Director Lang once said, "There is no best individual, only the best team!"
Hayato never thinks that he can win by himself. Volleyball is not that simple. Even Shiratorizawa, who is as strong as the clouds, will fail. He thinks that he can dominate the world just by relying on his personal strength. Hayato is a person who thinks this way. I think he can go to bed.
From football to baseball, and even MOBA games, team competitions rely on overall cooperation to win. Everyone has the same strength, and no one has the naive idea of saying that I am invincible and can lead everyone to win the game.
After all, the focus of team competition lies in the first two words, team. Wasn't Kageyama strong when he was No. 1 in Beichuan? Very strong, but he was still replaced. After all, there is no way to move forward without a team, and the same is true for Ace. While leading the team members forward, the team members are also supporting him behind him.
But now, Hayato's personal strength can no longer make any big progress. Rather than strengthening himself, making his teammates stronger is what he should do now.
If Hayato was a beginner in volleyball, he would not join the volleyball club. It would be too difficult to start from scratch, and it would be a hindrance if he did.
If Hayato was an experienced volleyball player, he would not join the volleyball club, and his inferior skills would not be able to help them at all.
However, Hayato is an experienced and skilled ace captain, so when he came, he decided to become the pillar of Karasuno, leading everyone to go all over the country and even win the championship.
Some people would say that Nekoma's Haiba is also a newbie, but are Nekoma and Karasuno the same? No, the defense has no loopholes, and Nekoma, who is good at catching the ball as a team, has the confidence and strength to accept Haiha, but what about Karasuno? Under the premise of extremely offensive power, the points lost are also very serious.
According to the plot, starting from the Harutaka qualifiers, Karasuno's battle records are as follows.
Round: Shannan 25-16 25-13
Kadokawa 25-22 25-19
Second round: Jiaozenji 25-21 25-20
Hejiunan 25-20 20-20 25-23
Semi-finals: Qingcheng 25-23 28-26 26-24
Except for the initial encounter with Shannan High School, which was a bit weak and Karasuno was able to win with a big score, the other games were all won in a fierce battle, so Karasuno could not add any new volleyball players to his team. , even Yamaguchi can only be a key server. One can imagine how poor Karasuno's defense is.
In the end, Shiratorizawa even used all his strength and fought for five rounds before winning the game.
"So, Hayato-senpai, how long do we have to run?"
Hinata, who was running on the road and was out of breath, asked out of breath. Just in the morning, after he came to see Hayato-senpai on his bicycle, he originally thought they were running together, but Hayato directly rode on his bicycle. Let him run, and Hayato follows him on his bike.
"Run for another five minutes and you can rest. Let's practice padding."
After looking at his watch and realizing that the time was almost up, Hayato asked Hinata to make the final sprint. As for practicing padding, that is, catching skills, it was also so that Hinata would not have holes in her defense when she moved to the back row. Although she said she should be at her best. It strengthens Hinata's advantages, but Nishitani, as a free agent, does not rotate with Hinata in every game.
Pad practice is still very necessary.
Hinata, who finally finished running, put his hands on his knees and breathed heavily. At the same time, the sweat on his face continued to drip to the ground. A towel appeared on top of his head, and at the same time Hayato's voice came.
"Thank you for your hard work. Here, add some water."
After taking the water bottle handed over by Hayato, Hinata started drinking it without having time to say anything. After drinking for a long time, she stopped drinking and made a loud noise.
"Ha~ It's alive, Hayato-senpai. Is there anything added to this water? It tastes like banana cream."
Hinata licked her lips after drinking the water and noticed something was wrong with the taste.
"It tastes good. I added a spoonful of protein powder. This is Hayato-senpai's reward for training alone. Well, I usually drink it. I prepared it for you during this time. No need to thank me."
He told Hinata in a relaxed tone, and Hayato took out his water bottle and took a few sips to prove that he was not lying.
"Oh! That's it. Thank you Hayato-senpai!"
The naive little Hinata really believed Hayato's words and didn't care about it anymore. When it was almost time to rest, the two found a park and started practicing paddling.
Because the volleyball club had morning practice at seven in the morning, they practiced for a while and then went back together. When they arrived at Hayato's house, they returned the bicycle to Hinata, and Hayato sent a message to Kiyoko.
After a while, Jiezi came out of the house, and she was not surprised to see Hinata. Hayato had sent her a message to explain last night, and nodded to Hinata as a greeting.
Hinata also said good morning to Kiyoko in high spirits, because she came on a bicycle, and although Hinata is very naive, she can still understand a little bit. For example, now, he used the excuse of riding a bicycle to leave first, so as to avoid As a light bulb.
After telling the two seniors that they would meet at school, Hinata slowly and leisurely left Hayato's house on her own car.
"How was the special training this morning?"
"Hmm~ Not bad."
When only two people were left, they walked towards the school, Hayato and Kiyoko chatting.
"Didn't I say that I wanted to give everyone in the volleyball club a surprise? Is that okay?"
"Of course, Sister Jiezi, just wait for your surprise. Hinata will definitely make a lot of progress before we stay together during the summer."
"Then I'll look forward to it."
"I think Sister Jiezi, what you should look forward to more is this Friday."
"No, I think someone is looking forward to it more than me."
After arriving at school and separated from Kiyoko, Hayato found a familiar envelope in the shoe cabinet.
"This should be a customary love letter."
He took out the envelope and put the leather shoes in the shoe cabinet. After putting on indoor shoes, Hayato opened the envelope and looked at it while walking towards the volleyball club's locker room.
The handwriting on the envelope is very graceful and concise. The main idea is that in a previous physical education class, I was attracted by Hayato's style of playing basketball. After hesitating for a long time, I decided to express my feelings to Hayato. School is over today. Later, he will be waiting for him behind the teaching building. His name is Jiutani Xiaoyu, and he is in the 2nd grade and 3rd grade.
Although they don't know each other, Hayato in the class still knows that the physical education class here is taken by two classes together, and men and women are divided into groups. There is a physical education class where boys play basketball and girls play volleyball. It is probably that time.
"Hey, Hayato, what are you doing?"
In the corridor between the main classroom and the sports club activity room, Tanaka and Nishitani happened to be walking together. Hayato saw someone and stepped forward to say hello. When Hayato turned around, the love letter in his hand was seen. arrive.
"This, this, this, is this the legendary love letter? Damn it, you damn city boy."
Speaking funny English, Tanaka complained about Hayato receiving a love letter, but based on his understanding of Hayato, it was normal to receive a love letter, so most of his words were ridicule, and of course the other half was true envy and jealousy.
"Damn it, you are in the winner group of life. You are enviable as a childhood sweetheart of senior Kiyoko."
He used his arm to hit Hayato's side, and Nishitani was also venting his dissatisfaction.
The friendship between boys is enhanced by playing around. After the three of them were arguing for a while, Hayato put away the love letter and hesitated before asking Nishitani about the girl Hatotani Kohan.
Although asking like this is clearly telling who the owner of the love letter is, Hayato doesn't know the other person and can't think of a safe way to refuse. Nishitani is also in the 2nd year and 3rd group. I thought he would know, but Nishitani said that this girl is not usually It was very conspicuous and he didn’t know much about it.
This kind of words that are said but not said are of no use at all. Hayato slapped his forehead worriedly, feeling a little awkward. He had no experience in refusing confessions. How should he say it to refuse without hurting others? This is a confession.
After the training officially started in the morning, Tanaka and Nishitani wanted to snitch on Kisuko, but Hayato hooked their shoulders and bribed them with a bottle of green tea, finally getting the two gloating companions to let him go.
Thanks to this love letter, Hayato was a little absent-minded during the whole day's lessons after the morning exercise. He didn't respond to the teacher's questions and made a joke in class.
Finally, after school, Hayato, who arrived early from behind the main teaching building, looked a little nervous, while all the second-year members of the volleyball club were lying in wait behind the grass not far away.
"Hey, wouldn't it be better for us to take a peek?"
Yuan Xia was there to persuade me.
"This is the first time Hayato has been confessed to by someone since he came to Karasuno. As a good friend, how could I not be there, right Nishitani?"
Tanaka said in a gossipy tone.
"Yes, as a member of the second-year review group, I feel the same way."
Nishitani also wanted to watch the excitement. During the previous exam review, Hayato had already become familiar with these second-year students, so after secretly revealing Hayato's gossip, everyone came to watch.
"Shh, keep your voice down and look over there to see if someone is coming."
I saw a petite girl with pink hair wearing a school uniform walking over. Seeing Hayato already waiting, she hurriedly took two steps.
"I'm sorry, Kuroba-san, for keeping you waiting for so long. I am Hatotani Kohan."
Bowing very politely, the girl apologized in a soft voice.
"It's nothing, I just arrived."
Hayato was a little nervous looking at the pink-haired girl in front of him, because he had to reject her properly.
"Oh, she's a loli girl."
"so cute."
"The voice is also soft and nice."
The onlookers behind the grass were whispering to each other.
"Well, I've been thinking about you ever since I saw Kuroba-san playing basketball."
After a pause, the pink-haired girl clenched her fists to cheer herself up secretly, and the atmosphere reached the most critical moment.
"Kuroba-san! Please..."
"Join the basketball club!"
The sudden turn almost missed Hayato's waist.
"ah?"
"Actually, when I saw your playing style that day, I felt that you would definitely be a perfect fit for our basketball department. Ah, I am the manager of the basketball department. Our director has been worrying about not having new players recently. It happened that that day we had a class together and I discovered Black Yu-san, you.”
After changing her soft way of speaking, the pink-haired girl opened her small mouth and started talking quickly.
"Wait a minute, wait a minute, that is to say, this letter actually just wants to call me out and invite me to join the basketball club?"
Hayato asked this question in disbelief and was temporarily unable to wrap his head around it.
"Hey, yes, that's right, because if I go to Kuroba-san's class to find you, it will cause you trouble. This kind of private conversation is more convenient."
Jiutani Xiaoyu tilted her head and said innocently, leaving Hayato not knowing how to complain.
After saying that she had joined the volleyball club and wanted to focus on that, Xiaoyu Hatotani was a little crestfallen after being rejected. Then the two apologized to each other for wasting each other's time, and she left alone. After she left.
"puff."
I don't know who couldn't hold it back and laughed softly.
"Okay, it's painful to hold back your laughter behind the grass, so just laugh out loud."
Hayato, who had noticed the second grade group a long time ago, shook his head helplessly, and then heard the sound of these bad friends laughing loudly.
"Hahaha, I'm sorry, Hayato, but it's true, hahaha."
Putting his arm on Nishitani's shoulder, Tanaka laughed heartily, and Nishitani also burst into tears. Except for Enoshita who came over and patted Hayato's shoulder to express his deep sympathy for him, Kinoshita Hisashi and Narita Kazuhito also laughed loudly. Small.
"Okay, okay, when you've laughed enough, go and train. Really, you guys are so free that you came all the way."
He chased them away angrily, and Hayato also felt very embarrassed. After agreeing that the matter would end here and that no one else would know about it, everyone finished laughing and one of them came over and patted Hayato on the shoulder.
Although they promised Hayato not to leak this matter, during the training this afternoon, the second-year group couldn't help but laugh whenever they saw Hayato's face. This made the others very curious about what happened to the second-year students today, secretly Hayato, who was grinding his teeth, had no choice but to ignore their snickers.
After taking Hinata to coach Wu Yang's house for training, the day passed with embarrassment and laughter.
