Chapter 8

"My name is Amami Shu. I followed Ushijima-kun just now not because of something, but because...my house is next door."

Amami explained quickly.

He didn't want to be thought of as an ardent fan who followed Ushijima around for half an hour.

Looking at the "Tianhai" house number next door, I remembered what my mother and grandmother mentioned a month ago when they were chatting: "The neighbor's child came back to live in the United States."

Ushijima realized that he had misunderstood the other person and said,

"I'm sorry, I misunderstood you. My mother once asked me to visit your house, but you were not at home at the time."

Ushijima pursed his lips, and after careful observation, he could tell from his There was a trace of unusual awkwardness on his face.

Even Ushijima would be embarrassed by recognizing his neighbors as fans.

Thinking of Monthly Volleyball's previous evaluation of this left-handed genius, Tianhai didn't care whether this meeting was official or not. He wanted to catch the opponent's ball with his own hands.

"Ushijima-kun, are you free now? Can you come to my training ground and practice volleyball for a while?"

After hearing the word volleyball, Ushijima Ruoli's expression became more serious and serious.

He recognized the person in front of him.

This is the American high school men's volleyball champion whom his father Takashi Sorai mentioned to him during a phone conversation with his father in the United States not long ago. The main attacker is the same as him - Amamiki.

He is also a super offensive attacker and a left-handed player.

But according to his father, the opponent has a stronger overall view and offensive skills than him.

Although I don’t understand why the other party did not join a professional team, but came to Miyagi, Japan.

But since he brought it up, let's compete.

Ushijima Wakali, who came to the training ground for the first time, couldn't help but show a bit of shock and envy.

Although Ushijima's house was large, the Japanese-style courtyard that his grandmother carefully restored could not be demolished to build a training ground.

So Ushijima practiced in the yard of his home.

These are already excellent enough conditions, but compared with this training ground, they are nothing.

Tenkai, who secretly watched Ushijima's reaction, accurately caught a trace of envy on his calm face.

Hum hum, as long as you like it.

If you like it, you will come often, and if you come often, you can become my student.

The calculation in Tianhai's heart crackled.

Tenkai, who simply didn't like Washou Takumi's coaching philosophy, still admired Ushijima.

In addition to appreciation, there is also a bit of fighting spirit.

Amami looked at Ushijima who was standing in the tee box across from the net.

Come on, Ushijima Wakali, show me what you're capable of.

What ball is this?

Ushijima Wakali no longer remembers clearly.

The second ball he served was caught by the person on the other side of the net.

However, after the opponent started serving, he never stood on the serving point again.

This is also the first time he has experienced the difficulty of serving for left-handers.

Powerful jump serves, jump floats, and even overhand serves on the spot, with different rotation arcs and huge strength, become one after another strange appearance.

Just when he stood still and prepared to receive the next ball, the opponent stopped serving and slowly came over.

"Ushijima-kun, is your arm okay?"

Amami looked over worriedly.

Seeing Ushijima's red and swollen arms after enduring many violent jumps, Tenkai felt extremely guilty.

He didn't want to admit that he, a man of forty or fifty years old in two lifetimes, had almost lost his sense of proportion because of his little thoughts of challenge.

"I'm fine, let's continue."

Ushijima's usual calmness was no longer there, but instead he looked a little more childish.

He looked at Amami seriously, "I will catch your serve."

Amami's tree, who successfully aroused Ushijima's interest, said,

"But it's too late today. How about Ushijima-kun come to my place to practice tomorrow?" ?"

Ushijima thought for a moment, Shiratorizawa is currently in the summer vacation.

Although he usually goes to the school gym to train, double training and training games can be completed in the morning.

Staying at school in the afternoon and evening is just for the convenience of training.

Tianhai's training ground is not far from his home. You can come here in the afternoon to learn the opponent's serve.

I believe that after learning, he can lead the team to a further step in the national competition.

"Okay, thank you very much. Can I come tomorrow afternoon?"

"Sure."

After Ushijima turned around and went home, Amami continued to practice serving.

But this time, while practicing, I sang a little song I didn’t know when I composed it.

"If you want to be a coach, be careful. Let him see the training ground first. It's okay to show off your strength, and the students will immediately admire you. Be considerate and take notes..."

Shiyi on the side looked at the completion again. Ashu, who was on task, was so excited that two pillars of hot air came out of his nostrils.

As expected of me! !

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Shoyo heard that Ushijima would come over to train with him in the afternoon:

"Master!! It's a weird boy, a weird boy. Do you want to avenge me?"

Xiangyang still remembers the adventure in the toilet of Sendai Stadium a few days ago.

Tianhai, who had completely forgotten the incident, looked away from Xiangyang with a guilty conscience.

Gorgeous disregard...

"By the way, Xiangyang."

Tianhai handed the copied training form to Xiangyang.

"School is about to start. This is your training schedule after school starts. It follows the school time you said."

"Okay! Thank you, master!"

Xiangyang's eyes flashed with tears as he took the neatly written form.

Tianhai, who thought Xiangyang was moved, patted Xiangyang's back heartily, "Don't worry, it's a piece of cake for me, master."

"No, master."

Xiangyang thought of the really sad thing. , all thoughts are in despair.

"It's just that school is about to start. My homework hasn't been touched yet. When I contacted Aquan yesterday, I just remembered..."

Wha, what.

"Ah, as for your summer homework, I believe you will finish it soon."

Tianhai comforted me.

"Is it okay? But I haven't moved at all, is this okay?" Xiangyang raised his head and looked at Tianhai full of hope.

"Huh?"

"Huh?"

Ushijima Wakali arrived at the training ground on time at two o'clock in the afternoon.

As soon as he arrived at the door, he saw Tianhai, who was vomiting his soul, and a primary school student surrounding something, and they kept mumbling.

Are you worshiping?

Seeing Ushijima coming in, the two of them rushed over as if they were seeing a savior.

Amami even held Ushijima's hand and asked, "Ushijima-kun, Shiratorizawa's deviation score is the best in the prefecture. You must be good at studying."

Ushijima responded with a smooth face.

"I was exempted from admission in sports and did not participate in the on-campus enrollment."

Xiangyang collapsed on the side: "What should I do? If I can't finish writing, I won't be able to train."

"Don't worry, Xiangyang, master, I will learn Japanese now. ! I’ll help you with your homework! I won’t let you fail to train.”

Looking at the two people hugging each other and crying, he thought of what Tendo

said in his ears every day: “Worri, you have to try sometimes. Be considerate, that way you will have more prestige in the team."

Ushijima Wakali, who understood that the two were struggling with homework, did not agree with helping with homework, but this way Amami could have more time with himself. It's time to play ball.

"If it's homework, maybe I can help with guidance."

Ushijima said.

Tianhai and Hinata seemed to have seen gods, their withered cheeks were illuminated by the holy light and filled up.

"After all, elementary school students' homework is not particularly difficult."

The simple Ushijima still gave the final touch.

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"Next, Ushijima and Shoyo will be in a group. Let's Let's go 1V2?"

Looking at Xiangyang, who was holding his knees and his face was pale, and Ushijima, who was panting slightly, Amami proposed the next plan.

He looked so calm that he couldn't tell that he had been serving the ball continuously for nearly an hour.

Upon hearing this, Ushijima straightened up and came to the right half, indicating that he was ready.

Xiangyang on the side struggled twice and slowly walked to the left half.

"Master, your balls are so difficult to catch. I haven't caught any of them, and I'm still so tired."

Looking at the wilting little orange, Tianhai encouraged:

"Come on, Xiangyang! You can catch the ball now. Little Orange." I’ve also made progress in padding, and I’m practicing very seriously.”

Ushijima looked straight at Tianhai.

Rules of the world's No. 1 coach: Don't favor one over another, praise everyone who wants to praise, and scold everyone when you want to.

"Ushijima, too. He's much better at catching the ball than yesterday. He's truly an ace!"

Looking at the two people who were burning with small flames, Tenkai threw out the first ball.

It is the most common overhand serve.

I saw the ball flying lightly towards the center line.

"Bang."

The two collided.

Seeing the volleyball falling to the ground and rolling away, Xiangyang bowed and apologized: "I'm sorry!!!" Ushijima

shook his head, "It's okay."

The two returned to their original positions and waited for the next ball.

Tianhai narrowed his eyes when he noticed everyone passing by.

Sure enough, the problems between the two of them did not appear when they were training alone, but they came out when they were put together.

The next few balls were still not caught, either because no one caught them, or because they were concerned about another person and missed them.

"Ashu, why don't you teach them a lesson?"

Shiyi didn't understand. It was obvious that Minghai had discovered the problem between Xiangyang and Ushijima, so why didn't he speak up?

"Don't worry, let's see how they solve it first."

Two more goals were missed, and the score was already 7:0.

Ushijima and Ushijima called a timeout, and then stood together to discuss countermeasures.

"This won't work. I can't catch the ball at all, let alone hit it back."

Xiangyang was a little anxious.

Although Tianhai's ball was served overhand, the position was extremely tricky. Every time, he chooses between himself and Ushijima or in the blind corners of the line.

Ushijima said in a deep voice: "Think about catching the ball first. The opponent has served the ball these few times. If I am the only one, I can catch it." Xiangyang was

stunned after hearing this. After a few seconds of silence,

"Okay Ushijima-kun, then I'll stand on the sideline and you come and catch the ball! You can catch it this way."

"Yeah."

Sure enough, the ball was caught after the timeout, and Ushijima also succeeded after Shoyo took the ball. spike.

The score came back and forth to 11:3.

Most 2v2 games are played in an 11-point system. This score means that Ushijima and Shoyo have lost.

When he called the two of them over, seeing their unwilling expressions, Tianhai pretended to be curious and tapped his head.

"Let me guess, during the timeout just now, did you decide to ask Ushijima to catch the ball, and then Xiangyang stood aside first and waited until the ball was caught?"

Tianhai sat on the chair next to him and looked up at the two people with puzzled eyes. .

"As the ace of the team, Ushijima never has to worry about the position of his teammates during the game, right?

After all, Ushijima is very strong in terms of size and pressure. If you believe in your teammates, you only need to hit the ball in your hands. That's fine.

But the 2v1 just now was very difficult. I didn't communicate with Xiangyang until the timeout. We are obviously teammates for the time being, right?"

Seeing Ushijima lowering his head and thinking, Tenkai asked Xiangyang beside him. : "Xiangyang, you can also catch this ball. You gave it to him as soon as Ushijima said it."

Xiangyang was a little confused: "But Ushijima is much better at catching the ball than me..."

"This is Practice match. As the main attacker, you should catch the ball, smash the ball and pass the ball to prevent the ball from landing. "

Tianhai was helpless at Xiangyang's timid appearance.

This child, when he was alone, was very angry, but why was he silent at this time?

"I don't understand."

Ushijima, who had been thinking for a long time, felt that he understood something, but it was like the erratic wind, elusive.

So he chose to ask directly.