[Comprehensive main volleyball] long distance pass

On the final day of the National High School Basketball Winter Cup, the game started in the evening, but Chiho was late as usual.

Of course, the reason was not that she was late on purpose, but that she had to be called by Er Haitang to go to the chess club early in the morning to "calculate the general account", and the two played together from morning to night—in order to speed up the progress, Chiho chose to go faster Chess, only barely completed half of the target number of games in one day.

So when she rushed to the gymnasium exhausted, the first half had already ended, and the score was 62:37, giving Luoshan a huge advantage.

Pupils tightened unconsciously, Chiho panted while holding on to the railing.

— Worse than I expected.

She stood on the top stand, looking worriedly at the scoreboard.

In Chiho's heart, she longs for Kuroko and Seirin, who is the god of fire, to win, because she also agrees that Kuroko trusts his teammates and emphasizes the team's competitive spirit. If he can prove this to the "Generation of Miracles" with victory, it will be possible Let's get back to the old days--

And now, there is only Akashi, the most difficult and difficult person to challenge.

She knew that in yesterday's semi-finals, Luoshan, where Akashi was located, hadn't shown its full strength, and the possibility of Seirin winning was not impossible, but it was also negligible.

The intermission is about to end, and players from both sides begin to enter the field.

Taking a quick look around, Seirin, who seemed to be under great pressure but still didn't give up, was on the one hand, and Luoshan, who was calm and relaxed, on the other, Chiho's eyes became sharper——

Seirin must go all out to push Luoshan, a team of strong men, to a desperate situation where he has to use his trump card, so that he can survive.

Just like the endgames in her father's chess records that she is most familiar with, both sides are forced to a corner before they can be on equal footing again for the final contest.

At the beginning of the third quarter, Luoshan's shooting guard Lingyang caused Seirin's captain Hinata to foul for the third time. However, Hinata was already on the verge of collapse under the huge point difference. He lost control of his emotions and even contradicted the referee. Four offenders.

In other words, Hinata had to be sent off for another foul. Seirin couldn't lose the captain and the most stable three-point shooter, so he had to be replaced temporarily.

Just when she was about to catch up, her momentum was interrupted, and the situation became more and more serious for Seirin. Chiho clenched her hand on the railing, and began to break out in a cold sweat unconsciously.

"It is indeed a rather stupid act," at this time, a familiar voice sounded behind her, "but even so, you can't blame him...he just wants to win too much."

Chiho turned her head in surprise, it was Midorima who had spoken just now, and she was accompanied by Hidetoku's team.

After Midorima finished speaking, he found his teammates and Chiho all staring at him strangely: "What's wrong?"

"No, I just didn't expect Xiaozhen to say such a thing." Takao said, and then smiled brightly at Chiho, "Yo~ Xiaoqian, you are here too!"

"Hello, Xiaohe~ and seniors! However, I didn't expect Xiaozhen to say this softly... Could it be a sympathy from players in the same position?"

"What do you mean by that!" Midorima blew his hair out, "And Yasuhara, why are you here!"

Chiho, who was suddenly named, blinked innocently, and then replied: "I just came here, so I don't have a seat."

Midorima snorted softly, stood beside her, and asked after a while, "So you didn't watch our match just now?"

"No, it's nothing to watch anyway." Chiho curled her lips, "If Kase-kun can't play, it's too unjustifiable for you to not win again."

"Indeed..." Takao raised his forehead, expressing that he didn't enjoy the match with Haichang at all, "I really hope that next time I can fight against Haichang with Kise~"

"Alright Takao, let me watch the game in peace." Miyaji rapped him on the head.

"It hurts! Miyaji-senpai, please be gentle!"

So Chiho stood with the Xiutoku team and continued to watch the next game.

In the second half of the final, unexpected events happened one after another for Chiho. She swore that this was the most thrilling match she had ever seen.

And it was also the one that made her blood boil the most and was deeply infected by Seirin's team spirit.

Especially when Akashi, under the joint attack of Kuroko and Vulcan, tasted failure for the first time, suddenly returned to his former personality, led the entire Luoshan team into the zone, and knocked Seirin into a daze—

In the silence of the auditorium, "Come on, sunspot! Don't give up!" suddenly sounded like a fuse, igniting the enthusiasm of the entire audience to cheer for Seirin.

Chiho looked towards the source of the sound, and it seemed that it was someone Heizi had known before, because after hearing that sentence, Heizi's eyes returned from despair to clarity.

Then, Qingfeng stood up first: "Hey Azhe! Vulcan! Didn't you all beat us? If you can't even win Luoshan, let's see how I deal with you!"

Followed by Kise: "We are the same! We must win, Seirin!"

Even Midorima next to her uncharacteristically discarded the tsundere persona to encourage Seirin: "Down with them! Whether it's Akashi or Luoshan!"

However, there are only 2 minutes left in the game at this time, and the score is still ahead of Luoshan, 103:96.

"Kuroko-kun, Vulcan-kun!" Infected by their words, not wanting to see Seirin defeated so easily, Chiho also followed Midorima and shouted: "You haven't lost yet! Don't give up! "

"Xiaoqian, you..." Takao looked at her in surprise, as if he didn't expect her to have such a passionate side.

But Chiho's voice was quickly drowned out in the overwhelming "Seirin!", and Seirin's team members, encouraged by the audience, quickly cheered up and began to cooperate with Vulcan's zone to play Luoshan Can't keep up with the ultra-high speed to cooperate with offense and defense.

But Akashi would not let them succeed at this point, and immediately regained control of the situation, knocking down Vulcan with a dribble and scoring a shot.

——"I will win. It is still 100 years before I want to defeat Luoshan." These words are still full of coercion.

With 40 seconds left, the score was a desperate 105:98. Seirin wanted to overtake in such a short period of time, only with a three-pointer——

Fortunately, they seized this last chance.

Vulcan was defended by Dai and Hayama, and Heizi cleverly passed a long horizontal pass to Vulcan to shoot a three-pointer, 27 seconds, 105:101.

Yiyue calmly intercepted Luoshan's pass, passed it perfectly to Hinata and shot the same 3+1 as Lingyang, with 4 seconds left, 105:104.

Hinata got to the free throw line.

Chiho was already trembling with nervousness.

The ball in Hinata's hand flew towards the basket, but he missed the shot——

However, Muji grabbed the rebound despite his leg injury and accidentally passed the ball to Heizi.

There was an exclamation from the audience.

"No, it's not an accident." Chiho whispered as cold sweat rolled down her cheeks.

The last scene of the previous 3v3 came to her mind.

——Heizi who didn't make a single shot in the whole process to complete the lore, this is the last step of Seirin's life.

But this time the situation is different.

Here, Kuroko had already made a posture to shoot the basket, but Akashi jumped high and blocked in front of him.

——It's going to be covered!

Subconsciously, she tightly held the hands of Midorima and Takao beside her.

"It's over, Kuroko!" Akashi yelled.

"No, it's not over yet." Heizi just said calmly, with a smile on his face, "I'm a shadow."

At the critical moment, Vulcan had already flown to the basket.

While everyone was exclaiming, Vulcan received a pass from Heizi and completed a blinding alley-oop——

105:106, Cheng Lin wins.

Loud applause and cheers erupted from the auditorium, as if they were crowning the team that kept surprising them, never giving up, and insisting on teamwork to the end.

"That's great—!" Chiho, who was fully engaged in the game, shouted excitedly, raising her hands high.

But she seems to have forgotten something.

"That... Xiaoqian," Takao reminded her awkwardly, "Your hand..."

On the other side, Midorima blushed and remained silent.

"Um..." Chiho, who was still immersed in the joy of victory, finally realized that she was holding the hands of two friends and raised them above her head.

Letting go in a hurry, Chiho smiled embarrassedly, and quickly apologized: "I'm sorry, Xiaozhen Xiaohe... When I get excited, I..."

"Hahaha~ It's okay!" Takao waved his hand, expressing that he doesn't care at all.

"No...it doesn't matter." Midorima finally stammered out a sentence.

Seeing that both of them had forgiven her, Chiho also calmed down and looked at the basketball court again: "This way, it's all over."

"Yeah." Midorima responded sullenly, the blush on his face still not fading.

"Akashi-kun is back to how he used to be, this is really the best result... woo..." Seeing Akashi and Kuroko shaking hands friendly in the field, Chiho's words began to choke, "Eh, strange..."

Tears filled her eyes uncontrollably, causing her to open her bag in a panic to find a handkerchief.

"Here." Almost at the same time, Midorima and Takao handed her a handkerchief.

"Takao, when will you bring a handkerchief—" Midorima complained unhappily.

"Eh?! Xiaozhen, did you just notice?" Takao was so surprised that his eyes widened, "I lost your handkerchief on the rooftop last time, didn't I pay you for it~ I also bought myself a handkerchief by the way... ..."

"Pfft..." Qianho laughed through tears, and held up her handkerchief, "Thank you, but I have my own handkerchief~"

"..." Takao and Midori fell into embarrassment at the same time.

"After watching this game, I'm going to turn against Seirin." Chiho wiped away tears and said again.

"No, you're Xiude's student!" Midorima panicked, he hadn't let her see a victory of his team yet.

"Our Xiude is the king, we will definitely beat them next time!" Takao also retorted coquettishly.

"Yes yes yes~" Chiho casually perfunctory, her tone suddenly became serious: "The next time I come to watch the game, you guys don't want to lose again."

Midorima and Takao fell silent for a while, and then—

"Of course." They both smiled and answered in unison.

Amidst the golden confetti flying all over the sky, the Winter Cup final came to an end. After the awards ceremony, Chiho silently left the gymnasium.

On the way home, she was in an extremely relaxed mood now, and even hummed a song.

——About their past, about the friendship, pain and touch brought to her by Teiko and the "Generation of Miracles", she can finally let go of it completely.

In the future, it is more important than anything that everyone can see each other honestly and play together happily.

——Thank you, Seirin.

When she got home, Chiho took out her mobile phone and sent the photos taken at the awards ceremony to Ushido, with a postscript:

"I really hope that Shiratorizawa can also play against a team like Seirin."

After receiving the message, Ushido replied blankly: "No matter what kind of opponent it is, we will win."

"Ah..." Chiho looked at the screen speechlessly, "Didn't you just lose to Inarizaki... How dare you say that."

It's just that the two of them didn't know at this time——

Two years later, on the opposite side of Shiratorizawa, a team very similar to Seirin actually appeared.It was a game that everyone will never forget, just like Luoshan vs. Seirin this time.

——No, it should be said that it is a group of little crows.

After that day, because of the match with Erkaitang and the end of the winter vacation, Chiho's condolence plan to Kise was delayed, but he was still alive and kicking to cheer for Heizi during the finals, so she thought she didn't have to worry about him anymore. up.

Returning to the daily routine of going back and forth between the school and the chess club made her calm down again.

The games of the reward meeting maintained a high winning rate, and the communication with Udo was also carried on every day.

After the spring high school, the captain of the Shiratorizawa team was handed over, and Ushishima was directly nominated by coach Washo to become the captain.Although he was just about to be promoted to the second grade, the whole team had no objection to this, which showed his status and popularity in the team.

Chiho would sometimes be absent from school because of the activities of the chess club. Fortunately, the homeroom teacher's attitude was very tolerant after understanding the situation. As long as she could score above average in the final exam, she would not be held accountable.

——This ordinary and pleasant daily life is what she cherishes most.

One night before the end of January, Chiho received a call from Momoi, saying that January 1st was Kuroko's birthday, and she planned to reunite the Miracles to play a long-lost 1v31 basketball game as a gift for Kuroko.

"Xiaoqian, are you free? It happened to be a rest day~!" Momoi's cheerful tone made her dazed, and the corners of her eyes were sore.

"Hello? Xiaoqian?" Seeing that Chiho didn't answer for a long time, Momoi asked suspiciously.

"It's nothing, May." Chiho replied, "I just think it's great to hear your voice again."

"Xiaoqian," Momoi comforted softly, "I'm sorry, I always make you worry about us...but I won't do it again in the future."

"Although I'm free... But, can I really go?" Chiho said with hesitation, "After all, you and I..."

Not a comrade-in-arms from the Emperor Guang period.

Not even a worthy companion...

"I'm just a passer-by who happened to meet you." Her voice became less and less confident.

"What do you mean by that!" Momoi quickly grasped what she meant, and was furious: "Didn't you cheer for Xiaozhe loudly during the Winter Cup final? Everyone heard it."

"Huh?" Chiho thought that no one would pay attention to her cheering, because the voices of the audience quickly covered it, "Really?"

"Hmm! You think it's my own decision to invite you..." Momoi told the truth, "Actually, Akashi-kun wanted to invite you!"

"What? You mean Akashi-kun?" Chiho was very strange, she was the least familiar with Akashi among the group of people, why did he think of inviting her?

"Well, I don't know... Anyway, you must come that day, Xiaoqian!"

"Well, okay..." Since it was what Akashi meant, she couldn't refuse, "I will prepare a gift for Kuroko-kun."

After hanging up the phone, she adjusted her posture of kneeling in front of the chessboard, staring out the window of the Shogi Research Association in a daze.

"Yasuhara, did you say 'Akashi' just now?" Erkaitang raised his round head and asked suddenly.

"That's right! Do you know something? Why did he notice me? About Akashi Seijuro?" Chiho turned around and grabbed Erkaitang's shoulder and asked hurriedly, "I only know that he is a young master. At Luoshan High School in Kyoto, I was very good at everything... such as basketball and shogi."

"Well... Akashi's family is a chaebol, just like ours. Because of the business relationship, our two families often communicate with each other. I did meet Master Akashi a few times when I was young." Erkaitang recalled, holding his chin, "His father He was very strict with him, and his mother passed away very early, and he developed a personality of pursuing perfection... His shogi talent is very high, it is better to say that he will be the best in everything. Originally, his father wanted him to grow up like me He became a professional shogi player when he grew up, but he seemed to be more interested in basketball because of his mother, and the Akashi family finally gave up on this idea.”

"Oh~" Chiho withdrew her hand from holding him, but still had no clue.

"Are you going to meet him?" Er Haitang asked again.

"Yeah... I have to ask him again that day." Chiho couldn't figure out the reason, so she had to temporarily put aside the question, "It's fine, thank you, Erkaitang."

"Hmph~ Then let's play another game?"

"What time is it now?! Young master, is your health okay? You should hurry home and rest..."

"Be quiet!" Shimada looked at the two of them with a face that was about to collapse.

"Brother/Master, I'm sorry!"

The author has something to say:

There will be another chapter tonight, and I will finish writing the part about Heizi's life~ This is actually the content of the animation ova, which is very warm and joyful.

Master Akashi will officially join the plot soon.