Kuroko’s Basketball: Before Generation Miracles, I Already Crowned Chapter 345: Kuroko Tetsuya’s Opening Frenzy: Misdirection:

On the court

Imayoshi Shōichi wore a faint expression of regret.

According to their pre-ga plan, they were supposed to seize the initiative by opening with a full-force assault.

That plan… had already failed.

But then again

He had expected as much.

If it were that easy, then their opponents wouldn't be the Generation of Miracles.

Just then

Imayoshi caught sight of sothing, and his face changed dramatically.

The usual sly fox-like squint instantly sharpened.

"...Hm?!"

Wait

Kuroko Tetsuya?!

What kind of joke was this?!

Near Seirin's baseline, Haizaki Shōgo—who had just completed a block and secured possession—suddenly passed the ball outward.

And the target of that pass was none other than

Kuroko Tetsuya.

The "Phantom Sixth Man," who in their understanding could only exert power without the ball, was now…

acting as Seirin's point guard for the opening offensive possession.

Aomine Daiki: "!?"

What the hell?

Tetsuya… shouldn't have this ability.

In their previous practice match, Kuroko was still the sa as always

His passing, penetration, and shooting were all built on basic misdirection, and his "vanishing dribble" could only activate for a single instant.

It was never sothing he could use to carry the ball up the court.

anwhile

As Tōō's players were still processing the shock of seeing Kuroko bring the ball up, Haizaki smirked.

"Listen up, you dark-skinned idiot. Before I really start playing, let show you sothing first…"

"The Assault Captain—Kuroko Tetsuya."

Imayoshi, acting as Tōō's point guard, imdiately stepped up to defend.

In his mind, Kuroko's ball-handling shouldn't allow him to sustain misdirection.

At most, he could activate the vanishing dribble for a single burst.

He couldn't stop that move…

But if Kuroko tried to bring the ball all the way up?

Even if Imayoshi was beaten, he could just chase him down afterward.

Kuroko wasn't Midorima, after all.

There was no way he could shoot a three-pointer straight from the backcourt…

But as he thought that

The next second

Kuroko's body suddenly compressed downward, as if dropping a dinsion, his eyes widening with ferocity

Then

Imayoshi witnessed sothing terrifying.

The Kuroko in front of him flickered

Like a glitching video disc.

One mont Kuroko was pressing the ball downward

The next blink, the ball had already snapped back into his hand.

It wasn't speed.

It was the opposite.

Judging from the ti he took to move from one spot to another…

Kuroko was actually slower than the other Miracles.

The effect was more like

An animation tiline with several fras missing.

"Misdirection… Fra Skip!"

Imayoshi: "...!"

Yes

It was exactly that.

A literal fra skip.

As Kuroko entered a full dribble move, the fra-skipping beca even more horrifying.

Before, Imayoshi simply couldn't see the ball's rebound

But now

Even though the movents were just normal dribbling actions…

Kuroko's repeated disappearances and reappearances made his dribbling completely unreadable.

As Kuroko advanced, the missing fras stacked on top of each other

Imayoshi felt as if he were watching layers upon layers of Kuroko Tetsuya illusions.

He didn't dare attempt a steal; the timing was impossible to read.

All he could do was block Kuroko's forward path.

And yet

Smack!

Imayoshi: "!?"

A nutg?!

The move in the previous fra and the movent after the fra skip simply didn't connect

There was a jarring blank space in between. No way to tell what Kuroko did.

This type of breakthrough

Was far too powerful.

And

It was Imayoshi's first ti seeing Kuroko with this kind of expression.

Such intensity

So alive

Completely different from the Kuroko he saw in practice gas or in middle school.

In the distance

Aomine raised an eyebrow.

He hadn't expected the "weak point" he assud Kuroko had… to suddenly transform into the spearhead of Seirin's offense.

He glanced at Kise.

"He's yours."

Kise Ryōta nodded. "Leave it to ."

anwhile

Susa Yoshinori stepped in to help on Kuroko's drive.

But

Kuroko looked at him once.

Exploded forward

Dove in

Misdirection: Fra Skip—Accelerate!

Smack!

Another nutg

Two in a row!

Susa was blown past instantly.

From Imayoshi to Susa, Kuroko—who had kept this ability hidden until the decisive match against the Generation of Miracles

Knocked them down one after another.

But as Kuroko prepared to push deeper into the lane

An arm cut across his path.

His movent halted.

From the side, Kise spoke calmly:

"As expected of my instructor. You even fooled little Aomine. He probably never imagined you'd snap like this~"

"Kise…"

"The ti I've spent overlapping with everyone is the sa."

"So there's no reason"

"You can't be surprised by !"

BOOM!

Kuroko spun, using Kise as a pivot point, rotating a full 360 degrees on the spot.

He slid past Kise's controlling arm, and during that turn

At so unknown mont

He had slipped the ball through Kise's legs.

Land—catch—burst forward.

Kise froze.

Being broken through this easily made all of his casual confidence vanish.

And after facing Kuroko's fra-skip misdirection directly

He instantly understood the true terror of the ability.

Even a basic spin move

Combined with this

Turned into a lethal weapon.

Without question

Kuroko Tetsuya was now the most unreadable weapon on the entire court.

Kuroko gauged the distance to the rim.

In his peripheral vision, he saw Aomine moving.

Facing the strongest ace of the Generation of Miracles

Kuroko's entire body felt like a volcano erupting.

Every cell in him throbbed with excitent.

The intermittent, flickering vision created by fra-skip misdirection made his movent trail shimr like a dream.

Aomine's expression twitched in surprise.

"Didn't expect the one going wild at the start to be you, Tetsu… not Haizaki."

"Facing —"

"You still want to break through alone?"

eting Aomine's eyes head-on, Kuroko realized

At so point, he had walked this far.

Smack!

Taking advantage of a skipped fra

He feinted in front

Anticipating Aomine's monstrous instincts, he imdiately chained it into a pullback the opposite way

As expected

He dodged Aomine's steal.

Smack!

Lateral drag

Lowering his body

Kuroko: "..."

How incredible.

This sensation of moving the ball seamlessly, like becoming one with it

There used to be many reasons he played basketball.

But now

There was only one.

Because this

This feeling

Was the greatest joy in the world.

Exhaling lightly

Kuroko faced Aomine head-on.

In Aomine's eyes, Kuroko no longer felt like calm, unremarkable water.

Rather

He was all in.

And it was

Absolutely thrilling.

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