The Newbie ~ Tsukishima Kei

Chapter 14 ~ The Ace of Karasuno

Signature Sentence: "I still want to spike."

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"Rolling Thunder!" Nishinoya exclaimed as he did a simple rolling receive. Nishinoya's receive managed to make the ball get into the basket.

"Nice receive." Sugawara said, not trying to be blunt. Tanaka, however, "That's just an ordinary rolling receive!" He laughed out loud.

Tsukki chuckled, Yamaguchi laughed, and Tanaka laughed like a maniac. I couldn't help but chuckle into my palm. "Why did he yell that out?" Kageyama asked. "What was that?" Tsukishima asked, followed by a laugh.

"Kageyama, Koisumi, Tsukishima, Yamaguchi. I'm going to lecture you all." Nishinoya said rather angrily.

"Crouch down. I mean, sit down. Get lower than my line of vision."

"Gomen, Nishinoya senpai." I laughed like Tanaka had. "You don't sound genuine!"

Hinata however, treated it like god's work. "Teach me! Teach me the Rolling Thunder!"

"Good Job everyone! I want you all to listen up."

I turned to Takeda sensei, who was at the entrance of the gym. What does he have for us today?

We paid attention as Takeda sensei made his way to the center of court and began to talk, "We're doing it again this year, aren't we? Golden week training camp!"

Oh, training camp.

It's quite awkward for me in training camps. You know, we have to shower together? I usually change in and out of my clothes inside the shower space with the bath curtains. I have to wear a binder to sleep, too. However, I don't care.

"Yes, we still need a lot of practice." Daichi said.

"One more thing, for the last day of Golden Week... I've arranged a practice match!" Takeda exclaimed, fist-bumping the air.

"Awesome! Very impressive, Take chan." Tanaka exclaimed.

Is it rare for non-powerhouse schools to not get any practice match requests? Well, my middle school was a powerhouse school.

"Who's our opponent?" Sugawara asked.

"A venerated school in Tokyo, Nekoma High School." Yay! I'll get to see my ex-boyfriend!

Inuoka So. Despite being my boyfriend, I did not tell him I was a girl. Because I was in love! And he was gay... One of my teammates in the Baseball team introduced me to him during the third year of middle school. So and I only broke off because we were going to different High Schools. We don't hold a grudge against each other.

My first impression of So was that he was cute. I fell in love with him instantly. Damn I miss my adorable boyfriend.

Anyway, I tried to hold in my excitement.

"They call themselves... Neko." Neko-ma. (Neko = Cat)

"Neko?" Hinata asked. Tanaka looked down at Hinata and said, "We've heard a lot about them. Our former coach and them theirs are rivals. We played each other a lot."

"Woah." Hinata said.

"That's right." Sugawara said. "Those famous matches were called "Cat vs Raven: Battle at the Garbage Dump."." But I thought we were crows?

"Are you sure they were famous?" Tsukishima asked as his salty self.

"They've refused for a while. Why now?" Daichi asked. "Yeah. I'll tell you the details later. But after I heard about that rival school, I had to arrange for a battle of destiny. I think when he hears who our opponent is, he'll want to take action." Who's this he?