Chapter 86: One Point
This volleyball was first saved by Nishinoya Yuu with an extremely difficult blocked ball receive. But it was then spiked by Ichise Guren's prediction and jumping speed with a spike that even a genius couldn't reach.
Yet this spike was still diving-saved by the upperclassmen team's cornerstone, Sawamura Daichi. Though the quality wasn't great, getting the ball over the net was still no problem.
But in pursuit of successfully scoring, Sugawara Koshi disregarded potential injury and forcibly delivered a high ball away from the net that Azumane Asahi was most skilled at.
The cost was slamming hard into the wall himself.
And Azumane Asahi, throwing his whole heart into this spike, delivered everything he could possibly produce. Without worrying about whether it would go out or be blocked again, he stubbornly used every ounce of strength in his body.
He executed a violent spike.
He also successfully blasted through the cousins' block, even momentarily causing Ichise Guren's fighting spirit to go berserk, sweeping over everyone indiscriminately for an instant.
But this ball didn't fall to the ground and score as others had expected.
Because at this spike's landing point, there was someone.
The following Hinata Shoyo.
He successfully predicted the spiking direction of Karasuno's former ace, Azumane Asahi.
In this showdown with the ace, Hinata Shoyo achieved temporary victory.
In the split second when he couldn't receive with both hands, he chose to use his chest to receive this powerful, heavy spike.
Even using the thickest part of Hinata Shoyo's body—his chest—to receive the ball, the little sun was still knocked down by this spike.
The volleyball was also bounced a great distance, just one step away from going out of bounds.
Just as Yamaguchi Tadashi hurriedly turned to chase the ball, a taller, faster figure had already swept past him.
It was Kageyama Tobio.
Seeing his setter senpai make that kind of set, how could he possibly stand in place and watch the volleyball hit the ground or let someone else handle the second pass?
Facing such a set from an opponent, if he didn't respond, he wouldn't be Kageyama Tobio.
The moment the volleyball bounced off Hinata Shoyo's chest, he had already started moving.
And now, he faced the same difficult problem as Sugawara Koshi.
The volleyball was about to hit the wall.
No one would doubt Kageyama Tobio's love for volleyball and his fighting spirit. If he made the same move as Sugawara Koshi, it would be completely normal.
But how could a genius be the same as an ordinary person?
Kageyama Tobio's physical abilities could match those of the athletic monster, Hinata Shoyo.
He completely calculated that his speed and physical condition were sufficient to support completing the action in his mind. As for whether he could deliver the set he wanted...
"Heh."
Let's give it a try.
Mid-run, Kageyama Tobio showed a slight smile.
Volleyball was the only thing that could bring him joy.
Relying on his speed far surpassing Sugawara Koshi's, he reached the wall ahead of time.
But facing the wall about to hit his face, like Sugawara-senpai, he had no intention of slowing down.
He continued at full speed, charging toward the wall, even slightly increasing his speed.
Thud!
Kageyama Tobio's left foot forcefully stomped the ground.
His ankle bore the inertia from high-speed running and successfully converted it into jumping energy.
Toward the wall, he leaped up.
His right foot immediately followed his left foot that had just hit the ground, taking another step against the wall that was right in front of him.
His entire body, in mid-air, with his feet already reaching a ridiculous height from the ground.
Facing a first pass even higher than Sugawara Koshi's ball, Kageyama Tobio made a completely different move.
Over four meters high in the air, Kageyama Tobio faced his team's net, relying on his incomparable ball sense in his wrists. At the moment of contact, with an extremely skillful reverse wrist motion, he delivered a miraculous set.
And naturally, the one meeting this set was Hinata Shoyo, who had already jumped high the moment Kageyama Tobio stepped on the wall.
'This level of trust is really ridiculous.'
Ichise Guren couldn't help but complain angrily.
And Kageyama Tobio didn't betray Hinata Shoyo's trust. The volleyball was delivered accurately to Hinata Shoyo's hands. Dodging the pursuing Takinoue Yusuke, he successfully slammed it onto the upperclassmen team's court.
Successfully scored.
Ending this tug-of-war filled with various miraculous plays.
The score became 13:18.
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