The Prince of Tennis: The Quincy of Rikkai University.

Chapter 158 A Different Qingxue
"Are you leaving Lion Music after all?"

Looking at the calm face of Tachibana Jiping not far away, people who don’t know him would probably find it difficult to connect him with the two heroes of Kyushu who were so high-spirited last year.

Similarly, the opponent's current appearance means that his strength has declined due to his emotional knot, and his strength is not as good as before.

Before the final began, the classic scene happened without any surprise.

Ibu Shinji of Fudomine closed his eyes and juggled the ball with the edge of his racket, and then Echizen Ryoma seemed to think that no one could be more pretentious than him, and immediately raised his head to drink soda while closing his eyes and also juggling the ball with the edge of his racket.

After a round of silent fighting, the two sides went to their respective preparation areas at the urging of the referee.

Not long after that, the first game officially began.

First up was the doubles match. Just as I remembered, Seigaku sent out Shusuke Fuji and Takashi Kawamura, who had just become a regular starter in his third year.

On the Fudomine side, there is the combination of Masaya Sakurai and Tetsu Ishida.

Ryuusaki Sumire's deployment of troops is still as confusing as ever. Letting Fuji Shusuke play doubles is no different from destroying his own arms.

However, when the game started, the subsequent situation was completely different from what Maya Yuuki remembered.

The butterfly effect he brought about finally had a feedback effect.

The Fuji Shusuke in this world line is no longer the Fuji Shusuke in the original timeline.

After being "destroyed" by many strong players last year, Fuji Shusuke has changed his lazy mentality and worked hard to practice tennis skills after the national conference.

The goal is to avoid repeating the same disastrous defeat as before this year.

Only twenty minutes had passed on the field, and the score was already 4-0.

Apart from serving and the balls that he had to receive, Kawamura Takashi had basically no room to perform. This game was entirely a personal show for Fuji Shusuke.

The strength of the other three players was far superior, making the game one-sided.
"Wow, as expected of the best sixteen of last year's national competition, what an overwhelming strength!"

"Is this the strength of one of the two pillars of Qingxue? It's really amazing."

"He's a genius. It's said that his ability in Qingxue is second only to their president."

Although in the minds of everyone in Qingxue, last year was a year in which they were taught a lesson by various strong teams.

However, in the eyes of many schools in the same division, Seigaku, led by Kunimitsu Tezuka last year, was a very inspirational team.

After struggling all the way, they won the runner-up in the Capital Conference, made it to the semi-finals of the Kanto Conference, and finally became one of the top 16 teams in the National Conference.

This experience is a very enviable result for many teams that have never even entered the Kanto Conference.

As a result, Seigaku's fame has soared in its native Tokyo.

That is why many local Tokyo spectators came to watch the regional qualifiers.

As the main singles players of the Seigaku team, Kunimitsu Tezuka and Shusuke Fuji received the most attention.

The nickname "Seiugaku Twins" has gradually spread in the Tokyo region since the end of the national conference last year.

砰

The sound of the ball hitting the ground was heard again from Fudomine's half of the field.

The game has entered the fifth inning, and there were no surprises in this inning. The Fudomine duo could not limit Fuji Shusuke's performance at all, and they lost two goals in just a few minutes.

"Damn it, Minister!"

Ishida Tetsu was extremely anxious on the court. After experiencing the opponent's strength personally, he knew that they had no chance of winning with their current strength.

However, Ishida Tetsu did not want to admit defeat just like that. He still had a trick he had practiced hard but had not yet used it. However, he had agreed with the minister, Tachibana Yoshihei, that this trick could only be used with the other party's permission.

This is also the reason why Ishida is shouting to Tachibana Yoshihei with an anxious look.

Sitting in the coaching seat, Tachibana Yoshihei looked at the gaze of Ishida Tetsu with a calm expression. After a moment of hesitation, he made a "one" gesture with his fingers.

Ishida Tie understood and was immediately overjoyed. When he saw the tennis ball hit by the opponent, he immediately caught up with it. The muscles in his arms tightened and swelled, as if he was accumulating strength. "Look at my wave ball."

An orange beam of energy burst out from the racket swung by Ishida Tetsu.

The momentum of this goal seemed quite extraordinary, which surprised some spectators who had never seen the world.

However, Fuji Shusuke on the other side of the court fixed his eyes, and in an instant he thought of the national conference last year when they played against Shitenhoji and one of the players also used this trick.

"The power...is a bit far behind."

Compared with the power of the wave ball he saw at that time, the wave ball that Fuji Shusuke saw now did not make him feel any sense of danger.

Maybe he used to find this ball a little tricky, but now, it is different.

"Kawamura, get out of the way."

Fuji Shusuke stopped his partner Kawamura Takashi from catching the ball, and at the same time he quickly stepped forward and blocked the flight path of the wave ball.

He held the racket with both hands and after the tennis ball collided with the racket, there was only a stalemate of less than a breath before Fuji Shusuke hit the ball back with his skill.

"Sure enough, it's really different."

Looking at the scene happening in front of her, Yuki Maya was not surprised at all. The current Fuji Shusuke was much stronger than he was at this time.

This half-baked wave ball technique of Tetsu Ishida is nothing to the current Fuji Shusuke.

After their trump card was easily countered, the morale of Fudomine's second doubles team plummeted and they quickly lost the game.

The first game is over, and then the first doubles match of the second game begins.

Kikumaru Eiji and Oishi Shuichiro of Seigaku faced off against Mori Tatsunori and Uchimura Kyosuke of Fudomine.

Because they won all the games in the rookie competition after the national competition last year, Kikumaru and Oishi finally earned the nickname "Golden Combination".

The first doubles match ended faster than the previous one.

After a period of training, the golden combination completely crushed the Fudomine pair in terms of strength and tacit understanding, a young doubles combination that could not even reach the Kanto level.

They easily won the game with a score of 6-0.

On the contrary, in the third singles match of the third game, Qingxue fell into crisis.

Fudomine's third singles player, Akira Kamio, once reached match point with the score at 5-3.

But in the end, they were dragged into the seventh game by Kaoru Kaido of Seigaku with his tenacious perseverance, and finally won with a score of 7 to 5.

"The competition is over. The champion of this regional preliminaries is Youth Academy."

The final took a total of one and a half hours to come to an end.

Seigaku swept Fudomine Junior High School with a total score of 3-0 and won.

After losing the game, although the other members of Fudomine looked somewhat disappointed, Tachibana Yoshihei, who did not participate in the game, remained expressionless.

The defeat in the final was within his expectations. Given Fudomine's current overall strength, it was already a slim chance for them to win against Seigaku, one of the top 16 teams in the country.

By winning the runner-up and qualifying for the Metropolitan Conference, Tachibana Jiping has achieved his goal.

……

Outside the stadium, Maya Yuuki watched the final silently and had a rough estimate of the overall strength of Seigaku.

Today's Seigaku has already begun to have the potential to be the runner-up in Kanto.

However, he always felt that something seemed to be missing in this game. After thinking about it carefully, he suddenly realized it.

So, Ryoma Echizen's first appearance is gone just like that? !

(End of this chapter)