Just as there was no doubt that he was the strongest setter, he had no doubts about his own contribution to the entire match.
—This belonged to him all along.
Coach Utsunomiya, watching from the sidelines, clapped his hands: "The younger generation is truly remarkable."
Among all the MVPs throughout history, the ratio of Spikers and Liberos exceeds ninety percent, making it extremely difficult to win this award from the Setter position.
But Miya Atsumu truly succeeded in making everyone submit to him, because in every single point belonging to the champions.. his hard work was poured into it.
No, it should be said that every step of Inarizaki's path to victory was paved by him as the foundation, setting the stage for the Spikers.
The chairman looked at Miya Atsumu with a smile. "A beautiful match, with offensive coordination worthy of a textbook. Miya-senshu, we look forward to seeing the day you shine brightly on the international stage."
Atsumu nodded heavily. "I will."
He will not just be the strongest in high school; in the future, he will become the strongest in the entire country, even.. the strongest in the world.
His ambition has only just begun to show.
[Best Wing Spiker, Inarizaki High School, Owari Aran.]
【Shinzan Girls' High School, Asai Weka.】
With no specific awards currently designated for the opposite position, the evaluation of a wing spiker considers not only scoring ability, but also a series of comprehensive metrics, such as the number of successful defensive plays and assists.
And Aran's average number of successful defensive plays is extremely high, not to mention that as the Ace, his scoring is the highest on the team most of the time.
[Best Middle Blocker, Fukuda General High School, Shimizu Kanata.]
【Shinzan Girls' High School..】
Miya Atsumu glared at Suna beside him. "Coach said you were only a fraction of a point short. If you had worked just a little harder to block Sakusa a few more times when you were playing against Itachiyama yesterday, you would have had it."
The weight of block points in evaluating the Middle Blocker position is higher than that of attack points, among them, Kiyoko's blocking level is truly in a league of its own.
However, before this, Agatsuma Soushi actually had the best data, but in the semifinals, he was held up by Hinata Shoyo for three sets and barely participated in the overall blocking, causing this data to instantly drop to the bottom of the first tier.
Suna ignored him.
[The Best Setter, Inarizaki High School, Miya Atsumu.]
[Kinranin High School..]
As he circled around from behind, Miya Atsumu stuffed the MVP certificate and his personal crystal trophy into Hinata's hands: "Hold these for me."
Watching Miya Atsumu's back, Hinata quietly hugged the trophy tight.
Anyway, rounding it off, this trophy is at least one-tenth due to his efforts, so it's.. fine if he holds onto it for a little while, right?
Hinata hugged him even tighter, feeling completely justified.
Akagi found it funny: "It's okay, you'll have one too in the future."
—The best player that belongs to Hinata himself.
Hinata nodded: "Yeah!"
The Best Libero award went to Akagi Michinari, while other minor awards, such as Best Server, were also handed out to the Inarizaki side.
With the final closing remarks from the representative, the entire National Sports Festival came to a complete end.
And the most important thing tonight..
Squatting in front of the door to the room at Itachiyama once again, Hinata Shoyo was trembling.
He's doomed.
He is completely finished.
Help—Atsumu-senpai, save me—
I can't take it anymore, help me—
Listening to Hinata's wailing, Kumagai Kuniharu pressed his hands together again at the entrance, beside the "corpses" of the second-year students.
Miya Atsumu couldn't save Hinata, because Miya Atsumu was also finished.
Miya Osamu sneered, "Too weak."
Miya Atsumu struggled to raise his hand: "Teacher Mikail, there's still—"
Osamu pressed Atsumu's head into the floor with one hand: "Shut up! I'm going to rest now, I don't need a massage."
Coach Kurosu sat to the side with a chuckle, ignoring the wailing echoing through the entire corridor: "All of you behave. There's only about half a month left until the Haruko preliminaries. If you don't rest properly, are you waiting for Municipal Kobe to take the championship?"
The twins stopped fooling around.
At this moment, Kita Shinsuke looked at Coach Kurosu: "Should I contact the people in charge of the accommodations now? Let's have Atsumu and Rintaro stay together."
Miya Osamu's flu won't get better anytime soon; he might even continue to have a fever tomorrow.
First, there was the issue of potential contagion, second, his family wouldn't be able to spare anyone to look after Miya Atsumu; if Miya Atsumu threw a tantrum and caused more trouble, it wouldn't be good.
Suna Rintaro suddenly sat up: "Is it really going to be like this?"
He wanted to protect his own wonderful life in a single dormitory, he didn't want to live with Miya Atsumu.
When the coach looked over, Aran waved his hands repeatedly. "I don't have any space for him to live at my house."
Help, after school it's straight into吐槽 break time. He really doesn't want to be on吐槽 duty twenty-four hours a day!
Kita Shinsuke said regretfully, "My place is a bit far."
He didn't have much confidence in waking Miya Atsumu, it wouldn't be good if he were late.
Aran looked over suddenly.
No, no, no, there's no way Kita could fail to wake up Miya Atsumu!
This person definitely refused because he wanted to prevent Atsumu from causing trouble for his grandmother!
Everyone looked at the first-year students.
The first-year members shrank themselves down, trying to escape the horror story of Miya Atsumu potentially moving in.
Finally, Rishia raised his hand tremblingly: "Hinata's room is very large! There's absolutely no problem with two people sleeping there!"
Miya Atsumu expressed that he agreed with this.
Having just snapped out of the daze caused by Coach Mikail's throw, Hinata heard Kita ask something.
He subconsciously replied, "Okay, sure, no problem."
Suna and Ginjima high-fived, while Kumagai and Unabara looked like they had just narrowly escaped a disaster.
This time Miya Atsumu didn't protest; instead, he looked toward Rishia: "Do we need to bring our own blankets? How far is it from the school? Does the Hinata household need us to keep quiet?"
Will I scare Hinata's sister? Should I bring some gifts?
Watching Miya Atsumu's eager, cheap-looking attitude, Miya Osamu felt like he couldn't bear to look.
Rishia fell to his knees, stunned by the barrage of questions.
Don't ask him! He's just Hinata's neighbor, not Hinata's mom!
Hinata lay flat on the ground, his soul having already left his body.
The door opposite them slowly slid open again, an eye with bloodshot veins and dark circles looked over: "It's already eleven-thirty.."
The Inarizaki members went quiet.
Sakusa slammed the door shut, looking exhausted and ready to sleep.
The Inarizaki members should be grateful that only the Itachiyama members were on this floor at the moment, that the hotel's soundproofing was quite good.
If he hadn't been right by the door, he wouldn't have been woken up by the noise.
No, just now.. weren't the Inarizaki coach and the captain both there..
Was his action of closing the door a bit too forceful..
After standing at the entrance and thinking for five seconds, Sakusa decided to go back to sleep.
After a long while, a howl rang out from outside the door again: "You bastard Osamu! Why did you hit me!"
Stay away from me! Your germs are going to infect me!
Sakusa sat up again, cursing Miya Atsumu eighteen thousand times in his heart.
Komori, on the inner bed, was about to roll onto the floor, left to endure the painful clamor all by himself.
It's one thing not to get a single award, but why won't they let him sleep?
Wait for Haruko, he will definitely get his revenge.
Chapter 126: The One Hundred and Twenty-Sixth Fox
There was still some distance between the National Sports Festival venue and Amagasaki, so after finishing the morning interviews and group photos, the Inarizaki members immediately boarded the bus they had arrived in to head back.
Even though everyone was still on break, they still needed to return to school to settle their personal belongings.
The members of the Brass Band have not yet returned, as the baseball matches have not yet concluded, but the second-string players who did not travel with the team had already returned to the school the previous evening.
The moment he stepped off the bus, Hinata immediately spotted the brand-new, massive banner hanging on the school building.
[Congratulations to our school's men's volleyball team for winning the championship at the National Sports Festival!]
Listening to the cheers coming from the school building windows, Aran expressed his shock: "This speed is a bit ridiculous, isn't it?"
The championship was won yesterday, the banner was hung up today.
Kita smiled slightly. "Actually, the principal had prepared it long ago."
On the other side, Miya Atsumu had already found his rhythm, smiling as he greeted the classmates who were leaning out of the windows to cheer.
Miya Osamu, who still had a bit of a fever, had no energy and only wanted to finish packing up quickly so he could go home and sleep.
Seeing that Miya Osamu was being uncooperative, Miya Atsumu reached out and grabbed the recently awakened Hinata Shoyo, pulling him over: "Come, say hello together."
When they saw Hinata coming over, the first to erupt were the students from their own class: "So cool! Hinata! Remember to give me an autograph when you get back the day after tomorrow!!"
The person who shouted the loudest was the one who had previously asked Hinata to help get Miya Atsumu's autograph.
He has now decided to invest in Hinata again; having watched the National Sports Festival matches, he has already seen Hinata's brilliant future.