Experience Card

Miuradai's group final against Takezato ended with Miuradai crushing Takezato 131–52, a score no one had anticipated before the game.

Takezato, a team that had reached the prefectural final four last year and had been highly expected, saw its prefectural tournament run end in such a humiliating fashion. It was indeed a lamentable sight.

But on the other side, the spectators were even more stunned by Miuradai's strength.

Immediately afterward, Ryonan High School also steamrolled Dongfengke High School in the afternoon's second game, and this season's prefectural final four had all been decided.

Kainan University Affiliated High School and Ryonan High School defeated the challengers who had fought their way up, defending the dignity of established powerhouses as reigning champions.

Meanwhile, Shohoku and Miuradai, as challengers, respectively defeated the top seeds in their groups and took their places, charging into the prefectural tournament's final-four round robin as dark horses.

If Shohoku's mere two-point victory still left plenty for the spectators to speculate about, then Miuradai gave them no room for speculation whatsoever.

From the first minute to the final buzzer, Miuradai played without any pressure and dominated their opponents throughout. Even after Miuradai substituted out all their starting mainstays in the second half and sent in the second unit, they still firmly kept Takezato under control.

So now, the spectators were looking forward even more eagerly to seeing what sparks would fly when Miuradai, this rising tyrant, met Kainan University Affiliated High School, the ever-victorious king.

That evening, inside the Miuradai High School Basketball Gymnasium.

It was already eight thirty at night. It was getting late, yet the sound of basketballs striking the floor still rang endlessly through the gym.

There was no need to say it. At this hour, the only person who could still be in the basketball gym was Wu Yufei.

Naito Junko had stayed behind with Wu Yufei as well.

The two were now openly a couple, so there was naturally no need to hide anything anymore. Every day, they left home early for morning runs together, went to school together, and headed home together after Wu Yufei's extra practice at night.

Swish!

As Wu Yufei sank another Three-Pointer, Junko added another circle to the notebook in her hands, then looked up at him happily.

"Yufei, you successfully completed five hundred mid-range shots and two hundred three-pointers today."

As she spoke, Junko walked onto the court and handed Wu Yufei the towel she had prepared long ago.

Taking the towel, Wu Yufei wiped off his sweat as a pleased smile appeared on his face.

"Really? My efficiency was pretty good today. I finished more than ten minutes earlier than usual."

"You do so much extra practice every day, so your shooting percentage will definitely improve little by little. Naturally, you'll need less time each time."

In truth, the weekly mission issued by the system only required Wu Yufei to make two hundred mid-range shots and one hundred three-pointers each day, but he had forcibly raised the target for himself.

Although Miuradai had displayed incredibly formidable strength so far, Wu Yufei knew better than anyone that among Miuradai's fifteen players, only three and a half could truly be considered outstanding in both talent and ability.

He naturally occupied one of those spots. Naito Tetsuya counted as one, Ishiyama Jun counted as one, and Ohno Kazuki could only count as half.

As for the other dozen-plus teammates, whether it was captain Murasame Kengo or the other third-year seniors, they were all merely average. With Wu Yufei's arrival and influence, they were naturally much stronger than in the original plot, but that was only a quantitative change. Fundamentally, they were still the same.

With such a lineup, if their goal was only something on the scale of [Defeat Kainan, Dominate Kanagawa], it might not be too difficult.

But if they raised their goal another level, from [Dominate Kanagawa] to [Dominate the Nation], then their current strength was far from enough.

That applied both to Miuradai as a whole and to Wu Yufei himself.

Especially Sanno Technical High School, the biggest boss team in Slam Dunk. To dominate the nation, Sanno was a mountain they had to overcome.

But with Miuradai's current strength, climbing that mountain would undoubtedly be extremely difficult.

Should he expect his teammates to suddenly explode with potential in the National Tournament when they faced Sanno? Should he expect Ishiyama Jun to rain down three-pointers as unreasonably as Mitsui Hisashi whenever they were driven into a corner?

Rather than place his hopes on such things, Wu Yufei would rather place them on himself.

As long as his own strength rose by another major level, then even if Sanno deployed the full-court pressing zone defense they excelled at most, he would not fear them in the slightest. At worst, he would force a one-on-five!

The main reason Wu Yufei had such immense confidence was the mission reward he had received after today's game.

Every previous time he completed a mission, he had received nothing more than attribute points for him to allocate himself.

But this afternoon, aside from attribute points, he had also received his first [item] reward.

[Jason Williams] Dream Pass Experience Card.

Wu Yufei was naturally very familiar with Jason Williams.

Although White Chocolate had not posted especially dazzling career numbers—averaging 10+5 over his career—he had still left a mark in the NBA that belonged to him alone.

This 1.85-meter-tall white guard did not possess thunderous, domineering dunks, a deadeye shooting touch, dazzling dribbling moves, or a game-winning shot. Yet with passes that were unimaginable and impossible to anticipate, he had established himself in the NBA amid forests of giants and crowds of elite players.

The fact that he could leave his own mark in the NBA through passing alone was enough to explain everything.

[Dream Pass Experience Card]. Just hearing the name revealed quite a lot.

Although according to the normal course of history, White Chocolate would not enter the NBA until 1998, so he should still have been a young man under twenty at this point...

But even Wu Yufei himself was a "man from the future" who had transmigrated from 2019, so he simply assumed that the data in his system was from 2019 as well.

The moment he received this Experience Card, Wu Yufei immediately examined it carefully.

Since it was called an [Experience Card], it was naturally a one-time item. It would disappear after use, and there was no way he could use it without limit.

As long as he used this Experience Card during a game, Wu Yufei could temporarily gain White Chocolate's passing skill package for the next five minutes.

Of course, given Wu Yufei's own abilities, he definitely could not perfectly replicate White Chocolate's passes.

But even if he could only imitate sixty percent of them... or even forty percent, Wu Yufei would absolutely become a presence capable of dominating the entire game during those five minutes!

Just imagine it: someone capable of starting in the NBA coming to play in a Japanese high school league. Wouldn't that be like a starving wolf pouncing into a flock of sheep, free to devour whoever he wanted?

The only thing that worried Wu Yufei was that sometimes even White Chocolate's NBA-level teammates could not catch his passes. As for his own teammates...

To be honest, Wu Yufei truly hoped that when he used this card, its effect would not be too good. Thirty percent would be enough. Otherwise, no matter how dreamlike the passes were, if his teammates could not catch them and turn them into points, it would all be meaningless.