Chapter 429: Superpowers Volleyball Battle
"How about this?"
Seeing Yamauchi Sakura looking a bit scared, Asagiri, who had been sitting on the sidelines, slowly stood up and walked onto the court with a smile.
"I'll team up with Sakura and Kotoko, and then we'll play against the four of you."
"Hmm? That confident?"
Hearing Asagiri's words, a hint of competitiveness appeared in Kaguya Shinomiya's red eyes. She slightly raised her chin and spoke in a calm tone.
"Three against four, and with this lineup, even with you on that side, you might not necessarily win."
"Isn't this just right?"
Yuuki Asuna showed a smile, slowly clenched her right hand into a fist, and looked at Asagiri.
"I won't go easy on you."
Kato Megumi echoed softly,
"There aren't many chances to beat you. This time, we'll give it our all."
Hearing these people, Hayasaka Ai could not help rolling her eyes and muttering,
"Why does the atmosphere feel further and further away from a school trip now? It's almost like a life and death battle between superpowers. Is it necessary to be this intense?"
"Hayasaka-san, you're wrong about that."
Asagiri picked up the special volleyball on the beach with one hand, then slowly raised his head.
Golden light shone in his black eyes, and faint dark red auras appeared around his body.
He looked like a fully powered demon king as he spoke in a flat voice.
"If we don't get serious, we'll die."
Hayasaka Ai was stunned for a moment.
Then she could not suppress her urge to retort. She stomped her fair feet against the golden sand, her face showing a speechless expression.
"Is this still beach volleyball? Are you people even normal anymore?"
"Hmph, volleyball is a killing technique."
"No, no, no, you're completely misinterpreting the true meaning of volleyball, aren't you!?"
Hearing Hayasaka Ai's retort, Asagiri instantly switched modes, seamlessly raising his left hand as if wiping away sweat.
His eyes became extremely serious.
"Volleyball is a sport where you always look up!"
Hayasaka Ai looked speechless, sighed, and said,
"There's nothing wrong with what you said. It sounds like something the protagonist of a hot blooded sports anime would say, but you switched too quickly..."
"Ai."
Kaguya Shinomiya glanced at Hayasaka Ai beside her and said indifferently,
"You're talking a lot today. It's not normal."
"You are the ones who aren't normal!?"
Hayasaka Ai could not suppress her overwhelming urge to retort and exclaimed loudly,
"After hearing his strange words, and with this inexplicably murderous, unsettling atmosphere, why can all of you resist retorting!?"
Hearing this, Yuuki Asuna could not help being stunned.
Yes...
Why had she not thought of retorting?
Could it be that she had unknowingly been assimilated by Asagiri's abstract domain?
"Alright, no more words needed."
Kaguya Shinomiya's red eyes met Asagiri's black eyes, which glowed with golden light.
Although this should have been a warm, fanservice swimsuit scene on the beach, the atmosphere in the arena had somehow become like a world destroying battle.
"Come on!"
...
Half an hour later.
"Impossible. It's impossible... absolutely impossible..."
Hayasaka Ai looked as if she had lost all hope, her hands already propped against the soft sand.
Kato Megumi was also kneeling on one knee.
Yuuki Asuna and Kaguya Shinomiya were in slightly better condition, but they were also panting heavily, their faces grim.
Meanwhile, Asagiri stood on the opposite side of the net, tossing and catching the volleyball with one hand, looking completely at ease.
Just looking at this composition, it was almost like a CG recollection unlocked after completing a visual novel.
"Do you feel the gap in strength?"
Hearing Asagiri's words, Kaguya Shinomiya and Yuuki Asuna exchanged glances.
At this moment, they seemed to have made some kind of decision.
Facing Asagiri's next spike, which was so fast it caused a sonic boom and was impossible to see clearly, Yuuki Asuna's figure flashed instantly.
Relying on instinct to guess its position, she directly saved the volleyball with both hands, sending it nearly five meters into the air.
Kaguya Shinomiya leaped high.
Her fair and well proportioned body was even more dazzling under the sunlight.
Her red eyes emanated an almost tangible aura of power. In her raised right hand, a faint spear like phantom coalesced.
"Spear of Longinus!"
"Somewhat interesting."
Facing the volleyball that pierced through space like a god slaying spear, Asagiri's black eyes instantly turned golden, and faint glowing dark red patterns appeared on his body.
"Human Asura Mode!"
"Bang!!"
"Again!"
Seeing Asagiri catch Kaguya Shinomiya's spike, causing the volleyball to fly back toward their side with an upward trajectory, Yuuki Asuna had already leaped high the moment the volleyball crossed the net and spiked it again.
At this moment, Fujiwara Chika finally walked out of the villa.
While wiping the sweat from her forehead, she muttered with a slight blush on her face.
"Next time, when time is tight, I can't let Asagiri play so intensely. I wonder if Shinomiya and the others noticed... huh?"
Mid sentence, Fujiwara Chika saw an unexpected scene.
On the originally golden and tranquil beach, a sandstorm like a tornado had gathered.
Amidst the swirling golden sand, three figures could vaguely be seen engaged in an intense and exciting activity.
As for what specific activity...
With Fujiwara Chika's dynamic vision, she could not see it clearly at all.
No, more precisely, she could not see the volleyball being hit back and forth at an absurdly fast speed.
"This is..."
"Chika, you're here."
"Eh?"
Hearing the voice from below, Fujiwara Chika looked down and saw Yamauchi Sakura and Iwanaga Kotoko lying on the beach, looking leisurely.
"Are you sunbathing?"
"No."
"Then this is..."
Seeing Fujiwara Chika's puzzled expression, Yamauchi Sakura explained with a smile,
"We were blown away by the air currents from the arena."
"Eh..."
Fujiwara Chika was stunned.
Was this right?
She had only gone to the restroom, so how had it turned from a lovely beach volleyball game into this world destroying superpower battle?
Was the restroom a mysterious passage to another world line?
"Hmm..."
While thinking, Fujiwara Chika sat down directly on the soft sand and hugged her knees, a naturally innocent and cute smile appearing on her face.
"Since it's come to this, let's watch the match first."
...
A little later, in the kitchen on the first floor of the villa.
"So, Shinomiya-san, you can cook..."
Smelling the fragrant aroma and looking at the impeccable, brightly coloured egg fried rice in the pot, Yuuki Asuna could not help exclaiming.
Kaguya Shinomiya, upon hearing this, had no special reaction. She merely replied in a flat tone.
"This is the only dish I can make."
"However, cooking isn't difficult. As long as you strictly follow the instructions, with no errors in the amount of each seasoning and every step performed with precise accuracy, you will inevitably get a perfect result."
"I should be good at this kind of thing."
"I don't think so."
Yuuki Asuna shook her head, gently offering a different opinion.
"I think the most interesting part about cooking is that it reflects, to a certain extent, the mood of the person cooking."
"Because of different moods at the time, the same dish can taste slightly different. That's why I really enjoy cooking."
"A more emotional way of thinking, perhaps..."
Kaguya Shinomiya realized that her and Yuuki Asuna's views on cooking were completely different.
Her gaze shifted to Kato Megumi, who was in charge of making miso soup, and she asked indifferently,
"Megumi, what are your thoughts?"
"My thoughts?"
Kato Megumi thought for a moment, then gave a gentle, slight smile and said softly,
"It's just cooking. It's not that complicated, is it?"
Meanwhile, in the living room outside, Fujiwara Chika's fair face was already flushed red.
Seeing that the result displayed on the card table showed she had lost again, she could not help saying somewhat exasperatedly,
"Unfair, unfair! How have I lost five games in a row? Are you cheating!?"
"Heh heh."
Asagiri saw through Fujiwara Chika's thoughts at a glance.
She was not the type to care much about winning or losing.
Her current agitation could only mean one thing.
"You're gradually losing patience because you haven't found an opportunity to cheat, aren't you?"
Fujiwara Chika's concept of playing these board games was different from normal people's.
Normal people wanted to win.
But in Fujiwara Chika's view, if she cheated and was not caught, that was a win.
If she cheated and was caught, that was a loss.
If she could not even find an opportunity to cheat, then that was a complete defeat, utterly crushed and stripped of her dignity.
As for the actual outcome of the game, that was not so important.
"I... I never even thought about cheating!"
Seeing Fujiwara Chika's guilty expression, Asagiri chuckled and said,
"If you weren't thinking about cheating, you wouldn't be you."
"Haven't you noticed? You haven't had a chance to touch the deck at all."
"Whether it's shuffling or dealing, we've been in charge of it."
"Ugh..."
Seeing her little scheme exposed by Asagiri's words, Fujiwara Chika showed a cute, wronged expression.
Her eyes revealed a pitiable look like a stray dog as she stared at Asagiri pleadingly.
"As my boyfriend, aren't you going to side with me at a time like this? I really need you."
"Absolutely impossible."
Asagiri refused Fujiwara Chika's request directly and mercilessly, without the slightest hesitation, and gave a reason that the other party could not refute at all.
"If I side with you, you will become an eyesore to Kotoko, Yamauchi Sakura, and Hayasaka-san, and then you will have even less chance to cheat."
"So, not siding with you at all is a form of siding with you."
Hearing Asagiri's words, Hayasaka Ai could not help sighing slightly and muttered softly,
"Why did you include me without asking...?"
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