Black Basketball: A false start

Chapter 19 Practice Match (IV)
Hanamiya Makoto, who was lying on the hospital bed, felt regretful at the moment. If time could go back to the afternoon, he would definitely remind himself of two things: first, don't get your hands dirty, and second, don't have a foul mouth.

"Oh my, look at you two." Jin Jixiang opened the door of the ward while carrying his lunch box, adjusted his glasses, and smiled meaningfully, "One of them had his jaw broken, and the other had his ribs broken. If you had known earlier, you might as well have just gone up and fought with them."

"Shut up, why don't you go up and fight him?" Hanamiya Makoto looked at Imaki Shoichi with cold eyes, very dissatisfied with his performance in the afternoon.

"I'm just unlikable, but I'm not stupid. Let alone the golden boy, the purple boy alone is not something that can be predicted by common sense!" Jin Jixiang trembled all over, and a trace of fear flashed in his slightly narrowed eyes. The whole person seemed to be back to the afternoon training field...

"Hey, senior, Murasakihara and I are new players and we don't know how to play yet. How about you teach us how to solve problems on the basketball court?" Kaneki Ken's words were gentle, but his momentum was rising on the court. Murasakihara Atsushi on the side couldn't hide his inner emotions, his face was full of dissatisfaction, and he wanted to go on the court and beat someone up immediately.

"Hey, hey, hey, what on earth do you want to do?" The center of Wuqi No. 1 Affiliated Middle School bravely stepped forward and asked.

"Murasara and I just want to have a friendly exchange and learn basketball experience. Why are you seniors so nervous?" Kaneki Ken said with his arms open and a kind smile.

"Hahaha, interesting, so interesting." Feeling provoked, Hanamiya Makoto walked up to Kaneki Ken with a grim smile and stretched out his right hand, "Since you really want to learn, how can we hide it from you?"

Just as Kaneki Ken was about to shake hands with Hanamiya Makoto, Hanamiya Makoto slapped Kaneki Ken's hand away, stuck out his tongue and said crazily: "Of course I lied to you, who wants to teach you, wait for death, bastard!"

Kaneki Ken looked at his right hand that was slapped away, sneered, and said to Hanamiya Shin: "Senior, you are crazy at such a young age? Alas, I am a kind-hearted person. I will show you our family's inherited medical techniques in a moment."

After saying that, Kaneki Ken didn't even look at Hanamiya Shin, he just bumped into Hanamiya Shin and walked straight onto the field.

"Come on, Murasakibara." Kaneki Ken turned his head and looked at Murasakibara Atsushi, "Don't be lazy today, Murasakibara. If you can beat your opponent, I will treat you to potato chips for a month. But if you dare to be lazy, I will hand your comic book to the teacher."

"Ah, got it." The hair-tied Murasakibara Atsushi stretched his shoulders and complained, "Yanzi, you are really as long-winded as an old lady. Even if you don't treat me to potato chips, I will crush them today."

"Oh, so courageous?"

"...At least a week, Yanzi."

Looking at the two people chatting in front of him as if no one was around, Hanamiya Zhen's expression was distorted to the extreme. Seeing this, Jin Jixiang hurried forward to comfort him, "Calm down, Zhen, those two guys are not easy to deal with. From the pre-match warm-up, we can see that at least the one with purple hair has a lot of strength. If you attack them rashly, you might get hurt..."

Hanamiya looked at Jin Jixiang strangely, without saying anything, but signaled the referee to continue the game.

There is no need to say much about Murasakibara Atsushi taking the center position. Now the two point guards of the second team are both out for the season, so Kaneki Ken has to play as the point guard even if he doesn't want to.

Seeing Hanamiya Makoto walking slowly with the ball, Kaneki Ken smiled and walked towards him. "You little brat, you are so annoying." Hanamiya Makoto gritted his teeth and said, "I will destroy you today."

Kaneki Ken picked his ears and looked at Hanamiya Makoto expressionlessly, as if he was looking at a fool.

"Asshole, what's with that expression on your face!" It was like the last straw that broke the camel's back. The remaining nerves that kept Hanamiya Shinji rational were completely broken. At this moment, he no longer cared about winning or losing the game. He just wanted to destroy the boy in front of him.

After a look, Hanamiya Shin repeated his old tricks and made a breakthrough again, preparing to repeat the dirty tricks he had done to the second-tier point guard in the first quarter. Looking at Kaneki Ken, who was doing the same tricks as the other defensive players, Hanamiya Shin smiled with a sense of success.

But this time he miscalculated. Kaneki Ken in front of him seemed to have his feet fixed, and only blocked him slightly, leaving him a way to break through.

"It seems that he is just an accurate shooter... He is just a wimp, nothing to be afraid of." Hanamiya Makoto thought with disdain in his heart, and instinctively prepared to receive the ball and make a layup to score.

"Senior, you are so naive." Kaneki Ken's voice came from behind him at this moment, "You dare to come in when someone else has given you a route to break through. Aren't you afraid that someone will kill you from behind?"

Hanamiya thought to himself that this was not good, but he had already jumped and the ball had been shot. There was no way to adjust his posture, nor was there any way to retrieve the ball. Hanamiya could only pray that the ball would go in.

As expected, for someone like Hanamiya who has done so many bad things, who would listen to his prayers? Kaneki Ken grabbed the basketball that had just been shot and pushed it against the backboard. The players from Kiriki First Affiliated Middle School were about to rush forward to grab the ball, but Kaneki Ken, who was under the basket, was shouting, "Ahhh, don't grab it, don't grab it~ This is my backboard, mine." He raised his strong elbows, waved them left and right, as if he was afraid that someone would steal the ball.

As luck would have it, Hanamiya Makoto, who was knocked to the ground by Kaneki Ken's block, had just stood up and was thinking about how to get back at the opponent when Kaneki Ken hit him in the abdomen with an elbow. Hanamiya Makoto felt as if he had been hit by a huge impact drill and he went limp.

Seeing that Hanamiya Makoto was knocked down, Kaneki Ken stopped playing tricks and threw the ball to Murasakibara Atsushi who had already rushed to the frontcourt. After Murasakibara Atsushi received the ball, there was a bang and the basketball was slammed into the basket.

"Really, you really trust me. What if I can't beat them? Then your trip will be in vain." Kaneki Ken teased with a smile.

"Ah~ Are you serious, Ken? If you can't beat these guys, old man Platinum will train you to death when he goes back." Murasaki Atsushi yawned, thinking that Kaneki Ken was just talking nonsense.

"Why don't you just play basketball well, really? Those two guys don't seem to be of the same style as ordinary people. They look like they are not easy to deal with..." Konyoshi Xiang advised Hanamiya Shin when he looked at Hanamiya Shin who had just been exhausted.

"Tsk, stop talking nonsense. If you're scared, I'll replace you with someone else." Hanamiya Shin was clearly already in a rage and would not listen to any advice. His eyes were bloodshot and he roared in a low voice, "I'm going to take care of these two guys today. Even Amaterasu can't stop them. I say it!"

Hanamiya Makoto's red eyes turned to the two inside players of the team: "Kojiro, Kentaro, I'll leave that purple-haired guy to you two. I don't want him to be able to walk out of Kiriki First Affiliated Middle School on his own!"

(End of this chapter)