Black Basketball: A false start

Chapter 237 The Stronger Blackie

"What? You said Heizi didn't come back with you?"

In the basketball hall of Seirin High School, Aida Reiko stared at Kagami Taiga with wide eyes and asked angrily: "Didn't you tell Kuroko that there was a gathering for training today?"

"I told you..." Kagami Daiga scratched his cheek and said, "But he clearly told me that he would join me in the team. I thought he came back first... He didn't come back?"

"Not to mention that he didn't come back, I can't even get through to him on the phone now..." Reiko Aida said with an annoyed look at Kagami Daiga.

"Okay, Reiko, this matter can't be blamed entirely on Kagami. After all, Kuroko has always been stubborn." Hinata Junpei looked at the ashamed Kagami Taiga and stepped forward to help, "Why don't you give him another call? Kagami has been back for a while. Whatever he's busy with, he should have finished it by now."

"Okay..." Reiko Aida put her left hand on her waist and sighed, then called Kuroko Tetsuya again with a helpless look on her face.

"Beep~beep~beep~"

"Answer the phone..." Reiko Aida paced back and forth impatiently, muttering unconsciously.

"Hey, coach~"

As the phone was connected, Kuroko Tetsuya's voice came from behind Aida Reiko.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!!!" Reiko Aida was so frightened by the sudden sound behind her that she jumped up and her cell phone was thrown away involuntarily.

"Coach, is there something you want to tell me?" Kuroko Tetsuya looked at Aida Reiko blankly and asked in confusion.

"..." Aida Reiko looked at Kuroko Tetsuya's innocent expression and immediately became furious. She stepped forward, twisted Kuroko Tetsuya's ear and yelled, "Are you going to die? You didn't answer the phone for such a long time! You came back and there was no sound!"

"I just came in and I received your call..." Kuroko Tetsuya pointed at his phone with an innocent look and said, "You were all gathered together at the time and I don't know what you were discussing. I even greeted you..."

"Ah..." Aida Reiko looked at the silly Kuroko Tetsuya and sighed softly. She loosened her hand that was twisting Kuroko Tetsuya's ear and asked with an unhappy look on her face, "Where on earth were you doing? You've only just come back now!"

"I'm going to look for a way to get stronger..." Kuroko Tetsuya said seriously, "I have underestimated the Age of Miracles... Even Haizaki-san's current combat power has surpassed Kagami's. If we only rely on Kagami-san's half-baked strength, we will suffer a great loss when we meet the Generation of Miracles in the future!"

"Hey, hey, hey, don't make it sound like I'm weak!" Kagami Daigo shouted angrily with an embarrassed look on his face as he listened to Kuroko Tetsuya complaining about him seriously.

"Wait a minute, Kuroko, you said Haizaki Shogo is stronger than Kagami now?" Aida Reiko suddenly grasped the point, "Even so, Kaijo High School still won by a large margin?"

"Yeah." Kuroko Tetsuya nodded seriously.

"Well... the competition is getting harder and harder..." Aida Reiko pinched her brows with a headache and asked, "Then what results did you get from looking for ways to become stronger?"

"I think I have some idea, but you need to give me some more time." Kuroko Tetsuya was silent for a moment and then gave an ambiguous answer.

"Okay..." Aida Reiko seemed to see that Kuroko Tetsu was also worried, so she didn't pursue the matter too much. She just gave a few simple instructions and asked the players to prepare for intensive training, and then started the daily training of Seirin High School.

"Kuroko..." Kagami Taiga looked at Kuroko Tetsuya who was absent-minded in the training center, and couldn't help but become curious about what had happened to Kuroko Tetsuya during the time they were separated from each other.

……

"Do you know what you're saying? You asked me to teach you how to shoot." Going back two hours, in an open-air street court in Tokyo, Aomine Daiki looked at Kuroko Tetsuya with a puzzled look and asked, "Didn't Akashi forbid this kind of thing? He said you can't learn to shoot... and we'll meet in the next round, so if I teach you to shoot now, wouldn't that be aiding the enemy..."

"Please, Aomine-san! I can't let Kagami-san bear all the pressure alone." Kuroko Tetsuya looked at Aomine Daiki seriously and said, "Even if I can only learn the simplest scoring method, maybe I can relieve Kagami-san's defensive pressure at the critical moment!"

"I really don't know what you like about that guy..." Aomine Daiki chuckled at Kuroko Tetsuya's expression, "Well, shoot a basketball for me first, and I'll see how good you are now."

"Oh..." Kuroko Tetsuya picked up a basketball from the ground, made a shooting gesture and slowly shot in front of Aomine Daiki.

"The momentum is a little different..." Aomine Daiki looked at Kuroko Tetsuya who looked serious, his eyes narrowed slightly, "Could it be that before this, Tetsuya had already tried to learn how to shoot?"

"boom!"

Under Aomine Daiki's solemn gaze, the basketball drew an... ridiculously crooked arc in the air and hit the backboard heavily.

"Why don't you just forget it, A-Zhe?" Aomine Daiki said to Kuroko Tetsuya with a frown on his face, "At least you're still pretty good at being a shadow..."

"..." Kuroko Zhe did not respond, but just stared at Aomine Daiki.

"...Okay, okay, I'll teach you how to shoot." Aomine Daiki felt a little scared by the look in Kuroko Tetsuya's eyes, and could only scratch the back of his head helplessly and agreed.

……

"Hello? Ah Da?" In a study room full of girlish atmosphere, Tao Jing Mayu listened to the voice coming from the other end of the phone with some curiosity and asked, "Why did you suddenly think of calling me?"

"Nothing, it's just that Azhe came to see me today." Qingfeng Daihui looked up at the sky with emotion, "He asked me to teach him how to shoot."

"Eh? Tetsuya-kun is learning to shoot?" Taoi Satsuki was aroused by Aomine Daiki's curiosity. She sat up from the bed, changed her phone to the other hand, and asked with a gossipy expression, "So how is it? Did you teach him? How is he learning?"

"That's it, he barely managed to score a goal." Aomine Daiki said in a light tone, "But compared to his shooting, I think his dribbling is more interesting."

"Dribble?" Tao Jing Satsuki felt even more strange, "I remember that both Akashi and Ken-kun did not recommend that Tetsu-kun overemphasize individual combat power..."

"Who knows what he's thinking..." Aomine Daiki shrugged and said, "But his dribbling is indeed something... In the blink of an eye, he disappears... It's hard to defend against!" "Then you guys better be careful, I remember that the next round will be Seirin vs. Touou, right?" Taoi Satsuki teased, "Don't let a big upset happen then~"

"Tsk~ How is that possible?" Aomine Daiki curled his lips in disdain and said, "Although it sounds like bragging, only Zone can deal with Zone. Kagami Daiki is no match for me. I still have to wait to fight Kaneki in the finals!"

"Ah, right, right~" Tao Jing Mayu chuckled, "Xiao Huang said the same thing, you guys line up!"

"Tsk..." Aomine Daiki sneered in dissatisfaction after hearing Momoi Satsuki's teasing, "Anyway, let Kaneki Ken be prepared. I will definitely not let him have it too easy this time!"

After saying that, Aomine Daiki hung up the phone without hesitation.

"Hello, Ada!" Tao Jing Satsuki wanted to say something, but she could only hear a busy tone from the other end of the phone.

"What? You're always like a child who never grows up..." Taoi Satsuki pouted and looked at the phone in her hand. After thinking for a moment, she dialed the number while muttering to herself, "But I still have to tell Yan-kun about Tetsu-kun learning how to shoot and dribble..."

"...So you called me late at night just to tell me that Qingfeng taught Kuroko how to shoot, and that Kuroko also created his own dribbling skills..."

Kaneki Ken on the other end of the phone shook his head and said, "It's 11 o'clock now, May..."

"Oh, I just can't find anyone to talk to..." Tao Jing Satsuki said coquettishly, "After all, you and Akashi don't agree with Kuroko to enhance his personal combat power, but Kuroko still resolutely learned the skills of shooting and dribbling... Do you think it is useful, Ken-kun?"

"How should I put it?" Kaneki Ken, who was woken up, pinched his brows, fumbled to turn on the bedside lamp and said, "Although it doesn't mean much, but based on the games I watched recently, if Qingfeng doesn't deal with it carefully, there may be a possibility of a crash..."

"That shouldn't be the case, right?" Tao Jing Satsuki said hesitantly, "A-Da can enter the zone, but Kagami-san's level is still a little bit behind, right?"

"Let's make a bet, May." Kaneki Ken said with a relaxed smile, "In this match, even if Aomine wins, the score difference will definitely not exceed ten points, and he may even lose."

Ken Kaneki's prediction came true in the 16-to-8 match two weeks later. Toou High School lost to Seirin High School by one point with a score of 79:80, becoming the second player to be eliminated from the Generation of Miracles.

"What you said is true, Yan-kun..."

Tao Jing Satsuki looked at the trending news pushed to her by her mobile phone, and said to Kaneki Ken who was training in the gym with a shocked face, "A-Da and the others really failed!"

"Ah, I guessed it." Kaneki Ken was not surprised at all, and his pitching movements did not change at all. "If he wins the game, he will definitely call and show off to you and me."

"I really didn't expect that..." Tao Jing Satsuki muttered to herself, "I was clearly being suppressed by A-Da from the beginning of the game, but not long after A-Da entered the zone, Kagami-san also temporarily entered the zone during the game..."

"Isn't this natural?" Kaneki Ken raised his eyebrows in confusion and asked, "After all, Kagami's talent is also at a miracle level. When facing huge pressure, it is normal for him to enter the zone, right?"

"But there are many things in the broadcast of this game that look weird..." Taoi Satsuki said hesitantly.

"Weird." Kaneki Ken waved at Tao Jing Satsuki in confusion, "Bring it here and let me see it."

"Ken-kun, take a look at this video, for example..." Momoi Satsuki walked up to Kaneki Ken with her phone in hand and said with a puzzled look on her face, "The speed of Seirin High School's fast break is obviously just average. According to Toou High School's level, it should be easy to catch up. But in the video, everyone on the Toou High School field seems to be unable to see the defenders, running around like headless flies... It's like..."

"It's as if the whole team is against Kuroko..." Kaneki Ken looked at the people from Toou High School who were struggling in the video, and his expression became a little serious.

"Yes, yes, that's what I wanted to say!" Taoi Satsuki said with agreement.

"It seems necessary to call Aomine Daiki..." Kaneki Ken frowned slightly, muttering to himself while playing with the basketball with both hands.

……

"I never thought you would lose to Heizi, Xiaoqingfeng~"

Aomine Daiki was packing his things in the locker room with an unhappy look on his face when a frivolous voice suddenly came from behind him.

"Are you here to mock me?" Aomine Daiki paused and then said in a low voice.

"No, I'm just a little surprised." Kise Ryouna smiled and sat next to Aomine Daiki and asked curiously, "But what makes me curious is, in the fourth quarter...what happened to you? Why did your reaction suddenly become so confused?"

"..." Aomine Daiki listened to Kise Ryouta's question in silence for a while, then slowly said, "At that time... we all thought that we were targeting Azhe... The other people from Seirin High School... disappeared..."

……

"What? Gone?" Kaneki Ken listened to Kise Ryouta's story on the other end of the phone and said in confusion, "How come I didn't know that Kuroko was actually a ninja?"

"I also asked Xiao Qingfeng, but Xiao Qingfeng himself can't figure out what's going on for the time being..." Huang Lai Ryota shrugged helplessly and said, "As for the details, I'm afraid I can only give you an accurate answer after I fight Xiao Kuroko..."

"Okay, I understand..." After listening to Kise Ryouta's story, Kaneki Ken hung up the phone with a serious face.

"What's going on, Ken-kun..." Momoi Satsuki looked at Kaneki Ken's serious expression and asked with some confusion.

"Seirin High School is definitely not as simple as it seems on the surface..." Kaneki Ken frowned slightly, took a deep breath, and said solemnly, "I'm afraid it's not just Kagami, even Kuroko has entered the zone..."

"Huh?" Tao Jing Satsuki said in disbelief, "But the zone is not only for strong players..."

"Yeah, I think we've all fallen into a misunderstanding." Kaneki Ken sighed and said, "We've always thought that Kuroko is a shadow, and can only play his role by relying on light... But we all forgot that the most powerful shadow... is a black hole that even light cannot escape from!"

(End of this chapter)