Chapter 2: One vs One
My head throbbed painfully as I slowly opened my eyes.
The world around me was blurry at first. The court beneath my feet was cracked and faded, and the air smelled faintly of dust and sunlight. This wasn't the Movistar Arena. It wasn't anywhere familiar from my memories either.
Where the hell was I?
Then, like a dam breaking, memories surged back.
I saw my life flash by—only it was different.
In my previous life, my parents died just after I graduated from primary school. My uncle, Takeshi Renji, took me in and moved me to Japan, where I started junior high school and fell in love with basketball.
But in this life... it wasn't the same.
Here, my parents passed away after I graduated junior high. Once again, Uncle Takeshi stepped in. But instead of enrolling me at Toyonaka Junior High with his daughter, Aoi Renji, like last time, I entered a brand-new school: Toyonakan Horizon.
A school so new, they hadn't even formed a basketball team yet.
The boy standing across from me on the court smiled as he dribbled the ball lazily.
His name was Kaito Nishida—the founder and captain of Toyonakan Horizon's first-ever basketball club.