Kuroko's Basketball template: the king of slacking off, Shohoku's strongest sixth man.

"Get out of here."

Zebei's voice was terribly hoarse, like sandpaper rubbing against glass.

He didn't even make a half-step feint.

With a sudden stomp of his right foot, the specially made sneakers let out a sharp, piercing scream.

The speed is unbelievable!

"So fast!"

Rukawa Kaede's pupils contracted.

His animalistic instincts compelled him to slide rapidly to the left and back.

But Zebei's speed had exceeded the physiological limits of his normal reaction.

Just as the two were about to engage in a fierce battle, Zebei's body twisted in a bizarre manner.

That was the move Lin Bei used to humiliate him in the first half of the game!

Zebei actually copied it directly into actual combat and forcibly incorporated it into his breakthrough!

Although the movements are still a bit clumsy.

But when combined with his unparalleled explosive power in the first step, its power is terrifying.

Rukawa Kaede felt a blur before his eyes.

A gust of wind swept by, and Zebei had already forcefully brushed past him.

"Don't even think about it!"

Akagi Takenori roared from inside the paint, rising up like an iron tower, his giant hand covering the sky.

But Zebei forcefully contracted his abdomen in mid-air, unleashing astonishing core strength from his waist and abdomen.

An extreme, exaggeratedly large lever!

The basketball grazed Akagi's fingertips, tracing a strange arc in the air before deftly backboarding into the net.

"Whoosh."

Two points scored.

58:40.

Zebei landed steadily.

Without even turning his head, he turned around and retreated to defend.

This goal was merely the prelude to a horrific massacre in the second half.

The next five minutes became the darkest nightmare of Rukawa Kaede's basketball career.

Rukawa Kaede cannot open the Zone.

Faced with Zebei's unleashed wildness and frenzied evolution, he was completely crushed.

It's Shohoku's turn to attack.

Rukawa Kaede made a strong drive with the ball, and just executed an extremely realistic crossover dribble.

Zebei clung to me like a ghost with uncanny foresight, like a persistent, incurable disease.

With a lightning-fast extension of his long arm, he precisely cut off Rukawa's dribbling trajectory.

"Snapped!"

With a crisp crack, it snapped clean!

Zebei transformed into a bolt of lightning, sprinting across the court on a fast break, leaping high to complete a brutal one-handed dunk!

They went completely berserk!

"hateful!"

"I still have a long way to go..."

Rukawa Kaede gritted his teeth.

Sweat poured onto the floor, and a profound sense of defeat exploded in my chest.

Next round.

Rukawa Kaede used Akagi's screen to forcefully pull up for a jump shot.

Driven by his wild and terrifying instincts, Zebei managed to force his way around the cover the moment his view was blocked.

They came from behind but surpassed others!

He leaped high into the air.

He slapped Rukawa's sure-fire shot through the air and sent it flying into the stands!

"Too slow."

Zebei's cold and hoarse voice rang in Rukawa's ears.

"You're not that guy at all."

"Your offensive rhythm, in my eyes now, is as ridiculous as a slow-motion videotape."

The point difference was being eroded at a visible speed.

Lin Bei was not present.

No one in the entire Shohoku region could single-handedly defend against the completely berserk Sawakita Eiji.

Kazunari Fukatsu's icy orchestration, Kawada's dominance in the penalty area, and Sawakita's unstoppable single-target bursts.

Sannoh Industrial demonstrated its dominance to the entire audience in a way that left everyone in despair.

In just five minutes.

The bright red numbers on the scoreboard were being frantically rewritten.

62:53.

A huge lead of 20 points was wiped out in just five minutes and reduced to single digits!

Only a narrow nine-point gap remains!

"Coach! Call a timeout!"

Ayako was sweating profusely on the sidelines, her knuckles white as she gripped her folding fan tightly.

"Rukawa Kaede is about to collapse; he's being tortured both physically and mentally by Sawakita!"

Coach Anzai remained as steady as a mountain, his gaze fixed intently on the stubborn figure on the field.

"Wait a little longer."

"This is the abyss that Rukawa must cross on his own path to becoming a true strongman."

on the field.

"Huff... huff..."

Rukawa Kaede braced his hands on his knees, swallowing hard, his chest heaving violently like a fully drawn bellows.

Sweat streamed down his pale cheeks, blurring his vision and causing a stinging sensation.

The intense sense of defeat, like a venomous snake, relentlessly gnawed at his pride, which he valued more than life itself.

A difference of nine points.

We absolutely cannot return it anymore.

If they back down even one more step, Shohoku's psychological defenses will completely collapse.

"Don't even think about getting past me..."

Rukawa Kaede lowered his head, staring intently at the wooden floor beneath his feet.

A drop of sweat fell from the tip of his nose and shattered into pieces.

"dream!"

boom--!

A subtle yet sharp aura, enough to cleave the air, suddenly erupted from Rukawa Kaede's body.

His head suddenly lifted up.

A strange red lightning flashed in his originally dark and deep pupils.

Half a step into the Zone!

Empty cicada!

Rukawa Kaede knew very well that his physical strength was nearing its limit, but he had no other choice.

Even if it means collapsing from exhaustion on the court, we must forcefully suppress Zebei's counterattack and send it crashing back to hell!

Give me the ball!

With a hoarse voice, Rukawa asked Miyagi for the ball.

The moment he received the ball, Rukawa's aura suddenly changed, as if he had vanished into thin air for a moment.

That involves extreme switching between extremely slow and extremely fast rhythms.

A visual blind spot created during the gaps in the brain's neural processing!

Zebei's wild instincts screamed a piercing alarm.

He suddenly shifted to the right, trying to instinctively block Rukawa's path to break through.

But the instant he moved, Rukawa Kaede's body flickered like a ghost again, strangely cutting in the opposite direction.

"Bang!"

The two collided violently at high speed, their muscles colliding with a dull, teeth-grinding thud.

With his unpredictable rhythm of half-step Zone, Rukawa Kaede barely managed to withstand Sawakita's ferocious pressure.

Using the force of the impact, he forcefully rose from the ground and made a fadeaway jump shot.

The basketball traced a difficult and towering arc through the air.

"Whoosh!"

Hollow into the network!

64:53.

The bleeding has finally stopped.

Rukawa Kaede's legs went slightly weak after landing, and he staggered.

Activating "Empty Cicada" caused his stamina to drain away at an alarming rate.

He stared intently at Zebei, his narrow eyes filled with resolute provocation.

"I told you, this road is blocked."

however.

The scene of Zebei becoming enraged, as expected, did not occur.

Sawakita Eiji stood still, quietly watching Rukawa Kaede panting, and the corners of his mouth slowly turned up.

It was a chilling smile, brimming with extreme greed and morbid excitement.

"marvelous……"

Zebei's voice trembled with excessive excitement.

He stared intently at Rukawa Kaede, the red veins in his pupils spreading wildly, his eyes shining terrifyingly.

"I was just thinking, if you collapse so easily, how boring it will be."

"I've been waiting..."

Zebei, like a perverted predator, greedily licked his chapped lips.

"I've been waiting for you to activate this mode!"

"Only prey of this caliber deserves my continued tearing and evolution!"

Rukawa Kaede's heart clenched, and a chill ran down his spine.

He was horrified to discover.

The fervor in Zebei's eyes was not because his fighting spirit had been rekindled.

Instead, they were frantically observing themselves!

Zebei lowered his body slightly, his brain seemingly transforming into a supercomputer operating at overclocked speed.

He was frantically dismantling and stripping away the rhythmic changes of Rukawa Kaede's "Zone" from earlier.

He is studying.

Learn from this ultimate and invincible state!