[volleyball! ! ] Ruoxu Xianchen

However, for Kageyama, it may not be so necessary to continue to take a step forward.

He didn't dig deep to understand why he felt relieved after the ball finally landed on the opponent's court at that moment, as if in a seesaw battle, and he didn't think about the reason for confirming and denying his long-standing speculation. , Izumo's true thoughts in her heart.

Then the following time is almost a replay of three years ago. After the volleyball team bid farewell to the third graders and ushered in new members, another year passed quickly, and they were about to send away a group of teammates who had been tacit partners— —That’s all in Kageyama’s world.

When the graduates gathered in the auditorium, Kageyama, a second-year student, was still staring out the window in a daze in class. He didn't realize that Izumo was about to graduate from Karasuno until Tanaka and Nishitani quit the club, and he would go to the Where he knew, he ushered in a new life that he didn't know, but even so, he failed to break the practice of many years to actively find her.

——Even if I saw it, what should I say?Gratitude, farewell, best wishes, or other things that I never thought of saying...

The lunch break bell finally rang. After withdrawing his thoughts, he yawned. Kageyama put his hands in his pockets listlessly, walked out of the classroom and went to the vending machine downstairs. After debating whether to drink milk or yogurt, he decisively pressed both sides at the same time, Then bent down to pick up the boxed milk chosen by fate.

"Dragon, don't squeeze me, or you will be discovered—"

"Shhh - A Gu, please keep your voice down, or you will really be discovered..."

So, why did these two seniors, who were supposed to be holding the graduation ceremony, sneak around here to listen to the corner?

"Well, Tanaka-senpai and Nishitani-senpai, what are you doing here... eh?"

Bite on the straw to grab the almost empty milk carton, Kageyama bent down and was about to ask casually, but before he finished speaking, the two pulled him over: "Kageyama, don't make trouble, this is the most important thing that Fujiwara has done in three years. Moment, three years of bitter love and a Jedi counterattack before graduation, success or failure depends on it!"

——Senior Xigu is still only good at four-character words...

He uttered this sentence lightly in his heart, but after looking over the corner of the wall like them, when he saw the figure surrounded by them, Yingshan suddenly stopped breathing, and then subconsciously took a sharp inhalation, as a result, the air in the milk carton shrank violently Then, there was an abrupt sound.

——Then, the three people hiding behind the corner completely exposed the prototype without any accident.

"What are you... doing?"

Izumo, who turned to this side, asked with a serious face, but the boy holding the button halfway out his hand, looking like he was about to cry but had no tears, has completely blended into the background.

"Well, this one...we happened to be passing by, yes, passing by..."

Tanaka patted himself on the back of the head with a dry smile, exchanged glances with the equally embarrassed Nishiya, and the two immediately made up their minds to run away before saying: "We are going down to the volleyball club, and we have to tell everyone Let's go after a few words, after all, we are seniors!"

"That's right, let's go quickly, and Yingshan will go too!"

"Xigu, can you wait a while? I also want to say a few words to Mr. Yingshan, and I will return it to you soon."

[land]

The backs of Nishitani and Tanaka running away are getting farther and farther away, and Izumo seems to have said something to Fujiwara, so that the latter finally showed a relieved look, said goodbye to her politely, turned and left.

"Phew~ I'm saved, you guys came at the right time..."

"Eh? Why did Narumi-senpai... say that?"

The shocking announcement made by the girl caught Kageyama, who was about to throw the empty box into the trash can, by surprise and threw it out of the basket.

"Just now... No matter how you think about it, it was that kind of scene, besides, he was holding the second button of his shirt in his hand, and I was still thinking about how to politely reject him, when you showed up, well, although I am a little sorry for Fujiwara , but... as expected, I'm still not good at dealing with this kind of situation~"

I don't know if it was just crying at the graduation ceremony, but when I got close to Hou Yingshan, I realized that her eye sockets were still slightly red, and she always avoided looking at each other intentionally or unintentionally when speaking...

——What happened, Narumi-senpai today?It's fine if you don't smile, but you still... cry?

"I'm sorry, your volleyball team should have arrangements, and I specially left you here to talk... All in all, like Nishitani and Tanaka, I'm graduating from Karasuno today, and it will be very difficult in the future. See you again, Kageyama-kun, but you still have to work hard~ This is a parting message from senior, please accept it with gratitude!"

The words she defined as "the last", accompanied by the touch of the head that she had not experienced for a long time, were conveyed to Kageyama at the moment when Izumo stood on tiptoe and smiled.

Soon, the gentle touch on the top of the head disappeared, and the girlish aura that was so close gradually dissipated. Kageyama watched her flamboyant smile, and at the same time she said goodbye, she jumped over like an instinctive reaction of her body. The brain's trade-offs are immediately communicated to the end of the reflex arc.

"Wait a minute, Narumi-senpai—"

Kageyama's figure seemed to be teleporting, and suddenly appeared in front of Izumo who turned and left, and the tense-eyed young man abruptly bowed downwards and bent into a right-angled arc: "Please tell me, where are you going to go when you come down?" Where is that school!"

"Aha?"

He must have been frightened by his huge momentum, but the young man only asked such a question. Izumo couldn't help but stare blankly at Kageyama who had raised his head.

"Why do you ask this? Kageyama-kun, you... also want to go to that school?"

"Ah, yes, that's right."

He answered without any hesitation, completely ignoring other innocent young men, and now he stood tall and straight in front of Izumo, with the unshakable look in his eyes clearly visible.

"When we met in Karasuno for the first time, Narumi-senpai once said that he was very happy to be at the same school as me, and I am the same in this regard, so, in order to continue to be happily in the same school in the future, Narumi-senpai must please wait for me……"

——Wait for me to go to your place, wait for me to fully confirm my feelings, and then tell you the truth...

There is no need to doubt that the 100% seriousness on the young man's face is enough to prove that Izumo, who deeply understands this, lowered his eyes and nodded, but there was a narrow smile on the corner of his mouth——

"Thank you, Kageyama-kun, I was very moved by what you said, but I heard that you seem... not very good at studying, so I have to work hard to wait for you~"

"Naru... Senior Narumi!"

Mentioning the shortcomings of this talented setter, Kageyama, who was still ambitious just now, immediately blushed, and became angry from embarrassment, except for shouting her name, and had no idea how to resolve this embarrassment.

"I know, I'll just wait for you—I've been waiting for a long time anyway..."

When the wind picked up, the faint fragrance of cherry blossoms wafted in the fresh air, clearing away the distance of less than two meters between the boy and the girl, and under the weak whistling sound, the girl finally murmured like a raving.

——Waiting for a long time... are you waiting for me?What are you waiting for me?Wait for me... find your mood?Or wait until I... perceive your thoughts?