Chapter 525

If they wanted to help the team win the championship, Kirisaki Daiichi and Rakuzan were the high mountains they couldn't bypass.

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

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

Alley-oop three-pointer!

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

The number of failures during practice was also higher than the number of successes.

But...

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

His current partner, Kazunari Takao, had approached him in an extremely familiar way.

"Yo, Shintaro Midorima-kun, my name is Kazunari Takao; you're going to join the basketball club, right?"

"I'm planning to join too; please take care of me from now on."

Midorima looked at the person in front of him, very unaccustomed to the other's enthusiasm, just 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 Teikou's back then, and some newcomers who came for the reputation soon quit voluntarily because they couldn't adapt.

Even though they were first-class players in junior high, it was the same.

But what surprised Midorima was that Kazunari Takao, whom he had labeled as frivolous early on, 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 would never do anything he wasn't sure about.

More practice failures wouldn't affect the fact that they would inevitably succeed 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 the motion of catching and shooting the ball 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..."

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

"..."

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

Kazunari Takao, who had been keeping an eye on Midorima, saw this and immediately broke free from Hanamiya Makoto's entanglement, throwing the ball toward Midorima with force.

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

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

By 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 were frantically spamming "Go" and similar barrages in green font.

However...

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

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

Its lips were like Whitebeard's mustache, as if mocking the ridiculousness of the two.

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

"I don't want to watch your performance right now."

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