Black Basketball: A false start

Chapter 287 The Evolved God of Fire

"Sakuragi and Kagami... they are natural enemies who are as similar as mirror images!" Midorima Shintaro sighed as he looked at the two fiery red figures in the field.

"Hey, if you say so..." Takao Kazunari listened to Midorima Shintaro's sigh, then belatedly looked at the field and said, "These two guys...are they half-brothers or something like that?"

"You'd better not go out with me in the future, Takao..." Midorima Shintaro listened to Takao and Cheng's funny words and complained speechlessly, "I don't want others to think that I'm hanging out with fools..."

"What? What you said is really hurtful..." Takao Kazunari said pretending to be hurt as he listened to Midorima Shintaro's complaints.

"Sakuragi, how did it feel to score a goal with your face just now?" During the follow-up visit, Izawa Shuji poked Sakuragi Hanamichi's kidney with a deliberate smirk and teased.

"I don't allow you to ask any more questions, Izawa!" Sakuragi Hanamichi angrily slapped Izawa Shuji on the back of his head and said, "Are we still members of Jinshanshan's personal guard? You come here to ruin my show at this time!"

"Haha~" Izawa Shuji, who was slapped, smiled and patted Sakuragi Hanamichi's shoulder, saying, "But seriously, the performance of that red-haired monkey under the basket just now was really impressive... Can you really handle it by yourself? Do you need my help? Anyway, without teammates, Kuroko can't do anything, and I still have enough defense on my side."

"Don't worry, Izawa. Just listen to Gilgamesh's instructions." Hearing Izawa Shuji talking about business, Sakuragi Hanamichi's expression became serious, "I can handle this red-haired monkey by myself."

Coincidentally, just when Shonan High School was frightened by the equally explosive performance of Kagami Taiga and Sakuramichi in their fight, Hinata Junpei also came to Kagami Taiga with lingering fear and asked with concern: "How is it, Kagami? Do you need to replace Kuroko with Narumi? I think he seems to be having a good time..."

"No need, Captain." Kagami Daiga shook his head seriously, his eyes full of determination. "If I can't even deal with this red-haired monkey, how can I challenge Kaneki Ken?"

"Vulcan, catch the ball!"

While Kagami Taiga was communicating with Hyuga Junpei, Kiyoshi Teppei had already kicked the ball out from the baseline. Kagami Taiga saw this and said no more. After taking the ball, he slowly began to advance to the front court.

“Here it comes again, here it comes again…” Takao Kazunari looked at the two similar figures gradually approaching each other in the arena, rubbed his hands excitedly, and muttered with a look of excitement, “It’s worth the price of the ticket to see such a fateful duel!”

"Don't be happy too soon, Takao." Midorima Shintaro stared at Kagami Taiga and Sakuragi Hanamichi with a serious expression and said, "If Kaneki Ken doesn't play anymore, the next two rounds of attack and defense will completely determine the direction of the game!"

"Come on, red-haired monkey!" Under the silent gaze of the audience on the sidelines, Kagami Daiga slowly approached the three-point line of Shonan High School with the ball, staring at Sakuragi Hanamichi in silence. Sakuragi Hanamichi, who was being stared at, was like a beast that sensed the breath of its own kind. He stepped forward decisively and opened his arms to block Kagami Daiga.

“Bang!”, “Bang!”, “Bang!”

Kagami Taiga, who usually has a fiery temper, is unexpectedly calm at this moment. Facing Sakuragi Hanamichi's oppressive defense, Kagami Taiga is not nervous at all. Instead, he looks relaxed and gently pats the basketball in his hands, as if what is being played now is not the final of the Winter Cup, but a simple warm-up match.

"This guy... seems to have entered a deeper zone..." Sakuragi Hanamichi looked at Kagami Taiga in front of him with some confusion and muttered to himself, "But something is wrong... This feeling of relaxation is obviously the state that should be experienced when entering the wild state..."

"Wildness? Zone?" Kagami Taiga chuckled as he listened to Sakuragi Hanamichi's whispers, "These kinds of things don't matter... After all, it's just the ultimate release of personal potential. What I have to do now is to do my best... to defeat you, and then defeat Kaneki Ken!"

"boom!"

As Kagami Taiga finished speaking, Sakuragi Hanamichi's mind exploded. In the depths of his consciousness, a heavy bronze-wrapped door suddenly lost its patina, revealing its golden interior. Behind the door, a large hand with distinct joints suddenly inserted itself through the crack of the door. A huge force burst out from the hand, pulling the door, which was either made of copper or gold, out of shape like a thin can. Behind the door were Kagami Taiga's eyes full of fighting spirit.

"I don't know what happened..." Sakuragi Hanamichi was unusually nervous. He swallowed and muttered to himself, "This red-haired monkey seems to be a little difficult to deal with..."

"Let's fight again, Sakuragi!" The fiery red color of Kagami's pupils deepened a little bit, and it shot out like a black and red thunder dragon. With a roar, I felt that my hair stood on end, as if I had encountered a tiger in the wild.

"boom!"

As the sound of the basketball hitting the floor was heard, Kagami Taigo's figure suddenly disappeared from the spot.

"So fast!" Sakuragi Hanamichi's pupils shrank in shock, and he looked at Kagami Taiga in horror and said, "This speed... may be even faster than that black-skinned monster!"

"Warning! Warning!" Almost at the same time, the system prompt in Kaneki Ken's mind also sounded, "It is detected that a player on the field has evolved. Evolution path: Skywalker. Pseudo → Skywalker. Extreme."

"Finally evolved completely, Kagami..." Kaneki Ken said with a playful smile, "I really have been waiting for a long time..."

"Go! Kagami!" Hinata Junpei looked at Kagami Daiga, who suddenly became very powerful for some reason, and shouted, "Show them some color!"

"I know! Captain!" Kagami Daigo roared, and after successfully breaking through the application path, he stepped heavily on the free throw line and jumped up.

"Don't even think about scoring a goal!" Shigehiro Kabachi, who was under the basket, looked at Kagami Daiga who was rushing towards him with great momentum, and decisively left behind Teppei Kiyoshi on the opposite side. He jumped high towards the direction where Kagami Daiga was rushing towards him, and his long arms lashed at the basketball that Kagami Daiga was holding high like a whip.

"It's useless. Kabata can't stop Huozai's shot." In the audience, Murasakibara Atsushi yawned, looked tiredly at Kabata Shigehiro who was jumping towards Kagami Taiga, and said with some regret in his tone, "His talent is not on the same level as Huozai... Not to mention that Huozai has evolved now..."

"Eh, evolution?" Araki Masako looked at Murasakihara Atsushi in surprise and asked, "How do you know that Kagami Daigo has evolved? I thought it was simply because of entering the zone..."

"That's why I said that Masako doesn't know anything..." Murasakibara Atsushi curled his lips helplessly and said, "Have you ever seen anyone enter the zone and play for most of the game? The current state of foreign players can only be achieved by evolved players!"

"You stinky red-haired monkey, I won't let you be so arrogant!" After being passed, Sakuragi Hanamichi turned around with an unwilling look on his face and rushed towards Kagami Daiga. His long arms stretched out from the side and back of Kagami Daiga, and he desperately pressed towards the basketball that was held high.

"It's useless, Sakuragi." Kiyoshi Teppei looked at Kagami Taiga, who had only the basket in his eyes, with a look of relief on his face and said, "The current Kagami is not an opponent you can face at this stage." "Hahhhhhhhh!!!" While the people on the sidelines were still whispering about the duel between Sakuragi Hanamichi and Kagami Taiga, Kabachi Shigehiro also reached the highest point after jumping, and pressed his right hand hard on the basketball in Kagami Taiga's hand.

"Why doesn't Kagami use the shooting star dunk at this time..." Alex Garcia looked at Kagami Daigo who was competing with Kabaji Shigehiro in the air, and muttered helplessly, "This is obviously the secret weapon I prepared for him with great difficulty..."

"Okay, calm down, Alex." Himuro Tatsuya looked at Kagami Taiga with a confident look and said, "As long as Kaneki Ken doesn't play, no one will need Kagami to use any secret weapons.

As if to confirm what Himuro Tatsuya said, the two bodies that were barely maintaining a balance of power in the air also changed. Kabaji Shigehiro, who was the first to hold down the basketball, only felt a huge force coming from his hand, and finally the whole person fell backwards involuntarily.

"Don't give up, Chimpanzee!" Just as Kabaji Shigehiro was about to give up this defense, Sakuragi Hanamichi's voice suddenly came from behind, "I'm here to help you!"

"Sakuragi?" Shigehiro Karaji turned his head in surprise and looked at Sakuragi Hanamichi in the corner of his eye. He saw that Sakuragi Hanamichi's big hand was pressing hard on the back of Shigehiro Karaji's hand, and the center of gravity that Shigehiro Karaji had lost in the air was stabilized.

"Two people?" Hinata Junpei looked at Kagami Daigo's back with some concern, and muttered to himself with gritted teeth, "Even though Kagami has tried so hard, he still can't avoid the fate of Shonan High School deflecting the ball?"

"Why are you all so worried?" Kagami-sama, I keenly noticed the worried look on Hinata Junpei's face, chuckled, and suddenly shouted loudly, "I am the trump card of Finished High School, Kagami-sama!"

As he spoke, Kagami Taiga, who was originally flying in the air, deftly brought the ball back, then passed the ball to his left hand, then gently stretched out his left hand and sent the ball out from under Sakuragi Hanamichi's armpit.

"Double Clutch?" Wakamatsu Kosuke was a little surprised by Kagami Daigo's on-the-spot response. "Is this guy really the Kagami who was almost broken-hearted by Aomine before? When did he learn this difficult move?"

"When... I don't remember..." Kagami Daigo looked at the basketball flying in the air with anticipation and said softly, "But can a move of this level really be called a difficult move?"

"boom!"

Under the gaze of the audience on the sidelines, the basketball hit the front of the basket heavily, bounced high, and then kept circling around the basket.

"Go in!" After I landed, Vulcan looked up at the basketball spinning on the basket and roared loudly.

"Shh!"

As if in response to Kagami Daigo's angry roar, the sound of a basketball passing through the net was heard, and the basketball slowly rolled into the basket from behind Sakuragi Hanamichi and Kabaji Shigehiro.

"Oh oh oh oh oh oh!!!!"

"Vulcan is awesome!"

"Nice one-on-two, Kagami!"

"Vulcan!", "Vulcan!", "Vulcan!"

The fans of Seirin High School who had been feeling chest tightness and shortness of breath on the sidelines finally felt the pleasure of breathing, and they all waved their cheering tools and shouted to support Kagami Taiga in the field. When the audience shouted Kagami Taiga's name, a feeling of trance also surged from Kagami Taiga's heart.

"Is this... the feeling of being an ace?" Kagami Taiga looked down at his hand that had just scored a goal and muttered to himself, "Not bad."

"Finally scored a goal..." Muji Teppei said with a complicated expression as he looked at Kagami Daigo's back, "Kagami... is a much more qualified inside ace than I was before!"

"So, now that the ace's mission has been completed, all we have to do now is to do our job well!" Hinata Junpei took a deep breath, stretched his neck with a serious expression, and said in a deep voice, "I don't have the habit of putting all the burdens on newcomers."

"Ah, you're right, Hinata." Kiyoshi Teppei nodded slightly and said, "We should also reduce the burden on Kagami."

"Attack!", "Attack!", "Attack!"

"Defend!", "Defend!", "Defend!"

With Kagami Daigo's difficult layup, the ball returned to Shonan High School. With his teammates cheering on him, Izawa Shuji slowly dribbled the ball to the front court.

"Izawa-san, we finally meet again." Kuroko Tetsuya looked into Fuizawa Shuji's eyes and stepped forward and said.

"The game has come to this point, don't you feel it's inappropriate to say such things?" Izawa Shuji said with a chuckle, "Besides, you and I are not the protagonists on the court now, Kagami and Sakuragi are."

As he spoke, Izawa Shuji slammed the ball heavily to the ground. As the sound of the basketball hitting the ground resounded throughout the court, a stream of orange-red light bounced high from the ground and flew straight into the hands of Sakuragi Hanamichi in the inside.

"How could this guy Izawa make such a low-level mistake at this time?" Aomine Daiki frowned and muttered to himself, "The current Seirin High School... is an extension of Kagami Daiga's hands and feet!"

As soon as Qingfeng Daiki finished speaking, Kagami Daigo rushed out from the side with a swish.

(End of this chapter)