[Volleyball] Mizuno-san next door

As expected by the head teacher, Yaji was still targeted by the head teacher.

"You, Mizuno-san—come with me to the office." After school that day, among the crowd of students coming and going in the corridor, a middle-aged man with a wig and a pudgy figure stopped her sharply.

"Yes..." Yaji replied weakly in the curious or gloating eyes of the classmates around her, and Yingshan, who was passing by her with a strange smile, belonged to the gloating school.

When she was in junior high school, she often encountered this kind of situation. It was inevitable that she would be called out by the disciplinary committee or the teacher to nag her, and then she would continue to dress up in her own way, to the extent that she had to invite her parents.

However, the matter did not get resolved because of this——

"Aki Mizuno..." The dean sat behind the desk, frowning and read out a piece of her paper file, "Three classes a year, 15 years old, graduated from Beichuan No. [-] middle school, family members include parents and an older sister?"

"Yeah." She stood at the desk and answered calmly, as if she understood what he wanted to say, "Both my parents are on long-term business trips abroad, and my sister is working in Tokyo."

The director was stunned for a moment, then raised his head in surprise: "Then you live alone now?"

"I have lived alone since I was in junior high school, and they only go home occasionally." Even in such an unusual family situation, Yaji's tone could not tell the slightest bit of loneliness.

"Sigh." Knowing that the method of inviting parents would not work, he put down the page helplessly, admonishing with half sympathy and half seriousness: "Mr. Mizuno, no matter what, you are still just a high school student, and the school rules must You must abide by it. The school uniform must be worn properly, and the makeup should not be too heavy—otherwise it will affect your studies and other students..."

The dean is worthy of being the dean, and he has done a lot of hard work on his words. As soon as he opens his mouth to educate the students, he can talk without stopping. He insisted on talking with her on the topic of "obeying the school rules and proper manners" for half an hour.

Aki listened numbly, feeling that his legs were about to lose feeling.

"...So even if there is no guardian watching you, you must have the self-consciousness of being a student of Karasuno. Teacher, I will always pay attention to you in the future, do you hear me?" He finally ended the long conversation After giving a speech, he remembered something and asked, "Speaking of...you haven't joined the club yet, have you?"

"Ah? No, no." Liberated from the state of dizziness, she stammered and replied.

"Why? Do you want to work after school?"

"I'm not working either!" Yaji waved his hand and smiled awkwardly, "As for clubs... it's because I don't have any fields that I'm particularly good at or interested in, so I didn't consider joining."

"That's it..." The director held his chin, thought hard for a while, and then said: "Although our school does not require it, your situation is quite special. So, I still suggest that you join a club, or It is to get a job, and to participate in campus life and experience the society through these, I think it will be very beneficial to your growth..."

Speaking of this, he began to speak eloquently again.

Adding up the two paragraphs of nagging, it lasted more than an hour.

When he finished speaking, Yaji had already collapsed on the ground, clutching the table legs with trembling hands, feeling that the blood in his whole body was about to freeze, and he couldn't even get up.

"Hey, where is Mizuno-san?" The big living person who was standing in front of me just now suddenly disappeared, making the director stand up and search around, and found her under the table, "Why are you sitting on the floor?"

"You are too good at talking, Director..." Having to find a way to get out of here quickly, Yaji raised a hand half dead, "I want to go to the toilet..."

"Cough." Realizing that he had indeed said it for too long, he coughed in embarrassment, "Then you go back first, and think about what I just said."

"Yes! Goodbye, Director!" Her gloomy expression was tinged with joy, as if she regained her vitality in an instant, she jumped up from the ground, patted her skirt, and rushed out of the office like flying.

As for the earnest persuasion from the dean, she had already forgotten it the moment she left the house.

"Eh? It's Mr. Setter and Juzitou..." When she was about to go downstairs, through the window of the teaching building, Yaji saw two conspicuous people standing on the empty lawn of the football field, which made her feel very strange.

Why don't they practice in the gym?

After leaving the teaching building, she was not in a hurry to go home, but walked to the football field.

"Hey! What are you doing there?"

Here Kageyama was practicing with Hinata in full swing, when he heard a familiar female voice from afar, he turned his head and saw her as expected.

Hinata had just received the ball dunked by Kageyama, the ball flew high into the air and then fell down, falling impartially into Aki's outstretched hands.

"Yeah~ Got it!" She turned around and shouted happily. She didn't know what she was complacent about, but she looked very contented.

"Don't you have eyes? Of course you are practicing!" Kageyama shouted at her angrily, "Give me back the ball!"

"Kageyama, is she...?" Hinata had never seen this girl before, so he thought she might be an acquaintance of Kageyama.

"I'm at the next table, Mizuno Aki." Kageyama quickly explained with a displeased face, "She was called away by the teacher when school was over, and she was probably released only now."

"Oh~" Hinata looked at Kageyama, then at Aki who was approaching them, his expression became gossip, "Are you two on good terms?"

"not at all!"

"Yes."

Two voices sounded at the same time, with completely opposite answers.

As a result, both of them stared at each other in surprise, and Hinata, who was caught in the middle, was completely confused.

"When did I have a good relationship with you?!" After a moment of silence, Yingshan pointed at her in disbelief and asked, "We've known each other for less than two days, right?"

"Ah? But aren't we all already friends?" Yaji opened his mouth, his long eyelashes fluttering, and asked back in disbelief.

"Although, although we are friends...but we can't talk about how good the relationship is?" Thinking of the incident at noon, Kageyama's face turned a little red, and he barely looked away.

"Is that so?" She lowered her head, staring at the dirty volleyball in her hands, and compromised, "Okay, but at least we are already friends."

There was another suffocating silence.

Hinata raised his head and stared at Kageyama's red cheeks, very surprised.

He intuitively felt that the relationship between these two people was not as simple as "friends", and the expressions on their faces became even more gossip.

"By the way, return the ball to you." Yaji stepped forward, handed the ball to Yingshan, and asked doubtfully: "But why don't you guys practice in the gymnasium? Haven't you already joined the volleyball club?"

"Well..." Hinata rubbed his head in embarrassment, "We haven't joined the club yet, Sawamura-senpai...that is, the captain, said that we have to play a game on Saturday, and we can only become official members if we win."

"So strict? Mr. Setter, you haven't told me!" She took a step back and exclaimed.

"Because I will definitely win this kind of competition!" Kageyama retorted resolutely, "By Saturday, I will be an official member!"

"Setter-kun?" Hinata noticed the unique address.

"She can't remember people's names, and likes to give people random nicknames." Yingshan gave an explanation reluctantly.

"what?"

"Hello, Orange Head~"

"That's bad! I want a more—— handsome nickname, like 'Little Giant' or something like that!"

"Then... I'll call you 'Little Giant'."

"Yeah! Thank you, Mizuno-san! We are friends now!" Hinata happily jumped three feet high.

"Why did you accept it so quickly, Hinata? And why do you have the face to call yourself a 'little giant'?!" Kageyama was almost driven crazy by these two idiots, and hurriedly dissuaded him, "Mizuno, you call him Tangerine Head Enough!"

"But he wanted me to call him that." Yaji spread his hands, innocently.

"Hahaha! Kageyama, accept the reality!" Hinata was proud of having a more handsome nickname than him, and ran to her and asked, "But... why did Mizuno-san call Kageyama 'setter-kun'?" ?”

"Cut." Losing to Hinata on this weird point of comparison, Kageyama spat with a dark face.

"Because..." Yaji paused for a moment, looked at Yingshan who was sulking with his back turned to her, and seemed to be seriously thinking about how to answer this question.

"I know him, the one and only setter, huh? Well...Although there is another one, I don't really know that person yet." What she said was true.

The anger subsided, and Yingshan turned around abruptly, ignoring even the second half of her sentence.

- unique, setter.

A warm spring breeze blew up between the sky and the earth, causing the grass under her feet to dance happily, and also lifted her warm red-brown hair and her still-short skirt.

At this moment, in his eyes, the crimson evening sky outlines her outline so soul-stirringly.

The pair of azure blue pupils were shining brightly without any falsehood, meeting his eyes calmly.

——It was obviously just a silly answer.

But Kageyama suddenly felt that being the unique setter in her heart was something he was extremely proud of.

Because he loved the position so much, and she was the first to completely equate him with the setter.

This precious sense of recognition - since then, he has not experienced it for a long time.

"Then... I won't disturb your practice anymore." Yaji was very uncomfortable being stared at by Yingshan's direct gaze, and raised his hand to say goodbye, "I'm going back, goodbye!"

"Oh...goodbye, Mizuno-san!" After she walked away, Hinata regained consciousness and shouted at her back.

Yaji didn't dare to look back at them, and his pace became faster and faster.

——Did I just say something wrong? Why is Mr. Setter looking at me like that?

Forget it, I'm so hungry... what should I have for dinner?

On the other side, Hinata excitedly elbowed Kageyama who was stunned: "Hey, you really like her~ right?"

"What did you say—? How could I fall in love with someone I've only known for two days?!" Kageyama changed his face in a second, grabbed Hinata's collar and threatened, "Practice me to catch the ball!"

"Yes, yes, my lord~"