[Comprehensive main volleyball] long distance pass

The spectator game is over, and Shiratorizawa's opponent in the semifinals is Kesenike Nishi High School.

"Let's go." Ushido stood up and gave instructions to the team.

Upon hearing this, the team members stood up one after another, ready to go to lunch.

There was only one person who was still glued to his seat as if he hadn't heard it, holding a thick chess book in both hands and reading it engrossed.

"Qianho?" He picked up his bag, saw that she didn't respond, turned his head in doubt, and saw that his girlfriend beside him was still immersed in the ever-changing chess moves and couldn't extricate himself.

The purple eyes behind the lens were shining brightly, and her lips moved lightly, chanting words, all of which were shogi terms that only she could understand.

"Well, silver to forty-seven... no, this game will be over!" In the center of everyone's confused eyes without realizing it, she couldn't find the best way to do the next step, and she was shocked and covered the chess record on her cheeks, her eyes doubled. Stretched legs and head fell back on the back of the chair, cursing like a useless uncle who lost his job: "Damn—!"

"Isn't this too involved...?" Setian sighed with emotion in a low voice.

"After all, it's her job." Yamagata expressed his understanding.

Immediately afterwards, they saw their master take away the book covering her face with a calm face, patted her on the shoulder again, and urged, "Chiho, it's time to go to lunch."

"Ah! Give it back to me!" However, Chiho's eyes were only on the book, and she stood up abruptly and stretched her hands and kept jumping up, but Ushijima had already stretched out her hands and raised them high, no matter how she jumped. Not enough.

"If you want this book, come with us to lunch." Standing in front of her, he commanded condescendingly with his height advantage.

"Yes yes yes~ I know~" She pursed her lips and responded casually. It feels very sad to be suddenly distracted from the thoughts she was twisting, but it is not an option to stop here temporarily and continue thinking.

"Let's go." It would be rude to make other people wait for her, Chiho bowed apologetically to the team members who formed a circle over there, "Sorry."

"No, no, no——! It's okay, Yasuhara-senpai!" Wushi's head shook like a rattle.

"Oh~ it's okay." Ayane stretched out her hand dumbfounded, "Please come with me, I have specially prepared an extra lunch for you~"

Chiho was taken aback, raised her head and met Ushijima's gaze, and then showed a gentle smile to Ayane: "Thank you."

"You didn't take off your glasses." When they walked out together, Ushishima reminded him aloud.

"Oh~ then wear it like this." The chess record has been taken back from his hand and put into the bag, "Anyway, I have to watch the game in the afternoon."

"But you suddenly shifted your attention after watching halfway through it just now..." It is his style of speaking to state the facts without sarcasm, but it will make the guilty listeners even more angry, "Will the game in the afternoon really be good to watch? "

"...No wonder you got into a fight with Oikawa and the others in front of the toilet yesterday."

"what?"

"Forget it..." Chiho quickly gave up on this complicated issue that would be complicated to explain, and Chiho quickly gave up.

She pointed to the newly posted event preview on the bulletin board, and her casual tone became serious: "Semifinals, Karasuno vs. Qingcheng."

"Oh, they met." Niu Dao said calmly, looking in the direction of her finger.

"Why don't you act a little more surprised?! 'Karuno has entered the semi-finals~'—this kind of feeling?" Chiho half-closed her eyes and teased on purpose, and then recalled eloquently: "I heard Their captain was injured in the morning game, right? It’s not easy to win this~ I wonder how Sawamura-kun is recovering..."

"Sawamura-senpai is fine, Chiho-san!" An energetic young voice sounded from behind.

"Thank you for your concern. We will continue to work hard this afternoon." She still remembered that it was Sawamura's own voice.

"Oh, that's good~" Chiho replied subconsciously, and after a second, she stopped stiffly and turned to look——

It was Karasuno's entire team, all wearing pitch-black sportswear, and she was separated from Ushijima, who was still behind her back, with a wonderful oppressive feeling that made it hard for her to move.

Only they themselves know the hardships they have gone through, but they still gritted their teeth and stumbled to this step.

"Falling tyrants", "flying crows" - no one calls them that anymore.

"Well, come on in the afternoon." She returned a bright smile to the Karasuno players with confident smiles on their faces, turned around and put one hand on Ushido's back to signal him to move on, and raised the other hand to wave With a wave, "I will watch the game."

Sugawara looked at her figure walking away with Ushijima, and complained uncomfortably: "That Uruko--you didn't even look at us just now, did you?!"

"I think it's because—" With bruises on half of his face, Sawamura's tone was high-spirited, and he answered under the inquiring eyes of his teammates, "Only when we defeat Qingcheng, can we be qualified to fight with you openly and squarely." Is he dueling head-on?"

"Oh!!" There was a mighty roar from behind, and she slightly hooked the corners of her lips.

"Why didn't you turn around just now?" Sitting down in the rest area, and taking the bento box from Ayane, Chiho broke open the attached disposable chopsticks and asked leisurely, "Aren't you scared~? After all, they are a group of omnivorous and ferocious crows—”

"No, it's just that it's not necessary right now." Niu Dao said in a deep voice, picked up a mouthful of rice mixed with beef juice, and ate it gracefully, "Until the results of their match with Qingcheng come out, I will hold back Opinion."

"Ha~ You're really rigorous." His answer made her unable to refute, Chiho stared at the steaming white rice in the lunch box, and didn't move her chopsticks in a daze.

"Why don't you eat?"

"I ate too much in the morning, I'm not too hungry...Shall I give you half of it?"

"it is good."

"Hmm~ Open your mouth~!"

"what--"

"Hey, aren't you? You really dare to do it?!"

Before the semi-finals in the afternoon, Chiho said goodbye to Shiratori Zezhong, who was preparing for the match in another venue, and went to the auditorium of the match between Karasuno and Qingcheng alone.

"It would be great if I could get the latest information on the opponents in the final~ So I'll leave this to you, Yasuhara!" Saito begged before she left, giving her full trust.

She found a seat in the front row where no one was around, and she didn't choose to stand with Karasuno's few spectators.

The referee was tossing a coin in front of the two captains to decide the order of offense and defense, Chiho pushed up her glasses, and pulled herself together to focus.

——Since you agreed to coach Saito, you can't be distracted by shogi this time.

Moreover, she really wanted to take a closer look at how much Wu Ye had grown since that night together.

"Hello~" At this time, in the background of the rhythmic shouts of the Qingcheng Support Group, she felt that someone was accosting in a friendly way, and sat down beside her, "It's the first time to meet you~ I'm from the Date Industry Volleyball Club Commander, two mouths will firmly rule."

She turned her head, met a strange and delicate face, and replied coldly: "Oh, hello."

- strike up a conversation?

"Eh? You're not..." But only then did she realize that the person sitting next to Erkou was a tall, white-haired boy who had met yesterday, and he was indeed wearing Dateko's uniform at that time.

"I remember you!" Chiho pointed at Qing Gen across the gap, and waved at him, "Hello~"

The other party just nodded dully in response.

Erkou didn't expect these two people to know each other, swallowed back the words that they wanted to continue the conversation, and looked left and right anxiously in the middle: "You..."

"She is Niu Ruo's girlfriend." Qing Gen was silent for a long time before uttering a sentence dully.

"What?!" Shocked so much that they lost their color, the two of them were going to be in a bad mood.

Being eliminated and in a bad mood, but when you come to watch the game, you happen to find a beautiful girl alone in the front row, and you want to take advantage of the opportunity to strike up a conversation-but you step on a terrible landmine? !

"You lost to Qingcheng in the morning, right? What a pity." Chiho glanced at the bulletin board and firmly memorized the schedule, keeping her eyes on the court, calmly comforting her, "Relax~ I'm not as scary as Ruoli , although he is not scary..."

"Yes, yes, yes...?" The two were so nervous that their lips and teeth trembled, and they couldn't speak clearly.

"Well, thank you for watching the game with me, otherwise it would be boring for me to watch alone~"

"You are welcome……"

His teammates in the back row had a panoramic view of the embarrassing situation of their own general, and they laughed unconscionably.

"Hmm." Qing Gen uttered a syllable, which she interpreted as "You're welcome".

—Mouthless man?There are also many interesting players in Miyagi Prefecture.

"Senior Aone, how do you know her?" Only Dateko's new first-year setter, Jin Jinchuanguanzhi, didn't laugh at them, but leaned forward curiously and asked.

"I met you yesterday." Qing Gen's syllables were still pitifully few.

"Well, although I don't know your name yet~" Karasuno had already won the first point from Dongfeng in the field, Chiho answered, and reported himself: "My name is Chiho Yasuhara."

"Green roots stretch high."

"Senpai Aone actually made so many words?!" Date Gong's first graders exclaimed in unison.

"Okay, okay~" Chiho turned around with a happy face, "Since everyone is here, let's watch the game quietly~"

"Yes!"

"What the hell are you responding to—!" The two students went crazy.

Karasuno's performance did not disappoint her.

The new offensive system that was initially practiced in the summer camp, after three months of repeated running-in, has been able to cooperate smoothly and convert it into scoring, which is comparable to Qingcheng's clinging score.

Hinata and Kageyama used their negative tempo new fast break to get rid of the shame.

Xigu's free agent tossed the ball from the back row to Dongfeng to perfectly cooperate.

After Sugawara came on the field, he was able to play a super-aggressive, simultaneous multi-point offense with the participation of all under the double-setter system.

Tsukishima and Tanaka switched positions vigilantly and cooperated to block the net, blocking the attack of Qingcheng's new first-year main attacker "Little Rabid Dog" Jinggu.

There is also Yamaguchi, who is like a hero, playing as the decisive server, chasing five points for Karasuno with a jumper.

However, Qingcheng also has strong strength as a powerful player. When he lost in the first game, he dared to place a bet, launched a new combat force with fierce attack power, and successfully pulled back a city under the leadership of Oichuan.

The stalemate and exciting battle situation attracted more and more spectators. In the third game, it came to the middle game in a blink of an eye, 16-16, and Qingcheng held the right to serve.

"Karuno must find a way to score consecutively..." Chiho clenched her fists tightly, getting goosebumps all over her body because of this completely unpredictable match.

And at this time, as if responding to her, Kageyama gave Hinata a toss that almost hovered directly above the net, and completed a quick attack from a tricky angle to throw off the block, 17-16.

She could see very clearly that the exaggerated toss in that position was Kageyama deliberately coordinating with Hinata.

——Now she can believe that Kageyama is indeed a rare and somewhat special genius. His previously buried talent is shining brightly because of Hinata's appearance.

Chiho regained the excitement she felt when she watched Seirin's match two years ago, and that feeling prompted her to stand up hastily and walk towards the front railing, wanting to observe more carefully.

Near the end of the game, both sides began to be in excellent condition after that ball, and the cooperation was smooth and smooth. The score was also one-on-one. Karasuno scored consecutive chances.

22-23, when Qingcheng took the lead, it was Oikawa's turn to serve.

"If Ji Chuan-jun serves, maybe Qingcheng can win directly..."

Her thoughts seemed to come true when Oikawa unleashed a powerful ace.

22-24, match point.

The atmosphere in the hall became stagnant.

"One more ball." Oi Chuan held the ball with one hand and said imposingly.

Karasuno called a timeout—at such a difficult time, the mentality of the players was astonishingly stable, their strong willpower supported them, and they forced themselves to catch Oikawa's serve.

Chiho clasped her hands against the railing, praying for them in her heart.

The volleyball rushed towards Karasuno quickly, and Sawamura recalled every catch practice in the past three years, clamped his arms and clenched his teeth, and perfectly caught Oikawa's serve high and high.

A high-quality pass gave Karasuno the opportunity to launch a simultaneous multi-point attack, and the ball was entrusted to the ace Dongfeng for a strong dunk, 23-24.

"Huh~" She breathed a sigh of relief, but she was still worried. Even if Oikawa's serve was interrupted by winning a point, Qingcheng still held the match point.

——And, the free man Xi Gu is not in the arena at this time.

Wuyang responded quickly, replacing Tsukishima with Sugawara, intending to use the double-setter offensive system again.

Under this system, Sugawara's serve restrained Qingcheng's ace Iwaizumi, forcing Oikawa to make a second pass to other attackers.

And the time difference attack that Qingcheng is best at, this time it was completed by Jintianyi and Jinggu.

However, Hinata, who was super concentrated, saw through. He quickly jumped up from the center of the net to block the net, and collided with Kageyama, who was originally blocking alone—the ball bounced off his hand. Qingcheng's venue, no one can receive it.

Just as an ordinary audience, Chiho had already forgotten her position, and excitedly applauded Karasuno's team members: "Good!!"

24-24, split evenly.

This means that the intense battle for points is about to begin.

At the same time, the Shiratorizawa team had already won their semi-finals.

"Mr. Ruoli~ Who do you think will win, Qingcheng or Wuye?" Tiantong asked with great interest.

"I'll go and have a look." Udo didn't answer him, but threw the volleyball back into the basket and walked straight out of the hall.

——He prefers seeing is believing rather than meaningless speculation.

"Then... Kaji-kun?" Tendo glanced at the coach hesitantly, pointing the index fingers of both hands in the direction of Ushido's departure.

"All of you are not allowed to go!" Jiu Jiang roared violently, his meaning was obvious, he only wanted to let Niu Dao go alone.

"Yes……"

Ushido came to the gate of the competition venue, looked inside, his calm eyes widened in surprise——

Oikawa was lying on the ground, desperately stretching his arms to reach the volleyball that was too late to catch.

——It was Kageyama's unexpected second attack.

25-24, Karasuno finally gained the advantage after being at a disadvantage for a long time.

Both he and Chiho in the audience could clearly see Oikawa's ferocious and distorted face mixed with anger and unwillingness when he raised his head.

That face, in the depths of Niu Dao's calm and water-like heart, aroused layers of ripples.

--Why?Just because of that pride?

This question has troubled him for a long time, and whenever he thinks about it, he feels confused.

Memories of the past came flooding back.

Oikawa looked up from the floor, and Kageyama's body seemed too tall due to the change of perspective.

Then, what flashed through my mind was the regret that I had tried so hard countless times, but kept falling under the high wall of "Ushishima Ruori".

He hates the term "genius", but he has to admit that geniuses do exist—

And he himself was not among them.

"Geniuses" always have to stand on the opposite side of him, be it Udo who is always standing in front of him, or Kageyama who is determined to surpass him.

But becoming their enemy and fighting against them again and again is the path he chose——

For that little self-esteem, I persistently want to prove something.

That's why I exhausted all my strength, practiced, studied, challenged and failed day after day. In the past three years of high school, this cycle went on and on.

Before I knew it, I had come to this moment, this last chance——

Before facing Niu Dao, he watched another high wall erected in front of him.

How could it be possible to feel happy!

——The distance between me and them, although it may be only a short distance.

"I know..." Oi Chuan muttered with a downcast face, and got up from the ground, "But..."

"I won't lose." He resolutely looked at Wu Ye, who was celebrating in a group on the opposite side of the net, with every word to his heart.

Talent can blossom and bear fruit, even if you don’t know when that moment will come, but as long as you keep working hard, one day——

"It will come, don't give up." She watched Oikawa regain his composure and whispered.

Understanding this ball made Chiho think a lot.

It has been six years since I came into contact with that boy named Oikawa Toru since junior high school.

But he always appears as Shiratorizawa's opponent.

No, or rather—

"Challenger".

After Ushido began to show his sharpness, Oikawa's team always fell in front of him, only one step away from the whole country.

Constantly challenged and defeated, she could see that he was competing with the so-called "geniuses".

His frivolous personality is just a decoration. On the court, he looks brand new from the inside to the outside. He maintains the entire team unimpeded.

——He is by far the strongest "challenger".

The brave man has gone through hardships and keeps reloading the files, and finally has the time to slay the dragon.

No one expected that Qingcheng's last goal against Wuye would end the match in such a dramatic way.

When Qingcheng's formation was disrupted, the ball flew out to the right side of the court, and Oikawa pointed his index finger, pointing to his most trusted partner, and passed a super long-distance toss ball from outside the court to Iwaizumi , allowing him to hit an early-timed smash.

Oikawa himself slammed into the tables and chairs outside the court due to inertia, but he quickly endured the pain, staggered up and rushed to the net, continuing to participate in the team's cooperation.

Iwaizumi's spike was powerful, but miraculously caught up by Sawamura and Tanaka, the catch was caught by Dongfeng from the back row, and then received by Qingcheng's Libero. The rebound was buffered on the net for a moment.

Immediately afterwards, almost intuitively, Jinggu took a step and caught the ball that was about to hit the ground with his right arm.

"Shut it! Kageyama!" Sawamura shouted.

Hearing this, Kageyama jumped up quickly, but the ball he dunked was stopped by Kanedaichi, and it bounced directly to Sugawara's face.

It's a bit embarrassing, but at least I got it——

The volleyball flew in the air, announcing to both sides that this was a chance shot by Karasuno.

Hinata took a few steps back and started a run-up with a negative rhythm towards the right wing: "Give me the ball!!"

Wu Ye's offensive intentions were clearly revealed, just like the last ball they played against Qingcheng last time——

The same Qingcheng three blocked the net.

But this time, they have completed the evolution.

Because this time, Hinata was able to see with his opened eyes, the scene looking down from the top——

Oikawa was in the back position to catch the ball, appearing in the path he had chosen for the ball.

The dropped arm hit the ball and wiped the blocker's hand, and this also caused the ball to deviate from the position Oikawa predicted, and his catch of the ball deviated.

——By the time everyone came back to their senses, the ball had already landed.

26-24, Karasuno wins.

Ushido turned around and left the entrance of the volleyball hall.

Chiho slumped on the back of the chair, reminiscing about the last ball just now.

The intensity of the match just now can already be regarded as national level.

"Hey, are you okay?" The two asked worriedly.

"It's okay..." She raised one arm and waved it weakly, with serious disagreements.

"No matter how you look at it, it looks like something is wrong!"

"Hahaha~ Indeed." Also aware of this, Chiho replied foolishly, and immediately stood up on her knees, "I'm going out to get some fresh air~ Goodbye, Erkou-kun and Qingen-kun."

Saying goodbye to Date Ko, Chiho took off her glasses and rubbed her eye sockets to relieve fatigue as she walked out, but ran into Ushijima standing there in the corridor near the hall, which surprised her: "Jori? Are you here?" do what?"

"Wait until Chuan."

"Huh?" She leaned closer to him, glanced over his body to the bus in Qingcheng outside the gate, "Could it be...you also watched the game?"

"Only saw the last two goals."

"Oh~" The shock brought to her by those two points still remained, causing her body to tremble unconsciously, "What do you want to say to Oikawa?"

However, before he could answer, she felt someone's footsteps gradually approaching behind her, and then stopped at a place very close to her.

Seeing Ushido staring behind her with an unusually serious expression, she knew it and moved aside, and she saw Oikawa when she turned her head.

Chiho narrowed her eyes and waited quietly.

The two old enemies confronted each other silently for a while, Oikawa raised his eyebrows, and passed by Ushido, not intending to spend more time with this person.

"Give you a piece of advice, Oikawa." Ushishima called out to stop him, "Don't go astray, you're on the wrong path—there are obviously places where you can better display your strength, but you have Your paltry self-esteem at the expense of better options."

Oikawa spread his hands helplessly, and questioned him: "You mean, it's OK to enter Shiratorizawa instead of Qingcheng? ——No team can guarantee 100% victory, right?"

"At least here and now, my team is the strongest team, right?"

"Pfft..." Qiansui covered her mouth, and laughed shamelessly, her boyfriend is really cute and straightforward.

Oi Chuan was also taken aback, and said in a choked voice, "Ha! You are still so ridiculously confident!"

"Hahahahaha...!" On the other side, Chiho was already propped up on the wall with both hands, laughing unconsciously.

——Sorry, Ruoli, I really can't hold back!

"Why are you laughing?!" Oikawa complained, pointing at her.

"I don't know... Hahaha~ It's okay, it's okay, you guys continue!"

"Sigh." Oikawa sighed, remembering what Ushishima said just now: "Insignificant self-esteem...it's true."

But he straightened his body again, and said to the opponent in front of him who felt sorry for himself: "Listen, Ushido-I never think that my choice is wrong, and my volleyball career is far from over. This insignificant self-esteem, you must firmly remember it for me."

After Oikawa finished his declaration with a fierce face, he returned his advice to Ushijima: "Ah, and there~ If you just pay attention to me, you may encounter Waterloo in an unexpected place?"

"What do you mean?"

"My junior, although his brain is not bright, he is not as good as me at all. Even so, he is very strong who is no longer alone." Walking towards the shadow in the hall in the light, he left his last sentence: "If the crows are in groups, maybe even a large white vulture can be killed?"

Ushijima looked at Oikawa's back as he drifted away, and heard her silvery laughter suddenly stop behind her.

"Is that enough?" Encircling his neck from behind, Chiho rubbed against Ushido's back, "Oikawa-kun has already explained it very clearly~ If you don't understand, are you really stupid?"

"Yeah." Ushishima replied vaguely, not knowing whether he really understood or not, he just walked forward and dragged her to the stadium where the team was.

"Also, don't you think—" Chiho leaned into his ear and asked, "If you dunked the ball that Oikawa gave to Iwaizumi, you would definitely be able to score?"

"Yes." The answer to this question was quite definite.

"Ah, I always feel a little jealous of Mr. Chuan..." She lay on his back and muttered eloquently, "Little Ruoli is really obsessed with him~ Is it because he is handsome, or is it because you all have the same bad personality?" what~?"

"Just because he has that talent, and what's wrong with my character?"

"...It's becoming less and less cute."

"Feel sorry."

"If you know something is wrong, correct it for me—!"

This concludes the second day of the race.

The gathered crows hovered in the sky, ready to move.

On the final day of the third day, before noon, at the entrance of the Sendai Gymnasium.

The two stood still here again, intending to say hello to Karasuno's team members in advance.

"I said... I always feel like we are NPCs in some game..." Qianho whispered, feeling uncomfortable being stared at by the passers-by around, "Why haven't they come yet... huh?"

"coming."

"Say Cao Cao Cao Cao is here."

It was a dense piece of team uniform, which looked like a moving cloud from a distance.

As if to tear and devour something—

Chiho folded her arms and shivered.

——Today, they may no longer be the team they are familiar with.

When Karasuno's team members saw the two standing in front of the door, they stopped advancing.

Only Hinata and Kageyama stepped forward without fear.

"Shoyo Hinata and Tobio Kageyama." Ushishima read out the names of the two who had come to provoke him.

"We've reached the final." Kageyama nodded to Chiho.

"We who are born in concrete will defeat you - enter the whole country!" Hinata shouted a declaration of war to Ushijima on behalf of Karasuno's team.

"I'm looking forward to it, see you at the stadium." Ushido said without any emotion, turned and left.

"Hey, why are you walking so fast...!" Chiho stretched out his hand to try to stop him, but he had already entered the gate.

"Eh..." She turned her head, met Hinata and Kageyama in embarrassment, and smiled apologetically, "I'm sorry, he just wanted to say hello to you. Then I'm leaving too, let's go for the game Ah~!"

"Yes!"

Chiho waved at them and trotted all the way into the gymnasium.

She caught up with Niu Dao's back and walked side by side with him.

——Waiting for the arrival of the new group of challengers on the other side of the net.