Senior's Exclusive Interview

The next day, Wu Yufei arrived at school bright and early.

However, his first destination today was not the basketball gym, but the News Department room located on the fourth floor of the club activity building.

He had promised Senior Takei yesterday that he would cooperate with her on an exclusive interview about himself today, so Wu Yufei, who usually did not pay special attention to his personal appearance, made a point of styling his hair and spraying a little of his dad's cologne.

In order not to disrupt his training schedule, Wu Yufei scheduled the exclusive interview for seven in the morning.

At 6:50 AM, when Wu Yufei arrived at the door of the club room, he found that the door was already open.

Knock... knock.

"Please come in!"

Takei Yumi's voice came from inside the room.

Wu Yufei pushed open the door in front of him and stepped into the News Department room.

"You're really early, Yufei-kun. There are still ten minutes left until our agreed time."

"You came even earlier, Senior Takei."

After a brief greeting, Wu Yufei sat down on the sofa and asked, "So, can we start now?"

"No need to rush. It's just the two of us here right now. Since it's an official exclusive interview, we definitely have to wait for my assistants to arrive."

Takei Yumi stood up from her chair with a smile, then fetched a tea set and some snacks from the side.

"Let's take a break first. The interview will start sharp at seven o'clock, and the duration will be just like we discussed yesterday—half an hour at most. It shouldn't affect your training, Yufei-kun."

"Alright."

Wu Yufei shrugged, then picked up the teacup in front of him and enjoyed the tea brewed by the beautiful senior's own hands.

"Mm... This tea is really good."

Wu Yufei praised.

"Hehe, thanks for the compliment."

Ten minutes passed quickly, and the "assistants" Takei Yumi mentioned arrived at the club room one after another.

"Director, I'm here... Wow! Isn't this Wu Yufei-kun?! I'm your super fan! Please be sure to give me an autograph!"

An energetic girl entered the room, saw Wu Yufei sitting on the sofa, and immediately flashed starry eyes as she spoke quite exaggeratedly.

"Uh... sure."

Suppressed by this momentum, Wu Yufei could only blankly agree to the other party's request. Anyway, it was just an autograph, nothing special.

"Alright, now that everyone is here, our interview officially begins!"

Seeing that her assistants had arrived, Takei Yumi began directing everyone, setting up all the props needed for the interview in just a few minutes.

That basically meant moving the sofa a bit, then positioning the camera and video recorder. Wu Yufei and Takei Yumi sat facing each other, with a newly brewed pot of tea from the senior sitting between them.

"So, our interview officially begins. Are you ready, classmate Yufei?"

"No problem."

"Great, then let's start with the first question. May I ask when you started playing basketball, classmate Yufei?"

"As far as I can remember, I started playing basketball ever since I knew anything. I remember the first birthday gift I received was a basketball..."

Some of the questions had already been asked on the bus to Martial Garden earlier, but since this was an exclusive interview, Wu Yufei naturally explained things in much more detail.

After asking a few previously answered questions to warm up the atmosphere a bit, Takei Yumi finally started asking some new questions.

"For everyone who loves basketball, the NBA in the United States is undoubtedly the most dazzling basketball sanctuary in the world. So, do you have any plans to go play basketball in the United States, classmate Yufei?"

"Just like you said, going to the United States to play basketball is a dream harbored in the heart of everyone who loves basketball, and of course I am no exception. So I do indeed plan to finish high school in Japan, then go to college in the United States, start playing from the college leagues, and ultimately realize my dream of entering the NBA."

"I see. It seems you already have a very clear blueprint for your future career in your mind, classmate Yufei. That's truly amazing."

Watching Wu Yufei speak of the NBA with an uninhibited, burning expression on his face, Takei Yumi praised.

"Then the next question: who is your basketball idol, classmate Yufei?"

"Michael Jordan! Of course it's him! There is no one else besides him!"

Although Wu Yufei's position on the court was point guard, primarily responsible for organizing and orchestrating the entire team while scoring was just a secondary duty, Wu Yufei had always only ever had one idol, and that was Michael Jordan.

As someone born in the nineties in his past life, Wu Yufei hadn't been able to witness Jordan's many miraculous feats with his own eyes, but just through limited video footage and related basketball video games, it was already enough for Wu Yufei to worship this man known as the Basketball God.

Over the next period, Takei Yumi successively asked several topics related to the NBA, making the atmosphere of the interview quite lively and harmonious.

Wu Yufei was also very amazed that Senior Takei before him was actually able to ask such questions.

After all, in Japan during the nineties, basketball was not a sport that the entire population followed.

Compared to basketball, soccer and baseball were the most popular among Japanese citizens. Yet a girl like Takei Yumi not only knew about the NBA, but could also quite fluently state information about many of the teams, star players, and so on within it.

To be able to do this, there were only two possibilities.

The first was that Takei Yumi herself was a basketball fan who was very passionate about the NBA.

The second was that Takei Yumi had crammed a lot of homework regarding the NBA specifically for today's interview.

Wu Yufei believed the answer should be the first one. After all, if some of the keywords in the questions Takei Yumi had just raised weren't something she was very familiar with regarding the NBA, they simply couldn't have been mastered through a short period of cramming.

The entire interview process went quite smoothly. Takei Yumi asked a total of nearly twenty questions back and forth, and Wu Yufei answered every single one of them in detail.

Finally, Takei Yumi took out several photos and placed them in front of Wu Yufei.

Wu Yufei looked closely, and these photos were all snapshots of his brilliant moments from the past two games.

There were moments of one-handed slam dunks, two-handed explosive dunks, jump shots, and flashy assists, with every single photo captured quite perfectly.

"I plan to choose one of these photos as the cover for this exclusive interview, but every single one is so good that I haven't been able to decide. Why don't you choose for yourself, classmate Yufei?"

"Ah? Me? Then..."

Actually, Wu Yufei was also someone with decision fatigue. Faced with so many fairly well-shot photos in front of him, he was at a loss for a moment.

After a few minutes of ideological struggle, Wu Yufei ultimately chose a photo of himself posterizing Tsukubu center Nango Koichiro.

After all, this one looked the most imposing and domineering!

Takei Yumi naturally respected the decision of Wu Yufei, the main star, so she put away the chosen photo and gave the remaining dozen or so to Wu Yufei—anyway, the negatives were still with her.

"Thank you very much for taking the time to come and be interviewed today! The Prefectural Tournament is about to start, please definitely do your best!"

"Of course!!"