[Volleyball] Black and White

An hour before the official start of the national competition is a brief opening ceremony, which is nothing more than representatives of athletes and referees going up to speak, usually not more than half an hour.When the host of the opening ceremony read the name of Bingdi, everyone in Bingdi felt the eyes of everyone watching.

Tsukasa Sakakihara stood at the front, holding the board with the words "Hyodi Gakuen" written on it on the ground, and calmly accepted everyone's glances.

After all the [-] participating teams were introduced, and the referee representatives finished speaking, the host read out the names of the athlete representatives.

"...Sakusa from Idaiyama High School."

Tsukasa Sakakihara raised his eyebrows, watching Sakusa walking up steadily with a piece of paper, behind him Sato Kei reached out to poke Tsukasa Sakakihara's back, and said in a low voice, "That Sakusa, is it right?" What did Kobayashi say last time?"

"En?" Sakakibara tilted his head slightly, "Which time?"

"I met them at the entrance of the East Auditorium during the regional qualifier draw." Yuan Xiaolin added, "I mentioned it to Sato and the others when I came back."

Sakakihara nodded: "It's him, and you didn't pay attention, right?" Sakakihara turned his attention to Sakusa, who was reciting the unchanging athlete's oath with a serious face, "When we were in the Metropolitan Competition and the Kanto Competition, well Kaishan has all been to the game.”

"I know about the Kanto competition..." Sato Hui thought for a while, but he still didn't have much of an impression, "But the Du competition? What are Jingdashan people doing here?"

Sakakibara shrugged, "I don't know."

Without saying a few words, the higher-ups announced that the IH National Competition had officially started. There was no Ice Emperor's competition in the morning, but Xiaogu and Qingye Chengxi.After discussing with several other people, Sakakihara Division decided to split into two routes to watch the games of the two schools. Sakakihara Division and the first graders stayed at the Owl Valley field, while the third and second graders went to the stands in the west of Aoba Castle. .

Both games ended with two teams winning. Aoba Josai eliminated the school from Tottori 3:1, and Owl Valley eliminated the team from Aichi with a big score of 3:0.

Sakakihara has long known that when they are improving, other teams will not be idle. The level shown by Xiaogu in the game just now is much better than that in the Kanto competition.but……

Sakakihara stood up with his hands in his pockets and walked towards the exit of the safe passage with a firm expression.

The ice emperor can only win, not lose!

"Asi!" Kobayashi Yuan and others stood at the entrance of the stadium and waved, and Sakakihara and others walked a few steps to join them.Yuan Kobayashi handed over a box of milk in an orange package, and Tsukasa Sakakihara looked through it.

"I heard from the juniors in my student union that the new condensed milk tastes good. I just bought it for you when I saw it in the vending machine." Kobayashi Yuan smiled and waited for Sakakihara to taste the milk.

Sakakihara looked at the package again, then pricked it open with a straw and took a sip: "Hmm... the package is ugly, but the taste is good."

"Look, I said that Asi will definitely dislike this orange packaging." Irijiang Ze smiled and glanced at Sakakihara Division, and then continued, "Asi's aesthetics has always been different from others, and the packaging is obviously pretty... ..."

Sakakibara looked at Irie with disdain, and then took a few more sips slowly: "Senior Irie, feel your conscience and say it again, please?"

"Irie doesn't have that kind of thing at all, hahaha!" Sato Kei complained unceremoniously and laughed to himself.

Irijiang Ze stretched out his hand and shaved the back of Sato Comet's head: "Every day, there is no one who is positive."

Sakakihara bit the straw and turned his eyes, just happened to meet Kobayashi Yuan's worried face, and leaned over to touch Kobayashi Yuan's shoulder: "Senior, why do you have such an expression?"

Xiao Linyuan glanced at the smiling expression just now, and sighed faintly: "The children are all grown up, and the older they are, the less cute they are. Hey, Dad is so sad."

Sato Comet: "Hi!"

Enter Jiangze: "Who is the father!"

The seniors acted stupidly over there, and a few people in the lower grades imitated Koizumi's double eyelids and looked at some seniors who didn't take medicine.After joking, Sakakihara raised his hand and looked at his watch. There were still five hours before their game in the afternoon. He turned his head and glanced at Koizumi who was walking at the end: "Koizumi, did we bring our ball?"

Koizumi Hui nodded: "It's in the car, do you want to train?"

Sakakihara waved his hand, then turned to look at his teammates standing beside him: "There are still five hours before the game in the afternoon, let's go back and rest first, and we will be directly at the Tokyo Gymnasium at two o'clock in the afternoon... Well, we will meet here, and then You should be able to arrive at our game around 03:30, so come to practice an hour and a half earlier.”

"Where's the car? Won't you drive back?" Mingqian Haoping asked.

Secretary Sakakihara thought for a while: "The bus will not drive back, do seniors have a home far away?"

"Don't be so troublesome," Ru Jiangze pushed his glasses, "My house is only two streets away from here, and it takes about 15 minutes to walk there."

"Then—does anyone want to go home and rest?" Tsukasa Sakakihara looked around at everyone, and all of them shook their heads in response, "Then I will disturb Senior Irie."

After lunch at Irie's house at noon, I rested for more than an hour. At almost two o'clock, Ice Emperor ran all the way to the Tokyo Gymnasium. Koizumi went to the bus in the parking lot to pick up volleyballs. Sakakihara and the others found an open space to start. Active body prepares for pre-match warm-up exercises.

Just as Tsukasa Sakakihara dunked the ball towards Tetsuro Kurobi and Ayuki Shimizu on the opposite side, there was a sound of playfulness behind him.Yusheng Shimizu hit Sakakihara's spike back high so that Sakakihara could continue to dunk, but Sakakihara reached out and hugged the ball and looked back.

What came was a team with uniforms that Sakakihara had never seen before. Just as he was about to turn his head and continue training Kuroyu and Shimizu's catch, the group of people behind them made a sound.

"Ice Emperor's?"

Tsukasa Sakakihara signaled the others to continue practicing, threw the ball to Tetsuro Kuroyu, turned around and took a closer look at the opponent's uniform, and then he glanced at the word "houji" that he hadn't noticed before, and then he was seen by Tsukasa Sakakihara .I read it silently in my heart, raised my eyebrows slightly: "Sitianbao Temple?"

Standing at the front was a tall boy with a head of maroon hair, whose visual height was about 185 like him, and the other party nodded at Sakakiharaji.Sakakihara Division didn't have much impression of him, he was probably a senior in the third grade.With this in mind, he watched the Shitenbaoji team leave. The last person walking should be the manager of Shitenbaoji. His rare silver-white long hair was tied into a ponytail and hung down to his waist. After watching for a few seconds, the other party looked away first.

Ji Sakakihara didn't take this episode to heart either. He just wanted to meet his opponents before the match, and there was nothing worth caring about.

Soon Kei Koizumi ran over from the registration staff to inform that the game would start 15 minutes later. Secretary Sakakihara looked at his teammates who were sweating a little and nodded to show that he knew. He clapped his hands to attract everyone's attention: " Alright everyone, let’s stop for a while, the game will start in 15 minutes, go to the lounge to take a rest and replenish some water to prepare for the game.”

"ushi—" some uneven answers.

Sakakibara put the ball in his hand into the net opened by Koizumi Kei, picked up his coat and bag from the bench next to him, and led the team from the athlete's passage into the lounge inside.

The lounge of the Tokyo Gymnasium is much better than the lounge of the previous competition venues. It is not only spacious, but also provides towels, sports drinks, etc.However, the sports drinks in the lounge have been replaced by Megumi Koizumi and Kitamura with the ones bought with company expenses, which are specially recommended by the tennis club.

When Koizumi went to buy this sports drink with Kitamura, he gritted his teeth and looked at the price list: "As expected, it is recommended by the tennis club, and even the price is different from others."

Just in case, Koizumi prepared light salt water with the same level as everyone else. Not long after Koizumi left, the door of the lounge was pushed open by the vice referee who was waiting for the match between Hidei and Shitenbaoji .After filling out the stationing form, Sakakihara Division waited for the vice referee to leave and briefly talked about the opening style of play for a while. As the number one setter in the country, Sakakihara Division completed it in this sleepover with the tennis club. A transition from setter to main attacker.

The more than one week of training allowed Kobayashi Haru and Sakakihara to cooperate very tacitly. Whether Sakakihara is playing left-handed or right-handed, Kobayashi Haru has already mastered the most comfortable hitting point of Sakakihara-or rather, Kobayashi Yuan. While looking for Sakakihara's hitting point, Sakakihara is also adjusting his hitting point to match Kobayashi's toss.

Kobayashi Yuan, who once jokingly said that he wanted to be compared with the setter of Ching Hai High School, has now been praised by Sakakihara Division. That setter from Ching Hai before, in my opinion."

For Kobayashi Yuan, Sakakihara's affirmation of his setter skills is much more important than connecting the ball to the attacker to score.I have always thought that it is a luxury for me to be the master setter and ask Sakakihara to support me. In fact, Kobayashi Yuan is also under a lot of pressure. Heard it countless times.Kobayashi Yuan is a person who can transform pressure into motivation. The greater the pressure, the more motivation, not to mention the junior Sakakihara who has been walking in the front. Xiao Linyuan feels that he can make rapid progress in such a short period of time, thanks to After Ice Emperor, there is Sakakihara Division.

Looking down at Si Sakakihara, who was sitting next to him, holding his fingers and lowering his head, carefully wrapped his knuckles with tape, Kobayashi Yuanwen smiled softly.There are several swirls on the top of Sakakihara Division's head. I heard that people with swirls on their heads are very smart. Kobayashi stared at the top of Sakakihara Division's head in a daze.

As soon as Sakakihara raised his head, he saw Kobayashi Yuan in a daze. He stretched out his hand and waved in front of his eyes: "Senior, what are you thinking?"

After Kobayashi came back to his senses, he touched Sakakihara's hair subconsciously. Before the training camp, Sakakihara cut his hair short. Now it has grown a little, although it is still not as long as the previous broken hair, but it still feels good.

"It's nothing, I was thinking that Asi's hair is so soft, he must have a soft heart." Xiao Linyuan joked with a smile.

Tsukasa Sakakihara rolled his eyes, and threw back Kobayashi Yuan's hand, which was still in his palm: "It's wrapped up, senior, hurry up and wear knee pads."

Compared with wrapping Kobayashi Haruka's knuckles, Sakakihara's movements were much more agile when wrapping himself. With his teeth, the tape was about to be broken and stuffed into the side of the bag. Pants, revealing straight and slender legs.

After taking off his trousers, Sakakihara began to wear knee pads to adjust the position of the knee pads. Sakakihara’s knee pads were a little different from other people’s, mainly because Sakakihara’s own judgment was very accurate, and he moved fast, and the protection was also in place. It is rare to kneel down or dive to save the ball.

Looking at Sakakihara who had put on the knee pads, Shimizu couldn't help poking the thin strip of knee pads just below the knee: "Every time I look at Asdai's knee pads, I find it amazing that such a narrow strip can protect What's the matter? We have bruises on our knees wearing knee pads every time after the game, and Asi can't even see any red."

Sakakihara had a meaningful expression on his face: "I think it might be because your legs are too thick."

Everyone: "..." The map gun is not very good, hey!

"Okay, let's go!" Sakakihara stood up and looked at his teammates.

The others also looked at each other, reaching out their hands together in a very tacit understanding.

"ice King--!"

"come on--!!"