As for the beginner girls, they more or less scored goals at a 50:50 rate.
It was Yuu's turn. Holding the ball firmly in front of him with both hands, he shot it by pushing it out with his fingertips, making use of the spring of his body all the while.
Unfortunately, however, the first shot missed, hitting the corner of the square frame.
「Ah!」
「That was close!」
For some reason, not only the seniors but also the first-year girls, or rather, even those at the other side of the court, and for some reason, even the members of the volleyball club beyond the dividing net, were passionately watching over Yuu.
Crap. It sure is making me nervous.
Since his rebirth, he had had more opportunities to be gawked at by women, such as at the library the other day and at the entrance ceremony.
However, it was quite hard to get used to being showered with passionate gazes from girls with every movement he made like this.
This time, for sure…, with such a thought in mind, he threw another shot.
The ball, which was shot straight ahead, drew a beautiful parable, hit the black frame and rattled the net.
In an instant, high-pitched cheers filled the gymnasium.
「You did it!」
「Nice shooooooot!」
「The way you shoot is so great that I feel like I'm going to fall for you!」
「Nice! Hirose.」
「「Yay!」」
As Shiina-senpai came up to him from the side with a smile, they exchanged high-fives.
And then, the seniors, who were vying with one another, and even the first-year girls also came over and exchanged high fives with him, no exception.
Without hiding the envious look on their faces, the club members on the other side of the court stared at the seniors as well as the first-year girls who were surrounding Yuu merrily.
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「Now that you've gotten the hang of it, how about we split up and play a mini-game?」
「Nice idea.」
「Yeah! Let's play a game!」
While they were practicing to pass the ball around and shoot alternately, one of the seniors called out to them.
When she did so, the tall black senior was on board with the idea, a nice smile on her face.
「But, we and you senpais are on a completely different level.」
「It's okay. There just happen to be four first-years, right? So you'll split into groups of two, and three of us seniors will join each group. And then, we'll use only half of the court, and the rule will be that only first-years can shoot.」
「I see.」
The first-years and seniors were divided into groups of five through rock-paper-scissors.
「I'm Hiyama Youko from class 5. Nice to meet you!」
「Yeah. I'm Yu Hirose. Nice to meet you.」
「Fufufu. I already knew it.」
The first-year girl who was on the same team with Yuu greeted him.
She was a little taller than Yuu and had a short bob. Although she had a bashful expression on her face, she was a cute girl.
It was unknown if they had come prepared, expecting that it would turn out like this, but the first-years had already changed into their gym uniforms.
Her bare feet, which were stretched out from her rouge bloomers, were dazzling.
Yuu was happy to be able to immediately make a new acquaintance in the same grade.
The team Yuu was joining had Shiina and the bright black senior from earlier, making them look very strong.
A senpai who ended up being left out after losing in the rock-paper-scissors blew the whistle to start the game.
Since they used only half of the court, the game started at the center line. The winner would be the team that scored 10 points first or the team with the most points in 10 minutes.
For a while, the pattern where the seniors passed the ball around and then fought for it when it was passed to a first year near the goal continued on.
When the ball was passed to Yuu, for some reason, the opposing team was merrily coming at him to snatch it.
Leaving fellow first-years aside, there was no way he could stand a chance against the seniors.
In particular, the other team had a 190-centimeter tall blonde-haired, blue-eyed player who would put up a screen against him. She was like a wall.
「Fufufu, come on boy?」
「Mmm.」
Planning to pass to his teammate, he immediately looked to his left and right, but unfortunately, they were all marked.
I have to break through here.
Thinking so, Yuu continued to dribble.
Perhaps holding back because the other party was a first-year boy, the white senior did not charge at him strongly, but it didn't look like she would allow him to get past her easily either.
He feinted once and almost managed to get past her, but she punctually reacted to it. Not only were her hands long, so were her legs.
「I'm free over here! Pass, pass!」
「No need to push yourself!」
There were voices of his teammates calling out to him, but Yuu tried to concentrate on the duel in front of him.
Suddenly, a thought occurred to him. I'm just an amateur and this isn't a match, so I guess it's fine even if I don't go with a frontal attack.
Yuu leaned in closer to her from the front.
「Huh?」
As opposed to snatching the ball, the white senior wound up being dumbfounded by his sudden action.
「Senpai, you are so beautiful! I think I'm going to fall for you!」
「Ah….」
Making use of the opening when she was frozen in place, he got past her through the right side.
When Yuu passed the ball to Youko, who was under the goal, she scored a splendid goal.
As they each returned to their original positions, he was lightly tapped on the shoulder with a pomf by the senior from earlier.
「You mustn't say something like that, even as a joke. Since I'll end up taking it seriously.」
Yuu turned and looked at her carefully.
「I wasn't joking, you know? Those words came from the bottom of my heart.」
As expected, it was embarrassing, so he immediately moved away from her as soon as he said so.
「Oh…」
The white senior wound up being frozen in place right then and there, opening her blue eyes wide and covering her mouth with both hands.
Her cheeks were slightly tinged red.
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