Black Basketball: A false start

Chapter 85 Poseidon High School
"Ah~ Finally, I have a week off, Ken, I bought a new game console. I'll come to your house to play this weekend~" After several consecutive high-intensity games, Teiko Junior High School finally had a week off. Murasakibara Atsushi excitedly packed his things and invited Kaneki Ken to play games with him.

"Okay, let's call Aomine to join us." Kaneki Ken agreed happily.

"Rest properly and don't slack off on your training." Shirogane Kozou on the side said jokingly with a smile, "I guess Qingfeng definitely doesn't want to die young."

"Got it, coach." Kaneki Ken leisurely threw his bag behind him with one hand, "Let's go, Murasakibara."

"Here comes Yanzi." Murasakibara Atsushi followed closely while eating seaweed.

"Wait for me, Kaneki!" Aomine Daiki also quickened his pace to catch up, "Really, why are you walking so fast?"

"Coach Shirogane, is Kaneki-san too relaxed?" Naoto Sanada walked to Shirogane Kozo and looked at the backs of Kaneki Ken and the other two as they left, and said with some concern.

"Don't worry." Shirogane Kozo smiled and patted Sanada Naoto's shoulder, "You can always trust Kaneki when it comes to things on the basketball court."

……

"Hey, Ken-chan." At Kaneki Ken's house, Murasakihara Atsushi operated the controller absentmindedly, "It feels like it's just like this after entering the national competition...Except for that Kabata Shigehiro, there are basically few decent ones..."

"What do you mean?" Kaneki Ken stared at the screen, "You're talking as if you've already won. That's not good. Jose wouldn't have thought that he could be defeated by Yabuki Joe. Besides, in the last game, Inoue Takehiko from Kamiki Junior High School also performed very well and scored more than 30 points!"

"That's what I said, but in the end, Qingzi's defense is too bad..." Murasakibara Atsushi curled his lips, muttered a few words without comment, and put down the controller in boredom, "Qingzi, you come and play, I'll go to the kitchen to see if there is anything to eat."

"Here I come." Aomine Daiki didn't hear Murasakibara Atsushi's complaints and took the controller excitedly, "Come on Kaneki, watch me fight you for three hundred rounds!"

"Forget it, I don't want to play anymore." Kaneki Ken also put down the controller with some disinterest, "Aomine is too weak, I can't carry him."

"Hey, don't go..." Qingfeng Daihui looked at the two of them in confusion, "Are you targeting me?"

"No, you've been playing games all day, aren't you hungry?" Kaneki Ken's voice came from the kitchen, "Let me make you something to eat."

"Hey, Yanzi can cook?"

"Hey, Kaneki, can you cook?"

Murasakibara Atsushi and Aomine Daiki came to the kitchen curiously and asked Kaneki Ken who was wearing an apron.

"What else?" Kaneki Ken handled the ingredients skillfully, "We can't order takeout every day, right?"

A few people chatted casually, and soon, several home-cooked dishes were ready.

"Hey, Kaneki, can you cook flower dishes?" Aomine Daiki looked at the dishes on the table with curiosity, and picked up the chopsticks, eager to try.

"This is not flower-growing cuisine, this is authentic Chinese food." Kaneki Ken explained with a smile, "Don't just stand there, come and taste it."

"I'm ready to eat!" Several people picked up their chopsticks and started to eat. Before long, all the dishes on the table were gone.

"Ah~ I'm so full..." Aomine Daiki leaned back in his chair and said with a satisfied look on his face, "I didn't expect your cooking skills to be so good, Kaneki. Let's have our celebration party at your house in the future!"

"Qingzi, this is a good idea." Murasakibara Atsushi also agreed with a look of approval, "I didn't expect Yanzi's cooking skills to be so good."

"Damn, what are you dreaming about?" Kaneki Ken pushed the bowl and chopsticks away, "We're done eating, you two can pick one of you to wash the dishes."

"Murasara goes."

"Go Qingzai." Murasakibara Atsushi and Aomine Daiki pointed at each other and said at the same time.

"Hurry up, you two play rock-paper-scissors, and whoever loses has to wash the dishes." Kaneki Ken came to the living room, sat down on the sofa, turned on the TV and said, "Let's go out and exercise while it's still early. We haven't trained yet today."

"...Oh." Qingfeng Daihui looked at the scissors he had drawn with a depressed look on his face, and went to wash the dishes.

……

"Yanzi, where are we going to go when you say you're taking us out for an activity?" Murasakibara Atsushi asked impatiently, "We've been walking for more than half an hour."

"It's right in front." Kaneki Ken pointed to the basketball court across the street and said, "I usually train here when I'm at home."

"Will you be allowed to train alone on the street court?" Aomine Daiki asked curiously, "Generally speaking, with such a large flow of people on the court, there won't be enough space for a team to play, right?"

"Hey, it's a piece of cake." Kaneki Ken said in a Versailles tone, "I have beaten all the famous catching masters here, so as long as I need them, there will basically be a place."

As they were talking, several people arrived at the entrance of the stadium. It seemed that a game was going on inside, and the stadium was packed with onlookers.

"What's going on?" Kaneki Ken curiously pulled over a bystander and asked.

A passerby who often plays basketball here also recognized Kaneki Ken and explained enthusiastically, "A few junior high school kids from Kanagawa came here to play this afternoon. They have won more than ten games in a row, especially the one who looks like a middle-aged man. It is said that he was even on Sports Illustrated. Yamashita-kun is looking for people to form a team and was planning to ask you to come over and take a look."

"Kanagawa? Junior high school student? Sports Illustrated?" Kaneki Ken became even more curious and walked to the sidelines with Murasakihara Atsushi and Aomine. The onlookers saw that the person coming was Kaneki Ken, who was in the limelight recently, and they consciously made way for him.

"Shinichi Maki? Poseidon High School?" Kaneki Ken said with some surprise when he saw a familiar figure in the field.

"Hey, Kaneki-san." Maki Shinichi, who had just won another round, also saw Kaneki Ken and greeted him with a smile, "How about it, do you want to play a round?"

"Amu..." Kamiso Ichiro was about to say something when he was stopped by Mibuchi Reio.

"Go ahead, Kaneki. You're free anyway." Aomine Daiki said eagerly.

"Do you want to go up, Yanzi?" Murasakibara Atsushi asked lazily.

"Do you want to go?" Kaneki Ken asked with a smile.

"It's fine with me. If Yanzi plays, I'll play. If Yanzi doesn't play, then forget it. It's too troublesome to compete." Murasakibara Atsushi was chewing gum and blowing bubbles, looking lazy.

"Let's play a game first." Kaneki Ken raised his eyebrows slightly, put down the backpack in his hand and stepped straight onto the court.

“Here they come!” The audience in the audience was in an uproar. “Finally someone can deal with these little devils in Kanagawa.”

"Kaneki Ken?" As Kaneki Ken played more and more dominant games, his popularity also rose. "I didn't expect that he would also come to play in this kind of street competition."

"Hey, I can tell from the looks of it that you're new here. Kaneki Ken often comes here to train."

"Boom!"

When the people who stayed on the sidelines were excitedly preparing to watch a fight between dragons and tigers, thunder suddenly exploded in the sky and the sky became visibly gloomy.

(End of this chapter)