"Yo Kaen!" I heard someone calling to me, I turned around and saw that it was Aomine and someone hiding behind him. I couldn't really tell who the person was but I knew that he or she was really tiny.
Well, after that game that day, Aomine and I had become pretty good friends. We have been balling here together at this court pretty much every day for the past month. So I guess you could consider us best friends. Don't really know though.
"Sup Aomine, who you got hiding behind you." I replied to him, nodding my head to acknowledge his prescence.
"I want you to meet my neighbour. My parents are pretty busy at work so my neighbour's mum offered to take care of me. Come and greet Satsuki, she's going to be coming to the court with me everyday from now on."
Oh, nice, I get to meet another important character from the anime. I'm getting deeper and deeper into the anime.
Aomine, then stepped to the side and started pushing Satsuki forward. Satsuki was a tiny girl with pink hair. She had huge round pink eyes and was fiddling with her thumbs looking around nervously. Damn she's like a puppy, I thought to myself.
"Hey Satsuki-san, Im Nakamura Kaen, you can just call me Kaen." I introduced myself to her.
"H-hello Kaen, i-if I'm going to call you Kaen you can also call me Satsuki."She looked at me innocently with those eyes of hers. Holy crap, she is a definite must protect.
"Sure Satsuki, so do you wanna watch me trash Aomine in basketball right now." I asked her with a smug. Satsuki nodded her head quickly like a doll.
" Hey what you talking about! Our current record is 30 to 20. You just won 10 more times than me, I'm going to catch up in no time." Aomine butted in, trying to defend himself.
"Nah bruh, I was going easy on you those times, I didn't want to hurt your feelings." I started trash talking him.
We then started bickering while Satsuki could only stand at the side and watch. After a while I turned to her and asked:" Satsuki, who do you think is the better basketball player, me or Aomine."
"Um....Um..." She was at a loss for words, not knowing which side to pick. I burst out laughing at the sight and said:"Relax, I was just playing with you. We are around the same level if I'm being honest."
"Hey kids, its you two again. Want to join our game we could really use 2 extra players." I turned around and saw the same man who invited me on my first day at this court. It was game time.
I received the ball and did a turn around jump shot over Aomine. The ball flew though the hoop and hit nothing but net."Too easy" I whispered to Aomine.
A few possessions later, Aomine received the ball and turned his back to face me."My turn" he said, he then swung the ball around and jabbed to the right. He then side stepped and threw the ball into the basket with his left hand. The ball rattled around the rim a few times before falling in.
After going back and forth a few times, the score was now 10 all. It was my teams possession and I caught the ball from my teammate. I drove to the right and did a jab stop. I used my left hand to nudge Aomine slightly, causing him to continue moving forward. However, his superhuman reflexes had betrayed him and caused him to twist his ankles. This weird position caused him to trip and he fell to the ground in front of me.I got into the shooting motion and let the ball fly. I gotta make this I thought to myself. The ball bounced off the rim and into the basket, winning the game.
"OOOOHHH! Someone got his ankles broken, this is too easy bruh." I started making fun of Aomine. I stuck my hand out at the same time and helped him up.
"I don't know what you are talking about man, there was some water one the floor and I just slipped on it." Aomine tried to keep his pride.
"Well whatever you say, but Satsuki is here with us she saw everything. Right Satsuki?" We both looked at her while Satsuki nodded her head vigorously.
I watched the ball spin off the backboard and fall into the net. That was it my 100th layup of the day.
System, I called out in my head and the familiar blue screen appeared in front of my.
[name: Nakamura Kaen
Age: 6
Height: 28/100 (projected height growth: 1.91 meters)
Shooting: 98/100 (level:1)
Handles: 99/100 (level:1)
Lay-ups: 98/100 (level :1)
Post scoring: 1/100 (level: 1)
Size: 10/100 (level: 1)
Athleticism: 6/100 (level:1 )
general points: 5 ]
Finally, this is going to be it. I'm finally going to reach level 2. I wanna see what kind of upgrades I get from this. Currently, I could only make 5/10 of my shots from the free throw line and shot a horrendous 3/10 from deep. It was also pretty though for me to make layups against larger defenders and I only made around 6/10 of them. My handles were still pretty tight just that my size limited how far I could go.
I decided next round I would put my focus into size and athleticism. I wanted to make myself into a Kevin Durant like player, a player who was tall and fast but could also shoot the rock. He could score at all three levels and was by far one of the most lethal scorers in the NBA.
I put 2 of my points into shooting, 2 into layups and a point into handles. Then a strange sensation started going through me. I felt my hands and legs gain some sort of muscle memory. Moves and tricks that I had never done before suddenly felt possible. Oh my god! I love this feeling! I feel like I'm high and just took some drugs! I looked up at my system again.
[name: Nakamura Kaen
Age: 6
Height: 28/100 (projected height growth: 1.91 meters)
Shooting: 0/200 (level:2)
Handles: 0/200 (level:2)
Lay-ups: 0/200 (level :2)
Post scoring: 1/100 (level: 1)
Size: 10/100 (level: 1)
Athleticism: 6/100 (level:1 )
general points: 0 ]
It felt so satisfying to see the 3 level 2s in my system at once. Wait but I now need 200 points to upgrade to level 2. Don't tell me the number of points I need doubles every time I level up. It shouldn't be much of a problem in the beginning but once I reach level 5 I would need 1600 points just to level up 1 skill. That would take 320 days which is nearly a whole year! System, please tell me you offer some sort of missions or something which will allow me to gain more points than just daily missions.
[ Host does not need to be so worried, the system will provide missions when the time is right. As long as the host follows the system, reaching level 10 for most skills would not be problem.]
Whew, the knowledge that I stand a chance to be at the top is all that matters to me. As long as I have the opportunity, I will work for it no matter how long it takes.
"Kaen, I see you been warming up for a while now, you getting in rhythm to win the game today huh." I heard Aomine call mat me, I turned around and saw him and Satsuki walking towards my direction. Just in time to test my skills, I thought to myself.
I side stepped from Aomine and shot the 3 ball. I held up my hands to follow through the shot as I watched the ball curve towards the basket, I knew it was going in. The ball flew through the net, making the addictive swish sound.
"Damn Kaen, you on fire today man, you been hitting shots all day." Aomine said to me.
"What fire you talking about man, this is what I'm going to be like from now on."I said back to him.
"Nah man, I'm pretty sure you are hitting more shots than you were yesterday. You think you can suddenly upgrade just like that, this ain't some video game you know." Aomine said to me, writing me off.
Well, sorry to break it to you but this is literally like a video game! I thought.
"Kaen did hit more shots than yesterday. Yesterday he made 11 out of 23 of his shots, giving him an efficiency of 48%. Today he made 14 out of 25 of his shots, giving him an efficiency of 56%...."Satsuki was now in her analytical phrase, and didn't look like she was going to stop anytime soon.
Well this was pretty decent, I assume that for every upgrade I get a 5% boost in each stat, I really want to see what happens when I actually reach level 10 in a category. Would I be hitting 100% of my shots. I knew this was highly unlikely but imagining it was nice.
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