[Kuroko's Basketball] The First Promise

Akashi smiled softly: "Tetsuya, let's play."

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The moment the whistle sounded, Heizi looked up Look at the dazzling lights in the arena.This match made him feel like Teiko vs. Seirin, but without the people he was most familiar with.

Regardless of whether he wins or loses, he has to make a choice today.

Indeed, as he expected, Muyoshi, Hyuga, and Itsuki were all starters, and the power forward and small forward were two unknown players.After all, we haven't seen each other for nearly two years, and everyone's style of play has changed a lot.Obviously, Akashi's strategy is to attack quickly in the first quarter, and the bombardment strategy is his favorite. Once he can grasp the rhythm of the first quarter, the chance of victory will be even greater.

Ziyuan seemed to be more motivated than usual. When he was fighting for the first ball, he jumped up to get the ball. He swept it from the corner of his eye at the same time, and almost hit the outside of the green room with inertia almost the moment his hand touched the ball. , the latter decisively caught the ball and threw it, and the first three-pointer of the game was completed within two seconds of the opening.

"Oh——" Muji looked at the ball that was brushed into the basket, and smiled full of fighting spirit: "Quick attack, it really has their style."

"Yeah." Yi Yue moved to the basket, staring at Dongda's No. 9 point guard: "It's very exciting."

Muji, who grabbed the ball from the basket, directly highlighted his back-hitting characteristics, quickly swayed past Ziyuan, rushed into the inside and directly singled out Qingfeng, who immediately spread his arms to block with a low laugh.

"To be honest, I'm really nervous to fight against you." Muji smiled at Qingfeng behind his shoulder while dribbling the ball: "——so, I want to win this game even more."

Qingfeng laughed even more arrogantly, full of wild breath.Those dark blue eyes dimmed.

interesting.Former Seirin player.

Companion of his shadow.

"—then try it."

Muji's eyes froze sharply, and from the corner of his eye he quickly glanced at the outside players, the angle of his fingertips turned slightly, and the rubbed basketball started to spin from the moment he threw it, Qingfeng dodged past Muji to chase the ball but was caught by the basket Yiyue hugged her directly.The ball was quickly passed to the outside Hinata.Because he already knew that Hinata's strength was the outside three-pointer, Murasakihara, who was in charge of marking, immediately raised his hand to steal the ball.Looking at Murasakihara's movements, Hinata laughed. The hand that had just made a three-point shot suddenly turned around, and directly bypassed Murasakihara and cut into the bottom corner from the outside. The inside shot was quick, and it was already too late by the time Kise rushed to intercept it. , Watching those two points steadily credited in front of his eyes.

Akashi raised his hand and looked at the two opposing teams on the field, while Kuroko sitting next to him remained silent.

"What do you think of Zhe?"

"The seniors have become much stronger."

"Oh?"

"...Obviously it was just ordinary shooting and dribbling, but Aomine-kun and the others couldn't defend it."

"Did those people warm up before entering the venue?"

"You mean Senior Muji and the others? When I came, they were almost done."

"Yeah." Akashi changed his sitting posture, put his hand on his chin with another hand, and said calmly, "Dahui and the others didn't do a warm-up."

Heizi was slightly stunned, and suddenly understood what he was looking at the people in the arena.

Hyuga and the others are feeling hot, but Aomine and the others are using the first quarter to warm up to find a feeling. Although they also have the habit of slow heating during the Teiguang period, but... it seems that they have not encountered it for a long time.

Most of the scoring trend relies on the three-pointers from the outside line and Qingfeng's singles from the inside line, and the status of these two people is also the fastest to find. When Muji made the next pass, Qingfeng quickly changed his running rhythm and passed easily. The opponent who was close to the mark intercepted Muji's pass just as soon as he raised his hand. He was not in a hurry to attack. After holding the ball in his hand, he pushed it hard to Murasakihara on the outside. The latter received the ball steadily and scored with an easy hook at the basket.

Several people have been getting better, but they haven't shown an overwhelming aura. After all, the opposing team is also very strong. Although Muji is the center, he seems to be more of a point guard. Every pass and point Both pose a considerable threat to the opponent.

The scores rose alternately. At the end of the first quarter, Dongda only led the opponent by 9 points.

During the short break, Akashi did not give any clear instructions, and the lineup and tactics on the field did not adjust.

"They will replace the small forwards and power forwards with those two American students." Akashi kept his chin up and looked at the few people in front of him who were wiping sweat and replenishing water: "It's just the beginning, don't fight hard, keep your strength. "

Heizi looked at Lizi on the left, the little girl was still squatting in front of the bench as before, eagerly and earnestly instructing the important points over and over again, covering the heads of the big boys with a towel, and gesturing back and forth with the drawing board.

He couldn't help but smile slightly at the familiar scene.

At the beginning of the second quarter, the opponent really sent those two foreign players. The small forward foreign player was a black man, taller than Kise and Aomine, but very thin.The power forward was an ordinary-looking white man with long flowing brown hair.

After Heizi noticed that these two people came on stage, Reiko's expression was visibly relaxed.

And things turned out as he thought, Lizi really didn't need to worry too much.

The small forward was wearing the No. 23 team uniform, and when Kise chose to attack inside singles, he blocked him in one step.Kise's extraordinary ability has always been amazing, he just lowered his eyebrows and smiled, slightly damp blond hair sticking to his cheeks.

"Don't think that being tall is any advantage." Huang Lai dribbled the ball and looked up at the opponent halfway: "It's rare to be able to show my heroic posture in front of Xiao Heizi, so don't block me!"

With a sudden change of direction under his feet, Kise staggered half of his body position, luring the opponent to follow his movement and deflect his body, and the next second he raised his hand and directly threw the ball to shoot.

A black shadow suddenly covered him, and Huang Lai felt a flash in front of his eyes, and the ball he just threw was directly knocked to the ground.

"You are tall enough to cover you." The Japanese pronunciation of the other party was a bit blunt, and the articulation was not very accurate, but he spoke clearly.

Huang Lai's face changed slightly.

There was also a low cry outside the court.After all, Kise's offense can be stuck in the most accurate time period, shooting when the opponent can't react and adjust in time, but he has been successfully induced just now, why he still blocks his ball easily.

"... Humph." After a pause, Kise laughed: "Interesting. There's nothing to be proud of being tall, isn't our little Akashi and little Heizi also..."

"—Ryota Kise, do you want to die on the field?"

"—Kise-kun, please shut up."

Kise obediently kept silent.

For Kise's behavior of lowering his IQ and not being afraid of death, Aomine and the others didn't even bother to scold him.

"Ryota." Akashi called Kise's name flatly, but the latter suddenly felt cold all over: "Go back, or..."

"I, I know!" Kise laughed a few times, and immediately turned around to catch up to the No. 23 player, marking him closely, adjusted his breathing rhythm, lowered his body, and carefully watched the opponent's every move.

The foreign player on No. 23 dribbled the ball twice, then thrust out his non-dribbling leg, and immediately started to move to the other side. The pause in the middle made Kise immediately deduce that this was just an induced move, and immediately moved in the opposite direction to intercept, but the next In seconds, the opponent relied on a slightly tilted inertia to jump directly under the basket one inch at a time, and scored a slam dunk vigorously.

The ball directly exploded on the top of Huang SE's head, obviously he didn't react, his warm yellow eyes widened slightly, his lips moved but he didn't say a word.

"Grow tall and can dunk on your head."

The No. 23 smiled smugly, and scored consecutively to narrow the difference between the two teams to 5 points.

Huang Lai let out a "tsk" and wiped the sweat from his forehead.He noticed that his right hand was trembling a little.

"What's the matter?" Qingfeng frowned when he ran past Huang Lai, "What kind of expression do you have, you're stunned?"

"Xiao Qingfeng, don't make fun of me..." Huang Lai smiled helplessly, looked at the back of No. 23, and said in a low voice after a while: "It is indeed... an extraordinary player, who made full use of his height advantage."

"Didn't you just say that there is no advantage in being tall, and you changed it so quickly?" Qingfeng glanced at him contemptuously, ignored him, ran towards the opponent's basket, and threw a word to Kise: " ——It’s too bad, Kise, you bastard. Look carefully.”

Aomine directly received Ziyuan's pass and rushed inside. The fun of No. 23 did not seem to be fixed-marking a certain player, but marking any player with the ball.When Aomine was dribbling, he leaned close to his body, his extremely long arms firmly blocked Aomine's sight.

"So—do you think you can prevent me like this?" Qingfeng chuckled, the sharp light from the corner of his eyes was like a terrifying blasting point, he dribbled the ball back from the left with his left hand, and Qingfeng dribbled again under his crotch After a quick change of direction, he must walk in a straight line when playing basketball. He almost kept the previous route of dribbling and rushing forward. Using the strength on his shoulders, he broke the shackles of No. 23's defense forcefully, rushed to the basket and raised his hand. Layup.

"Xiaoqingfeng—" Huang Lai almost subconsciously called his name.

From the corner of Aomine's eyes, he saw No. 23 jumping up from behind. At this height, the cover was indeed 100%. The moment the basketball was released, Aomine swiped his index finger back, successfully controlling the inertia of the basketball, and hugged the basketball tightly with both hands. With a turn around, the time difference created by an illusion prevented No. 23 from reacting. In this gap, Qingfeng easily threw his back into the basket.

"What are you shouting for? Do you think everyone is covered like you?"

After successfully scoring two points, Aomine cast another contemptuous glance at Kise.

The second quarter is over soon.

It is estimated that this section was a little stimulated, Huang Lai has been drinking water since he got down, and he doesn't want to say anything.Akashi glanced at him, and continued to say to the human in front of him:

"Dahui, Ryota, you will be replaced in the third quarter, and the substitutes will play."

"The substitute?" Qingfeng wiped the sweat on his neck with a towel, while taking the water from Heizi: "Wouldn't it be overtaken?"

"They didn't mean to change players." Akashi glanced at the team next to him, and continued: "It is true that a halftime break can restore a lot of physical strength, but it is too reluctant to play the whole game. The inside consumes physical strength, the third quarter Sit on the sidelines and relax your strength.”

"Hey—then they won't be exhausted?" Ziyuan tore open a pack of delicious sticks, and handed one to Heizi out of habit.

"Since they don't change players, they should have a solution to deal with physical strength. Or..." Akashi tilted his head slightly, looking at them with his chin: "—they want to increase the score as much as possible in the third quarter, even if you I can’t catch up even after the festival.”

"Tch." Qingfeng laughed: "Impossible thing. Aren't Luma and Ziyuan still on the court?"

The situation in the third quarter was indeed as Akashi thought. The opponent still sent all the players who started in the first quarter to play, and the power forward and small forward were the two foreign students.Both offense and defense were more stable than in the second quarter. Compared with them, the bench players sent by the University of Tokyo were not so calm. After several offensive and defensive failures, they gradually became timid.

Although Midorima and Murasakihara continued to score offensively, after all, it was easier to score inside and less chance to get the ball outside. The stable performance of Midorima and Murasakihara did not widen the gap, and they were even chased by only two points.

But it is very interesting that no matter how the Kanagawa University players chase, they are always two points behind. After the layup on the 23rd, Midorima will immediately return a three-pointer, Hinata will make another three-pointer, and Murasakihara will return a layup. In the third quarter, the University of Tokyo is obviously just playing quietly. The inside is not strong, and their lineup immediately changed. Offense is defense.

When the whistle sounded at the end of the third quarter, Aomine immediately stood up from the chair, squeezed the bones of his hands eagerly, and looked at Akashi: "Hey, can we play?"

Akashi Toji looked at the situation on the field for a while, but he didn't respond to Qingfeng's words. He slightly tilted his head to meet Heizi's eyes, and the latter was also looking at him. , he could hardly sit still.Seemingly seeing Kuroko's emotions, Akashi smiled lightly: "Tetsuya, let's play."