Versus the Great King picks up immediately where the previous episode left off, but Oikawa doesn’t immediately join the match as he needs to warm up as he has just been signed off for practise after spraining his ankle (although in the manga I’m sure it’s his knee). Kageyama tells Daichi and the rest of the team that Oikawa is an aggressive setter whose skills are greater than his own and that his personality is even worse than Tsukishima’s, which is something coming for him. Tanaka’s reaction to Oikawa’s introduction is brilliant, “I find him unpleasant”, since all the girls watching cheer for Oikawa.
By the time Oikawa enters the match, Seijoh are losing the set but his strong serves immediately win them back points, he also notices that Hinata and Tsukishima are poor at receiving and aims his serves at Tsukishima which irritates him immensely. I loved how Hinata tries to distract Oikawa telling him to aim towards him and Tsukishima rejects this help but he uses Tanaka’s own words to him, which blows up Tanaka’s ego. Despite this they manage to get around the serves, giving Kageyama and Hinata a chance to use their quick which ends the match. It is clear to see that even Oikawa is amazed by the skills this duo have, but there’s something more to that.
After the match, Kageyama goes to talk to Kindaichi and in another life they might have been friends, but he tells Kageyama neither of them should apologise as they were never friends in the first place and the next time they meet, Seijoh is going to win. This is interrupted with Hinata singing his way into the bathroom, although he reads the mood and swiftly hides (I don’t get the singing thing both Hinata and Tanaka do but it’s fun to watch). Kageyama counters saying they are going to win next time and leaves, although Kindaichi is struck by the fact he said “we” not “I” showing how he has changed when he is promptly smacked by Kunimi. After returning back to Karasuno, Daichi knows the team is lacking and if they were facing Oikawa’s serves from the beginning of the match they would have lost. With the Inter-High Preliminaries coming up, Takeda says he will find them a proper coach since he knows next to nothing about volleyball.
On their way home, Daichi let’s slip that the Guardian Deity of Karasuno will soon be returning to the team, after he was suspended from school for a week, and banned from club activities for a month. Kageyama wonders in this scene how extreme this person is for Tanaka to say he gets too fired up. However, in the closing scene of the episode we get to briefly meet this person and Kageyama works on his serves and Hinata, much to Kageyama’s annoyance tries to receive them. This person comes strolling in and perfectly receives the ball and returns it to where the setter would be. Kageyama running commentary on this performance is interrupted by Hinata commenting that this new person is shorter than him, which was quite funny as Hinata is the shortest person we have met so far.
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