End of Team

By eliminating Gyo's Gold Eyes ability, Nick, who previously aggressively carried out a series of attacks through the illusory ability released by his Red Eyes, now becomes passive and seems unable to bring out his eye ability anymore. The attack was currently being held by the other four members of his team by bringing out the abilities they had not used so far.

"Shadow Backstab"

A member of Nick's team named Sato is the first to show his abilities. When Raito, who was traveling at high speed, was freed from the illusion that was no longer visible, Sato came out of Raito's shadow and easily grabbed the ball suddenly from behind Raito making him so shocked.

"T-this ... Since when was he behind me?" Raito was amazed at the ability of the opponent to appear anywhere even though he was using the highest speed.

Sato, who gets the ball, immediately passes the ball to his partner named Nara. Nara quickly activated her ability just before the ball reached her hand and then immediately shot as soon as she held the ball.

"5-Shoot Bullet"

Instantly the ball that was shot turned into five which then scattered before finally reuniting and entering the ring. A shot that is enough to amaze the opponent with the ability of this shot.

Cyoku High School basketball team picks up the ball again from under the ring and immediately makes pass after pass until when the pass goes to Gyo, the ball is just left without any intention of moving.

"Gyo, what are you doing? Come on, let's attack before time's up or we'll lose !!" Shin tries to warn Gyo but it's in vain because Gyo is now like a person who is in a state of stress for some reason.

Easily the opposing team can grab the bouncing ball after being hit by Gyo's body and get ready to attack again. Seeing this, Shin immediately activated his gravitational field ability and made the opponent unable to move and then managed to get the ball back but something unexpected happened.

"Shadow Backstab"

Sato came back out of Shin's shadow and stole the ball from his hand and then immediately ran a little to keep his distance from Shin before finally passing the ball to his partner named Gio.

"You ... How can you move freely in my gravitational field?" asked Shin.

"I expected this from the start because you who are the center of gravity can move then that means gravity has no impact when you are around the center," replied Sato.

Gio who was carrying the ball was immediately blocked by Hiruka who tried to block him from taking a shot but suddenly in front of him a transparent wall was formed which was created along with his movement and made Hiruka trapped in the transparent wall.

"Pantomime Drive"

A distressing technique released by Gio that made anyone who was blocking him seemed to be blocked by a transparent wall wherever Gio moved. After successfully confining his opponents in a transparent wall, Gio immediately passed the ball to another partner named Yami. Yami quickly moved towards the ring and shot, but as if he wanted to show off, Yami, who was free to score without any obstacles, used his abilities.

"Fast Forward Shoot"

The ball that was fired at the opponent's ring seemed to be accelerated several times over so that it could not be seen by the naked eye.

"Have you finished showing off? It's time for my turn to end all this," said Nick, who returned to prepare with his Red Eyes.

The entire field is again filled with red aura emitted by Nick's Red Eyes ability and sends his opponents back into the world of illusion.

Without realizing it, Gyo said strange words to his friends but those words were enough to make Nick paused for a moment as if he doubted what he was doing.

"I'm sorry my brother ... It's all my fault," said Gyo while shedding tears.

Nick with a sad gaze stared at Gyo for a while before finally returning to attack and at the same time the long whistle sounded the end of the match. The Minata High School basketball team finally won the basketball match between Masara prefectural high schools and had the right to advance to the national level preliminary round.

Even though they lost and only became runner-up, the Cyoku High School basketball team could still advance to the national level preliminaries along with the winner between Hyunda High School and Risato Academy who were fighting for the third place.

The following days were lived by Gyo with a gloomy attitude because his Gold Eyes showed no signs of being active again. Even so, his friends do not stop to comfort Gyo and try to restore Gyo's spirit that has been lost but it does not work because Gyo still cannot forget his lost eye ability, especially since the eye's ability is a legacy from generation to generation from his family.

Time passed so quickly that they finally arrived at the time they had been waiting for, which was their first match in the preliminary round at the national level. At first the match went smoothly but suddenly midway through the match, the opposing team easily reclaimed the previously hard-scored points. This is related to Gyo who not only loses his ability but also loses his fighting spirit.

With Gyo playing badly, soon Mr. Yagami tries to increase the effectiveness of his attack by making Gyo fill the bench. However, this did not make them able to keep up with their opponents' tidy play with such solid teamwork that they were eventually conquered by their opponents and had to go home with a bitter pill called defeat.

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After the match, the entire team gathered on the basketball court where they did practice to discuss something.

"Well at this time I have something to say and I hope all of you can understand it," said Mr. Yagami opening the conversation.

"I know sir, it's over for us and it seems you too seem to be thinking about what I'm thinking right now," Hiruka replied.

A discussion that is the beginning of a difficult decision but inevitably all team members must understand it.

"It seems that it has been decided, after all the person who is trying to rebuild the basketball team doesn't care anymore about the future of the team," Shin said while looking at Gyo who was just silent.

All eyes are on Gyo while thinking back to the time when Gyo was very excited to reform the basketball team that had previously been disbanded because he lost the competition during the previous year's match. With tears in his eyes, Mr. Yagami finally conveyed his decision which caused the tears of all the Cyoku High School basketball team members to start falling and Gyo was no exception, who was the main cause of this problem.

"So I think everyone agrees, so now I'm announcing that starting today the Cyoku High School basketball team will be disbanded," said Mr. Yagami conveying his decision.

Before they left the room one by one, which was a place full of memories, Mr. Yagami conveyed something that made them excited again.

"Today is fine for us but maybe someday someone will be able to regroup all the team members and until then, you have to be stronger than today," said Mr. Yagami.

The entire team finally walked out of the room with smiles and determination to become even stronger until the time they would reunite.

To be continued ...