"Bang!!"

"Good! Ushijima - Ushijima - One more ball! ”

At Wuye's coach's seat, Wuyang frowned, and his expression was quite solemn.

Kageyama, who was the starting setter, had to be replaced by a substitute setter at the beginning of the game due to lack of physical strength. Although Sugawara is not weak, it is now the last game, and the pressure will inevitably increase in the 15-point game, plus the opposite side is that Shiratorizawa......

He glanced at Hio Kageyama, who was sitting next door, his eyes slightly downcast.

Just as he was thinking about it, suddenly there was a loud noise, and the man raised his eyes suddenly, and then his face twisted.

In the last game, you can still hit such a ball?!

"Back-row attack from Ushijima! First the serve score, then the smash score, the left hand heavy artillery Ushijima Worri - unstoppable!! ”

"One more goal! One more goal! ”

In such an atmosphere, the brown-green haired ace calmly tossed the ball.

"Bang!!"

"The ball is back, chance ball!!"

"I'm coming!!"

"Ushijima-senpai!!"

Sure enough, Kenjiro Hakubu once again passed the ball to Ushijima Wakari. Ushijima, who had just finished serving, only took a few steps back, then ran forward, and the last step stepped heavily behind the three-meter line and jumped in the air.

"Bang!!"

"Beautiful——! Shiratorizawa scores in a row!! ”

Different from Hanhejiang's excitement, Hoshino Ryo frowned slightly.

Is it because it's the last round? Feel...... All the balls of the white cloth seniors were passed to the captain. Although the captain's scoring efficiency is very high, once the offensive bias is fixed, it is easier for the opposing side to organize the defense. Unless the game is quickly ended in a short period of time, if it drags on like the previous game, the captain's physical exertion will only increase.

Hakubu Senpai may think so, but will Karasuno really give them a chance to end quickly?

Thinking about the door, two more balls fell. Karano finally interrupted Shiratorizawa's serve and began a difficult counterattack.

And in the next few balls, Kenjiro Hakubu really passed it to Ushijima Wakari. I don't know for some reason, Ushijima Wakari's smashes are more fierce than the other, and he doesn't look like someone who has played four games at all. In the face of such a stormy smash, the most suffering is naturally the opposite block.

I don't know how many times I was smashed on my finger, Tsukishima Hotaru twitched her cheeks and shouted through gritted teeth: "ONETOUCH!" ”

"I'm coming!!" The free man Nishitani rushed forward and caught a pass.

Sugawara Koji trotted two steps and raised his arm to pass: "Asahi!" ”

The ace jumped and slammed the ball.

"The thug is out of bounds! Karano takes this point!! ”

- Ushijima smash! Shiratorizawa scores! ”

Ryo Hoshino looked at the score. 9:5, the fifth game, 15 points, if it is fast, it is only ten minutes, but these ten minutes are more difficult than any previous ten minutes.

On the side of the court, Hotaru Tsukishima, who was rotated to the back row because of the rotation of the position, and then switched positions with the libero, frowned and walked off the court, passing by Kageyama Feixiong who came on the field.

The young tame Yamaguchi Zhong greeted him: "Ah Yue, you were so strong with that ball just now!" - What's wrong with you?! ”

"It's fine."

Hotaru Tsukishima moved her fingers. If it weren't for the fact that I played too much in front of me, I wrapped my finger around before the start of this game, and maybe one of the balls just now would have been injured. After all, the ace player on the other side is aiming for a gesture that breaks the man's hand with every ball.

Hotaru Tsukishima's eyes narrowed, and after confirming that her hands were okay, she turned her gaze back to the field.

The return of the starting setter is a huge buff for Karano, which means that they can use [Weirdo Fast Break] to score again. However, even if there is no weirdo fast attack, Wuye's tactics of all-out attack have already made Shiratorizawa difficult to parry.

Another goal, seeing the scene of Wuye's side running out again, Han Hejiang sighed: "It's the first time I've seen such a team......"

Completely abandon the defense and focus only on the offensive tactics.

Ryo Hoshino nodded in agreement and muttered for a while: "However, after the return of the 9th, there is also a benefit. ”

"What?"

"You see, with number 10 as a decoy, and with the weirdo fast attack, he will definitely run out before the others. Then, as long as he is eliminated, it is not so difficult to stop the other attackers. ”

In the conversation room, I only heard the commentator say loudly: "Shiratorizawa blocks the net and scores!" ”

Han Hejiang suddenly said: "Because Wuye lost the defense, as long as you judge the direction of No. 9's pass, the possibility of blocking is very big!" ”

Ryo Hoshino nodded.

But obviously, Karashino also knows the drawbacks of this type of attack, and after Kageyama took the court, they were able to use a variety of offensive methods and reduced the frequency of using this method. And they gradually caught up with the score after they returned to form.

After watching the four games, Ryo Hoshino gradually understood how Qingcheng was defeated.

In layman's terms, Karashino seems to be a team that is strong when they are strong, because they will never give their opponents a chance to throw them away easily, and on the contrary, they themselves will take every opportunity to climb up.

They may not be strong when viewed separately, but as their school name suggests, the crows have never been solitary animals.

When a flock of crows pounces on you, perhaps even a lion will have to avoid it.

15 points went by in a flash, and this game, as before, did not stop at 15 points. Even though he was extremely tired, the players on both sides did not give in the slightest, and the more the game went backwards, Ryo Hoshino's face sank a little more, and when he saw the score rush to 20 points, his brows were already tightly furrowed.

The cheerleaders on both sides have always supported the players on the field one after another, and in the warm sound, there is more and more stagnant atmosphere.

"This way!"

"Cover, cover!"

"Kageyama!"

Taiichi Kawanishi looked at the orange-haired boy who rushed forward, and before he could look at the positions of the other attackers, he saw that the figure suddenly flickered, rushing directly from the left half to the right half, and then jumped with a momentum like a bamboo.

This guy can still run?!

Taiichi Kawanishi gritted his teeth and ran over there. But the weirdo fast attack has always been a surprise attack, and as long as there is a little hesitation, it will be taken advantage of.

"Freak Attack! Hinata's speed is not affected by physical strength! He cooperated with Kageyama tacitly and equalized again!! ”

There wasn't much time to break and the next goal came in a flash. After Shiratorizawa took the next pass,

Sure enough, Hakubu passed the ball to Ushijima Wakari again.

"Nishiya got it! But the ball seems to be a little close to the net! ”

Kageyama immediately jumped to his feet.

This posture,

Is he going to smash the ball directly?

- Nope! It's a feint!

The next second,

Taiichi Kawanishi's figure appeared in front of Toho Xu, who was about to smash the ball.

"Stopped!! The ball bounced back! ”

Damn it!

The ace watched as the ball fell behind him, and just as he was about to shoot, a figure appeared on the ball.

"Earth!" Dongfeng Xu's eyes lit up.

The ball smashed into the hands of the main attacker and bounced back. Sawamura shouted: "-Do it again!" ”

It's useless!

A hint of fierceness flashed in the eyes of the secondary attacker.

Even if he did it again, he would put the ball-

"Knock"

The sound of the ball hitting the ground was heard. Taiichi Kawanishi turned his head in shock, looked at the ball that rolled to his feet, and for a moment the door didn't even react to what was happening.

However, the people in the stands saw everything clearly.

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bsp; "Setter offense!! Kageyama seized the loophole in the blocking net at this time and launched a second attack! Karano overtook the score and got the match point!! ”

At this time, can you still stay calm and use a setter to attack?

Ryo Hoshino pressed his eyebrows. What kind of monsters are these people in Wuye?

Unlike the hesitation here, the reaction to the goal from the stands on the opposite side was quite enthusiastic.

"One more goal! One more goal!! ”

"Hinata, make a good shot!!"

The orange-haired boy tossed the ball and raised his hand to slap it.

- Here we go. Will this be the last one? Or can Shiratorizawa get the score back?

The audience was heartfelt.

"The first pass was good, and the white cloth passed the ball to Ushijima! Wuye's three-person blocking net is already waiting on the other side! ”

There is no free man in the backfield, then, of course, choose to buckle the straight line!

"Bang knock!"

Hanhe Jiang Yong "hissed": "Catch the ball with your face?!" ”

You can still get smashed with your hands, let alone a more fragile face?

But Hinata Shoyang only slowed down on the ground for a few seconds, and then immediately got up.

Don't want to lose!

He doesn't want to lose!!

There was a fire burning in his orange eyes.

By this time, the ball had been hit back to the Shiratorizawa field, and Ushijima Wakari once again stepped forward.

Hotaru Tsukishima and the others were waiting there again.

Seeing their position, Ryo Hoshino pursed his lips. This one......

Wuye's blocking net, which has been sealing the diagonal line, completely sealed the straight line for the first time!

Tian Tong Jue obviously saw it, and he furrowed his eyebrows.

However, if Ushijima Ruoli was such an easy person to stop, he would not be called an [absolute trump card]. I saw the attacker's left arm turn, and then shook it hard, breaking through the defense line of the three-person block, and hit a perfect slash ball!

"Uhh Sawamura caught the ball.

One pass is not perfect! But, so what?

The calm third-year master will hold the ground with one hand and grit his teeth

Stood up.

As long as the ball hasn't landed,

It's going to attack!!

Offensive.

Offensive!

Five people in black jerseys raised their eyes at the same time,

There was a strong desire to attack in everyone's eyes.

It's another simultaneous multi-shot positional attack!

Ryo Hoshino subconsciously looked at the orange-haired boy, and then he was stunned.

Number 10, didn't run out?

The others of Shiratorizawa had the same idea as him, and before they could think about it again, the five people on the opposite side had already started running at the same time.

Hoshino Ryo held his breath, and a premonition suddenly popped up in his heart, and this premonition became stronger and stronger as Karashino's attackers jumped one by one.

Almost at the moment when Kawanishi Tai jumped into the net together, he knew the end of this goal.

"Damn it!!" Tian Tong Jue watched the ball pass towards the orange-haired boy in the backfield, and then, with a strong slash from the opponent, the ball easily broke through the first layer of defense and landed in the unguarded empty area.

"Beep! Beep-"

The whistle blew and the dust settled.

Ryo Hoshino looked at Center Court in silence.

The score is different, the process is different, but the result is the same.

He thought.

If he had been able to get rid of the influence of the dream earlier, if he hadn't been injured, if he had been the one standing on the pitch today, would the result of this goal be different?

No one can answer this question, because there are no ifs.

The silver-haired boy didn't know when he bowed deeply, and he endured the sourness in his eyes.

But if there is a real if, even if he still loses in the end, he wants to ...... Stand on the pitch with them.

"The winner of the 2012 All Japan Volleyball High School Tournament Miyagi Prefecture Men's Representative Tournament was Karano High School!!"

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After the award ceremony, the Shiratorizawa team members returned to school by bus. They were silent because of the unexpected loss, and after dinner, they gathered in the gymnasium.

After the end of spring high school, the third grade will be withdrawn, which is something that everyone knows. But none of them expected this day to come so suddenly.

The first- and second-year team members listened to the vice-captain's speech in silence, and just when they thought it would be over, they heard Ushijima Woryoshi speak: "I want to say two words." ”

Everyone was a little surprised, and then, they listened to the usually silent Ushijima Wakari point out the names one by one, and then pointed out everyone's shortcomings.

Ryo Hoshino was the last, and he raised his head when he heard the other party call his name.

But the trump card, who had always been very fluent in the front, paused, and finally said: "You come with me." ”

Speak alone?

Tiantong Jue raised his eyebrows, thought about it, and said nothing.

Hoshino didn't think about anything, he obediently followed behind the other party, walked out of the gymnasium, and finally the two stopped in an open space not far away.

"Hoshino." Ushijima paused for a moment, "I asked you yesterday, [Are you afraid of losing], but you didn't answer. ”

Hoshino was stunned. He didn't expect the other party to mention this.

"I'll ask you again, are you still afraid of losing?"

The cold moonlight fell on the shoulders of the two of them. Ryo Hoshino raised his eyes,

met a pair of brown-green eyes,

And there was no such emotion as anger in these eyes, just a calm like water.

This is very similar to Tiantong Jue's eyes, but it is different, because the latter's is a little gentle, but the former's is like a towering mountain.

Although Ushijima Wakari's tone was tougher, inexplicably, Ryo Hoshino didn't want to hide something from him.

So he said, "I'm just worried...... Maybe it's scary. ”

Ushijima nodded, indicating that he understood. Then he said, "Hoshino, do you know that Coach Washisaki wants you to be the next captain?" ”

"What?" Ryo Hoshino was stunned, "But it's not usually supposed to be a second-year senior—"

"That's you." Ushijima Worri shook his head.

Ryo Hoshino was a little confused by the news. He opened his mouth, and just as he wanted to say something, he heard the other party continue: "Hoshino, you are a very capable person, and your ability is enough to take over the position of captain. But there is one thing you have to remember. ”

"You can't be afraid of losing at any time."

"Hoshino, you can hate losing, you can not want to lose, but you can't be afraid of losing. Fear of losing is a quality that even the weak look down on. ”

"No matter what kind of opponent you face, you have to believe that you can win. If you don't even think you're going to win, how can you lead your team to victory? ”

"Hoshino." The Lord will stretch out a hand and press it on his heart. Ryo Hoshino felt his heart beat on the other party's palm again and again with the frequency of agitation.

And the latter spoke at this moment: "Even now, if you ask me yesterday's question, I will still say, [I will definitely not lose. What about you? Can you do it? ”

He...... Can it be done?

"You're going to do it, you're going to do it."

"Because you're the captain."

"You have to firmly believe that your team is the strongest."

"And that's what you have to do as a captain."!