[Volleyball Boys] Moonlit Night

Because Yue Dao would not talk about his situation at school at home, let alone the team's game, so Ming Guang learned about his younger brother's game today from Lin Xingning.Considering that he was about to go to Sendai for work, he said to her, "Well... I don't think Yingying should have talked to Xingning, there is something."

"Ok?"

"Ah, how should I put it?" Mingguang scratched his head a little nervously, "Actually Yingying used to have a more cheerful personality, and it's mainly because my brother didn't..."

"Wait a minute, brother," Lin Xingning interrupted him, "is it very important?"

"Uh... yeah."

"Then you don't need my brother to tell me. When Yue wants me to know, he will tell me himself."

Ming Guang didn't expect such a result, he nodded in a daze.

That's what she said, but she still cared a little bit in her heart. When the two of them were doing their homework together, they looked conflicted again.

But this time before Yue Dao complained, Lin Xingning spoke first: "Well, today my brother originally wanted to tell me something related to Yue, but I still wanted to hear Yue tell me, so I didn't listen to my brother."

He probably knew what his brother was going to say, so he was silent for a while. She thought it was Yue Dao who didn't want to say it, and added in a panic: "It doesn't matter if Yue doesn't want to say it."

"It's nothing, and it's not an important thing." After Yue Dao finished speaking, he realized that his tone of saying this sentence was a bit like that of Lin Xingning.

He roughly talked about when his brother played volleyball in high school, because he had always looked forward to him as the ace of the team, so he had to lie like being driven out of a duck, and then used more lies to round up the original one until the lie was punctured.

"When I came back from the Tokyo expedition in the summer vacation, I already talked about it with my brother, so it's nothing..." Tsukishima raised half of his eyebrows, "What kind of expression are you looking at when you look at the sad eight o'clock?"

Lin Xingning rubbed his face: "How could it be nothing! My brother killed the hero in Yuexin!"

"What does that describe? And isn't 'nothing' your everyday state?"

"Didn't Yue regard my brother as a hero?" Lin Xingning directly ignored the complaints to himself, and put his chin on the low table as if he didn't hear it. Be that kind of person."

Yue Dao was noncommittal: "Most people will have it at the stage of the little ghost head, the hero in fantasy?"

"I do not have to die."

He answered unsurprisingly: "I guessed it, after all your dream is to become a magical girl."

"...That is to say!" Lin Xingning straightened up and made a face at him, then said hesitantly, "Most people, when they were young, would regard the elders around them as heroes."

She is still a little rusty about telling her feelings, but Tsukishima confessed her own affairs, so she hopes to express her trust in him equally: "Although Dad is not the hero in my fantasy, he is a standard negative teaching material... ...that kind of feeling."

"... Huh?" Actually, Tsukishima felt that she might say something about herself, but the content was a bit unexpected.

"Since I was a child, maybe because my father didn't pay much attention to me, I was a little rebellious and naive thinking that I would never become a person like him..."

What kind of father would let his daughter have such thoughts, isn't he too incompetent?Tsukishima frowned.

"There are reasons for this, plus I'm afraid that I can't bear the pain of losing my lover like him." Lin Xingning scratched his head a little embarrassedly, "It's not that I don't trust Yue, but there are too many variables in the future, and there will still be possible……"

She got stuck at this point, took a deep breath before continuing: "It is still possible to separate from Yue... The reason why I confessed so directly is because I thought that even if I have to bear such pain, it is worth it— —In the past, I always felt that way, and I was always preparing to say goodbye to Yue with a smile when that day came. I hope that the last impression left on you is also the good side.

"But Yue came to pick me up that night...Suddenly I was afraid that I would not be able to do it in the future, and I couldn't imagine what would happen to me without Yue." Lin Xingning looked up at the ceiling, recalling his feelings at that time, "Maybe Will I become like my dad—escaping from reality and immersing myself in grief? This is about the last thing I want to happen, and then inexplicably fell into an infinite loop.”

Tsukishima's focus is on: "Have you been preparing to break up with me when we never had an argument?"

"No! It is necessary to be mentally prepared," Lin Xingning analyzed with his fingers, "The original love is caused by the secretion of dopamine in the brain. According to the law, there will be a period of burnout after 7 years. Besides, maintaining the relationship between the two parties requires continuous efforts, but it must be destroyed. Only one time is enough, so in terms of probability..."

Seeing Yue Dao's obviously angry expression, she withdrew her hand weakly: "One last thing to say."

"You said."

"If you don't like me one day, you can tell me directly. I don't want you to force yourself to be with me because of a sense of responsibility or some other reason... I'm done."

Tsukishima was already a little angry with her theoretical analysis, but now she is even more unhappy.

But he didn't lose his temper, but asked unhappily: "Because there is something that I haven't done well, does it make you feel insecure?"

"Huh?" Lin Xingning didn't realize why he said that, and Yue Dao pressed his head and hugged him in the next second, "What...what's wrong?"

"I will only say these words once," Tsukishima coughed unnaturally, "I replied to you after confirming my feelings before, and it was not on a whim or for any other reason... Although you are a bit troublesome, But I don't hate it, I even... like it."

——In fact, her fear did not come from Tsukishima's attitude. Although he never said anything like liking him, she could feel his heart from the other party's attitude and behavior.

What she is afraid of is that if she is found out that she is not as good as she shows, if she will have undue jealousy, anger, greed, if she does wrong and bad things... Will she be hated?

But listening to his fast heartbeat, Lin Xingning closed his eyes, but still didn't say anything.

The next day against He Jiunan, the game had not officially started, Lin Xingning greeted Shimada and Saeko after arriving at the auditorium.

After Saeko and Shimada greeted each other, they shouted Tanaka's name and rushed to the court to wave: "Hey! Dragon!"

Lin Xingning followed suit and waved: "Yo! Moon!"

Then Tsukishima frowned and stared at him.

She didn't care, and kept smiling until the other party couldn't hold back anymore, and turned his back helplessly.

After noticing this scene, Tanaka and Nishiya rushed to beat Yuedao's back angrily: "Don't worry, I'm getting carried away!!!"

Soon after the start of the game, the two sides gradually became tense, and the fast-paced offense and defense alternated people began to rely on instinct. Sawamura and Tanaka collided with each other because of emergency rescue.

Tanaka only hit his shoulder, while Sawamura hit his face.

The players around Karasuno, as well as the coaches, supervisors, and managers around him all surrounded him and anxiously asked him if it was all right. Takeda-sensei also asked a lot of questions for fear that he might have a concussion.

Sawamura realized that he would be substituted, and for some reason, remembered: "A human skull can withstand 200 to 500 kilograms..."

"What are you bearing! Go to the infirmary!"

After being scolded, Sawamura was a little embarrassed. He felt a strange feeling in his mouth besides the pain, and spit out a bloody tooth...

"...Go to the infirmary!!!"

Coach Wu Yang and Lin Xingning accompanied Sawamura to the infirmary. There was no concussion in the preliminary examination, but the bleeding in the mouth was a bit serious. Coach Wu Yang went back to the field first, and Lin Xingning stayed in the infirmary with him.

Seeing that Sawamura had stuffed cotton in his mouth to stop the bleeding, she comforted her, "Don't worry, Senior Dadi, there will definitely be a good result."

Sawamura forced a smile: "Hmm..."

She really wasn't very good at comforting people, so she stopped talking and quietly watched the doctor in the infirmary put gauze on Sawamura.

"Bite the cotton tightly, let me take another look after ten minutes or so if you don't feel the bleeding." The doctor finished putting on the gauze and ordered again.

Sawamura nodded to show that he understood, but it could be seen from his expression that he was still restless inside.

"Senior Dadi has been tense, and there is no way to let the body rest well." Lin Xingning glanced at the time, "I am not very good at saying things that cheer me up, but judging from the current situation, The best thing to do is to rest and recover and get back on the court in the best possible condition...so rest!"

What else can Sawamura say, except that she's right, he can't speak...

Lin Xingning went to ask the doctor for some emergency treatment methods for accidental injuries—during games, the players would also have some physical collisions, but she had never encountered such a serious state, so she hadn't paid much attention to it before.

After the bleeding stopped, the doctor checked Sawamura again and finally confirmed that there was no problem.

He hurried to the arena, and Lin Xingning trotted to keep up: "Senior Dadi, please warm up well, don't be brave!"

"I see." Sawamura hurried to the gate of the arena, but stopped after opening the door.

"what happened?"

He looked at Yuanxia on the field, integrated into the team through his own efforts, and gradually became a commander who trusted and was trusted by his teammates. His anxiety gradually faded, and he smiled softly: "Even if I'm not here, those The guy can cheer up too."

"Huh? Huh." Lin Xingning glanced at the court and took a few small breaths.

Sawamura noticed: "Sorry, I was too anxious just now and didn't take care of you."

Lin Xingning put his hips on his hips and raised half of his eyebrows: "What are you talking about! Senior is still a wounded person, did you say such things just because I am a girl? Don't look down on the manager's work!"

"Yes, sorry," Sawamura said after apologizing, "By the way, the tone and demeanor of Lin-chan's words just now are similar to Tsukishima's."

"Eh? Really?" Lin Xingning pondered for a while, then put on a disgusted face, "Who looks like that guy."

Sawamura gave a thumbs up: "Exactly the same."