Chapter 20

After the coach finished speaking, he hesitated slightly, then suddenly said, "Self-training is acceptable, but I will inspect the results regularly. If you fail to meet my requirements, you must follow my plan."

Given Shinomatsu's teaching style, he would normally never set such a precedent.

However, yesterday Yukimiya Kazuma suddenly submitted an answer sheet that was far too astonishing, making him feel that perhaps letting Yukimiya follow his own pace might yield better results.

The coach agreeing so simply not only surprised Yukimiya Kazuma, but also caught the other key players of the basketball club off guard.

Especially the third-year members; they knew this little old man's personality all too well.

"What are you looking at?! If you could improve this much through self-training like Yukimiya, I'd let you train on your own too! Hurry up, start running!"

As expected...

The stinky old man is still the stinky old man.

Once the other basketball club members began their daily routines, Yukimiya Kazuma was doing only one thing: finding an empty half-court and activating the Meditation Training System.

There was only a little over a month until the National High School Tournament qualifiers.

In such a short time, rather than spending effort on team training or drilling tactics, it was definitely more useful to grind stats alone.

This was the only thing Yukimiya Kazuma needed to do in the coming month before the National qualifiers began.

Thus.

For the time that followed, whenever the basketball club members trained, they could always see a figure with snow-white hair in a corner half-court.

He was fighting the air with great momentum, showing off his moves wildly.

And as time passed,

occasionally...

they could hear him alone, either laughing wildly or furious and at a loss.

Captain Takezono said that was Yukimiya-senpai's Meditation Training Mode, using meditation to imagine opponents and conduct combat training, but everyone simply couldn't understand why the meditation was so realistic.

Just now...

Yukimiya-senpai's layup move seemed to be suddenly blocked by an imagined opponent, then he was knocked right out of bounds.

Truth be told, Yukimiya-senpai's acting was truly excellent, and his sense of belief was super strong; surrounded by onlookers, his expression didn't fluctuate in the slightest.

It was just unknown who exactly the "Kagami Taiga" Yukimiya-senpai cursed while flipping back to his feet was.

What kind of person was he?

【Congratulations, Host Succeeded in completing a Meditation Training session...】

【Training evaluation loading...】

【Reward obtained: Jump · Training Value +0.3】

He had just finished a bout of training with Kagami Taiga, and moreover, the high school version of Kagami.

Although it was only the early juvenile form, the opponent's jumping ability, which allowed him to dunk over anyone with a mere leap, still forced Yukimiya Kazuma into a fierce battle.

"It'll do..."

"Better than fighting Akashi or someone like that."

Because every time Meditation Training was activated, there were solid stat gains; no matter how small the gain, it was visible strength increase.

Every time he saw the stats inching up bit by bit, Yukimiya Kazuma felt a surge of motivation throughout his body; besides, now that he possessed super recovery abilities, he naturally pushed his training intensity to the max, swinging his arms and training hard.

One and a half hours.

Yukimiya Kazuma wasted not a single minute.

In this small half-court used only by himself, he trained until his legs felt weak, and was finally caught by Shinomatsu, who saw right through his acting that he was already numb with exhaustion but still pretending.

After being severely lectured, Yukimiya Kazuma reluctantly left the court to rest.