Chapter 468

They began to converse, the scene extremely eerie.

A soul divided into two, exploring the meaning of its own existence.

Memories began to surge like a tide, constantly emerging from the second personality Akashi's mind.

There was his childhood, his mother, and his friends from Teikou.

That was the most important thing to the life of Akashi Seijuro to date.

At the same time, there were also two major setbacks that changed his life.

The first setback: the passing of his mother, the only one who could make him feel "love."

Under the lens, the young Akashi stared at his mother's portrait.

The surroundings were empty, with no human voices; the world's colors were gray, making one feel sorrowful.

The mother in the photo still wore a warm smile, but from then on, she had no warmth.

Then, the screen cracked from the middle like glass.

"Perhaps, from this moment on, our soul was split in two." The Akashi in the shadows spoke with nostalgia, as if mourning his own mother.

As the only male heir of the Akashi family, his childhood was destined not to be as relaxed as most children's.

Every day he had to undergo training arranged by the family, being instilled with the thought that family interests are above all else.

But he was strong and endured it, because he still had the mother who loved him deeply.

And precisely because of this, with his mother's passing, his tightly stretched nerves finally snapped.

From that moment on, the second Akashi Seijuro was born.

Heaven did not punish him forever.

During junior high, he met his "friends"!

Tiandao, Aomine, Midorima, Murasakibara, Kise, Kuroko, Satsuki, and so on.

He spent the happiest year of his life since birth at Teikou.

But this beauty soon faced a crisis, and Akashi welcomed the second setback of his life.

As they entered the second year, the team began to have all sorts of problems.

First Aomine became confused, then Riko died of illness, and then the head coach had to leave the basketball club.

All kinds of accidents made the basketball club precarious.

Finally, Murasakibara couldn't take it anymore; he didn't want to stay in such a basketball club.

"Actually, we should have realized back then that Murasakibara wasn't tired of training; he was afraid of the atmosphere in the basketball club at the time."

"It's just that we couldn't understand him at the time, nor could we think of a better way, so we adopted the most extreme, simplest method that treated the symptoms but not the root cause."

Using stronger power to forcefully keep Murasakibara in the basketball club, maintaining the already broken club.

"That's right, it was me who kept the basketball club from collapsing; I dispelled Atsushi's inappropriate thoughts and also expelled that destabilizing factor, Haizaki."

Akashi turned around abruptly, looking at himself for the first time.

"It is my existence that allows everyone to continue to unite; you only need to stay here forever!"

"That's true. I was the first to choose to escape; saying these things now has no meaning."

"However..." Akashi slowly stood up and walked out of the darkness; he said, "I still can't accept that we have made the same mistakes one after another."

Crack~

Tiandao turned off the screen again.

The main personality Akashi had indeed emerged again when he sensed defeat.

However.

It doesn't matter who comes!

"Get ready, bad boys."

Hmm?

Hanamiya Makoto and the others were stunned upon hearing this, then each became excited.

Team-type Zone!

That is Akashi's final trump card; as long as they break the team-type Zone as well, victory will belong to them, Kirisaki Daiichi.

Beep~

Timeout is over, and the players from both sides return to the court.

Rakuzan makes another substitution adjustment.

The discarded Mayuzumi Chihiro steps onto the court again.

"What's going on? It feels like after one timeout, Rakuzan has become a different team."

"Is it okay? Mayuzumi Chihiro's Misdirection must be at its limit, right?"

"I'm afraid they're up to something?"

Kagami suddenly remembered what Tiandao had said.

The effective time of Misdirection can be determined by the strength of the "Light."

If the Light is strong enough, the duration of Misdirection can be extended because it can attract most of the attention.

Rakuzan ball possession.

Akashi receives the ball and dribbles it across the half-court himself; all of Rakuzan's members regain their fighting spirit.

"What's with this disgusting feeling?" Hanamiya Makoto looks around with squinted eyes.

Now, the Rakuzan players are each exuding an aura that makes him want to vomit.

The first thing Akashi does after returning from the timeout is to find Tiandao and greet him.

"We meet again at last, Tiandao!"