Time in a collapsing world

"Sister Xi, what should I do? With Sister Eden here, the referee is also biased towards their side..."

"And Sister Eden seems to be very supportive of Sister Alicia's victory..."

"Wow——! Even if Sister Eden is not in our team, if she is, her attitude should be neutral. How could it become like this?"

Pado glanced at the two people opposite who were smiling and counting the newly delivered volleyballs.

"Sure enough, it must be your fault, Brother Li, right?!"

"..."

Li thought that Pado was too anxious and was talking nonsense. She calmed down and thought about it. In fact, there was no need to be too afraid, because even if Alicia used all her strength, Nozomi didn't need to frighten her at all.

"Xi, let's serve in the next game. Let's follow Alicia's example and hit the ball. This way we should be able to secure a point." Li put forward his own idea.

"Huh? Are we going to use a strategy too?"

"Alicia is being more serious than ever before. If we let her win, there will definitely be a very strange request waiting for us!" Worried that Xi would not be able to make up his mind, Li said in a more serious tone.

"Yeah, that's the case..."

"So don't be merciful. It would be very disadvantageous for us to have Padu, an ordinary person, here..."

"Ah, right~?"

Before the two of them had finished their discussion, Alicia on the other side loudly added: "In order to prevent additional consumption, we must not blow up the ball when we play in the future, otherwise it will be counted as a deduction of one point~?"

"..."

Just now? !

"Damn it, this Alicia..."

"Big brother, what should I do?"

"Cold salad... But after this rule came out, Alicia can't use it anymore, so this point is considered as a gift to them... I must get it back later, Nozomi!"

"Let me come on..."

After enduring Li's excessive expectations, Xi could not help but become more nervous.

At the beginning of the second game, the referee erected a timer used in professional competitions in the middle, and it showed thirty minutes.

"Well, what we just did is a warm-up. Thirty minutes from now, I will give the result of the game based on the final score..." the referee said, raising one hand high.

"So if it was just a warm-up, does the score have to start from scratch?" Pado asked a question.

"No, the score is still zero to one."

"Surely you're being partial, referee, aren't you?!"

The referee pretended not to hear Pado's protest and blew the whistle: "Then the game continues!"

……

"Sister Alicia, I'm sorry, big brother said that we must win this game..."

Holding a volleyball in one hand and ready to serve at any time, Nozomi stared nervously at Alicia who seemed to be enjoying herself.

"Don't be sorry, it's just a simple game, it doesn't matter whether you win or lose~?"

"Then can the punishment for losers be cancelled?"

"That's not possible~?"

"..."

Sister Alicia, don’t you really want to win? !

"Sister Eden, why don't you wait and let the water go? Look, I'm just a thin ordinary person. If you and Sister Aili are serious, we will definitely be unable to fight back!" Pado said While trying to convince Eden to let herself go.

"Don't worry, Pado..."

Eden smiled softly and said, "I won't make too many comments after you lose~"

"Sister Eden doesn't want it!"

Under the gaze of the other three people, Xi, who was holding the volleyball, gently rubbed the surface of the ball, simulating the force of the ball in his mind.

If you can't destroy the ball, you have to control your power. But how much should you control? Even ordinary people playing volleyball may destroy the volleyball, let alone those who are similar to supermen.

The referee glanced at the time and saw that it was already twenty-nine minutes, but Kexi still made no move to serve. Just when he turned his eyes back...

call---!

The volleyball was finally thrown up by Xi, as if time had been slowed down. Her eyes were fixed on the ball, and she gently and tenderly covered it with her palms.

boom---!

There was still a sound of cutting through the air, but compared with the explosion sound that Alicia had made before, this time the sound was weaker, and most importantly, the ball did not explode.

It worked!

Xi shouted in her heart, and she successfully used her greatest strength without the ball breaking. This was a perfect serve for her!

"Oh, it's not good to lose focus during the game~?"

Alicia's voice was unhurried. As she said these words, just before the volleyball hit the ground, she ducked to the side of the volleyball and caught it spinning at high speed with her arm.

The powerful force seemed to be perfectly resolved by Alicia's slender arms, and it bounced high into the sky.

"Eden, it's up to you!"

Snapped---!

Eden, who had been waiting for a long time, stepped on the sand, jumped up high, hit the falling volleyball relay, and hit it towards the corner of the opposite court.

However, Eden didn't use much power, just a smash at the level of an ordinary person.

"Sister Padu!"

The ball landed in the direction of Padu, so Xi placed her hope on her.

"I can catch it, I can catch it..."

Padu watched the ball move left and right, and accidentally tripped her left foot over her right foot, falling backwards. Losing her balance, she waved her hands in a panic, just in time to hit the flying volleyball, and successfully caught it, causing it to rebound. We arrived directly above the net that served as the dividing line.

"It's my turn next..."

Nozomi quickly ran closer, and Alicia on the other side disappeared in an instant. The two jumped up at the same time, and touched both sides of the volleyball with their palms.

Maximum strength!

Li took over the body, and Alicia concentrated all her power on that hand. The two of them acted on the fragile volleyball in milliseconds as if they had a tacit understanding.

Snapped---!

It exploded into fragments all over the sky, and most of them fell towards Alicia.

"We win this time...!"

"It's not over yet~?"

"?!"

Before the fragments hit the ground, Alicia used extraordinary hand speed to pick them up in mid-air, grabbed them in her hands, and then threw them towards Li.

"I have some skills...but!"

Li, who landed first, scratched the ground with his feet, throwing out a large amount of sand and hitting the flying debris, causing it to fly back again.

It’s weird that it has become...!

Although it is difficult for Alicia to make more movements in a short period of time, it is still very simple to just move her eyes.

"Hum..."

Alicia looked at the fragments, and then dozens of pink crystals condensed in the air. They imitated Li's behavior of blowing sand and hit the fragments like bullets.

"Actually using your abilities? Isn't that too despicable?!"

Seeing the fragments flying to the ground on his side, Li couldn't help but shout loudly.

"Ri, what are you talking about? My ability is my own, so I won this victory openly~?"

"Then, then... the teams of Miss Alicia and Miss Eden will get one more point!" the referee announced loudly.