Ball Games Tournament ②
“Class 2’s victory with 3-0!”
“”Thank you very much!1“”
Because Renya scored an additional two points after that, our class managed to safely win our first qualifier match.
“Kazunari, nice work!!”
“Renya too, nice work. It sure is amazing that you got a hat trick huh”
“Well, despite how it looks, I’m the guy who was the soccer club’s ace after all”
Confidence was brimming from those words. It makes me admire him a little that he can say it so bluntly.
“Both of you, nice work!”
“Nice work”
“Ou, thanks!”
“Likewise, thank you for rooting for us. Yae, Nishikida-san”
The two of them greeted us who came back to the cheering seats. Yae handed a towel to me, so let’s wipe my sweat off.
“Next is the girl’s dodgeball at the gymnasium huh. Please do your best, both of you”
“Un, thanks!”
“I’ll do my best”
That’s right, it is their turn after this. Let’s give our best to root for them this time around since we had them root for us just now.
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“Heyy, Kazunari. Have you heard from Nakamatsu-san what the secret plan is?”
“Nope, nothing at all. She said to look forward to it on the very day and would not tell me”
“You too huh. I asked the Committee Chairperson as well, but she gave me the slip”
That’s right, it seems they have a secret plan for the dodgeball, but I wonder what it is. It is prohibited in the rule to deliberately throw it diagonally and get it out of bounds. I wonder if everybody will sync up their movements or something?
Nevertheless, it looks like Renya is getting along quite well with Nishikida-san. It is a given since they are childhood friends in the first place, but it seems they are no longer nervous around each other recently.
“We will know it very soon as well, won’t we. Let’s do our best to root for them while looking forward to their secret plan”
“True enough. Do your best, class twoー!!”
First comes the jump ball. That being said, the tall Nishikida-san who was in the volleyball club naturally won this. It starts with our ball.
Now then, the ball that fell with the jump ball heads towards where Yae is. Yae who picked up the ball throws that ball up high
“Hah!”
and Nishikida-san spikes that ball towards the opponent. Perhaps the opponent was also surprised by that unexpected attack, they didn’t manage to catch it and was sent out. The ones who took the lead are Yae and the others, but this is……
“Isn’t that volleyball!”
Renya’s retort bursts out beside me. That’s right, what Yae and Nishkida-san did was no different from volleyball.
“Hey, Kazunari. It that alright rules-wise?”
“It is……alright. They did not cross the line, and it is not written anywhere in the rules that they have to throw and hit their opponent. Kicking the ball is prohibited, but spiking it is alright”
That’s right, it is an attack that one would imagine is against the rule, but it is not against the rule. An attack that brilliantly poked at the loophole of the rules huh.
In the end, the opponent was done in helplessly in the face of this attack. It is the victory of Yae and the others, but we were honestly more surprised than we were happy.
