Haikyuu!! 6

[p001]

Crowd: Kita-ichi!!
Crowd: Kita-ichi!!
Crowd: Kita-ichi!!
Box: A junior high sports tournament---

(right, star) Everyone's talking about it!! The hot-blooded volleyball story!!
(right)
Haikyuu!!
Furudate Haruichi
Chapter 6: A Story From Junior High
Box: ---The final game of the prefecture semifinals.

Box: ...shit!
Box: Their blockers are tall... I have to get free of them somehow...
Box: With an even quicker attack...
Box: so the blockers can't get there in time...

Tobio: Faster!!

Player: Tch...

Box: Faster,
Box: quicker...

[p002]

Ryunosuke: Soooo
Ryunosuke: RYAAAAA!!!

Crowd: Oooh.
Crowd: It went right past that huge 1st year!

(Shou): He's got even more amazing power than usual!!
Crowd: Tanaka, shut up!
Crowd: You're celebrating way too much!
(above Ryu) ALRIIIIIIIIIIIGHT!!
Crowd: There's still 1 point to go, y'know!
Crowd: Oi, don't strip!!
(sfx across the crowd) Boo! Boo!

Daichi: It was probably a bad idea to get Tanaka riled up...
(right) ORYAAAA!!
Crowd: Shut uuup!!
Kei: Tch.

???: Front, in front.

[p003]

(Shou): Tanaka-san is amazing too, but... I'm...!
(above Ryu) Free ball!!
(Shou): I'm also...!

Tobio: Hinata!!

sfx bubble: Whoosh
(Shou): He tossed it!!
Shou: Yeah!

(Shou): This one shot should commemorate our high school match!!

(scoreboard, right side, top) Tsukishima, Yamaguchi
(scoreboard, left side, top) Kageyama, Hinata

(Shou): This'll decide it!!!

[p004]

(Shou) ...even here.

(Shou) There's another...

(Shou) high, high wall.

[p005]

Kei: It surprised me yesterday too, but you can really jump!
Kei: Now, if you were only a whooooole 30 cm. taller, you'd probably be a real superstar.

(Shou): Even if the opponent is huge, he's only one person...
(Shou): I'll get it through next time!
Shou: O...
Shou: One more!!

Crowd: Ah...
Crowd: Ara~...

???: Blocked again...
sfx bubble: Thump

???: How many does that make?
???: Tanaka would definitely be able to get it through, though.
Shou: Dammit...

(Tobio): This guy... is better than I'd thought he would be...
Kei: C'mon, I'm just going to keep blocking it, y'know?

Kei: You should go ahead and use "the king's toss". The sort that leaves blockers in its wake!
Kei: Just like the time you did the same to your spiker~
ついでにスパイカーも置き去りにしちゃうヤツね

[p006]

(sfx) Tweeeet
Daichi: Yamaguchi, nice serve.
Tobio: ...shut up already.

(Yama): ! Crap...
Kei: Tch.
Yama: S-sorry, Tsukki!
(right of Daichi) No biggie!

Tobio: ...even if I can't attack with speed,

Tobio: I'll still win.

Shou: Give'im your killer serve!

(Koushi): Kageyama's jump serve, huh... it's pretty strong...

(Tobio): I'll score the deciding point...!
Shou: Goooo!

[p007]

Shou: Yeek!

(Tobio): Go!

[p008]

Kei: Yamaguchi.
Tama: Leave it to me, Tsukki!
Shou: Guh.

Tobio: Dammit...
Ryunosuke: ...Daichi-san's weapon isn't so much attacking as it is that steady receive...
Ryunosuke: His defensive ability is absolutely perfect.

Daichi: ...did you think you score a few points with that?

Daichi: ...even without excelling in ability,
Daichi: I have
Daichi: engrained this receive into my body two years longer than you.

Daichi: Don't think you'll be able to break through that easily.

Kei: C'mon, your highness!
Kei: Shouldn't you start getting serious soon?
Shou: Grr?!

[p009]

Shou: What the heck's with you! You've been at this since yesterday!!
Shou: What the hell's a king's toss!!!

Kei: Do you
Kei: know why this guy is called "the king"?

Shou: ? Isn't it 'cause he's kinda really good...
Shou: and guys from other schools are all scared of him?
(right side of Kei's bubble) Haha
Kei: I think there are definitely guys who feel that way too, though.

Kei: ...rumor says that the nickname "the king of the court"
Kei: was given to him by the guys in Kitagawa Daichi.
Kei: The "king's" teammates, in other words.
Kei: It means

Kei: A selfish, egotistical king.
Kei: A tyrannical dictator.

Kei: That's just a rumor I heard once, but
Kei: watching that game, I was in full agreement.

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Kei: He took oppressiveness to such an extreme
Kei: in that decisive match
Kei: that he was forcefully benched.

(center) "Faster!!"

Player: Kuh.

Player: Quit messing around!!
Player: Your tosses are completely unreasonable!!
Player: There's no point in it if I can't hit the ball!!

(Tobio): But if we don't break free of these blockers, we won't be able to win!
(Tobio): Is this the end?
(Tobio): Are we going to lose?!

(Tobio): ...absolutely not!! I'm going to go to the nationals!!

[p011]

Tobio: Move faster!!
Tobio: Jump higher!!
Tobio: Match the speed and height of my tosses!!
Tobio: If you want to win, then do it!!

(sfx) Hah

Box: --And then,
Box: The first set.
Box: The opponents' set point.
Box: I tossed the ball up behind me

Box: And no one was there.

Box: I don't know how many missed combos there were that day,
Box: but the first one wasn't a "miss".

[p012]

Box: It was a rejection.
Box: "We won't follow you anymore."
Box: With that one ball, that is what they were saying to me.

Coach: ---Kageyama.

Coach: Go
Coach: sit on the bench already.

Kei: And you can't use that quick strike anymore
Kei: because that decisive match left you scared, right?

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Ryunosuke: ...you've been mouthing off for a while now, you bastard.
???: Tanaka.

Tobio: ...yeah.
Tobio: That's right.
Tobio: Tossing the ball up only for no one to be there behind me

Tobio: Frightens me down to my very soul.

???: Eh?
???: But that's just a story about junior high, isn't it?

[p014]

Shou: Since you toss the ball to me properly and all,
Shou: That stuff doesn't really matter to me.

Shou: The only problem is how we're gonna knock you down!

Ryunosuke: Pffft
Daichi: Haha

Shou: We're gonna win against Tsukishima and start club activities for real,
Shou: and you'll be a setter, fair and square!
Shou: So then you can toss to me!
Shou: Is there anything else to it?!

Kei: ---That sort of...
Kei: "genuine, straight-forward" emotion truly
Kei: irritates me.
Shou: Mu?!

[p015]

Kei: You can't fill the gap in height with fighting spirit.
Kei: If you think you'll get by on effort alone, you are gravely mistaken.

???: Free ball!
Tobio: Tanaka-san!
Ryunosuke: Leave it to me!

(below Ryunosuke) Right here!!
Ryu/Shou: Toss it to me!!
(above Shou) Here, here, heeeere!!

(Tobio): ...which do I toss it to...?
(Tobio): Hinata can't win in a head-to-head against Tsukishima yet.
(Tobio): Tanaka-san is certainly the better...

Tobio: Tanaka-sa

Shou: KAGEYAMA!!!

[p016]

(Tobio): --No one

(Tobio): was there.

[p017]

Shou: I'm here!!!

Tobio: Ku...!

[p018]

Shou: Fwuh

Daichi: Uh oh?!
sfx bubble: Thump

Shou: It really went over...
Shou: And there was this rush of air...

Tobio: All of a sudden, you--
Shou: But I was right there to receive the ball!!!

Shou: I don't care about any of that stuff from junior high!!
Shou: For me, no matter what kind of toss it is, it's one that I reaaaally wanna receive!!

Shou: I'll jump anywhere!!
Shou: I'll hit any kind of ball!!
Shou: So

[p019]

Shou: Keep on
Shou: tossing it my way!!!
(left) His comrades... are right there!!!!