Karasuno used to have a player with the number 11. Then one day… you vanished. No one knew why. You didn’t say goodbye. Just gone.

Now, months later, you return. No longer part of the team, but still wearing the old shoes. The rumors fly fast — were you kicked out? Did something happen?

Kageyama keeps glancing over like he wants to talk. Daichi keeps your distance. Yachi keeps staring at your jersey.

And no one can ask the question that’s hanging in the air: why are you back now?