Team Naegi has now in a lead of one point. Misato and Mizuku was suprised to see such a advanced technique on their game. While Kyousuke, Naegi and Shin are celebrating it. Kazumi is still the server. He wants to play it safe but they are encouraging him to become more aggressive in attacking. So, Kazumi decided to try a jump serve. He hits it but lacks power. Mizuki easily receives it and pass onto Misato. Shiina runs at the middle, and Yuuki went to the left side of the court. Naegi's blockers are sure that Misato will give it to Shiina but, Yuuki suddenly take flight. That's when they realized Shiina was the decoy. Misato passed it on Yuuki but Kentaro luckily was in there, Attempting to block. Yuuki dinks the ball, tying the score.
It was now Mizuki's turn serve. Mizuki did a jump floater. The ball looks like it will be out of bounds. Kyousuke inform them that it will be out, "Out" But, The ball suddenly make a sharp downfall. Kyousuke apologizes to them for the wrong information. "Don't mind it, Kyousuke." Mizuki then throws another one, It went straightly to Kyousuke. Kyousuke is able to lift it with perfect overhand receive. Shin was the closest to the ball so he attempts to fake set it to Kazumi. "Kazumi get the last ball" Kazumi just jumps and spike. Misato, Shiina and Mizuki fell on Shin's trap. He then sets it to Kentaro, Who is on the middle of the court. He hits it straightly towards them.
Kentaro is the server again. All of them got their guard up and get ready to take the ball. "Which will it be? Jump float? Jump serve? or a normal one?" Kentaro is fired up. He throws it a bit higher than usual and jump higher. While in midair, Kentaro can see the open area of their court. Unlike the last time, Kentaro hits it with all of his power and redirect it to no one. It was so fast that even their eyes didn't keep up. "Was that too much?" Mizuki shouts at Kentaro. "Oiii Ace, Don't get fired up too much." Kentaro just laughs at it while Kyousuke taunts them. "HAHAHA! Are you afraid on our server?" Mizuki suddenly become serious. "Ah, I see."
Kentaro repeats it. But, Mizuki receives it decently and it even looks like he just set it. Misato sets it to Shiina and Shiina blast's it off on the blockers. "Nice one, Shiina" They also get fired up. Kyousuke saw them like a wood burning violently. Kentaro told Kyousuke, "We shouldn't provoke them." Kyousuke then regrets taunting them.
Misato now the server. He grips the ball tightly and throws it. Naegi was able to receive it but it bounced back to the other side. "Chance ball!" Mizuki receives it. "Alright" Shiina sets the ball and Misato runs as fast as she can and spikes it violently.
*11:9*
"Take it!"
13:12
"Misato get the last ball!"
*14:12*
One point remaining before Misato's team wins. Mizuki is the server.
[Kyousuke]: Oii, oii, oii. We will lose at this rate.
[Naegi]: We will take back the points.
Mizuki served it normally, hoping to crumble their formation. Naegi receives the ball. Shiina is watching the ball and their movements. Kyousuke quickly sets it in the middle. Then Shiina followed it with a block. "One touch." Yuuki Receives the ball and they simultaneously run towards the net. Naegi's team is confused on where will the ball go. Misato then set it onto Mizuki. Mizuki freely spikes it to them but, Kentaro's arms reached it and able to save the ball. Kyousuke was about to set it on Kazumi but, He feels the aura of Kentaro's desire to score. He sets it to Kentaro and Kentaro's straight spike was blocked by three blockers. On the last second, Kentaro forcibly cross spiked it even when his form was crumbling. The ball was hitted on Yuuki's forehead and send it in the air. Misato followed it accidentally passed it on the other side. Naegi then responds with the early set they did earlier. He sets it onto Kyousuke and when Kyousuke saw them responding to him, He sets it to Shin. But this time, It was received by Mizuki.
Mizuki gives the ball to Misato. Everyone runs, doing a "Pipe". While in midair, Shiina can see the whole other side of the court and where is the weakess spot in it. "Checkmate." Shiina spikes it as hard as she can. Kazumi tried to dives the ball. It connects to his arms but went the other way, making it impossible to change. But even so, Naegi, Kentaro and Kyousuke chase it but it was too far.
Misato's team wins with a score of 15:12. They celebrate in their victory while Naegi's team is down. But, There is still two more activities to be won. If Misato's group won even one activity, they will be the victors of this teambuilding. "We Won't lose." Kyousuke said. Naegi and Misato call their teams to rest.
[Misato]: Congratulations, Girl's.
[Everyone]: Thank you!
[Naegi]: We just lose this round. But we will win the next two activities.
[Kyousuke]: Yeah.
After everyone regains their energy, They head out to change into their swimming attire. While walking towards the changing room, Naegi talk's about how Kentaro won the National Swimming Competition. After that, Naegi assured their victory to them. "Stop it, I am not that good." Everyone was happy and tells him to wipe them out. But, Kentaro reminds them that they will also compete to it.
[Kyousuke]: Don't worry, We will win this.
[Shin]: I am the fastest swimmer here if we excluded you. And there will only be three swimmers competing for this.
[Naegi]: So, Who will be our three competitors?
[Kentaro]: If we want to win this, Maybe we should let Kyousuke, Shin, and myself to compete?
[Kazumi]: Yeah. I agree with that.
Meanwhile, Misato's team was relaxed and starts to underestimate them. Mizuki was about to say that Kentaro is a professional swimmer, Misato tells them "You shouldn't underestimate them. One of them is a professional." Shiina laughs at it and takes it a joke of Misato. "One of them really is a Pro Shiina." Shiina replies, "Eh? Really?" Misato then decides who will compete in them. There is a problem arise from them, That is the lack of competitors. Only Shiina and Mizuki know how to swim. Yuuki got an idea. "What if we add Yuri as our temporary swimmer?" Misato considers the suggestion. So, She asked Mizuki to get Yuri.
Yuri was refilling the bottles and fixing their clothes. Mizuki help her but Yuri wants to handle everything by herself. "Come on, You don't need to be like that." Yuri was hesitant at first, But she accepts the offer and. While fixing the clothes, Mizuki persuade Yuri.
[Mizuki]: Hey Yuri. Can i ask you for a favor?
[Yuri]: Yes, Anything.
[Mizuki]: Do you know how to swim?
[Yuri]: Eh!? Ummmm I guess i know a little.
[Mizuki]: Well, We need one more swimmers to compete, but only the two of us knows how to swim in our team. Would you mind joining?
[Yuri]: But, I can't win it.
[Mizuki]: You don't need to win. Just join us, It's fun.
Yuri is hesitating. But, She want to look good at them. When she agrees, Mizuki brought her to the changring room and choose a suit in her size. Fortunaterly, Mizuki and Yuri coincidentally had almost the same size. She lend it to Yuri. After Yuri changed to swimsuit, Mizuki was surprised to see her petite body, as it was not obvious in her usual clothes. "Wow, You look good in that suit. Hmm, approved." Yuri is shy but thank her anyway.
"You're late" Misato said. As the Naegi's team are already warming up. All of them we're surprised also to Yuri. "I...Is that Yuri? What a transformation." Yuri is further get embarrassed, "Please don't look at me too much." Shiina replied "Why? You look better now than before." Yuri looks down as she say's "Because, It's embarrassing to be seen like this." Misato claps her hands to signal them to start warming up. Their swimmers started to warm up immediately.
Yuri's new looks also strucked the boys. Kyousuke was one thing but to Shin to be looking at girls like that is a news for them. "Hey Shin, Why are you looking like that?" Shin is also not aware that he is locking his eyes on Yuri "Huh? What am i doing?" Kyousuke laughs at him and whispered something in his ears. "Are you, by any chance, Got attracted on her?" Shin gets flustered and immediately deny it. They are picking on him until Shin gets pissed and they stop at him on verge of him getting uncontrollable. Misato shouts at them, "Are you now ready to lose again?" Naegi gives her a fist bump, "No, You will lose this time."
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