The Birth of A Volleyball Legend

Besides Yuki and Riku who were challenged to the 2v2 game, all the Tsunemori players twitched their lips in annoyance. Even though they knew those two were their best layers, to be disregarded by their next opponent like that was pretty insulting, and if anything, the urge to beat those two strangers was stronger than ever right now.

"Yuki, Riku, come here." Asahi signaled the two freshmen to get close to him. When those two were close enough, all the Tsunemori members patted their shoulders strongly while saying, "Don't you dare lose against those bastards, you got it?!"

Facing the pressure, Riku just grinned widely while Yuki nodded his head firmly. "Sure, Senpai! Leave it to us!"

Right after that, the court was cleared immediately, and even those who came to the gymnasium to play around stopped their activity immediately, coming to the volleyball court curiously. There, they all could see Yuki and Riku standing alone on one side of the courts while the intruders who just made a commotion also did the same on the other side. It didn't take a genius to realize what would happen next, and everyone was so hyped about this.

"Oh, are we going to have a mock-up game?!"

"A mock-up? What the hell?! Do you think it is an exam?!"

"Hey, shut up! I mean sparing!"

"So, Yuki and Riku will go against them? Good choice!"

"Yeah, no offense to Jimmy and the others, but those two are our best players right now!"

"Come on, Yuki! Riku! Kill those bastards! Skin them alive!"

Hell, even those who initially wanted to leave the building and go home decided to cancel the plan, and some even called the other students to come and join the fun. In a minute, the almost empty building was about to be full again, as if a real game was about to be played there.

"Damn, the volleyball hype is crazy." Yuki shook his head in awe.

"Well, it is not just because of the volleyball hype, but also for the pride of our school," Riku replied while playing with the ball as if it was a basketball. "We are finally starting to have an identity as a good volleyball school, so for those two idiots to challenge us in our own home is like not putting us in the same place as their team, which is an insult for most of us here. That is why this is a big deal."

Even though Yuki was a bit skeptical, he still chose to believe in his friend's words. After warming up for about five minutes, he went to the net and asked, "So, how are we going to do this?"

The loud boy – Kaito answered immediately, "Let's do best of 11! The first one who gets 11 points will win this manly duel!"

Yuki had to wince unconsciously at how loud the boy was before asking again, "Okay, then, who is going to serve first?"

Kaito looked at him as if he were an idiot before saying, "Of course, it has to be you first! We are here to watch your serve closely; there is no way I would let that chance slide so easily!"

A thick vein popped on Yuki's forehead as he heard that. 'It seems that I am getting underestimated here. How strange…' Since the last Inter-high game against Konan High, Yuki had already established his name as one of the best pinch servers in the tournament, so it was pretty strange for him to be underestimated like that. He couldn't even remember when was the last time he got this feeling. 'Well, that makes it interesting, huh?'

As he walked into the service line, the cheers kept getting louder from outside of the crowd. All of the people there had heard the conversation before, so they all had the same sentiment as Yuki right now.

"Damn, those bastards! Yuki, give them a lesson!"

"Show them who is their daddy!"

"Goddamnit, don't say something so pervert like that! Don't you see that he is a fucking gay?!"

"Even better! With Yuki out of the equation, I finally can chase my goddess Arina-senpai!"

Yuki had a sweat drop on his face as the comments were getting wilder by every second. He took a deep breath, trying to put his focus back on the court. After a quick signal to Riku and a simple nod to Megumi who acted as the referee, he narrowed his eyes, looking at the two opponents on the other side of the court.

'They have this air of confidence surrounding them, yet their eyes showed full of vigilante on me. Not bad. It seems they are trying to bait me into a sense of safety before killing me brutally in the next turn. Let's see if they could handle this.'

Having been accustomed to a 2v2 game mode, Yuki didn't even have to bat his eyes as he knew the worst spot possible for the players to receive the serve. He aimed the ball straight to the left corner close to the baseline.

BAM!

"Yusuke!"

"I got it!"

The plain boy dived acrobatically while extending one of his hands far to reach the ball. Yuki couldn't help but click his tongue in annoyance when he saw the ball was saved. 'Damn, I still cannot bring my strongest serve with the best accuracy I have!' He thought.

Yeah, even though he had a good, powerful serve and an insanely accurate serve, Yuki still couldn't combine both in a powerful accurate serve like he had in mind. That was why whenever he was aiming for a tricky spot at the corner of the court, he had to sacrifice the power of the ball to send the ball perfectly to the place he wanted.

Usually, even without enough power, the insanely accurate serve was enough to trouble his opponent. However, there were some occasions where the opponent was quick enough to reach the ball, and this was one of them.

Fortunately, the follow-up play by Kaito was far from ideal.

"Shit, Kaito! Too far!"

"Sorry, sorry!"

It was clear from this play that Kaito was far from the ideal setter. As a result, after covering for Yuki's tricky serve, Yusuke had to rush forward and catch up with Kaito's terrible pass, giving away the ball to Yuki and Riku.

Both Yuki and Riku exchanged glances for a second before nodding at each other. They didn't need to communicate out loud to reach an agreement to target Yusuke. So, without hesitation, they set up a quick attack with Yuki as the executioner, eyes on the plain boy on the other side of the net.

However, before he could even hit the ball, a pair of imposing hands suddenly appeared in front of him, and Yuki gasped at how quickly it was set to block his attack. Unfortunately, his arm had already been swinging, and he couldn't even stop or adjust it. As a result…

'Shit!'

BAM!