The Ashen Crown

Oga Teppei was never a genius. What he had was something rarer and crueler: the refusal to stop, even when talent slammed the door in his face. For two years, he poured everything into Shiratorizawa's volleyball court—analysis, grit, five a.m. mornings—only to watch a monster named Hinata Shouyou dismantle it all in a single match. Defeated. Hollow. Standing at the edge of everything he'd ever believed about himself, Teppei is approached in the shadows of an empty arena by a man with reptile-co