Black Basketball: A false start

Chapter 269 Discovered?

"Coach, it's time." During the half-time break, Kuroko Tetsuya came to Aida Reiko and said seriously.

"Kuroko, are you sure?" Kagami placed his tired hand on Kuroko Tetsuya's shoulder, looked at him seriously and said, "Even if you couldn't play any role... and even fell behind in the first quarter, we still managed to hold on, so don't force yourself!"

"Kagami-san, I really want to thank you for being so straightforward..." Kuroko Tetsuya said speechlessly as he looked at Kagami Daiga's hand on his shoulder, "But don't worry, I'm fine. Since I've decided to play, I must have a way to help the team!"

"Coach, let Kuroko play." Kagami Daiga turned his head and looked at Aida Reiko and said, "I believe in him."

"...Then I'll leave it to you, Kuroko." Aida Reiko took a deep breath, slapped Kuroko Tetsuya on the back and said, "You must suppress that Dai Chihiro later!"

"Leave it to me, rest assured." Kuroko Zheya nodded heavily.

"Uh~~" Kaneki Ken stretched in the audience and said lazily, "I'm going to the bathroom first."

"Oh, go ahead, Ken-kun." Momoi Satsuki looked at Kaneki Ken with a silly face, nodded and said.

……

"Squeak~~"

As Kaneki Ken slowly pushed open the bathroom door, Akashi Seijuro looked at Kaneki Ken behind him in the mirror, smiled and waved.

"Hey, you're here, Kaneki." Akashi Seijuro said with a smile, looking at Kaneki Ken's reflection in the mirror, "I thought you wouldn't come to watch this game."

"What? Am I such a cold-blooded and heartless person in your mind?" Kaneki Ken walked to Akashi Seijuro with an expressionless face, put his hands under the faucet, turned on the faucet and kept washing his hands.

"I didn't say that." Akashi Seijuro shook off the water droplets on his hands and said with a smile, "I just think that with your personality, you won't meet your opponent in the finals before the finals start."

"Why, you seem to be very confident in this game?" Kaneki Ken raised his eyebrows slightly, slowly walked to the tissue machine beside him, and took out two tissues, "Don't blame me for not reminding you, this game may not be as easy as you think."

"Tetsuya's role on the field is already half useless, and Kagami-sama has not done anything outstanding except for a few lucky shots..." Akashi Seijuro seemed to realize that Kaneki Ken was not joking, and frowned slightly. He looked at Kaneki Ken's profile with a serious look and said, "Even if there is a one in ten thousand chance that Kagami and Kuroko enter the zone on the field at the same time, I have enough cards to deal with it."

"Are you talking about your entire zone and the game of passing the parcel?" Kaneki Ken said with a faint smile, "I wonder if you have heard of a saying..."

"What's that?" Akashi Seijuro asked, staring at Kaneki Ken with his piercing eyes.

"The internet speed of one person using a hotspot can never be as fast as four people using data at the same time." Kaneki Ken turned his head and walked towards the bathroom exit. When his figure was about to disappear in the dark players' passage, he suddenly turned his head and looked at Akashi Seijuro and said, "Unless you are a base station yourself."

After saying that, Kaneki Ken left the bathroom without looking back.

"Kaneki Ken, you can't always be right..." Akashi Seijuro stared blankly in the direction where Kaneki Ken's back disappeared, his eyes full of determination to burn his boats, "People in our Akashi family... never break a promise!"

……

"Ebina-san, please have a drink." In the locker room of Seirin High School, Shinji Koganei was busy distributing sports drinks to his teammates.

"Oh, thank you..." Ebina Ka raised his hand to catch the drink, but unfortunately, it missed the hand of Koganei Shinji who was handing out the drink. As the drink fell to the ground with a plop, the players of Seirin High School turned their heads to look in the direction of the sound.

"What's wrong with you, Xiaojia?" Aida Reiko looked at Ebina Jia with a serious face, and suddenly a bad premonition arose in her heart.

"Nothing... nothing..." Ebina pretended to be calm as he picked up the drink bottle from the ground. He hid his slightly trembling left hand behind his back, turned his head away without looking at Aida Reiko's eyes, and spoke in a relaxed tone.

"Xiao Jia..." Aida Reiko looked at Ebina Jia with a serious expression and said, "You should know what my ability is, right? You should have no physical strength now, right?"

"I don't know what you're talking about, coach." Ebinajia lowered his head somewhat guiltily and replied in a low voice, "I can still play."

"You!" Reiko Aida became furious when she saw the stubborn Ebina Yoshi in front of her.

"Don't hold on, Ebina-san." Koganei Shinji suddenly said from the side, "If you can't hold on any longer, get off the court and rest!"

"I would rather die than go down like this!" Ebinajia threw the drink bottle in his hand, exerted force with his legs, and tried to stand up, but he felt a soreness in his legs, and he sat back down involuntarily.

"Look, Ebina-san..." Xiao Jin Shinji said a little frustrated, "It's just a game. If it doesn't work out, you can try again next year! What if you get hurt? Even if you win, what's the use? You still can't beat Kaneki Ken, right?"

"The game isn't over yet, how can you say such discouraging things?" Ebinajia angrily looked at Xiao Jin Xin Shen Er and said, "Besides, if I leave the court, who will take over my responsibility of controlling the ball? Who will help Kagami defend Akashi Seijuro?"

"If I can just delay Akashi a little bit like Ebina-san did..." Koganei Shinji grabbed his coat and said word by word, "I think I can still make it a few rounds!"

"Several rounds? What's the use of a few rounds?" Ebina Jia said with a wry smile.

"If Koganei-san can't do it, there's still me!" Furuhata Mitsuki also stood up excitedly, patting his chest and saying, "It doesn't matter if my legs are broken, or if I'm knocked down and humiliated, as long as we can buy some rest time for Ebiaki-san and everyone else... even if it's only one minute, even if it's only a dozen seconds! We will try our best to do it!"

"Okay, you heard it, Ebina!" After Aida Reiko simply calmed down her turbulent emotions, she stared at Ebina Ka with burning eyes and said, "You and Itsuki will take turns to rest for a while, and leave the rest to us..."

"Coach..." Ebina Ka stared blankly at Aida Reiko in front of him, and a gleam of crystal flashed unconsciously in the corner of his eyes.

"Buzz!"

Just as the players of Seirin High School fell into silence, the broadcast above the stadium transmitted the buzzing sound of the timer to every corner of the stadium. "Okay, stop being so fussy." Kiyoshi Teppei gently rubbed the top of Hinata Junpei's head with his big hand, stood up with a determined face and said, "I didn't protect you when facing Kirisaki First High School, and I didn't protect Fujima when facing Murasakihara Atsushi... Maybe I was born not to protect others..."

"How is that possible, Senior Muji..." Kagami Daigo quickly took a step forward, ready to stop Muji Teppei, but was stopped by Muji Teppei's next words.

"I finally understand now. I'm not that kind of talented player. I need your help." Kiyoshi Teppei's eyes were filled with tears. He looked at his teammates with a smile in his tears and said, "So, let's work hard together! Overthrow the dominance of Rakusan High School and meet Kaneki Ken in the finals!"

"Meet in the finals!" All the players of Seirin High School, except Hinata Junpei, raised their arms and shouted at the same time.

……

"Hello, everyone. Welcome back to the game." Tashiro Heihachi said with a smile as he looked at the players who had returned to the field. "In the first half of the game, Rakusan High School suppressed Seirin High School with great intensity. Will Seirin High School fight back in the second half? Let's wait and see!"

"The third quarter begins, Rakusan High School has the ball!" As the referee blew his whistle, Akashi Seijuro took the baseline ball from Takeyoshi Netani and slowly advanced to the frontcourt with the ball.

"You haven't won this match yet, Akashi."

For some reason, Akashi Seijuro inexplicably remembered what Kaneki Ken said to him during the halftime break.

"Just sit there and watch, Kaneki Ken..." Akashi Seijuro turned his head away, forcing himself not to look at Kaneki Ken's playful expression. He narrowed his eyes and looked at the half court of Seirin High School and said, "I'm different from before!"

"Don't even think about it!"

Just as Akashi Seijuro was about to break through with the ball, Shinji Koganei suddenly jumped out from the side and looked at Akashi Seijuro with a serious face.

"Ah, this is..." Imayoshi Xiangyi looked at the field in confusion, poked Qingfeng Daiki's waist with his elbow and asked, "Is this a special secret weapon?"

"How should I know?" Aomine Daiki's face was no less surprised than Imayoshi Shoichi's. "Who knows what crazy ideas that crazy woman came up with during the halftime break?"

"Hey, even if you give up this game, don't gamble with this kid's basketball career." Netani Takenaga looked at Kiyoshi Teppei in front of him with some dissatisfaction and said, "Let him defend Akashi? Are you kidding me?"

"You're wrong, Yongji." Kiyoshi Teppei said with a smile as he looked at Shinji Koganei on the top of the lake. "Although Shinji is a master of everything and poor...but in terms of athletic ability alone, he's also a good player among ordinary people!"

"Ah, what a boring test..." Akashi Seijuro looked at Koganei Shinji with some dissatisfaction, "Since you all don't care about this game, then I don't have to hold back!"

As Akashi Seijuro's voice fell, Koganei Shinji felt a flash before his eyes, and Akashi Seijuro turned into a crimson light and disappeared in front of him.

"Damn it... Is this all we can do?" Koganei Shinji glanced at Akashi Seijuro's figure unwillingly and muttered to himself, "Even if it's just for one round... I must stop you!"

"Whoo~"

As an imperceptible gust of wind lightly brushed across Akashi Seijuro's cheek, all the members of the Generation of Miracles present, including Akashi Seijuro, looked at Koganei Shinji in surprise.

"Is this... wildness?" Wakamatsu Kosuke was stunned when he saw the shadow behind Koganei Shinji, and then he complained speechlessly, "Whose good guy's wildness is a tabby cat?"

"In comparison..." Imayoshi Xiang turned his head and looked at Akashi Seijuro's figure and said, "The pressure that Akashi Seijuro brought to people on the court... is just like a lion!"

"Don't... don't even think about going over there!" The wildness in Shinji Koganei's body flashed away, and the look in his eyes when he looked at Akashi Seijuro became a little weak, and there was an obvious tremor in his voice.

"Ah, what a waste of time..." Akashi Seijuro shook his head helplessly, then, with a stern look in his eyes, he said softly, "I should have thought of it earlier...Except for Kaneki Ken, I have no opponent!"

After saying that, Akashi Seijuro completely left Koganei Shinji behind and plunged headfirst into the heavily defended interior of Seirin High School without looking back.

"I won't let you score so easily again, Akashi!" There was a flash of lightning in Kagami Taiga's eyes, and he flashed and appeared in front of Akashi Seijuro and roared.

"You really didn't disappoint me, Kagami." Akashi Seijuro said with a playful smile on his face, "But if you come out, who will guard the inner line?"

"What?" Kagami Daigo paused and subconsciously glanced towards the bottom line.

"Whoosh!"

Almost at the same time, Akashi Shojuro decisively passed the basketball in his hand, and the afterimage of the basketball in the air pointed straight towards Netani Takeyoshi.

"You are too naive, Akashi!" Kagami Daigo's face lit up with joy. He took a step back and then jumped up, rushing towards the basketball flying in the air.

"It really is you, Kagami."

A soft voice accompanied by gray hair appeared in front of Kagami Taiga. Just when Kagami Taiga's palm was about to touch the basketball, Dai Chihiro calmly stretched out her arm and slapped the bottom of the basketball. The basketball that was originally flying straight to the inside suddenly changed its flying direction and flew towards Mibuchi Reo outside the three-point line.

"Well dressed, Dai!" After catching the ball, Mibuchi Reo excitedly gave a thumbs up in the direction of Dai Chihiro.

"That's a good message, Luoshan No. 5!"

"As expected of a brand new model of the Phantom Sixth Man!"

"No... Dai... was discovered?" Just as Reo Mibuchi was about to take action, a strong sense of disobedience suddenly surged into his heart.

(End of this chapter)