Ever since the Inarizaki players started training according to the training plan given by the coaches, everyone seemed to have worked hard and were unwilling to leave until their legs were weak and their hands were sore.
Coach Kurosu and Assistant Kobayashi tried to persuade them several times, but to no avail. Therefore, in order to ensure that most of the team members could get adequate rest, they simply canceled the previous rule of who leaves last and who cleans up, and changed it to three people working in shifts every day.
Coach Kurosu: It’s embarrassing to ask others to wait until you leave before they can start cleaning, right? !
Although most of the team members were dissatisfied when this rule was first introduced, Coach Kurosu and Assistant Kobayashi were very firm. For high school students who are still in a critical period of growth and development, they must hold their heads down and let them know what to do. It’s called exercising moderately and arranging rest time reasonably.
"Thank you for your hard work -" "Take a step first, see you tomorrow!"
The clock on the wall has pointed to eight o'clock in the evening. Although they are reluctant, for the sake of their companions on duty, the players who are still sweating on the court have to stop, carry their bags in twos and threes, and join their companions on duty. Say hello and end today's club activities.
Tianyuan Shuo also waved to the twins, indicating that they would meet tomorrow, and took the mop to start mopping the floor.
Today's duty is carried out by Kitano Shinsuke, Kakuna and Tenwon. Kitano Shinsuke is cleaning up the volleyballs scattered on the court, while Kakuina follows him with a rag to clean the volleyballs and throw them into the cart.
The three of them were all quick with their hands and feet, and in a short while, most of the bathroom had been cleaned. Kakuna finished wiping the volleyball and discussed it with Kitano Shinsuke. Kitano Shinsuke went to clean the storage room, and Kakuna took a mop from the utility room and prepared to mop the floor together. .
As a result, after just two drags, Tianyuan Shuo heard Kakuname sigh.
Tianyuan Shuoye:?
Jiao Ming's face looked a little dark. He stared at the mop for a while and asked, "Ayou and the others cleaned yesterday, right?"
Tianyuan Shuo also nodded.
"...Forget it, I'll go outside and wash the mop. I'll be right back."
Tianyuan Shuo also asked curiously: "Is the mop dirty?"
"Not only is it dirty, that bastard Gong Yoo must have had a fight with Gong Zhi. This mop has not been washed at all," Kakuname walked out, "I will mop it from the other side. You can go in later and see if Senior Bei needs help. "
"Know it--"
Holding back a smile in his heart and watching Kakuna leave, Tianyuan Shuo continued to mop the floor diligently, but suddenly he heard a faint sound coming from outside the door, accompanied by the cold wind blowing through the crack in the door. It fell into the ears of Tianyuan Shuoye.
Tianyuan Shuoye:! ! !
Tianyuan Shuo also swallowed his saliva, right? At this time, the lights in the whole school are still on except for the gymnasium. The other students should have gone home, and Kakuname just went out to wash the rags. How could this be possible? Come back soon.
Tianyuan Shuo also hugged the handle of the mop tightly, hypnotizing himself wildly in his heart that it was just an auditory hallucination, just an auditory hallucination, an auditory hallucination... Damn it, why is the sound getting closer and closer, and it's still coming in this direction. !
"...Don't follow me, are you bothered...I know..."
"...You think...bastard, if it were possible...I would..."
"Bang!" A sound similar to the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground, followed by a burst of rapid footsteps. Tianyuan Shuo also scratched his golden retriever. Oh my god, it turns out that ghosts in Japan also want to quarrel, but why do you feel these two sounds? Why does it sound familiar?
Just when Tianyuan Shuoye was thinking wildly, the door of the gymnasium was pushed open, and a figure over 1.9 meters tall appeared in Tianyuan Shuoye's sight.
"Ah," Tianyuan Shuo also looked at the person who came, but he breathed a sigh of relief and bowed to say hello, "Kimura-senpai, tonight..."
Before he finished speaking, he was rudely interrupted by Kimura. The ace of the Inarizaki Men's Volleyball Club looked gloomy and scary: "Why are you here?"
Tianyuan Shuo was really frightened now. He stumbled back: "Kimura-senpai..."
"What are you doing in the gym at this hour?"
"Well," Tianyuan Shuo also explained incoherently, "it's my turn to be on duty today, I'm just cleaning in the gymnasium."
"Sakuya, what happened?" Kitano Shinsuke, who was cleaning the storage room, heard the voice and came out. He paused when his eyes glanced at Kimura, "Kimura-senpai, good evening."
Kimura couldn't hear what others were saying now. He stared straight at the blond boy in front of him, looking like he was on the verge of explosion.
Kitano Shinsuke frowned in a rare way. He walked forward in two or three steps, protecting Sakuya Tenwon with one hand and motioning Kimura to calm down with the other, "Kimura-senpai, please calm down. The amount of training has been relatively heavy recently, so we It’s time to clean up.”
Kimura then turned his eyes and stared at Kitashinsuke. He looked at Kitashinsuke's movements and smiled sarcastically: "What, Kitashinsuke, you have fallen to this group of geniuses so quickly. I can't tell you are hugging your thighs." Kung Fu is the most powerful thing.”
However, Kitano Shinsuke was not easily angered by him. Seeing this, Kimura's tone dropped: "Get out of the way, don't let me say it a second time."
However, Kitano Shinsuke's expression did not change. He just raised his head and stared at the ace in front of him who was a full 20cm taller than him with a calm expression: "Kimura-senpai, if there is anything we can talk about after you calm down, now like this, You will only scare your juniors."
"He is your junior, am I not your senior?"
Kimura roared, and his mind was a little confused by the anger. Several times he reached out to grab Tenwon Sakuya's shoulders, but Kitano Shinsuke skillfully pushed him away. His eyes turned red, and he suddenly moved forward with all his strength. Give it a push.
He is originally a powerful player, and he is older than both Kitaki Shinsuke and Tenwon Sakuya. If this push is pushed by him, Kitaki Shinsuke will definitely be injured.
Kitano Shinsuke, who stood between the two, was certainly not the type to be bullied, but when he thought about the fact that behind him there was Tenwon Sakuya who was frightened by Kimura-senpai's rude attitude, if the two main candidates were on the eve of the Spring High School competition, The escalation of friction between the players may bring disaster to Inarizaki, and he couldn't help but hesitate for a few seconds.
But just these few seconds of hesitation caused the situation on the scene to change drastically.
Kitano Shinsuke only felt that his elbow was being grabbed forcefully and dragged back. The blond boy behind him stepped forward and blocked him tightly. It was obvious that his own voice could not suppress the trembling, but he still stood there firmly. : "Kimura-senpai, please don't do this. If there is anything or I have done something wrong, you can tell me directly. This is none of Bei-senpai's business."
"Sakuya..."
"Souya——" Tajima also rushed over at this moment. He stretched out his arms and hugged Kimura and pulled him away. "Are you crazy? Do you want to be kicked out of the team by Coach Kurosu because of a private fight?"
Tajima, who is always smiling on weekdays, has messy hair and a flushed face: "If you have the ability to go to the coach to argue, why are you here making trouble for your juniors?"
Kimura's chest rose and fell exaggeratedly twice, and he finally relieved himself. Tajima pulled him back a certain distance, turned away and stopped talking.
For a moment, the four of them were stuck there, not knowing what to say.
Kakuna, who came back with a cleaned mop, sensed the tense atmosphere in front of the gymnasium at a glance. He walked past Kimura Tajima and stood in front of Tenwon Sakuya: "What happened?"
Tianyuan Shuo also opened his mouth, but in the end he just looked away, lowering his head so that no one could see his expression clearly.
Tajima gritted his teeth and stood up to smooth things over: "It's nothing, just a small conflict. Kimura has been under a lot of academic pressure recently..."
However, Kakuname did not accept his words at all and interrupted him unceremoniously: "I'm sorry, I'm asking Sakuya, or you can ask Kita-senpai, what happened here?"
Kimura sneered. Look, he knew that even though he said he respected his seniors, these damn lunatics actually didn't take them seriously at all.
Kakuna also heard Kimura's provocative laughter. He tilted his head, and his golden brown eyes showed an inorganic coldness. He was still slightly hunched over and looked a little lazy, but it just made people feel Her scalp tingled when his eyes swept over her.
Tajima was silent. Although he was a little embarrassed, he was actually a little afraid of the junior student in front of him, so the only thing he could do was to slap Kimura on the back to signal him to stop being a monster.
Kitano Shinsuke looked at Kakuna: "Kakuna, come here and look at Sakuya. I have something to talk to Kimura-senpai."
Kimura curled his lips and said dismissively: "Who wants to talk to you?"
"Kimura-senpai..." "Souya!"
"What are you doing? We have nothing to talk about. I just can't stand you." Kimura seemed to be irritated by the looks of Kitano Shinsuke and Tajima Hiroji. His emotions that had just calmed down began to fluctuate violently again, "Obviously we have spent the past two years The amount of energy you put into it isn’t that little, right?”
"Although IH did not qualify this year, it can be regarded as the best result in the history of Inarizaki. But behind the scenes you are smiling and laughing, but you trample our hard work on the ground at will. Not to mention myself, the previous setter Otani , he played so many games with the team, but Gong Yu and Gongji directly put him on the bench, and he quit the team as soon as the semester started."
"And you," Kimura pointed at Kakuna and Tenin, "Special admissions, right? That's great. Has Kurosu thought about Tajima and Sakai? This is their last chance to participate in the competition, and Harutaka was selected. The spot was taken away by you easily, why are you so arrogant?"
"Are you geniuses? Why do you want to step on ordinary people like us and do whatever you want? Don't we work hard? Can't everyone see the hard work we put in?"
"If you two juniors are really so kind," Kimura sneered, "just look back at your senior Hoku Shinsuke Hoku? Look at how he practices and cleans up the mess for you day after day. You just don't care. Don’t you feel guilty too?”
After Kimura vented his anger, without waiting for anyone else to react, he pushed Tajima away who was grabbing his arm, turned around and walked out of the gym.
"Hey, Souya!"
Although Tajima knew that this incident would be a disaster for the three juniors present, he and Kimura had been together for two and a half years and had already turned from teammates to friends. He hurriedly apologized to the juniors. I would definitely pull Kimura to apologize in the future, so I chased Kimura after him. I really couldn't bear to worry about the angry Kimura walking around alone outside.
Kimura and Tajima left simply, leaving the three people he targeted standing in the night passively digesting his accusations.
In the end, it was Kitai Shinsuke who came to his senses first. He patted the two juniors one by one: "It's getting late. Let's finish cleaning first."
"As for what Kimura-senpai said," Kitano Shinsuke said calmly, "Don't think too much, most of what he said was just his own speculation."
The three of them finished their duty in silence. Kitano Shinsuke carried his bag and walked in different directions with them: "Good night, see you tomorrow."
"Goodbye, Senior Bei." "Goodbye, Senior Bei."
Kakuna and Tenwon Saku were also walking on their way home. The two people who usually walked side by side were rarely seen walking in tandem today.
Kakuna looked at his back and glanced at his hands hanging by his sides.
The fingers on his hands are slender, the joints are clear, and the skin is white. When you watch him play in the sun on weekdays, you can even see the light blue blood vessels under the skin, which is healthy and beautiful. Not only that, the power of these hands cannot be underestimated. I think the offensive players from Shiratorizawa and Nekoma have also experienced it.
Although Tianyuan Shuo always looks a bit natural on weekdays, even the most picky Gong Yoo has to admit his attitude towards game training. Even the knuckles that were red and swollen from blocking in the training camp are now due to the heavy workload. He had to wear a bandage for training tasks, but Tianyuan Shuo never treated any training of net blocking because of this.
But now, Kakuna thought, the hands that could block that Ushijima Wakali smash were shaking uncontrollably.
Kakuname asked him softly: "Are you okay?"
The blond boy walking in front did not look back.
After a while, he just put his hands that were still shaking nervously into his pockets and replied in a brisk tone: "It's okay, don't worry."
