Facing Ipponming

The fourth day followed immediately after, and the flames of the Kanagawa Qualifiers continued to burn. Everyone's attention had long since converged on Ryonan's bracket.

Today's opponent was Bottleneck High School, a low-ranked team in the bracket. Their style was traditional, their pace slow, and not one of their key players stood over 185 centimeters tall.

Before the game, many people were still discussing whether this would be a match where Ryonan's form finally dipped.

After beating two opponents by a hundred points in a row, they had to be getting complacent, right?

Yet the moment the game began, the answer was brutally clear to everyone.

Chi Tong Ling Yu still sat on the bench with his arms folded and an indifferent expression, as though this contest had nothing to do with him.

Sento controlled the tempo, Yu Zhu guarded the paint, Uekusa stood like a mountain, and the backcourt pairing of Zhi Zhi and Yueye Hongming was airtight. Fukuda Kicchou and Xiangtian Yanyi repeatedly converted fast breaks during rotations, every defensive stop—

Bottleneck High School tried to organize an offense, but they were forced into a five-second violation as soon as they crossed half court. When they finally grabbed an offensive rebound, Bu Lan was swatted away by Yu Zhu. The moment an outside shot left their hands, Sendoh's chase-down block crashed down like thunder.

At the end of the first half, the score was already 80:22.

In the second half, Ryonan even began practicing complicated switching and rotation tactics, as though they were using their opponent as a training dummy.

When the final buzzer sounded, the scoreboard froze at 145:42—a staggering 103-point margin. This was Ryonan's third consecutive victory by more than one hundred points in these qualifiers.

From Kawanohe, Seventy-Nine Fort, and Liuxia High School to today's