"Hmm…"
"Where am I?"
"Why is it so dark?"
Before he could finish this thought, a bright light suddenly appeared in front of him, and then he heard a voice: "Master, the lady has given birth to a boy!" Then a man with an extremely familiar face appeared and stood before him.
The man said, "Is this my son ?" A man in a black suit beside him responded, "Yes, sir, this is the young master."
"But why isn't the child crying?"
"We don't know either, but the young master didn't cry when he was born. Instead, he opened his eyes wide and looked around."
As he spoke, the man took the baby from the nurse's hand, looked at the baby, and said, "Not bad. You are worthy of being the child of my Mitsui family. Then I will call you Mitsui Daichi. I hope you can be like Buddha and be a Zen person."
The baby named Mitsui Daichi still stared at the familiar yet strange father in front of him with round eyes. After a while, a weak voice came from behind, "Husband, have you chosen a name for the child?"
This voice immediately attracted Mitsui Daichi's attention. He looked towards the source of the voice, and an even more familiar face appeared before him. Although the woman on the hospital bed was pale at this time, her beauty was still evident.
When he saw this familiar face, Mitsui Daichi's tears fell silently. The woman lying on the hospital bed hurriedly said, "Why are you crying? You didn't cry when you were born. Are you hungry? Husband, give the child to me quickly." Then Mitsui Daichi was handed to the woman by his current father.
The woman gently held the child, looked at him tenderly, and said, "Don't cry, Mom will feed you soon." Then she rolled up her clothes and brought the child's face to her breast. Mitsui Daichi wasn't crying because of hunger, but the sudden smell made him hungry, and he began to eat with all his might.
At this time, the woman looked at the child in her arms with love and said to Mitsui Yudao: "Husband, look, our child is so cute!" Mitsui Yudao also sat on the bed and hugged his wife, looking at Mitsui Daichi who was feeding intently in his wife's arms, and said: "Madam, this is our child. I named him Mitsui Daichi. I hope he will be like the Buddha who came into the world and become a Zen man."(A/N : original name of the mc is "sanjing zen")
The two looked at Mitsui Daichi. The woman gently stroked Mitsui Daichi's face with her fingers and said, "Little Daichi? Please give me your guidance!" Mitsui Daichi, who was breastfeeding in his mother's arms, was just born and had only just observed his surroundings, so he was not in good spirits. Being a baby, he soon fell asleep.
In his dream, the voice from his previous life reappeared in Mitsui Daichi's mind: "How is it? Are you satisfied?" But Mitsui Daichi did not speak. The voice continued: "Don't worry, they are your parents, but the world you are in now is no longer the same as before. They no longer have their previous memories, and you are no longer the sickly person who could only lie in bed."
At this time, Mitsui Daichi spoke. He said to the voice, "Thank you!" But the voice just said, "You're welcome. However, you must remember what you said and treat basketball well. Well, I have done what I can do, and I have no more ability. But I hope that what I leave for you will benefit your basketball career."
Then the voice completely disappeared from Mitsui Daichi's mind, and another voice appeared: "Slam Dunk System is loading."
"Loading completed, loading characters..."
"There is a problem. Failed to load the character. Initiating emergency repair. Reloading the character..."
"The character Mitsui Hisashi has been successfully loaded."
"The template has been finalized, looking forward to the host's first touch..."
After the voice finished speaking, it disappeared again, as if nothing had happened, but Mitsui Daichi could clearly feel that his body seemed to be undergoing some changes, to a greater or lesser extent.
....
Five years later, in Mitsui Manor.
"Young Master, the master is looking for you!" A man dressed in butler's clothes stood next to Mitsui Daichi and said to him. Mitsui Daichi put down the basketball he was dribbling and placed it on the basketball rack beside him.
"What does my father want to talk to me about?" Mitsui Daichi asked the butler, who replied, "The master didn't say; he just asked you to go and see him as soon as possible." If someone could see this conversation, they would be shocked. The communication between the two people was not like that between a child and an adult at all.
Mitsui Daichi took the towel handed to him by the housekeeper, wiped the sweat off his body, and walked towards the house. Along the way, the servants all bowed respectfully to Mitsui Daichi, and Mitsui Daichi was not surprised.
He remembered that at the beginning, Mitsui Daichi was still confused about his rebirth. After interacting with his parents, he found that the two had not changed much and even felt close to them. Later, as he grew older, he gradually realized that he was not in China now, but in Fuso, and was the young head of the Fuso Mitsui family.
When Mitsui Daichi walked through the corridor and came to a large door, he straightened the wrinkles on his clothes and knocked. At this time, a voice came from inside: "Come in!"
Then Mitsui Daichi opened the door and walked in. He approached the man sitting at the table reading a book, bowed, and said, "Father, I wonder what you want me to do?" It turned out that the man reading the book was Mitsui Daichi's father, Mitsui Yudao, the current head and ruler of the Mitsui family.
Mitsui Yudao put down the book in his hand, looked at his son, and said, "Why, are you playing basketball again? Really, if I hadn't watched you grow up, I would really doubt whether you are a child." As he said that, Mitsui Yudao took a cup of warm water from the side and handed it to Mitsui Daichi.
Mitsui Daichi took the water and drank it gently, then said to Mitsui Yudao: "Father, do you have anything specific to ask me? If not, I will go back to practice. Today's practice task has not been completed yet."
Mitsui Yudao, who was sitting, listened to what Mitsui Daichi said and simply told him: "Okay, I know you have a training mission, but you have to know that you are still a child and you need to know how to take care of your body. Okay, your mother said that your grandparents miss you a lot recently and want you to go back to Hokkaido to see them."
Hearing his father's words, Mitsui Daichi suddenly put down the cup in his hand and said, "No problem, but won't Mother be coming with us this time?"
However, this sentence immediately made Mitsui Yudao unhappy. He said to Mitsui Daichi: "That's enough, kid. Normally, I wouldn't say anything when you accompany your mother, but this time it won't work. I haven't had a proper date with your mother in a long time. You go alone this time, and I will arrange everything for you." Then he playfully nudged Mitsui Daichi out of the study.
Mitsui Daichi, who was nudged out, stood in front of the door, smiled slightly, then left and walked towards his room. After returning to his room, Mitsui Daichi lay down on his bed.
At this moment, a screen suddenly appeared in front of him. On it was a man wearing a fiery red jersey, and on the other side was Mitsui Daichi himself.
"Welcome to the Slam Dunk System!"
"Manipulator: Mitsui Daichi"
「Current template: Mitsui Hisashi」
Age: Five years old
"Physical fitness: Excellent"
"Physical talent: soft touch (given by the template), no injuries (natural talent)"
"Own abilities (not available yet): Meditation (learned Buddhism since childhood), Zen (used Buddhism to understand Taoism)"
"Current five dimensions: physical ability 9 (primary school level), special ability 9 (primary school level), mental strength 10 (primary school level), endurance 10 (primary school level), technique 3 (primary school level)"
"Assessment: A (Since he has just started practicing basketball, although he has excellent physical talents, he is still in training due to his lack of skills, so he is assessed as A, at elementary school level)"
"Current task: Basic skills training (dribbling/, receiving the pass 0/, footwork 0/, shooting/) completion rate 25%"
"Basic skills training: dribbling progress 100%, receiving and passing the ball 0%, footwork 0%, shooting 10%"
Seeing this, another pop-up window appeared on the side, divided into four modules: dribbling, receiving the pass, footwork, and shooting. When Mitsui Daichi clicked on dribbling, several things unfolded, including the three on-the-spot exercises that had been completed and the four basic dribbling exercises completed today: change of direction, between the legs, turning around, and behind the back.
Looking at the on-the-spot exercises that were fully completed today, a smile appeared on Mitsui Daichi's little face. He said silently, "It seems that I can start catching the pass." As he said that, he looked at the other three sections. The progress of the four exercises in catching the pass was still 0, and the progress of the thirteen exercises in footwork was also 0. Only the first exercise of the twenty-one exercises in shooting was completed.
After watching the horizontal imitation exercise of shooting on the spot with bare hands completed, Mitsui Daichi understood how the action method worked. When he saw the remaining twenty exercises, Mitsui Daichi's expression became serious. He knew that he had excellent shooting talent, but his age was not enough to support high-intensity training.
What was being trained now was only the most basic foundation. At the same time, Mitsui Daichi also clicked on the interface about the man in the jersey in the initial window.
"Ability Character: Mitsui Hisashi (unlocked, unlocked after completing basic training)"
"Status Ability: Man of Fire"
"Low-level abilities: step-back shot 0/5, lateral breakthrough 0/5, breakthrough jump shot 0/2, pass 0/1, fadeaway three-pointer 0/2"
「Intermediate ability: MVP backtracking 0/5」
"Advanced abilities: step-back shot 0/6, explosive dribbling 0/5, quick shot after receiving the ball 0/5, instant steal 0/4, persistent acceleration 0/5"
"Ultimate Ability: MVP Perfect Pose 0/3"
Looking at Mitsui Hisashi on the interface, Mitsui Daichi recalled the voice he heard before his death in his previous life, as well as the shooting scene played on TV at that time.
After coming to this world, Mitsui Daichi used his family's resources to look for traces of his past life and the anime he watched, but discovered that this world did not have those things at all; they simply didn't exist. Only then did Mitsui Daichi realize the reason why the voice said that it had exhausted its abilities.
It turned out that he had come to a new world, and in this world, he had the same parents as in his previous life, a healthy body, and excellent basketball talent. So he kept a basketball by his side since he was a child, always with him, and even asked his parents to build a basketball court for him in the backyard of his home.
After his first contact with basketball, this so-called system appeared beside him. It taught him how to play basketball like a teacher and prevented him from doing things that he shouldn't do at this stage.
Before the first stage of dribbling in basic training was completed, the only thing he could access was basic training. However, before dribbling was fully trained in basic training, the other three items could only unlock the most basic training. It wasn't as if he hadn't thought about practicing with those coaches.
However, every time he practiced, he found that what those coaches taught was completely incomparable with what was in this system. All the movements in this system had an extremely standard posture, and that posture was the core. If the movements he practiced each time couldn't achieve that standard, it couldn't be considered practice.
So now Mitsui Daichi's practice progress hadn't been that fast. He had been practicing dribbling since he started playing basketball until today, when he finally completed the basic dribbling exercises and was finally able to move on to the subsequent passing exercises.
Looking at the practice that was about to begin, Mitsui Daichi's eyes became serious, and his whole being was like a sharp sword. But then, when he remembered that he had to pack up and go to his grandparents' house, his expression became a little discouraged again. He knew there was no separate training ground for him to practice at his grandparents' house.
But even though he thought this, Mitsui Daichi still stood up from the bed and began to slowly pack his luggage. When he had finished packing, he stuffed a fiery red basketball given to him by the system into his schoolbag and then took his luggage to the helicopter pad on the roof of his house.
Finally, after flying in the air for several hours, he arrived in Hokkaido, where his grandparents lived. As soon as he landed, the two old people appeared before him. He greeted them sweetly and followed them back home.