Prologue

 

There is a ball sport called volleyball.

While the height of the net varies slightly depending on age and gender, the core rule remains the same: the ball is played across a net set over 2 meters high.

Because of the net’s height, players sometimes leap into the air and strike the ball from above the net.

In volleyball, there is a metric used to gauge a player’s physical capability known as the maximum reach height.

It measures how high a player’s hand can reach when jumping with a run-up.

For girls, the typical benchmarks are:

• Average for high school players at national tournaments: approximately 270 cm

• Top-tier high school players nationwide: approximately 300 cm

• Average in the professional world: approximately 300 cm

• Top-level professionals: approximately 330 cm

Height is a powerful weapon in volleyball.

No matter how strong a spike may be, it’s meaningless if it’s blocked by a tall defense.
Quick attacks, feints, and delayed attacks are, in the end, just strategies to bypass blocks.

But what if—
you could spike from a height where blocking becomes irrelevant?

“...348 cm.”

Gasps of disbelief spread around.
That figure is far beyond what a high school girl under 160 cm tall should be capable of.

This is the story of a certain TS high school girl with extraordinary physical ability.

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