Chapter 51

"Aojo, Miyagi Prefecture, once again defeated Fulin Private High School in Kanagawa Prefecture 2-1!"

"Advanced to the quarterfinals and hit the top four in the country!"

Starting from the spring high school, the banners of Aoba Jonishi High School changed every day.

What makes the other club leaders in Aoba Johni particularly dissatisfied is that

the student union, which usually allocates funds and deducts Sosou, seems to have changed its gender and suddenly became extremely generous.

Even if the banners are customized and replaced every day, the funds are not used.

But who allowed the volleyball team to enter the national competition, maybe even the semi-finals. They can only bite the bullet and strive to get good results next year.

.Replays

of Qingcheng’s games have recently been played in the electronics store in the next town.

"This is Aoba Castle in Aoba Town. I didn't expect that they have already reached the top eight."

"It's really amazing... Even Shiratorizawa has the highest strength of the top eight in the country. "

There are many more fans on the Internet."

Many people were standing in front of the TV, excitedly discussing the biggest dark horse of this spring high school.

"Sorry, let me borrow it!"

Hinata Xiangyang, who had just finished class, worked hard to get through the crowd and found a TV in the corner to watch the replay on the field.

"Aoba Josai's No. 8 Oikawa Toru chose to pass the ball to Aoshima's ace No. 3 Chukaku Taiyang! A small diagonal pass and got the last key point from Fulin!

Defeated Fulin 2:1 High school, advance to the top eight!

Will Aoba Josai get a seat in the top four of the country? Please pay attention to tomorrow's game!"

Hinata cheered loudly with excitement. Fog rose on the glass in front of the window, blurring the scene on the TV.

You can vaguely see the teenagers in blue and white uniforms cheering and celebrating around the setter with black and white kneepads.

"Great! Master, Oikawa-senpai and Iwaizumi-senpai!"

Go further, further away

- I will grow quickly and catch up!

------------------------

In the Tokyo Hotel, the expressions of the Qingcheng players were full of complexity.

"Tomorrow..."

Tianhai looked up from the information on the table. "I'm afraid we are about to encounter the strongest opponent."

After three games of the Spring High Competition, the seats for the quarterfinals have been determined, namely

- Tokyo Idayama, Xiaodani, Yamaguchi Prefecture Inufudoshi, Oita Prefecture Kosezaka , Sannomiya Gong in Mie Prefecture, Liei in Wakayama Prefecture, Aoba Castle Nishi in Miyagi Prefecture, and Tamamine in Shizuoka Prefecture.

I don't know if Oikawa's words came true. The opponent they faced to advance to the semi-finals was Tokyo's Idayama High School.

Oikawa was surrounded by his team members, squatting pitifully on the ground. "I want to see them in the finals! This means that we are in the finals!"

At Coach Irihata's signal, Coach Mizoguchi stopped everyone who was condemning Oikawa's crow's mouth.

"The schedule came out on the first day. We knew from the beginning that if we wanted to reach the semi-finals, we would definitely have to face them."

As

the game progressed, the opponents became stronger and stronger. In the battle against Kanagawa Fulin High School, Qingcheng barely managed to win.

Until the third game, they defeated the opponent with a score of 35:33.

After coming off the field, the Qingcheng players sighed repeatedly.

"No wonder Ikawa was defeated by them. Their attack method is too difficult."

——Yes, it is difficult.

The physical strength of the Fulin High School players is like a bottomless pit. Qingcheng's early attack was firmly caught by Fulin's players, as if it was hit on cotton.

Qingcheng's physical strength declined in the later stages. Tianhai allowed the main attacker and blocker to rest through timeouts and free men entering and exiting the field, thus preserving the physical strength of the players as much as possible. Only then did he win in the end.

Even the stamina monster Nakakuru said that his physical strength was almost at its limit.

No wonder Ikawa, whose main goal is to serve, lost.

After this battle, everyone felt it firsthand

- in the quarterfinals of the national competition, they faced strong players who had defeated hundreds of teams to get here.

"Stable passing, long-lasting endurance, the only shortcoming is the lack of offensive ability."

This lineup reminded Tianhai of Yinju.

Nekoma lost to Yagidani High School in Nagasaki Prefecture on the second day and regretfully left the game.

Since the location is in Tokyo, Coach Nekomata has taken the Neko players to watch the games between Xiaogu and Qingcheng in the past two days.

"

As a setter from Jingda Mountain, Iizuna's strength can be said to be terrifying."

Everyone in Qingcheng stopped joking, and Oikawa returned to his serious state. He sat at the table and told everyone about Iizunacho's strength during the stay together.

"The control of the entire game, the control of the rhythm, and the control of the opponent's status are all so precise to a terrifying level.

Because of this, he won the title of the best setter in the Youth Olympics."

Tianhai listened to Oikawa's story

- -The perspectives from teammates and opponents can make the information in his hands more comprehensive, and he can't help but compare the outstanding setter students he has seen in his mind.

If Kageyama controls the players and the ball on the court, and Oikawa controls the emotions and abilities, then Iizuna is undoubtedly in control of the entire game at this time.

Every detail and every decision cannot escape his eyes.

"Moreover,"

Oikawa glanced at Tianhai mid-sentence, "During the dormitory, he learned from a senior and became much stronger."

Tianhai thought of strengthening the dormitory and exchanged ideas with Evans for a whole afternoon. Tsuna, suddenly felt a headache.

What that boy Evans is best at is...

seizing the opponent's weaknesses and organizing to target them.

Coach Irihata picked up the information written by Tianhai,

"Not only that, each of the current main candidates in Jingda Mountain was selected from 200 people..." Physical fitness and skills are also completely superior.

[One in ten thousand people is called a genius, and genius is just Harutaka’s ticket]

In the silence, Oikawa spoke.

"But we, Aoki, can win!

We have Koiwa Nakatsuru-senpai's strength and skill in attack, Ueda-senpai's superb first pass, Maebashi-senpai's and Touji-senpai's blocking, and Kusukawa-senpai's floating ball.

We, Aoye City West, want to create the legend of winning the championship for the first time in Chunchao!"

Everyone looked confident again and continued to look at the information of Jing Dashan students.

They are from Aoba City West!

----------------------------

The fourth day of spring high school

At the entrance of the players' lounge, the Jingdashan team and the Aoba Josai team collided head-on.

Everyone stopped and stood silently in front of the door, looking at each other's team members.

"What a scary look..."

Touji looked at the main attacker who was nearly two meters tall on the opposite side, quietly stepped back and stood behind Machii.

Nakakaku was unconsciously touched by Touji's retreat. But he didn't pay attention. He looked at Jing Dashan's team uniform, tilted his head curiously, and asked:

"Maebashi-senpai, do you think they are like an underripe banana..."

Unripe Banana...

The eyes of the Jingdashan team members instantly became fierce.

Ever since Jingda Mountain became a strong volleyball school, no one has ever said that their uniforms look like yellow bananas.

What's more, it's still an underripe banana.

Machii pulled Chukaku's sleeve and blocked the other person's sight with a suppressed smile.

"Pfft... stop talking... Zhonghe!"

"No, so many people should be a handful of underripe bananas." Zhonghe seemed to have noticed the error in the sentence , quickly changed his mind.

Veins popped up on the forehead of Jingdashan's deputy attacker Er Muming: "You guys..."

On the other side.

Oikawa and Iizuna faced each other, with excitement for this match in their eyes.

"Ever since we met, I hope to have a game with you that will end if we lose."

Iizuna said first.

He, who has always been called the best setter in high school, only understood a month ago

how lucky he is to meet his opponent.

During the National Youth Intensive Camp, he realized for the first time that there would be basketball players who were as powerful as him. Once given the opportunity, they would tell the world of his existence with a shining light.

Oikawa's ability to rally the team in a short period of time made him feel even more pressured.

There was an Oikawa Toru in the originally unknown Aoba Jōnishi team.

So is it possible that in some other school, there is also a genius waiting silently to be seen by the world?

"Me too. Please show your best strength in today's game..."

Oikawa still had a smile on his face - he was friendly to all the teams except Shiratorizawa.

"Get ready to enter the field."

Tianhai stood nearby. When he heard the end of the exchange between the two sides, he reminded the Qingcheng players to prepare to enter the field to warm up.

"Ah! Coach Tianhai!" Iizuna Zhang quickly greeted Tianhai.

After he returned to school, he told his teammates the most about not only the dorm members he met, but also the coach.

The entire Jingda Mountain Volleyball Club is also very curious about what Iizuna calls "Coach Tianhai, who is a first-level attacker in his own right."

"Long time no see, Coach Tianhai! After Spring High School, can you come to our Jingda Mountain to communicate? My teammates and I are very..."

Seeing that the topic was about to turn to Teacher Tianhai, Oikawa quickly interrupted him and was looking forward to the invitation. .

"Okay, okay! Our Qingcheng players are still here - don't snatch our coach in front of him! See you on the field!"

After saying that, Oikawa pushed Tianhai to the field, regardless of Iizuna's plea behind him.

"

The next thing to be played is the eight-to-four game. This game is between Group C Jingdashan High School and Group D Aoba Josai High School!" There are

only four games in the men's eight-to-four game. After scheduling at different times, There are only two teams competing at the same time.

Tianhai glanced at the field next to him, and was very surprised when he looked at the Anlu coach.

——What a coincidence!

It turns out that the ones competing next to each other are Xiao Gu from Group A and Kusaka from Group B.

When thinking about the intensive staycation, Oikawa, Iizuna, Bokuto and Kiryu, who spent almost all day together, Amami sighed at the wonder of fate.

These four players are exactly the four teams competing at this moment.

Sitting in the audience, Hōtaro Kotaro and Saku Youhei looked at the flags on the field.

[Domination of the court]

[One goal into the soul]

[Effort]

[Steel tempered a hundred times]

"Coach Huo Shao, who do you think will win?"

Saku Youping stared at the audience, and he didn't know if he was asking Coach Huo Shao or himself.

Huo Shaohu Taro smiled and said,

"It's possible before the ball hits the ground."