Chapter 96: Pass Basketball This Magazine Knows How to Play!

"Oh!"

Yukimiya Kazuma took the weekly magazine handed to him by Haru Yuji.

On one page was a spread of Long Tian Zhang holding a basketball, its title following the usual 'Pass Basketball' style.

【East Tsukudo Middle School is truly the No. 2 in the district!】

【Yukimiya is an extremely excellent player, but I've played many matches against him, and there must be exaggerated parts!】

【Me and Yukimiya Kazuma? There's no comparison between us. If he can make it to the semi-finals, I'll let him see the gap between us!】

Clearly, this was a weekly interview Long Tian Zhang gave before the match between Bai Shui Hall and Teiko. If he still dared to say such things after watching that match, then Yukimiya Kazuma would respect him as a man.

And...

This weekly magazine, Pass Basketball, knows how to play. They released Yukimiya's pre-semi-final interview about "I am ready for the fight," yet Long Tian Zhang's interview, which was clearly conducted even earlier than his, only came out now.

Creating dramatic conflict, holding it back, waiting to see the face-slapping scene, right?

However.

Long Tian Zhang.

So familiar. In the other person's interview, he also said he had played many matches against me.

"Oh, it's him." Takefusa Masaki glanced over. "The ace of East Tsukudo. When our strength was average back then, their coach always came to our school for training camps, and every time it made Coach Xinsong so angry he'd smash a cup."

Yukimiya Kazuma nodded, following Takefusa Masaki's words, and recalled that scene.

In short...

It was just the grudges and entanglements between two old men.

"By the way."

"Now, Long Tian Zhang will probably have his jaw drop. Although this interview was conducted before the round-robin stage, he himself definitely hasn't seen our match against Teiko yet." Takefusa Masaki smiled. "He might not even be willing to attend the first few rounds, since you two were never on good terms before."

Uh...

There's my connection in this too?

"Hm?"

"You forgot?"

"The senior Shibata from East Tsukudo, who was originally the manager of their team, sent you a love letter after the match. Long Tian Zhang saw it, and his face turned green with anger at the time. I still remember it."

"Senior Shibata is truly a beauty. Pity she's already graduated; I heard she went to a high school in Kyoto."

That's right.

There was such a thing.

The key is, the original owner actually rejected her!

What a basketball-obsessed stalker...

Damn...

The vision of bringing a girl along after transmigrating was directly shattered.