Chapter 69 A Mess: Sawada Tsunayoshi is conducting observations for several days...
After observing for several days, Sawada Tsunayoshi had perfectly grasped the styles of the other teams. It seemed that each of the other schools had developed its own unique set of tactics over the long competition.
Among them, the sound horse is the most obvious.
But he still couldn't see the path Karasuno was taking.
It's not that Karasuno played badly. Everyone trained and practiced together, and the team's ability improved at a rocket speed, but they still played a very mixed style of play.
One second they were on defense, waiting for an opportunity to attack, and the next they were all on the offensive.
Senior Sugawara said he arrived at the perfect time.
At first, Tsuna didn't understand why, but now he realized it, because he happened to arrive just in time for the Karasuno team's training camp where they were planning to come up with some new tactics.
During the training camp, Sugawara-senpai wasn't the starting setter, but he saw his senior teaching Nishiya-senpai how to pass the ball and practice multi-point attacks with the others every night.
"...It's just a departmental activity."
The words Tsukishima had spoken to others echoed in his ears once again.
Yes, but it wasn't just Karasuno; everyone participating in the training camp was training like crazy.
Karasuno trained the most; in fact, it could be said that all of them chose to stay and train extra.
He remained calm, his eyes fixed on the attacker's movements, and waved his hand—his gesture changed?
Feint!
He paused in his forward stride, then lunged sideways.
"Smack!"
"Good catch!" Kageyama barely moved as the first pass landed smoothly in front of him, while on the other side, Hyuga had already jumped up.
The ball reached its highest point at almost the same time as Hyuga, and then stopped.
"Bang!"
"Good!" The Karasuno members cheered, clenching their fists.
"That's great! Kageyama and Hinata's fast attack success rate is getting higher and higher!" Yachi hugged his notebook and jumped up and down with Karasuno.
Chrome looked at the notebook in her hand. She had drawn a circle in the blank space. Compared to before, the proportion of circles representing success on the notebook was gradually increasing.
She didn't know much about volleyball. Although she had done her homework before coming, she still couldn't quite tell the difference in a real situation.
Chrome made up her mind, "Yaji-kun is amazing, I need to study hard too."
"No, no!" Gu Direnhua's ahoge (a stray hair on her head) stood up straight.
"Actually, I also have a lot to learn!"
Chrome shook his head. "But Yachi can understand the game, which is already amazing to me. I don't know why, but just when I think I'm about to catch up with everyone's thinking, they show me a new trick. It's so amazing."
"Ah, well," Valley scratched his chin.
"Actually, I think only our school's teams are like this here. Everyone is exploring new tricks, so it might have seemed chaotic a few days ago, but it's already much better today, isn't it?"
She pointed to Sugawara Koji, who had been substituted into the game, and heard him say something to the other players.
Immediately afterwards, Chrome saw that the boss's childhood friend, who had been the fastest runner, did not rush out but instead started running alongside the other team members.
"Ah!" Chrome also took out a notebook.
"I know that, it means launching a multi-point attack simultaneously, right?"
She did indeed do her homework diligently, just as she said. Shimizu Kiyoko looked at the two who were having a heated discussion with gentle eyes. With them around, even though she was about to graduate, Shimizu felt that Karasuno's future was full of promise.
"Our first multi-point attack today!"
Renka gripped her pen tightly, her expression even more tense than when she was going on stage. Chrome was infected by her emotions and, watching Sawada Tsunayoshi jump after her, also became anxious.
"We did it!" Valley and Chrome cheered together.
On the court, Hyuga faked out part of the block, and in the open area, Higashimine Asahi jumped from the back row and scored the point without hesitation.
On another page of the notebook, Gu Diren drew a heavy circle. "What is it?" Kurom asked.
Was that a back-row attack?
“Yes!” Gu nodded. “Everyone’s teamwork is getting better and better. However, Sugawara-senpai and Higashimine-senpai are both third-year students, so their teamwork is much better than that of the first-year students. But this is not so obvious because of Kageyama and Hinata’s absurd level of chemistry.”
"I see."
As they were talking, Tsukishima jumped up and blocked a shot.
"Everyone has improved so much compared to when I first arrived," said Sawada Tsunayoshi, who was the most impressed.
On the first day, he could sense that Karasuno wanted to practice new moves, but they couldn't coordinate with each other. Tsuna even silently caught a lot of balls because of this.
That means he always seems to have to cover for his teammates when they make mistakes!
"Achoo!" Hinata wiped his nose.
"I always feel like someone is talking about me."
Standing on the sidelines, Kageyama nodded. "Indeed, after all, idiots don't catch colds."
"Hey! Do you want to fight?" Hinata threw a hook at the person outside the arena.
Tadashi Yamaguchi silently pulled Hinata aside, saying, "Daichi-senpai is watching you!"
And Shoyo, can you beat Kageyama?
"That was a fantastic shot!" Sugawara didn't hold back his praise, patting his ace player several times.
Sawada Tsunayoshi shared his thoughts, "That's right, I can feel that everyone's teamwork is getting better and better."
"I was wondering why everyone was playing so haphazardly before." He adjusted the small buns tied behind his back, looking embarrassed.
Sugawara laughed heartily, "After all, if we want to score, we need to come up with a tactic that can match it!"
He patted Sawada Tsunayoshi on the shoulder, his eyes full of determination even though he was quickly substituted off the court. Daichi was also standing on the sidelines, though he was on the bench because Sawada Tsunayoshi needed more time to gel with the team and play more matches.
but,
"Sawada plays really well." He was genuinely happy.
On the field, even without Nishiya, their side of the ground was perfectly protected by Y. It was as if Sawada Tsunayoshi had eyes all over his head, watching his opponent's every move and then making the right decision.
"Yes, this is our new trump card," Sugawara said with a smile. All the attempts and training they had done to stand here were for the sake of winning.
Sawada Tsunayoshi's arrival undoubtedly added new weight to the scales, tipping the balance toward victory.
On the field, Bokuto's shot was seized by Tsunayoshi, who was prepared in advance. The shot from the top five high school attackers in the country was powerful and fast, but their new receiver appeared there as if he had expected it and silently caught the ball.
Although it wasn't handled perfectly, it's not a big problem.
Kageyama ran a few steps, and Sawada Tsunayoshi, without pausing, began his run-up and launched an attack from the left, but the opposing net was no pushover either.
With the ball received, Mutu was determined to win the set through a block.
When Tsuna saw several tall guys suddenly surround him, he shifted his weight, raised his left hand, turned, and slammed the ball down.
"!" The valley floor jumped up.
"Why is it your left hand! Isn't Sawada-kun right-handed?!"
Chrome was somewhat puzzled to see that both the person opposite him and Karasuno had stopped and were staring at Sawada Tsunayoshi in shock.
"The boss will use his left hand in certain situations. After all, if his right hand is injured but he can't use his left hand, he will be in a very troublesome situation. The boss learned this lesson the hard way once before, and after that, he started training his left hand."
Recalling the previous battle, Chrome's feelings were somewhat complicated.
Gu Diren shrank back a little.
"I feel like that situation is a little different from what I imagined, haha."
Hinata ran over and lifted Sawada Tsunayoshi's left hand to examine it closely, looking even more surprised than the others. Tsukishima pushed up his glasses and remarked...
"Aren't you childhood friends? Why are you so surprised?"
Hinata said matter-of-factly, "I've obviously spent more time with Tsuki since I moved to Miyagi, so isn't it normal that I don't understand him?"
"But Tsuna, when did you learn to play ball with your left hand?!"
Sawada Tsunayoshi, enduring the curious gazes of others, felt just as conflicted as Chrome.
"In short, it's for this reason or that reason."
He sighed, "Later I realized that in my home environment, two hands weren't enough. I wish I had eight tentacles like an octopus."
"That sounds terrifying," Tsukishima commented.
Kageyama seemed thoughtful. "If you have eight arms, catching the ball will indeed be much easier, but how to control all eight tentacles at the same time is also a problem."
Tanaka: "Let's not delve too deeply into this kind of thing!"
The entire process of black tail and polishing is observed.
"Well, I really don't want to be Tsuna's rival. It's getting more and more troublesome." Kenma clicked his tongue.
Kuroo helplessly spread his hands, "If only I had used more force to pry up the wall back then, I could have lured both Tsunayoshi and Shoyo to Nekoma."
"Don't talk like we, Otoko, are some kind of human traffickers!" Yoru pointed and gestured.
Kozume Kenma pondered for a moment, "Although I'm tempted, it's still more interesting to be their opponent. Kuro thinks so too, right?"
"Hmm." Black Tail nodded, then turned and pulled Lev, who was lying dead on the sidelines.
"You better give it your all, kid!"
The Tokyo expedition is coming to a temporary end. The Karasuno team will return to Miyagi to compete in the prefectural qualifiers for the Spring High School tournament. They will come to Tokyo for training again in about two months. They successfully won the qualifiers.
However, before leaving,
"Boss, we're having a barbecue party today."
Chrome said, and Sawada Tsunayoshi nodded, having already learned of this from Hyuga.
Immediately afterwards, the seemingly vanished Reina driver reappeared, carrying several large baskets of fruit.
"Tenth Boss, this is fruit that the Vongola prepared to reward everyone. Is there anything else you would like to add?"
Sawada Tsunayoshi's pupils dilated in shock as he looked at Reina. Fortunately, the others were unaware of this, but...
That's outrageous!
The young leader eventually found the coaches and learned that Reborn had already put in a good word for him. Finally, after thinking for a moment, he asked...
"Is there any other fruit that you'd like to eat?"
Looking at the wide variety of fruits, the coaches realized that Tsuna's family was on a completely different level of wealth.
However, they still said they didn't need it, and Reina nodded in satisfaction upon receiving the conclusion, as he was, of course, very well prepared.
"Then, Tenth Boss, let me grill the meat for you!"
"We really don't need this!"
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Author's note: Back in the palace for the match! [Sprinkling flowers]
I feel like I'm writing more and more, what's going on? I'd better speed things up, haha.
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