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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

Michael Wang had his mouth gaped wide when he saw the ball flying right above him slowly and mockingly. Even though he saw Riku's dump set a few times during the first set, he didn't expect that the opponent's setter would pull out this kind of stunt in such a clutch moment like this. Clearly, he didn't know anything about Riku Agostini.

Still, even though he knew he was too late and the ball would fall faster to the floor before he could even react, that didn't mean he would just give up like that. With sheer determination and pure instinct, he raised his left foot backward, extending it far till he felt a tingling pain on the back of his knee. His effort was rewarded as he felt the ball hit the back of his left foot, and with a little twist, he managed to let the ball live, flying straight in Ishida's direction.

'It goes to Ishida? Lucky me!'

Anticlimax Ending (II)