Chapter 69: Shiratorizawa vs. Inarizaki (1) Match Alert...
“Please give me more advice!!!”
"Next, the match between Inarizaki High School, representing Hyogo Prefecture, and Miyagi Prefecture officially begins." Commentator Kurokawa leaned closer to the headset. "I have to say, the support is really intense today."
How should he describe the cheering team wherever he looked? Should he use the word "luxurious"?
"That's the charm of summer," Sano continued, a smile etched in his voice. "We've also had our first setter matchup. Kenshiro-san and Miyayu-san are both equally talented players, but with completely different styles. I'm sure many people are eager to see them compete on the court."
"Yes, that's right. Let's look forward to an exciting game."
Coach Jiujiang also gave his final speech before taking the court. "No matter who the opponent is, I only need two words: victory."
"Defeat them with absolute strength!"
"oh!!!"
——Inarizaki serves.
After all, the setter is always the heart of the team, not to mention a player with unique personalities like Gong You, whose serving ability is among the best even in high school.
There are always very few people who can represent the team in a competition in their first year, so no one here will look down on them.
Miya You stood at the serving point, hearing Shiratorizawa's greetings to Inarizaki and the cheers from Inarizaki High School's own brass band.
"Really..."
He took a deep breath and gestured to stop the blowing.
His eyes were fixed on Shiratorizawa No. 2 who was waiting for the libero to catch the ball and pass it to Kenjo Shinichi.
Then he jumped up and hit the ball.
"Give me more shocked looks."
The volleyball hit the ground hard like a sharp knife that pierced Shiratori's abdomen quickly.
“Beep—”
After a short and powerful whistle, Inarizaki scored the first point.
"It feels great!" Gong You relaxed a little after seeing the ball, turned around and continued walking towards the serving point.
On the side of Shiratorizawa, Hayato Yamagata was a little helpless. Although he consciously adjusted his movements when receiving the ball, the serve was too perfect.
Moreover, no matter how much he adjusted, he wouldn't be able to receive this kind of ball right away, even though he had gone through the devilish training of being a strong server player. Overall, the loss of the first point was expected.
However, the coach outside the field clearly disagreed. Coach Takumi suddenly stood up, startling Coach Saito. He pushed up his glasses in an attempt to hide his presence. Takumi Takumi slammed his arms hard, shouting, "Arms! Legs! Move! If you need to sleep, get to bed!"
Shiratorizawa Shu: ...
Sure enough, I always felt like something was missing in the first few games. It turned out that I hadn’t heard the coach’s familiar roar for a long time.
Inaraki was also startled by the sudden sound.
On the bench, Ginjima shuddered, looked at the senior standing beside him, and whispered, "I've heard that Shiratorizawa's coach is a devil before, and now it seems that his reputation is well-deserved..."
Looking at it this way, Coach Heixu is better. He will never complain about the heavy training tasks again!
It turns out that there is no harm without comparison.
Upon hearing this, third-year secondary attacker Qianli felt the same way: "As expected, even though Coach Kurosu can be scary at times, there's a difference between smiling and telling us to die and strangling us to death."
Between a machete and a gentle knife, the gentle knife is better.
Ginjima cautiously glanced at Kurosu Homune, who was sitting in the coaching booth. Seeing that he didn't seem to hear, he continued, "Senior Hui... please keep your voice down."
Chiri Hui:?
In fact, Coach Kurosu heard everything and thought calmly: "Let's go back and give Huiduo some more catching tasks. I guess he won't be in the mood to think about this when he's tired."
At the same time, Gong You served for the second time.
He really felt good today. Firstly, Shiratorizawa's cheerleaders would not sing against the opponent like Fukuda Soso and Inarizaki's own people did. Secondly, the fans who used to dub him have completely quieted down after a few games. Apart from a few screams after scoring a serve, there are no major problems.
With the right time, right place and right people, Gong You feels he can get another five points!
With this feeling, he hit another jump serve -
"Next up! Yamagata-senpai is so reliable!" Midorikawa slammed his cheering stick hard in the stands, "So cool!!!"
"I don't know why," Yunohama tilted his head in confusion, "I always feel that Yamagata-senpai's expression is strange."
Midorikawa stared at it carefully for a moment, "...is there?"
Yunohama's eyes: "Yes, yes, right?"
There seems to be a strange feeling of guilt...?
——Yamagata Hayato was indeed feeling very complicated.
To describe it in one sentence is,
'A blind cat caught a dead mouse.'
He felt like he was going to miss the ball but he made a very good pass. Facing the praises of Senmi and Ohira for the good ball, he felt a little guilty.
The ball was passed to Jiancheng, and then Ushijima dunked it.
Shiratorizawa 1:1 Inarizaki, Miya You's serve was interrupted.
Midorikawa felt relieved, then looked towards his own court and saw who was walking towards the serving point.
"Senior Tendou." Midorikawa sighed, and then noticed cheers coming from all around.
Looked at the source -
As expected, Midorikawa twitched the corner of his mouth, "Inarizaki is really unique."
I remembered why the third-year senior who came to cheer with me said he didn't want to go against Inarizaki.
Cheering for the server... When it's your team's turn to serve, you hold your breath and concentrate, but when it's the other team's turn to serve, you make noise and interfere. Although it's a reasonable use of the rules, it's still...
“I hate this!”
A loud and vigorous voice came from the stands.
"Isn't that right, Akaashi?" The person who said this looked at the person next to him as if seeking advice.
People around him who recognized him were discussing in low voices.
"That's Bokuto, right... Owl Valley's main attacker?"
"Kurobuta Kotaro?" someone whispered. "I know he's very strong, about the same as Ushijima."
Hearing this, Kuroo puffed out his chest and said, "Talk more, he'd love to hear it."
Just when he was about to close his eyes and enjoy the praise, he heard those people talking again.
"But didn't Owl Valley lose to Inarizaki in the previous match?"
"Oh, then Ushijima is still stronger."
Katsuki: ...
Kurosaurus clenched his fist, "Damn it, sooner or later he'll defeat Ushijima, and Inarizaki too."
He started to burn with anger, while Akagi, who was entrusted by a bunch of seniors to take care of the "children", was silent for a few seconds, "Keep going."
I always feel like without saying a word, Senior Kurono has performed a big drama.
Although Orushi lost the game, they are a wealthy local family in Tokyo after all, so they are not in a hurry to return to school. Seeing that Ace is interested in the next game of Inarizaki, the others want to watch Oudai and Ichiyama, so they split into two groups, leaving Kurosabu to Akaashi, and they ran to Ichiyama.
"I don't want to hear Inarizaki's support at all." Komi Haruki was filled with emotion and patted Akaashi's shoulder, "So I'll leave Kyoto to you, Akaashi."
There was a look of entrusting him to "do a good job" in his eyes.
Akagi: "...Okay."
But, after all, it's still in the same venue...it's just a matter of distance and sound volume.
The memories ended here, and Akaashi turned his attention back to the competition field.
That red-haired outside hitter from Shiratorizawa is greeting... uh, Inarizaki's brass band?
"...Tendo should also give others a little Shiratorizawa shock." Kawakami stood on the bench, looked at the juniors and then at the coach's face, "We are still full of weirdos here."
"I finally understand why Tendou is playing number one," Ichinose sighed. "He's also one of those people who 'doesn't care about the players at all.'"
"Tendo is very sensitive to people's hearts, but he doesn't care about this aspect. However," Kawakami said with a little more curiosity, "Who are the rest of this contestant?"
Ichinose: "Tsurugi and Ushijima."
"……oh."
After the whistle blew, Tiantong Jue served the ball.
"I'll do it!" Akagi took the ball, "Yu!"
Gong You took a step forward with his right foot. The position was very good. He touched the ball and passed it out: "Azhi!"
It's a fast break, Miyaji jumped up and swung his right hand to prepare for a spike.
"Bang--"
Unlike the sound of hitting the ball as imagined, this sound was the crisp sound made by the volleyball landing on one's side of the court.
"...Huh?" Gong You's expression twisted. "When did he get over there? Isn't that too fast?"
"The blocking point is also very high." Miyaji said dimly, "So the rush attack at the start was completely seen through."
Gong You curled his lips: "That's because you are too slow."
After thinking for a moment, he quickly shifted the blame and began to exaggerate, "After all, can't you just run sideways from this side to the other side?"
Gong You turned his thumb downwards: "Slow down!"
Miyaji: ...
Miyaji's expression twisted: "Are you talking human language?"
"Besides, you didn't expect him to block the ball from there!"
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"Lucky!" Tendou came over and clapped hands with Jiancheng Xinyi, saying with a smile: "When the next ball is blocked, Xinyi-kun will also cover for me."
In response to this, the blue-haired setter's reaction was——
No response.
Tendo:?
Senmi passed by, thought for a few seconds and then said, "Maybe he saw the fish and humans arguing and so he was thinking."
Tiantong: "I see."
After he took a few steps, he came back as if rewinding
"...Then who is the fish and who is the human?" Tiantong asked in confusion.
Senmi pointed at the one with gray hair, "This one should be a fish."
Kenjo Shinichi corrected him: "No, even though Sam has yellow hair, the one with yellow hair this time is the fish."
Senmi: "Oh, okay."
Dahei Shiyin:......
Ohira Shion: "Don't just agree with the Sword City setting so easily, okay?"
Really, each and every one of them is unreliable. No, please stop indulging Kenjo Shinichi in adding to your own worldview, okay?
He turned to Ushijima as if seeking approval: "Right, Joli."
Ushijima deadpanned, "Time to serve."
Meticulous and serious, the most serious person in the audience appeared.
Dahei Shiyin:......
What on earth is our team doing?
He also fell into endless thinking.
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ps: Because this is a cheating article, Shiratorizawa will definitely win () first kneel down to other team fans (skilled.jpg) Red envelopes will be sent in the next chapter!
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