Spring High, also known as the Japanese Spring High School Volleyball League.

Usually, the selection of local representatives begins at the end of autumn. This year, Miyagi Prefecture, as usual, will still be held at the Sendai City Gymnasium Center.

When everyone took the bus, everyone was nervous, but also mixed with a bit of complicated mood.

In the summer Inter High, Wu Ye stopped here.

This time, the same mistakes will never be repeated, and the shame must be avenged. With this belief, everyone walked into the Sendai Gymnasium with serious expressions.

However, it was a little different from the last time I came here, no one around secretly talked about Wu Ye as "a declining strong school, a crow that can't fly".

"System: After all, I have played 3 rounds with Aoba, and the score has reached 30 points~"

...Isn't it still lost?

Bai Lu ignored the system's conversation, took out the newly printed list from her bag, and browsed through it again.

Because the IH results are not bad, Wu Ye can directly have a bye in the first game, and start playing from the second game when he comes up.

And everyone's opponent at the beginning is the winner who won the Deba High School and advanced to the second game-Shannan High School.

The first school that Bai Lu went to during the holiday survey.

"Shannan is very cautious. Once they miss the ball, they will not play fast break."

"Uh-huh!"

Hinata Xiangyang nodded eagerly, facing the girl's admonition, his orange-brown eyes lit up with a layer of light after being nervous: "Lu Lu even gave me their school-style ball before! Make a splash, what should I say?", Well……"

"Have a bad feeling...?"

"...What does that feel like?"

Hotaru Tsukishima who was passing by just wanted to complain about him.

Anyway, thanks to the investigation in advance, the girl emphasized Shannan's habits and characteristics before everyone went on stage... In fact, even she herself didn't expect that Wu Ye would meet the girl from the school scouting at the beginning.Opening school.

Everything seems to be destined.

Fannan High School is just a Level 2 school, and losing to Level 5 Wu Ye is already an established fact.

If it was Egret in the past, I am afraid that she would not be interested in a school with such a huge disparity in strength. Just like IH Wu Ye vs. Chang Bo back then, she was too lazy to look up to her, and she would not specifically emphasize the enemy's weaknesses.

However……

Having watched the training of Shannan High School and personally participating in their hard work, Bai Lu clearly knows that no matter who it is, they are working hard.

Fan Nan deserves everyone's respect.

The result of the game was also very clear, Wu Ye won with a score of 2:0 and successfully advanced to the next game.

Shannan is followed by Kadokawa Gakuen, followed by Jozenji, Hekudaninan, a Level 3, and two Level 4 schools, all of which the girl had inquired about at the beginning.

Wu Ye wins all.

The preliminaries will last for 3 days until the morning of the second day. If Wu Ye has successfully evolved, he has not been frustrated, successfully defeated these schools, and entered the top six in Miyagi Prefecture.

Everyone's morale is unstoppable, and the process of the competition is also very smooth, except...

Sawamura Daichi's face was accidentally injured, and he recovered later, and Bai Lu was designated by the Raiders of Jozenji.

"Next time, I will definitely win you."

Before leaving, his hair was tied back with hairspray, and the blond-haired Captain Tjozenji had a much lower expression than his lively and flamboyant look before the game.

The voice of the other party was muffled, but his eyes were fixed on the girl who came to pick everyone up.

"By the time……"

"You want to be my girlfriend."

...

Everyone in Wu Ye: "Huh?!!!"

The air was suddenly quiet for a few seconds.

Hearing the other party's rhetoric, Wu Ye's expressions on the crowd suddenly became uneasy. Everyone's faces were more or less subtly different, but... there was no doubt that they all exuded black air.

Especially Yu Nishiya and Ryunosuke Tanaka, the two boys turned into evil dragons on the spot, almost spitting out embodied flames from their throats: "What are you talking about, bastard!?"

"System: By the way."

[System: The favorability of the strategy character "Terushima Yuer" is currently 81.7%.】

oh.

Bai Lu didn't feel much about it.

To be honest, she should thank this character named Yuji Terushima. When she ran to Tiaoshan Temple High School alone, the head coach was a little hesitant when she heard the girl's request to visit.

Just at this time, the captain of the volleyball team just came to the gymnasium for training, that is, the blond boy, walked in with his pockets in a sloppy manner, the silver tongue nail on his tongue revealed his evil spirit, with an indifferent expression on his faceHe suggested, "Coach, what's the matter?"

"I'm definitely more excited than usual to see such beautiful beauties in the audience."

So the head coach agreed, without even using the spray props.

This group of guys, as they said, trained harder than usual, which also made Bai Lu realize Tiaoshanji's cheerful style of play.

...

Tiao Shansi left, and Wu Ye, who stayed as the winner, naturally had to continue the game.

And the strike-up incident didn't just happen in Tiaoshan Temple.

On the afternoon of the second day of the Spring High Qualifiers, the smooth and comfortable mood lasted until the victory over He Kugunan, and everyone maintained a lingering mentality, waiting for the moment of shame——

Wu Ye vs Aoba Josai.

Everyone looked tense.

Including Bai Lu herself, it was rare for her to feel nervous about the game, because she found that not only Wu Ye had evolved to Level 5.

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

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

Accompanied by the prompt sound of the familiar character unlocking, the girl discovered that Aoba had newly joined a strange team member.

The other party's eyes were fierce, his cropped hair was dyed a flamboyant golden color, and his whole body exuded an aura of keeping strangers away. don't know if it was because of his joining...

It was also because Aoba led by Oikawa Toru had a better understanding, and their school was promoted to Level 5.

To use more accurate data, their level is at the end of Level 4, and they are only precariously hanging up to Level 5.

Still, it's unsettling.

...After all, the level is not absolute.

Of course, what everyone didn't know was that Wu Ye was secretly looking at Qingye City West, and Qingye City West was naturally also secretly looking at Wuye.

"Wu Ye's manager...is there more?"

Yajin Hideo gritted his teeth and stared in the opposite direction. Kunimi Hideo, who happened to be passing behind him, glanced over there, and replied uninterestedly, "Is that so."

To be honest, he only had a little impression of Wu Ye's super beautiful female manager, after all, it is impossible for anyone to forget her face that is difficult for humans to grow.

"Damn it, after the two beautiful types, there is another cute type!"

Yahaba Hide secretly hated his junior for not understanding his feelings, so he clenched the volleyball in his hand: "No... no, it should be a cold type, a cute type, and a beauty manager whose level is too high to be described by category."

"Today I'm going to challenge the highest level of difficulty, see you in the country—"

Guo Jianying: "..."?

The junior who "knew nothing" stood there in confusion, and saw that Hideo Yajin suddenly threw the volleyball at Bai Lu, and the yellow and blue ball rolled towards the girl with force.

After a few seconds, the ball came to a slow stop at her feet under the friction of the floor.

"Ahem! Sorry."

The expression on his face changed immediately, and the boy with brown chestnut hair who deliberately threw the ball over ran over embarrassedly, his tone full of innocence and apology: "I accidentally missed it, can I ask you to..."

"Little Lu, are you alright?"

His words were abruptly interrupted by Oikawa Toru.

That's right.

Unexpectedly, it was not Wu Ye's strict defense team members who ran over to intercept him, but his own captain who was handsome, tall and steady, with the aura of "handsome guy" written all over his body.

The brown-haired boy bent down and picked up the ball that rolled to Bai Lu's feet, his handsome face showed a refreshing expression, and then, his tone suddenly revealed a bit of grievance, as if thinking of something: "SagiSauce."

"Why didn't you reply to my Line messages last night?"

"I'm really looking forward to meeting you."

Bai Lu: "..."

"System: hee hee."

"System: It's like a question from a boyfriend."

Seeing a ball rolling towards her feet, and seeing Oikawa Toru who was on the other side suddenly flashing over and easily picking up the ball, the girl didn't know how to react for a while.

She went to bed very early last night, not to mention Oikawa Toru, and everyone sent messages without replying.

And IH had a private chat with this guy the night before, and Chungao had a private chat with this guy the day before, so it's easy to evoke PTSD.

Bai Lu doesn't want to think about any strategy anymore, and he doesn't want to follow suit before the game like last time.

"I went to bed early yesterday."

The girl showed a smiling expression without any disguise.

"Eh...is that so?" Oikawa Toru was stunned for a moment, "No wonder the message keeps showing as unread."

"But that's okay."

"After the game." The frivolity on his face subsided a bit: "I have something to say to Xiaolu."

Oikawa Toru was inexplicably more serious when he said the last sentence, and Bai Lu was clearly reflected in his brown eyes, but he soon returned to normal, smiled and waved to the girl, and ran back to Aoba's practice field.

By the way, he glanced at Yahaba and threw the ball over: "Xiaoya~your ball."

"The game is about to start, stay focused~"

Yahaba show: "..."

how so.

Silly standing on the opposite side, the person who sent the volleyball was greatly shocked, and caught the volleyball in embarrassment.

Doesn't the captain, who is a big carrot, show off every day that he has a group photo of a girl in his phone, and already has a girlfriend?

Speaking of which, on the screen of the mobile phone he held up at that time, what did the group photo look like in a flash... In his vague impression, he seemed to see long pear-yellow hair.

Different from Yahaba Hideo's contemplation, Kunimi Hideo, who was lazily standing by the side, spit out a few words: "Senior, you are really rotten... you are a fool."

Yahaba show: "..."

You just wanted to say bad guy.

The warm-up before the game is just a small episode.

Bai Lu and Gu Di Renhua left here soon, and the players from both sides entered the field. With the referee's loud whistle, the game officially started.

Then, win.

Yes.

Wu Ye vs. Aoba Josai won the game with a score of 2:1. Everyone was ashamed. At the last moment, they won the game with multiple simultaneous position difference attacks.

At the same time, multiple attacks from poor positions mean that everyone must firmly believe that the ball will be passed to them, and at the same time uphold this belief to run together, and Hinata Xiangyang who got the ball did not repeat the same mistakes.

At the last moment, in the face of a three-person block, it will never happen that the eyeball has already landed.

He aimed at the fingertip of one of them.

Even though Hinata Xiangyang's ball trajectory was temporarily predicted, Oikawa Toru was still a step late and did not catch the ball properly.

"call out"

The ball hits the ground and the game is over.

Karasuno wins in the semi-finals of the Haruka Miyagi qualifiers.

Watching Wu Ye's score jump from 25 to 26, the audience went from quiet to uproar, and applause spread throughout the spacious stadium.

The game in the afternoon is the last game, no matter whether you win or lose, you have to leave... The winner will enter tomorrow's finals, and the loser can only leave here.

After playing a full three rounds, plus the three rounds against Ku Gu Nan in the morning, all mental and physical strength was exhausted. Everyone in Wu Ye was excited, and their faces showed exhaustion.

But it was exhaustion rife with joy.

Of course Bai Lu is also happy.

Winning the semi-finals means that everyone has finally avenged their shame, that their hard work in the past few months has not been in vain, and that their efforts have been rewarded, and it also means... one step closer to going home.

As long as you win Shiratorizawa tomorrow, everything will be over.

At the same time, this is also the game she is most worried about.

"Heron!!"

What interrupted the girl's thoughts was the orange-headed boy running out of the volleyball arena waving his hands high. Behind him was the relaxed Wu Ye team.

After that, there is the west of Aoba City, which is covered with frustration and shadow.

"System: When I left the gymnasium, I saw Qingye's team but accidentally remembered the speech their captain wanted to say, and found that there was no other party in the team, what do you decide?"

A. Take the initiative to find him

B. Send him a message

C. Run to mock him

D. ignore, leave

"..."

Bai Lu followed the options and took a careful look at the team in the west of Qingye City.

I really didn't see Oikawa Toru.

According to the current development, she should choose D, ignoring these options for contacting the raider characters, so as to avoid falling into unbearable torture again.

But... this is the last time I will meet Oikawa Toru.

Regardless of whether it is a game or a strategy, taking a step back, even if Chun Gao really loses, Oikawa Toru, who is about to graduate from high school, will no longer be able to increase contact with her.

Of course, just thinking that Chungao would lose, Bai Lu couldn't continue to imagine.

"...So, where is that guy?"

"System: Let me see."

"System: Raider character No. 7 is in the toilet."

Is it.

"Sorry, Xiangyang, you go and change your clothes first."

Raising his hand and clicking A, Bai Lu said to his exhausted teammates, turned around and left: "I want to go to the bathroom."

Naturally, everyone did not object to this, since most of the arenas had already left, and there was no one near the toilets. When the girl found her destination, only the sound of footsteps could be heard in the empty corridor.

Oikawa Toru is not out yet.

Bai Lu simply leaned against the door, leaning against the wall with his hands behind his back, thinking about something.

Tomorrow's final... She didn't even dare to think about anything related to it, and she was able to swear to Tian Tongjue before.

When it came to the moment when everything was decided, she felt an unprecedented fear.

Even scarier than IH was back then.

"Little Heron?"

Suddenly, the door on the male side was pushed open at this moment.

Bai Lu turned his head when he heard the sound, and just happened to meet the tall boy with light brown hair. He Chuanche's expression was stunned, his handsome cheeks froze in place, and his red eyes widened a little.

Then... as if remembering something, he hurried back, hid behind the door on the man's side and closed it.

"...Senior Oikawa?"

Bai Lu straightened up, left the wall and walked over.

The boy's not-so-relaxed voice came from behind the toilet door. He seemed to have turned on the faucet, and the door was slightly distorted: "Wait, I don't see you right now."

"..."

The air fell into silence.

This guy won't be... crying, right?

Recalling the other party's red eyes just now, the girl stood outside the door a little uncertainly.

Fortunately, in the next second, Oikawa Toru pushed open the door and came out again. His handsome face was covered with water droplets, and the Liuhai/bangs on his forehead were dripping. It should have been wiped with water indiscriminately just now.

"Little Lu, do you remember what I said, so you came to me specially?"

The re-emerged boy had returned to his usual attitude, with a gentle smile on his lips, and said in a relaxed tone, "I'm so happy."

"……Um."

Bai Lu looked away from his face, her pretty cheeks didn't show any hypocrisy, she just said plainly: "I just want to say goodbye to you."

It was she who was sorry for him from beginning to end.

Whether it's 100% favorability or 99.99% now, Oikawa Toru, who was supposed to have a good time, shouldn't bear this.

"besides……"

"Your forced smile is a bit ugly, please don't laugh."

Oikawa Toru: "..."

The handsome boy's cheek suddenly choked.

The air fell silent again.

The teenager who was supposed to talk eloquently and spread his screen around like a peacock under normal circumstances didn't say anything cheerfully, nor did he pretend to cry because of Bai Lu's complaints, but just stood there quietly uncharacteristically.

After all, he just lost the game.

——The last game of the third year of high school.

Bai Lu didn't want to talk about the match with Oikawa. As the victor, comforting the loser was equivalent to a veiled demonstration. She didn't want to mock the other party, she just wanted to speak individually.

However, Oikawa Toru, who was standing opposite, did not evade. After a short silence, he pulled the corner of his mouth in the opposite direction, as if lamenting, and raised his palm to cover his face. The brown Liuhai/bangs were above the tall and handsome bridge of the nosePart casts a heavy shadow.

The always frivolous voice was full of depression and self-deprecation at this moment: "Really, I wanted to say goodbye to Xiao Lu in a handsome way."

...

say goodbye?

Before he had time to think about the meaning of Oikawa Toru's words, the next second, he was suddenly hugged at the back, and the young man's strong breath suddenly rushed into his nose.

His cheek was pressed against Oikawa Toru's chest, and when he came back to his senses, Bai Lu had already been embraced by the tall boy.

The shoulders are wrapped by the delicate palms with sharp knuckles, and the skin is pressed together through the fabric. This is a hug that is different from any teenager, even from the time when he reunited.

The strength is very light and cautious.

Like a superficial touch, he just gently hugged the soft and sweet girl in his arms, and put his head on the girl's shoulder.

It is quite different from his playful appearance.

"Little Heron."

"Let me hold you for a while, okay?"

The warm breath poured down, and Oikawa Toru's voice was softer than ever, and because it lowered the voice a little, it was full of a different kind of magnetism.

...

Bai Lu wanted to push away the opponent's arm and stagnated in the air.

She didn't speak.

He lowered his eyes and stared at his toes, and the handsome and tall boy with light brown hair didn't speak any more. He was so quiet that he didn't look like him, just maintaining a hug that was neither fierce nor mixed with any force.

There was a quiet atmosphere between the two of them, never as peaceful as it is at this moment.

After an unknown amount of time, Oikawa Toru slowly opened his mouth and said——

"After graduating from high school, I'm going to Argentina."

"This matter has not been told to Little Yan."

"..."

I see.

The so-called farewell, is that what you mean?

Bai Lu didn't know how to respond to him. Now that things had happened, she didn't know how she should feel now.

There is only a strong sense of powerlessness and a little powerlessness.

The encounter with Oikawa Toru was just a coincidence at the grandmother's house. The contact between the two of them was not much at all, and it has developed to the present... It just came from her despicableness at the beginning.

"I wanted to ask Xiao Lu if you had a boyfriend a long time ago, but now I have no chance."

Oikawa Toru was not surprised when he didn't wait for the girl's reply. He let go of the girl in his arms and dragged out his voice in frustration, his tone full of annoyance.

"Ahh—hateful."

The handsome and handsome boy still had his hands on Bai Lu's shoulders, and looked down at the girl with clear white pupils: "I like you, Xiaolu."

"I like it very much, I like it so much that I don't think about tea or food every day."

...

Oikawa Toru's confession was so unexpected.

The tone that is no longer playful has never been as serious as it is now.

As if wanting to express all his thoughts so far, he raised his palm with rough fingers, with extremely vivid emotions in his eyes, and held Bai Lu's cheek.

Finally, chirp.

He placed a light kiss on her forehead.

"So at least... I don't want to have any regrets in the end."

Oikawa Toru's voice is very clear in the quiet environment, but also very tenacious: "Even if I leave this country, I'm afraid I won't change my mind."

"This feeling must be conveyed to you before parting."

"Loading...Loading..."

[System: Dinglingling——It is detected that the favorability of the strategy character "Oikawa Toru" has reached 100%~~!】

"System: Congratulations on your successful capture of the third character. The current number of players required is 2."