Chapter 129: Little Followers
“Kagami, Hinata, Itsuki, go off the field and take a rest.” During the intermission, Aida Reiko lowered her head and said to the ground with a bitter expression.

“What? Coach?” Kagami Dawo stood up unwillingly, “There is still a chance, why give up?”

“Kagami, I’m not giving up.” Aida Reiko looked at Kagami Daiga with red eyes, “I am indeed too arrogant. Letting you play a high-intensity game on the field now will only increase your chances of getting injured. This is just a practice match, it’s not worth it.”

“The coach is right, Kagami-kun.” Kuroko Tetsuya also echoed.

“Damn it…” I, Kagami, wanted to kick the bench unwillingly, but when I thought that we were visiting another school, I forced myself to endure it.

“Rest well this time… remember this feeling… after you go back, you must intensify your training no matter what!” Hinata Junpei’s eyes were filled with tears, and his left hand pinched the back of Kagami Daigo’s neck hard, “Next time, I will win even if I die!”

“…Yes!” Kagami Daigo wrapped himself in a towel and lowered his head, not daring to watch the next game.

“Alas… you’ve given up completely this time~” When the game resumed, Kise Ryota sighed as he looked at the substitute player who had come on as Seirin.

“What do you mean by giving up?” A stern voice came from behind Huang Lai Ryota, “Didn’t you say you were not feeling well and asked for leave to go to the hospital? This is a hospital?”

“Oh, it’s okay, Kasamatsu.” A gentle voice persuaded from the side, “After all, it’s Seirin who defeated us who is playing the game. It’s only natural that Kise wants to come and watch.”

“That’s right, Kasamatsu-senpai, can you please learn from Fujima-senpai? Be gentler to the juniors!” Seeing that someone was backing him up, Kise Ryouta straightened his back, “I came here to spy on the enemy!”

“You are getting ahead of yourself!” Kasamatsu Yukio kicked Kise Ryouta’s butt with an unhappy look on his face. “What’s so good about this match? This match is nothing more than Kaneki Ken coming on the field to kill everyone and then win the match. I know this outcome much better than you do!”

“That’s not true~” Kise Ryouta shook his head, “Although Shonan is leading Seirin by eleven points now… it’s thirteen points now, but Kaneki only played for one minute and twenty seconds~”

“What?” Kasamatsu Yukio was also a little surprised. He looked down the court with curiosity, but found a lot of unexpected figures. “Is this the Shonan team? Akagi and Miyagi are on the bench? Didn’t Mitsui quit the team? Rukawa and Shigehiro Kabaji are actually in the Shonan team?”

“It seems that your understanding of Shonan High School is outdated, Captain Kasamatsu.” Kise Ryota rubbed his sore butt and said, “The current Shonan team is strong. Look at the shooter No. 15. He was my shooting instructor during the Teiko period! Midorima even rated him as the best shooter under Miracle~”

“But even if that’s the case, Shonan shouldn’t have been able to beat Seirin by so many points, right?” Fujima Kenji said with some emotion, “Although I went out with Nan Lie, Sugimoto and I to lead the team in a practice match in the last game, with Kasamatsu and you here, apart from the Generation of Miracles, there shouldn’t be anyone who can beat you, right? But this team that could beat you didn’t even last half the game against Shonan and fell behind by thirteen points… Now they are sixteen points… This is too outrageous.”

“This is the second thing I want to tell the two captains.” Kise Ryouta pointed at Sakuragi Hanamichi’s back with a serious expression and said word by word, “The No. 10 of Shonan is definitely as talented as Seirin’s No. , a member of the Generation of Miracles.”

“Impossible…” Kasamatsu Yukio instinctively didn’t want to believe this fact, but the next scene made him shut up.

After receiving the pass from Mitsuki Furihata in the interior, Mitobe Rinnosuke turned his back to face the defense of Shigehiro Kabaji. After some attempts, Mitobe Rinnosuke saw that his teammates had no space to run out, so he had to take a hook shot, but was slapped to the front court by Shigehiro Kabaji who was prepared.

“Mine!” Sakuragi Hanamichi instantly turned into a red light and rushed to the front court. After grabbing the ball, he took three steps, knocked down Mitobe Rinnosuke and Koganei Shinji who came to defend, and then made a slam dunk.

“Haha, did you see that, Haruko? My genius Sakuragi Hanamichi just dunked from the free throw line!” Sakuragi Hanamichi excitedly showed off to Akagi Haruko who was watching the game on the sidelines. “Great! Sakuragi!” Akagi Haruko also clapped and cheered happily, and her cute expression made Sakuragi Hanamichi feel a little elated.

“The place where you jumped was one step beyond the free throw line.” Just when Sakuragi Hanamichi was showing off alone with his hands on his hips, Rukawa Kaede who was passing by spoke casually.

“Huh? What did you say?” Sakuragi Hanamichi stared at Rukawa Kaede’s back and chased after him, “You’re just jealous of my dunk from the free throw line!”

“Oh, yes, yes, I’m jealous that you can even miss a dunk.” Rukawa rolled his eyes and complained, then stopped paying attention to Sakuragi Hanamichi.

“Hmm… it’s indeed a terrifying talent…” A drop of cold sweat rolled down Kasamatsu Yukio’s forehead, and he pretended to be calm, “But just because you jump high and run fast doesn’t mean you can be called a member of the Generation of Miracles, right? If we only talk about running and jumping ability, the guy the coach poached from the rugby team is not bad either…”

“What if I tell you that he can suppress Kagami on the defensive end just by playing basketball for a month under Kaneki’s training?” Kise Ryota directly shattered Kasamatsu Yukio’s fantasy. “And I’ve counted that this guy can jump three times in the time it takes Hayakawa to jump once, and each jump is higher than the last.”

Kasamatsu Yukio remained silent while listening to Kise Ryouta’s report. He still remembered the destructive power of the combination of Kagami Taiga and Kuroko Tetsuya, but looking at Sakuragi Hanamichi, who was jumping around on the field and was obviously a level faster than other players, he knew that what Kise Ryouta said was true, even if he didn’t want to.

“Two general-level combo guards, two miracle-level inside and outside defensive gates, a pair of extended line-level duos…” Fujima Kenji’s face, which usually shows no emotion, also showed a trace of worry, “Not to mention the strong-level Miyagi and Akagi… It’s really scary. If we are not careful, Shonan will have grown into an invincible behemoth…”

……

“Really, Midorima…” Outside Shonan High School, Takao Kazunari was out of breath as he rode an old, broken tricycle and slowly stopped in front of Midorima Shintaro, “Where did you get these broken cars from? The scholarship the school gave you should at least be enough for you to buy an electric bike, right? Buying an electric bike will save me some effort, you bastard!”

“No, my money is useful.” Midorima Shintaro ignored Takao Kazunari’s complaints and sat down on the tricycle. “Stop talking nonsense, Takao. Instead of expecting me to spend money on you, you’d better expect you to win me in the next rock-paper-scissors game. Let’s go, the game is about to end. It will be bad if they find me.”

“You are here to watch your old teammates compete, not to steal. So what if they see you? You are disguising yourself and hiding yourself…” Gaowei and Cheng Cheng rode their tricycles with a creaking sound, complaining helplessly, “When will you change your tsundere habit?”

“When you can beat me, I’ll listen to you.” Midorima Shintaro pushed the frame of his glasses conceitedly, “Even if it’s rock-paper-scissors, it’s fine.”

“Boom!”

Just as Gao Wei, Cheng and Midorima Shintaro were bickering while riding their bikes, the sky suddenly became overcast, a muffled thunder exploded, and a rainstorm was about to come.

“What should we do? Should we go back to Shonan High School to hide? Although the weather forecast didn’t say it would rain today, the weather doesn’t look right…” Takao Kazunari asked Midorima Shintaro tentatively.

“No, no! Even if I, Midorima Shintaro, get wet, catch a cold, or burn to death outside today, I will never go back to Shonan High School! Absolutely!” Midorima Shintaro held the lucky cat tightly in his hand and said solemnly.

(End of this chapter)