Kuroko no Basket: Honored One

Chapter 508 210: The New World XI

Real World.

The latest episode has finished broadcasting.

As usual, the analyst Fan Wu was in his live stream room, discussing the plot with his audience and fans.

Since the start of the third season, most of the screen time had been focused on Bayern and Isagi Yoichi.

Tendou's popularity was high, which was how he "earned" himself two episodes of screen time. As for the others, unless they were playing against Bayern, they were only mentioned in passing.

Compared to the life-or-death struggle for the "center" position between Isagi and Kaiser at Bayern, the Man City side was on another level of goofy.

However, Fan Wu actually really liked the Man City team.

Not only because Man City had Tendou, but their mentor, Prince, was also abstractly lovable.

He was currently the most popular among the five master strikers.

What's more, Man City also had popular characters like Mikage Reo, Nagi Seishiro, and Chigiri Hyoma.

"I think, if we say that the internal conflict between Isagi and Kaiser at Bayern is very realistic," Fan Wu began, "then the Man City side actually has a similar comparison."

"Regarding the discussion of talent versus effort, the animation team is using the characters of Tendou and Nagi to explore this issue with us."

"Nagi is a typical example of someone with immense talent but lacking the corresponding effort. For such players, the final outcome is likely to be achieving nothing and fading from the public eye early on."

"And Tendou? He has even more heaven-defying talent than Nagi, but his self-discipline and diligence are on the level of Kobe, Jordan, and CR7. It's hard for such a person not to succeed."

"At the same time, the animation team has also given us the reason why they are so different: personality determines destiny."

"Nagi doesn't understand why Tendou works so hard, and likewise, Tendou doesn't understand why someone would be so lazy."

"Because in Tendou's heart, getting stronger is just his instinct. If you're not going to give it your all, why are you playing football? Isn't there something else you could be doing?"

Fan Wu spoke eloquently in his live stream.

"That's why Tendou can receive such a huge offer, leaving the other players far behind."

"Don't underestimate these detailed descriptions. They make the characters more well-rounded. At least in terms of Tendou's portrayal, I've always been very satisfied."

Actually, Fan Wu had another very interesting analogy.

If you were to compare Tendou to "TheShy," then Nagi would be "Uzi."

Inadvertently, Tendou had made Nagi into a negative example.

This had also invisibly added a bit of depth to the work.

But these were not things for Tendou to consider right now.

After training, Tendou had his daily call with Amanai Riko.

She told him that she had joined the school's soccer club.

Today, she had gotten a bit too excited and tried to imitate Tendou's "Death Pendulum." As a result, she had accidentally twisted her ankle and was now in too much pain to walk.

Tendou was speechless.

Did she not hear the commentator during the live broadcast say, "Tendou has used the legendary ultimate skill, the Death Pendulum"?

Those were the original words of the Japanese commentator.

"You should imitate my moves less in the future. I don't want to end up with a cripple for a wife."

"Wi... wi... wife!!!!"

On the other end of the phone, Amanai Riko stumbled and fell.

That one word had a destructive power of ten thousand points.

Tendou found her blushing face very amusing. After teasing her a bit more, he hung up the phone.

...

The next day.

No match.

The five teams were all practicing and reviewing their games on their own fields.

And then.

Nagi Seishiro, who had just had a beautiful combination play with Mikage Reo in the last match, was acting up again.

He couldn't help but recall what Tendou had said to him last night.

"Getting stronger is my instinct."

Why can getting stronger become an instinct?

And after getting stronger?

Nagi thought for a whole day but couldn't find an answer. In the practice match, he was a mess, missing several golden scoring opportunities.

"See? The match against Paris Saint-Germain was your limit. From now on, it will be difficult for you to have any room for development."

"We only have two matches left. Before we both go down together, you should let go of Nagi, Reo."

Agi took this opportunity to persuade him again.

Whether it was because he didn't want the talented Nagi to fade into obscurity or for some other reason, no one could figure it out.

Reo frowned and told him to shut up. "Agi, mind your own business and talk less."

"This is codependency. If you want each other to grow and get stronger, you must have the courage to let go of what you cherish. Otherwise, you will never be able to catch up to Tendou."

...

"As if you can catch up to Tendou," Reo refused to back down.

He was actually very annoyed himself.

Everything was fine in the last match, but a day later, Nagi was lost again.

This made him look like a fool.

"He really is a complicated kid."

Prince also noticed Nagi's problem.

He had actually seen a similar player before, right next door.

Manchester United's current core, Paul Pogba.

His talent was even more dazzling than Nagi's, but just as the fans said...

Pogba was good at everything, except he didn't love to play football.

Nagi was the same. He lacked the hunger, or rather, the ambition.

Looking at Tendou practicing shooting by himself not far away, the contrast made Tendou seem too perfect.

"You're really treating me like Man City's second master striker, huh? That's your job."

"But being too diligent is sometimes not a good thing," Prince said, walking out and calling to Tendou. "Hey, Tendou, take a break for a bit. Come with me to study the Barça match."

"This is called 'the able man does more work.' Hurry up and come over. I have a photoshoot in the afternoon, you're coming too."

"I'll consider it if you give me 50% of the income."

"That's too much! I can give you 20% at most. That's an endorsement for me, the perfect Mr. Chris Prince!"

Tendou took one last shot, smashing the ball into the goal, and then left with Prince.

Not far away, Nagi watched the two of them leave, still unable to figure it out.

...

Ten days later.

Manchester City's third match arrived. Their opponent was the Serie A giant, Juventus.

It must be mentioned that among the five teams that came to Blue Lock this time, there were two members of the New Generation World XI.

Besides Bayern Munich's Kaiser, the other one was in the Juventus lineup.

The pure Italian defender, the "protagonist's devourer," Don Lorenzo!

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