"There is only one point left to reach the match point."
In the stands, Renhua nervously held Xiaoyu's hand next to her.
"Nihua-chan, relax~"
Sensing the nervousness of the girl next to her, Xiaoyu hurriedly comforted her. Although she herself was very nervous and her palms were sweating a lot, Renhua didn't pay attention and was focused on staring at the field.
After the ball was served, Jiaozenji players picked up the ball and quickly launched an attack. An ordinary quick attack to score, but Dadi noticed and saved the ball. Hinata launched a super speed attack again, because the previous lob had left a deep impression on Jōzenji, and everyone was focused on Hinata's movements.
Repeating his old trick, Hinata dropped the ball again, and this time Terushima caught it with his lower hand. The ball was connected, and Jozenji's other main attacker jumped up in front of the net and smashed the ball diagonally to get the point.
"OK!"
"Nice!"
At 23:19, Jiaozenji recovered another point. The current situation is that as long as Jozenji can lose 1 point, when the score reaches 24:24, Karasuno will be drawn into a draw. After the draw, they must score 2 points in a row to win the game.
But for Jiaozenji, who has regained his form, the burden of these two points is more like a challenge to them. Jiaozenji, who is actively attacking, relies on his own strength to chase 3 points in a row, and the score once reached 23:22.
Everyone on Karasuno's side became nervous. If they were really tied, it would be a huge blow to Karasuno's rhythm.
Looking at the score, Hayato was hesitant to ask Coach Uyang for him to play, but the looks on his teammates' faces made him give up the idea. Their eyes were not dead yet, and there was no need for him to play now.
"Wu Yangjun, isn't it..."
"It's okay, Mr. Takeda, let's just trust these kids."
Coach Uyang, who crossed his arms and tapped his arms unconsciously with his fingers, rejected Takeda's proposal. He still wanted to believe in these players.
The one who stood out in this tense situation was another ace that Coach Uyang was optimistic about, Xu.
He roared for the ball from Kageyama, and relied on his outstanding strength to score a dunk, cutting off Jōzenji's rhythm. Karasuno took the lead to get the match point, and the audience in the stadium became excited after Asahi scored.
"Oh oh oh! Karasuno's No. 3 is so awesome."
"Yes, the morale Jiaozenji finally built up was severely interrupted by this ball."
Sugawara and the others in the substitute area also shouted loudly after seeing Asahi's spike.
"Good job, Asahi!"
"Senior Xu is so good at smashing the ball!"
Renhua and Xiaoyu in the stands had already hugged each other excitedly, but Yuxi and Rizhe still remembered to cheer. They shouted loudly that Dongfeng had a good goal and cheered for Asahi.
"Damn it, I still got scored."
"It doesn't matter, we still have a chance!"
The Jōzenji players encouraged each other, and Terushima clapped his hands to make everyone look at him.
"You guys! Let's play seriously!"
"oh!"
Jōzenji's seriousness was not to play it safe, but to choose the most dangerous action. After the libero picked up the ball from Karasuno, everyone once again used simultaneous multi-person attacks.
"These guys didn't think about what would happen if they lost. All they thought about was the pleasure after successfully smashing the ball."
Seeing their attack, manager Misaki thought so in his heart, but Jiaozenji's completely different momentum from before shocked Coach Uyo, and he hurriedly reminded loudly.
"Be careful! This ball is different from before!"
Unable to stop Jozenji's attack, the ball flew straight to the back row and hit the floor outside the white line with a thud.
The spike went out of bounds and Karasuno reached 25 points.
When the whistle sounded at the end of the game, Karasuno shouted "Great," the players celebrated the victory, everyone in the bench area also happily clapped, and the girls in the stands also hugged each other.
"Advanced to the top 8!"
But here at Jiaozenji Temple, the atmosphere was gloomy.
"The last goal was quite their style."
The coach of Jiaozenji looked at the players helplessly and said this.
Terushima put his hands on his knees with a look of reluctance.
"Damn it, it took so long to feel it."
Throughout this game, Jiaozenji failed to grasp the rhythm of the game in the early stage, resulting in the first defeat. Even if they found their own rhythm, they made huge mistakes in the early stage that they could not recover from. In this way, at the critical moment of life and death, they still chose The most unstable offense.
Although everyone was very reluctant, judging from their faces, no one regretted this final attack.
"Thank you, Misaki. As expected, you, the third grader, know them best. I'm still far behind."
After thanking the manager, the coach adjusted his mood. No one likes to lose in a competitive match, but after losing, there is no use dwelling on the failure.
Datego, who came to investigate, also stood up and prepared to leave.
"As expected, Karasuno's No. 10 is constantly evolving, and combined with No. 13, he will be a formidable opponent."
"In short, we still have to defeat Qingcheng."
Datego's players gradually walked away while discussing the game.
After the two teams on the field greeted each other again on the sideline, they each began to pack up their things to make room for the next team.
In the rest area of Jiaozenji Temple, everyone had an expression of unwillingness on their faces. At this time, the coach stood up and began to summarize.
"You guys, it's not a bad thing to have high fighting spirit, but be sure not to lose control. Keep today's failure in your heart. Misaki will not be responsible for teaching you a lesson in the future. Okay, I'm done, get ready to go back, and don't forget to do it. Stretch training."
The coach left first. After listening to the coach's words, everyone realized that this was the last time that Misaki, a third-year senior, would compete with them. Everyone looked at Misaki, as if he wanted to say something, being watched by so many people. Then, Manager Misaki thought for a while.
"You guys, don't bully Runa. I'm only in the first grade. If I did something bad, I would know it right away. Also, I quite like your serious and playful style."
First she clenched her fists, and by the end of Misaki's words, tears welled up in the corners of her eyes. After saying this, she turned around and picked up the box containing the water bottle on the ground.
"Let's go, it's time for the next team to come in."
"Thank you, senior!"
A neat voice came from behind, Misaki turned around, and everyone in Jiaozenji bowed to thank their senior sister for taking care of them.
Recalling the past three years, I was happy with the volleyball club because of the victory and sad because of the failure. Such days also ended today. It belongs to her. This year's spring high school for their Jiaozenji Volleyball Club has arrived. That's it.
Karasuno was very lively when he left the field from the other side. Three girls in cheerleading uniforms stood in front of them. Everyone didn't know where to look. The three girls were used to other people's eyes. Don’t mind high-fiving everyone.
"Everyone is awesome!"
Xiaoyu finally high-fived Jiezi, took her arm and started talking about how nervous she was in the stands. Jiezi also smiled and chatted with her, and suddenly five beautiful girls appeared on the scene. Tanaka and Nishitani took off directly on the spot.
"Long, I feel that I have no regrets in life now."
"agree."
The two people who were turned into white sand by the light of the beautiful girl were slapped on the back of the head by Yunxia in the next moment.
"You two, stop playing tricks. It's time to stretch, or what if you get injured?"
Today's game in Karasuno has ended, but the game in the other venue has not yet ended. The winner will be Karasuno's opponent tomorrow. Hinata and Kageyama decided to take a look at which team it would be.
