Kuroko's Basketball: I'm not the boss?

Momoi noticed someone sitting on the sidelines and looked on with curiosity, as if trying to confirm whether this person was a former teammate of Teiko.

Kise noticed Momoi's gaze and pointed to Xiangyang, introducing him: "This is my current teammate, Xiangyang."

He then pointed to Momoi and said to Xiangyang, "This is my old friend and former manager of the Teiko basketball team, Momoi Satsuki."

Momoi greeted Xiangyang politely, and Xiangyang nodded in response.

After greeting everyone, Momoi turned to Aomine and said, "Aoyama! Why aren't you here again?"

Go to training? How are you going to get along with your teammates if you keep acting like this? They all have a lot of complaints about you!

Aomine picked at his ear and said nonchalantly, "Training doesn't really matter. Let them think what they want. I can win the game even if it's just me alone."

Momoi pouted, clearly dissatisfied with Aomine's attitude. Suddenly, she remembered why she had come to find Aomine: "We're having a practice match against Kaijo this weekend, the team that Ryota plays."

"Ah, I already know."

Aomine nodded in agreement, then glanced at Kise and said quietly, "But to be honest, I don't think it's necessary to fight. I already know Kise's level; he's not good enough. I won't participate in this practice match."

Before Momoi could retort, Kise's lips twitched, a "well" character appeared above his head, and he couldn't help but say, "Hey, I can't pretend I didn't hear that. Sure, I can't beat you right now, but basketball is a five-on-five sport."

Xiangyang sat below and nodded with satisfaction. He had finally corrected Kise's wrong thinking.

"You're not trying to get at me with... team stuff, are you?"

Aomine's face turned cold, and he continued, "I thought you had improved, Kise. It seems that's all you're capable of. Teamwork is a joke in the face of absolute strength. You can't beat me, but you think you can do it by adding four useless guys? Don't be naive."

As he spoke, Qingfeng glanced at Xiangyang.

"Peach is gone."

"Hey, wait for me, Oolong! I mean, what you just said was way too much, and what Kise said wasn't wrong either..."

Watching Aomine's departing figure, Momoi gave Kise and Mukayo an apologetic look before hurrying after them.

Kise couldn't help but mutter, "This guy is still the same as always. Hey, Hikaru... eh??"

At this moment, Xiangyang's face was gloomy but with a smile, and waves of yin energy rose around him. This terrifying aura really startled Kise.

Aomine Daiki, right? His pre-match trash talk was quite good.

Chapter 13 Intelligence?

"Ah-da! You went too far just now! Ryota was our friend before, no matter what."

Momoi frowned and lectured Aomine, but Aomine just yawned and responded lazily.

"I'm so disappointed in him because he was my former teammate."

Aomine glanced at Momoi and continued, "I thought he'd improved, but he's not even as good as a junior high student. As a member of the Generation of Miracles, how could he say something as ridiculous as 'relying on the team'? I bet he probably..."

Aomine was completely unaware that Momoi had suddenly stopped and was still swaying forward, expressing her dissatisfaction and disappointment with Kise. Looking at Aomine Daiki's current state, Momoi clutched the hem of her clothes and made up her mind.

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"Little Xiangyang... your expression just now was so scary."

Xiang Yang stood with his hands in his pockets, looking gloomy.

Kise looked at him with a twitching mouth, thinking to himself: This is scary too.

Xiangyang didn't answer Kise's question. He pondered for two seconds and then asked, "Genius, what are Aomine's characteristics? That guy really annoys me."

Just as Kise was about to answer, his phone rang in his pocket: "Wait a minute, I need to take this call."

"Moshi moshi, okay, let's meet at our usual burger joint on the street."

Kise turned around and met Xiangyang's probing gaze.

"Who's calling?"

"Hey~ You'll find out soon enough, but there's a better candidate to answer your question."

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Inside the burger joint, Kagami Taiga was carrying a full plate of burgers and wandering around the store, but he couldn't find a seat after circling around several times.

Wow, there are so many people! Hey? There's a seat over there.

Vulcan's eyes lit up; how come he hadn't noticed this was an empty spot earlier?

I hurried over and sat down, picked up a hamburger and took a bite.

"What a coincidence, Vulcan."

The sudden sound startled Vulcan, causing him to spit out the food he hadn't finished chewing.

"Kuroko?? When did you get here?"

"I arrived a while ago; it was Vulcan who suddenly sat down next to me."

A few black lines appeared on Vulcan's face. Why does this kind of thing seem to happen so often? Oh well…

"Isn't there someone I know here? Hey, Little Blackie, Little Vulcan, do you mind if we share a seat?"

Kise grinned and put his arm around Kagami's shoulder. At the same time, Hikaru and Momoi also saw Kuroko on the other side.

"Xiao Zhe! What a coincidence! Is this fate?"

Momoi immediately rushed over and hugged Kuroko. At the same time, Kuroko weakly greeted Xiangyang and Momoi.

Xiangyang stroked his chin, suddenly realizing: Momoi seems to like Kuroko, so how come she went to the same high school as Aomine? They seem to be childhood friends.

He had figured it out but hadn't quite figured it out yet. Xiangyang looked at Taojing with a strange expression. The relationship between the three of them was quite complicated.

Seeing this, Kagami couldn't help but ask, "Kuroko? So you have a girlfriend."

Kuroko resisted Momoi's entanglement for a moment, but found that she couldn't resist, so she simply lay down and ignored it. When she heard Kagami's question, she replied in a clear voice, "No, he was Teiko's classmate before."

Momoi also turned around and introduced herself: "I'm Tetsuya's girlfriend."

Former basketball manager of the Teiko basketball team.

Kagami was shocked. The former Teiko basketball team, wasn't that the Generation of Miracles? Speaking of which, one of you says yes and the other says no, what's your relationship?

Xiangyang couldn't help but laugh when he saw Vulcan's expression.

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"So, Kise and Aomine are about to have a match? And you invited them out hoping... that they can beat Aomine?"

Vulcan rubbed his temples; the conversation he'd overheard a few minutes earlier was truly bizarre.

Momoi loosened her grip on Kuroko and said, looking down, "Kuroko hasn't been training lately because he couldn't find any opponents in middle school. He always says that only he himself can defeat him, and he doesn't need teammates. I think if someone can defeat him, he will definitely change! He will become like before, loving basketball and training, and his relationship with his teammates will definitely improve."

"The only one who can defeat me is myself?" Vulcan couldn't help but complain, "Are all the Generation of Miracles idiots?"

Kise instantly bristled: "Hey, what are you saying? You lost to me and you're still talking big."

"Huh? You bastard, just wait until I get my revenge, you bastard! I'll beat you to a pulp!"

Xiangyang flicked both of them on the head, then looked at his hand in surprise: Kasamatsu's solution feels pretty good to use.

"Hey, you smiling, scheming guy, what are you doing! Want to fight?"

Hearing the strange nickname given to him by the Fire God, Xiang Yang's face darkened, a smile still playing on his lips, as he prepared to explode.

Momoi ignored the three people fooling around in front of her and reached into her bag to take out a document. She said, "This is the playing style and habits of everyone at Touou, including Ootengu. I hope you can beat him! In this practice match, I hope you'll make him understand the importance of teamwork."

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"In the end, I still don't know Qingfeng's playing style."

Xiangyang walked down the street and said in a low voice.

"As for Xiao Qingfeng, he's probably similar in style to Kagami. But Kagami is far inferior to him now. In a one-on-one fight, I've never seen anyone who can compare to him."

As Kise spoke, he glared at Xiangyang with dead fish eyes: "Why don't you want that information? With that, our chances of winning would be much better."

"Are you an idiot? This isn't an official competition. What's the point of knowing your opponent's strength beforehand? When you actually meet them in the national tournament, you'll be misled by this kind of information."

Not long ago, inside a hamburger shop.

"Aren't you and Aomine on good terms? Is it... alright for you to do this?"

Looking at the documents on the table, Vulcan couldn't help but ask a question.

Momoi pursed her lips but didn't say anything.

Xiangyang glanced at the document on the table, pushed it back to Taojing, and said slowly, "Thank you for your kindness, but we don't need this kind of thing."

Seeing Momoi's astonished look, Xiangyang smiled slightly.

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"Huh? But with that, our chances of winning will be even higher."

Kise couldn't help but retort. He really wanted to see that information and win the match because Aomine was the person he most wanted to defeat right now.

"Victories gained by relying on external forces are meaningless, and using intelligence in training matches is a bit of an overstatement."

Xiang Yang said matter-of-factly, but couldn't help but mutter to himself: They want us to fill in the gaps in Tonghuang's work? And they're putting on an act of helping us. That woman is really good at scheming.

Thinking of this, Xiangyang suddenly stopped and delivered a chop to Kise's waist.

"What's wrong, Xiao Xiangyang... Hey! Don't learn such strange things from Ogasamatsu."

"That guy really infuriates me. If your performance in tomorrow's match doesn't satisfy me, I'll really kill you, Mr. Genius~"

Seeing Xiangyang's terrifying expression, Kise immediately shut his mouth and nodded hastily.

That's what they say... but that extreme individualist is a real problem.

Chapter 14 Kaijo vs. Kirio

Inside the Touou High School basketball gym

"To be honest, since it's still the off-season, I haven't gotten much information about Kaijo. The videos from last year's national tournament can only be used as a reference."

Momoi intently read the document in her hands, which contained information she had collected about Kaijo's players. Apart from Aomine, who was squatting in a corner of the stadium looking at someone's photo album, everyone else was listening attentively to Momoi's explanation. After all, Kaijo was a national-level team, and although Touou was very strong this year, and with Aomine joining the team, as a long-established powerhouse, Kaijo still put a lot of pressure on them.

"Yukio Kasamatsu, Kaijo's point guard, is exceptionally fast and skilled at shooting."

"Kobori Hiroshi, Kaijo's center, has exceptional physical attributes and performed outstandingly in last year's national tournament."