Idk what the og author was thinking, but anyway I thought about skipping this chapter but nahh, it's short anyway.
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Chapter 54: So Here's Half a Chapter About What Happened During the Holidays
[Your underhand receives are imprecise! Your overhand sets are powerless! Your spike body positioning is completely obvious!]
[Aside from relying on your core muscle talent, you're completely useless.]
[Even your strongest cross-court spike was completely shut down by me.]
[Your technique is completely at middle school level. If you're only playing volleyball for the coolness of spiking,]
[Then I suggest you don't bother going to your school's volleyball team. You'll just cause trouble for those who are working hard at the game.]
"Damn it!"
Throwing off his blanket, Kyotani Kentaro's fierce eyes gradually became confused.
'Damn bastard.'
Although his eyes still carried some confusion, his expression remained as always - fierce, as if everyone owed him millions of yen.
He casually grabbed the leftover fried chicken from his nightstand that he'd eaten the night before, and without even brushing his teeth, tore it apart with his hands, wolfed it down in a few bites, then tossed it in the trash.
Only then did he yawn and head to the bathroom to wash up.
With his parents far away in another city, and his grandparents having returned to the countryside after he became capable of taking care of himself, Kyotani Kentaro was currently living alone.
Remembering the holidays, when he was unwilling to train at Aoba Johsai's gymnasium with the third-years, he could only run to some public county gymnasiums to train by himself or play pickup games with random people.
That day, because both Hinata Shoyo and Hyakuzawa Yudai had family matters to attend to, and among the three underclassmen, Kawashima's family was moving to a new house and had asked the other two from his grade to help.
When Hoshino Masaru saw that no one else was coming, he figured he'd take a day off too.
This left only a lonely Ichise Guren practicing by himself at his family gymnasium all morning. The sudden change from a lively atmosphere to solitary training made Ichise Guren somewhat uncomfortable.
So he found a gymnasium with people in it, wanting to play some pickup volleyball. And as luck would have it, the gymnasium where Kyotani Kentaro regularly trained was exactly the one Ichise Guren went to.
The two played against each other. Although Kyotani Kentaro's exceptional core talent allowed him to unleash amazing power in the air and change his spike trajectory mid-flight, without the solid team training that comes with being on a high school team, his technical refinement was streets behind Ichise Guren's.
To realize the idea in Ichise Guren's mind, his trash talk was focused relentlessly on Kyotani Kentaro, combined with core strength that was just as good and even better jumping ability.
This directly infuriated Kyotani Kentaro, but faced with someone who suppressed him through sheer skill, he wouldn't make any threats. After all, Ichise Guren's trash talk level clearly seemed much more advanced than his own.
Kyotani Kentaro, dressed in casual clothes, prepared to go to school with only one thought in his mind:
[Even if I have to be mocked by the third-years, I'll stay on the team and polish my technique better!]
[Next time I see that bastard, I'll get my revenge big time!]
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