Black Basketball: A false start

Chapter 14 Dinner Party
After all, reality is not like anime. When you are at your wits' end, you can turn defeat into victory by shouting about friendship, hometown, and bond. Under the crushing of Kaneki Ken's absolute talent, Taro Sugitani's team lost miserably to the rookie team by 78 points with a score of 50 to 28 after a resistance that was neither tense nor fierce, and even a little boring.

Taro Sugitani was unwilling to accept this fact. After losing the game, he threw the ball and rushed out. With the scene of Kaneki Ken killing a chicken to scare the monkeys, no one dared to jump out and say that they wanted to challenge Aomine Daiki and others. The originally planned evening training also ended early in this weird atmosphere.

"Hey, Yanzi." In the locker room, Murasakibara Atsushi said casually while changing his clothes, "You said you would treat us to ramen, is that true?"

"Really, it's hard for you to still remember this." Kaneki Ken wiped his hair with a towel and smiled helplessly, "Wait for Qingfeng to clean up together, and then we can go eat together."

"I'm coming." Aomine Daiki, who had been listening to the conversation, quickly changed his clothes and walked over to say, "I want to eat barbecued pork ramen. Let's go to the recently famous Red Cat Ramen Shop! I heard that you can pet cats there."

"Ah~ Red Cat Noodle House... Murasakihara, what do you say?" Kaneki Ken looked at Murasakihara Atsushi, asking for his opinion.

"Ah? Me?" Murasakihara Atsushi peeled off a rice bran roll and ate it while mumbling incoherently, "I don't care, as long as it tastes good."

"Okay, that's settled then." Kaneki Ken put on his clothes, packed his things, thought for a moment, looked at Midorima Shintaro and Akashi Seijuro and said, "Akashi, Midorima, do you two want to come together?"

The tsundere Midorima Shintaro originally planned to refuse, but seeing that Akashi Seijuro readily accepted Kaneki Ken's invitation, in order not to appear so unsociable, he had to agree.

By the time they walked out of the stadium, the moon was already high in the sky. Under the street lights at night, the silhouettes of the six boys and girls who had just met were stretched out.

"Hey, Kaneki, you're hiding your true abilities too well." Aomine Daiki stretched and said somewhat dissatisfiedly, "You told me that you're not good at basketball, is that really the case? Who are you anyway? I always feel like you're hiding your true abilities."

"I was just passing by...I was just the unlucky guy who was accidentally knocked down by you." Kaneki Ken shook his head helplessly and smiled.

"What do you mean by hiding your talents, Aomine? In my opinion, Yan is just a disloyal idiot." Murasakibara Atsushi said lazily while holding a piece of seaweed in his mouth.

"You are the idiot, you are the disloyal idiot. Anyone who calls others idiot is an idiot himself!" For some reason, in front of Murasakihara Atsushi, Kaneki Ken also became like a child.

"Really?" Taoi Satsuki smiled awkwardly, "Murasara-san, Kaneki-san. Stop arguing, it will be a joke if Akashi-san and Midorima-san see you.

"Haha, that's not the case. Kaneki-san seems to be very familiar with Murasakibara Aomine and the others." Akashi Seijuro smiled and came to the rescue of Momoi Satsuki.

"Murasara-san and Kaneki-san are deskmates," Momoi Satsuki said kindly - yes, kindly, looking at the three kids walking in front of her, "They were reading comics this afternoon and were caught by the teacher. Murasaki-san said it was Kaneki-san's idea, so Kaneki-san handed Murasara-san's comics to the teacher. Really, two immature guys. As for how A-Da and I knew Kaneki... it's a long story."

Akashi Seijuro had no intention of asking further questions, so he nodded and said nothing.

After walking for a while, they arrived at the Red Cat Ramen Restaurant mentioned by Aomine Daiki.

"Welcome!" The waiter at the door greeted warmly, "What would you like to eat?"

"I want a bowl of chashu ramen." Murasakihara Atsushi raised his hand and said. "Shoyu ramen, thank you." Kaneki Ken said with a smile.

After the order was placed, the people sitting opposite each other started talking.

"Kaneki, your performance this afternoon really surprised me." Akashi Seijuro smiled and looked at Kaneki Ken and said, "I didn't expect that a master like you has never been heard of in Mini Basket."

"Haha, I usually just play casually at the doorstep, and I've never played mini basket. But I heard that Murasakibara is very good at mini basket." Kaneki Ken shifted the topic to Murasakibara Atsushi.

"Ah?" Murasakibara Atsushi seemed to be a little slow to react, and said indifferently, "Whether they fight well or not, it's just like that. Most of them are people without talent anyway. Just fight casually."

"Hmph, another guy who is not doing his job well." Midorima Shintaro snorted coldly, picked up a glass of water with his left hand and drank it all.

"Ah, by the way, what is that in your right hand?" Murasakibara Atsushi ignored Midorima Shintaro's dissatisfaction, reached out and took Midorima Shintaro's tower, and looked at it carefully.

"Don't take other people's things casually!" Midorima Shintaro snatched the model back and shouted angrily.

"Um, is your left hand injured?" Aomine Daiki asked cautiously, "Why is it always bandaged?" After his conscience was severely kicked by Kaneki Ken, he now asked questions carefully when seeing this situation.

"I'm sorry to have embarrassed you." Akashi Seijuro explained, "Midori Ken is a firm believer in numerology and metaphysics. He did a divination in the morning and this tower is his lucky charm for today. As for his left hand, it's to ensure that his shooting hand won't get injured outside of games."

"Hahahahahahaha, I didn't expect you, Midorima, to actually believe in that kind of stuff. Even my grandma wouldn't believe it hahaha." After hearing Akashi Seijuro's explanation, Aomine Daiki covered his stomach and laughed so hard that he couldn't straighten his back.

"Hmph! Stupid guy! Do you know what it means to do your best and leave the rest to fate?" Midorima Shintaro was obviously a little defensive after being ridiculed.

"Oh, yes, yes, yes. Hey, Midorima, why don't you go get a fortune teller and try changing into a pair of sunglasses." Aomine Daiki didn't care about Midorima Shintaro's defense being broken.

"Your meal is here, please enjoy~" Just when Shintaro Midorima was about to say something, the waiter interrupted their conversation.

"Okay, A-Da, Midorima has his own ideas. You have to learn to respect others." Seeing that Midorima Shintaro was getting angry, Momoi Satsuki quickly gave him a way out.

"Ding ding ding" Kaneki Ken tapped the glass with chopsticks, raised the juice in his hand and said: "It is fate that we can play on the same team. I hope you can give me more guidance in the future! Come on, cheers!"

"Please give me your advice~" With the clash of cups, the beginning of the era of miracles, just like that, it truly began from an ordinary ramen restaurant.

(End of this chapter)