14. Day Two, Semi-Finals!

Shin woke up and started doing his morning routine, he was really addicted to doing his routine every day after doing for years

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Shin sat on his bike and was pedaling towards school, today he was very bored, if the games were like yesterday he would really die of boredom

Shin stretched and yawned

Shin: 'Uwaaahh, I hope today's game will wake me up a bit, the coach said that the first one will be early in the morning and the second after lunch, I don't know against who we are playing with, I'll ask the coach later'

Shin arrived at school and went straight to the gym and found his friends who were there already

Himuro: "Did you wake up tired today, Shin?"

Himuro asked because he saw Shin with a tired expression

Shin: "I'm not tired, it's more like I'm bored, yesterday's game was really easy"

Kagami agreed with him, their opponents practically gave up playing in the second quarter

Kagami: "Yes, our opponents today will probably be better than them"

Zion differently from them, he was motivated because of his 'defeat' against the tall kid yesterday

Zion: "I won't lose to anyone next time"

Shin looked at him and put a hand on his shoulder

Shin: "This is the mentality you should have, work hard to not lose to anyone next time"

Zion nodded and thanked him

The coach saw that everyone was gathered and called them to come to the bus

Shin: "Coach, I want to play at Point Guard today if possible, Himuro is not really a point guard and I realized that I need to improve my passes, I think the area of ​​play where I am less efficient are my passes "

The coach had already realized this but let Shin try to figure it out on his own and it looks like he managed it

Coach: "Great, I expect good things from you making good assistances, make good use of your Eagle Eye,

Our opponents of this morning showed themselves to be focused on quick attacks for what we could see in their past games, I want you to defend them totally and end their morale, then you all will attack with Shin orchestrating everything at the second quarter"

Everyone shouted together

Team: "Yes coach"

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Shin was warming up while the rest of his team too, he realized that everyone on the other team was smaller than him so he was sure that the tip-off would be from his team

Zion and a child from the other team both went to the middle of the court

The referee spoke

Referee: "Match between Spartanburg Day VS Wando School, will start"

The referee blew the whistle and threw the ball up

The other child gave up the ball and Zion got it for his team

Shin was with the ball and started to see different scenarios in his mind and used the best choice at the moment

He passed the ball to Kagami who passed his marker easily and scored with a layup

The game continued with Shin's team putting full pressure on the other team by defending a lot of their attacks

The other team haven't been able to make a good move so far and all their points were by pure luck so far

They kept pushing even harder in the defense until the other team got tired and couldn't play too well anymore

Their moves slowed down and Shin saw that, he stole the ball and ran to score making more points with ease

The first quarter ended with 31-9 in favor of Spartanburg

After resting a bit it was time for Shin's team to attack

Shin masterfully orchestrated the attack, he evenly distributed the ball among his team

Kagami was as usual with his unbeatable layups against his marker

Zion scoring two points and using his body strength to enter the opponent's area and score

Himuro was shooting close to the three line after easily passing his opponents

Trent was getting better and better every day with his shots hitting 40/50% of it

The game ended with four times more points against their opponents [69-15]

Shin gathered his team and said

Shin: "Good game guys, you played well both in attack and defense, I hope you continue like that until we win the national, now let's rest that we will have another game after lunch

They ate their's lunchs and waited to digest the food

After that they started to warm up and dress again to go to the next game

Coach: "Our next opponent likes to shoot close to the line of three, I want you to mark them in 1v1s and block all the balls they throw, they play quickly and efficiently probably they will be our most difficult opponent so far, this is everything I have to say get ready and go to the court"

Team: "Yes coach!"

The players from both teams prepared on the court and two of them went to the middle line

Referee: "The match between Spartanburg day and Oak Hill school will begin"

He threw the ball up giving space for both to jump

The other team person was not as tall as Zion and loss the tip-off to Zion

Shin caught the ball quickly quickly and felt a little jolt in his hand, he didn't care that much and continued with the ball

Every time he touched the ball he felt a comfortable shock that spread more and more throughout his body

Shin felt this jolt filling his whole body and after filling it entirely he found himself in a familiar white space

There were 5 Doors, he looked around and felt the first door calling him

He didn't waste time and put his hand on it

Shin still had the ball in his hands and the door opened quickly making noises that showed it was rusty

He went through the door and found a golden bracelet on a table, he put it on him and felt himself going back to the court

In real time these all happened in just a second

Shin felt his body much faster than before and Shin's reflexes went up to another level, he felt that where he had placed the gold bracelet, it was giving a burning feeling

After a moment the sensation stopped and felt something new

He saw that on his wrist he now had a tattoo in the same way that the bracelet was but missing some things it had before

Shin didn't know how he was going to explain this to his parents, but now he left that thought alone and concentrated on the game

His concentration also got better and he looked at his marker with eyes half open while swaying his body.

The person who was marking him felt a chill run down his spine

Shin said something inaudible and disappeared from the view of his marker

"Level 2"

Shin ran pass everyone and scored without anyone to defend him

Shin passed by his friends and said

Shin: "Pass all the balls to me from now on"

They didn't quite understand why but

agreed

Shin started to score every time they passed to him

At that moment Shin was unbeatable!

The first quart ended and Shin went to sit on the bench without saying anything

The coach and his friends didn't say anything to him and talked about the first quart

Shin was sitting with a towel over his face, he was totally focused on the game still and was not listening to anything, his body was going over all the actions he took this match internally, leaving him still warmed up

Coach: "The second quarter will start go to the court"

The coach looked at Shin who was sitting and stood up without saying anything

Coach: 'Is he entering that room that I heard about? I never saw it in person so I'm not sure

The game continued with Shin blocking, stealing, shooting, rebounding and assisting non-stop

Shin looked like a machine programmed to have only one goal: to finish off his opponents

The game ended with a humiliating victory for Shin's team with a score of 75-6

That day all schools that watched the match saw the birth of a Monster!