The Prince of Tennis: The Quincy of Rikkai University.

Chapter 12 New Students, Seaweed Head's Ambition

After watching the game, Yuuki Maya and her family traveled in France for two days before returning home.

Then, with the winter vacation over, it is time for junior high school students to go back to school.

The daily campus life after returning to school is still boring, but after more than two months, the entire first semester of junior high school officially came to an end, and the spring break arrived.

During the entire spring break, Yuuki Maya only did two things except for a few occasional dates with Kanzaki Tomoyo.

One is to practice Quincy at home, and the other is to hone his tennis skills at a nearby tennis club.

Although he won the brief match against Zeus in France, Maya Yuuki still found many of his shortcomings, especially in the mastery of the sweet spot technique, which is the area he needs to focus on practicing.

There was also the encounter with Reinhard. Although they did not fight, the faint aura emanating from the opponent made him very fearful. As a Quincy, Yuuki Maya's intuition told him that it would be very difficult for him to defeat Reinhard at that time.

……

The short two-week spring break passed quickly, and in early April, it was time for new students to enroll.

At this moment, at the entrance of Rikkai University, countless middle school students poured in from all directions.

Yuuki Maya was naturally in the crowd, and she was still accompanied by Kanzaki Tomoyo. Suddenly, a spirited shout came from nearby: "I want to become the strongest tennis player in Rikkai University!"

He paused for a moment and looked towards the source of the sound in front of the door, and saw a young man with hair as messy as seaweed.

The other person had a confident smile on his face, and his eyes were fixed on the gate of Rikkai University with an expectant look.

Seeing this scene, Yuuki Maya suddenly remembered that the seaweed-haired guy in front of her also entered Rikkai University at this time.

"What are you looking at?" Kanzaki Chiyo asked in confusion when she saw him stop.

"Nothing, let's go." After staring at the other person for a moment, Yuuki Maya calmly took Kamijou Tomoyo past the middle school boy.

"It looks like the tennis club will be very busy today."

Some memories came back to him, making him look forward to today's tennis club recruitment.

Maya Yuuki naturally recognized who the other person was, but since they didn't know each other, there was no need to communicate.

Ding--

The bell for the last class of the new semester rang.

As soon as the teacher announced the end of get out of class, the silent classroom immediately became chaotic.

The students who were close to each other started planning their club activities after class in groups of three or five, and at this time, Maya Yuuki also stood up to pack her textbooks.

After declining the overly enthusiastic invitations from several female classmates, he took out his tennis bag from his locker and put it on his shoulder, preparing to head to the tennis club.

A few minutes later he arrived at the entrance of the tennis club and found that the new student registration desk was already full of people.

"Wow! There are too many people!"

Just as Yuki Maya stopped to observe the freshmen, Marui Bunta came up from behind him with a tennis bag in his hand, his eyes wide open, and exclaimed.

Marui Bunta's surprise was not exaggerated, although there were many freshmen who applied to join the tennis club last year, and he was one of them at that time.

But it is obvious that the number of people this year is even more exaggerated, far beyond his expectations.

However, Marui Fumi knew that this was all because their Rikkai University tennis club won the national championship last year, so it was understandable that there were so many people now. And it just seemed that the number was exaggerated now, but when the tennis club started training new students, only a few people who really loved tennis would stay.

Those who follow the trend will slowly eliminate themselves in the subsequent rigorous training.

"Leave the new students' matters to Sanada and the others, let's go." Yuuki Maya didn't have much desire to stay and watch.

"Oh, got it." Marui Bunta responded, and after staring at Jack Sangyuan who was sitting there busy processing the application forms for new students, he followed Yuuki Maya's steps and walked into the practice field exclusively for the regulars.

Here, Yanagi Renji, who had arrived earlier than them, had already started physical training. When he saw the two people coming in, he just glanced at them and then looked away.

Yuuki Maya and Marui Bunta didn't say anything, and they separated in tacit understanding and started their own practice.

After a long time, the number of people in the recruitment department decreased little by little, until there were only a few people left.

On the other side of the venue, this year's freshmen also began basic training under the command of Genichirō Sanada.

However, just as Yuuki Maya and other regular players were still concentrating on training, a commotion was heard from the freshmen who were still practicing basic swings on the next court.

"Huh? What happened over there? Why is it so noisy?" Marui Bunta stopped what he was doing first and looked over there with some curiosity.

"I'm not sure. Let's go over and take a look later. But since Sanada is there, nothing should happen to him." Yanagi Renji was also a little confused, but he didn't show any worry.

Only Yuuki Maya remained calm, as he probably had guessed what had happened.

……

In the stadium area where newcomers gather.

"I've had enough of this boring training!"

A young man with seaweed hair stopped playing with the racket in his hand in annoyance.

He was here to defeat the so-called Big Four of the Rikkai University tennis club, not to do these basic exercises like playing house.

"Hey, you guys are official members of the tennis club, right? Have your captain come out and play against me."

He walked up to the two seniors who were supervising the newcomers and spoke in a arrogant tone.

"Little devil, do you know what you are talking about!"

The faces of the seniors who were being questioned changed immediately. They were a little frightened. Was this guy in front of them crazy? How dare he directly cause trouble for their minister?

"My name is Kirihara Akaya, and my purpose in coming here is to dominate Rikkai University and make your so-called Big Four come out and compete with me."

The seaweed-haired boy looked at the two seniors with contempt. He couldn't wait to defeat the strongest player in the tennis club and become the strongest.

"You, the Minister is not someone you can challenge just because you want to—"

One of the senior students was about to scold Kirihara Akaya when his companion patted him on the shoulder and interrupted him with his eyes, signaling him to look to the side.

He turned his head and saw a man named Genichirō Sanada, wearing a black baseball cap, with a serious look and a slightly mature appearance, walking slowly towards him with a stern face.

After glancing at Kirihara Akaya, he questioned the senior student who was arguing with him:
"What happened? Shouldn't it be time for the newbies to practice tennis? You're being too lax—"

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(End of this chapter)