Chapter 17

**Receive Anxiety** (レシーブの心 (しん) 配 (ぱい) , *Reshību no Shinpai*?) is the 17th chapter of the High School Family manga series.

## Summary

During their routine commute to high school, Ichiro practices catching a ball at the train station as Kotaro and Gomez worry at the sight of him.

At the volleyball team practice, Kotaro along with Susumu are watching Ichiro as Kotaro is worried if his father is getting along with the rest of the team, Kotaro mentions that the Happee High School team is good and fears that Ichiro is a burden to the team, Susumu tells him that he is right since a 45-year-old surrounded by teenagers is not a good idea, at that moment Suzaki makes a shot surprising the players, Kotaro and Susumu, Kotaro mentions that it is really good and Susumu explains that his name is Tohru and he is the ace of the team in his first year so Kotaro thinks he is just like him.

Meanwhile the team manager Kotone Akai, is watching Tohru, Kotaro mentions that he doesn't see his dad anywhere and Susumu tells him that he is right at that moment Ichiro enters the gym telling Kotone that he already mixed the sports drinks, Kotone asks the reason for his delay so Ichiro only apologizes, Kotaro is surprised to see this while Akai mentions to Ichiro that he mixed too much so he should do it again to which Ichiro obeys him, Kotaro seeing the situation He mentions that his father is being totally bullied by the manager and that he does not have that treatment in the tennis team.

Ichiro returns with the drinks so the team rests from their training, while the team have their drinks Suzaki looks at Ichiro and recognizes him, Ichiro approaches Suzaki and tells him that it was a good service earlier to which Suzaki Ichiro ignores him, Kotone tells him not to try to distract him to which Ichiro apologizes, Kotone tells him that he studied in the same middle school as Suzaki and that despite being a good player he felt lonely because of his skills and that right now he is Feeling the same way, Ichiro mentions that he was also in middle school and that school no longer exists, so he begins to cry as Kotone comforts him.

In training, Suzaki will serve the ball so the rest of the players are scared, Seitaro yells at them that he is only a first year student and not to be scared, while serving Suzaki says that he is bored at that moment he watches Ichiro and he hits the ball out of the court, everyone is surprised to see that Suzaki made a mistake at that moment Ichiro runs towards the ball and receives it back to Suzaki, everyone in the gym is surprised and Ichiro yells at Suzaki to get it under control, Suzaki approaches Ichiro, Ichiro asks if he threw it on purpose while Suzaki evades the question and tells him that she received that ball very easily and that she hopes that one day they can play together as she heads to the court making Ichiro happy, Seeing this, Kotaro thinks that his father will be fine, only to what Susumu tells him that he should better worry about his abilities.

## Characters In Order of Appearance

* Ichiro Ietani
* Kotaro Ietani
* Gomez
* Susumu Nishi
* Tohru Suzaki
* Kotone Akai (Debut)
* Seitaro Naruse
* Toya Nagai

## Trivia

* It is revealed that Ichiro studied at Cozee Middle School where it would later be revealed that Kawato would study.