[Kuroko's Basketball] The First Promise

Akashi's faint frown made Kise immediately understand the seriousness of the matter.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The numbers on the countdown board were bouncing, and the shadows of the numbers in the blue pupils glowed dark red.

Less than 4 minutes before the end of the first quarter, Moriguchi changed his defensive goal after Akashi came on the field, and turned to mark the weakest power forward.Due to Akashi's superb stealing ability, Hitotsubashi University's offensive mode and rhythm have been disrupted repeatedly, but correspondingly, Dongda's offense is not very powerful. The ball can only be given to Kise on the inside and Midorima on the outside.

"Swap marking targets."

After quickly stealing the next goal, Akashi quickly dribbled to the basket, and when passing by his own forward, he dropped such a sentence and directly scored a layup.Moriguchi may have retreated in the face of difficulties, or he may have other plans, but since he did not take the initiative to mark Akashi, then Akashi chose to switch from defense to offense.Looking back at the grinning person over there, Akashi's eyes were tepid, and his smile was not warm.The delicate spots of light from those different-colored pupils made people inexplicably terrified.

The right to the ball belongs to Dongda.The new starting striker seemed to have some touch, and broke through the besieged No. [-] with a swing, and passed a pinball to Akashi.The latter took half a step back after receiving the ball, and Moriguchi immediately made up for defense.

"Ah~ Actually, I don't want to fight with you." Moriguchi raised his arms to make a visual barrier, and smiled at Akashi who was dribbling: "Can I think that you came to the court to avenge Kuroko-kun? Actually... Don't blame him, there is indeed a gap in ability."

Akashi narrowed his eyes slightly.Although the members of the Generation of Miracles only spent a few days playing together and started the college league, after all, they have played for several years, and this kind of cooperation and tacit understanding are self-evident.

Glancing at Midorima on the outer line from the corner of the eye, Akashi lowered his front body and swayed left and right, then broke through directly to the left, as if he had just blocked Kuroko, Moriguchi guessed where Akashi was going with this step, smiled twice and moved towards Akashi left The ball in the palm of the hand slapped across.

Then Moriguchi felt a sudden redness in front of his eyes, and the strong wind made the bangs on his forehead messy in an instant.

With that palm, he was actually broken.

He hurriedly turned his head to look for Akashi's figure, and saw Akashi directly stepped out of the outside line in two steps, the distance was not far away, Moriguchi immediately followed up, and was directly blocked by Kise Yoko in the next second.At the same time, Akashi made a direct pass to Midorima, who relied on Kise's cover to cut in empty-handed, and scored an empty three-pointer from the outside.

The cooperation of the three is exquisite and fast, and the score is scored in the blink of an eye.

The score was refreshed to a 5:5 tie.

Moriguchi froze for a moment, then looked down at his palm.

He can confirm that he intercepted the ball in a 100% accurate direction at that time, how could he not even touch the ball.

"That guy Akashi..." Aomine put his hands on the bench, looked at the person in the court who dribbled slowly but suddenly broke through, and laughed: "Win by speed?"

Even if the ball is predicted, it is too late to steal the ball.Although the time required for the brain to analyze the movement is not long, it is enough for Akashi, who wins with speed, to make adjustments and counterattacks.

Kuroko sat quietly on the coach chair, never taking his eyes off Akashi.He clenched his hands slightly.

The rhythm previously controlled by Hitotsubashi University ended with the emergence of Akashi's touch.Kuroko has to admit that Akashi is the most powerful point guard he has ever seen. He will not rush to score, but distribute the ball reasonably, sort out the best and most comfortable attack route for the players, and quickly fill in the position when necessary to form a strong defense. defensive formation.

Really strong.that person.

Heizi pursed his lips.

He has so much to learn from that man.

Moriguchi's current mood is not very good, and he restrained the smile on his face.Dongda scored 16 points in a row. He couldn't break Akashi's ball, and even his own ball was broken by Akashi. It is obviously a hundred times stronger than Kuroko's presence and it is easier to predict the dribbling route, but Moriguchi can't take it. Akashi has everything, but he is not a player who gives up easily.

Constantly improving his angle of stealing the ball, when Akashi made a breakthrough to the outside, Moriguchi felt the pattern and immediately stuck to Akashi's body to block in front of him. From his point of view, he had more opportunities to steal Akashi's ball. There is only one route Akashi can break through the defense.With excitement in his heart, Moriguchi let out a low cry and cut with his right hand when Akashi was dribbling the ball.

Again, he missed the ball.

He even felt the sphere swirl past his fingertips, being passed safely in front of him.

Kise cut back to the basket, caught the ball and scored two points with a hook.

"It's almost there..." Moriguchi gritted his teeth unwillingly, looking at the bright red numbers on the scoreboard, subconsciously frowned: "If you were faster just now, you can definitely break it!"

"What if?" Akashi wiped the sweat off his nose by pulling his collar, and couldn't help chuckling: "There are no ifs on the basketball court."

The first quarter is over.The score was fixed at a double-digit difference of 28:5.

When Akashi walked to the rest area, Kuroko automatically got up and gave up his seat.

"Did you see the breakthrough route just now?" Akashi took two sips from the water bottle handed over by others, and looked up at Kuroko standing in front of him.

Heizi nodded.

"Follow the action I just made to break through." Akashi screwed on the bottle cap, wiped his forehead with a towel, and said in a steady voice, "The opponent's insight is good, and they rely on analyzing the changes in the opponent's muscles and the angle of their feet to predict the dribble route." .”

Kuroko looked at Akashi and said nothing.

"If it's you, there's no problem breaking through him." As if seeing what Kuroko was worried about, Akashi added, and turned to look at Aomine beside him: "Daiki, let's play with Tetsuya in the second quarter."

Qingfeng, who was almost suffocated for a long time, rubbed the tip of his nose with his thumb, and finally laughed out loud.

The second quarter was about to start, Heizi pulled off the towel around his shoulders, and followed Qingfeng onto the field.After resting for a while, Moriguchi, who happened to be walking towards him, was a little surprised to see Heizi, and then suddenly heaved a sigh of relief and laughed: "Why did you play again? Your captain is not playing anymore?"

"Akashi-kun asked me to replace him." Heizi replied very cooperatively: "Although not as good as Akashi-kun, I will work hard."

Moriguchi's always polite personality made it hard for him to say anything.

With the whistle blowing in the second quarter, the initiative still belongs to Dongda.His fingertips lightly rubbed the surface of the sphere with tiny protrusions, and the cocoons that had been cultivated over the years grew on his hands, gradually smoothing his hot and dry heart.He understands that the gap between him and Akashi is not that big, but the most obvious difference is that Akashi is as calm as ever when he is behind or in the lead.He couldn't do it.

Victory is as simple as breathing.This is what Akashi once said, that is, because of the superiority brought by victory, Akashi has more self-confidence than anyone else. Because of self-confidence, Akashi becomes calmer. his.

Victory is like a chess piece of Akashi, since it is firmly in his hands, why should he panic about failure.

For such Akashi, Kuroko knew that he was too far behind. Because of his different experiences, he could not achieve the confidence of Akashi.He will panic and fail, and will be afraid that he will drag the whole team down, so all he can do is to keep fighting until the end of the game.

"Ah~ I already said that this method is useless to me!" Moriguchi's sharp eyes stared at Heizi's left arm when he dribbled the ball, and the moment the latter threw the ball, he directly buckled it back, and Heizi's movements froze Moriguchi immediately pulled away to chase after half a second, but he was not as fast as Moriguchi. He watched as Moriguchi quickly caught the ball and dribbled it to the basket, bypassing Kise's pick-and-roll to score two points.

Heizi didn't speak, and looked at Aomine, who held the ball. The latter met his eyes and immediately passed the ball directly. After receiving the ball, Heizi faced Moriguchi head-on again.

"Although I heard that your stunt is to disappear suddenly..." Moriguchi continued to grin, and bent his eyes: "People may disappear, but if the movement before disappearing can be captured, disappearing or something is not at all exists!"

Heizi had nothing to say, and continued to bypass Moriguchi, intending to pass it on to Aomine. Feeling helpless against Heizi's seemingly stubborn temper, Moriguchi shrugged like a headache, and immediately cut towards Heizi's just raised arm with his palm. .

The ball was cut off again, and although Kuroko was banned as usual, Moriguchi raised his eyebrows slightly this time.

East University's offense could not be stretched, and the score rose slowly.After another interception was cut off, Heizi couldn't help taking a breath.

"Azhe, slow down." Qingfeng deliberately leaned against Heizi while running and whispered.

Heizi looked up at him, but still didn't speak, the light in his blue eyes flickered slightly.

"It's only the second quarter, I have plenty of time for you." Seeing Heizi's appearance, Qingfeng was very familiar with it, and couldn't help laughing. He raised his head and rubbed Heizi's hair before stepping away to have his own one-on-one mark.

I remember clearly in my heart that this was the fifth assist in the second quarter. Heizi rubbed the sore corners of his eyes, and continued to pass the ball in the same way, and was not unexpectedly cut off again.The audience outside the arena seemed to be tired of watching Heizi's stupid behavior, and some even booed.

Heizi sometimes admires himself, for example, at certain times he can concentrate enough to block out the noise around the stage.

When the ball from Lvjian's outside line fell into his sight, Heizi stood firmly on his feet. He didn't choose to hold the ball and then sort out the attacking route. Instead, he bent his fingers slightly and gathered enough strength to hit the ball directly with the palm of his hand.The moment he raised his hand, Moriguchi had already raised his arm to block it, and the ball with a strong spin hit the palm of Moriguchi's hand at close range. Heizi could see clearly, and Moriguchi's hand trembled slightly.However, the latter reacted very quickly. After receiving the ball with his right hand, he immediately buckled it with his left hand to prevent the rotation of the basketball, and succeeded in stealing the ball again.

But obviously, Moriguchi's smile has already restrained most of it.

Heizi didn't stop at all, he rushed into the inside line quickly, and after scoring the ball at Yiqiao, he quickly received the supplementary ball from Midorima from the outside line, turned around and stuck to Moriguchi's tight defense again.

Just like the previous six times, for the seventh time, Heizi once again chose the same posture to make a long pass. He saw the situation of the audience and the clear passing route came into view.

Keep passing long, following the same trajectory.Moriguchi seems to have gotten used to Kuroko's lackluster pass, but he still defended rigorously. The moment Kuroko flexed his fingers and bent his left elbow, he had already adjusted his posture and accurately matched the return route.

Heizi gritted his teeth, and hit the ball hard with his left palm.

There was an obvious muffled sound when the strongly rotating sphere hit Moriguchi's hand.The ball didn't stop spinning, the ball spun, staggered the angle in Moriguchi's palm a little bit, rubbed along the palm to the fingertips, and then broke through Moriguchi's positive angle defense in an instant, and was directly caught by Aomine who ran over to make up for it.

Beads of sweat rolled down his slightly pointed chin, and Heizi only felt that there was only Qingfeng dribbling in front of him.He gasped for breath a few times, bent down and braced his knees.He didn't know if it was the trembling of his left arm caused by overexcitement or overexertion.

It wasn't until the sound of refreshing the score sounded that the exclamation of the audience broke through the air like a boulder splashing water.

After trying the long pass for the seventh time, Kuroko finally broke through Moriguchi's defense by himself.

Instead of relying on Akashi's speed, he completely relied on his own strength.

"Impossible..." Moriguchi looked at his palm in astonishment, and after a long time, he slowly raised his head to look at Heizi in front of him: "I clearly...predicted your ball!"

"Indeed, Moriguchi-kun's prediction is very powerful." Heizi wiped the sweat from the side of his neck with his wristband, and looked at it seriously with bloodshot eyes: "However, even if Moriguchi-kun catches the fast and powerful spinning basketball It cannot be prevented.”

The halftime whistle blew.

Kise cheered and rushed over to hook Heizi's neck: "Little Heizi, Xiao Heizi, that long pass just now was so good—Moriguchi's defense must have failed in the second half! As expected of Xiao Heizi——"

Kuroko smiled humbly, rubbed the sore corners of his eyes, and walked towards Akashi.

"Tetsuya." Kise and the others dispersed to rest, and Akashi just called Kuroko over.Although there was no superfluous expression on the surface, Akashi's tone was intriguing. He looked up at Kuroko: "Before the second quarter, what did I say?"

"Follow Akashi-kun's action to break through." Heizi repeated without saying a word.

"Did you do it?"

"I'm sorry." Heizi immediately apologized, but did not bow his head: "I don't want to imitate Akashi-kun's ability to win this game. If I keep imitating Akashi-kun, then I will never..."

"—You don't need to overtake me. The second quarter was too capricious." Akashi interrupted Heizi's words indifferently, criticizing and warning all at the end.As if he didn't want to continue this topic, Akashi tilted his head slightly, raised his chin and pointed to the water bottle next to him: "Go and replenish water, I'll replace you in the third quarter."

Heizi pursed his lips and walked over in response.

There was a water bottle wrapped in a towel. Heizi raised his hand to take it, but he grabbed the air in his hand.

Staring blankly at the hand that was frozen in the air, he opened his eyes slightly.The scene in front of him was a bit blurry, he blinked hard, but the water bottle was right where his hand was, and all he touched was an empty piece.

"Ah——does Heizi want to drink water?" Ziyuan, who was wiping away his sweat, looked at Heizi's dazed look, followed his arm, and helped him take the water bottle that was frozen in the air with his left hand a little closer to the right. Handed over.

Heizi didn't catch the water, and the soreness in the corner of his eye intensified, but for a moment he suddenly felt a tearing pain from the sutured wound after the operation, and tears flowed from his right eye socket.Heizi subconsciously raised his hand to tightly cover his right eye, and Heizi couldn't help moaning in a low voice.Zi Yuan was stunned, and immediately leaned over: "Little Heizi—what's wrong with Xiao Heizi's eyes?"

Although he said this in a low voice, Akashi who was next to him immediately came over, frowned when he saw Kuroko lowering his head and covering his eyes, he turned his head and said to Kise, "Ryota!"

When Kise heard the cry, he immediately put down the water bottle and ran over. Before he could ask Akashi what happened, he saw Kuroko behind him. He was taken aback, and hurried over to grab his arm covering his eyes: "Little Kuroko Little Heizi! What's the matter? Just now...was it alright just now... Did your eyes hurt? It hurts badly? Little Heizi, let me see, okay?" Huang Lai shouted immediately It attracted Qingfeng over there, and many viewers even looked over.

"Liangtai, accompany Zheye to the hospital."

It directly interrupted Huang Lai's incoherent speech.Akashi's faint frown made Kise immediately understand the seriousness of the matter.

In the previous game, Akashi had a faint feeling, whether Kuroko was barely using the insight that penetrated the whole field when his eyes had not recovered, put down the most labor-saving speed breakthrough, and switched to the most labor-intensive long pass, whether his eyes have already arrived limit.

But when he saw the thin but firm figure on the field, he always subconsciously persuaded himself and let him be self-willed like this.