Chapter 116: Normal Training and Meditation Training Double Boost, Joy! (5k)

Bang!

Under the white incandescent lights of the gym, Yukimiya Kazuma leaped high and unleashed a "Monster Immersion · Soaring Bird," sending the basketball rocketing out like a cannon shell; the ball arced high across the sky, its extreme release point and high trajectory sending it plunging straight through the net.

"Ooooh~~~"

The red team that Yukimiya Kazuma was on cheered loudly.

"Trash!"

"If you want to block my shot, you're still — far from it!"

Across from them, Liang Huayin and Takefuji Masaki wiped their sweat in unison; they had long grown accustomed to Yukimiya Kazuma's frenzy in this kind of "state."

Actually, Yukimiya Kazuma's current "Monster Immersion" already had much better control over negative emotions. The 6 freely assignable attribute points he had obtained after finishing the match against East Tsukuba, once added to "Mid-range Shot" and "Three-Pointer," brought the two stats to 84.6 and 85 respectively.

With a target of 170 for the combined total of the two, only 0.4 remained, and Yukimiya Kazuma could feel with great clarity the rise in his emotional control ability.

At the very least, the instances of venting negative emotions toward his teammates had decreased considerably, and after finishing an offensive play he also snapped out of the emotion much faster; of course, his trash-talking at opponents remained the same as always.

"Damn it, does Yukimiya-senpai ever get tired?"

They had already trained for a full day, especially the afternoon's physical conditioning — even now everyone still felt their calves go weak; never mind a terrifying jump shot like Yukimiya's, even leaping up to contest a shot was a bit of a struggle.

Yet Yukimiya Kazuma could not only leap up, but even under these circumstances still maintained a stable airborne posture, like a roc spreading its wings.

Every shooting motion was as standardized as if it were a stop-motion animation.

"This guy is more and more like a 'monster'!"

Outside the basketball court, Shinmatsuji recorded the training data, equally stunned by Yukimiya Kazuma.

When all the data was converted into numbers and recorded in detail on the spreadsheet, he finally realized that Yukimiya Kazuma's evolution was not limited to offensive skills like passing and shooting — it was an all-around improvement as a player.

Even many points that used to be easy to overlook, such as: rebounding, strength…

"How could the evolution be this comprehensive?"

Shinmatsuji found it inconceivable.

"So this is what Yukimiya-kun looks like when he plays basketball?" Just as Shinmatsuji was thinking, suddenly a voice came from beside him; he turned and looked back, only to see that at some unknown point Kawasumi Yoshiko had appeared behind him.

Although Kawasumi Yoshiko was one of the caretakers for this training camp, during the day she generally wouldn't watch everyone's training the entire time.

For one thing, it wasn't her area.

For another, she had other things to be busy with.

The reason she suddenly took it into her head to come watch the basketball club's training today was also because she had other school clubs registered under her name, and she wanted to learn what the state of a club capable of reaching nationals was usually like.

As mentioned before, Baishuikan Middle School was a school whose various club achievements were generally mediocre.

And the clubs registered under Kawasumi Yoshiko's name couldn't even participate in large-scale district events, let alone nationals; therefore she neither understood basketball nor had ever seen a club training with its sights set on nationals before.

However, although she didn't understand, she still had to admit that compared to the clubs under her name, the basketball club before her eyes was completely different — it didn't look like a product of the same school at all.

Setting aside the seriousness and focus during practice, at the very least the members of the clubs under her name wouldn't take the initiative to work hard at improving their results just to attend club training.

Speaking of results…