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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

November was about to end, and the 'real' winter tournament was about to begin. What did it mean by the 'real' tournament?

Well, the tournament in Tokyo Prefecture itself had about 150 schools as participants, and there was no way all of them were good enough to compete at the highest level. Most of them were just a bunch of hobby clubs that didn't even have a professional coach and wanted to join the fun and try their luck here. While sometimes miracles could happen here and there, the probability was too small for those small teams to cause a wave.

That was why people always said that the first three rounds of the tournament were there to weed the cannon fodders, the ultimate punching bag of the tournament. Now that it had already entered the fourth round, while there still might be one or two weak teams there, at least all the top 32 teams there were serious enough to aim for a higher place.

Spying on Potential Next Opponent