[Volleyball Boys] Moonlit Night

After physical education class the next day, when the girls were changing in the women's locker room, Masa Oshima came to Lin Xingning: "Xingning, just now Mr. Yuedao asked me to wait after school and said he would reply to me."

"Huh?" Lin Xingning blinked, but he didn't expect him to reply so quickly, "Ah, that's it."

"Can Xingning accompany me?"

Da Dao looked a little nervous and excited, Lin Xingning really didn't know what to say, so he nodded, "Okay."

She didn't quite understand what it was like to like someone, but she probably understood what it was like to be disappointed after being full of expectations, so she felt a little guilty towards Oshima.If I could tell her the result in advance, maybe she wouldn't be too sad afterwards.

But it would be strange to say such words from her own mouth, so she still didn't say anything.

After school, Shankou didn't take the initiative to ask Yue Dao to go to club activities together, but stood in the corridor outside the classroom. It seems that Yue Dao had greeted him in advance. Lin Xingning saw that the other students had left, so he also went to the corridor and Shan Kou Let's wait together.

She also inquired about it by the way: "Yamaguchi-kun, Yue should still be very popular with girls, and he is very experienced in receiving love letters, right? Even if he looks cold, has a bad mouth, and is angry."

"These descriptions... Yue often receives love letters from girls, but," Yamaguchi scratched the back of his head, "is Lin Sang angry with him?"

"Well...not really." Lin Xingning leaned his back against the wall, "I just feel a little sad."

"why?"

Before she could answer, Tsukishima opened the classroom door and came out: "Let's go."

Lin Xingning was stunned, so fast?She glanced inside, Oshima was still in the classroom.

"Well...Yamaguchi-kun and Yue go first...I'll take Xiaoya home first, and I'll go to the gym later."

"Okay." After Yamaguchi replied, he and Tsukishima went to the gymnasium first.

Lin Xingning looked at Da Dao's back and took a deep breath: "That...Xiaoya, are you okay?"

Da Dao heard the voice, quickly lowered his head and wiped away his tears: "It's okay."

Lin Xingning stood for a while: "I'll take you home."

"Well, thank you."

The two of them were walking on the way to the station, Lin Xingning always wanted to say something, but on the one hand, she was not good at comforting others, on the other hand, for some reason, all the words came to her lips, but she just couldn't say them.

In the end, Oshima was the first to break the silence: "Actually, I know I will be rejected, but I still want to tell Tsukishima-kun and express my heart."

She stopped here, and her heart kept churning up as if with sharp emotions, and it hurts just to touch it a little bit.

She took a long breath to restrain her sad emotions, but when she turned her head and saw Lin Xingning's expression, she couldn't help being amused: "Why are you so sad?"

"Because... Xiaoya looks very sad."

"It's okay," Oshima tried to maintain a smile, "Tsukishima-kun thanked me and said thank you for my kindness, but I'm still sorry, there is no way to reciprocate my feelings."

"...That's it."

"Because I conveyed my heart well to Tsukishima-kun, so I'm still very happy," Oshima's eyes slowly turned red as he spoke, and tears fell again, "But it's still true that I was rejected. You will be sad...Okay, I won’t talk about it, don’t look so sad.”

"Um……"

The two walked near the station, and Oshima said, "Let's go here, I'll go to the station to take the train."

"Hmm." Lin Xingning wanted to comfort her, but didn't know what to say, so he stepped forward and hugged her.

"Thank you," Oshima also hugged her back, "See you tomorrow."

After the two said goodbye, Lin Xingning walked back.

Although her friends had problems with emotional frustration before, she had never seen such a situation where she had to express her heart even though she knew she would be rejected.

She couldn't understand such behavior, so what if the other party knew about it?However, he was infected by Oshima's emotions and couldn't help but feel sorry for her.

After sorting out his thoughts, Lin Xingning patted his face, don't be depressed, go back quickly.

By the way... where is this?

Time passed slowly, until the end of the practice, Lin Xingning did not come over.

When the boys were changing clothes in the activity room, Yamaguchi couldn't help asking, "Has Lin Sang not come back yet? Practice is over."

Tsukishima wiped half of his sweat, sighed, and took out his mobile phone from his bag to make a call—anyway, whether he wanted to or not, when he was in school, no matter the teacher or his classmates, he always regarded him as the half-guardian of that big trouble.

The other end answered quickly: "Is it Yingying? Xingning didn't bring his mobile phone to school today, what's wrong?"

His originally prepared "Are you sending someone to Tokyo?" was stuck in his throat, and he changed his words temporarily: "...It's nothing. I practiced for a long time today, so I will go back later."

"Okay, pay attention to safety on the road."

"Well, goodbye Mom."

Yamaguchi asked, "How is it?"

"I'll go to the classroom to take a look." Tsukishima put down his phone and began to change clothes.

"What's the matter?" Sugawara noticed their conversation, "I didn't see Lin Sang today, is there something wrong?"

"Lin Sang's friend was a little sad, and said to send her back and come back again, but there is no news yet, and she didn't bring her mobile phone, and she probably didn't go home, so I don't know where she went." After Shankou explained, he was a little anxious, "It's so late If you haven’t come back, you won’t meet bad guys, right?”

Before Yamaguchi could make further guesses, Dongfeng interjected hesitantly: "Well, Lin Sang, it seems that you don't have a good sense of direction, right? I saw her in the corridor of the third grade before, and said that I went wrong..."

However, she followed Yue Dao to and from school, and she never exposed it once.

"Cut, I'm so troublesome." Yue Dao couldn't help complaining, no wonder he insisted on going home with him, since he had such troublesome shortcomings, he should say it earlier.

Sawamura enthusiastically appealed to the team members: "If you are not in a hurry to go home, let's help find it together, it shouldn't be too far away."

"Don't worry about it," Tsukishima put on his glasses, "I probably know which direction she is in."

Turning another corner, Tsukishima saw a girl in Karasuno's school uniform squatting under a street lamp not far away, huddled into a small ball, looking weak and helpless.

He took out his mobile phone and called Yamaguchi: "I found it, tell the seniors to go back first... It's nothing, just lost."

After hanging up the phone and approaching the other party, Tsukishima said angrily: "Get up, go home."

Lin Xingning raised his head subconsciously after hearing the voice, Yue Dao saw her panicked expression for a moment, and the tears in her eyes, her mood was hard to describe.

After she found out that the person who found her was Yue Dao, she immediately changed her expression, pretending to be touched, and shouted tearfully: "Yue——"

Fortunately, Lin Xingning was carrying her schoolbag, so she didn't have to go back to school, and Yue Dao led her on the way home, turning on the mocking mode.

"You have such a poor sense of direction, how dare you send others home?"

"It's not because Yue is not good." Lin Xingning complained softly, but was glared at by Yue Dao, and shut up aggrievedly.

The two walked quietly for a while, and she asked in a low voice, "How did Yue know I was there?"

"A lot of students in the class take the bus, so you should only send the class leader to the nearby bus stop when you send her back," Yue Dao explained with a bit of distaste, "Just look around the bus station... If she rides a bike, you don't need to drop her off." , if you live nearby, you send her home, and she should tell you how to get back after she finds out that you are a road addict."

The logic was rigorous and well-organized, and Lin Xingning couldn't refute it, so he applauded the venue and read: "Wow, that's amazing!"

Got stared at again.

"What's the matter, you are not happy when I complain, and you will be angry if I praise you."

Seeing her listless, Yue Dao inexplicably recalled the look on her face when she first found her, she didn't know what she was afraid of, her vulnerable and helpless appearance, did she really meet a bad person?

"Did you meet no one there?"

"No, if there is someone, I will ask the way back." Lin Xingning asked, "What's wrong? Should I meet someone?"

"It's nothing."

"Oh……"

The two of them coincidentally did not tell Yue Dao's mother about the incident of getting lost, but Yue Dao knew about Lin Xingning's other shortcoming. Apart from laughing at her Japanese level, Yue Dao added another way of getting lost.

After finishing the practice the next night, Yuedao had extra things to deal with. Before yesterday's missing incident, he and Lin Xingning could go home separately, but he was afraid that this Lu Chi would not be able to explain to his mother if he got lost, so Let her and Yamaguchi go to the Sakashita Convenience Store to wait for herself.

When Lin Xingning and the others arrived at the convenience store, the people from the volleyball club hadn't left yet, chatting at the door of the store.

"Yamaguchi, Lin Sang, do you want to eat steamed stuffed buns? Treat yourself~" Sugawara greeted them when he saw them, "Isn't Tsukishima here?"

"Yue said that we have to deal with something first, let us wait for him here." Yamaguchi took the paper bag handed over by Sugawara and thanked him.

"Thank you," Lin Xingning took the paper bag, took one casually and handed it back to Sugawara, and then began to answer Yamaguchi's words, "Obviously I'm only a first-year student, saying that I have something to deal with, and kicked us out with a troublesome look on my face It's over."

"Obviously only a first-year student" was learned from Tanaka and Nishitani.By the way, I would also like to thank Sawamura and Yuanxia, ​​the envoys of justice who have escaped the vulgar taste, so that they did not let them teach her some strange words.

Xigu didn't think it was a big deal to watch the excitement: "That's right, that guy Yuedao always gives people this kind of 'old-fashioned' feeling~"

"That's right, it's obviously a first grader, so it's not cute at all." Tanaka also joined in.

Sugawara looked helplessly at Hinata and Kageyama and nodded, and said to Lin Xingning with a smile: "Sure enough, Lin Sang always likes to make Tsukishima angry."

"Huh? Is that so?"

"Yeah, I don't really care if I have a little friction with others, but if the other party is Tsukishima, I will deliberately say things that make him unhappy."

After Sugawara finished speaking, Tanaka interjected: "It's not Lin Sang's problem, that guy Tsukishima is too irritating."

"That's right." Hinata nodded in agreement.

"It will be hard to get along with Tsukishima for a long time, right?" Kageyama also started.

Dongfeng was ready to speak out when he heard their obviously inducing words.

"It's okay," Lin Xingning swallowed, and replied casually, "I quite like Yue."

"What... what?!"

The volleyball club exploded, and even Sawamura was taken aback.

Shankou blushed and couldn't speak clearly: "Xixixi... like something, Lin Sang, do you know what it means?"

Sawamura asked seriously: "Do you like it in that sense?"

Sugawara couldn't stand it anymore: "What are you asking, Dadi? Lin Sang's 'like' should mean being happy together."

"Well, I like everyone in the volleyball club."

Everyone blushed half.

Tanaka suddenly had a flash of inspiration: "Does Lin Sang like me?"

Lin Xingning didn't think much, and replied directly: "I like it."

"Tanaka is too cunning!"

"What about me? What about me?"

"Shut up! Are you committing a crime?!"

When Tsukishima arrived at the Sakashita convenience store, the others had already left, and only Yamaguchi and Lin Xingning were still chatting.

"Yue~Senior Jian left you a meat bun~" Lin Xingning greeted from a distance.

Yamaguchi looked at her and whispered, "Yue has always been popular with girls, even if he is a little cold towards people he doesn't know well."

Lin Xingning didn't understand why Yamaguchi suddenly brought up this topic: "Huh?"

"But after getting familiar with Yue's character, there are very few girls who can still say 'like' Yue."

She didn't hear the joke in the Yamaguchi dialect, and replied very straightforwardly: "It's normal, although Yue Ren is very good, but after all, his personality is too bad."

Tsukishima approached, happened to hear the last sentence, and gave her a blank expression.

Feeling murderous, Lin Xingning quickly made a "I shut up" gesture.

After Yamaguchi separated from them, Lin Xingning said to Yue Dao: "Just now when only Yamaguchi-kun and I were there, Yamaguchi-kun said that he wanted to visit Mr. Shimada tomorrow, and let us go first after the practice."

"Oh."

"Who is Shimada-san?"

"It's a senior from the town club where Coach Wuyang works."

"Oh~" Lin Xingning nodded, "Then why did Mr. Yamaguchi go to Mr. Shimada?"

Tsukishima almost laughed at her thoughtless behavior: "Are you Hinata? Think for yourself."

"...Do you regard Hinata-kun as your standard? It's rude."

After a while, Lin Xingning asked again: "Is Yamaguchi-kun learning volleyball skills?"

"Ah."

"That's great."

Yue Dao originally wanted to say that there is only about a week left before the college qualifiers, and a short-term effort can't change anything, but Lin Xingning's understanding of volleyball is still mainly theoretical, so he changed his words: "Just hard work can also be called 'Great'?"

"It takes a lot of courage to know who you want to be, what you want to do, and make efforts to change yourself. Isn't that powerful enough?"

"personal experience?"

Lin Xingning was stunned for a moment, feeling that the topic was heading towards a heart-to-heart conversation, so he changed the topic in a gag: "That's right, although I always wanted to be a magical girl, I didn't have the courage to work hard on it."

Magical girl?Tsukishima never expected to hear this word in the mouths of people of the same age after entering high school.

"Next time I will consider you as a standard in some aspects."

"What's the matter? Isn't it normal for a girl to want to be a magical girl? Transform into a fluffy skirt with a big bow to destroy evil and save the world."

Tsukishima complained sarcastically: "Isn't this something that can be achieved with hard work?"

"……right?"

"Are you an idiot?" I'm really sorry that I ever thought she was the smart type.

Tsukishima has always been keenly aware of other people's emotions, and he himself is not used to communicating with others about emotional problems. Feeling her evasive attitude, he followed the previous topic without continuing.

Then Lin Xingning really started to analyze the types of magical girls for him...

Tsukishima... silently put on the earphones.

After the practice ended the next day, Yamaguchi and Tsukishima said goodbye after walking for a while and went in the other direction.

When I arrived at the Sakashita Convenience Store, I met the seniors of the volleyball club again.

Sugawara asked, "Where's Yamaguchi?"

"Maybe something happened, I left just now." Lin Xingning replied.

Tsukishima looked at her a little surprised.

After saying goodbye to senior, the two went home together, and Tsukishima had a rare conversation: "When Mr. Kan asked about Yamaguchi just now, why didn't you say that he went to visit Mr. Shimada?"

"Yesterday Yamaguchi-kun told me alone, so he probably doesn't want to tell others?"

"It's obviously a rough nerve, but it's extra careful in this regard."

"Is this a compliment?" Lin Xingning scratched his head in embarrassment.

Tsukishima answered very simply: "No."

"Cut~" She curled her lips, "I've always been very careful, unlike Yue Wan~Quan~, I especially take care of other people's moods!"

Yue Dao was really upset when he was slandered face to face, and he smirked back: "Oh? Careful who went to the wrong classroom for the experimental class?"

"...I'm sorry, don't say it, I'm bragging."