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"If they want to study me, they can do it anytime."
"I don't mind."
Hank said it indifferently. He did not care if everyone at Karasuno used their training sessions with him to analyze him. After all, he had the King of Volleyball System, and he was basically changing day by day. As long as he went through a few proper matches, he would grow into an even stronger player.
There was simply no way for them to completely figure out his attack patterns.
Trying to study how to shut him down would be nothing more than a waste of time.
"Hank."
Oikawa still wanted to keep persuading Hank, but Coach Irihata stopped him at his side. He believed Hank definitely had his own judgment. Besides, there was only one month left anyway. It would not have much of an effect on whether they could secure a ticket to Spring High.
To put it another way, while they were studying Hank, Hank could also study them.
It went both ways.
"All right, Hank. I'll get your school entry paperwork taken care of very soon."
"When the time comes, you can just come straight to the Karasuno club."
When Takeda heard that Hank was willing to come, the expression on his face instantly relaxed a lot. As long as he could bring over even one person, that was enough. If they could understand Hank even a little better, it might become Karasuno's chance to break through in the future.
"..."
As Kiyoko looked at Hank's half-bare upper body, her heart could not help trembling slightly. She felt like she could guess why he had agreed so readily.
Maybe it was because he had absolute confidence in his own strength.
Even if he openly allowed others to study him, they still would not be able to catch up to him.
A person like that would be able to reach the top no matter what profession he chose, even if he were not a volleyball player.
He was simply outstanding among outstanding people.
"In that case, Hank can go train with Karasuno every week."
Coach Irihata nodded. He did not have much intention of stopping Hank from going to Karasuno's club. After all, Hank's greatest reliance was not his technique, but his raw physical talent. If Karasuno wanted to study him...
Then they would first have to find someone with physical gifts close to Hank's before they could truly stop him.
But for Miyagi Prefecture to produce even one Hank already counted as extremely fortunate.
Trying to produce another one...
That would be harder than climbing to the sky.
It could even be said that Hank was a genius Miyagi saw only once in a hundred years. Being able to run into a player like him was truly a stroke of luck.
"My technique still isn't that strong right now. I still need to keep working on it."
"Other than serving, blocking, and spiking, I'm completely clueless when it comes to passing and ball control. If an opposing wing spiker hits into my hands, I can't stop it at all."
"Next, I'll strengthen those two areas of training."
After watching Kiyoko and Takeda leave the practice court, Hank also set a plan for himself. In the coming month, he had to seize the time and improve his passing and ball-control skills as quickly as possible.
And if he wanted to improve those two things, then he had to train his feel for the ball day and night. In other words, he had to practice like mad. Other than that, there was no other way to do it.
As long as he kept training constantly, the overall level of every part of his game would also improve by quite a bit.
It counted as a positive cycle.
"See you, Hank!"
After Oikawa and Iwaizumi went home, Hank was left alone on the court. He still was not planning to leave today. He wanted to keep training his ball control and passing.
Before the tournament began, he wanted to bring himself into the best possible condition.
...
Very soon, after Aoba Johsai had gone through several days of training, Hank also received an invitation from Karasuno. Takeda had already finished arranging Hank's permission to enter Karasuno, and each time he had Kiyoko come bring him into the school.
That way, he could go straight past the front gate without having to report himself again.
It saved him quite a bit of trouble.
"I still really need to thank you for being willing to train with our club."
Kiyoko and Hank walked shoulder to shoulder on the way to Karasuno's club, and she could not help speaking up.
As her words fell, a faint blush that was hard to notice appeared on her cheeks.
"No need to thank me. Training with different teams lets me gain quite a lot too."
"Besides, it's only a few hours each week, so it's not troublesome."
Hank casually responded to Kiyoko as the two of them exchanged a few words now and then. Very quickly, they had already walked into Karasuno's club. At that moment, Hinata and Kageyama were still practicing attacks at the net, and there was now one more short figure inside the club.
That person was, naturally, Nishinoya, the one known as Karasuno's Guardian Deity.
The moment he saw Kiyoko return, he had originally wanted to rush over together with Tanaka...
But then he saw Hank standing beside her. Anyone could tell that Kiyoko seemed a little awkward and shy when she was next to Hank. When that scene fell into the eyes of the two of them, two blazing flames instantly ignited in their gazes.
(End of Chapter)
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