Chapter 42: Shiratorizawa vs. Qingcheng (3) There may be a situation where a person...

"The setter from Shiratorizawa..." Erkouchi paused, "is his name Kenjo?"

He was still on the court when he said this, and it seemed that there was only the blue-haired setter in his pupils. He was incredibly focused, which made Mao Ting, who always felt that his first-year students were not very reliable, stunned for a few seconds before he found his voice to answer.

"Ah, yes, if I remember correctly, his name is Kenjo Shinichi," Mao Ting said, "but what made you ask that all of a sudden?"

"...Haruka-senpai," Futakuchi didn't directly answer Shigeto's question, instead turning the conversation to Koganei: "You noticed earlier that his serve has a pattern, right?"

The Date Industries libero paused for a moment as he clapped his hands. "That's right, there's a difference in the number of steps." But it was very subtle. If he could notice it, then it stands to reason that Qingcheng's libero should have noticed it too. After all, it was because of this awareness that they were able to successfully end this terrifying serve while the opponent was obsessed with the jump ball. Otherwise, if the double-blade serve was mixed up, they could only hope that Kenshiro Shinichi made a mistake. But Futakuchi's sudden words left Koganei a little confused.

In fact, a big part of the reason why Date Industries was able to break the serve was because Shiratorizawa's setter served more float balls at that time, giving Koganei time to adapt. Futari also understood that there was a certain amount of luck involved at the time, but it was precisely because of this that it felt terrifying.

The freshman spiker deadpanned, "All his serves today had the same number of steps."

He corrected his shortcomings in just one game - it couldn't even be called a shortcoming, it was just a habit. After all, even if he knew it, he might not be able to continue. Looking at it this way, it doesn't seem like he is a monster. He is just like a terrifying demon king.

“…”

"Is this true?" Koganei was busy bringing in Watanabe Watari, and now he turned his attention back to Kenjo Shinichi's serve.

The opponent had already scored four points in a row in the first game and was about to start his fifth serve. The yellow-blue ball spun a few times in his hand, then was thrown up with cheers and served again in front of everyone's eyes.

"An impeccable serve!" The commentator's voice echoed in his ears. Xi Gu Xi stared at the TV in front of him, his heart clenched along with Watariki on the broadcast. The commentator continued, "This is already the fifth point that Jiancheng has snatched from Qingcheng for Shiratorizawa! A terrifying player! A terrifying serve. If I were to use a game analogy, it's like a hero who hasn't yet completed his leveling suddenly encountering a fully leveled Demon King's Castle! What an incredible player!"

Xi Gu Xi turned down the volume of the TV and said to himself, "If it were me, which ball would I be able to catch?"

The fifth goal, or the sixth goal?

Looking at Watari Chikaji's frustrated expression on the screen, Nishitani couldn't help but clench his fists.

He deleted and reduced the text messages and finally pressed the send button.

"Xigu sent another text message," Dongfeng Xu said, his tone somewhat bewildered. "He said 'Damn it!'...?"

He turned to look at Sawamura and Sugawara, "What does this mean?"

Sawamura thought for a moment, "...Maybe he was inspired."

Sure enough, anyone who sees this kind of serve will be surprised, not to mention the libero who is mainly responsible for receiving the ball.

Sugawara said, "It's good to be ambitious." They in Karasuno still need to grow, and if they are assigned to the same group with Shiratorizawa, at least they can be mentally prepared.

...Of course, it's better not to have this kind of thing happen. There's no difference between encountering Shiratorizawa at the beginning and opening the door with bare hands and encountering a bear, right?

“Beep—”

At this moment the whistle was blown again.

The Shiratorizawa setter leaped high after running, his right hand raised, his back stretched, and as his palm made contact with the ball, the volleyball broke through the air with a loud roar in the stadium, "Bang!"

It was still an extreme line shot that showed off his skills.

The scoreboard turned over, Shiratorizawa 5:0 Aoba Johsai. This was the first time in so many games that Aoba Johsai fell into such a disadvantage in the first game. Coach Irihata hugged his arms, frowned, and his fingers tapped his skin unconsciously.

After launching a banana serve with his left hand, he now uses a right-handed jump serve. In other words, is this number 9 ambidextrous? Why didn't he use his left hand during the match against Date Industries? Wait, the jump serve that Qingcheng had studied didn't seem to appear today either.

So the last game was actually used to confuse them?

"Shiratorizawa..." Irihata Nobuteru suddenly spoke, causing the nervous Mizoguchi to subconsciously look at him.

“This year is really incredible.”

As if expressing his feelings, Coach Irihata said, switching his gaze from No. 9 to Oikawa of his own team, and then called the first timeout of the game. Although judging from the match of Date Industrial, the timeout did not have much impact on No. 9 Shiratorizawa, it could at least let the tense players relax, or even affect the opponent's touch a little bit.

Unlike the relatively relaxed atmosphere on Shiratorizawa's side, almost all the players from Aoba Johsai had serious expressions when they left the field. They had lost 1/5 of the points at the start, and now they hadn't even figured out how to respond.

Watari Chikaji was the one who felt the most guilty. As soon as he arrived at the supply area, he bit his lip and wanted to apologize.

But before he could say anything, Ikawa, who was walking in the first position, turned around and showed a gentle smile, "Don't worry, Shinji-kun, that kind of ball is difficult to catch."

The Qingcheng setter clapped his hands and lowered his center of gravity. "Now we only have one goal, to finish the opponent's serve first. As for the score difference—"

The curvature of the mouth corners becomes wider.

"I will get it back. After all, I have always trusted you very much."

Of course, Toru Oikawa also believed in himself. Since he lost the point by serving, he would serve it back.

As for the idiot setter on the opposite side, after saying this, Toru Oikawa glanced at Shiratorizawa's position. He didn't hate geniuses, but he also didn't like their innate arrogance.

Just like he was unhappy with Ushijima's words "You should come to Shiratorizawa", but Oikawa Toru was very good at adjusting his mood. He retracted his gaze and encouraged everyone in Qingcheng: "For the victory of our Qingcheng, please calm down everyone."

Anxiety is their biggest enemy.

The short break ended quickly and the players returned to the court, giving the cheering staff and the audience time to rest. The excited spirits also calmed down after the break. This is the disgusting thing about the break tactic. Humans are, after all, experiential creatures. Once they are familiar with a particular function of an object, it is difficult to see its other uses. This is also called functional fixation in psychology. The same is true for the serve game.

Moreover, this pattern is more obvious in Shiratorizawa No. 9. Take these few games as an example. Although he is a very skilled two-way player, he always unconsciously chooses the serve that he has used the most in this game. Just like now, four out of five balls are right-hand jump serves. Although the timing of the first ball is wrong and the third ball is a left-hand sidespin ball, they are all jump serves without exception. The jump serve used to tease Date Industry was not used in this game. No matter whether he forgot or was too arrogant to use it, as long as he discovered this, Oikawa would use it as a breakthrough point.

Just like he said before, no matter how things change, there will always be some things that remain unchanged. At least for now, the other party has not realized this. As for how Chun Gao will grow, let him consider it in the future.

So before going on the court, Oikawa Toru patted Watari Shinji's shoulder, leaned close to his ear, and said firmly: "The next ball will still be a right-handed baseline jump serve, Shinji-kun, imagine that the opponent is me."

Although Kenjo Shinichi's jumping hair and Ikawa's own jumping hair are slightly different due to individual differences, the essence remains the same, and it is enough to simulate them accurately.

Watari Chikaji was stunned for a moment when he heard this, then he clenched his fist and said "OK".

Coach Washi Takumi, who saw this scene, narrowed his eyes slightly and sneered at Coach Saito: "Only Ikawa can see Qingcheng's observation ability." He found that what Ikawa said to the libero was definitely not conducive to Jiancheng's continued scoring.

Saito:……

Saito: "Coach, please keep your voice down."

Even though he knew that Supervisor Jijiang didn't mean that, it would be easy to be misunderstood if he said it out loud!!!

What should I do if I'm put in a sack? Saito was miserable.

As they were talking, Shiratorizawa was leading Aoba Johsai 6:0.

But just when the audience thought Shiratorizawa's serve dominance would continue, the commentator shouted, "Qingcheng libero Watari Chikaharu! He successfully broke Jiancheng's nearly unstoppable serve on the seventh ball!"

"What a perfect clearance! A fantastic pass!" Matsumoto excitedly said, "Number 7 Watarikoji!"

"Qingcheng's counterattack is about to begin!" said Nandu Shu.

At this moment, Watari's arm was slightly hot, and his body rolled backwards twice because of catching the ball, but he quickly stood up and ran again. The ball was still in Qingcheng's hands.

"Nice pass!"

At this position, Oikawa Toru moved to the front of the net, thought for two seconds, and then——

"The second pass directly spikes the ball!!!"

Qingcheng scored the first point of this game. The smile on Ikawa Toru's face faded at this time. He looked at the people in Shiratorizawa who seemed to have not reacted yet, and finally pointed his finger at the blue-haired setter who was still in the back row.

The sound is not loud, but clear enough.

"I say," Oikawa Tooru tilted his head, "be careful of me, Shinichi-kun."

Grandstand——

Hinata opened her mouth wide, "My King, you're so strong!" Did she spike the ball directly from that spot? I don't understand it, but it's so cool!

Midorikawa on the side was startled by the sudden spike from the setter, "Setters like them really like to go against the grain."

However, Midorikawa shifted his gaze to Kenjo Shinichi and froze.

"No way," Midorikawa clicked his tongue, "that Jiancheng kid is actually laughing."

So he's the type who gets happier the more challenging the situation is?

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The author has something to say: I originally planned to finish writing 6k before posting it, but it seems that I can't finish it. I will post this chapter first to make up for yesterday's (...) I calculated that there are still 9k words left for the extra update and 3k words for the daily update... I can't finish it (kneel down). In addition, I will add competition warnings to all competitions. I feel that no matter how the fan fiction is written, it is easy to make the single-player push dissatisfied ORZ. Anyway, I will stack armor first, because Yami is a coward who is easily frightened () I'm very sorry, the ooc is all mine (fell asleep peacefully) In addition, I will think about what time to send out red envelopes in the future, otherwise I always feel that some adults come late (contemplating) If it is at noon, then the red envelopes will be sent at 23:00 in the evening. If it is in the evening, change it to 12:00 noon, to please the adults (exit with a rose in mouth) I hope to finish writing in the evening (I feel that this sentence has become a flag)