Chapter 6: The First Serious Setter! ...
In the end, a fight did not break out.
Although the big man was sharp-tongued, he actually grinned and bared his teeth as soon as he saw Coach Suzuki before rushing over to give him a "friendly" greeting.
"Can't you speak properly?" Suzuki seemed to roll his eyes. "You've scared my students."
As he spoke, he turned around and introduced him to Tsuna and the others, "This is my classmate from high school, Kujou Hayate. We were both on the volleyball team back then. You can just call him Coach Kujou."
A polite child will naturally greet the child politely.
Kujo looked down, only able to see the tops of a few furry heads. He pondered for a moment, took a step back, and then patted Suzuki on the shoulder, speaking to him like two good brothers.
"That's right, that's right. Coach Suzuki and I were partners back then. I'm really sorry for scaring you just now. I'll treat you to some soda after training."
As he spoke, he slapped Suzuki's shoulder hard, making a solid thud, as if he were hammering the coach into the concrete like a screw.
Coach Kujo appears to be a primary attacker, and Sawada Tsunayoshi, witnessing the force of the blow, felt a lingering sense of unease.
Suzuki, suppressing his urge to use underhanded tactics, forced a smile and greeted the three.
"Come on, this is Hyuga Shoyo, this is Sawada Tsunayoshi, and this is Irie Shoichi. You three don't need to be so polite with Coach Kujo." We'd better bankrupt this guy.
Not to be outdone, Kujo pulled out the boy that Tsuna had noticed earlier from behind him.
"Akaashi, don't be shy, come and say hello to everyone."
The young man walked forward with a calm expression, ignoring the coach who had suddenly fallen ill, and greeted everyone with great composure, "Hello Coach Suzuki, I am Kyoji Akaashi. Please take care of me."
Kujo looked at the four children. Damn it, he only had one person on his side. He had lost! He should have brought more students.
The two adult men carried guns and sticks as they walked, while the children following behind exchanged awkward glances and gave each other embarrassed smiles.
Hinata was still somewhat envious of Kujou Hayate's height, his gaze lingering on him for a while. After listening to Coach Kujou repeatedly mention that his own coach hadn't come before, he scratched his head and muttered a sigh.
"You adults are so childish."
Sawada Tsunayoshi tried to salvage the reputation of his coach, who didn't seem much better, "Well, the coach isn't usually like this. Maybe it's just a unique way of getting along between good friends?"
Akaashi, who had been silent all along, chimed in, "Coach Kujo isn't usually like this; he's quite lively."
He hesitated for a moment, but ultimately used the word "lively".
They must really have a good relationship. After not seeing each other for a long time, they can't remember what they wanted to say before, and instead keep talking about the same thing without getting tired of it.
Hinata expressed his understanding, but he sweetly held Tsuna's hand and said, "Good friends should just talk things out. Look at me and Tsuna, we never argue."
Shoichi Irie, who was walking on the other side and fiddling with his camera, looked up in disbelief upon hearing this.
"So who were arguing about the game console last night, the crow and the tuna?"
Hinata guiltily let go of Tsunayoshi's hand, covered her head and ears with her hands, and said, "I didn't hear anything."
Irie snorted coldly, "He's so self-righteous about taking my game console from his house."
Akaashi pondered for a moment, then asked in confusion, "I know what tuna means, but crow? Does crow refer to Hyuga?"
Irie and Tsuna nodded. "The high school that Hinata's idolized volleyball senior wanted to attend was represented by crows."
"I see." Akaashi nodded, but why did the younger generation of Owl Valley prefer crows?
Hinata, upon hearing about a topic she enjoyed, quickly lowered her arms and chatted enthusiastically, even drawing in Akaashi, whom she didn't know very well, to say a few more words.
Once the two coaches finally got along and returned to each other, the kids' relationship was already quite good.
The spacious and bright venue welcomed the new apprentices with open arms. Tsuna and his friends weren't very early; there were already people playing volleyball inside. Hinata and Sawada Tsuna felt dizzy as they stepped onto the floor, not from physical discomfort, but from excitement.
Akaashi went over and spoke a few words to Kujo. It wasn't his first time here; during their conversation, he realized he was the oldest among them. Out of consideration for his younger peers, he turned to the three Hyuga and his companions and said…
"The coaches also have something to talk about, so let's go practice on our own over there."
Tsuna glanced at Coach Suzuki, who waved his hand, indicating that they should walk with Akaashi. Reassured, he watched as the group of kids marched towards the basketball court.
Seeing that Irie Shoichi had no intention of changing his shoes and that the man had a camera in his hand, Akaashi deduced that he was probably a tourist. He nodded to Irie, who was looking over, and then turned to find Hyuga and Sawada Tsunayoshi.
Sawada Tsunayoshi and Hyuga finally experienced what it's like to be a setter of the same age.
Putting everything else aside, the students in that club were all incredibly bad. It's not that they were actually bad players, but it was quite obvious that everyone was just playing around and hadn't thought about how to improve their skills.
This situation only improved a little after Hyuga and Tsuna joined the club. But as far as Hyuga is concerned, without a coach, he would rather play Tsuna's hitter, since at least during this period of practice, Tsuna knows where his hitter's points are.
Sawada Tsunayoshi is in a lot of pain. His partner Hinata has no intention of becoming a setter, and the other kids in the club don't practice setting the ball much either. He's constantly in the awkward position of being outmaneuvered by the clumsy setter.
Kyoji Akaashi is such a stable and solid setter!
After hitting the other person's ball a few times, Sawada Tsunayoshi felt like he was about to fall in love with them.
Kyoji Akaashi glanced at the clock on the wall of the arena and noticed that the number of people on the coach's side had increased rather than decreased. He figured they wouldn't be able to come over here anytime soon, so he called a timeout and said he would rest for a while before continuing.
This amount of exercise was nothing to Hyuga, but Sawada Tsunayoshi ran over to drink water as if he had been granted a pardon. It turned out that this was normal training for people. He quickly escaped from Hyuga to avoid being caught by him and having to pass the ball to him.
Shoichi Irie took a water bottle out of his bag, watched Tsuna slurp it down, and said...
"I see there's hot water over there. You drink first, and I'll get you some more water after you're done."
Actually, Tsuna wasn't that tired, but he needed a break. Who can refuse a sudden break during training? He certainly couldn't.
Xiao Xiang is really something. At first, he felt guilty for dragging him to train together, but now that they're familiar with each other, he doesn't feel guilty at all. He just keeps pestering him to play one ball-toss game after another.
Hearing Sawada Tsunayoshi's gloomy mutterings, Irie Masakazu thought to himself, "He's not refusing, is he? Sho's arrogance is clearly because you've spoiled him. Anyway, he knows you'll eventually agree."
Akaashi first greeted the members he had known before, and when he returned, he found only Tsunayoshi and Irie Shoichi there. He looked around and asked,
Where is Hinata?
Sawada Tsunayoshi helplessly shrugged and pointed in a direction for Akaashi.
Kyoji Akaashi looked over there and saw that the guy he thought needed to rest had long since run off to the other students who were practicing, his gleaming eyes indiscriminately fixed on all the students present.
"That spike was so cool!"
"Can he even catch that ball? Wow, that's amazing!"
"What a precise toss! I want to do that too!"
The main theme is sunshine, and everyone who comes should take something with them before leaving.
Akaashi Kyoji was silent for a moment, thinking of the praise Hyuga had given him when he had set the ball for the opponent earlier. So that wasn't Hyuga's limit after all?
The Hyuga clan is terrifyingly powerful.
I don't know what Akaashi was imagining, but Irie couldn't help but complain, "At this point, his choice of words and sentence structure has improved remarkably. He barely passed last week's Chinese quiz."
Sawada Tsunayoshi dared not speak, fearing that Irie would discover that there was someone like him by his side. After all, at least Sho had passed, while he hadn't even passed.
Just then, Kyoji Akaashi said that they could continue playing. Tsuna nodded hastily and, unusually outgoing, pulled his opponent back onto the court.
How could Irie Shoichi not know what this guy was thinking? He found it inexplicably funny because Hyuga himself had just revealed his poor performance while playing basketball. Otherwise, he wouldn't have joked about it. Tsuna was so thin-skinned that he certainly wouldn't mention it in front of outsiders. He didn't know what he was panicking about.
While Hyuga was still thriving over there and hadn't returned, Sawada Tsunayoshi simply sought out Akaashi to learn some techniques for setting. Akaashi Kyoji nodded; Tsunayoshi was small and spoke softly, and he didn't mind spending time with him.
How long has Sawada been playing volleyball?
"I don't know how many times I've watched the ball being tossed in another direction," Akaashi Kyoji asked.
Tsuna thought for a moment about when Hinata had transferred here and replied, "It should have been more than a month ago."
"More than a month," Akaashi nodded. "This level is not bad. Do you really like setting?"
Despite being only a year older, Sawada Tsunayoshi always seemed to have a very stable emotional state. He replied obediently, "I just decided to play setter myself after being framed so many times. It just so happens that Sho needs someone to set the ball for him."
"Framed?"
"Because everyone's setting skills are rather underwhelming, but Akaashi-senpai is truly amazing, the best setter I've ever seen!"
Hinata said the same thing earlier; it's hard to imagine what they went through before.
"What about Coach Suzuki? Coach Suzuki should have taught him, right?" Even so, Akaashi himself knew that it took practice to become a consistent setter, and Sawada Tsunayoshi, who had only been playing volleyball for less than two months, naturally couldn't do it.
Sawada Tsunayoshi corrected his technique after watching Akaashi's movements. "Coach Suzuki certainly taught me, but there aren't many people in the club who can pass the ball as well as Akaashi-senpai."
Akaashi thought to himself that he hadn't practiced properly, but that was normal. Everyone preferred to spike the volleyball hard, and it was also normal that they didn't like the boring ball-tossing training.
Kyoji Akaashi may look gentle, but deep down he has the pride of a setter. However, he thinks Tsunayoshi Sawada is pretty good because Sawada didn't complain about being tired at all during the tedious hour.
A note from the author:
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Here's something funny: I dreamt last night that when I opened Jinjiang today, there were so many comments! ⊙︿⊙
No way, is this the embodiment of "what you think about during the day, you dream about at night"? Hahaha, after I told my friend, my friend said, "Then your life is really hard."
27 and Hinata finally have a setter friend!
Although it was written that 27 people were given the ball to Hyuga, the actual situation was that the two of them framed each other.
I feel like these two will have trouble adjusting after playing against Akashi.
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