# E3 - The Formidable Ally
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**[00:07] Kageyama**
Hey, your feet stopped short!
**[00:10] Kageyama**
What happened to your serving and
receiving reflexes from yesterday?
**[00:12] Kageyama**
You need to focus!
**[00:14] Hinata**
All I'm doing is receiving...
**[00:17] Hinata**
There's not much time left!
**[00:18] ---**
I want to spike, too!
I want to jump, too!
**[00:20] Kageyama**
Go jump around, then!
**[00:21] Tanaka**
Hey, you guys.
**[00:23] Tanaka**
I should give you fair warning.
**[00:25] Tanaka**
Daichi-san is usually gentle,
**[00:28] Tanaka**
but he's extremely scary when he gets angry.
**[00:29] Tanaka**
I mean extremely.
**[00:33] Hinata & Kageyama**
We know.
**[00:35] Tanaka**
It won't be good if he finds out
about this morning practice.
**[00:37] Tanaka**
It won't be good for me.
**[00:39] Tanaka**
It's not that I'm scared or anything.
**[00:41] Tanaka**
Absolutely not. Absolutely not at all.
**[00:45] Tanaka**
But anyway, the three of
us here are the only ones
**[00:48] Tanaka**
that know about this morning
practice, so make sure that you...
**[00:51] Sugawara**
Morning practice, huh? I knew it.
**[00:53] Tanaka**
Suga-san.
**[00:54] Sugawara**
Hey.
**[00:55] Tanaka**
But why...
**[00:56] Hinata**
*He's a third-year.*
**[00:57] Sugawara**
Because you were obviously weird yesterday.
**[01:00] Sugawara**
You're always barely on time,
but you voluntarily
**[01:02] Sugawara**
asked to be in charge of opening the lock.
**[01:05] Tanaka**
Oh... ah...
**[01:06] Sugawara**
Don't worry, don't worry.
I won't tell Daichi.
**[01:09] Sugawara**
This is like secret training or something.
**[01:11] ---**
It's kind of thrilling.
***SIGN*** Haikyu!!
***SIGN*** Episode 3: The Formidable Ally
**[02:48] Tanaka**
Come and get it!
**[02:49] Tanaka**
Good, that was excellent.
**[02:52] Sugawara**
Hinata, don't get distracted.
**[02:54] Hinata**
I want to hit the ball, too.
Send me a toss, too.
**[02:59] Hinata**
Tossing's your favorite, right?
Send me a toss, too.
**[03:05] Hinata**
Just one.
**[03:06] Sugawara**
Hey, Hinata...
**[03:06] Hinata**
Just try me out, once. Okay?
**[03:09] Kageyama**
I refuse.
**[03:12] Hinata**
What is this? Stinginess?
**[03:13] Tanaka**
That's right, that's right.
**[03:19] Kageyama**
That came straight at you from front.
**[03:21] Kageyama**
Tossing and attacking happen
only if there's a reception.
**[03:23] Kageyama**
Which you're too slow to even do,
so don't talk cocky.
**[03:26] Kageyama**
For the three-on-three match this Saturday,
**[03:28] Kageyama**
I'll make every effort to give
Tanaka-san all the tosses.
**[03:31] Kageyama**
Let Tanaka-san do the attacking.
**[03:33] ---**
You do your best to not get in our way.
**[03:39] Hinata**
When I can receive well enough,
you'll send me tosses, too?
**[03:45] Kageyama**
I'll toss to anyone who's
essential to winning.
**[03:49] Kageyama**
Right now, I don't think
you're essential to winning.
**[03:55] Tanaka**
Gutsy!
**[03:56] Sugawara**
What's it take to toss him
a few here and there?
**[03:59] Kageyama**
It's getting to be that time.
We'd better clean up.
**[04:01] Tanaka**
Crap. Hurry!
Erase all evidence!
**[04:04] Sugawara**
Tanaka, get a mop!
**[04:04] Hinata**
Damn it...
**[04:05] Tanaka**
Yes.
**[04:06] Hinata**
Damn it...
**[04:23] Sugawara**
Hinata, drop your waist,
**[04:26] ---**
and hit it like you're sending it right back
in the direction it came from.
**[04:29] Hinata**
Yes.
**[04:30] Sugawara**
Here goes.
**[04:32] Hinata**
Oh, that was a good one.
**[04:34] Sugawara**
Hey, Hinata.
**[04:36] Sugawara**
You want me to toss to you,
starting tomorrow morning?
**[04:39] Hinata**
Really? You will?
**[04:41] Sugawara**
I'm the official setter
of Karasuno, you know.
**[04:44] Sugawara**
You want to practice spiking, right?
**[04:46] Hinata**
Oh, yes. I love spiking.
**[04:50] Hinata**
It feels great when it works,
and it's awesome!
**[04:54] Sugawara**
Sounds like you got some spiking memories.
**[04:57] Hinata**
Yes. All three years in junior high
there was no setter or anything.
**[05:00] Hinata**
I was the only club member.
**[05:03] Hinata**
My friends in the basketball
club would toss for me.
**[05:08] (Flashback) Izumi**
Yikes, I'm sorry. I didn't
mean for it to go there.
**[05:11] Hinata**
Even after club activities,
I had first-years,
**[05:14] Hinata**
mothers, setters from the girls'
team throw tosses to me...
**[05:20] Hinata**
We got along well and
we're friends, but still,
**[05:22] Hinata**
they weren't really teammates.
**[05:28] Hinata**
That's why I used to wonder what kind
of setter I'd have in high school.
**[05:31] (Flashback) Kageyama**
You're lousy as shit.
**[05:33] Hinata**
I was looking forward to it...
**[05:34] (Flashback) Kageyama**
You suck.
**[05:36] Hinata**
...before I got here.
**[05:37] Sugawara**
Like I said, I'm a setter.
I'll toss to you.
**[05:44] Hinata**
But if you tossed to me...
**[05:49] Hinata**
I'd kinda feel like I've lost.
**[05:54] Sugawara**
Hinata, why do you insist
on getting in Kageyama's face?
**[05:57] Sugawara**
Personally, I try to avoid confronting guys
who are stronger than me.
**[06:03] Hinata**
At the junior high tournament...
**[06:05] Hinata**
he was so much better and taller than me.
**[06:10] Hinata**
He was so strong.
**[06:13] Hinata**
It was horrible when
he stood in front of me.
**[06:16] Sugawara**
I understand how that must feel.
**[06:18] Hinata**
I came to Karasuno because I was
going to beat Kageyama.
**[06:23] Sugawara**
I see. But, Hinata, is beating Kageyama
all you want out of volleyball?
**[06:29] Hinata**
Oh... um...
**[06:31] Kageyama**
*He's practicing through his lunch break?*
**[06:33] Hinata**
I just want to become strong
enough to defeat Kageyama.
**[06:36] Hinata**
If I can do that, I'll be on even
ground with any strong opponent.
**[06:41] Hinata**
I wouldn't be easy to beat in a match.
**[06:44] Hinata**
I don't want to lose any more.
**[06:47] Sugawara**
I see...
**[06:49] Sugawara**
So, in other words, Kageyama is the best player
in your grade level, as far as you know.
**[06:57] Hinata**
Y-Yes...
**[07:01] Sugawara**
*He sure doesn't like admitting it.*
**[07:04] Sugawara**
But if he was your
most formidable opponent,
**[07:06] Sugawara**
now he's your most formidable ally.
**[07:11] (Flashback) Kageyama**
I don't think you're essential to winning.
**[07:16] Sugawara**
All right, let's do some receiving.
**[07:18] Hinata**
All right.
**[07:23] Hinata**
Thanks for taking out the trash.
**[07:30] Sawamura**
One, two, three, four.
**[07:33] Team**
Five, six, seven, eight.
**[07:36] Sawamura**
Two, two, three, four.
**[07:39] Team**
Five, six, seven, eight.
**[07:42] Sawamura**
All right. One, two, three, four.
**[07:46] Team**
Five, six, seven, eight.
**[07:49] Sawamura**
Two, two, three, four.
**[07:52] Team**
Five, six, seven, eight.
**[07:58] Kageyama**
Let's go.
**[07:59] Hinata**
Hey. Where are you going?
**[08:02] Kageyama**
We can't handle the
ball freely in there.
**[08:05] Kageyama**
I found a place we can practice.
**[08:08] Hinata**
Where?
**[08:09] Hinata**
Good job, Kageyama! Well done.
**[08:11] Kageyama**
Don't be condescending.
**[08:13] Hinata**
Don't get mad at every little thing.
**[08:37] Sawamura**
You guys sound sleepy.
**[08:40] Sugawara**
Oh, y-you think so?
Maybe I studied too much.
**[08:43] Tanaka**
M-Me, too. I studied...
**[08:45] Sugawara**
Nobody will buy that from you!
**[08:47] Tanaka**
Huh?
**[08:47] Tsukishima**
Excuse me.
**[08:49] Sawamura**
Hey, you made it.
**[08:51] Sawamura**
These are the first-year
students who'll be joining us.
**[08:53] Sawamura**
New club members were supposed
to be introduced next week,
**[08:56] Sawamura**
but we're having a match this Saturday,
**[08:56] Narita**
They're big.
**[08:57] ---**
that'll be the true test of your skills.
**[08:57] Ennoshita**
Yeah.
**[09:00] Tsukishima & Yamaguchi**
Pleased to meet you.
**[09:04] Background**
Fight...
**[09:06] Kageyama**
Don't just use your hands.
Move your feet.
**[09:09] Kageyama**
Come on. You need to concentrate.
**[09:12] Hinata**
I know that.
**[09:14] Hinata**
We'll win this Saturday,
be allowed into the gym,
**[09:18] Hinata**
and join this club for real.
**[09:21] Hinata**
But you, on the other hand,
can't play setter unless you win.
**[09:24] Kageyama**
If you know that, then concentrate!
**[09:32] Hinata**
I said to take it easy
when we practice outside.
**[09:36] Kageyama**
All you have to do is receive properly.
**[09:38] Hinata**
Whatever, King.
**[09:42] Kageyama**
Hey.
**[09:44] Hinata**
*Crap.*
**[09:49] Hinata**
*What's the matter with him?*
**[09:51] ---**
*He gets mad every time I call him "King."*
**[09:54] Hinata**
*It's a cool nickname, you know.*
**[09:56] Hinata**
* I wonder if I could have*
* a cool nickname, too.*
**[09:59] Hinata**
*Like "Little Giant" or something.*
**[10:01] Hinata**
* "Wind of a fast wind."*
* That has "wind" twice...*
**[10:06] Hinata**
* "The forest's—"*
* That doesn't work.*
**[10:09] Hinata**
*"The jet black—" Um...*
**[10:11] Hinata**
*"The one who descended from the northeast—"*
**[10:13] Kageyama**
Hey, let's get back to it.
**[10:15] Hinata**
I wonder what our first-year
opponents are like.
**[10:19] Hinata**
They'll be better than
playing against our senpais.
**[10:21] Kageyama**
Who cares what they're like?
**[10:23] Kageyama**
There's no choice for me but to win.
**[10:26] Hinata**
That's what I was going to say.
**[10:30] Hinata**
Don't click your tongue.
**[10:31] Hinata**
Let's do this.
**[10:35] Kageyama**
Hey. You don't receive with your face.
**[10:40] Tanaka**
There's something I don't like about
those newbie first-years...
**[10:43] Sugawara**
You don't like anyone you
meet for the first time.
**[10:47] Sugawara**
You know. That's your personality, right?
**[10:49] Tanaka**
My personality?
**[10:51] Sugawara**
But those guys sure were beyond expectations.
**[10:54] Sugawara**
Are you going to be okay
in the match on Saturday?
**[10:56] Tanaka**
O-Of course. I'm on the team, after all.
**[11:01] Sugawara**
That's true. There's Kageyama, too.
***SIGN*** Equipment Room
**[11:04] Sugawara**
But don't you think Kageyama's
mellowed out since junior high?
**[11:08] Tanaka**
What? How has he mellowed out at all?
**[11:10] Tanaka**
The guy's cocky as shit.
**[11:11] Sugawara**
Well... it's like when he was in junior high,
**[11:14] ---**
he had this unwavering confidence.
**[11:16] Sugawara**
Like he was an unprecedented
phenomenon or something.
**[11:20] Tanaka**
Either way he's cocky as hell.
**[11:23] Sugawara**
Sorry, sorry.
**[11:24] ---**
I shouldn't have asked you that.
**[11:26] Tanaka**
Huh?
**[11:37] Hinata**
One...
**[11:39] Hinata**
One more.
**[11:41] Kageyama**
Here goes.
**[11:42] Hinata**
Yeah.
**[11:44] Kageyama**
Go.
**[11:45] Kageyama**
The back.
**[11:46] Hinata**
Got it.
**[11:49] Tsukishima**
Wow, they're really doing this outside.
**[11:53] Tsukishima**
Are you the first-years that stirred
up trouble on the first day?
**[11:57] Yamaguchi**
Tee-shirts? Chilly.
**[11:59] Hinata**
*H-Huge...*
**[12:02] Hinata**
Give it back.
**[12:03] Tsukishima**
Isn't it time for elementary
school boys to go home?
**[12:08] Hinata**
Who are you guys anyway?
**[12:10] Kageyama**
You're the other first-years joining the club?
**[12:12] Hinata**
Hey.
**[12:13] Kageyama**
*He's got height...*
**[12:14] Hinata**
I was talking here.
**[12:15] Kageyama**
You, how tall are you?
**[12:16] Hinata**
Hey.
**[12:17] Yamaguchi**
Tsukki is 188 cm.
**[12:20] Yamaguchi**
He'll be 190 soon.
**[12:22] Hinata**
190?
**[12:23] Tsukishima**
What are you bragging about, Yamaguchi?
**[12:26] Yamaguchi**
Sorry, Tsukki.
**[12:29] Tsukishima**
You're Kageyama of
Kitagawa Daiichi, aren't you?
**[12:32] Tsukishima**
What's an elite like you doing in Karasuno?
**[12:35] Kageyama**
Huh?
**[12:37] Hinata**
Hey.
**[12:39] Hinata**
We won't lose this Saturday, you hear me?
**[12:48] Tsukishima**
Oh, I see.
**[12:50] Tsukishima**
It might be an important match for you two,
**[12:53] Tsukishima**
but it doesn't matter to me at all.
**[12:56] Tsukishima**
I'm not worried about winning or losing,
so if you two really need to win,
**[13:02] Tsukishima**
I can go easy on you if you like.
**[13:03] Hinata**
What?
**[13:06] Kageyama**
Whether you go easy or give it your all,
the bottom line is I will win.
**[13:11] Hinata**
You mean "we."
**[13:13] Tsukishima**
Amazing confidence. I expect
nothing less of the "King."
**[13:18] Kageyama**
Hey. Don't call me that.
**[13:20] Tsukishima**
So it is true.
**[13:21] Kageyama**
What?
**[13:22] Tsukishima**
The rumor that he loses it when
he's called the "King of the Court."
**[13:26] Tsukishima**
What's wrong with "King"? It's cool.
**[13:29] Tsukishima**
I think it suits you perfectly, "King."
**[13:31] Hinata**
*This is out of my hands.*
**[13:33] Kageyama**
What do you want from me, dude?
**[13:42] Tsukishima**
I watched the prefecture
preliminary tournament.
**[13:45] Tsukishima**
That was some egocentric tossing.
**[13:47] Tsukishima**
I can't believe your teammates tolerated it,
because I just couldn't.
**[13:51] Tsukishima**
Oh!
**[13:52] ---**
I guess what happened was because
they couldn't tolerate it any more, either.
**[14:00] Yamaguchi**
Tsukki.
**[14:06] Hinata**
*What's going on?*
**[14:07] Hinata**
*I don't know what they're talking about,*
**[14:10] Hinata**
* but why is he holding*
* back on this creepy guy?*
**[14:13] Hinata**
* Tell him off like you usually would.*
* Say something back at him.*
**[14:18] Kageyama**
Let's go.
**[14:20] Hinata**
Um... hey.
**[14:21] Tsukishima**
Running away?
**[14:23] Tsukishima**
I guess the King isn't what
he's cracked up to be.
**[14:26] Tsukishima**
Maybe I'll win against
the King this Saturday, too.
**[14:33] Hinata**
Shut up with the "King" crap.
**[14:36] Hinata**
I'm here, too.
**[14:38] Tsukishima**
I'll spike the ball over
your head at the match.
**[14:41] Tsukishima**
Huh?
**[14:43] Hinata**
W-What? Hey.
**[14:45] Hinata**
You wanna fight, bastard?
**[14:49] Tsukishima**
Let's not get so intense.
**[14:51] Tsukishima**
Let's do this cheerfully, for fun.
**[14:54] Tsukishima**
It's only a club activity, after all.
**[14:56] Hinata**
What do you mean "only"?
**[14:58] Tsukishima**
I mean, literally.
**[14:59] Tsukishima**
See you later.
**[15:01] Hinata**
Hey, you! Stop!
**[15:02] Hinata**
Who are you guys?
**[15:05] Tsukishima**
First-year class-4, Tsukishima Kei.
**[15:08] Yamaguchi**
I'm Yamaguchi Tadashi.
**[15:10] Tsukishima**
We're your teammates starting today.
**[15:12] Tsukishima**
But enemies for now.
**[15:15] Tsukishima**
Looking forward to seeing the King's tosses.
**[15:18] Yamaguchi**
See ya.
**[15:21] Hinata**
Man, those guys totally give me the creeps.
**[15:24] Hinata**
We'll pummel them to the ground.
**[15:26] Kageyama**
I don't need you to tell me that.
**[15:29] Hinata**
Hey, where are you going?
**[15:31] Kageyama**
Huh?
**[15:32] Hinata**
We're not done yet.
**[15:38] Yamaguchi**
Tsukki, wait up. Is something the matter?
**[15:41] Tsukishima**
Guys that are intense for
no reason get on my nerves.
**[15:45] Tsukishima**
That King...
**[15:47] ---**
and that Shrimp...
**[15:56] Kageyama**
You get in position too slowly.
I told you to focus.
**[15:57] Sugawara**
How much longer are they going to do this?
**[15:59] Hinata**
I know that.
**[16:00] Tanaka**
Who knows?
**[16:02] ---**
I'm so sleepy I can't stand it.
**[16:07] (Flashback) Tsukishima**
King.
**[16:13] Hinata**
Hey, Kageyama.
**[16:14] ---**
It's too dark to see clearly.
Don't hit it so hard.
**[16:18] Kageyama**
Sorry.
**[16:22] Hinata**
*Scary. What's with that guy?*
**[16:24] ---**
*That's not an apologetic look.*
**[16:27] Hinata**
* His nerves have been on edge*
* since he met that big guy.*
**[16:31] Hinata**
*But if he doesn't toss at me, I can't spike.*
**[16:35] Hinata**
*I'll do my best receiving 'til I get a toss.*
**[16:38] Hinata**
All right. Do that again.
**[18:15] Kageyama**
* He couldn't handle*
* a ball like that before.*
**[18:19] Hinata**
Hey, don't go easy on me!
**[18:22] Kageyama**
You asked for it!
**[18:26] Tanaka**
Crap, I overslept.
**[18:28] Tanaka**
I'm tardy, I'm tardy.
I gotta hurry...
**[18:32] Tanaka**
Then, wham, I run into Kiyoko-san,
who's eating bread.
**[18:36] Tanaka**
I wish.
**[18:47] Tanaka**
How long have they been at it?
**[18:50] Sugawara**
It's been fifteen minutes since I got here.
**[18:53] Tanaka**
Fifteen minutes straight?
**[18:54] Tanaka**
What?
**[18:57] Kageyama**
* His great physical abilities make*
* up for his unskillful clumsiness.*
**[19:01] Kageyama**
*But...*
**[19:02] Kageyama**
You've reached your limit now!
**[19:04] Kageyama**
You can't go any further...
**[19:05] Hinata**
Not yet!
**[19:07] Hinata**
I haven't dropped the ball yet!
**[19:10] Kageyama**
Take that.
**[19:11] Tanaka**
Wow, bad character!
How's he supposed to get that?
**[19:14] Kageyama**
*Crap! I didn't mean that...*
**[19:15] Sugawara**
Hinata's athleticism has been
amazing since junior high.
**[19:19] Tanaka**
Huh?
**[19:20] Sugawara**
It's not just that, though.
**[19:22] Sugawara**
I feel like he has the fortitude
to become a winner.
**[19:27] Kageyama**
He has a different weapon,
other than a gifted physique
**[19:31] Kageyama**
or superior athleticism.
**[19:34] Kageyama**
*I can't take it any more.*
**[19:35] Kageyama**
*I want him to stop.*
**[19:37] Kageyama**
*And in the very moment I think that...*
**[19:40] Kageyama**
*one step.*
**[19:47] Tanaka**
He saved it. That's amazing, Hinata!
**[19:51] Kageyama**
* I'll toss to anyone who's*
* essential to winning.*
**[19:55] (Flashback) Kageyama**
But I don't think you're
essential to winning right now.
**[20:02] (Flashback) Hinata**
I don't want to lose any more.
**[20:06] (Flashback) Hinata**
I haven't lost yet.
**[20:15] Tanaka**
A toss?
**[20:16] Sugawara**
Kageyama tossed to him.
**[20:18] Tanaka**
Hinata is too worn out to spike it, though.
**[20:33] Sugawara**
He sure can jump.
**[20:36] Tanaka**
He recovered from being that worn out.
**[20:39] Tanaka**
And look how happy he is.
**[20:41] Sugawara**
I think that meant
something special to Hinata.
**[20:46] (Flashback) Hinata**
We got along so well and
we're friends, but still,
**[20:49] (Flashback) Hinata**
they weren't really teammates.
**[20:52] Sugawara**
We have the ball tossed by the setter.
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That's something we take for granted.
**[20:58] Kageyama**
Hey.
**[21:01] Kageyama**
We're going to win tomorrow.
**[21:05] (Flashback) Sugawara**
But if he was your most formidable opponent...
**[21:09] Hinata**
*...now he's my most formidable ally.*
**[21:15] Hinata**
O-Of course we wi—
**[21:23] Sugawara**
Tanaka, get water, water! And a washrag!
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**[21:44] Kageyama**
Wait up, you idiot!
**[21:49] Tanaka**
What's the point of getting
worn out before the match?
**[21:52] Tanaka**
You'd better rest up.
**[21:56] Hinata**
Damn... That was a draw.
**[21:59] Kageyama**
I won't ever lose to the likes of you.
**[22:02] Hinata**
But...
**[22:06] Hinata**
*He's irritating, and pisses me off...*
**[22:14] Hinata**
*He's going to send me tosses from now on.*
**[22:17] Hinata**
*Tosses from the setter!*
**[22:20] Hinata**
You and I are gonna win today.
**[22:25] Kageyama**
Let's get ready.
**[22:27] Hinata**
Yeah.
**[22:28] Tsukishima**
Morning, King.
**[22:35] Hinata**
*I'll...*
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* break through any wall.*
* You'll see.*
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**[24:13] Yamaguchi**
That Kageyama's not all
he's cracked up to be.
**[24:15] Yamaguchi**
He couldn't even talk back to you, Tsukki.
**[24:17] Tsukishima**
Shut up, Yamaguchi.
**[24:18] Yamaguchi**
Sorry, Tsukki!
**[24:19] Tsukishima**
Well, let's see what the King is made of.
**[24:21] Hinata**
And that Shrimp, too.
**[24:23] Hinata**
Grrr!
**[24:24] Hinata**
Next time on *Haikyu!!*:
"The View From the Summit."
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