In the end, Bai Lu was sent to the hospital by everyone.

The doctor's diagnosis was a recurrence of the old disease, combined with other complications, requiring hospitalization for observation for a few days. Avoid excessive emotional ups and downs, do not touch irritating things, and do not do activities that increase the burden on the body and heart.

Having said that...she was out of the hospital in three days.

After all, it's just a setting installed in the game, isn't it?

Bai Lu looked at the pathology list in his hand, but he didn't feel any emotions in his heart, because no matter how serious the disease sounded, it didn't delay her eating or drinking. In the final analysis, it was just the premise and background provided by the game.

When this setting comes out, it is also the plot of the game that has the final say. You must know that since she opened the Wu Ye map, she has never tabooed anything, and she has lived safely until now.

The only strange thing is that the system doesn't know where it went...

never mind.

It took three days to go to school, which was not very interesting, so Bai Lu came to school almost in a daze.

"Heron, Lulu, are you alright?"

When Yamaguchi Tadashi saw her, he was surprised, and the worry in his eyes was palpable. After all, he came to school after only three days, and he thought he would take a rest for a while.

...

"Um."

Bai Lu opened the book, but did not look up to look at the current deskmate sitting next to him.

Under normal circumstances, she should show a perfect and impeccable smile, and thank Yamaguchi Tadashi gently and gently for his concern.

But... I'm not in the mood.

The textbooks are all the same things, especially math and English. Bai Lu can get full marks with her eyes closed. During her lunch break, she eats supermarket bread alone on the rooftop.

When school was about to end, the dark-green-haired boy looked at her sideways hesitantly, packing his schoolbag slowly: "That, Lulu."

"Do you want to go to the club together?"

"...Well, let's go."

Bai Lu stood up from the chair with no expression, and didn't know why he agreed to the other party. Obviously, the task of simulating management had failed, and there was no point in going to the volleyball club.

Probably because Yamaguchi Tadashi's expression was too cautious.

Those dark green eyes were full of worry, and they glanced over from time to time during class, as if they had a lot of hesitant things to say to her.

Such a heartfelt worry... She still couldn't refuse after all.

Naturally, Hotaru Tsukishima walked with the two of them. Compared with Yamaguchi's hesitation, the tall, slender boy with cold blond hair was calmer. He left the classroom calmly with a backpack on one shoulder, and stood waiting for them outside the door.

The three of them should have had nothing to say all the way, except for an unexpected episode in the middle——

When Bai Lu passed Class 1, Grade 5, the blonde girl who came out by chance almost ran into her.

"System: Loading...Loading..."

"System: It is detected that the player triggers the raider character, and the favorability system is being unlocked."

"I'm sorry!!"

The blond girl was startled, and stepped back a few steps in shock. When she saw Bai Lu's face clearly, her watery eyes opened wide and round.

"I'm sorry!! I...I bumped into such a beautiful beauty, woo...!!"

The girl ran away in remorse and horror.

Bai Lu: "..."

Isn't this the girl in the opening promotional video?

Her memory is very good, and she even remembered that there was a main task in the simulated management to invite the other party to join the club.

"Lulu, are you alright?"

Yamaguchi Tadashi may feel that the girl is now like a piece of glass that will shatter when hit, and his worried tone is tinged with horror.

"fine."

Bai Lu withdrew his gaze indifferently, and was too lazy to care about these things for the time being. The three of them came to the second gymnasium as usual, and they could hear the loud sound of volleyball hitting the ground from a long distance away.

It was Tobio Kageyama practicing jumping hair.

Hearing the movement at the door, the stern-looking black-haired boy subconsciously looked this way, then paused: "You...you're fine."

"Um."

The atmosphere is not more relaxed than before everyone lost the game.

It didn't take long for Hinata Xiangyang to speed up and run into the gymnasium. After the first graders were all there, there were second graders and senior seniors. When they saw the girl appearing here, all the members came forward to express their concern in surprise.

"Sagi-chan, is your body alright?"

As an older senior and senior, Shimizu Kiyoko directly moved a chair for Bai Lu, stuffed her notebook into her arms, and said in a much softer voice than usual: "Don't do too much work today, just stay with me."Let's rest on the side."

"...Well, thank you, senior."

Bai Lu just nodded silently.

Looking at the notebook stuffed in her hand, it might contain the information of all members, the club's daily plan, and the records of every game...but she didn't want to open it at all.

What a pain.

Do you really want to stay here in the future?

Not to run the club, but to be despicable, secretly happy a few days ago and finally able to get rid of it... Continue to attack the so-called target role.

Same as her silence, the atmosphere in the team is also very tense, the impact of losing the game is too great, and everyone is not only depressed because of the loss.

It is because everyone gradually and clearly recognizes that the team has fallen into a bottleneck period.

Against Aoba, they have tried their best and brought out the best condition and the strongest weapon. Even so, they still lost completely. The next step is to continue to maintain the original appearance and strengthen the practice.The gears that are together have been completely grounded, and they are still looking for some new breakthrough... These are all tense points that make the atmosphere uneasy.

Today's closing training is still a team practice match, and everyone is more serious and serious than usual.

Bai Lu just sat by and watched, and didn't even help to distribute the number vest, but no one around blamed her, but let the girl rest well.

To be honest, there is nothing interesting about the game anymore.

The simulated business failed, and Bai Lu only subconsciously feared and avoided observing their data. The Level 4 team lost to the same Level 4 team, and the place where they lost was even Wu Ye's strongest spear.

Even now, the monster's fast attack is presented in front of her without any change.

until……

The practice match was about to end, Hinata Xiangyang suddenly said a word to Kageyama: "Hey Kageyama."

"Our fast break, I don't want to close my eyes."

...

The boy's words were serious and serious, and against the flaming eyes under the orange-red hair, it was like a muffled thunder.

The air in the gymnasium froze for a few seconds.

"ha?"

Tobio Kageyama frowned, looking at him with black lines on his forehead.

Their stunts have been emphasized many times. Hinata doesn’t need to think about anything, just close your eyes and jump to the highest point with the fastest speed and show your best condition. He calculates the whole process and passes the ball to Hinata’s handsinside.

The fast break wins fast, and the ball is often only a moment to the ground.

If Hinata opened his eyes and started to pay attention to the ball, he would not be able to jump out of the best state, even if the accuracy was 1 mm worse, the weird fast break would fail.

"Didn't I say it, stop thinking about changing the fast break of the weirdo."

Since it was between matches, Tobio Kageyama didn't argue with Hinata, he ignored this guy for the time being, and continued the match.

Hinata's sudden words were like a double-edged sword, breaking through the breakthrough that everyone wanted to break through, but also mixed with unrealistic things, at least things that are absolutely impossible to do now, making the already tense team even more silent.

As the coach, Wuyang Xixin has been staring at the two of them, and I am afraid that his heart is also tangled...

The team is now in a low period, any small mistake is fatal, and the morale of the army must not be shaken now.

"Hinata, what Kageyama said is correct, please calm down first."

"but……"

Hinata Xiangyang opened his mouth, and he suddenly turned his head to look at Bai Lu, and took it back inexplicably.

The dispute was fruitless, and the team practice game ended quickly.

Bai Lu was unexpectedly calmed by the tense atmosphere in the volleyball club. She seemed like an outsider. She just moved the chairs back to their original positions and helped everyone clean up the messy gymnasium.

Unfortunately, unlike the previous days, even if she completed the "task" of wiping off the sweat stains on the floor, the system would not be able to issue any rewards.

"Heron...!"

Before leaving, Hinata Xiangyang stopped the girl abruptly.

At this moment, at 19:13, the hazy moonlight once again swayed silently through the windows into the clean and reflective gymnasium. The other members had already gone to change their clothes one after another, but the orange-haired boy who was supposed to be together had no intention of leaving.

"That." He trotted to Bai Lu, raised his hand and scratched the back of his head: "I didn't talk to you properly before..."

"Is it really all right?"

"You suddenly fainted that day, everyone was shocked, and you coughed up blood."

"I'm sorry...it turns out that Lulu's illness is so serious, I never realized it, and I'm really, really worried."

Hinata Xiangyang's eyebrows were frowned into a small horoscope, his expression was undisguised worry and sadness, and those straightforward eyes locked on the girl without hesitation.

Unlike the innocent and more sensitive Yamaguchi Tadashi, the boy expressed his concern without any hesitation.

"...I made you worry, Xiangyang."

Finally, the corners of Bai Lu's mouth curled up a little on her plain expression, she raised her arms and jumped on the spot in front of the other party a few times, standing firm amidst the boy's horrified and flustered persuasion to stop.

"It's okay, it's completely fine."

After all, even she herself didn't expect the setting of the game to be so serious.

After the "relapse" is over, they will continue to live as if nothing happened.

"Great, great."

Hinata Xiangyang breathed a sigh of relief in shock, and the soft hair that exploded obediently fell down: "I always feel that you don't have much energy now, you must rest well."

"Hello"

His long sigh was interrupted by a cool face behind him, Tobio Kageyama pushed the blue volleyball cart basket, "Boke, don't you want to practice."

...

Yes, they are not planning to go home now.

Hinata Xiangyang's eyes are too determined, and his quiet orange-brown eyes are more courageous than ever before, even if he is opposed by all the team members, once he has identified his goal, he will never give up easily.

He wants to fight by himself.

Although Tobio Kageyama denied Hinata with his mouth, he did not completely resist his protest, and re-set up the net in a temporary compromise.

If you just try it, it won't delay anything...

"System: Players, try throwing the ball for them!"

Bai Lu, who simply watched this and didn't intend to think about superfluous things, was about to leave when a familiar mechanical sound interrupted her movements.

Do you guys know you're showing up now?

"System: cough cough."

"System: Actually, they are quite busy too. In short, the next step is the plot point of the game. Helping them toss the ball will undergo a qualitative change!"

oh.

So far...does it have anything to do with her?

Bai Lu stood on the spot without any fluctuations, and looked indifferently at the two protagonists in the center of the field with his hands in his pockets. No matter what kind of plot point happened, he didn't care about his own business now.

Simulation business has failed.

Although she hated the system in her heart, her footsteps were silent for a few seconds, but she still took a step forward:

"I can throw the ball for you."

"Eh?!"

Hinata Xiangyang paused while hanging the net, and turned back in shock: "Lu Lu, would you go home and rest as soon as possible!?"

"I'm fine now."

"Please." Tobio Kageyama frowned. He was more straightforward. Now that the girl said it was all right, he stood behind the net with confidence.

Facing Kageyama's incomprehensible style, Hinata could only compromise and stand within the white line.

His expression was mixed with worry: "Then...that Lulu, you must tell us if you feel uncomfortable."

"Well, Xiangyang is relieved."

Bai Lu picked up the volleyball in the basket of the car with ease, and she had helped throw it countless times during the camp training not long ago.

Throws the ball easily over Tobio Kageyama's head, Kageyama catches it, turns it to Hinata with the precision of a monster break, and then...

The boy with the orange head who was supposed to smash the ball hard didn't hit it.

Tried again, still didn't hit.

Three times, four times, five times...

Until the 20th time, it was still repeated.

Even Bai Lu, who was only in charge of throwing the ball, felt a little tired. She admitted that before the game, she felt that Kageyama and Hinata's stunt was very strange, and the consequences were very serious.

At the last moment of the match against Aoba, the ball was designed and thrown by Kageyama throughout the whole process. Facing the blocks of the three, Hinata Xiangyang, who closed his eyes tightly, could not change the direction temporarily, nor could he change to block out of bounds in time.

but……

It is an indisputable fact that their current attempt has failed.

"So, enough is enough."

Tobio Kageyama stopped his passing hands, and his stern face became harsh again: "Your willful behavior will only disrupt the existing balance of the team."

"I just want to become stronger and use my strength to compete for more possibilities!"

Hinata Xiangyang's unyielding counterattack made the already empty gymnasium tense up again.

...

Ah, they fought.

The boy with the orange head who has always been obedient in front of Bai Lu, whose cheeks would turn red from time to time, quarreled with her previous old tablemate until the end and ended up pulling each other directly.

"System: Oh my god! The members of the club actually started fighting. Watching them wrestle together, what do you decide?"

A. Step forward to persuade a fight

B. Add fuel to the fire

C. Go to the senior seniors to fight

D. ignore, leave

"..."

System, is this the plot point you mentioned?

There was no response to a certain mechanical voice, and Bai Lu looked at the two people who were the only ones who kept their colors in the gloomy environment, and the feeling of being troublesome came to his heart again.

This option obviously has nothing to do with increasing favorability. Their atmosphere is not like the one that others can casually get involved in. No, even if it can increase favorability, she is not in the mood right now.

Whether these teenagers can make progress or not has little to do with me.

Whether Monster Special Attack will really evolve or not has nothing to do with Bai Lu who failed in the mission...

ignore, leave.

She lazily raised her hand to choose D, and stopped looking at the two wrestling on the floor. They were just a group of young boys anyway, and it was impossible for them to be disabled.

The reality was the same as what Bai Lu thought, Hinata Xiangyang tightened Kageyama's arm, he didn't really make any punching and kicking movements, but just held his breath, expressing his inner appeal sentence by sentence.

He also wants to fight with his own strength.

He doesn't want to rely on others in the future, that will only stay in the same place forever, and he will never get out of the predicament.

...

"So, that fast break doesn't need to join your consciousness!!"

Tobio Kageyama's voice was also unprecedentedly intense.

He wants to keep it as it is, not to change the system that has already been basically formed.

The brand-new attempt is just like the result that Hinata Xiangyang showed just now, only failure is waiting for them.

...

Really, can't take it anymore.

Bai Lu held the gate of the gymnasium tightly, and finally took a step back after taking a step.

She threw the schoolbag on her shoulders to the ground, and her heart was pounding again and again. Her footsteps on the floor were like cold sharp weapons, cutting through the stagnant air around her, and she came to the two teenagers step by step.

The complacency before the game, the subconscious nervousness of sweating when they learned that the levels are the same, but the blind confidence that they can pass the level...

And the unprecedented loss of control when watching the mission fail, all staged in my mind.

Looking back, the monster's fast break can be completely seen through.

Not afraid of accidental injury, the girl penetrated in without any fear of accidental injury. The girl forcefully separated the two with a blank face, and directly grabbed Tobio Kageyama by the collar.

Her supposedly gentle and pleasant voice is also extremely cold——

"That special attack, I only saw your dictatorship."

"…ha?!"

Tobio Kageyama was still in shock when he was grabbed by the collar, but when he heard the next sentence, he frowned fiercely.

"I told you before, your throwing the ball completely killed Xiangyang's growth."

Bai Lu didn't want to care about this guy's mood at all, she didn't even know why she was so impulsive, she just couldn't restrain her emotions and stared at him: "Xiangyang's highest hit point is your calculation, and when to dunk the ball is up to you."Calculate, the direction of the spike is still your calculation, in the end Xiangyang is only responsible for the simple run-up and take-off."

"Excuse me, are you playing volleyball alone?"

"Heron... Heron..."

Suddenly being pulled away, Hinata Xiangyang, who fell to the ground with inertia, got up. He seemed to want to say something, but he didn't dare to go forward easily.

"Aoba's last ball, as long as Xiangyang joins his consciousness, he can open his eyes and temporarily change it to block and go out of bounds."

Tobio Kageyama gritted his teeth, moved his fingers, and his already fierce blue eyes were nailed to the girl's body like nails: "Have I explained it many times?"

"It's because he can't do it that I pass such a fast break. If he wants to change now, he only disturbs the balance of the team!"

"I will entrust him with a ball that will not be blocked all the way, and I can also play the guy's greatest strength—"

"You are not giving full play to the 100% strength of the players!"

Bai Lu interrupted the other party directly, unable to listen. She didn't feel any pain in her body, but her heart was beating wildly as if she was about to spit out.

She didn't want to take into account the tormenting goodwill, and didn't want to take into account the basic politeness between people. The fact that the mission failed almost exhausted her patience: "You are completely opposite to Senior Oikawa, this is the greatest way to kill the strength of the team members!"

...

The last sentence fell, and the entire empty gymnasium immediately fell into silence.

"…ha?!!"

Tobio Kageyama seemed to have been stepped on a landmine, his handsome and cold face had obvious blue veins like never before, he also stepped forward and grabbed the girl by the neckline correspondingly: "What did you say!?"

"I said you still maintain a dictatorship, like an arbitrary king on the court!"

"how about you!?"

The black-haired boy's expression was so ferocious that he couldn't control it: "What are you so anxious about!?!"

...

restless.

The word was yelled out by the boy's tearing voice, which also made Bai Lu's hand tremble, and lost the strength in his hand inexplicably.

Her eyes widened in shock, all the impulses froze at this moment, and collapsed with the sluggishness in her heart.

I see.

I was inexplicably excited before, bored, painful, tormented...the emotions that they couldn't control after hearing their quarrel finally got their interpretation.

To put it bluntly, she was just venting her dissatisfaction.

Before she fainted, she kept questioning why it was her own sadness, the despair of all her hope and efforts being shattered, and the shame of failure when she was full of confidence.

And Bai Lu is now, very despicably venting on Kageyama who was not at fault in the first place, but also regretted because of losing the game.

...

what is she doing

What the hell did she do?

To vent his anger and go crazy so blatantly, he is still facing this group of innocent teenagers who have been captured by him without knowing it.

It's just... a really bad guy.

"Patter."

A tear flowed out of the eye socket uncontrollably, and fell gently to the ground.

Different from the time when playing with Kageyama and pretending to cry a long time ago, this time Bai Lu really looked gloomy, letting the tall black-haired boy grab his collar and let his hands hang down feebly, silent tears flowing down the beautiful face.Cheeks keep flowing.

Weeping for her meanness.

It was also crying because the mission failed and finally found a vent.

"you……"

Tobio Kageyama was also stunned by the very excited action just now, his blue pupils shrunk slightly, and the red color that spread to his neck was slowly fading away.

The girl's pear-colored fragmentary Liuhai/bangs hung down, her expression was so gloomy that she even showed a bit of despair, looking at her teary cheeks so closely, Kageyama calmed down all the anger for no reason, and stared blankly.The strength in his hands was relaxed.

Feel sorry.

The words that subconsciously wanted to blurt out were not spoken, because the girl had already proposed to say these words——

"sorry."

...

"Hey Kageyama you bastard!"

Hinata Xiangyang panicked and circled around the two of them, obviously he was the violent puppy who was persuaded to fight just now, but now he became the one anxiously persuaded to fight: "Quickly let go of Lu Lu, you bastard!"

The movement in the gymnasium quickly attracted the seniors who had changed their clothes.

When Ryunosuke Tanaka and Yu Nishiya saw the scene in the museum, they turned into dragons on the spot: "You guys, what are you doing!?"

The end result of this quarrel is...

After knowing the details, the two boys present were punched and beaten for the reason of how decent it was to fight in front of the girls.

By the time everyone went back completely, it was already 8 o'clock in the evening.

Bai Lu had sent a text message to let Yamaguchi Tadashi and the others go away, so naturally there was no classmate to accompany them.

"That, Lulu."

Pushing the bicycle, Hinata Xiangyang hurriedly called her to stop, her voice was unusually clear in the air: "It's getting late, I'll take you back!"

"System: A member of the society offered to send you home. Faced with his proposal, do you decide?"

A. agree

B. to refuse

"……Thanks."

Bai Lu was still in a low mood, but he didn't reject the orange-haired boy's silly grinning expression, allowing him to quickly run to his side.

On the way back she hardly wanted to say anything.

It was rare for Hinata Xiangyang to push the car quietly. He was obviously a little shorter than Bai Lu, but he was inexplicably full of peace of mind in the dark night.

I don't know how long it took before the other party said: "I want to become stronger. In fact, Lulu reminded me before."

"If I don't fight with my own consciousness, I will never make progress, so I will not compromise with Kageyama, even if everyone does not support it."

"I'm really sorry today, but I'm also very happy..."

The orange-haired boy's voice was more serious and serious than before: "I knew, Lu Lu, you support me."

"..."

Bai Lu didn't respond to him.

Hinata Xiangyang didn't seem to mind either. He raised an arm and scratched his hair, chuckled and said, "Also, everyone is actually very grateful to Lu Lu for everything you have done to the volleyball club."

"The previous suggestion to Senior Dongfeng was well used in the competition."

"The ball you usually hold for me allowed me to temporarily save a ball against Date Industry and hit it back to the opposite side of the net in the air."

"Everyone, I really appreciate you."

...

The air is still very quiet.

Bai Lu silently followed behind the orange-haired boy. Finally, as if she couldn't bear it anymore, she clenched her lips tightly: "Xiangyang."

"But I still don't like volleyball."

There was a hint of crying in her voice, and she no longer concealed her confusion: "What should I do?"

Could it be because of this that the simulated management lost.

"Heron?"

Hinata Xiangyang turned around in surprise, he didn't seem to expect that Bai Lu would ask such a question, the boy's expression should be doubtful, he is also a shy boy on weekdays...

At this moment, when looking at the girl, those firm orange-brown eyes have never gathered the power to calm people's hearts like this time——

"Since you don't like it, don't force yourself to like it."

"Like should be something that makes you feel happy from the bottom of your heart."

He seems to be recalling everything that happened in the club before: "Every time Lulu collects data and writes notes, his expression is very relaxed. When I was doing club activities with everyone, I have never seen it on your face.pain……"

"Why don't you relax more?"