The Birth of A Volleyball Legend

"Man, this sucks!" Riku groaned, stretching his body as he yawned big. "Why would we need to come this early and go to the gymnasium? I thought the club was disbanded!" He complained to no one.

Yuki just rolled his eyes, didn't take his friend's complaint to heart. He knew Riku also felt the same as him, missing their time on the court. He stopped walking for a moment, his gaze fixed on the net that was still hanging there. A deep sense of longing suddenly filled his heart, reminding him of all the time he spent with the other members of the volleyball team here.

He suddenly shook his head, realizing someone patted his shoulder. When he turned around, he could see his blonde friend staring at him sympathetically. "I know what you feel, but don't worry. It will not be long before we play volleyball again!"

Yuki was startled by the sudden bold declaration, but when he saw Riku's optimistic expression, he suddenly remembered that Akira still trying to work everything out to resurrect the team. A small, genuine smile finally curled on his face, nodding gratefully at his friend. "Thanks. I will hold your word for this."

"Hah! Don't worry, Jiisan will be able to do something!" Riku barked a laugh. "Rather than thinking about something we cannot solve by ourselves, we should just go and find Kato-san. I know she saves two spots next to her for us."

Yuki nodded, his eyes wandering around to find Kato's presence. Even though it was still 7:30 in the morning, the gymnasium usually wasn't too crowded was filled with most of the freshman students already. Whispers and chatter flew around as everyone was confused about why the school suddenly gathered them there.

Far near the wall, some people were busy preparing for something, which if Yuki was not wrong, should be a projector. It seemed the school wanted to show something to the freshman today.

"Oi, Yuki! There!" Riku suddenly waved his hand at the glasses boy, pointing his other hand to the spot where their friend had been waiting for them. Yuki came in that direction immediately, didn't want to make his friends wait.

After sitting on the floor, he whispered lowly at his two friends. "So, any idea about what are we going to do today?"

"No need to whisper, there is no way anyone other than us would pay attention to you," Kato said flatly. Indeed, even though the situation around them wasn't too loud, everyone basically chatted and whispered with their friends to keep themselves busy, and there was no way someone would overhear their conversation.

"As for what are we doing today, it seems to be the introduction of the new clubs formed by the school."

"Really? This fast?!" Yuki arched his eyebrows slightly. Riku also paid attention to the conversation, staring at the girl with curiosity.

It had been two days since the last batch of the purge was done, and the fact that the school introduced new clubs already showed that they had been planning for this for a long time and waiting for all the old clubs to be disbanded first before doing this operation.

"What do you think the new clubs would be?" Riku couldn't help but ask.

Yuki and Kato pondered for a moment before it was the girl who finally answered the question. "Well, based on my understanding about the rumor spread around the school, it should be clubs related to technology with practical content for Maiko Group to be able to pick up talents who were ready to work. But if you want more specific information, you should just wait until everything is over."

Yuki nodded, appreciating the girl's opinion. He had also done his research and knew that the Maiko group monopolized the market about things related to technology like handphones, laptops, computers, television, and even video games. It was a no-brainer for them to fund club activity related to that.

After chatting for a while, the headmaster suddenly walked to the front while having a microphone in his hand, ready to talk. Seeing him there, all the whispers died down immediately, and all the attention was on the headmaster. The man himself smiled a little before he greeted them all.

"Good morning, everyone!"

"Good morning!" All the students greeted back.

"Now, I know you are wondering why I gather you here, and some of you might have an idea about what I would say, so I will not beat around the bush and talk to the point here." He coughed once to make sure all the attention was on him. "As you might see and hear from the rumor, the school had just done something that you students said 'a purge'.

You might think that the school is cruel, but believe me, I have a good reason to do that."

He paused for a moment, allowing his words to resonate in the air. Then, the screen next to him suddenly showed a graphic, and everyone suddenly paid attention to that. "Here is the graphic of our clubs' achievements in the last twenty years. As you can see, not a single club has ever reached the national stage during that time.

Our best achievement is here, the volleyball club reached the top four in the Tokyo tournament four years ago, and here, the choir club managed to get the fifth spot in the Tokyo tournament seven years ago. But other than that, our clubs have never produced anything worthy at all."

All the students were stunned frozen on the spot. They all knew their school wasn't that good, but they never thought it would be this bad.

"You know, our school supports the presence of the clubs, and we know it is important for your future development." The headmaster continued. "However, the clubs should be good enough to either achieve something or help ensure the members learn valuable skills that could be used when you all graduate from this place, and unfortunately, we didn't have even a single one before!

The clubs are just something you all use as a reason to get lazy and play around while using the school's money for it, and I can say that I am disappointed with you guys."

All the students had their heads bowed deep, not because they were ashamed or embarrassed, but because they were afraid to get scolded.

"But that is in the past already!" The headmaster's expression lightened all of a sudden, startling everyone in the building. "Now, I can proudly say that we are going to rebuild all the clubs here to help you develop skills that you cannot learn during school hours and would probably help you in the future.

So, without further ado, I will announce the new clubs that will be operated officially starting from tomorrow! And here is the list of the new clubs of our school!"

After that, the screen changed, showing a table with the names of the new clubs and their advisors next to each other. When they all saw the list though, gasps echoed all over the building, some had their eyes widened in surprise. Yuki himself just nodded silently, muttering inwardly, "Interesting…"