Chapter 125: Shiratorizawa vs. Aobajo West (3) (240 Lei Jiachen)...

Shiratorizawa was two points away from match point.

22:17, it happened to be Ushijima's turn to serve.

Coach Mizoguchi's fingers, which had been resting comfortably on his shoulders, began to tap anxiously. Every few seconds, he would look at Coach Irihata, who was sitting next to him, but the other party didn't react at all. Just when he couldn't help but call for a timeout, Coach Irihata held his hand.

"Calm down," Irihata said. "Those kids have 'Come on!' written all over their faces."

Mizoguchi Sadayuki clenched his fists, then relaxed them, and looked towards his own team following the direction of Coach Irihata's gaze. Sure enough, he noticed the focused gazes of everyone.

Qingcheng is not actually an old-established powerful family. They became really strong because of the reinforcement after the arrival of Toru Ishikawa. Having witnessed the efforts of these children, they want to see them truly, at least just once, enter the national team.

But Shiratorizawa, like a gatekeeper, firmly holds the key to the door leading to the whole country.

Turning his gaze towards Shiratorizawa, Ushijima, wearing the No. 1 jersey, was adjusting his touch, waiting for the referee's whistle to serve.

Ushijima is not a player who specializes in serving, but his serve is also terrifying. On the one hand, it is because the spiking power is comparable to that of a cannon, and on the other hand, it is because the opponent is left-handed.

The direction and angle of rotation were completely different from those normally encountered by right-handed players, and they didn't have any left-handed players in Qingcheng, so the experience of catching the ball was almost entirely due to Shiratorizawa - Kenjo and Ushijima.

Thinking of this, Mizoguchi Sadayuki closed his eyes and thought that sometimes he really felt that Shiratorizawa was specifically designed to counter them. His tactical preparations were similar to theirs but completely different. Although Qingcheng's offense and defense were being supplemented, they were still no match for Shiratorizawa's powerful teaching staff.

He sighed, changed his arms from hugging his chest to placing them on his thighs, and mentally began to cheer for the kids on the team.

"Beep--" After a short whistle, Ushijima jumped up smoothly, threw the ball up with his right hand, then jumped, and hit the ball hard with his left hand. The air around him seemed to feel hot due to the friction of gravity. At the same time, the volleyball seemed to have no time to react. It was deformed due to the force, and then rushed out like an arrow, heading straight for the Qingcheng baseline.

Cold sweat ran down Watari's forehead. Although he received Kenjo Shinichi's side spin ball at the beginning of the game, the opponent's serve was the result of acquired training. Although from a professional point of view, it was a completely standardized left-handed serve... but it was still different from Ushijima's serve.

If I had to describe it, it would be like a green apple and a red apple. Apart from being apples, they are different in sweetness and size.

Equally difficult to connect.

Will the ball go out of bounds? Or not...

Watari's eyes trembled slightly, and then he chose to trust his intuition.

——Catch the ball!

He gritted his teeth and took a few steps back, lowering his center of gravity. The volleyball hit his arm directly, but he was still a step too slow, and the angle of rotation deviated. In the blink of an eye, he hit the wall behind him and rolled to the ground.

The scoreboard jumped and the numbers changed quickly.

23:17

One point away from match point.

"Don't worry!" Iwaizumi shouted. "Next ball."

An anxious heart.

One after another, like thunder, beat rapidly in his chest.

"Damn it!" Watari Chikaji slapped his cheek hard, and his cheek quickly became red with blood due to this action. At the same time, he also calmed down, "Yes!"

——I must catch the next ball!

Watari pursed his lips.

On the Shiratorizawa side, Ushijima Wakari raised the ball again.

It was like a scene of declaring war on them.

Oikawa tutted in annoyance.

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Pause time.

“Good job,” Iwaizumi ruffled the libero’s hair, “nice follow-up.”

The current score is 24:20, Shiratorizawa has the match point, Watari Chikaji did catch the ball very well, almost perfectly, but the score difference is still there, even if it is shortened, it will be widened again in the next second. Under such pressure, Qingcheng's condition is not very good.

Four points left.

Now it is Qingcheng's serve, but it is not Ikawa's turn yet. The next person to serve is Matsukawa, who is staring at the water cup in his hand with an expressionless face, wondering what he is thinking.

Serving at such a critical moment, it's really, just thinking about it makes me feel huge pressure. If I make a mistake in serving, it's equivalent to giving the game directly to Shiratorizawa.

"Don't overthink it," Coach Irihata said after quieting them down for a moment. "This is only the first game, don't rush it."

"Chun Gao has a chance of five innings."

Although I know that this is just the beginning of the game, I still can't help but hold my breath when I think of my previous experiences.

After saying that, he glanced in the direction of Shiratorizawa. The atmosphere over there was completely different. No. 9 was circling around No. 5, seemingly immersed in the joke they made in the previous round, and seemed to be in a state of ease for the game.

It really makes people angry, Matsukawa said secretly, lowering his eyebrows, taking a deep breath, looking at their commander who didn't know what he was thinking, "Hey, Oikawa..."

Oikawa turned to look at him with some confusion.

Matsukawa: "Serve for me at the start of the next game and get ten points."

Oikawa:…

Oikawa:?

"Huh?" This was simply asking too much, wasn't it? He wasn't the peacock from Jiancheng, nor did he have so many dazzling moves.

Seeing him like this, Matsukawa felt a little better and smiled, "If that doesn't work, then treat us to ramen."

Hanamaki followed up: "I want to eat sushi."

Iwaizumi thought for a moment. "Ox tongue is nice sometimes... maybe you still have some unused bonus from last time?"

Oikawa:…

No, that kind of money must have been spent long ago!

Before he could agree to this inexplicably unequal treaty, Iwaizumi put his arm around the first-year juniors and said, "You guys, tell us what to do. Then we'll pick one of you, Oikawa, to treat us."

Oikawa:…

Oikawa:?

How come the condition changed from "I'll treat you if you don't take 10%" to "Oikawa treats you"? This is simply forced selling!

Before going on stage, Iikawa thought over and over again but couldn't figure out how things turned out like this. In order to protect his precarious wallet, Iikawa finally found the culprit - he glared viciously at Kenshiro Shinichi who was standing in the front row.

It's all your fault!

farmer:?

The farmer was puzzled.

Could it be that the strange little bread from before caused the decline in favorability? The farmer thought for a few seconds, then spoke confidently, "How's your second pass energy?"

Oikawa:…

He was wrong.

He shouldn't have looked at Jian Cheng, the fool. He didn't expect that this guy who looked stupid had such a good memory.

"Forget about that, Shinichi-kun," Oikawa said expressionlessly, "I beg you to do so to some extent."

The farmer gave me a look that said, "You're really hard to please."

Oikawa:…

This guy is really annoying, no wonder he ended up in Shiratorizawa.

The person who had been observing in the stands couldn't help but chuckle when he saw this scene, and another person next to him couldn't help but turn his head at the same time when he heard the laughter.

"Ah, sorry, sorry," said the short-haired man, "I just think the double setter strategy sometimes has its merits."

"Thank you so much for coming with me, Tachibana." He blinked and said, "Before Chong-kun told me that there was a surprise in Miyagi Prefecture, I thought he was only talking about Shiratorizawa."

"I didn't expect that he had discovered a new treasure during the training camp."

Tachibana Ukyo chuckled, thinking that if he hadn't stopped him earlier, you would definitely want to hold a training camp after the IH ended, but he certainly couldn't say that out loud, "No, no, Coach Hibari."

That's right, the middle-aged man standing next to assistant coach Ichiyama is the coach of the men's volleyball team, Hibari Tabuki. This time he came to recruit players. Originally, he only had his eyes on Shiratorizawa's Kenjo and Ushijima... He had seen Shiratorizawa's double setter tactics in IH before, but there was no suitable second setter to use it in the national team.

At first, I wanted to let Iiganusa give it a try, but subsequent analysis showed that the two were not suitable. Now it seems that this setter from Qingcheng is also very good, so why was there no news about him before?

"We still have to watch it live later," Yun Quetian suddenly sighed, "Sometimes on-the-spot command ability is also very important, otherwise we will miss a lot of young people."

Tachibana Ukyo said seriously, "That's true."

Even he was shocked when he first saw Oikawa at the training camp and Kenjo at IH.

The small Miyagi Prefecture actually has many hidden talents. If the Shiratorizawa training school had not invited this school, he really would not have noticed this player who had never entered the national competition.

Yun Quetian put his hands on his hips and said, "We can see if it's suitable during the national youth team training camp."

In recent years, Japan's national youth team training camp has been held in winter. There have been examples of it being held after IH, but due to time constraints and a lot of things to do in summer and autumn, it was finally held around the end of the spring high school preliminaries.

That is to say, it will be around the end of November... Considering that the Spring High School preliminaries in some areas end relatively late, it will be probably in early December, when we can see this group of capable children gathering together.

If Kenjo Shinichi and Ishikawa could cooperate, it would not be impossible to form a substitute team that could rotate. One could use two setters, and the other could lead the team alone... It's a scene that makes me smile just thinking about it.

Both of them are good at serving... No, I can't think about it anymore, it's just a beautiful dream, really, I have to thank Sorai later - I'll talk to Ushijima-kun about it during training, Hibari thought.

Ukyo Tachibana:......

I always feel that Coach Hibari is thinking about something very serious, and I'm so worried that he will do something wrong... Coach Fujiwara's expressionless face appears in my mind, saying "Just bear with him."

Ukyo Tachibana:......

What should I endure? Just as I thought about this, the next second I heard the person next to me say, "Why don't you go and say hello after the game is over?"

Tachibana Ukyo was silent.

So that's how it is. He took a deep breath, keeping his expression unchanged, "It's better to talk to the coach. You'll scare the kids like this, Coach Hibari."

It's terrifying to hear that the national team coach suddenly came to your door.

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The author has something to say: That's right, Ikawa will go to the national youth team training camp with Kenjo and Ushijima () (Ushijima's father who started poaching people in Miyagi.jpg) (He has to take Ushijima, who has a bad sense of direction, and Ikawa from Kenjo who runs around everywhere, along the way) (Sad