[volleyball! ! ] Sleeping Beauty Syndrome

Stopped before making intimate contact with the face, "What are you doing, Sister Toushi!!"

"Archer doesn't want to play volleyball? With Yi Jun."

Oikawa held the ball and turned away his face: "...I didn't think about it either."

"Then why don't you go? If Archer likes it, wouldn't Liuye teach you too?"

Oikawa was silent for a long time, and said slowly: "Although I have been playing with Xiaoyan all the time, I don't want to keep chasing after Xiaoyan. Even if Sister Liu teaches me, I won't be as good as Xiaoyan."

With a face full of surprise, Toushi bent down and supported his knees to stare at Oikawa, and couldn't help blinking.

"Xiaoyan's homework is excellent, and his motor nerves are more developed than mine——" Oikawa couldn't help shaking his head when he said this, "Of course he's not as popular with girls as I am! This is a natural advantage, he can't surpass me!!"

"Yes~ yes~" Tou Shi waved his head and perfunctorily, and squatted down with his knees hugged.

"Xiaoyan works hard and does everything well, I don't want to be like Xiaoyan in everything, but too arrogant, because I can't keep up with him-but I don't want to walk away and go somewhere else , Xiaoyan and I have always been together! Sister Toushi is the same."

Tou Shi thought for a moment, then tilted his head: "Then let me teach Archer, okay?"

"Aha?"

"Well, I can't teach Archer a handsome Gou Piao like Liuye—I can always do anything else.

"—I can still teach you something that will allow Archer to have enough capital to always stand by Xiaoyan's side, something that will become as reliable and powerful as Xiaoyan."

She raised her index finger:

"Of course, Archer just needs to do one thing—

"Can you do it? You have to work harder than Yijun, double, ten times, or even a hundred times harder."

Oikawa's eyes widened. He felt that he had fallen into a wonderful spell. Even though he knew that the future would be full of thorns and ups and downs, and blood would flow along the way, he had the courage to move forward in an instant.

"Archer, listen up—"

Talent can be cultivated and blossomed, and inspiration can be polished.People are different, have different talents, have different paths, and have different dreams.

The idea of ​​wanting to be as good as someone else, wanting to be better than someone else——

What's wrong?

——Tou Shi smiled with a certain insight: "Can you do it, Archer? If you can, I will teach you."

When Oikawa and Iwaizumi started playing volleyball, Tate Hwa Kouji and Toshi Koichi, they witnessed the whole process of the Beichuan women's volleyball team being integrated and trained from a loose association into a strong team, which is probably later in the hands of Oikawa A model that grew up in the west of Aoba Castle.They have witnessed the rise and golden age of the so-called Miyagi women's volleyball legend, and also witnessed its abrupt end and rapid decline.

In the spring of the Second World Championship, the Beichuan women's volleyball team marched into Tokyo. At the Yoyogi National Sports Complex, in the first round of the top 25 of the national competition, Beichuan first played against Tsukuba High School.Beichuan won the first game at 19:[-]. In the halfway point of the second game, Beichuan still took the lead. The jumper at position [-] was caught by Tsukuba's first pass, and the second pass organized a parallel fast break. two people.

"One touch!!" The ball flew high with one touch and fell straight to the bottom line.

"No problem! Leave it to me!" Beichuan Libero turned around and rushed to the bottom, barely holding the ball up with his wrists, "Student Toushi! Please!!"

Tou Shi was already in position on the offensive line, jumping up on the spot and hoisting the ball over the block.Tsukuba No. [-] responded with one hand to save the ball, the second pass methodically opened the block and organized a fast break again, and No. [-]'s deputy attacker smashed the ball straight.Beichuan received a pass steadily, and Guanhua quickly cut to the sideline and moved forward.

"Tooshi!! Give me the ball!!"

"Flow!"

That was Beichuan's first invincible fast break, Shigehara Toshi's long-range long pass and Tate Hualiuye's big diagonal dunk.

The whistle sounded and Beichuan scored.Amidst the cheers, Guan Hua subconsciously stared at the palm of her hand and frowned, she turned her head away: "Tuo Shi, did you slow down when throwing the ball just now..."

The venue suddenly fell into dead silence.The gradual sound of breathing and heartbeat overlapped repeatedly, mixed with the smell of sweat, and suddenly became very clear.

"Troubleshooting?!"

—— Beichuan No. [-] setter suddenly fell to the ground.

"What happened?! Sister Tou Shi..."

"Damn it!! I wish I had known and followed me to Tokyo!!"

Oikawa and Iwaizumi, who were watching the broadcast on Sendai TV station in front of the TV, had no idea what the Toshi accident meant, but they could vaguely feel the clues of the ending quietly revealed——

The abrupt end of a glorious era and the inevitable decline.The time abandoned by time, and the people in the time abandoned.

Some things and things that are happening are gradually moving away from them - starting with Zhong Yuan Tuo Shi's illness.

The author has something to say: Gou Piao Go Fa was invented by the Chinese, and it is not completely extinct. At present, only Chen Jing of the Sichuan team is using it, and my teacher can.

3. Sleeping Beauty and the Little Prince Continued

If it is said where the life has become wrong, everyone knows the answer, and Oikawa's feeling is particularly clear-the spring of the second grade in the elementary school, the onset of Toshi's illness.

Beichuan women's volleyball team led by one game in the first round of the top [-] of the national competition. Due to the departure of the first setter, the morale of the army was reversed and they missed the top eight. In this way, the best score in the history of the women's volleyball team in Miyagi Prefecture ended the first round. One and only tour across the country.After that, Guan Hualiuye of the third country retired early and never played again. A dazzling new star burned with fleeting brilliance and quickly fell, disappearing from everyone's sight——

"I don't want to play a game without Tou Shi throwing the ball to me."

But Guanhua still practiced with Iwaizumi and Oikawa from time to time - because she went to Shigehara's house more often, mostly to visit Toshi.Toshi's first attack was comatose for ten days, and Oikawa remembered it very clearly, those ten days were like cicadas sloughing under the scorching sun, anxious as if they had exhausted their lives.There was no problem with his heart and brain function, and his vital signs were all normal, but he didn't wake up. During those ten days, the neighbor's house, who had been talking happily and laughing happily, was covered with a layer of gray fatigue like mist from top to bottom.

Yes, physically and mentally exhausted.That kind of fatigue brought strong anxiety to Oikawa, even fear.He was sensitively aware of the dislocation of time, the flow speed and tone were different on both sides of the aisle, his side was normal, but the Tou Shi family's side fell into a viscous and hopeless slowness and silence.

——The time of the world has stopped for the first time.She stopped where she was, and Oikawa, who had always been following her, had no choice but to walk forward alone.He didn't dare to step into the gray swamp of Zhongyuan's house, as if he would be swallowed by the cold and sticky time once he stepped in.Such unease enveloped him for ten days and nights, and the overwhelming fear that followed made him ignore those strange uneases, and tremblingly knocked on the door of Zhongyuan's house.

"Ah, brat?"

"Ah... Sister Liu! Yo!" Oikawa was taken aback for a moment, and then he did not forget to raise his arms high in a salute that looked handsome but lacked confidence.

"'Yo' what a 'yo'!" Guan Hua slapped Oi Chuan's head with a palm casually—"It hurts?!" possible."

Oikawa couldn't help but secretly swallowed his saliva.Guan Hua spread his hands: "Tu Shi hasn't woken up yet?"

"Then... can I go and see Sister Tou Shi?"

Guan Hua glanced at him inexplicably, and stepped aside: "Of course."

After Tong Zhong Yuan's parents asked him how he was, they ran to Tuo Shi's room by familiar ways.Oikawa found that everything was the same as before, except that the raised outline of the thin blanket on the bed looked a little thin.The warm spring breeze poured into the room. During the past spring break, countless afternoons like this, when he and Iwaizumi were tired of playing at Toshi’s house, they stretched out under the eaves outside the living room, using the warm spring as a quilt and headrest. With sparse birdsong.Tou Shijian said several times but couldn't stop him and Yanquan from acting wild, so he simply waited for them to fall asleep before carrying the two of them into the room, laying them down and covering them with a quilt.

Oikawa and Iwaizumi always occupy Toushi’s bed during the nap time during the spring and summer vacation—this is something that Oikawa suddenly realized the moment he saw the sleeping Toshi. Every time he woke up, he only saw Toushi Shi Nest on the apricot bean sofa, dozing off with a palm-sized library book on his face.

Oikawa sat on the three-legged stool next to the bed, propped his hands on his knees, and stared blankly.After a long time, he stretched out his hand into the quilt and gently held Tou Shi's hand.Toshi was six years older than him, and his palms were bigger than his, and his wrists were very slender. Oikawa found it inconceivable that when he was young, he and Iwaizumi could pick up two people and carry them to his shoulders one by one. It was as strong as imagined, but it still exuded a living warmth.These hands with callused fingertips supported countless tosses for Tate Hualiuya to the national competition, and also held up all the verdant and happy moments of him and Iwaizumi when they were young.

Tou Shi curled up on the bed looked small, no longer the height that Oi Chuan raised his head when he was holding her hand and talking to her.Oikawa once again felt an overwhelming fear attacking his nerves.He tried to open his mouth, trying to restrain the trembling of his voice:

"Hey... get up quickly, Sister Tou Shi, if you sleep again, you will be late, and you will be scolded to death by the teacher..."

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh?!!"

Oikawa was unexpectedly and severely frightened.

until just now