After the Battle of Shonbei Hainan, sakuragi blamed himself for passing the ball incorrectly, so for a while he chose to escape, did not go to school, did not go to the basketball team, just a person wandering, it seems that only by keeping walking, can Sakuragi temporarily forget the guilt in his heart, but he still walked to the basketball court.
It was the open-air basketball court where Haruko had taught Sakuragi to go to the basket, otherwise Haruko wouldn't have found Sakuragi so quickly, and of course, perhaps the Sakuragi Legion who knew Sakuragi had told Haruko where Sakuragi was going.
Haruko and Sakuragi's encounter did not have much conversation, but it was precisely Haruko's words that allowed Sakuragi to find the direction of light from the darkness of regret, and Haruko's words consciously or unconsciously woke up Sakuragi, and everything that bothered Sakuragi now would be so insignificant in the future.
When Sakuragi heard Haruko's voice behind him, his first reaction was to flee, desperately fleeing, in fact, Sakuragi's guilt and remorse, mainly because he could not face Akagi, Sakuragi's feelings for Akagi are very special, there is admiration for Akagi, and he also cares about Akagi's identity as Haruko's brother, and more concerns about Akagi's brotherhood with Sakuragi.
In Sakuragi's mind, Akagi may have become his relative and brother earlier than Haruko, so Sakuragi could not accept it, because of his own mistakes, and let the team lose the game, so that Akagi's dreams for many years were in vain, Akagi once said in front of everyone that he had fantasized about playing against Hainan countless times and won the county championship.
Therefore, this failure is too heavy, Sakuragi cares too much, and Sakuragi tries to bear all the guilt alone because of remorse, which must have crushed him for a while.
Such a Sakuragi, when she met Haruko, thought of escaping, and if it were not for haruko, who was chasing Sakuragi, who fell, Sakuragi would probably run away with a cigarette.
When Sakuragi turned back to help Haruko, Haruko said that she would never forget that game, because this game was a successful slam dunk by Sakuragi, and Haruko, as an interviewer, asked Sakuragi how she felt at that time, because someone would definitely ask that in the future.
These words greatly excited Sakuragi, and it is undeniable that Haruko's words cleared the haze in Sakuragi's heart.
Remember the match between Xiangbei and Xiangyang, the last moment Sakuragi's wonderful dunk caused a sensation in the whole field, although it was judged to be fouled, but Sakuragi once said that he liked basketball more and more, and the game with Hainan, Sakuragi dunk Amu, was more exciting, played 2 +1, the sensation caused was no less than the game with Xiangyang.
Sakuragi heard Haruko's words and remembered that she had also been the savior of Shonbei on the court, and more importantly, Haruko's words made Sakuragi understand that what she really wanted to pursue was not the guilt that could not be walked out in front of her, but the future that the genius had worked hard.
Such a stubborn failure today is not a brave responsibility, but her own inadvertent cowardice, if at this time Haruko asked Sakuragi again, "Do you like basketball?" Sakuragi's answer must be firm, and since that was the case, he should not have been so caught up in his past failures that he could not get out.
What Sakuragi has to do is to continue to walk along the path of basketball, even if it is a genius, he will have to face more than one game that cannot be lost but lost, if he can't even lose to Hainan, he can't talk about being strong, on the basketball court, he needs a strong physique, and he needs a strong faith.
Either like a coward, where he feels sorry for himself, or like a warrior, crawling out of the sea of corpses and blood, stepping out of this failed past and stepping onto a new battlefield.
And for a person, the sad thing is that others will not blame you for something, or even bother to blame you, but you yourself think that it is you who caused the overall failure, there is really no need for that.
For Sakuragi, he was not a person who easily accepted defeat, and the guilt and remorse caused by personal mistakes, in the end, it was because of Akagi, he regarded himself as the captain of his brother, and when Haruko pointed out the direction for Sakuragi, Sakuragi suddenly became enlightened.
In addition, that night, Ryukawa Kaede also "woke up" Sakuragi quite carefully, and the counterattack of the bald head began.