Chapter 373

"Tiandao-kun will win."

"..."

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

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

"However, back in junior high, playing games always felt like victory was so taken for granted."

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

Whoosh~

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

Kirisaki Daiichi locker room.

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

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

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

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

They are still not sliced, but rather cut into chunks, divided into three segments like this.

Still difficult to eat!

"Then we..."

"Just keep the status quo."

Tiandao tells them not to worry.

What he cares about now is the constantly jumping "Popularity +1".

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

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

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

Tiandao simply follows the production team's script, continuously maintaining pressure on Kise and Kaizō.

Highlighting the beauty of the numbers.

Now it seems the effect is quite good.

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

"Next is to continue maintaining pressure on Kise, and perhaps appropriately add a little inner monologue for myself?"

The halftime break passes very quickly.

The fans who went to the restroom immediately return to their seats to wait for the game to start.

The point gap is a massive 20 points, with 20 minutes remaining; there is still a possibility of a reversal.

At this very moment.

Kaizō can only entrust all their hope to their team's ace, the Generation of Miracles' Kise Ryota.

Kise.

He is the most active player in Teikō, usually jokingly called the "life of the party" by everyone.

He has a good relationship with everyone on the team.

But it cannot be denied that among the Generation of Miracles, his strength is the lowest.

Teikō at that time had plenty of personnel in the frontcourt, with a total of 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 is very happy that he can be placed in the same position as Tiandao and the others.

But in reality, during those two years in junior high, 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 a "nuisance."

After losing time and time again, he still requested the other party to play another game with him.

In his short life of over a decade, Kise has 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 dissipated very quickly.

Then he tossed and turned, trying many sports, but none of them could be sustained to the end.

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

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

But before he could be happy for too long, he was beaten dizzy by his teammates.

He simply couldn't beat those two people.

That guy Haizaki 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 being cheated on, because such a thing didn't exist at all.

What stung his heart the most was Haizaki's remark 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 that he must 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 right now...

The scene returns to the court.

Kise feels the gaze of everyone on the court.

His heart is firm.

He, Kaizō's Kise Ryota, is going to accomplish something today that almost everyone thinks is impossible.

At the baseline position.

Kasamatsu Yukio receives the inbound pass and begins to think about how to break the deadlock.

They were scored on by Kirisaki Daiichi as soon as the second half started, and now the point gap has become 22 points.

If they continue to let the gap widen, they are finished.

It is also at this moment that he suddenly notices Kise has not run to the frontcourt, but is waving his hand at him to ask for the ball.

Tiandao captures this scene immediately, turns around, and his line of sight happens to collide with Kise's.

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

"This..."

The Shutoku members' complexions all change; that posture makes them feel familiar, yet also makes them feel like strangers.

"Midorima-cchi?!"

Midorima doesn't speak upon hearing this, as if he can't hear, his gaze fixed firmly on Kise.

"Kise's imitation, is it really completed?!"

"Can such a thing really be done?"

The Seirin members also widen 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 is naturally longer.

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

That posture is exactly the same as Midorima's, even the left-handedness is imitated thoroughly.

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

And then, the basketball takes off from his palm with a "whoosh."

An exceptionally high arc, as if it wants to break through the ceiling, crossing over the heads of everyone on the court, crossing the mid-court line, and crossing the three-point line.

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

"Boom!"