Chapter 248

If they wanted to help the team win the championship, Kirisaki First and Rakuzan were mountains they couldn’t bypass.

As long as they were on the road to victory, they would meet Tendou or Akashi sooner or later.

To defeat those two, Midorima and Takao Kazunari had developed a move even more extreme than infinite pick-and-rolls.

The alley-oop three-pointer!

This was a super high-difficulty coordination that even professional players hadn’t implemented.

The number of times they failed during practice was also higher than the number of times they succeeded.

But...

Midorima’s thoughts suddenly returned to the first day of school.

His current partner, Takao Kazunari, had approached him with extreme familiarity.

"Yo, Midorima Shintaro-kun, my name is Takao Kazunari; you’re joining the basketball club, right?"

"I plan to join too; please take care of me in the future."

Midorima looked at the person in front of him, very unaccustomed to the other’s enthusiasm; he was like another annoying Kise.

Talkative, overly familiar.

His first impression of him was that he was a "frivolous" guy.

Because he actually mocked the lucky item he was holding in his hand.

Then the scene shifted to Shutoku’s daily training.

Midorima sighed that the training intensity here was higher than Teiko’s, and some newcomers who came for their reputation soon quit voluntarily because they couldn’t adapt.

Even though they had been first-class players in middle school, it was the same.

But what surprised Midorima was that Takao Kazunari, whom he had labeled as frivolous early on, had persisted.

He would even choose to add extra training in the gym just like him after everyone else had left the basketball club...

"That’s right!"

"The seniors don’t need to be mentioned; even Takao is a guy worth trusting."

Was the alley-oop three-pointer a gamble for them?

It wasn’t.

He never did things he wasn’t sure about.

More practice failures wouldn’t affect their inevitable success at this moment!

At this moment, there was no hesitation in his heart, because...

"In this team, there is no one who doesn’t 'do their best'!"

Thinking of this, Midorima squatted down without reservation and made a shooting motion from top to bottom.

"Nani?!"

People were stunned when they saw it, including Akashi, who widened his eyes.

"Making a shooting motion without the ball?"

"Sei-chan..."

Mibuchi Reo subconsciously looked at Akashi, seemingly wanting to confirm something.

"..."

Akashi didn’t respond; his speculation was the same as Mibuchi Reo’s, but he still found it hard to believe in his heart.

Takao Kazunari, who had been keeping an eye on Midorima, saw this and immediately shook off Hanamiya Makoto’s entanglement, throwing the ball toward Midorima with force.

Looking at his passing accuracy, the ball was going to fly into Midorima’s hands.

"It really is an alley-oop three-pointer!"

At this moment, everyone understood.

Shutoku was doing what they thought was the most impossible thing to complete.

The audience in front of the screen held their breath, shocked and expectant.

Midorima’s fans frantically spammed "Go" and similar comments in green font.

However...

Before the basketball flew into Midorima’s hands, a pitch-black monster suddenly stood between Midorima and Takao Kazunari.

It was very sudden; it appeared just like that, without giving anyone time to prepare.

Its lips were like Whitebeard’s mustache, as if mocking the two’s absurdity.

Then, a pair of hands reached out from the monster, intercepting the basketball in mid-air.

"I don’t want to watch your performance now."

!!!

From the body of the pitch-black monster, a hand suddenly reached out, intercepting Takao Kazunari’s pass.

The monster dissipated, revealing Tendou’s expressionless face.

Usually, to create dramatic effects, he would basically give the Generation of Miracles a chance to show themselves, and then ruthlessly shatter their hopes.

Because Tendou had determined from the beginning to take the path of a "numerical monster" and increase his popularity in this way.

Let the audience know how strong the opponent’s move was first, and then destroy it; only then could he bring greater shock to the audience.

This was his idea.

But as time went on, especially since the growth rate of his popularity had slowed down recently, he began to get a little tired of this friendship game of the Generation of Miracles.

He had acted too much, almost forgetting what kind of guy he was.

"That’s enough, Midorima."

"I don’t want to watch your farce anymore."

*Slap~*

Tendou stood straight, one hand held high, gripping Takao Kazunari’s pass tightly.

"Nani?!"

The scene went quiet instantly; the shouting of the Shutoku fans stopped, as if they had been choked by the throat.

Otsubo Taisuke and the others, who had been working hard to box out and prepare for Midorima’s miss, were all stunned.

Why was it like this?

Takao and Midorima’s alley-oop three-pointer coordination was only completed in the summer and hadn’t been tested in actual combat; it was the first time it was shown to the world.

But why could Tendou destroy their alley-oop three-pointer at first glance?!

"Could it be the Six Eyes?!" the Touou people asked.

"Who knows, his eyes are unique, more mysterious than Akashi’s Emperor Eye."

Aomine remained silent in the stands.

It seemed they didn’t know enough about Tendou’s eyes.

All along, they had thought Tendou’s eyes could only see through what type of player the opponent was.

For example, Hyuga Junpei was good at step-back shooting, Miyaji Kiyoshi was good at driving to the basket to score, Kasamatsu Yukio was good at pull-up jumpers, etc...

They thought this was all Tendou’s eyes could see.

At most, he could see the opponent’s physical data and playing habits.

Gathering all the advantages of the Hawk Eye, Data Eye, and Emperor Eye.

But they had never thought he could see through Shutoku’s potential duo coordination.

"Sei-chan?"

The Rakuzan people also sought confirmation from Akashi, who shook his head, indicating that he couldn’t see through such complex and high-difficulty coordination from Shutoku either.

In the original work, he had indeed found a way to crack it only after Shutoku had performed such coordination several times.

But Tendou could see it and destroy this possibility in advance, which proved that the Six Eyes could see further than the Emperor Eye.

"Observe, analyze, track..."

"Maybe it’s not that the Six Eyes saw the future, but that Tendou found this possibility from the future scenes."

Simply put.

"Is the person strong? Even without the Six Eyes, would Tendou still become the strongest high school student in the country?"

Hayama Kotaro swallowed his saliva.

He thought of that battle in the national tournament; even when Akashi’s personality returned and the Emperor Eye became complete, he was still suppressed by Tendou.