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 On
the bench, Ayako asks Sakuragi about his back, and only then does Sakuragi
realise that if the back injury is serious enough, it could end his life
as a basketball player.
Silently, he trudges down the bench to look down at Rukawa, searching
for... (Reassurance? Confirmation? I can only guess blindly, because it’s
not like Rukawa’s opinion ever matters to him, so it has to be something
Rukawa himself represents, which could be that the competition is that
much
more personal than it used to be). Whatever he’s looking for, he presumably
finds it, because he suddenly turns around and laughs maniacally, claiming
that the tensai is a-okay.
Side note, that look Rukawa gives Sakuragi always makes me think of
the cliché “peering up through his lashes.” Ahem. |
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