Chapter 404

The match began quickly.

Yosen's starting lineup: Kensuke Fukui, Tatsuya Himuro, Liu, Kenichi Okamura, and Atsushi Murasakibara.

Aside from the two guards, the three frontcourt players all stood at or above 2 meters in height.

In the category of high school students, such a height advantage is decisive.

No wonder Masako Araki refused the pursuit of Genta Takeuchi.

Compared to a fat otaku, this yakuza big sister clearly preferred big guys.

"Hmm?" Masako Araki suddenly felt a wave of malice and keenly looked toward the direction of Kirisaki Daichi.

"Are they here to scout for information?"

Masako Araki sneered, then picked up her bamboo sword to direct her players.

"If you let the opponent score a single point today, you can run all the way back to Akita Prefecture."

The players all wore expressions of looking at an idiot.

This is the quarterfinals of the National Tournament, for crying out loud. Don't let the opponent score a single point? Do you take us for gods?

But despite saying that, the Yosen players still smiled and accepted the challenge.

As soon as the match started, Murasakibara won the tip-off for his team with an absolute advantage.

After Kensuke Fukui dribbled the ball past half-court, a 4-on-5 opportunity appeared in the frontcourt.

Yosen was playing 4 against 5; after winning the tip-off, that guy Murasakibara ran back to his own paint to guard it, habitually licking the remnants of a delicious stick on his palm.

"4 against 5? What is Yosen trying to do?"

"Is this for real? He's clearly the core of the team, yet he isn't participating in the offense?"

The bad boys of Kirisaki Daichi indicated they had never seen this before; it was too strange.

Even they wouldn't play basketball so absurdly.

"Because he is Murasakibara," Satsuki said with a smile, shaking her head. "It was like this back in junior high; Murasakibara always looked like he lacked motivation."

It wasn't like that from the very beginning, though; it only started after Tian and Aomine stopped coming to the team often.

"Murasakibara is a very emotional person; he is often influenced by the people around him."

"Huh?"

Makoto Hanamiya and the others indicated they didn't understand.

These Generation of Miracles are all monsters, both in terms of strength and personality.

They hadn't forgotten Akashi from yesterday; he was a freak who, when he got ruthless, wouldn't even forgive his own parents.

Of course, their own leader wasn't any worse.

"They're all a bunch of perverts," they sighed in their hearts, feeling speechless.

However.

Even at 4-on-5, Yosen completed this offensive possession very easily.

Their interior advantage was too obvious.

Without Murasakibara, there were still two big men in the paint: Liu Wei and Kenichi Okamura.

Or rather, without Murasakibara, their offensive performance could be even better.

After all, last year they were the team's legitimate center and power forward; this year, they changed their positions to make way for Murasakibara.