LIGHTNOVELONLINE Ch 90 – 01 June, Another Appointment with Heroine?
Kouta touched the ball and tried to dribble it after such a long time. The ball bounced from the floor to his hand, and he pushed it back to the floor. Even though it had been a long time for Kouta since he started playing basketball. Maybe the last time he played was when he was still in middle school.
However, Kouta was not so surprised, as his hands were so used to basketball. It felt like he had been playing it for a long time. At least Kouta became so much better than he should be. Yeah, he felt like he could play.
‘I wonder if this is what an overpowered MC feels like.’ Kouta thought about his cheating skills. The memory from his previous life worked like magic. He even could see more clearly and every inch of memory about something related to basketball playing in his mind with such great detail, to the point he felt like he could see every movement of their muscle too.
Kouta may not have moved as smoothly as those professional athletes, but it was easy for him to mimic a fraction of their ability. Well, even though Kouta had already trained his body, his muscles were still not at the same level as those athletes too.
Kouta moved his body and followed those memories by doing a jump shot, He did the form that he saw from those memories. Before releasing it from his hand.
"Ah…" But the Kouta shot did not go into the basket like in the memory. Well, it was not that easy. Maybe the release was too fast or too strong. He needed to find the feeling himself, something he couldn’t find from the memories.
Kouta could hear those specific people laughing at him. It was such an annoying thing, but right now he needs to focus on his own thing.
Kouta looked beside him, and his group was taking their turns at this shooting practice. And since all of them just left-over in physical education. Most of their shots were not going into the basket too.
Kouta grabbed the ball, he bounced the ball several times, before once again he shot the ball. And missed like before.
‘Hm… I wonder what's wrong.’ Just like before, Kouta took the ball and waited for his turn to get another shot practice. He missed several times until, at the end of shooting practice, his shot finally went into the basket.
"Ah… I think I finally got it." Kouta said it while looking at his hand and remembering his form, the release, and of course how much power he put in. Thanks to his cheating skill, Kouta could remember those feelings pretty easily.
"Ahahaha… You get lucky in the end." That Riajuu one said at Kouta’s face with such smugness and annoyance on his face. Kouta was quite aware that this guy must really hate his guts.
Well, Kouta felt like he didn’t need to remember any other side character like him. He is just a pebble. "Oh, wait. I think he will be good to increase my popularity."
Kouta thought that he could play very well with a team of these left over people. Of course, it will increase his fame.
After all those shooting practices, the teacher made the student play a game. It was a short game before the other group changed to play, and soon. Since all of Kouta’s member teams weren't really good at sports, he was automatically the one who controlled the ball. After the other group took the jump ball and scored first.
Kouta dribbled the ball to the opposite court, and he found out pretty easily that most of the enemy didn’t really pay attention at all. Well, they wouldn’t take the Kouta group seriously. Kouta immediately drove to the rim and finished it with a layup.
Kouta himself couldn’t do much since most of his teammates weren't that good, but at least there was one thing that he focused on during this physical education. Yeah, he focused on defending and attacking one particular guy, the Riajuu one. He went above and beyond to humiliate and embarrass him.
Kouta really took that personally, just like one of the best basketball athletes said.
The Riajuu one may be known for having a good face, good grades, and being good at sports too. So of course his teammates passed the ball to him, and Kouta guarded him on purpose, taking extra steps to make it harder to the point he couldn’t do anything, while at the same time letting Riajuu know that he didn’t particularly care about his teammate scoring a point.
Also Kouta purposely attacked him again and again. He immediately went to his side and used the skill move Kouta saw in his memories to humiliate him. In the end, the Riajuu was just a normal student with a bit above sport skill than the average student. There was no way he could keep them out. The skill Kouta copied from athletes.
Cross over…
Pump fakes…
There was a time Kouta dribbled, bounced the ball around his foot, and tried to drive toward the rim while the Riajuu guarded him very well. When their bodies contacted each other, he immediately bounced the ball around his foot and, rather than moving forward, did a stepback. Which made the Riajuu actually fall down, or people in basketball call it an ankle breaker.
It is not only embarrassing for him, but Kouta wasn't satisfied with just this, and he wanted to increase it and humiliate him more. Kouta actually stopped moving and just stared at him for a moment. No, he looked down at him, before shooting to the basket with ease.
There were a lot of people who watched, and they were amused, and some people laughed too. Kouta could see how angry and embarrassed he was since the Riajuu looked at Kouta with a new level of hatred more than ever before.
In the end, even though the Kouta team may lose. Kouta felt like he achieved something here.
"Are you okay, Gojou?" Kouta asked the question while he took a sip from a drink bottle. Beside him, Gojou's face was completely pale. He already ran out of oxygen from running all over the place.
"Ha… Ha… Ha… I’m sorry, but I'm really tired." He responded to Kouta and immediately sat on the floor.
"Oh, I never expected you to be really good at sports, Kouta?"
Kouta could hear someone asking those questions behind him. It was a voice from someone he knew already. When he turned his head, Kouta saw a cute girl with blonde hair and dark pink eyes, with such a big smile on her face. She was no other than Kitagawa Marin, who is a heroine in the anime or manga with Gojou.
"Well, I think I’m doing fine." Kouta answered and he found how his stamina increased a lot more than months ago.
"Really!? It’s kinda unexpected since I feel like you’re not just doing fine, but such amazing skill." Marin responded immediately with sparkling eyes. She looked very excited. "Especially since you looked so cute and like playing games, so it’s such a contrast. And so cool… You move so fast and skillfully… Ah… Also… when you shoot the ring, you look good too." She continued.
Seeing her sparkling eyes and smile like this, it immediately made Kouta feel like his decision to take today's physical education pretty seriously had paid off.
"You know him, Marin?" Someone beside Marin asked her. Kouta looked at another girl, she is a rather shorter than average girl at her age. She had black hair that was tied into a pigtail, with some red hair on it.
"Ah, yes. I know him. He is Suzuki Kouta, and this is my friend… Sugaya Nowa." Marin answered Nowa's question while introducing Kouta and Nowa. She stared at Kouta with such passion.
"Nice to meet you."
"Ah… Nice to meet you too."
After that Kouta and Gojou had some rest while having a conversation with Marin and Nowa. It was until Kouta asked a question at Marin.
"I hear that your cosplay is overdue."
"Yeah, Gojou-kun's grandpa had an accident, and we also got mid-exam. So it’s understandable. But too bad… even though there is an event in sunday."
Seeing Marin's dejected appearance, Kouta breathes out a long sigh. Before he gave her an idea.
"Well, how about we’re going there… Since Gojou still does not know about cosplay, right? So it will be much better if he sees it directly." Kouta told Marin that, and when she heard that. Her eyes were sparkling. Marin’s fascinated by Kouta's idea, and she was interested in going to the event..
"That's a good idea! What do you think, Gojou-kun?"
"Eh, well. I think it's a good idea."
Gojou agreed with Kouta’s idea. They make plans to go to the event on Sunday.