"It seems that this spiker from Yugama Middle School has driven us to a corner!"
"Ah, Coach Nagawa, why do you think that?"
"As soon as we score again, when that attacker is rotated to the back row, that's when we catch up with their score!"
On Kitagawa Daichi's coach bench, Assistant Coach Nagawa Shin looked at the head coach beside him with a shocked face.
The gray-haired Coach Sumire shook his head and continued, "You can only see the strong individual strength of this attacker. But keep watching! Look at Yugama Middle School's cooperation!"
Nagawa looked at the situation on the field suspiciously and blinked. "Huh? Did they work well together? Isn't that someone else catching the ball and passing it to that tough attacker? What more cooperation is needed?" Actually, he didn't know much about volleyball.
"Alas!" Coach Sumire continued with a sigh. "That's not the case, Nagawa-kun." But before he could continue explaining, the situation on the court suddenly changed.
A player from Yugama Middle School made a mistake and hit the ball out of bounds.
"I'm sorry, Akira!" The second-year student who made the mistake looked at Akira with a red face.
"Haha! It's okay, I make mistakes too. Just fight well later." Akira said with a smile.
"Yes!" The junior bowed sharply and silently reminded himself not to hold the team back anymore.
As expected, on the next play, Kitagawa Daichi's serve was easily countered by Akira. Whether it was his jumping height or the tricky angle of his spike, it all made Kitagawa Daichi's players defenseless!
When it was again Yugama Middle School's turn to serve, the rotation rule was triggered.
Akira was moved to the back row, meaning he could no longer participate in front row attacks!
"Chance!" The hearts of Kitagawa Daichi's players lifted! This main attacker, like a mountain, had been pressing on their hearts! Now that the mountain was removed, it was their turn to recover the score!
The supporting audience and Kitagawa Daichi's cheerleaders began to shout again: "Kitagawa! Kitagawa! Kitagawa!!" They seemed to expect their idols to turn the tide.
"Look, Coach Sumire, we're about to take back the situation!" Nagawa said happily to Sumire on the side.
But he didn't notice the head coach shaking his head mysteriously.
Looking at Akira's calm figure on the court, Sumire muttered: "How would you deal with this situation? Or are you just individually strong?"
With the referee's whistle, Akira looked at the current score. 15-3. His team was dominating Kitagawa Daichi in the first round! Then, if Akira remembered correctly, something interesting was about to happen within Kitagawa Daichi's team.
This time, Akira didn't use a more powerful jump. Nor did he use his erratic drifting serves. He simply casually hit an overhand serve, and it went out. His teammates in front of him all looked back at him in surprise.
"Akira-kun, why are you...?"
"Concentrate on the game!"
"Yes!"
The ball that Akira sent out casually was picked up by Kitagawa Daichi's libero.
Counterattack moment!
At this moment, the mood of the Kitagawa Daichi team was extremely excited! However, then they discovered a strange thing.
After the amazingly powerful attacker was transferred to the back row, no one from Yugama Middle School came forward to block the net! The three players who had rotated to the front row retreated to the back position, ready to receive Kitagawa Daichi's spike.
Seeing this way of playing from Yugama Middle School, Coach Sumire on the Kitagawa Daichi bench suddenly felt a knot in his stomach. It's over! It turned out to be like this!
And the situation on the court unfolded exactly as Sumire had expected. Under Akira's command, the Yugama Middle School players found their positions and stood firmly.
Without three players at the net, Yugama Middle School easily covered the entire court. Akira himself occupied the largest part of the middle of the court.
Snap!
He firmly caught Kitagawa Daichi's spike! Counterattack! The setter was back in the front row, ready to pass! Four players, excluding the libero, ran at the same time! Synchronous attack! Who the hell was going to attack?
The three blockers in front of Kitagawa Daichi became nervous! Their hearts seemed to clench fiercely! It had to be their main attacker attacking from the back row!
His previous performance was so dazzling! Presumably, everyone else was covering for him, just bait! This thought arose in the minds of the three blockers. They looked at each other. Just stop the back row!
However, the truth was not what they imagined! The setter impressively passed the ball to the secondary attacker in the front row! Under the fast attack, Kitagawa Daichi didn't have time to react at all! Direct smash for a score!
Although he had expected this scene for a long time, Coach Sumire still stood up from his chair in shock! "This... How can there be such people?"
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"Coach Nagawa, although we lost another point, you don't have to be so excited, right?" Startled by the sudden rise of Coach Sumire, Nagawa Shin said a little strangely.
"No, Nagawa-sensei, you don't understand at all!" "This man, he... How can he play like that?"
"I originally thought that Kageyama's solipsistic way of playing was already excessive!" Coach Sumire's pupils were wide open, and he said in some disbelief.
"Yes, Kageyama, he just treats the people on the court as pawns, and doesn't really treat them as teammates playing together!"
"It's a really exciting feeling!" In fact, Nagawa Shin is also somewhat dissatisfied with Kageyama's kingly dictatorship.
"However, this main attacker from Yugama Middle School, he... He is even more excessive than Kageyama. " "This way is no longer just about using teammates as pawns, but..."
"It's a puppet!"
"The other people on the field are like puppets bound by threads!"
"And that person, like the big hand behind the scenes, manipulates their every move!" Coach Sumire finished his words in a somewhat trembling way.
Nagawa Shin, who heard such words, was also shocked and couldn't close his mouth.
"The puppet... Puppets..."
"Coach Sumire, didn't you just say that they cooperate very well?
Coach Sumire looked at the one-sided game on the field and shook his head solemnly. "Watch out, Nagawa-sensei!"
"Every time in my free time, the five players on the field of Yugama Middle School will involuntarily turn their eyes to the main attacker!"
"It's like it's become their conditioned reflex!"
"And the main attacker will also give them some instructions at this time, or eyes, expressions, or even a gesture!"
"Tell these people what to do next!"
"The next movements of everyone on the field of Yugama Middle School are in his hands!"
Hearing this, Nagawa Shin's eyes widened and he looked towards the field. He really hadn't looked at this closely just now.
And Coach Sumire continued: "From the beginning, I thought they worked surprisingly well together, it seemed that everyone could trust their teammates unconditionally!"
"Everyone on the field can do all kinds of behaviors that seem unreasonable, but after careful consideration, they make people suddenly realize. "
"Now I suddenly realized!"
It's not their good cooperation at all!
It's all because there's someone manipulating them!
If it's not six people, but one, a lot of questions will be cleared!"
How can you not cooperate well with yourself?"
Nagawa Shin on the side had already heard a cold sweat. "Using invisible silk threads to manipulate teammates on the field..." He looked at Akira on the field with shocked eyes.
The figure who is constantly tossing and turning on the court. Now it seems to be infinitely elevated in his heart!! Like an all-knowing and all-powerful deity! ...
Squeak! With a whistle, the first game is completely over! 25-7! Such a score is absolutely unacceptable to the self-proclaimed strong school of Kitagawa Daichi!
"I'm sorry!" The players on the field bowed to the coach and apologized.
"Don't blame yourselves! You've done a great job!" Coach Sumire was silent for a while and said to them.
In fact, in this situation, he can't think of other ways to break the game. Strong personal strength!
Precise and seamless fit!
This is so inexplicable! If you want to defeat this team, you can only rely on stronger individual strength than them, or better cooperation! But these factors are all that the current Kitagawa Daichi lacks!
Squeak! As the referee's whistle sounded again, the second game began! Coach Sumire saw Kageyama walking towards the stadium with his head bowed, and suddenly reminded loudly: "Kageyama, you have to remember what I said, the speed of the attack is not the key!"
The walking Kageyama froze and said stiffly: "I know!"
However, in the second game, the situation is still not very good. The score was once again pulled away by Akira's strong playing style little by little! Failed attack after failure, failed defense after defense! Every time it is impacting the psychological defense of Kageyama!
"Run faster, jump higher!" Watch Kageyama's hysterical yelling. Akira on the other side of the net sighed secretly.
Kageyama's desire for victory has lost his heart! On the court, discord between teammates is the biggest taboo!
"Coach Sumire, if it's like you just said. "
"Then the opponent's main attack should be the same person as Kageyama! Looking at the game on the field, Nagawa Shin can clearly feel the different emotions of the two teams!
The people of Kitagawa Daichi can clearly feel a gloomy plot! On the other hand, Yugama Middle School on the other side, you can see a positive atmosphere in everyone!
" Nagawa, you must want to ask, why are the players of Yugama Middle School very happy when they are obviously the puppet of the main attacker?" Coach Sumire glanced at him and said.
"That's right!"
"Kageyama-san just wanted the team members to keep up with him, but he was so dissatisfied with kindaichi and Kunimi like them!"
"And the main attacker of Yugama Middle School controls every move of the team members in his own hands!"
"But his team members did not have any dissatisfaction, but were happy to be commanded by him..."
Nagawa Shin said very puzzled, "Why is that?"
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