Chapter 78 Volleyball 38
Late at night, Kobe Suma Seaside Resort Hotel.
Oikawa Toru suddenly woke up from his dream. The boy sat up abruptly in bed, lowered his head and gasped slightly.
——He had a very bizarre dream.
There is no order or logic.
In his dream, he first returned to the years he spent at Beichuan No. 1 Middle School. In his dream, he saw the terrifying spike of Ushijima Wakari again. In his dream, he lost to Ushijima Wakari again, over and over again.
The scene of the dream was a court. Across the net was Ushijima Wakari looking down from above, and on her side of the net stood the talented setter, a junior named Kageyama Tobio.
On the right side of the court, Kitagawa Daiichi's coach had a disappointed look in his eyes, as if he was about to say to him in the next second: "Oikawa, you should take a break first. Let's make a substitution and let Kageyama play setter."
Everything around me was so suffocating. Even in my dreams, I could hardly breathe.
The second half of the dream was when he entered high school, but Aoba Johsai was still suppressed by Ushijima Wakari and never defeated Shiratorizawa once.
People are strange. Sometimes they know clearly that they are in a dream after falling asleep, but they still cannot get out of it. They can only watch the dream continue like a bystander.
It's like diving deep into the sea with an oxygen mask, unable to surface, not strong enough to suffocate to death, but unable to see any light.
Just when Oikawa Tooru self-deprecatingly thought that this terrible dream would end with the failure of his six years of junior high and high school combined, a pleasant girl's voice suddenly rang out in the dream.
"Oikawa-kun, are you coming to the school festival?"
“……!”
Oikawa Tooru was stunned for a moment.
For the first time, something other than volleyball and unrelated to volleyball appeared in his dream.
It was like a sweet chestnut candy that fell into the deep and dark sea, creating clear ripples.
It was as if his subconscious was telling him that life was not just about volleyball, there were many more interesting things, so please be happy.
In the dream, the girl's voice continued, "Talent will blossom and bear fruit... I really like this nickname, Oikawa-kun."
——What I heard this time were the words she said when we first met.
...It turns out that I had already memorized it in my subconscious mind.
I even remember every word she said clearly.
Not long after, the scene of the dream changed again, from the orange volleyball court to the seaside. Under the fiery red sunset on the seaside, he blocked a ball for her - and then, he hugged her.
The other person was wearing a cool, thin, powder-blue swimsuit. When he held her body protectively, it felt soft and delicate. The height difference allowed the girl's snow-white, soft body to rest against his chest and abdomen, her presence becoming more pronounced with her rapid breathing.
“!!!”
The adolescent boy's quality was as excellent as a diamond. Feeling something swelling and painful, Oikawa Toru suddenly woke up.
"……ha."
In the dark hotel room, the brown-haired boy lowered his head and touched his forehead, breathing rapidly.
I can't understand why I have such a illogical dream?
——But is there really no logic?
Dreaming is the process by which the human brain organizes the information received during the day while sleeping. It is essentially an unconscious thinking process, the so-called "what you think about during the day, you dream about at night."
“………”
I was no longer sleepy and couldn't fall asleep again.
Late at night in the early hours of the morning, Oikawa Toru put on his mint green jacket, stood up, and walked out of the room.
In the hotel's twin room, another black-haired, crew-cut boy slowly opened his eyes.
This guy Oikawa...
What are you doing up late at night?
*
At the same time, Kurikawa Sana was also dreaming.
In Kurikawa Sana's dream, she has a healthy body, dancing and running freely, and enjoying her favorite food with relish.
In the last second, Kurikawa Sana was in a sweet dream: Hehehe.
The next second, the indifferent faces of my parents appeared in my dream.
Kurikawa Sana: "..."
No hehe.
But at the same time, the favorability reminder sound that suddenly rang in her mind woke Kurikawa Sana up.
With a "ding" sound.
[Oikawa Toru, Favorability +15. ]
Kurikawa Sana: "!!!"
In an instant, she sat up suddenly in bed, her face full of shock.
The electronic clock on the bedside table showed that the time was four o'clock in the morning.
Kurikawa Sana was stunned.
what happened?
How did Oikawa suddenly gain so much favorability? At four in the morning?
The system's electronic voice rang in my mind: [Maybe I'm dreaming, just like you.]
"But what kind of dream would suddenly increase my favorability so much?" Kurikawa Sana stood up from the bed and walked around in confusion. "Did you eat in your dream like me?"
system:【………】
As soon as she stood up and walked to the balcony of the hotel room, Kurikawa Sana saw a familiar figure downstairs.
Late in the morning at the Suma Seaside, a brown-haired boy sat on the beach. His tall figure and refreshing mint green jacket were particularly eye-catching in the moonlight.
It's Oikawa Tooru.
Kurikawa Sana was stunned for a moment.
After thinking for a second, she put on her coat and went downstairs.
…
*
"Oikawa-kun, aren't you going to rest at this late hour?"
When he heard the girl's voice behind him, Oikawa Toru's brown pupils contracted for a moment.
Looking back, what caught my eye was the delicate face of the black-haired girl, which was countless times clearer than in my dream.
“…”
Oikawa Toru took a deep breath, smiled, and returned to his usual relaxed demeanor, "Kuri-chan, why are you awake so early?"
Because for the first time ever, I heard someone increase their favorability.
Kurikawa Sana sat down next to him. "I woke up suddenly and it was hard to fall asleep again, so I just came down to enjoy the sea breeze. It would be nice to see the sunrise at the beach."
"Sunrise at the beach... that's nice, but it'll take a long time. Won't it be boring?"
"It won't be boring if I chat with Oikawa-kun."
He was about to say something when he heard the girl's surprised voice, "Oikawa-kun, look—the sea has turned a fluorescent blue!"
Looking in the direction she pointed, I saw fluorescent blue waves coming from the sea not far away, constantly overlapping and alternating, like starlight falling into the sea and the Milky Way falling into the world.
Oikawa Tooru was stunned for a moment.
"They're the blue tears of sea fireflies," he whispered. "They're plankton that live in the bay. They have bioluminescent glands in their bodies. When struck by the waves, they emit a light blue glow, known as 'blue tears.' The Suma Sea in Hyogo Prefecture is one of the easiest places to see this phenomenon. I didn't expect to see it with my own eyes today."
"Wow, that's amazing... Oikawa-kun has a wide range of knowledge."
Oikawa Toru: “…”
In fact, Iwa-chan has a wide range of knowledge. He heard all this from Iwa-chan. Unlike his sporty and buzz-cut appearance, that guy is a real academic master.
The blue tears phenomenon of sea fireflies is also one of the scenery that Iwa-chan wants to see when traveling to Hyogo Prefecture.
Should I call him down? Oikawa Toru hesitated for a moment.
“So beautiful…”
The sea breeze blew the girl's long hair, and the blue tears in the sea were the same beautiful blue as her eyes, like the finest sapphire.
It was a quiet night, a beautiful view, and there were only the two of them.
Oikawa Toru paused as he took out his phone.
It's past four in the morning now, too late, so I'd better not wake him up and let him rest... I'll accompany him to watch it next time.
They just sat quietly by the sea for a long, long time.
Until the blue tears in the sea disappeared, the sky gradually brightened, and the horizon was gradually dyed with the orange-red color of the rising sun.
The first rays of sunlight transformed the Suma Sea from a deep blue to a warm orange, shimmering like a sapphire turning into fine gold. The sunlight also illuminated the beach behind us and the sand volleyball net on the beach.
The memory of the suffocating stadium in the dream came to my mind again.
Looking at the net on the beach volleyball court, Toru Oikawa stood up and picked up a yellow-blue volleyball that had fallen on the ground and no one cared about it. He reached out and carefully brushed off the broken sand on it.
Sure enough, even though reality is as full of setbacks as in his dreams... he still loves volleyball.
"What's wrong? Oikawa-kun." Kurikawa Sana stood up and walked over, puzzled. "Aren't you going to watch the sunrise?"
"Look." Oikawa Toru handed her the ball in his hand, "But I want to see something else than the sunrise."
"What is it?"
"I want to see your spike." Oikawa Toru looked at her and said word by word, "I'll dribble the ball for you. Can you show me one more time?"
I really want to know what kind of ball the girl who can make both Kageyama Tobio and Ushijima Wakari care so much about her will play.
Kurikawa Sana was briefly surprised, but she quickly understood and reached out to take the ball.
"Okay, Oikawa-kun."
The ball that Toru Oikawa threw drew a perfect arc in the air.
Although he was mentally prepared, the timing and height of Kurikawa Sana's jump were far beyond his imagination.
On the soft sandy beach, after only a very short run-up, the black-haired girl leaped high into the air with graceful and powerful movements. She easily reached an astonishing reach of three meters and four meters, and displayed an incredible ability to stay in the air.
When Kurikawa Sana's hand touched the ball, the sunrise appeared at the seaside.
The sun rising slowly in the seaside sky completely overlapped with the volleyball.
Then, there was a loud "boom".
The girl swung her arm hard and smashed the ball, which landed with a thud.
——She seemed to have picked the sun.
Oikawa Toru stood there in a daze, unable to come back to his senses for a long time.
This incredible reach, strength, bounce and technique?!
Sure enough, another genius.
"Oikawa-kun? Oikawa-kun?..."
The girl waved her hands in front of her face, and his eyes finally refocused, fixing on her.
"Kuri-chan." Oikawa Toru lowered his eyes and said, "Harutaka, can you come and watch the Miyagi Prefecture preliminaries?"
Come and see him - his last chance to seize victory in these six years of "obscurity".
Kurikawa Sana was stunned for a moment, then quickly replied with a smile: "Of course, Oikawa-kun."
"I will definitely come and see."
The sun rose completely and the sky was finally bright. The orange-red sunrise light fell on the girl's warm smile, dazzling and beautiful.
[Oikawa Toru, Favorability +7. ]
…
*
at the same time.
Iwaizumi stood on the balcony of his hotel room, silently looking down at the two familiar people on the beach below.
Iwaizumi took in the blue tears of Suma Sea at four in the morning and the sunrise at the seaside in the early morning.
But in the eyes of the guy downstairs, it seemed that he had never seen these scenes.
I don't know since when, those brown eyes only reflected the figure of the black-haired girl.
Iwaizumi's arms gripping the railing tightened slightly, his muscles tensing.
I don't know who said, "It's just a chance encounter with her, it's normal not to invest too much emotion in her"...
As a result, that guy now seems to be in even deeper trouble than him.
Iwaizumi closed his eyes wordlessly.
I really admire him.
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