After the victory, the Class A teammates were all incredibly excited.
"That final buzzer-beater was insanely cool!"
"That was so close! If it had been one second later, we would've lost!"
"Holy shit, that was awesome! You managed to save the ball even like that!"
While they were all cheering for Natsume Chikage, Yamaguchi Hirota's face turned pale, then visibly shifted into embarrassed fury. He began to feel that his teammates were simply too useless. If they had cooperated with him properly from the start, why would the score have remained so close?
If his teammates had all been official Basketball Club members, how could things have turned out like this?!
At that thought, he glared fiercely at the three teammates besides Asagiri Kazuya, feeling that everything was their fault!
Asagiri Kazuya's expression was just as ugly. Both he and Yamaguchi Hirota had thought from the beginning that victory was guaranteed.
They had even planned to take the chance to humiliate Natsume Chikage after winning.
After all, basketball involved plenty of physical and verbal confrontations. No one would have thought anything was wrong with it.
But the worst part was that the two of them had actually lost—meaning they had failed to show off in front of the girl they liked. Instead, Natsume Chikage had shown them up. His face alternated between red and white.
Especially when he saw his crush, Akita Sana, ignore him completely and rush over to Natsume Chikage, happily waving her arms around, his face instantly went pale. He felt so humiliated and miserable that he wanted to crawl into a hole.
And because of the bet they had made in front of so many students, the Class B members could only reluctantly buy drinks for Natsume Chikage and the others.
On Natsume Chikage's side, before