strength.

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Chapter completed!