[Volleyball] Black and White

Tsukasa Sakakihara did not expect that Kei Sato, who looked the most likely to fail a subject, would be the one who was always in the top ten of his grades. On the contrary, Nie Jiangze, who seemed more reliable, was very hard at Chinese.

"Senior Irie really impressed me." Tsukasa Sakakihara sighed for a while.

Entering Jiangze was a little annoyed by Sakakihara's exclamation: "I can pass the exam, but I won't fail!"

While drinking milk, Tsukasa Sakakibara looked at him incredulously, and then said, "Senior, why on earth do you think that you just failed to pass the exam in Hyotei? Also, senior is already in the third grade and is about to take the exam, so you... ...tsk."

Tusk!

A cross appeared on Jiang Ze's face.

"Asi probably didn't notice it, but this guy," Sato Hui pointed to Jiang Ze, "actually, he has already received the admission notice from the Chemistry Department of Dongda University."

"Huh?" Division Sakakibara opened his eyes wide, "Senior Irie? Department of Chemistry, University of Tokyo?"

Seeing Sakakihara's appearance like this, Satou Hui couldn't help laughing: "I know you must never pay attention to the notice board over there, but this guy's photo has been posted there all the time, the gold medal in the National Chemistry Competition, and so on. Selected to the national team for the chemistry competition."

Sakakihara's expression went blank for a moment.

"So in fact, in our volleyball club, we don't need to consider your grades at all, right?" Sakakihara sat on the ground with his back straight, and his whole body looked as energetic as a tall cypress. What is the purpose of my 'barely passing' thing?"

Entering Jiangze, thinking of his Chinese teacher, he pushed his glasses and said expressionlessly, "In order to prepare yourself mentally when the teacher looks for you."

"...Where is Supervisor Xiangyuan?" Shouldn't you usually go to the supervisor for this kind of thing?

"At times like this, the supervisor can't find anyone." Xiao Linyuan smiled tenderly.

——So he was tricked out of nowhere, right?

The empty milk jug in Tsukasa Sakakibara's hands was crushed.

This week's part-worker, Sakakibara, did not go to additional training. Instead, other people asked for an extension of the part-time work.After extending the club work for half an hour for two consecutive days, Sakakihara stopped this behavior, just because everyone still has their own practice in the club after the club work, which will do more harm than good for them who are about to compete.

It's not that other people don't know, they just don't want to leave regrets for themselves, so they want to work harder.

Five days passed quickly, and eleven people re-entered the arena.When Sakakihara took a pen to sign in, a group of people in blue sportswear stood behind the ice emperor team.

Tsukasa Sakakibara put down his pen and glanced sideways inadvertently, then stood there without moving. When other people saw Tsukasa Sakakihara looking behind him, they also looked back.

The school they came to was their opponent in this game, Orson High School, the top [-] of the Tokyo Metropolitan Competition last year.

Tsukasa Sakakihara had seen the video of their competition in Tokyo last year, all thanks to Atobe of the decathlon, and he didn't know where he got the video from.

Secretary Sakakihara and the person walking in front of Orson High School looked at each other, then looked away calmly: "Let's go." There was no intention of saying hello to each other, and the gray-haired boy just glanced at Sakakihara With the back of the secretary, he bent down to sign in with a pen.

After finishing the warm-up activities, he took a rest in the lounge, and Sakakihara and others returned to the side of the field. The game on Court No. 10 was about to end. Sakakihara looked at the watch hanging in the stadium, and it was 30:[-].

"Do you feel hungry?" Sakakihara asked his teammates in a low voice.

"I didn't feel hungry, I just felt excited." Ru Jiangze pushed his glasses, with a hint of joking.

Sakakibara squinted his eyes slightly and looked at the blue team jersey who was already standing opposite: "Just be excited." This game will not be too difficult, it's just that there is no chance to come off the bench.

The final whistle of the last game sounded, and the two teams on the field heard the announcement after saluting.

"Court No. [-], Ice Emperor vs. Orson."

Wearing only a long-sleeved jacket, Sakakihara walked up to the referee and distributed the ball rights to the opponent's No. [-], the captain of Orson. Sakakihara guessed the positive and negative of the coin, and then decisively chose the ball. .

So what if the side that catches the ball first goes first?There is no chance to attack, so what advantage is there?

Sakakihara returned to the coach's bench with a pen and a pre-match form, and lowered his head to cover the smile on his lips.

While filling out the form, he spoke to his teammates: "As usual, I will play the [-]nd and [-]th gear. I will start in the first position. The position is the same as that of Kamada in the first game. The seniors will replace Kuroyu in the front row, and Kuroyu is ready at any time. After filling out the form and capping the pen, Sakakihara looked up at Kobayashi Yuan, "Senior Kobayashi may need to judge who to pass the ball to, and everyone on the field who has a chance to attack must hold 'this ball is passed to me. ' Think about attacking, but be careful not to get yourself hurt."

"We are already very proficient at attacking multiple points at the same time. No matter who the ball is passed to, don't hesitate. If the opponent's serve hits the net in the front row, and Senior Kobayashi touches the ball, I will respond. Don't think too much about it ,do you understand?"

"ushi—"

The game starts soon.

Tsukasa Sakakihara patted the ball to test the feel. He started at the No. [-] position, and he never made a mistake on the first ball!

5:0, this score that will definitely appear as long as Sakakihara serves in the first position makes everyone in the stands cheer.

Sakakihara, who was holding the ball, frowned slightly, and after a long sigh of relief, decided to continue hitting his jump serve with the next ball.

Because there are too many participating teams in ih's regional qualifiers, they all adopt the single elimination system (Note 1), which means that they cannot lose a single game in Group A.

So when Sakakihara felt that he was in a very good state, he did not choose a conservative ordinary jump.

At the moment of take-off, Sakakibara knew that there was nothing wrong with the ball. Orson's No. [-] face was a bit ugly after six such hard-to-receive serves.The ball was caught, but there was no opportunity to attack.

"Opportunity ball!" Ru Jiangze shouted and picked up a pass.

Comet Sato and Iriezawa in the front row ran at the same time when Kobayashi Haru reached out to pass the ball, and Sakakihara moved forward to protect the space behind Iriezawa.

The offensive opportunity was given to Comet Sato, and the opponent's block was a step slower, but still touched the ball.

Sakakihara had no expression on his face, and he couldn't see his emotions at this time: "Also, pay attention to the block in the front row!"

The player in the opponent's second position has already taken off and is ready to attack.

The shot was a slash, and Sakakihara could clearly see that the ball was out of bounds from his position, so he immediately reminded loudly: "Out!"

Standing on the path of the ball, Ze Jiang squatted down quickly, and the line referee raised the flag in his hand to indicate that the ball landed out of bounds.

"Senior's squatting posture is fast and standard." Sakakihara took the ball thrown to him by the linesman and laughed at Ru Jiang Ze's movements.

Entering Jiangze and Xiao Linyuan who came over clapped their hands, then turned their heads and snorted coldly: "After all, there is a captain in our team who often punishes people to leapfrog."

Sakakihara endured a smile and walked towards the bottom line.

After scoring six points in a row, Orson called a timeout when he was about to serve.

Throwing the ball back to the linesman, Sakakihara and other six people returned to the referee's seat, and took the towel and water cup handed over by Kuroo and the others.Sakakihara put a towel around his neck and began to analyze the shortcoming of the ball just now and the opposite side. Sakakihara's six balls were sent in different directions, and he also tried the weakest part of the first pass on the field.

The timeout ended, and Sakakihara stood on the baseline ready to serve.

An ordinary jump serve, the Orson player who is also No. [-] like Sakakihara, missed the catch, and the ball flew out of bounds.

"Chance ball!"

The opponent gave up the attack, and Sakakihara Division received the pass.Ryo Kobayashi mouthed to Sakakibara: Attack.

The latter clearly took a step when Xiao Linyuan touched the ball, and took off with precision before stepping on the three-meter line and smashed the ball with his arms.The ball was kicked to the back row, and the opponent's free agent saved the ball back. The second pass was obviously too late to pass the ball, and the responding man passed the ball to the net.

"Right!" Sato concluded decisively, and the three in the front row blocked the net and jumped at the same time as the opponent.

The block went out of bounds, and Orson scored his first point since the start, 1:6.

After giving each other high fives to comfort each other, the six of them stood back to their original positions and prepared to pass a pass.

The score of the first game will always be caught up by Orson after Ice Emperor pulls away. After two game points in a row, Ice Emperor kept the score at 26:24.

During the short break after the exchange of venues, Sakakibara spoke out about the big problem that occurred in the last game, and then straightforwardly called the opponent's No. [-]: "The opponent's No. [-], the first pass is worse than Sato-senpai, and all the serves are given I will send it over there. When number four is in the front row, aim at the place in the middle of the two positions, and try to send it to that place, and I have also seen that they made a few mistakes because of two people grabbing the ball in the last game."

Xiao Linyuan pointed to the front of the net: "Also, when you were blocking the net before, your arm was not straightened in the river, and you almost touched the net belt several times when you fell down."

"Pay attention to this, don't get a penalty for touching the net just because we blocked the net." Sakakihara nodded and added, "The last game was very good, just play like this, we are much better than them."

Mingqian Haoping wiped the sweat from his forehead with a towel, and couldn't help complaining: "Little Minister, how did you say that you are much better than them in the face of 26:24?"

Sakaki · Of course · Haraji: "If we win, it means we are much better than them."

Mingqian Haoping: "..." What you said is so reasonable, but you can't refute it.

Sakakihara threw the towel back on the bench, put down the water glass, turned his head and raised his eyebrows slightly, a gentle man with a smile on his lips, but the words he said were not so gentle: "It's just a stumbling block, it won't let you People are afraid, what should I do? Of course - kick it away."

The last sentence spoke loudly.