The Prince of Tennis: The Quincy of Rikkai University.

Chapter 157 Yukimura's Current Situation, New Year's Regional Qualifiers
All matters of the tennis club are still handled entirely by Genichirō Sanada.

Naturally, everyone at Rikkai University is always concerned about the current situation of Yukimura Seiichi.

After visiting once at the national convention, Maya Yuuki also went to the hospital alone to visit during the spring break.

Now Yukimura Seiichi's condition has basically stabilized. After school started, he even attended classes for a few days accompanied by medical staff.

However, a stable condition does not mean that it has been cured, and this time bomb still exists.

Just after school started, a week before the regional preliminaries, Yuuki Maya and others received a piece of news.

Seiichi Yukimura decided to have surgery.

It is an extremely risky operation, but it is currently the only way to cure this disease.

The next day after receiving the news, everyone from Rikkai University came to the hospital to visit Yukimura Seiichi, including Jack Sangyuan who had already retired from the club and Mori Jusaburo who had graduated and entered the high school department.

Looking at everyone's worried expressions, Seiichi Yukimura still remained calm, as if this operation was nothing to him.

However, his actions made the hearts of everyone present even heavier. Even Maya Yuuki, who already knew the result, couldn't help but feel a little nervous.

After all, the timeline has changed slightly with his arrival, and who knows if there will be any accidents in this regard.

However, no one wanted to persuade him. They all knew that since Seiichi Yukimura had made the decision, he would never regret it easily.

All everyone can do is pray that the operation will be successful.

"The surgery will be in early June. Maybe I can make it to the Kanto Conference by then." Yukimura Seiichi smiled optimistically and told everyone present the time of the surgery.

"Well, we will wait for you to come back. Let's fulfill our original promise together at this year's national conference."

Genichirō Sanada said very seriously that he hoped Yukimura Seiichi would recover soon more than anyone else.

"Sanada, and everyone else, thank you for your hard work in the tennis club during my absence. I will do my best to get you discharged from the hospital as soon as possible."

In the face of Yukimura Seiichi's assurance, everyone just nodded silently and didn't say anything more on this topic.

After returning from the hospital, at the beginning of a new week, the freshmen in the tennis club felt that the atmosphere in the club began to become dull and even a little depressing.

After some observation, the freshmen found that this change was reflected in the fact that the regular players spoke less.

The next day.

At the regular selection meeting, since the regional qualifiers are approaching, the content of today's meeting is how to arrange the lineup for the qualifiers.

By the way, this year's Rikkai University's main qualifying round has ended, and as expected, there have been no changes in Rikkai University's main members.

The only change is that Kirihara Akaya, who was originally a substitute, took over the starting seat for the departed Mori Jusaburo.

As for Yukimura Seiichi's regular seat, it was retained without any dispute.

"Yuuki, what do you think about this year's preliminaries?"

At this moment, Genichirō Sanada spoke, wanting to see what Maya Yuuki thought.

"I don't have any ideas. Why not let Kirihara lead the team and let him take the second-year members of the Second Army with him."

Yuuki Maya answered casually, not taking the matter too seriously.

It's just a regional qualifier. It's an exaggeration to let the second team play.

"Well, Yuki is right. We should let the younger generations participate in this kind of competition. It will also allow them to accumulate some competition experience." Yanagi Renji agreed with Yuki Maya's words.

"Eh, let me lead the team?" Kirihara Akaya asked back in confusion. He never thought that one day he would be the one leading the team. Seeing Kirihara Akaya's reaction, Sanada Genichirō sighed secretly, and Yanagi Renji also frowned slightly.

The reason why the two behaved like this was very simple, because they had once discussed with Yuuki Maya in private who would be more suitable to be the next director of Rikkai University after their group left.

No one expected that Sanada, who usually had the harshest attitude towards Kirihara, actually supported him to become the minister.

However, Yanagi Renji calmly pointed out at the time that Kirihara Akaya was too impatient and was not the first choice for the position of minister.

After the two discussed for a long time, it was finally Maya Yuuki who spoke up and said that everything should be discussed after Seiichi Yukimura returned, and the topic was ended.

But it was obvious that since that day, the two of them had taken this matter completely to heart.

That was why the attitude shown by Kirihara Akaya just now made both of them unhappy.

"It's settled then, Kirihara. You will lead the team in this qualifying round. Don't let the seniors down." Genichirō Sanada said seriously.

"Yes, I understand!"

Kirihara Akaya's body shuddered and he immediately agreed.

Yanagi Renji glanced at Sanada and said nothing. He knew that Sanada intended to take this opportunity to cultivate Kirihara's leadership ability.

In fact, in his heart, he prefers Kirihara Akaya, but reason tells him that Kirihara Akaya is not suitable to be the minister.

Afterwards, the topic of the regional qualifiers ended, and then everyone began to discuss this year's national conference.

……

Time passed quietly, and before we knew it, it was time for the regional qualifiers to begin.

As planned at the meeting, Akaya Kirihara led the team to the competition venue, and most of the other regular players went to watch the game.

But Yuuki Maya didn't go, for a simple reason: it was too boring.

It's just to see how Kirihara Akaya and the people from the second army bully the weak ones in various ways. It's not interesting.

Instead, it was because he had met Ryoma Echizen before that he came to Tokyo on this day.

The reason for coming was simple, he just wanted to see, after a difficult national conference last year, and now with Echizen Ryoma joining, what level of overall strength has Seigaku achieved after more than half a year of accumulation.

At this moment, in Shi-no-Mori Sports Park, the final of the Tokyo Youth TV Regional Qualifiers is about to begin.

In the crowd, Maya Yuuki, who came specially, was not wearing the overly conspicuous official uniform of the Rikkai University Tennis Club, but was wearing casual clothes.

This was something he had learned from last year's experience, so that no one would disturb him from concentrating on watching the game.

In front of him, the two teams in the final had already arrived at the stadium.

On one side were the players from Seigaku in their blue and white uniforms, and on the other side were the dark horses of this year's qualifiers, the players from Fudomine Junior High School, all in their black uniforms.

In the formation of Fudomine, Yuuki Maya saw the familiar figure through the crowd.

The two heroes of Kyushu, Tachibana Yoshihei, who had fought against him at the national conference last year, had changed their appearance and were no longer the arrogant and unruly long golden hair.

His hair was dyed jet black and his hair was shaved into a buzz cut.

Now, Tachibana Jiping has restrained his aura and has become a calm and composed team leader.

(End of this chapter)