Chapter 311: Stealing chicken but losing rice
“Remember, Kise, when you encounter a game where you don’t know how to lose and don’t know what to do next, it’s never wrong to give the ball to Kaneki Ken or me.” Akashi Seijuro said calmly while looking at the field.

“Yeah!”

Just as Nash Goldo Jr. was directing his teammates to chase and intercept Aomine Daiki, Kaneki Ken, who was originally behind Nash Goldo Jr., suddenly jumped up, and his figure flashed past the sight of the audience on the sidelines like a golden stream of light.

“Not good!” Nash Goldo Jr. had no time to command other teammates to provide backup defense for Kaneki Ken. He could only grit his teeth and run towards the place where the golden light flashed.

“Hey, this is a nostalgic scene~” Kaneki Ken turned his head and looked at Nash Goldo Jr. with a smile and said, “I still remember when I first arrived in the United States, you and Jason Thibaud treated me very well… At that time, you could only stand behind me, helplessly watching me score at will…”

“That was in the past!” Nash Goldo Jr. gritted his teeth and looked at Kaneki Ken’s back, shouting loudly with an angry look on his face.

“You talk as if you’re so strong now…” Kaneki Ken chuckled and made a light pullback from outside the 3-point line of the Jabberwocky Team. He successfully shook off Nash Gordo Jr., who had no time to brake, and at the same time, he jumped up with the ball and gently pushed the ball towards the basket with his right hand.

“Damn it…” Nash Goldo Jr. stared at Kaneki Ken’s flying figure with a resentful look on his face. He gritted his teeth and forcibly stopped his body from falling to the ground. The powerful force erupting from his legs pushed him forward and he rushed towards Kaneki Ken’s figure.

“boom!”

As the dull sound of bodies colliding resounded throughout the venue, Kaneki Ken and Nash Goldo Jr. both fell to the ground.

“Shh!”

Amid Nash Goldsmith Jr.’s desperate expression, the basketball drew a high arc in the air and then accurately passed through the net.

“Beep~” The referee on the sidelines blew his whistle the moment the basketball went into the net. He pointed his right hand heavily at Nash Goldo Jr., who was lying on the ground, and shouted, “Team Explosive Dragon, defensive foul! Team Slashing Dragon No. 4, the ball counts as a goal, one free throw!”

“Oh oh oh oh oh oh!!!!”

“Kaneki!”, “Kaneki!”, “Kaneki!”

As the referee’s decision came to an end, deafening cheers erupted from the audience stands on the sidelines.

“Nice 3+1!” The cheers from the sidelines finally reminded Tashiro Heihachi, who had completely become a spectator, of his duties as a commentator. He quickly raised his hand to adjust the frame of his glasses, looked at the field with excitement, and shouted loudly, “Kaneki-kun not only successfully knocked down Nash Goldo Jr., the leader of the Jabberwocky team, but also made a beautiful empty shot when the opponent committed a flagrant foul!”

“Thank you for giving us an extra point~” Kaneki Ken laughed while lying on the ground with a relaxed look on his face. Then he slowly stood up, put his hands on his waist, looked at Nash Goldo Jr. with a playful look and said teasingly, “I’ve been hearing you say how strong you are now… so I couldn’t help but use some heavy hands. So, are you going to summon your future self to have a fight with me now?”

“Kaneki Ken…” Nash Goldo Jr., who was mocked by Kaneki Ken, clenched his fists in hatred, muttering Kaneki Ken’s name softly, and no one knew what he was thinking in his heart.

“It’s meaningless to just keep feeling resentful during the game…” Kaneki Ken slowly walked towards the free throw line, turned his head and looked at Nash Goldo Jr. and said coldly, “Actually, I should have said something wrong just now… People like you who subconsciously avoid challenges… should have no future!”

“brush!”

As Kaneki Ken finished speaking, the sound of a basketball hitting the net also reached the ears of Nash Goldo Jr.

“What should we do, Nash?” Jason Thibaud looked at Nash Gordo Jr. anxiously, and asked in a high voice, “The score difference is about to widen… If you don’t think of a solution, we will lose this game! Are we really going to lose to this group of monkeys today?”

“It’s just a crappy game…if we lose, we lose.” Nash Goldo Jr. was silent for a moment, then a hint of an ugly smile suddenly appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he spoke in a gloomy tone.

“Hey, hey, hey, what do you mean? Nash?” Jason Thibo looked at Nash Goldo Jr. with some confusion and asked.

“Don’t deceive yourself. Did you really take your agent’s words about having the ability to enter the NBA seriously?” Nash Goldo Jr. looked at Jason Thibo with a sneer in his eyes and said, “Kaneki Ken is right. For guys like us who have avoided challenges from the beginning… the door to the NBA was closed three years ago.”

“No, I…” Jason Thibo looked at Nash Goldstein Jr. in front of him with a confused look on his face, not knowing what to say for a moment.

“But…” Nash Goldo Jr. ignored Jason Thibaud’s doubts and turned to look at the back of Kaneki Ken who was surrounded by Aomine Daiki and others and walked to the front court, muttering to himself, “I’m really curious, if a guy like Kaneki Ken who is destined to enter the NBA as the No. 1 draft pick in the future is seriously injured in an exhibition game, those flattering fans who once surrounded him… will they still try their best to please him like before?”

“Nash…what do you mean?” Jason Thibaud raised his eyebrows and looked at Nash Goldo Jr., with a cruel smile on his face.

“Yes, Jason.” Nash Goldo Jr. nodded slightly and said, “We can lose this game… but that annoying monkey must die here today!”

“I understand, Nash.” Jason Siber moved his shoulders excitedly and said with a hint of violence in his tone, “In fact, I have long wanted to avenge the humiliation he caused in public!”

“Also, remember to do it cleanly.” Nash Goldo Jr. patted Jason Thibaud’s shoulder with a playful look and said, “After all, we are now on the territory of those monkeys. Remember to do a better job on the field.” “Uncle Aida, the situation looks a little bad… remember to change players later.” Momoi Satsuki looked at the players of the Jabberwocky team whose expressions became playful, and an ominous premonition suddenly came to her mind. At the urging of this premonition, Momoi Satsuki quickly turned to look at Aida Kagetora and reminded him.

“Hey, hey, hey, what did you say to my dad?” Aida Reiko looked at Momoi Satsuki with some dissatisfaction and said, “I am the temporary coach of this team! And isn’t the game going well now? Everyone has a good understanding of each other, and we are leading in the score…”

“Alas… As expected of someone with a B cup, these words are totally devoid of a woman’s intuition…” Taoi Satsuki held her forehead helplessly, pointed at Nash Goldo Jr. and sighed softly, “Didn’t you notice that the golden-haired ghost and the black ghost on the opposite side were about to make a move on Yan-kun?”

“This…” After being reminded by Momoi Satsuki, Aida Reiko realized that the players of the Explosive Dragons team had inadvertently and silently double-teamed Kaneki Ken.

“Whoosh~”

As Old K threw the basketball hard to the front court, a stream of orange-red light came into the hands of Nash Gordo Jr. with a sound of breaking wind.

“You are still as strong as you were three years ago, golden monkey.” Nash Goldo Jr. posed a triple threat posture in front of Kaneki Ken and said to him with a grin.

“What? Are we going to start the forced reminiscence phase now?” Kaneki Ken looked at Nash Goldo Jr. in front of him, curled his lips in disdain and teased, “But I really don’t know what memories a disgusting guy like you can have that can make you excited…”

“What nostalgia…” The smile on Nash Goldo Jr.’s face became colder and colder, and the hatred in his eyes seemed to be about to solidify and pour out from his pupils. “It doesn’t matter whether you recall the past or not… As long as I can make you, an Asian monkey, pay the price for your offense against us, it doesn’t matter if we lose this game!”

“Tsk, what an idiot…” Hanamiya Makoto, who was sitting in the back row of the audience, keenly caught the cruelty on Nash Goldo Jr.’s face. After a brief moment of astonishment, he suddenly chuckled and said, “You can’t beat him in basketball… Do you think fighting can solve the problem? In this field, Kaneki Ken’s dominance may be stronger than in basketball!”

“Go to hell, Asian monkey!” Nash Goldo Jr. roared fiercely, and his ball protector swung casually, and his sharp elbow was about to hit Kaneki Ken’s waist.

“Ken-kun, be careful!” Momoi Satsuki on the sidelines stood up with a look of horror on her face and shouted a warning to Kaneki Ken in the field.

“Really? What are you afraid of, May?” Kaneki Ken said with an “I knew this would happen” look on his face. He looked down at Nash Goldo Jr. with disdain and muttered softly, “Since I dared to play against this bunch of trash, there is no way I could not have anticipated this kind of thing!”

“What?” Nash Goldo Jr.’s heart suddenly tightened when he heard Kaneki Ken’s cold voice. The feeling of being stared at by a giant dragon’s vertical pupils made his scalp feel numb.

“Do you really think I don’t know that it was you who instructed Jason Thibaud to stand up and provoke me?” Kaneki Ken gently blocked Nash Gordo Jr’s elbow with his right arm, and his right leg immediately hit Nash Gordo Jr’s knee. As Nash Gordo Jr lost his balance, his huge body pressed forward decisively, and his hands clamped the basketball in Nash Gordo Jr’s hands like iron pliers.

After completing the steal, Kaneki Ken pretended to casually raise the ball above his head. While lifting the basketball, his sharp elbow hit Nash Gordo Jr.’s chin at an extremely fast speed. Nash Gordo Jr.’s chin suddenly felt as if it was hit by a 10,000-ton hammer. He immediately saw stars, staggered for two steps on the court, and fell to the ground in embarrassment.

“Beep beep~ Player injured, official timeout!”

Seeing a player fall to the ground, the referee on the sidelines blew the whistle decisively and shouted loudly.

“Are you okay, Ken-kun?” As soon as Kaneki Ken walked off the court, he saw Momoi Satsuki walking towards him with a worried look on his face. After looking him up and down and finding that Kaneki Ken was indeed fine, Momoi Satsuki breathed a sigh of relief.

“We’re still playing, why are you standing so close to me?” Kaneki Ken looked at the mischievous smiles of the players watching on the sidelines, pushed Momoi Satsuki away somewhat unnaturally and said.

“You’re still talking!” Taoi Satsuki punched Kaneki Ken with a look of reproach on her face and said, “It’s all your fault. You had to come back to play such a crappy game… Did you know that those guys were going to do something bad to you just now?”

“I know~” Kaneki Ken shrugged his shoulders nonchalantly and said, “But don’t you know my strength? Whether it’s playing basketball or fighting, whether it’s on the court or off the court, seven days a week, 24 hours a day, an hour and 60 minutes, I can beat that trash in a minute!”

“What? That golden-haired ghost is going to harm Kaneki Ken?” When Sakuragi Hanamichi heard that Nash Goldo Jr. was going to harm Kaneki Ken, he immediately stood up in shock and anger, rolled up his sleeves, and rushed to the rest area of ​​the Tide Dragons team.

“Okay, Sakuragi, don’t bother with these guys.” Kaneki Ken chuckled, stretched out his hand to hold Sakuragi Hanamichi and said, “They haven’t officially started yet, so let’s not rush to start, lest they find all kinds of excuses after they lose…”

“But Kaneki-chan, you’d better get off the court and take a rest…” Kise Ryouta took off his coat and looked at Nash Goldo Jr. of the Jabberwocky team with a playful look and said, “It just so happens that I’ve been annoyed with these guys for a long time… Let me and Akashi-chan go on the court and feel the strength of the so-called first-round NBA draft picks!”

“Ah, you?” Sakuragi Hanamichi and Aomine Daiki looked at Kise Ryota at the same time, then looked at each other and muttered in disappointment, “Why don’t we let Akashi and Kagami go?”

“Hey, you guys are going too far, Aomine-chan, and Sakuragi-chan!” Kise Ryota complained unhappily as he looked at Aomine Daiki and Sakuragi Hanamichi’s reactions, which were not very harmful but extremely insulting. “Although I know there’s a big gap between me and Kaneki-chan… I don’t think I’ll let you look down on me like that, right?”

“It’s okay, Aomine, and Sakuragi-san.” Akashi Seijuro, who was standing by, looked at the laughing people and said with a gentle smile, “If Kise gives his all in a quarter and I assist him, his influence on the court won’t be much weaker than Kaneki’s… Besides, Kaneki will play in the NBA in the future, so there’s no need to risk getting injured and force himself to play in such a meaningless situation – since we’ve already guessed his opponent’s intention in advance.”

“Oh, okay…” Aomine Daiki shook his head helplessly, then sat down on the bench and began to replenish water.

(End of this chapter)