The Prince of Tennis: The Quincy of Rikkai University.

Chapter 175: The semifinals quickly passed the Immovable Peak, the dark horse could not defeat the king

After the game is over, the contestants from both sides line up and salute each other before leaving the stage.

As the players from both schools left, the spectators who came to watch the game naturally left one after another.

The explosive news that Hyotei will miss the national tournament will probably spread throughout Tokyo's junior high school tennis community before tomorrow.

"Maya, the serve you just made in the match was..."

On the bus, on the way back, Yukimura Seiichi curiously asked about the serve of Yuki Maya in today's match that he had never seen before.

Not only Yukimura Seiichi, but also other regular players including Sanada Genichirō were listening attentively and quietly.

"Well, this move is called the virtual flash. It was indeed used by me during last winter vacation..."

Maya Yuuki picked out some things to say and explained them to Seiichi Yukimura, and also told the other people present about her and Sanada's experience during the winter vacation.

After all, it was not something shameful, but it aroused everyone's interest and they started asking questions one after another.

Their chat was still going on until the bus stopped at the gate of Rikkai University.

……

After the first round of the Kanto Conference ends, the second round will not begin until a week later.

During this week, all the qualified schools will not be able to rest, but will have to prepare more attentively.

Rikkai University's second round opponent is Kyōyo Junior High School, a regular at the Kanto Conference, whose strength is not as good as Hyotei's in the first round.

The whole process only took about forty-five minutes and we easily won the game 3-0.

On the same day, the top four teams of the Kanto Conference were announced.

They are Kanagawa Ritkai University, Tokyo Fudomine, Chiba Rokkaku Junior High School and Tokyo Seigakuin.

There are only two games in the third round of semi-finals.

Rikkai University vs. Fudomine
Hexagon vs. Youth School

"Fudomine... a school I've never heard of."

When the list of semi-finalists came out, Kirihara Akaya's eyes were full of confusion because he had never heard of this school.

He looked eagerly at Yanagi Renji, the intelligence specialist of Rikkai University, who said calmly, "I haven't collected much information about our opponent tomorrow, Fudomine Junior High School."

"But what's worth noting is that this school played an important role in Hyotei becoming the fifth seed this year."

"But Hyotei also underestimated their opponents. Their overall strength was not strong, and there was only one national-level player in the team."

"And everyone is familiar with this person. He is Tachibana Yoshihei, one of the two heroes of Kyushu who lost to Yuki at the national tournament last year."

Yanagi Renji told everyone the information he had collected.

"Pfft, how did Shishile's ace end up in an unknown school in Tokyo? I really don't understand. Is there some hidden story behind this?"

Niou Masaharu has already imagined some novel plots about the love-hate relationship between Tachibana Yoshihei and Shishiraku.

"My intelligence does not contain any information on this aspect, but this is not something we need to know. The only thing to pay attention to in this match with Fudomine is that the opponent may use the same tactics against us as they did against Hyotei."

Listening to Yanagi Renji's story, Sanada Genichirō nodded slightly. He had absolute trust in Yanagi Renji's professional ability.

"Then let's arrange tomorrow's game like this."

After the main players discussed with each other, the list of players for tomorrow's match was finalized.

the next morning.

The Rikkai University team showed up at the Kanto Conference venue on time and arrived at the location of their competition today.

A few minutes later, the members of Fudo Peak also arrived here one after another.

The players from both teams just glanced at each other without saying hello.

After all, the two sides are not familiar with each other. Even Tachibana Jiping was just an opponent last year, and they have no private communication.

"The Kanto Conference semi-finals, Rikkai University vs. Fudomine begins."

"Please invite the second doubles players from both teams to enter the court."

Soon, the match started. Fudomine sent out the combination of Ishida Tetsu and Sakurai Masaya. Just as Yanagi Renji guessed, the opponent used the same lineup that they used to fight against Hyotei II.

However, the doubles team of Rikkai University is Marui Bunta and Yanagi Renji.

The gap in strength between the two sides is not even on the same level.

砰

砰

砰

...

Inside the stadium, the sound of the ball hitting the ball lasted less than eighteen minutes before it suddenly stopped.

"Game, Rikkai University won, the score was 6 to 0."

During the game, Ishida Tetsu tried to win the game with his wave ball, however, this immature power could not pose any threat to Rikkai University.

Yanagi Renji, who had fought against Shitenhoji's speed combination last year, calmly counterattacked a wave ball of this level, shattering the opponent's only remaining hope.

After the first game, the second doubles match will start.

This time, Fudomine sent out Ibu Shinji and Kamio Akira, who were originally supposed to appear in the second and third singles positions.

The intention of this combination of Fudomine is too obvious.

However, when the Rikkai University team came on the field, all the Fudomine members' faces changed.

For this match, Rikkai University sent out Genichirō Sanada and Masaharu Niou.

All of Fudomine's little tricks were seen through by Yanagi Renji.

"Game, Rikkai University won, the score was 6 to 0."

In less than twenty minutes, the first doubles match was over.

On the field, the Fudomine duo half-crouched on the ground in embarrassment, gasping for breath with their chests heaving violently.

Opposite them, Niou Masaharu was casually carrying the racket on his shoulder with a foxy smile on his face.

Genichirō Sanada put away his racket expressionlessly, without even a drop of sweat on his body.

After two games, Fudomine was two points behind and only had one game left to be eliminated.

"How could this be?! Brother, and everyone else..."

In the audience seats behind the Fudo Peak preparation area, a short-haired girl covered her mouth tightly, her eyes already red.

She is Tachibana Jiping's sister, Tachibana An.

She watched her brother come a long way, leaving the comfort zone of Shishiroku, moving to Tokyo and joining Fudomine.

After experiencing violent incidents, he set up a new tennis club with great difficulty, and then led like-minded juniors to fight their way out step by step starting from the regional preliminaries.

She sees the difficulties and hardships along the way more clearly than anyone else.

Without everyone’s mutual support, Fudo Peak would not have been able to get to this point.

They had also shown their desire for the Kanto Championship, but now, all of this was about to come to an end. Facing the king of Kanto, Fudomine's indomitable will had no effect.

The so-called dark horse becomes vulnerable in the face of absolute strength.

In Fudomine's team, compared to the other teammates who had sad expressions on their faces, Tachibana Yoshihei remained calm.

He already knew the result before the game started.

With the strength of Rikkai University, even his former alma mater, Shishigaku, which is one of the top four in the country, is no match for it, let alone Fudomine, which is now even weaker in overall strength.

Only by facing Rikkai University in person can one understand how powerful the opponent is.

By reaching the semi-finals of the Kanto Conference and securing a spot in the National Conference, he had already achieved his goal for this Kanto Conference.

And in his opinion, this game was just a chance to train his players and let them feel in advance what the strength of the national champion is like.

(End of this chapter)