Volleyball: I'm Number One

[This novel entered VIP serialization on May 25 and is now complete. The full novel costs 8.47 to subscribe to. Thank you for supporting the official version!] [Sharing my upcoming novels! Adding them to your list is the best encouragement!] [When a Volleyball Idiot Falls into a Romance Trap], pairing: Kozume Kenma [Are You Here to Play Volleyball or Date?], pairing: Miya Atsumu [Blurb] Amamiya-in Mizuki, second son of Japan's Amamiya conglomerate. Kitagawa Daiichi's ace. In the same year as Oikawa Toru and Iwaizumi Hajime, they were known as the Big Three of Kitagawa. Childhood friend of Akashi Seijuro and cousin of Ushijima Wakatoshi. Even Washijo Tanji was impressed by his talent. When Kageyama Tobio was in his first year, he once saw him tear through the opposing team's defense with a super-sharp cross-court spike, scoring 31 consecutive points and accounting for most of the winning team's score. Then, during his third year of middle school, he went abroad, severed all ties with Kitagawa Daiichi, and cut off all contact with Japan. Three years later, when Kageyama Tobio was a first-year high school student, he saw this long-absent upperclassman again. He was standing on the other side, on Shiratorizawa's court, receiving the setter's perfect pass. "People keep saying volleyball is so much fun, that they'll love playing it their whole lives. Don't you think they're weird?" "Please get this straight: It's not volleyball that's fun. It's winning." "If you can't help your team win, you're a loser." "If you want to argue with me, come stand in front of me. Look up and tell me," "I will never look at a loser." [Reader's Guide] 1. This is an unconventional shonen protagonist with absurdly overpowered settings. Please read without overthinking it, without overthinking it, without overthinking it. That's three times. 2. There are some time-travel, body-swap, virtual-future, and parallel-world storylines, with major logical inconsistencies. You don't need to understand everything. If you're not interested, you can skip Chapters 18-24 and Chapter 28. The story returns to normal from Chapter 25. 3. There are a ton of original character details. Volleyball theory comes from instructional videos, and the author has never played, so serious researchers should proceed with caution. 4. Medium-to-long novel. The pairing is set: Shirabu Kenjiro. 5. This is based on a few scraps of an idea the author had years ago, about ordinary people and geniuses (x). 6. Some characters from the Kuroko's Basketball universe will appear, but volleyball is the main focus. [Upcoming novel from my profile] [When a Volleyball Idiot Falls into a Romance Trap], pairing: Kozume Kenma My name is Nekomata Kageri, a first-year student at Tokyo's private Nekoma High School. I'm good at archery. I should have joined the archery club and enjoyed three wonderful years of high school. Until my club application was delivered to the volleyball club. And my grandfather, Nekomata Yasufumi, is the volleyball team's famous demon coach. To be honest, there's no escaping this. Although I can't escape the fate of joining the volleyball club, I can slack off. If I slack off enough, no hardship will be able to stop me. But then I found someone in the volleyball club who slacked off even more than I did. The setter known as the "brain." My second-year upperclassman, Kozume Kenma. Diligent and respectful to his elders, kind to the young. As I worked hard to play the invisible nobody on the volleyball team, I learned to mop the floor from every angle. But this slacker was always silently staring at me, like a cat that had spotted a mouse. It gave me the creeps. Then one day, after the final match ended, he dragged me alone into a corner of the locker room. He buried his face in my shoulder. His warm breath brushed my neck. His hair, bleached and slowly fading, was a little rough, prickling against my skin and making it itch. He raised his beastlike, narrowed eyes and stared at me intently. He didn't say a word, but going by my instincts, he might want to eat me. Theme: Glory belongs only to the victors