Chapter 26: 25- Pressure
*Swoosh!
"The Meiho scored once again, bringing the score of 32-22, with Meiho in favor!" the announcer announced.
The players of Ousai were panting heavily as the tired Kenma made his way towards the half-court, it has only been 8 minutes since the start of the first quarter but the Ousai Team were already tired.
"They are doing bad suddenly" Hiruma commented as he watched from the bench.
"Yeah" Tanaka nodded.
"They may have not noticed it yet but they are under too much pressure and had succumbed to it," Hiruma said.
"Well, this was their first time being watched by this many people," Tanaka said, the whole stadium was practically full of people and since this was the group stage finals, its popularity is also not small, the winner of this match will go to the nationals and being able to go to nationals is a great honor for the students and school.
And this pressure caused Tanaka's team to play under extreme pressure dropping their performance greatly, if this was the usual scoring 50 points could have been easy.
Meiho had already gone to nationals a few times so the pressure was really not noticed among them, except for some first years, "Call for a time out, then go sub into the court" Tanaka said to Hiruma.
Hiruma nodded and called for a time out, the team entered the bench all of them started sitting on the bench visible tiredness could be seen on their body, "Heh, looks like there will be no vacation after the nationals" Hiruma teased.
"Ahh, I can't play properly, all of them are looking at me, it's making me nervous," Sora said.
"Also the same, I feel like making a mistake will make me look like an idiot" Asahi said.
The others also nodded.
"If you are already going down with this pressure then what will happen in the nationals? will you guys break down and just become frozen figures in the court?" Tanaka asked them.
"Uh.." the others weren't able to say anything, yes, their goal was the nationals where they will stand on the national stage where the whole country will be watching them, but this was only the finals of the group stage but they are already performing very bad.
"Rest for now and leave everything to Hiruma for the last 2 minutes, at the second quarter, I will enter, and you all better be ready," Tanaka said with a cold glare.
*Gulp!
They all gulped and nodded, Tanaka was very scary right now.
After the end of the time out, Hiruma appeared on the court, as he entered the court, cheers immediately erupted from the stands, one of the loudest ones was from their school.
"I didn't know Hiruma was this popular" Tanaka commented.
"He is popular captain, you and Hiruma are known as the most handsome students in the whole Ousai, just below you are Kuro and Akagi" Kenma who was subbed out explained.
"Oh, wait.. did you just say Akagi is popular? with that kind of face?" Tanaka exclaimed in surprise.
"Apparently, many girls loved his muscles and became fans of his muscles," Kenma said.
"Oh... Girls from our school are really weird" Tanaka said.
"You are saying that captain but you are the most popular one in the school, you have the largest fan base and the one leading is the Discipline Committee chairman, it now has about 300, members," Kenma said.
"So Aisaka huh? huh, 300 members?" Tanaka sighed then suddenly exclaimed from shock.
"Yes, the school has about 1200 students, and the ones that could join these clubs are only the hardcore ones, for your other fan clubs, there are about 2 more but they are not as hardcore as the former" Kenma said.
"...You are strangely knowledgable about these things," Tanaka said.
"My sister is one of your fans... I always get dragged around by her and always uses you as the topic, it's a pain actually," Kenma said then looked away.
"Well... sorry about that" Tanaka pitied Kenma.
"It's fine," Kenma said then continued watching the game.
Ever since Hiruma entered the game, the tides of the game reversed and Ousai immediately caught up to the Meiho in points, with Hiruma's presence in the court, the others also became used to the pressure.
At the end of the first quarter, 35- 38, Hiruma was becoming better in basketball and his playmaking is also over the top.
Mark and the others rested on the bench recovering their stamina, while Mark took off his jacket and walked towards the court stretching his limbs, the moment he set his foot on the court, he was immediately noticed by everyone and in the next moment, an earth-shattering roars came from the stands.
Even before the nationals, Tanaka had already gained himself a title along with Hiruma, Hiruma cemented himself the title of the Devil Magician, while Tanaka gained the most intimidating title in the court.
[The Demon King of the court]
Or in another word, the last boss of the Ousai Team, apparently, he caught the attention of one of the sports magazines of the country along with Teiko who was named the Generation of Miracles. (A/N: Kuroko and Kise are not part of the team yet)
And he was also placed higher than the Generation of Miracles, and that is because his true strength was still unknown by everyone, he was usually seen playing like how a normal game would happen but what made him earn this title is that no one was able to win whenever he entered the court.
"..."
Somewhere on the stands, young men were sitting while their eyes were focused on Tanaka, they were wearing a white blue jacket with the tag on their chest named Teiko, meanwhile not too far away from them, a pink-haired girl was staring at Tanaka with shock in her eyes.
"What is the problem Momo?" Aomine asked.
"I- i can't see his stats," Momoi said.
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