[Volleyball] Mizuno-san next door

Yaji walked to the store's cashier and stood still, and saw a blond-haired young man with a cigarette in his mouth sitting there, his shoesless feet raised up on the table, and a large newspaper was blocked in front of him.

She sniffed lightly, and could smell the choking tobacco smell, mixed with the smell of steamed buns emanating from the warming cabinet on the table, so she could easily identify the style of this store.

She turned sideways and looked around the store. Most of the shelves and freezers were filled with all kinds of fast food, drinks and snacks, as well as daily necessities such as seasonings.Opposite the cash register, there is also a small square table and a few chairs for guests to use.On the small stove beside the table, a pot of water was being heated, and white gas came out from the spout, making a hissing and harsh sound.

It was the first time Aki came to the Sakashita store after entering Karasuno, but she also had a good impression of it immediately by virtue of her own observation.

It is an eclectic, friendly and natural shop with a strong atmosphere of life. No wonder everyone likes to come here to buy food and eat during lunch break and after school.

"Welcome." The young man who looks like a delinquent, the heir of the Sakashita store, Wuyang Xixin, read the newspaper intently and said without raising his head, "If you can't find what you want, you can tell me .”

Wu Yang just caught a glimpse of a girl in Wu Ye's uniform walking in, and it was a long time since school ended, so he reckoned that it was some student who had just finished club activities.

But she stood in front of the cash register for a long time, neither went to the shelf to choose, nor spoke, which made him puzzled, and finally put down the newspaper and looked up.

The moment he saw Yaji's face clearly, Wu Yang opened his mouth wide in surprise, stretched out his trembling fingers in a hurry, caught the cigarette that was about to fall, put his feet up on the edge of the table into the slippers, and stood excitedly. up.

"Maki Mizuno?! No, it's impossible..." He said this with a tone like riding a roller coaster, just reaching the towering clouds, and then quickly fell from the heights to the bottom.

"You know my sister?" No matter how Yaji couldn't remember people's names, he wouldn't easily forget the names of his own family members.

"You are her sister?!" Wu Yang stubbed out the cigarette butt in the ashtray, looked at Ya Ji carefully from top to bottom, and sighed, "No wonder they look so similar! And even the style of dressing is different. Almost, hahaha...!"

"Well, she and I do look quite alike." Dazed by his sudden heroic laughter, Yaji admitted, "Then boss, how did you know my sister?"

"Your sister and I are college classmates, although I haven't seen her since graduation... Besides, there are not too few people who know her now, right? It's just that they don't know her real name."

"So that's how it is. Since it's like this, things will be easy to handle." Yaji stood on tiptoe and sat on the edge of the table, stretched his neck and approached Wuyang, with a slumped face, as if he wanted to discuss some confidential matters with him. He said in a calm tone: "Boss, actually I'm in some trouble right now. The instructor of our school..."

"...So, please let me work here temporarily to avoid the limelight~ You can pay the salary, in short, after the instructor relaxes his vigilance..."

"No way!" Wu Yang shook his head violently, making a big fork with both hands.

"Huh? Why? Aren't you short of a clerk!" Aki pointed to the job advertisement posted outside the glass door, puzzled by his resolute refusal.

"If you come to work in my shop with this mentality, I will never agree." He replied with a serious face, "Even if you are the sister of an acquaintance."

Hearing this, Yaji's beautiful face full of smiles froze for a moment, then looked away guiltily.

"Yeah... sorry to trouble you."

The slipping bangs covered her eyes, making it impossible to see her expression clearly.

Wu Yang was also taken aback for a moment, staring at her side face stained with melancholy, he could hear the deep loneliness from these words.

——What the hell is this kid...?Did I say too much just now?

She supported the table with one hand and jumped down, her feet landed firmly, and with her back to him, she asked hesitantly: "Then what if... I will seriously work here until I expire?"

"Of course." Wu Yang smiled gently.

A child can be taught—although he doesn't want to admit it, he has always been good at educating younger generations.

"Thank you, boss!" Yaji immediately turned to him with a smile on his face, returning to the cheerful look before.

"You're welcome, just call me Brother Suxin." Wu Yang waved his hand friendly, but what appeared in his mind was the image of another person calling him "Senior Suxin", and he couldn't help but have mixed feelings.

"Eh? Let's call him the boss! I'm super—not good at remembering people's names!"

"...I kind of regret hiring you now."

"Don't! I'm good at remembering the names of dishes, and I'm also good at arithmetic!"

——Wu Yang was shocked to find later that what she said was true.

Wu Yang and Yaji agreed to take a day off every Sunday, work from Monday to Friday after school until closing the store, and come to help for an afternoon on Saturday. The work content ranges from tallying new products, cleaning to cash register, where? Move wherever you need, pay weekly.

Tobio Kageyama didn't know that Aki Mizuno had started working at the Sakashita store until Saturday.

On that day, he and Hinata won a three-on-three match and officially joined the Karasuno High School Volleyball Club.At the same time, I also learned from the instructor Ittsutsu Takeda that after school next Tuesday, they will have the first training match of this semester with Aoba Josai.

——That was the school many of his former teammates went to.

In front of the Sakashita store, Kageyama was asked by Sugawara whether "would it be embarrassing?" He replied without hesitation: "But if it is facing the enemy head-on, I will only go all out."

At this moment in the store, Daji Sawamura, who had just bought a big bag of steamed buns, had just paid the bill. Aki looked through the glass door and moved curiously outside from the large white characters "Karasuno High School Volleyball Club" on the back of his jacket. I saw Kageyama, the short orange-haired boy I had seen before, the tearful senior with a hearty smile, and a monk-head boy I didn't know.

She saw that Kageyama, who was always approached by no one in class, was now wearing the same black team uniform as the people around him, communicating with them back and forth, and quickly recalled what he said before if.

——It seems that Mr. Setter should have won the battle, so today is considered to be an official entry into the club, right?

Was it the captain who came to buy buns just now?To welcome new members?

She sat on the chair behind the cashier, propped her chin and looked at a group of teenagers talking and laughing outside the store.

No one noticed her, because they seemed to be busy teaching the "little giant" who couldn't wait to eat early.

Kageyama and Tanaka held Hinata up by the collar each with one hand——

The very small Hinata was held up in the air by two tall boys, who were still yelling threats. This scene was very similar to campus bullying. Passers-by who didn't understand the situation would definitely call the police if they encountered it.

Wu Yang couldn't stand it anymore, picked up the dust duster and rushed out, yelling at them fiercely: "Hey, the volleyball club! Don't make trouble in front of the store!

The three people who were making a fuss were shocked by his sudden intrusion, turned their heads together, and looked towards the door of the store without making a sound.

"I'm sorry." Kageyama and Tanaka let go of their hands, and Hinata fell to the ground with a "bang".

"Eh?" At this moment, Kageyama and Aki, who was looking at them amusedly, met their eyes through the glass door.

"Mizuno-san?!" Hinata jumped up from the asphalt road, and also found Aki who was smiling and waving to them.

"You know her?" Sawamura asked in surprise.

"I've already said it! There's a super-hot female clerk at the Sakashita store, she's from our school, that's her!" Tanaka blushed and shouted excitedly to the two seniors.

"Hmm..." Sawamura recalled the shock he had suffered when he met Aki just now, nodded in agreement, and then glanced questioningly at Kageyama who was standing there with a strange expression.

"She's in my class..." Kageyama tried hard to suppress the ambiguous scenes that flashed back in his mind when he saw her, and gritted his teeth.

"And it's at the next table!" Hinata pierced the window paper in a second, raised his hand and reported to the seniors very actively, describing the relationship between Kageyama and Aki in his gossiping tone, "she It's called Mizuno Aki, I think Kageyama treats her..."

"Hey——! I don't have anything to her!" Kageyama hurriedly stretched out his hand, trying to cover Hinata's mouth to stop him from talking nonsense, but Hinata had already dodged as fast as he could, and fled behind the seniors to seek shelter .

Tsukishima and Yamaguchi, who had just arrived here, took the steamed buns from Sugawara, and when they heard Hinata's words, they bit the warm dough, showing sinister smiles ready to watch a good show.

"Mr. Setter, what did you do to me?"

At this time, the automatic door of the store opened to both sides, and the plain voice of inquiry sounded behind Yingshan, which made him froze when he was still baring his teeth and claws just now, he tripped and almost fell to the ground, but Wu Yangyan quickly supported him up.

"You boy, what do you do to my shop assistant?" Wu Yang's gangster aura was fully on, with a terrifying sense of oppression, step by step approaching the cold sweating Yingshan.

"Pfft!" On the other side, his teammates moved away, and several of them couldn't help laughing out loud.

It was the first time they saw Kageyama like this, it was so interesting!

"No, no, nothing, nothing!!" The boy who was so nervous that his legs were shaking was forced to stand with his back against the vending machine, and he answered loudly in a panic.

"Okay, Boss~ He said he's fine, so let him go." Yaji calmly dissuaded him, put Wuyang's arm on his arm and pushed him away from Yingshan, while he took his place. The location is opposite to Yingshan's four eyes.

"Okay, okay~ I'm not protecting you! You have to know—the boys in the volleyball club are very troublesome!" Wu Yang walked into the store, grabbing his hair helplessly, and dropped a piece of advice.

Ya Ji heard his words, but did not make any response, she just stared at the bewildered Kageyama with her hands behind her back.

He was much taller than her, so Aki had to raise his head slightly.

After a long time, she opened her blue eyes, opened her lips covered with pale pink lip gloss, and asked firmly, "Mr. Setter, what's on your mind?"

Under her gaze, Yingshan's trembling body suddenly calmed down. He put on the belt on his chest with one hand, nodded and replied: "Yes."

"Is it something you can tell me?" Yaji took a step back and put some distance away from him.

"No." He couldn't tell what it was like.

—before I came up with the answer myself.

"Okay." Not upset, she patted him on the shoulder and said with a grin, "Congratulations on joining the ministry."

"Thank you...thank you." Ying Shan looked slightly startled, then nodded.

"Well, then I'll go in first." Yaji turned and entered the store, "It's still a while before I get off work."

Kageyama breathed a sigh of relief, clutching his stomach, feeling like he was about to spit out the steamed stuffed bun he just ate.

"What kind of dialogue is that, Kageyama!" Hinata folded her arms and shook her head in denial, "Fail!"

"Bless you!!" Tanaka exaggeratedly shed tears of emotion, thinking of his goddess Jieko.

"Hahaha, youth! Huh..." Sugawara was a little happy and a little bit shocked.

"It turns out that King Wang likes this type~ I really didn't expect it." Tsukishima relentlessly attacked with a poisonous tongue, followed by Yamaguchi's echo.

"I said you—come home quickly!!" Sawamura shouted with a headache, driving away the uneasy members one by one, and finally said to Kageyama who was still standing in a daze at the door of the store, "Kageyama, you stay here, Jian and I want to talk to you about the training match."

"Ah...? Okay." As soon as Kageyama heard about volleyball, his mind was completely occupied by it, as if everything that happened just now had passed away.

Ya Ji, who was standing in the store tallying the goods, saw Kageyama and the two seniors sitting around a square table and discussing earnestly through the shelves, thinking deeply.