Someone exclaimed.
"Stolen!"
The scene seemed to be muted until Yuuto squeezed past Aomine and scooped up the basketball; only then did the arena erupt with incredible sound waves.
"Finally completed the correction."
"But compared to a year ago, the speed is much faster."
A year ago.
Yuuto prepared for more than half the game to complete the correction.
Now.
It was completed before the second quarter even entered its latter half.
Yuuto's whole body spewed golden light, gliding at extreme speed like the sun.
He was fast, crossing the center circle in the blink of an eye.
"Damn it..."
Aomine turned and chased quickly, every cell in his body becoming active at this moment.
Clearly an unusually fierce match, yet his heartbeat fluctuations were unbelievably balanced.
The hot blood began to cool; one foot seemed to step into cold water.
But he didn't sink.
His speed became faster, like a ghostly shadow, chasing Yuuto like a black bird.
"Hmm?!"
Yuuto in front noticed the pursuit behind him. The Left Eye of God brought him new news.
Aomine behind him—his body data improved further.
"Zone?"
No.
The improvement brought by the Zone wasn't just this. It looked more like...
"Broke the 80% limit, activated potential to 90%!"
It was the "Little Zone" (Animal Instinct/Wildness limit break?) guided out of the others in Rakuzan by Akashi's passes!
Such things happened during the simulated matches too. But Aomine didn't need guidance; just excessive pressure stimulated more potential from his body.
They controlled their consciousness not to step into the "door" already open to them, but their physical potential was guided out.
"Yuuto!"
Smack!
A quick jump shot from the free-throw line. Just as Yuuto jumped, Aomine arrived later but acted first, slapping his shot down with one palm.
"Blocked?"
"How is that possible? That's the Mirage Shot!"
Yamashita Shio and the other Seiho players widened their eyes.
They had never seen the scene of Yuuto's signature jump shot being blocked; this was too incredible.
"Did Little Aomine get faster?" Kise's tone was full of uncertainty. "Did he enter the Zone?"
"No." Akashi could be certain this wasn't the Zone state.
Not just because there was no symbolic lightning of the Zone blooming. Under the observation of the Emperor Eye, Aomine's 100% wasn't just this.
He hadn't reached his limit yet!
"Then what is it?"
"Broke the limit of normally only being able to exert 80% on the court! Physical potential activated to 90%!"
"Broke his own limit?" Both looked at Akashi.
This former captain possessed extraordinary vision; he could see what ordinary people couldn't.
"Yeah. Maybe because Yuuto's suppression affected his emotions, or maybe other reasons. But the current Aomine is between the Zone and a normal state!"
Akashi felt he really came to the right place today.
Not long ago.
The secondary personality Akashi had found the trigger for himself to enter the Zone.
But Aomine was even more surprising.
He found another way, breaking his own 80% limit while consciously avoiding the Zone.
This way, although stamina consumption would still increase, it was far less than the Zone.
He could roughly guess how Aomine did it; nine out of ten, he was suppressed by Yuuto, forcing himself to become stronger.
So...
If most players can't meet the qualifications to enter the Zone, can they also break their 80% limit and forcefully boost it to 90%?
Akashi seemed to have found a brand new train of thought.
On the court.
Bang! The basketball was swatted away and hit the ground heavily.
Ryuhei Kasuga was closest to the ball's landing point and protected the possession.
"So amazing, actually blocked that Yuuto!"
"Completely refusing to give an inch. If I can't score, you can't score either!"
"..."
The audience screamed in excitement. Only the teams would like a one-sided game.
For most fans, they preferred this needle-point against wheat-awn match.
"What exactly happened?" Ryuhei Kasuga and the others couldn't understand.
They only knew that Tōō's Ace seemed to have become stronger. There was an invisible aura around him, making breathing feel difficult.
He thought about it, prepared for them to complete this round, but saw Yuuto open his hand for the ball again.
"Really okay? No problem, Yuuto?"
This concern lasted only a second; Kasuga flung the ball over without hesitation.
Result: he saw that Aomine Daiki exploded forward as if he knew.
"Crap!"
He cursed inwardly. This Ace of the Generation of Miracles seemed to have improved by a large chunk in a short time; the originally safe pass became unsafe.
But.
Smack!
Yuuto also shifted laterally one step and scooped the ball into his hands in advance.
Aomine's cold gaze looked over; Yuuto happened to be looking at him too.
Their gazes met involuntarily, as if sparks were blooming.
Then.
Yuuto followed the momentum with a behind-the-back crossover and killed his way out.
A breakthrough like a 0-frame startup, incredibly fast, hard to react to.
Speed Specialization!
The golden light on Yuuto became even more dazzling; seemingly taking one step, he was already at the free-throw line.
"Impossible!"
Riko Aida in the stands stood up abruptly, her pretty face full of shock.
What did she see?
Even across the distance of the court where she couldn't see clearly, at that moment just now, the data on Yuuto's body underwent a massive change.
Not a simple improvement; it was far more terrifying than Aomine's three-fold increase just now.
Yuuto's improvement.
It wasn't a comprehensive state improvement. In the process of starting, his body's other data suddenly concentrated on one aspect all at once.
Like playing a game: some people fear pain so they put all points into defense; some like big firepower so they put all points into attack, becoming a glass cannon.
But this is reality; this is unreasonable!
Yuuto killed into Tōō's paint like a hurricane and ended this attack with a one-handed tomahawk dunk.
Tap~
He landed slowly, his expression calm to a frightening degree.
"90%? Good on you for pulling that off."
The Zone, the strongest state buff in Kuroko no Basket, was mastered by 5 people in the original work.
Aomine, Akashi, Kagami, Murasakibara, and Kise Ryota in the movie.
But to say who understands the Zone domain most thoroughly, this person is undoubtedly Aomine, not Kagami Taiga who came from behind to open the second door.
Coincidentally.
"I can do similar things too."
With the existence of the Bible of the Star, not to mention instantly breaking 80% to reach 90%, even reaching 100% is no problem.
But doing so is meaningless. That kind of improvement burdens the body, and the stamina consumed won't be a penny less.
Rather than doing that, better to enter Demon Mode directly.
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