Jason drove through his legs and sprang off the floor. He was going to finish this ultimate floater over Dick's head.
The basketball left his fingertips, tracing an incredibly high arc.
I won. Jason landed, panting hard.
Just as the basketball was about to pass over Dick's head, Dick's body twisted strangely.
Without any run-up, he jumped straight up.
He hung in the air.
It defied all reason. Dick's body seemed to pause in midair for a fraction of a second, his long arm stretching to its limit.
"Tap."
A barely audible brush.
Dick's fingertips just grazed the bottom of the basketball.
That insignificant touch sent the ball fatally off course.
"Clang!"
The basketball slammed into the back of the rim and bounced high.
A stifled gasp swept through the crowd.
"Rebound!" Tim shot to his feet on the sidelines, snapping the marker in his hand with a crack.
The final five seconds!
Players from both teams lunged beneath the basket like rabid dogs scenting blood, their eyes red. Fatty collided with two burly students from Class 021, and all three crashed into a heap beneath the hoop. The floor shook with a dull thud.
Retsu Unohana rose excitedly on the sidelines, the medical bone saw in her hand already catching the light.
Amid the chaos.
A hand reached through the gap between the two burly students.
Dick moved like a slippery eel, landing, bending, and slipping through the gap in one fluid motion. He clutched the falling rebound tightly against his chest.
"Fast break!"
Dick didn't call a timeout. He didn't even look at the clock.
He turned and dribbled.
Like a bolt of black lightning, he tore across half the court in an instant.
"You're not getting away!" Jason roared, his eyes bloodshot. He reacted fast, breaking into