[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-popular-character-in-kuroko-s-basketball":3,"chapter-the-popular-character-in-kuroko-s-basketball-the-popular-character-in-kuroko-s-basketball-chapter-177":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","The Popular Character in Kuroko's Basketball",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},2209277,3844,"Chapter 177","the-popular-character-in-kuroko-s-basketball-chapter-177",177,"\u003Cp>Beep!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The first half of the game was over.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kaijo ultimately failed to hold the line and walked into the locker room trailing by 20 points.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kise only felt his brain was a mess, so he told the coach and went out to get some air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Outside the arena.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He and Kuroko met unexpectedly, and the two old teammates began to chat simply.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Did you come specifically to cheer for me?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No, I just happened to be nearby for a training camp.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kise was choked up, thinking to himself that his old teammates all had very awkward personalities.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even Kuroko, who looked the most harmless, had a sharp tongue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He calmed his mood and asked, \"Then, does Kuroko-kun think I will win, or Tiandao-kun?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Tiandao-kun will win.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kise was choked up again, shaking his head with a bitter smile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That's true, I guess no one thinks we'll win.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But, back in middle school, playing games always felt like victory was such a matter of course.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Only now do I realize that games where the outcome is unpredictable are actually more fun to play.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whoosh~\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A gust of wind blew, lifting his bangs and revealing a pair of bright golden pupils.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kirisaki Daiichi locker room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The bad boys were still surprised by Kise's sudden outburst at the end of the second quarter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hey, boss, is that guy serious?\" Hanamiya Makoto was still brooding over that steal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn't want a Tiandao Tiandao Tiandao Jingyan appearing across from him, not even a fake one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Probably serious.\" Tiandao closed his eyes to recover his stamina, with honey lemon slices made by Satsuki placed beside him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They weren't even sliced, but rather cut into chunks, divided into three segments like that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Still hard to swallow!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then we...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Just keep the status quo.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tiandao told them not to worry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What he cared about now was the constantly jumping \"Popularity +1\".\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the protagonist of the Seirin battle was Tiandao Tiandao Tiandao Jingyan, then the protagonist of this Kaijo battle was Kise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>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.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at himself, he defined himself as the final boss as always.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tiandao simply followed the production team's script, continuing to maintain pressure on Kise and Kaijo.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Highlighting the beauty of the numbers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now it seems the effect is not bad.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, besides the protagonist group, the final boss's scenes are the most brilliant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Next is to continue maintaining pressure on Kise; can I appropriately add a little inner monologue for myself?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The halftime break passed quickly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fans who had gone to the bathroom returned to their seats immediately to wait for the game to start.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The point gap was a huge 20 points, with twenty minutes left, so the possibility of a reversal still existed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this very moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kaijo could only place all their hope on their team's ace, the Generation of Miracles' Kise Ryota.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was the most active player at Teiko, often jokingly called the \"life of the party\" by everyone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had a great relationship with everyone on the team.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it could not be denied that among the Generation of Miracles, his strength was the lowest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that time, Teiko had plenty of frontcourt personnel, with three small forwards on the team.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tiandao, Haizaki, and him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>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.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was very happy that people could place him in the same position as Tiandao and the others.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>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.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Most opponents were beaten into giving up early by Tiandao and the others.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During regular training, when he played one-on-one against Tiandao and Aomine, he was also bullied over and over again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was often disliked by Aomine for being an \"annoying pest.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Losing time after time, yet still requesting the other party to play another game with him again and again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In his short life of over a decade, Kise had tried many kinds of sports.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The first sport he came into contact with was baseball.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He still remembers the excitement he felt the first time he stepped onto the field.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this excitement soon dissipated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he tossed and turned, trying many sports, but none of them could be stuck with until the end.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He couldn't find anything worth dedicating his life to.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>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.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only, he hadn't been happy for long before he was beaten dizzy by his teammates.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He simply couldn't win against those two people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Haizaki, that guy, also often mocked him in front of everyone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The most excessive time was when he stole his \"girlfriend\" and humiliated him in public.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn't care at all about the so-called being cheated on, because such a thing didn't exist at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What stung his heart the most was Haizaki's words that he was the weakest one on the team...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn't want to be the weakest one!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then Tiandao stepped forward, beat Haizaki up in front of everyone, and conveniently exposed that woman's clumsy lies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From that day on, he made up his mind to become a player like Tiandao.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As handsome as him, as cool as him!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But even so, he still lost to Kirisaki Daiichi by 20 points in this game.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And today, but now...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The scene returns to the court.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kise felt the gaze of everyone on the court.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His heart was firm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He, Kaijo's Kise Ryota, was going to accomplish something today that almost everyone thought was impossible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the baseline position.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After Kasamatsu Yukio received the inbound pass, he began to think about how to break the deadlock.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>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.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If they let the gap continue to widen, they would be finished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>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.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tiandao captured this scene immediately, turned around, and his line of sight collided exactly with Kise's.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He saw that after receiving the ball, he prepared to shoot, standing right in the center of the free-throw line.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The faces of the Shutoku people all changed; that posture made them feel familiar, yet also strange.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Midorima-kun?!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Midorima didn't speak upon hearing this, as if he couldn't hear, his eyes fixed tightly on Kise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Kise's mimicry, has it really been completed?!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Can such a thing really be done?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Seirin people also widened their eyes, staring fixedly at Kise's movements, not daring to miss a single second.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For a full-court shot, the preparation time for the shot naturally takes longer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>People saw his knees bend deeply, making full preparations before leaping high.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That posture was exactly the same as Midorima's, even the left-handedness was mimicked completely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In a trance, people seemed to see Midorima in him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then, the basketball \"whooshed\" as it took off from his palm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>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.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, the basketball began to fall at high speed, crashing into the hoop like a meteorite!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Boom!\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1294,"2026-06-17T07:29:39.005Z","2026-06-17T07:46:54.104Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","f61e88d611d29a8efdd1097fb4012967afb32a0e8f9936359f7a51b91991ccb2","the-popular-character-in-kuroko-s-basketball-chapter-178","the-popular-character-in-kuroko-s-basketball-chapter-176",256,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-popular-character-in-kuroko-s-basketball-cover.jpg"]