Lily Naruse

**"Insignificant being be gone!"**

**Lily Naruse** (Japanese: **成瀬 リリー** *Naruse Rirī*) was previously a 3rd-year student from Shiratorizawa Academy. She was the Boys` Volleyball Team manager and was referred to as the "Flash Tactician" by her team for her ability to detect even the slightest hand-signal and convey it to her team by using hand signals. As of 2018, she has become a university student at Bellatrix University, and has become wealthy by inheriting her late mother`s immense wealth, and by making money as a well-sought after voice actress, and in addition by starting her own company; Verdant Leaves which is a Voice Actress Company. She is Komori Yuuki, Akira Yuuki, and Aiya Yuuki`s family friend, and is one of Komori and Akira`s roommates.

## Appearance

Lily Naruse is a short girl with short black hair and grey eyes. Most of the time, she wears a seifuku consisting of a white long-sleeved top with a collar and grey buttons, a white shirt underneath with a collar with what appears to be a light grey butterfly on it, a grey bow around the neck, a long white skirt, a pair of black tights and a pair of brown uwabaki. She also wears casual outfits outside of school.

## Personality

At a young age, Lily was very talkative and cheerful, however that all changed when her parents divorced. Several months later, when her younger half-brother was born, Lily started to blame Shinji and refused to even interact with her father unless she was forced to. Typically, she displays a calm and composed personality, and doesn`t get fired up about anything unless it has to do with her younger half-brother or whenever the players on the Boys` Volleyball Team are slacking off. She has a tendency to be overly blunt, and does not sugarcoat her words even the slightest bit when it comes to complimenting people, she does so genuinely. As noted by her alias of Flash Tactician, she always has a strategy up her sleeve and is very skilled in academics actually being the smartest among the third-years on her team, and the smartest in her entire grade, serving as the Class`s President.

Lily rarely shows emotions; as such, she usually ends up giving a cold impression to others, but it is shown that she does care about her friends and notices small upsets in their behavior. An example is when they were younger Lily noticed Semi getting upset with an upperclassmen at their school and stopped the fighting by forcing them to eat Yana`s horrible cooking, as well as compliment her on the making of the dishes. Another can be seen later on in the manga when she admits that she tries hard to develop winning strategies for the Boys` Volleyball Team. Despite her modest personality, Lily was actually a former U-19 Player on the Girls` Volleyball Team, serving as their famed libero and was an all-rounded player before a severe injury forced her to retire from playing volleyball. Despite being forced to retire from volleyball, Lily has retained her love for volleyball and is often found aiding the libero on the team that she currently manages.

## Background

Lily`s father was a second division volleyball player who used to attend Shiratorizawa; his generation is rumored to have won first place at Nationals. However, Lily`s father had to retire due to an injury and then married Lily`s mother, taking on her surname in the process. Sometime later, when Lily was still very young, her parents divorced and her father remarried; Lily ended up taking on her mother`s last name.

During her childhood, Lily`s father who had remarried to a new woman welcomed a baby boy into his family, causing Lily to be immensely jealous and she distanced herself from her father from then on, refusing to even interact with him or her younger half-brother. He suddenly approached her one-day, while she was stressing over what High Schools to apply to, considering her extraordinary grades and chance for an academic, or even musical scholarship. She slapped Shinji in the face, yelled at him, packed her bags and left the house on a train back home to her mother`s house. While her mother was disappointed, she was understanding of her behavior and pointedly told Lily`s father, his wife, and Lily`s younger half-brother to stay away from her daughter from now on and encouraged her daughter to continue in volleyball.

Taking her mother`s advice to heart, Lily joins one of the strongest volleyball teams in the country, starting with Shiratorizawa Junior High. Even back then, she was rivals with Shinji Watari, Oikawa, and Iwaizumi. Besides being the ace of Shiratorizawa Academy`s Girls` Volleyball Team, Lily was also an under 19 representative for Japan for the Youth World Championship before being ordered to retire from volleyball completely by her team`s medical doctors.

## Plot

### **Karasuno High Team Formation Arc**

Lily gets featured as the number two female ace in Miyagi prefecture in a volleyball magazine that the Karasuno High players are reading.

### **Interhigh Arc**

Shiratorizawa plays against Ohgiminami (2:0 / 25-10, 25-6). Before the Shiratorizawa vs Aobajohsai match starts, Ushijima and Oikawa shake hands, and Oikawa announces that he'll win. However, in the end, Aobajohsai can’t stop Ushijima’s powerful spikes and Shiratorizawa wins. Lily comments on how Aobajohsai is the exact opposite of them in terms of strategy and Ushijima nods his head, with Lily telling him to show a little more emotion.