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They stepped onto the court.
Toho Kotei Gakuen and Rakuzan faced off once more.
Ryu and Akashi locked eyes.
"Finally, it's the end!"
Ryu's words were calm, showing no tension or seriousness of an impending final battle.
Akashi was similarly expressionless, showing no emotion whatsoever.
"It seems you've already figured out how to deal with Rakuzan now."
As a former teammate,
Akashi knew Ryu's strength all too well.
He naturally understood that he couldn't possibly defeat him so easily.
However, he couldn't immediately figure out how Ryu would counter Rakuzan's current state.
With everyone in Zone, unless Toho Kotei Gakuen could also achieve an overall improvement in strength...
Akashi's eyes narrowed sharply.
'Could it be...?'
Akashi suddenly thought of a scenario that was absolutely impossible.
'How could that be?'
Could it be that Ryu possessed the same passing ability as him?
He shook his head inwardly.
If Ryu possessed such abilities, they wouldn't have been suppressed by their side in the third quarter.
"Ah, I suppose so! This is my first attempt, and the outcome hinges on this."
Hearing Ryu's words,
Akashi's eyes finally showed a hint of caution.
Toho Kotei Gakuen gets the serve.
Thud...
Ryu received the pass from Hanafuji Souji, a slight smile playing on his lips.
"Then, let's begin the final celebration!"
The words fell.
He began dribbling the ball, slowly making his way towards Rakuzan's half of the court.
His pace was neither fast nor slow, as if he were walking normally.
Thump... thump... thump...
Just reached midcourt.
Ryu saw Akashi appear before him.
"No matter what you try, you can't possibly be a match for Rakuzan now, Ryu."
A pale hand reached for the basketball.
Thump...
Ryu changed direction, dodging Akashi's attempt to steal the ball.
"You're really impatient, aren't you! Seijuro."
As he spoke, he raised his left hand, assuming a triple-threat stance, while his right hand dribbled behind him, then tossed the ball to the left.
"Passing, huh?"
Akashi watched him pass without stopping him.
Or rather, he couldn't stop him.
Ryu's triple-threat stance, his left hand perfectly blocking his path.
In his Emperor's Eye.
The last thing he captured was a failed interception of the pass.
Thud...
Hanafuji received the pass from Ryu smoothly.
Upon receiving the ball, he immediately began dribbling and breaking through.
The movement was fluid and seamless.
Facing Chihiro Mayuzumi's obstruction,
Hanafuji didn't linger.
He slid a short distance away from Chihiro Mayuzumi, then tossed the ball towards Rakuzan's interior.
At this moment in Rakuzan's interior,
Kamimono and Kuroki were already poised to attack.
Whether by coincidence or pre-arranged, it was unclear.
As if anticipating the ball's trajectory, Kamimono leaped before Nebuya Eikichi, catching the ball mid-air as it was thrown by Hanafuji.
Nebuya Eikichi immediately rushed to stop him.
However, to his surprise,
Kamimono's feet hadn't even touched the ground yet.
He tossed the ball mid-air to Kuroki, who was also in the Rakuzan paint.
What?
Nebuya Eikichi was stunned.
Not quite quick-witted, he couldn't immediately understand why Kamimono had passed the ball.
This caught him completely off guard.
Kuroki received the ball and prepared to go for a layup.
However, Kotaro Hayama blocked his path, preventing him from making the layup.
Kuroki quickly retrieved the ball, warily eyeing the fanged man before him.
'This guy is definitely difficult to deal with in this situation.'
After a few seconds of stalemate with Kotaro Hayama under the basket...
A voice broke the silence between the two.
"Kuroki-senpai…"
Hearing that familiar voice,
Kuroki didn't hesitate and threw the ball directly.
Looking in the direction the basketball flew,
Hayama Kotaro immediately saw Ryu, who had somehow entered Rakuzan's paint.
At this moment, Ryu was surrounded by a seven-colored glow.
Majestic and imposing, exuding an overwhelming aura.
And closely following behind him was Akashi, his eyes blazing with lightning.
Ryu's steps didn't falter for a moment.
He seemed to effortlessly receive Kuroki's pass while running, then leaped up, catching the basketball with one hand as it flew towards Rakuzan's basket.
This series of actions caught everyone off guard.
Hayama Kotaro was still in a daze.
'When did he jump?'
Clang…
A deep, resounding thud echoed throughout the stadium.
Toho Kotei Gakuen, suppressed for so long, finally scored.
67 to 65.
"Was he already in dunking mode back then?"
Recovering from his daze, Nebuya Eikichi looked at Ryu in surprise.
He had witnessed everything that had just happened.
But he hadn't expected Ryu to suddenly dunk.
It all happened so suddenly.
It was like it was rehearsed.
Ryu, returning to defense, was surrounded by his teammates, who gave him high-fives.
Ryu responded with a smile.
In the stands.
"Strange, something seems off."
Kise scratched his head, puzzled.
"Huh? What are you talking about?"
Kasamatsu Yukio asked.
Kise thought for a moment, then shook his head.
"I'm not entirely sure either, but something just felt off."
...
"The Toho Kotei Gakuen's attack just now was a bit strange."
Murasakibara's words had barely finished when
Midorima's voice rang out.
"You noticed it too, Murasakibara?"
Murasakibara nodded.
"Mido-chin thinks so too? Then my feeling is definitely right."
...
"Aomine, the Toho Kotei Gakuen's attack just now..."
Momoi reminded him.
"Yeah, they were completely playing their own game, and their passing was so random. It wasn't so much that they knew someone was there, but rather that person just happened to be there. The receivers were also ridiculous; it felt like they just happened to be passing by and the ball ended up in their hands."
Aomine frowned, analyzing the situation.
"It's a coincidence, isn't it?"
This kind of thing is too fantastical.
Momoi could only conclude it was a coincidence.
"Perhaps!"
Aomine said this,
but a different thought lingered in his mind.
'Is this really a coincidence?'
He focused his gaze on Ryu.
'That last goal, if it's a coincidence, it's too much of a coincidence!'
...
The Generation of Miracles each had their own thoughts.
On the court, a new round of offensive and defensive battle began.
The five Rakuzan players, flashing with streaks of lightning, charged towards the Toho Kotei Gakuen with unparalleled momentum.
Ryu flashed.
Blocking Akashi's path.
Akashi, seeing this, dared not approach too closely.
He changed his dribbling and passed the ball to Reo Mibuchi on the other side.
Facing Reo Mibuchi now,
Kugawa still wasn't confident he could steal the ball.
However, he still reached for the basketball in Reo's hands.
Reo Mibuchi noticed Kugawa's movement and a slight smile appeared on his lips.
"You really haven't learned your lesson! I told you, you can't stop me like that."
Reo Mibuchi quickly shifted to the side, preparing to break past Kugawa from the side.
But just then...
A hand suddenly appeared in front of Reo Mibuchi's eyes.
This sudden scene almost made Reo Mibuchi's eyes pop out.
'How could this be? When did this happen?'
Just as the hand was about to touch the basketball,
Reo Mibuchi gritted his teeth, stopped, and forcibly pulled the ball back.
Only then did he see the owner of the hand.
Hanafuji Souji.
"Why are you here?"
Reo Mibuchi asked in surprise.
Hanafuji didn't answer.
Seeing this, Reo Mibuchi didn't ask any more questions.
He had lost his chance to attack and could only pass the ball.
He scanned his surroundings, then spotted the safest spot and tossed the ball there.
The basketball flew towards an open area.
But just as the ball was halfway through its flight, a figure suddenly appeared in that open area.
It was Chihiro Mayuzumi from Rakuzan.
Snap...
A crisp sound rang out.
Chihiro Mayuzumi, who was about to swat the ball away, stared wide-eyed in surprise.
'The ball...it actually...'
In his field of vision.
The basketball flying towards him was suddenly caught by a hand.
He froze for a moment, then came to his senses and immediately moved forward to try and snatch the ball back.
Before he could even take a step, he saw the hand receive the ball and immediately begin its movement.
With a flick of the wrist, the hand quickly passed the ball to Kugawa, who had already found an open position.
"Damn it."
Reo Mibuchi was still surprised that his pass had been intercepted.
Coming to his senses, he realized that the player he was guarding was nowhere to be seen.
As he looked for him, he saw that Kugawa had already created two body lengths of distance between them.
Kugawa successfully received the pass.
Before Reo Mibuchi could catch up, he went straight to the three-point line at Rakuzan, held the ball with one hand, aimed at the basket, and shot.
When Reo Mibuchi caught up,
he could only watch helplessly as the basketball flew towards his own basket.
The ball's arc was far from beautiful.
But those who knew Kugawa knew...
With no one guarding him,
Kugawa's shot was almost impossible to miss.
And indeed,
a crisp, pleasant sound of the ball hitting the net rang out.
The basketball landed precisely in the hoop.
70 to 65.
Beep…
"Rakuzan requests a timeout."
Shirogane Eiji finally couldn't sit still any longer.
Just moments ago, they were in a commanding lead, but suddenly they were at a disadvantage.
It all happened so suddenly.
It made him, the coach, quite uneasy.
He also noticed that something seemed to have changed at Toho Kotei Gakuen, but he didn't know why.
Toho Kotei Gakuen was acting very strangely now.
He had to break their momentum.
After the Rakuzan team returned to the rest area,
Shirogane Eiji asked directly,
"What happened to you guys just now? The first shot was one thing, but why did they make the second one so easily?"
Mibuchi Reo lowered his head.
It was because he hadn't been watching his opponent closely enough that they found an opening and scored.
"We don't know either, it just suddenly changed like this. They weren't this strong before,"
Hayama Kotaro said.
Nebuya Eikichi echoed.
"It feels like they know the ball's position beforehand,"
Chihiro Mayuzumi chimed in.
"It looks like they planned this all along. They must have arranged the tactics during the break!"
Chihiro Mayuzumi's words made a lot of sense.
This caused everyone in Rakuzan to fall silent.
But just then, a voice broke the silence.
"No, it wasn't planned."
Everyone looked in the direction of the voice.
The speaker was Akashi.
"Akashi, did you see something?"
Hayama Kotaro asked.
Akashi shook his head.
"It wasn't exactly seeing anything; they didn't do anything, just normal passing and shooting. But that's the strangest part. Their actions seemed pre-arranged. No matter what they did, someone was always waiting in the exact spot, like puppets on strings."
"Huh? What do you mean?"
Hayama Kotaro was completely confused and didn't understand at all.
The others from Rakuzan were the same.
Akashi smiled and said.
"Anyway, let's stop them first!"
...
Toho Kotei Gakuen's rest area.
"Wow! Ryu, what was that just now? Why was I there? Did you do something?"
Kamimono and the others surrounded Ryu.
The two attacks just now were too coincidental.
They didn't believe such coincidences existed in the world.
Kamimono asked with great interest.
"Is this the method you mentioned?"
Ryu smiled and nodded.
"That's right. The strength of this move depends entirely on our level of trust and understanding in each other. If it reaches a certain depth, you can even use your teammate's move without realizing it."
"Really? Is it that amazing?"
Kugawa seriously doubted whether he had heard correctly.
Actually, Ryu also thought it was outrageous.
When he used this move just now,
it didn't feel like his mind was controlling his body.
It felt like his body was controlling his mind.
he knew what he was doing, and he knew that this was what he was thinking.
But after completing it, he realized it wasn't what he initially intended.
In short, it's quite amazing.
This is the latest ability Ryu inherited from Karubin: [Ability Resonance].
It creates an ability resonance with teammates due to confidence and trust. Those who resonate can achieve mutual understanding and shared power. The strength of the resonance is related to the level of confidence and trust between them.
Of course, the power here refers to the techniques of other resonating teammates.
For example, some special techniques.
Like Ryu's Ice Emperor's Eye, or the [Chaotic Dance] used with The Divine-Demon's body—if one does not own them, then they can't use.
Even so, it's still an incredibly powerful ability.
The [Cat Energy] required for [Ability Resonance] is also incredibly high.
It used a whopping 300,000 [Cat Energy].
It's a lie to say it wasn't painful.
However, this move is truly a miracle.
But it also has drawbacks.
That is, everyone's physical condition is different.
Using techniques gained through resonance consumes one's stamina.
Once an individual's condition declines to a certain level, they will automatically exit the resonance state.
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