After Becoming a Spirit in Date A Live, I Refuse to Date

"Indignation. Shido is doing nothing but holding Yuzuru and Kaguya back."

His incompetence seemed to have angered Kaguya and Yuzuru behind him.

Both of them looked at Shido with dissatisfied expressions.

Shido panted heavily as he looked back at them apologetically.

"Sorry... I'm completely useless..."

He knew his place all too well. There was absolutely no way he could make a decent showing in a match between Spirits and the AST...!

Sure enough, an ordinary person like him was better off slacking off when faced with the strength of these powerful Spirits...

But besides that, there was something else on Shido's mind.

Namely—

"Speaking of which, Tohka, why do you keep serving straight at me...!?"

Shido pointed at Tohka, looking as though he wanted to cry but had no tears left.

The question caught Lingmeng's attention as well, and she gave Tohka a curious look.

After all, mercilessly pounding Shido hardly sounded like something Tohka would do.

"You're asking why, Shido?"

Hearing Shido's question, Tohka tilted her head and pressed her index finger to her lips as she answered.

"Isn't volleyball a game where you score points by knocking your opponents down with the ball? Then, when one side can't get up anymore, the side still standing wins?"

"Caw, caw, caw..."

The moment Tohka finished speaking, everyone fell into a strange silence.

It was as awkward as if three black crows had flown overhead.

Chapter 47: Provocation

Seeing that Tohka seemed to have seriously misunderstood the rules of volleyball, everyone remained awkwardly silent.

But they couldn't stay frozen like that forever, so Lingmeng spoke first.

"Well... Tohka, why would you think that?"

"Hm?"

Tohka tilted her head in confusion before replying.

"Isn't that how it works...? Whenever our team scored earlier, it was after we hit Shido with the ball."