Shiratorizawa's Wild King

Washinomiya Rin has always believed that patience is a condescending handout.

Faced with the jealousy of her senior teammates on the Hisho girls' volleyball team, the isolation of her classmates, and the indifference of her juniors, Washinomiya Rin never bothered to care. In her eyes, these people were nothing more than scenery on her path to victory. But her arrogance came to an abrupt end when her team was eliminated from the All-Japan Junior High School Volleyball Championships. Her teammates, who had virtually no coordination with her, had personally destroyed the volleyball club's chance to reach the national tournament.

After the match, with nowhere to vent their fury over the loss, they all turned on Washinomiya Rin. Faced with their attempts to shift the blame and the coach's tacit approval, Rin only sneered in silence, until an enraged third-year senior lost control and struck her.

The consequences would have been unimaginable if Kise, whose match had just ended, hadn't come looking for her out of concern and stepped in front of her to protect her when the senior attacked.

At that moment, the volcano in Washinomiya Rin's heart erupted completely.

She stepped out from behind her cousin, who was standing in front of her, looked at the people whose faces had gone deathly pale, and spat out the most venomous words: "That loss was all because of your jealousy. You thought you'd crush me, but you dragged your own futures down with you, you fools!"

"The third-years are incompetent and conceited, while the second-years can do nothing but ape others. To me, you were nothing but obstacles in my way. Remember this: even if this team disappears, I'll be an ace wherever I go. That must sting, doesn't it? Too bad it has nothing to do with you anymore!"

If there's no place for you here, there's always somewhere else that will take you in.

With advice from her dependable family, Washinomiya Rin soon settled on a new target: Shiratorizawa Academy in Miyagi Prefecture. The reason was simple and direct: its volleyball club lived by the wolfish rule of "the weak leave, the strong stay," and its academic standards were unbelievably high. More importantly, it was home to someone she considered the perfect embodiment of volleyball's violent beauty.

So when she wheeled her suitcase past the entrance to Shiratorizawa's volleyball gym and heard the thunderous crack of a spike from inside, she also saw the person known as the "Shiratorizawa ace" look around with an utterly impassive gaze after making the hit.

Washinomiya Rin ran her tongue over her canine tooth, and her blood began to burn.

School years: The reckless troublemaker who rules the court x Shiratorizawa's ace

Adulthood: A Harvard JD x a professional player for the Schweiden Adlers

※ The line by Washinomiya Rin in the blurb was machine-translated, so I'm not sure whether it sounds realistic.

※ Characters may be out of character.

※ There'll be a little basketball and tennis, and possibly some Blue Lock.

※ I'm not sure whether I'll write the adult years yet. The current plan is to start when Washinomiya Rin is in her second year of junior high, when Kise is in his second year, Ushijima is in his third year, and Irie is a first-year high school student. Then the story will end in Rin's second year of high school. The timeline will be based on Haikyu!!, with some changes as needed for the story.

※ Washinomiya Rin's experiences on the Hisho girls' volleyball team are partly inspired by Bokuto's junior high days and partly by the All-Japan tournament arc featuring the "King."

※ The heroine plays outside hitter/opposite setter. There will be many original female volleyball characters and plotlines. Since I'm only a beginner at volleyball, information about match rules and such comes from encyclopedias and anime.

※ The match schedule will follow the real world. This means there will be the National Sports Festival, where athletes represent their hometowns. Oikawa will set for Ushijima, and they will be noticed by the world ahead of time.

※ The cover character design uses a template, so similarities are normal.

※ More details to be added.

Theme: Be young, bold, and radiant, and make the most of your youth as you go forward.