[Volleyball Boys] Moonlit Night

A group of people went to the small park noisily. They thought there would be many people watching the fireworks, but they were the only ones.It was time for the official start of the fireworks show, and suddenly the street lights in the small park were all darkened.

Before he had time to react to the sudden darkness, Yue Dao felt his clothes being pulled, and turned around: "What are you doing?"

Lin Xingning was stunned for a few seconds before withdrawing his hand. He was nervous and guilty, and replied stammeringly: "Scared... I was shocked."

"What's the matter?" Everyone asked questions about the situation.

At this moment, with a "bang!", a firework exploded in the sky not far away.

At this time, everyone realized that the lights in the small park were turned off to match the atmosphere of the fireworks display.

The dazzling light blooms in the shape of flowers, one by one.

Lin Xingning listened to the noise of everyone laughing and playing, and took a deep breath.

After the fireworks display, a group photo was taken, and everyone was about to leave.

Lin Xingning was about to go home to buy thick fish roast to bring to Yue Dao's mother, because the shop of thick fish roast was also very close to the entrance of the market, so she went there alone, and when she finished shopping and was about to go back, she was stopped by someone.

"That..." A boy in a bathrobe came over to strike up a conversation, "Hello, I noticed you just before the fireworks were set off, but I was a little nervous so I didn't come over to say hello.

"My name is Takagi Shinichi, and I go to high school nearby."

She remembered the little bastard Xigu had mentioned before, and replied a little cautiously: "Hello."

Takagi looked very happy, he took out his mobile phone: "What's your name, please, can you exchange numbers with me?"

Lin Xingning didn't have time to speak, when suddenly an arm was placed on Takagi's shoulder from behind, and Tanaka whispered in his ear, "Exchange numbers?"

Takagi was shocked.

Xigu took the phone from his phone and entered the numbers with a sneer: "Tell you my number as your father."

When they saw Takagi approaching Lin Xingning before, they were worried that the other party had bad intentions, but when they approached, they found that they were indeed striking up a conversation.

Tsukishima originally wanted to join in the fun, but noticed that Sawamura was walking this way with anger, and instead drove Lin Xingning back: "You are in trouble."

Lin Xingning looked back and saw Sawamura holding Tanaka and Nishiya's heads to apologize to them, and he did not refute with a guilty conscience.

Practice + tutoring seems to have become a routine for the Karasuno volleyball club.

After practice, the academic atmosphere in the club activity room was very strong. Sometimes Lin Xingning would discuss third-grade math problems with Sugawara, which gave a group of scumbags a headache.

However, as the final exams approached, the scumbags would soon no longer need to accept the devastation of formulas and theorems.The last night's tutoring was over, and Lin Xingning reminded before leaving: "It's best not to stay up late studying today, and it's over when you fall asleep during the exam tomorrow."

Quite admonishing the head teacher demeanor of college entrance examination candidates.

Hinata and Kageyama nodded obediently.

After returning home, Yue Dao's mother told Lin Xingning and Yue Dao to wash their hands quickly and go to dinner. She was going to attend a high school reunion tonight and would come home late.

Lin Xingning started the school’s daily sharing again. He raced against time to tell some interesting stories and told Yuedao about his condition. He followed from the living room to the entrance, and waited for Yuedao’s mother to change her shoes before reluctantly saying, “Be careful on the road~”

After the two of them had eaten and finished washing the dishes, Lin Xingning had no one to talk to. Instead, he lay on the back of the sofa with his head sideways in boredom, and asked Yue Dao a question for a while:

"Mon~ Have you finished your homework? Do you want to correct the answer?

"Have you solved the geometry problem of mathematics? Do you want me to teach you?

"Have you memorized the articles in ancient Chinese? I find it very difficult to memorize."

Yue Dao took a pillow from the sofa and stuffed her face: "The answer is wrong, I made it, and I memorized the article."

He added: "You find it hard to memorize because you're stupid."

When Lin Xingning knelt and sat up clutching the pillow, Yuedao had already gone upstairs.

"...Cut, stingy~"

For Tsukishima, he didn't have to worry about passing the difficulty of the final exam, so after finishing his homework, he planned to read a little before going to bed. He took out his notes from his bag, and as soon as he opened them, the light went dark.

Before his eyes could adapt to the dark environment, he heard a flurry of footsteps outside, and Lin Xingning knocked on the door hurriedly: "Yue? Yue! Is there a power outage?"

He opened the door, and Lin Xingning outside the door used the phone screen as a light source, with a flustered expression on his face.

"It may be due to maintenance of the nearby circuit." Tsukishima explained, "There will be electricity in about two or three hours."

"..."

Tsukishima felt that she was a little strange: "What's wrong?"

Lin Xingning hesitated and said, "Can Yue stay with me?"

Because what she said was ambiguous, she realized it after she finished speaking, and added: "...It will be fine when there is electricity."

oh?It was rare to see her in such a state, Yue Dao leaned against the door frame with a teasing mood: "Is this your attitude of begging for help?"

"Please, please, Tsukishima Hotaru-kun, the kindest person in the world!"

"The kindest Tsukishima Hotaru-kun in the world" commented: "It's too perfunctory, what's the reason?"

"...I'm afraid of the dark."

Finding a spare candle from the kitchen, Yue Dao took a glance at Lin Xingning, who followed him step by step with lighting on the phone screen, from the corner of his eye. He had some vague guesses about the reason why the other party was afraid of the dark, but he didn't pursue it.

Putting a lit candle on the coffee table, Tsukishima asked, "Is this okay?"

Lin Xingning nodded, shrank to one side of the couch in the living room, and looked at him expectantly.

"...Are you really just afraid of the dark?" Tsukishima sat down leaning on the armrest on the other side, resting his chin with one hand, "The reaction is too great."

She didn't answer, and the two sat quietly.

Originally, Tsukishima was not a person who had to talk to others, so he drew up a review course in his mind according to the time when the power was restored. If it was late, he should take a shower and go to bed first.

"...Yue." Lin Xingning said suddenly.

"Ah."

"It's okay, I just called you."

Tsukishima gave her a slightly disgusted look, but still didn't complain aloud.

The two were silent for a while, and Lin Xingning called out softly again: "Yue."

"……what?"

"Yue knows, right?" Facing Yue Dao's silent care, Lin Xingning was a little embarrassed. She had an inexplicable illusion that the serious illnesses in her heart were nothing. She paused for a while and said, "The reason why I transferred."

"Well, my mother told me before."

"Actually, after I was kidnapped...someone helped me escape," Lin Xingning seldom recalled the memory that frightened her, and said a little stammeringly, "She can only help me leave the kidnapper's foothold. I am alone. No means of transportation, in an unknown place, not knowing where to go.

"Fortunately, there is a big abandoned factory nearby. In the end, I fled to a factory building and hid inside the machine pipeline." When she said this, she seemed to see endless darkness again, and her fear had been firmly fixed. It is firmly engraved in the depths of her soul, almost turning into substance.

She has no tendency to self-abuse, and she doesn't like to indulge in negative emotions, so she hardly recalls this incident, and sometimes she will quickly avoid it if she accidentally thinks about it.

"...Are you okay?" Yue Dao saw her eyes closed by candlelight.

She said silently in her heart: It's over, it's all right, I'm safe now.

Lin Xingning opened his eyes: "It's okay."

"The kidnappers also went to the factory to look for it. I was lucky not to be found. The police found it about eleven hours later...the police told me how long it took."

She skipped the most desperate story in the middle and said like a summary report: "I didn't suffer physical damage, but I became afraid of the dark. I went to the hospital for a psychiatric examination and said it was PTSD, but it was not serious enough to require daily medication. That's it~"

Lin Xingning doesn't like to pass on his negative and bad emotions to others. After changing the topic, he talked about other things: "However, a bad sense of direction is always a problem, and it has nothing to do with it."

After talking about the previous incident, Lin Xingning immediately suppressed her emotions and returned to her usual optimistic and energetic appearance.

As usual, she pursed her lips slightly with a smile, and her feigned brisk tone made Tsukishima a little annoyed.

After all, the two of them have been together for a long time, not to mention that he is not a really indifferent person, and he still regards her as a friend to some extent - even if he does not regard her as a friend, what is the matter with this attitude?Even if he talked about the most frightening and sad things, he didn't give others any room to worry. He didn't even show any worry, and he felt the other party's rejection.

Fiery.

"Be sad when you're sad, cry when you want to cry," Yue Dao stood up and looked down at her, his tone full of disgust and impatience, "No one insists on seeing you smile."

Lin Xingning felt the comfort of the "Yuedao style", her nose was sour, and she flattened her mouth: "Who wants to cry."

He walked to the side of the coffee table and took a tissue and threw it at Lin Xingning: "Don't worry, anyway, I'm the type who will 'pretend not to see'."

"..."

After 15 minutes

"too long!"

"It's so annoying, what's wrong!" Lin Xingning blew his nose very rudely.

"...Do you still want tissues?"

"……need."

When Yue Dao's mother came back that night, the power supply had been restored at home. She found traces of candles left on the tea table and knocked on her son's door.

Tsukishima briefly talked about the power outage.

"I forgot to tell Yingxing Ning that I was afraid of the dark before, and there is a flashlight in the storage room." Mother Yuedao felt a little annoyed and blamed herself.

Yue Dao was a little surprised that his mother knew: "Did Lin himself tell his mother about the fear of the dark?"

"Mr. Lin told me that Xingning didn't mention it once. Maybe he got used to Mr. Lin since he was a child..." Yuedao's mother suddenly realized that it was not good to tell her son who was still in high school about the right and wrong of adults, so she changed her words. Anyway, it’s fine, Yingying go to bed early, good night.”

"...Well, good night Mom."