âLuo Xiaoxiang! Are you sleepwalking on the field?!â
Coach Li Tiejunâs roar, like a clap of thunder, rolled from the sidelines, making Luo Xiaoxiangâs ears buzz.
âThe ball was right at your feet, and you still let it roll out of bounds! Did you grease your feet?!â
Luo Xiaoxiang lowered his head, silent, his cheeks flushed with shame.
He felt incredibly frustrated.
I didnât mean to!
When that ball came over, it was fast and urgent. He intended to stop it steadily, but somehow, his ankle stiffened, and the ball bounced off like it hit an iron plate, flying straight out of bounds.
Such a basic mistake was commonplace for him.
He loved football, truly loved it.
But talent, thatâs not something you get just by liking something. In the Chongwen Middle School football team, he was a typical âatmosphere groupâ member, a perennial substitute, only occasionally playing to fill a gap and do the dirty work.
âDamn it!â
Luo Xiaoxiang cursed irritably in his heart.
Watching his teammatesâ brilliant passes, dribbles, and shots, and then looking at his own clumsy self, a sense of powerlessness welled up in his heart.
Am I destined to only watch others play on the sidelines my whole life?
I really⊠really want to play football well!
Just as this desire in his heart reached its peak, a crisp âdingâ suddenly echoed in his mind, like a small bell being struck.
ăDetecting strong emotional fluctuations from the host, meeting binding conditions...ă
ăStrongest Basketball System is binding... 10%... 50%... 100%...ă
ăBinding successful! Welcome, Host Luo Xiaoxiang!ă
A series of mechanical electronic sounds rang directly in his mind.
Luo Xiaoxiang was stunned.
What the heck?
Was he hearing things? Was the stress so great he was hallucinating?
He subconsciously shook his head, but the sight before him instantly froze him.
A translucent, light-blue panel, visible only to him, floated before his eyes like a screen from a sci-fi movie.
At the top of the panel, a line of large characters glowed â ăKurokoâs Basketball · Full Skill Systemă.
Below were several category options:
ăSkill Shopă
ăPersonal Attributesă
ăMission Listă
ăNewbie Gift Pack (Unclaimed)ă
Luo Xiaoxiang blinked, and the panel was still there. He blinked hard again, and the panel remained steadily suspended.
âHoly crap...â
He couldnât help but mutter softly.
Is it really... a system? Like the golden finger in web novels?
A surge of ecstasy instantly rushed to his head!
Heaven has opened its eyes! Is Luo Xiaoxiang going to rise as well? With a system, whatâs a school team regular, city champion, national tournament, World Cup... none of it is a dream!
His heart pounded with excitement, almost leaping out of his throat.
But when his gaze refocused on the large characters âKurokoâs Basketball · Full Skill Systemâ on the panel, the ecstasy on his face slowly solidified.
Kurokoâs... Basketball?
Basketball?
Luo Xiaoxiangâs mind couldnât quite process it.
Did it make a mistake?
His heart sank, and he quickly concentrated his thoughts, silently thinking: âSystem? Did you make a mistake? I play football, not basketball!â
ăThis system is the âKurokoâs Basketballâ Full Skill System, which includes all the iconic skills of characters from the anime âKurokoâs Basketball,â aiming to forge the host into a unique emperor on the basketball court.ă
The systemâs reply was cold, devoid of any emotion.
Luo Xiaoxiang was completely dumbfounded.
No... I... Iâm a damn football player! What good is a basketball system to me?!
This feeling was like someone who had been hungry for three days finally getting an unlimited meal card, only to find it could only be used in a hardware store.
This is a rip-off!
âLuo Xiaoxiang! What are you spacing out for! Go get the ball!â
Coach Li Tiejunâs roar once again pulled him back to reality.
Luo Xiaoxiang, as if waking from a dream, responded and dejectedly ran to retrieve the football he had stopped out of bounds.
As he ran, he ranted wildly in his mind.
âSystem, can you change it? Do you have a football system? Even tennis or volleyball would be fine! Basketball... I canât even dribble!â
ăOnce bound, the system cannot be unbound or changed. Please adapt quickly, Host, and become the supreme legend of the basketball world.ă
Legend my foot!
Luo Xiaoxiang almost wanted to curse.
My lifeâs ideal is to gallop on the green field, not to bounce a ball on a wooden floor!
He picked up the football, walked back with it, completely deflated, like an eggplant hit by frost.
A huge sense of loss enveloped him.
From heaven to hell, it only took seeing the systemâs name clearly.
âOh well, itâs better than nothing,â he could only comfort himself.
Maybe... he could show off on the basketball court later?
With a thought, he clicked on the ăNewbie Gift Packă.
ăDo you wish to open the Newbie Gift Pack?ă
âOpen it, open it quickly, let me see what junk is inside,â Luo Xiaoxiang thought self-deprecatingly.
ăNewbie Gift Pack opened successfully!ă
ăCongratulations, Host, you have received:ă
ă1. Skill: Kuroko Tetsuya · Misdirection. Proficiency: Beginneră
ă2. Skill: Aomine Daiki · Formless Shot. Proficiency: Beginneră
ă3. Attribute Points: Free Attribute Points * 5ă
A series of information flooded his mind.
All the details, principles, and usage methods of âMisdirectionâ and âFormless Shotâ played out quickly in his mind like a movie.
Misdirection: By deliberately lowering oneâs presence, drawing the attention of those around to elsewhere, thereby making oneself a âblind spotâ in their vision, achieving an effect similar to âinvisibility.â
Formless Shot: A technique that disregards conventional shooting postures, allowing one to shoot the ball into the hoop even when off-balance or in any extreme state.
Luo Xiaoxiang stood frozen, holding the football.
These two skills... sound pretty awesome.
Especially this âMisdirection,â it can make him a ghost on the court?
But... these are basketball skills.
Can they be used on a football field?
An absurd thought, uncontrollably, emerged from the depths of his heart.
What if... I use this âMisdirectionâ on the football field, will the people defending me also not see me?
What if... I change that âFormless Shotâ to a âFormless Shotâ... This thought, once it appeared, spread wildly in his heart like weeds.
Luo Xiaoxiangâs heart rate, for no reason, began to accelerate.
He held the ball, looked up, and gazed at the intensely contested field.
The figures of his teammates running, the opponentâs tight defense, and the goalkeeper shouting commands in front of the goal... everything seemed so familiar, yet also a little different.
âLuo Xiaoxiang! What are you dawdling for! Give me the ball!â
The main striker, and the teamâs ace, Zhang Hao, impatiently shouted at him.
Luo Xiaoxiang snapped back to reality and took a deep breath.
Who cares!
Whether itâs a mule or a horse, youâll know once you take it for a spin, right?
He held the ball and ran back to the sidelines, his eyes no longer holding the previous dejection and confusion.
Instead, they held a complex gleam, mixed with nervousness, anticipation, and madness.
This unreliable basketball system, whether itâs a piece of junk or a miracle-creating artifact... let this training match put it to the test!
