36 Volleyball Tournament Part 2 (1/2)

Thanks to Shiho, Axel and the girls managed to get back on track now that the awkward situation was adverted.

They all huddled up in a small circle on the ground before discussing a game plan for fighting against the teachers.

Unlike the other teams that basically sat together and chatted away, Axel's group actually formed proper strategies thanks to having actually members of a volleyball team, namely Shiho and Mishima.

Mishima mainly added in bits and pieces while Shiho built a game plan from the ground up.

Axel fell into a short daze as he stared at her in awe as her previously downtrodden face turned into an excited smile as she passionately discussed different moves and strategy.

Her eyes seemed to gain a spark of light while her way with words managed to kept everyones attention. However, what surprised Axel most was her voting to make Axel the team captain.

Waving his arms in a flustered manor, Axel gave Shiho an exasperated looked before saying, ”I can't be team captain! I don't even know how to play volleyball properly!”

The team didn't seem to mind his lack of knowledge about the sport as Makoto proudly said, ”It's ok! I don't know how to play either.” She paused as she leaned next to Axel's ear and whispered, ”Lets do our best to learn together~”

Makoto's breath tickled Axel's neck as a slight blush appeared on his face. Ann silently grumbled something before pulling Makoto away from Axel.

Axel watched as Makoto gave Ann a quick glare before turned back to Axel while pouting. Before Axel could speak, Shiho started to cough.

Seeing that she successfully managed to gather her teams attention, she gave every member a small frown as she said, ”Guys, you should take this more seriously. If you guys haven't noticed, we'll be up against Kamoshida, a gold medallist. If we don't take this seriously, we won't even know how we lost.”

Her words sent everyone into thought. A couple minutes later, Ann put her hand up and said, ”Shiho, can I say something?”

Shiho turned towards Ann and nodded while smiling. Ann took a deep breath and said, ”No offence Shiho but I don't really mind if we lost. I mean, we ARE going up against the volleyball team couch who also happens to be a gold medallist. Winning is gonna be next to impossible.”

Shiho's smile faltered a bit before quickly trying to mask it. She manage to pull the wool over mostly everyone present. However, Axel managed to see it.

Axel began running through a multitude of different reasons for why she would want to win so badly.

After a couple seconds, as if a light was turned on inside his head, Axel looked towards Ann and said, ”I think she wants to prove herself.”

Silence covered the group for a few seconds as Axel's words settled in.

Axel quickly noticed that while Shiho remained silent, her body was slightly trembling. But before he could think to deeply about it, Ann's voice quickly brought him out of thought.

”But why would she want to prove herself? She's already an exceptional volleyball player. Who would she be trying to prove herself to anyway?”

Ann seemed to have asked the question that was on everyone's mind as the entire groups focus snapped back to Axel. Even Shiho was looking at him, silently waiting for his response.

Seeing that everyone was waiting for him to speak, Axel stared at Shiho and said, ”I think she wants to prove it to herself. That she made the right choice and that playing volleyball wasn't a mistake. She wants a reason to keep going.”

Silence overcame the group again as everyone fell into thought.

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Since he was staring at her while he was talking, Axel noticed that Shiho seemed to be on the verge of crying as her shoulders started to tremble and the stifled sobbing he could barely hear, even with his enhanced senses.