Black Basketball: A false start

Chapter 167 It doesn’t matter, right?
"Ow!!!"

The roar of the phantom made all the players present feel suffocated.

"What happened?"

“I can’t breathe at all!”

"Why do I feel like I'm going to be eaten in the next second!"

Except for a few fans who like appearance, most of the fans present are people who like basketball and sports. Facing the situation on the court, although they don't know what happened, they still feel fear and hold their breath.

But in fact, the most fearful people on the field are not the fans, but the teams watching the game on the field or in front of the TV. No matter which of Aomine Daiki and Kaneki Ken advances to the next round, it will be an insurmountable mountain for other teams - they can't even think of luck.

"Nijimura," Fukatsu Kazunari swallowed his saliva, his eyes fixed on the duel between Aomine Daiki and Kaneki Ken on TV, and said to Nijimura Shuzo beside him, "Did you really serve as the captain of such a group of monsters in Teiko for nearly a year?"

"Yes." Nijimura Shuzo also stared at the two familiar yet unfamiliar figures on the TV in amazement, "They weren't so scary back then."

Everyone in Mineou High School had their hair standing on end watching on TV, not to mention Aomine Daiki who was facing Kaneki Ken directly.

"What kind of monster are you?" Aomine Daiki swallowed his saliva and looked at Kaneki Ken with a somewhat terrified look.

"Of course I'm just an ordinary basketball genius! Aomine!" Kaneki Ken's smile became a little cruel. The basketball in his hand was getting faster and faster. The sound of the basketball hitting the ground was like the friction of teeth of a man-eating monster chewing. "Now I ask you, Aomine. What is 1000-7?"

"What?" Qingfeng Daihui was stunned by the question.

"Wrong answer!" Kaneki Ken's mouth grinned wider and wider, and with a bang, the basketball and the ground made a huge roar. Aomine Daiki only felt the tentacles of the monster in the shadow behind Kaneki Ken suddenly stabbed towards him, making him feel dazed. When he came to his senses, Kaneki Ken's figure had disappeared from his sight.

"Damn it!" Aomine Daiki gritted his teeth, trying to overcome his inner fear, and rushed towards Kaneki Ken's back, "Just play basketball, why ask such a weird question? Do you think you have me in your hands?"

"A beautiful breakthrough!" Tashiro Heihachi seemed unaffected by Kaneki Ken's momentum, his voice still as passionate as ever, "Kaneki-san passed Aomine Daiki with just one step, and now standing in front of him is the former Tong Emperor Star Moroboshi Dai and Teiko's engineer Sho Taichi Sa!"

"Get out of the way! Your level of strength will only get in the way if you get involved!" Aomine Daiki rudely ordered his teammates who were trying to stop Kaneki Kenichi.

"What!" Just when the two of them heard what Qingfeng Daihui said, they felt two gusts of wind blowing past them from the left and right.

"Aomine-san chased and defended in time! What will be the outcome of this ball?" Tashiro Heihachi's voice became louder.

"It seems that after entering the wildness, Aomine Daiki's strength is still lacking." Hayama Kotaro sighed with some regret, "I have already expected this, but what exactly is Kaneki Ken's wildness? This is completely not a species that exists on Earth, right?"

"It feels so scary. I felt like I was going to be eaten." Mibuchi Reo said in a cold sweat, "But Kaneki is really strong. Even after entering the wild state, it seems that Aomine Daiki's speed can't catch up with Kaneki Ken. The gap is just smaller."

"The speed gap is smaller, but the gap between the two is bigger." The future in Akashi Seijuro's eyes seemed to be constantly updated in real time. "Although Aomine's speed is constantly rising, Kaneki's speed is also increasing exponentially. And Kaneki's wildness makes him more aggressive."

"Xiao Zheng, what do you mean?" asked Reo Mibuchi tentatively.

"Although I don't know what Kaneki's savagery is, I sense a kind of tyrannical aura from it, as if he won't stop until he destroys everything in front of him and devours all his enemies." Akashi Seijuro's expression became a little serious for the first time. "According to Kaneki's arrogant character, he wants to defeat Kise in ball sense, Aomine in speed, and Murasakibara in strength. But now he won't think so much anymore. He will only think about destroying the enemy. Regardless of everything, he will do his best to destroy the enemy!"

"Hahaha! No wonder you like unrestrained basketball so much!" Kaneki Ken laughed with a hint of joy, "It's really so joyful!"

As Kaneki Ken finished speaking, a golden light shot up into the sky amidst a black and red aura.

"You underestimate me too much!" Aomine Daiki jumped up right after him, and stretched out his long dark arms desperately towards the basketball that Kaneki Ken had swung behind his head.

"I won't underestimate you!" Kaneki Ken's voice was as low and harsh as the sound of a giant beast's stomach and intestines moving. "It's just that my body tells me that there's no need to care about such a weak guy!"

"boom!"

"boom!"

As the basket whistled and Aomine Daiki slapped his hands on the ground, everyone present was speechless as if they were under a spell.

"What a slam dunk!" This time even the usually calm commentator Oka Naoya couldn't help but stand up, "Kaneki-san ended this attack with a brilliant breakthrough past three people and a slam dunk that knocked Aomine Daiki out of the court!"

With a dull "bang", Kaneki Ken let go of the basket and fell down. Aomine Daiki also stood up and looked at Kaneki Ken's tall back. The initial fear was no longer in his expression. The shadow of the black panther behind him slowly condensed.

"You are still as strong as before, Kaneki." Aomine Daiki looked at Kaneki Ken with a hint of barely perceptible envy in his eyes, "You are worthy of being the opponent I have been looking forward to!"

"Don't say such nonsense, Aomine." Kaneki Ken turned around, with a look of contempt but a hint of appreciation in his eyes, "Please me more, please me more!"

"Kaneki!", "Kaneki!", "Kaneki!"

Watching the dunk replayed on the big screen, Kaneki Ken's fans were aroused again and again, dispelling their fear of Kaneki Ken's wildness, and cheers resounded throughout the venue again.

"Coach, do you think we should call a timeout?" On the bench, Tomokazu Goshiro sat down next to Harasawa Kede nervously and asked in a low voice.

"Not for now." Harasawad frowned, his eyes fixed on Aomine Daiki who was advancing with the ball, his palms almost sweating from nervousness, "Even if we use half a quarter to let Aomine and Kaneki Ken decide the winner, we can't stop the game at this time!"

"Ayako." At this moment, on the bench of Shonan High School, Anton Mitsuyoshi's eyes flashed with a gleam of light, "Get ready to call a timeout."

"Yes, coach." Although Ayako didn't understand why Mitsuyoshi Anton called a timeout when the situation was going so well, she still stood up and walked to the podium waiting for Mitsuyoshi Anton's instructions.

"Bang~bang~"

On the court, Aomine Daiki changed his previous rushing posture, lowered his center of gravity, bounced the basketball back and forth in his hands, and slowly walked towards Kaneki Ken, like a black panther crawling forward, waiting for its prey.

"Why is it so slow?"

"What's going on? This isn't Qingfeng's style."

"Hurry up and fight back, is Qingfeng scared?"

The Toou fans who had been expecting Aomine Daiki to hit a return shot immediately were somewhat puzzled and even complained in dissatisfaction.

"I feel so depressed." Himuro Tatsuya swallowed his saliva, pretending to be relaxed as if to ease the heavy atmosphere, "I didn't expect that after such an exciting game just now, the pace would be so slow."

"Ah? Slow?" Murasakibara Atsushi said lazily, "It's not slow at all. It's better to say that they have already fought at high speed in their minds more than once."

"High-speed battle?" In Shutoku High School, Kazunari Takao looked at Shintaro Midorima in confusion and asked, "Where is it?"

"In their minds," Midorima Shintaro said seriously, "the two parties currently competing are Aomine Daiki, who has played for many years, seen all kinds of opponents, and has been studying Kaneki Ken; and Kaneki Ken, who can compete with Akashi Seijuro in prediction. It can be said that from the moment either party got the ball, the two parties have been fighting at high speed in their minds more than once."

"You sound so mysterious." Gao Wei and Cheng Cheng curled their lips, "You are just a charlatan pretending to be a god!"

"But you've never defeated a charlatan like me." Midorima Shintaro said, rubbing his eyes, "Don't talk when you go out with me in the future. You'll lower our average IQ, Takao."

"Hey, hey, hey, what you said is too hurtful, Xiaozhen~" Takao Kazunari pretended to be sad and said in a funny way.

"Hey, stop talking nonsense and just watch the game seriously, Takao." Midorima Shintaro sighed lightly and ignored Takao Kazunari.

"Are you still not going to make a move?" Kaneki Ken looked into Aomine Daiki's eyes and asked, "The fans are not satisfied~"

"I don't care about that kind of thing." Aomine Daiki's eyes became brighter and brighter, as if he had found a way to defeat Kaneki Ken. "The only thing I want to do now is to defeat you!"

As the words fell, Aomine Daiki's speed seemed to become a little faster than before, and he disappeared on the spot in just a blink of an eye.

But there are people who are faster than him.

"What." Aomine Daiki looked at his ball-handling hand in disbelief. The position where the basketball should have been was now empty.

"Your ball control ability has weakened a lot! I told you a long time ago that you need to use your brain when playing basketball, but it doesn't matter!" Kaneki Ken, who had intercepted the basketball, picked up the falling basketball and ran to the front court, "Since it has come to this, it shouldn't matter if I eat you!"

(End of this chapter)