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2011. That was when earthquake and tsunami hit Japan, changing thousands of lives. 

And Kobayashi Yuki is just one of them.

A month ago, he was just a normal boy, graduating from a small middle school in Fukushima and was excited to go to the high school. However, the disaster changed his life. He lost both parents, not because they died, but because they were still missing until now. 

He lost his home. He lost his friends. He lost his school. He lost everything.

Having no choice, he moved to Tokyo, to a small, new orphanage to accommodate victims of the disaster who didn't have any home or wanted to change their lives in the biggest city in Japan. In his mind, all he wanted to do was enter a normal high school, do a part-time job, make some money to help the orphanage, and maybe if he were lucky enough he could be admitted into a good university with a scholarship.

However, one challenge from the volleyball team and one half-Italian blonde boy turned everything upside down. Now, he was trapped inside the crazy team, being dragged into the mess.

Inter-High.

National Tournament.

Volleyball.

Those three words kept spinning around his life as he entered a crazy high school life. Can he strive in the place where he was unfamiliar with? Would he be a good volleyball player? And what does the future hold for him?

The Birth of A Volleyball Legend

It turned out that assembling a professional telescope was not something that was easy to do. Even after watching the demonstration from a close distance and reading the manual instruction given by the staff, Yuki couldn't still grasp the concept of it. Fortunately, he was in the same group as an astronomy nerd and a boy with a professional astronomer as a mother who had been there since the camp was established.

"Let's begin with the base," Kato said. "That's the part that will hold everything steady."

They laid out all the pieces on a big table. The base was the heaviest part and needed to be assembled first. Kato showed Yuki how to connect the different sections using screws and bolts, explaining, "Always make sure the base is stable. If it wobbles, your telescope will shake when you try to look through it."

Astronomy Camp with Kato (V)