Chapter 154 ~ Versus Kaijo

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Chapter 154 ~ Versus Kaijo With some sort of “normalcy” returning to his life, which for Yuuji simply meant that no missions came to the group chat or various problems happening in his friends’ worlds, Yuuji enjoyed his time with his family and friends, and also enjoyed his high school life. Spending his time in school with his friends was a nice change of pace after living a double life as a terrorist in Lelouch’s world. And after school, he’d either tutor the quintuplet or participate in the Basketball Club’s activities. Though... After just one club session, it was already clear to everyone that there wasn’t a need for him to go through their training or any of their drills. With Yuuji’s physical prowess, he wasn't even sweating when the rest of the club members were laying down on the ground in their own pool of sweat. And with his learning speed, he had already far surpassed the skill of the captain and ace of the basketball club. Even when going against a whole team in a match meant to try and measure how absurd he truly was, the result shocked even onlookers frozen... No one was able to stop him from scoring. And... no one was able to score against him. And from then on, Yuuji was tasked to help the others improve and practice teamwork instead. Days passed by in a breeze, and the last day of school was finally about to end. The school bell rang, and Shuu immediately turned to Yuuji the moment the teacher exited the room. “Yuuji! It’s time for your match, right?” “Hm? Ah, yes it is.” “Alright~! Then what are we waiting for~?” “...You’re coming?” “Of course I am!!! Raku, Ai, you’re coming too, right?” Shuu turned towards the two, who were busy cleaning up their desks and putting their books and stationeries into their bags. “Yes, I’d like to watch.” “Me too. Will that be okay, Yuuji?” Yuuji nodded with a smile. “Of course. Let’s go together.” As they were about to exit the class, Viktoriya, Chitoge, and Yotsuba quickly came up to join them. Then, Yuna and Nina also came from their class, and the group made their way to the gym where the friendly basketball match between their highschool and Kaijo would be held. --------------------------------X-------------------------------- Upon arriving at their destination, the Kaijo Basketball club members alighted from their bus. One of the first people to alight was a rotund, middle-aged man with roughly shaved beard named Takeuchi Genta that is their coach, and a young, young man with short, spiky hair and a pair of sharp stern eyes named Kasamatsu Yukio that is their captain, made their way to the gym building of Bonyari High School. And following them, a group of tall highschool boys, dressed in track jackets and pants with their school color, blue and white, alighted from the bus and followed after the two. With their coach, a total of 10 people were present, with 5 being the core and starting members of their team, and the other four being substitutes. All ten seemed relatively calm as they made their way relaxedly to the building. The Bonyari High School basketball team was... never one to be in the news within the high school basketball world in Japan, to put it lightly. They had never stood out amongst the high school basketball teams; simply average. On the other hand, Kaijo’s basketball team was a relatively famous powerhouse, especially with one of the extremely famous generation of miracles joining their team at the start of this school year. Considering the disparity between their respective strengths, there shouldn’t have been a spar between the two high schools. Originally, Coach Takeuchi wanted to arrange a spar with one of the more established high school basketball teams within the province to measure the skill level of the new first-year students in their ranks. However, most were unavailable, leading him to one of the last options, which was Bonyari High School. He didn’t expect much, and had already planned on simply moving the date to a month later. After all, he doubted Bonyari high school’s basketball team would accept an invitation to a spa where they would, most likely, be decimated. But to his surprise... they accepted. Which led to this situation. He turned his head slightly and glanced at his students. They all seemed relaxed and... bored. Perhaps aside from the captain, the hot-blooded Mitsuhiro, or the quiet Kobori who were the most serious members of the team, they were all quite laid back. The first year students seemed slightly nervous, but he could see that they seemed to be more nervous about making sure they would perform their best rather than their opponents. And the most relaxed of them all... was the golden-haired generation of miracle members, Kise Ryota, who was playing with his phone and yawning from time to time. At first, Kise was quite excited to play in a game against another school so soon after entering high school. But after hearing about the opponent, he deflated quite quickly. In fact, he wanted to skip this sparring match and go have a modeling shoot or something instead. But, he was forced to join by his coach and had no choice but to go. So... he could only hope the match would end faster so he could just go home and rest for the weekend. They slowly approached the gym building, and as they got near it, they could hear sounds and voices coming from within it. It... sounded like people. But not just a few... many. It was strange. They soon arrived at the gym building, and the moment they opened the door, all of them widened their eyes in shock. “What the...” The gym building they thought would be empty of people aside from Bonyari High School’s basketball team... was instead packed. Coach Takeuchi nodded with a small smile, which was already considered courteous for a man of few expressions such as himself, and took the large, young man’s hand in a handshake. “A pleasure. Thank you for the welcome. Though, I seem to not see Coach Haguchi...” “Unfortunately, Coach Haguchi had fallen ill recently and couldn’t make it for this match. He had left this matter to me. I hope you won’t mind.” “I understand. I hope he recovers quickly.” Coach Takeuchi simply nodded his head understandingly. “Thank you. Please, come this way. We’ve prepared a locker room for you to use.” “Thank you.” Yanagi led the members of Kaijo’s basketball team to the locker room to get change. And as they followed after him, Kise still had his eyes locked on the stupidly handsome dude until he could no longer see him. They all got changed, and Yanagi was once again there to lead them back to their bench. “Well then, I suppose we can start the match after a brief warm up?” Yanagi asked Coach Takeuchi. “Sure.” “Very well. Then, we shall begin the match in 20 minutes. Please feel free to use your side of the court to warm up.” “Thank you.” Yanagi bowed courteously to Takeuchi before leaving them to their own devices, and as he did, Takeuchi turned towards his team. “Alright. You guys go ahead and warm up. And remember, although this is a sparring match, I’ll be watching and observing all of you closely. Don’t be distracted.” Takeuchi emphasized his words with a glare, and especially emphasized his last three words and directed his gaze towards the first years, who he clearly heard wanted to use this chance to pick up girls. And his glare was tremendously effective, as the first years all tensed up and stood stiff like a rod. ““Y-Yes!!!”” “Good... And one more thing.” Takeuchi shifted his gaze towards Kasamatsu, the third-year team captain of the team. “Kasamatsu... Be careful of that guy. Keep a close eye on him.” “That guy...?” “The stupidly handsome one.” “Oh...” They all turned to look at the only guy who would be appropriate for that term. After all, if he wasn’t the handsome one, then no one is. “Is he a prodigy we’ve never heard of?” “...No. I know nothing about him as well. I’ve never heard of Bonyari having a player like him. But... My gut feeling tells me to be careful of him.” “...I understand. We’ll keep a close eye on him.” Takeuchi nodded and crossed his arms. “Good. Now go and warm up.” Kasamatsu, Kise, and the others all began to stretch and head to their half of the court to begin doing layup and shooting drills. And as they did, they soon heard the cheering and shrieking of girls from all around them, and looked to the other side of the field. There... as if they were looking at a promotional video of a high school drama show revolving around basketball, they saw the handsome guy their coach told them to be careful of, shooting a basketball with perfect form in mid-air. The ball traveled through the air in a beautiful arc as time seemed to slow down, and when it reached the ring, it hit nothing but net. It was... mesmerizing to watch. His form... was the ideal form they would imagine in their heads when shooting. It was the form they’re trying to replicate in real life. And the moment it went into the ring, they were violently snapped out of their daze from the deafening cheers and shrieks of female students in the crowd. “...Hey, Yukio. Did you see that...?” Koji slowly walked up to his close friend and captain, and asked. Their eyes still not leaving the figure that made that mesmerizing shot. “Yeah... I did...” “... I have never seen someone shoot so perfectly. He’s even better than that shooting guard from the Generation of Miracles” Kasamatsu clenched his hands into fists and let out a deep sigh. “... Guess the coach’s guts were right. We need to keep a close eye on him.”

Chapter 154 ~ Versus Kaijo

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