When the cold ice pack landed on the almost hot skin, even after a layer of clothing, Ryo Hoshino still subconsciously shivered. Followed by the old man's cold voice: "What are you doing!" ”

Hoshino sat down obediently, letting the bag of ice roll around on his right shoulder, grinning in pain. Others circled around him, looking at him with worried eyes.

Hoshino Ryo comforted: "It's nothing, it's just that I've been playing for a long time, and the small slash just now may have been buckled too quickly, so it's good to rest for a while." ”

"Heh, if it weren't for Saito's sharp eyes, would you be going to play the fifth game like this?" The eagle craftsman didn't listen to his rhetoric, and said with a black face.

Ryo Hoshino touched his nose with some weakness. Well...... How could such a morale-affecting thing be said before the tiebreaker......

The eagle craftsman forged a moment when he saw him like this, and he was angry. Saito Ming's face was originally a little darker, but after seeing the old man's appearance, in case the other party said something not very nice and affected the mood of the team members, he hurriedly said: "Hoshino, your thinking is very incorrect. The game is only temporary, but the body is a lifelong thing. ”

"Just like this time, this kind of muscle tension caused by excessive fatigue can be recovered after a short rest, but if you insist on playing in such an unhealthy and imperfect state, you will only continue to lose muscle health under high-intensity games, and when there are ligaments and tissue problems, it will not be simply healed."

"How many athletes have to retire each year because of these big and small physical injuries, isn't that enough to keep you vigilant?"

Originally, I just wanted to play a round, but in the end, it was like educating this group of children.

Those who can become coaches have played volleyball more or less before. Unlike the current environment that the country is concerned about, in the early years, there were more players who retired early due to injuries due to overtraining and overplaying, and many of them were people they knew. Therefore, Saito Akira's tone inevitably brought a little wrench.

Hoshino Ryo naturally heard his emotions, paused slightly, and said sincerely, "I was wrong." ”

Eagle Craftsman snorted coldly, and Saito Akira's face softened a lot.

"After this game, go back and ask the physiotherapist to give you a massage session." As a long-established private school, Shiratorizawa has a lot of money in all aspects of its facilities, and has recently equipped several teams with dedicated physiotherapists. But......

Thinking of the strength of the physiotherapist's hand, Ryo Hoshino's face turned a little green, but under the watchful eye of the two coaches, he could only grit his teeth and respond: "Okay." ”

This is the end of the story, but there is more important business ahead. Saito Akira took a deep breath: "...... In the third and fourth games, you stabilized your mentality and chased two games in a row under the absolute disadvantage of the big score, which really surprised me and Washika Sensei, and everyone did a very good job. ”

He first smiled and praised them, and then said, "But everyone must know that the next fifth game is going to be a tougher game." ”

Everyone looked at him seriously, including Ryo Hoshino, who was pressed to sit in a chair.

But he suddenly changed his words: "I still haven't forgotten that day last year, and I think many of you are the same."

I haven't forgotten that October 27 was the day the Spring High School Qualifiers ended.

I dare say it was the most memorable game I've had since I came to Shiratorizawa. Since that game, everyone has been saying that the era of [King Shiratorizawa] has come to an end. ”

Something slipped through the eyes of the second- and third-year team members, seeming to be

Dull pain.

"I thought, what can I do to change this? What can I do to bring Shiratorizawa back to its former glory? ”

The man pushed down his glasses, his eyes fell slightly on the silver-haired boy, and then quietly moved away.

"—but I soon saw hope."

He smiled slightly: "From October 27th to today's August 7th, a total of 284 days have passed. During these 284 days, you have done a great job in every training session, every practice match, every task. And in the past three days of competition, you have perfectly executed every tactic that I and Washikaku-sensei have developed. You have done everything you can. ”

"And today, you are standing here, standing on the center court, and you have proved to everyone that the [King Shiratori Ze] has not really passed away, even if the white bird is not a phoenix, but it may still have the ability to be reborn from the fire."

He looked at them. They looked at him.

"I think no matter what the outcome of this game is, it will be etched in my heart forever. Because—this is the day of rebirth that belongs to Shiratorizawa. ”

A cluster of sparks fell in everyone's eyes, lighting up everyone's pupils.

"Then, about the tactics of the last game-" Saito Akira tilted his head slightly and looked at the eagle smith forging beside him. The old man, who is over 70 years old, still frowns as usual, hiding all his emotions under the ravine's face, leaving only seriousness.

But at this moment, his eyebrows were raised, and his shrewd eyes looked at the players around him one by one.

"There are no tactics." He said.

The old man's expression was suddenly soothed, and a smile rose from under his eyes, and then gradually spread to his entire face.

The team members had never seen each other show such expressions, and they couldn't help but be a little surprised.

But he just smiled heartily: "Go and fight as hard as you like!" ”

"-Let everyone see what Shiratorizawa's volleyball is like!"

*

"In 2013, the All Japan High School Volleyball Multi-sport Tournament was the final game of the men's finals! Only 15 points can decide the decisive game - "The commentator said highly, "The first goal of the opening game was taken by Jing Minshan!" ”

Shiratorizawa followed up and equalized the score. In a tiebreaker, every ball counts, and once the score is pulled apart, it can be an irreparable situation! - Good! Sakuza's smash was very neat, and Izuyama scored a point! ”

Tiebreakers are usually faster than normal innings, and can be as short as 20 minutes or as long as 40 minutes. In other words, it's a faster, more intense, and more dangerous matchup.

Even if they have gone through four full rounds of high-intensity play, even if they have felt tired and heavy, from the moment they step on the court, they cannot relax or hesitate.

Ryo Hoshino threw down his arm and dunked a ball, and the cooling massage of the ice pack during the break played a role at this time, and his movements were slightly sluggish, but not sluggish. He secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

In this game, Shiratorizawa chose to use the position of the main attack to kick off, and Inoyama also made the same choice as them - to grab points. But the two teams are bound to restrain each other by implementing the same strategy. In the end, when Ryo Hoshino and Sakuhaya Seishino were transferred to the back row one after another, the scores of the two teams remained deadlocked.

But the situation soon changed.

- From the first mistake of Shiratorizawa.!