Kamishiro Ruki's Report: The Truest Self?! (3)

Those words described the reality for most of them. Shohoku's key players had not been top-tier athletes in middle school, so naturally, they knew nothing of Saint Radiance Middle School's legend.

Mitsui Hisashi, however, frowned as he read the report over and over, his tone laced with suspicion.

Wasn't this report a little too exaggerated? Every line claimed that Sacred Radiance's back-to-back championships had depended entirely on Chi Tong Lingyu. That was ridiculous.

In his view, no matter how formidable Chi Tong was, he could not have done it without his teammates' cooperation. This sort of individual heroism in the report was clearly overstated.

The locker room fell silent for a moment. Takenori Akagi had been silently reading the report, his fingertips unconsciously rubbing against the edge of the paper.

He did not join the discussion, but the scene from their practice match against Ryonan surfaced clearly in his mind. Chi Tong had stood at the top of the arc, his gaze as still as deep water, yet he had always delivered lethal passes at the most critical moments.

His defense had seemed almost casual, yet he had always precisely predicted his opponents' routes, intercepting Akagi's passes several times.

Even when the team was deadlocked, he had never panicked. A single gesture or a quiet word was enough to bring Ryonan's offense back to life.

Akagi had known then that this first-year student was anything but ordinary. He just had not expected his past to be so dazzling.

Kanagawa was thoroughly shaken by a single report, and the name Chi Tong Lingyu now echoed throughout Kanagawa's high school basketball world.

At the center of the storm, Chi Tong Lingyu had also seen the report written by Shendai Liufei.

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