Chapter 177

Beep!

The first half of the game was over.

Kaijo ultimately failed to hold the line and walked into the locker room trailing by 20 points.

Kise only felt his brain was a mess, so he told the coach and went out to get some air.

Outside the arena.

He and Kuroko met unexpectedly, and the two old teammates began to chat simply.

"Did you come specifically to cheer for me?"

"No, I just happened to be nearby for a training camp."

"..."

Kise was choked up, thinking to himself that his old teammates all had very awkward personalities.

Even Kuroko, who looked the most harmless, had a sharp tongue.

He calmed his mood and asked, "Then, does Kuroko-kun think I will win, or Tiandao-kun?"

"Tiandao-kun will win."

"..."

Kise was choked up again, shaking his head with a bitter smile.

"That's true, I guess no one thinks we'll win."

"But, back in middle school, playing games always felt like victory was such a matter of course."

"Only now do I realize that games where the outcome is unpredictable are actually more fun to play."

Whoosh~

A gust of wind blew, lifting his bangs and revealing a pair of bright golden pupils.

Kirisaki Daiichi locker room.

The bad boys were still surprised by Kise's sudden outburst at the end of the second quarter.

"Hey, boss, is that guy serious?" Hanamiya Makoto was still brooding over that steal.

He didn't want a Tiandao Tiandao Tiandao Jingyan appearing across from him, not even a fake one.

"Probably serious." Tiandao closed his eyes to recover his stamina, with honey lemon slices made by Satsuki placed beside him.

They weren't even sliced, but rather cut into chunks, divided into three segments like that.

Still hard to swallow!

"Then we..."

"Just keep the status quo."

Tiandao told them not to worry.

What he cared about now was the constantly jumping "Popularity +1".

If the protagonist of the Seirin battle was Tiandao Tiandao Tiandao Jingyan, then the protagonist of this Kaijo battle was Kise.

The production team gave Kaijo and Kise a lot of screen time; it could be said that these few episodes were Kise's solo show.

Looking at himself, he defined himself as the final boss as always.

Tiandao simply followed the production team's script, continuing to maintain pressure on Kise and Kaijo.

Highlighting the beauty of the numbers.

Now it seems the effect is not bad.

After all, besides the protagonist group, the final boss's scenes are the most brilliant.

"Next is to continue maintaining pressure on Kise; can I appropriately add a little inner monologue for myself?"

The halftime break passed quickly.

The fans who had gone to the bathroom returned to their seats immediately to wait for the game to start.

The point gap was a huge 20 points, with twenty minutes left, so the possibility of a reversal still existed.

At this very moment.

Kaijo could only place all their hope on their team's ace, the Generation of Miracles' Kise Ryota.

Kise.

He was the most active player at Teiko, often jokingly called the "life of the party" by everyone.

He had a great relationship with everyone on the team.

But it could not be denied that among the Generation of Miracles, his strength was the lowest.

At that time, Teiko had plenty of frontcourt personnel, with three small forwards on the team.

Tiandao, Haizaki, and him.

Kise himself was the one at the bottom; if it weren't for Haizaki suddenly quitting the team, the person who got the title of Generation of Miracles might not have been him.

He was very happy that people could place him in the same position as Tiandao and the others.

But in reality, during those two years in middle school, his performance on the court was not as good as anyone else on the team.

Most opponents were beaten into giving up early by Tiandao and the others.

During regular training, when he played one-on-one against Tiandao and Aomine, he was also bullied over and over again.

He was often disliked by Aomine for being an "annoying pest."

Losing time after time, yet still requesting the other party to play another game with him again and again.

In his short life of over a decade, Kise had tried many kinds of sports.

The first sport he came into contact with was baseball.

He still remembers the excitement he felt the first time he stepped onto the field.

But this excitement soon dissipated.

Then he tossed and turned, trying many sports, but none of them could be stuck with until the end.

He couldn't find anything worth dedicating his life to.

Until he came to Teiko, and that afternoon he was accidentally hit by a basketball; he formed a bond with basketball and finally found what he wanted.

Only, he hadn't been happy for long before he was beaten dizzy by his teammates.

He simply couldn't win against those two people.

Haizaki, that guy, also often mocked him in front of everyone.

The most excessive time was when he stole his "girlfriend" and humiliated him in public.

He didn't care at all about the so-called being cheated on, because such a thing didn't exist at all.

What stung his heart the most was Haizaki's words that he was the weakest one on the team...

He didn't want to be the weakest one!

Then Tiandao stepped forward, beat Haizaki up in front of everyone, and conveniently exposed that woman's clumsy lies.

From that day on, he made up his mind to become a player like Tiandao.

As handsome as him, as cool as him!

But even so, he still lost to Kirisaki Daiichi by 20 points in this game.

And today, but now...

The scene returns to the court.

Kise felt the gaze of everyone on the court.

His heart was firm.

He, Kaijo's Kise Ryota, was going to accomplish something today that almost everyone thought was impossible.

At the baseline position.

After Kasamatsu Yukio received the inbound pass, he began to think about how to break the deadlock.

They had been scored on by Kirisaki Daiichi as soon as they came up in the second half, and now the point gap had become 22 points.

If they let the gap continue to widen, they would be finished.

It was also at this moment that he suddenly noticed Kise hadn't run to the frontcourt, but was waving at him to ask for the ball.

Tiandao captured this scene immediately, turned around, and his line of sight collided exactly with Kise's.

He saw that after receiving the ball, he prepared to shoot, standing right in the center of the free-throw line.

"This..."

The faces of the Shutoku people all changed; that posture made them feel familiar, yet also strange.

"Midorima-kun?!"

Midorima didn't speak upon hearing this, as if he couldn't hear, his eyes fixed tightly on Kise.

"Kise's mimicry, has it really been completed?!"

"Can such a thing really be done?"

The Seirin people also widened their eyes, staring fixedly at Kise's movements, not daring to miss a single second.

For a full-court shot, the preparation time for the shot naturally takes longer.

People saw his knees bend deeply, making full preparations before leaping high.

That posture was exactly the same as Midorima's, even the left-handedness was mimicked completely.

In a trance, people seemed to see Midorima in him.

And then, the basketball "whooshed" as it took off from his palm.

An exceptionally high arc, as if it were going to break through the ceiling, passed over the heads of everyone on the court, crossed the midcourt line, and crossed the three-point line.

Then, the basketball began to fall at high speed, crashing into the hoop like a meteorite!

"Boom!"