The Prince of Tennis: The Quincy of Rikkai University

Outside the venue, there was a sudden noise from outside the audience seats, and from the entrance of Area B, several junior high school students in khaki uniforms walked in one after the other.

"Hey, aren't those the regulars from Rikkai University?"

"What!? Why are people from Rikkai University here? Don't they have a match today?"

"Could it be that it hasn't started yet? That shouldn't be the case. Today, the first round of the competition in Area A and Area B will be held at the same time."

"Isn't it -- the competition is over?"

"Is this true?! It's only been less than an hour!"

Their appearance also caused a sensation, and the players from Seigaku and Yamabuki on the field naturally turned around to look when they heard the noise.

For a moment, Rikkai University's starting players became the protagonists on the court, and everyone seemed to have forgotten that there were two other schools competing.

"Yuki, we are here." Sanada came from behind with everyone and reunited with Yuki Maya.

"You guys are quite fast. It looks like you won easily." Yuuki Maya chuckled.

"Hehe, Senior Yuki, why don't you guess who won this race." Kirihara Aka also jumped out and said mysteriously.

"Oh?! It seems that the winner is not Sanada." Kirihara Akaya's strange behavior also aroused Yuuki Maya's curiosity.

He thought that if nothing unexpected happened, it should be Genichirō Sanada who would take the shortest time.

"Sanada took fourteen minutes this time, which ranks only third among these five games." Yanagi Renji explained calmly: "By the way, my time was fifteen minutes, ranking fourth."

Yanagi Renji's words made Yuuki Maya even more curious. Logically speaking, a singles match should be easier and faster to finish than a doubles match, but now it sounded like the doubles match seemed to end faster.

"Humph, the opponent discovered our intention to end the game as soon as possible. When it came to singles, we served every ball until the last second."

Without leaving Maya Yuuki to guess too much, Marui Bunta pointed out the key in one sentence.

"I see. Then who is the fifth place?" Yuuki Maya nodded to show that she understood, but did not immediately ask the first place. Instead, she asked the fifth place first.

"Pfft, it's us."

Niou Masaharu raised his hand to express his opinion, but Yagyu Hiroshi on the side took a step back, adjusted his glasses, and said in a disdainful tone: "A certain guy has relapsed into his old habit of teasing his opponent during a fight."

"It took Niou Masaharu and his companions eighteen minutes." Yanagi Renji silently revealed the answer.

"That is to say, one of the team of Kirihara and Marui is the first." Yuuki Maya looked at Kirihara Akaya in surprise and said, "So, Kirihara is the first, right?"

"Hehe, yes, it's me." Kirihara Akaya puffed out his chest proudly.

"Kirhara took five minutes because his opponent gave up after five minutes." Yanagi Renji continued calmly.

When Yuuki Maya heard what Yanagi Renji said, she immediately understood what was going on, but it seemed very reasonable when she thought about it.

Kirihara Akaya's playing style will make it so that most of his opponents either cannot finish the game at all, becoming small fries crushers, or they will be quickly defeated immediately when they encounter opponents they cannot beat, leaving them no room for resistance.

An idea suddenly occurred to Yuuki Maya, and she suddenly spoke. "Well done, Kirihara. Since you won the first place in this race, I decided to give you a reward."

"Ha, you're so polite, senior." Kirihara Akaya's eyes flashed, and he seemed to be looking forward to this gift.

"Sanada, after the Kanto tournament is over and before the national tournament begins, Kirihara will be in the same group with me for all his practice matches, and I will personally coach him." Maya Yuuki said to Genichirō Sanada in a serious tone.

"No problem, just ask Liu to rearrange the table when we get back." Genichirō Sanada smiled implicitly and agreed readily.

"Leave it to me. I'll rearrange the schedule after I go back today." Yanagi Renji agreed, looking as if it was a matter of course, trying hard to make himself look normal.

"Wha-what?!"

Kirihara Akaya's eyes widened immediately upon hearing this, thinking he had heard wrongly.

"Pfft-"

Marui Bunta on the side held his stomach and tried not to laugh, but his expression betrayed him.

"Pfft, see, Yagyu, it's a good thing I didn't get the first place. You shouldn't blame me now." Niou Masaharu also smiled and immediately turned around to show off to Yagyu Hiroshi.

"Hmm, looks like I have to take back what I said before." Yagyu Hiroshi replied calmly, thinking that there seemed to be some benefits to not getting first place.

"Can I not have this reward, Yuuki-senpai..." Kirihara Akaya tried to escape, but soon met Yuuki Maya's serious gaze.

"What? You don't want to accept senior's kindness?" Yuuki Maya said in a deep voice.

"No...but...thank you, senior." Kirihara Akaya stuttered and was speechless for a moment, and finally lowered his head dejectedly and accepted the reality.

He was extremely regretful at this moment and vowed that next time there was a similar race, he would never compete for the first place again.

Just as everyone at Rikkai University was chatting with each other, the third singles match was about to begin on the court.

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Chapter 46: Tezuka's appearance, humorous tiger cannon

"The third singles match is about to begin. Both players, please come on stage."

The referee announced to the players from both teams to enter the venue.

"Coach, I'm going." Tezuka Kunimitsu picked up the tennis racket and said calmly to Ryuzaki Sumire beside him.

"Go ahead and get this point for Qingxue." Ryuzaki Sumire nodded and instructed.

"Yes."

With a simple response, Tezuka Kunimitsu walked into the arena. When his eyes swept across the area where the Rikkai public was, his eyes met with Yuuki Maya's for a few seconds, then he looked away and looked at his opponent.

"That guy is Tezuka. Just looking at his aura, he is very unusual." Yanagi Renji had only heard Yuuki Maya and the other two mention him occasionally. This was the first time he saw Tezuka in person.

"Pfft, it's obvious that he's the type that I really don't want to deal with." Niou Masaharu gave his own evaluation. His fox-like intuition told him that this seemingly gentle man was very tricky.

"Tezuka..."

Genichirō Sanada didn't say anything, but his eyes were fixed on the opponent from the moment he walked into the court, and his face gradually turned dark.

In the preparation area of ​​Seigaku, Fuji Shusuke had already opened his eyes and was staring in the direction of Rikkai University.

"Are those people all the regular players of Rikkai University?" Kikumaru Eiji nudged Oishi Shuichiro next to him with his elbow.

"According to my intelligence, the minister of Rikkai University did not attend the Kanto Conference this time due to illness, so to be precise, this is not the complete lineup of Rikkai University."

Before Oishi Shuichiro could speak, Inui Sadaharu beside him had already answered for him.

"That person is here too." Fuji Shusuke said softly. He easily saw Maya Yuuki in the crowd.

"They just stood there, and the people around them unconsciously made room for them. It was an incredibly oppressive feeling." Ryuzaki Sumire sighed. As an adult, she saw more than they did.

The Rikkai University in front of them was like a kingly army that had never lost a single battle. If an ordinary team encountered it, they would probably not be able to use even half of their strength after facing such oppression.

"By the way, if we advance to the third round, will we have to face those guys?" Kikumaru Eiji suddenly thought of a key question.

"Kikumaru, the probability of us meeting Rikkai University when we advance to the third round is only 100%." ​​Inui Sadaharu answered without hesitation: "This is greater than the probability of us being able to advance to the third round itself."

"Hiss——" Kikumaru Eiji couldn't help but shiver, and suddenly an idea popped up in his mind that it didn't matter whether he advanced or not.

However, he immediately suppressed this thought as soon as it came to his mind, which made him even more frightened.

Kikumaru Eiji didn't expect that he would have such a thought just by thinking about it in his mind. If he really faced Rikkai University, what would he become of?

"Don't think too much, Eiji." Oishi Shuichiro seemed to see through Kikumaru Eiji's thoughts and interrupted his divergent thoughts: "Our game is not over yet, let's see how Deputy Minister Tezuka performs."

Oishi Shuichiro's words also reminded everyone present. They immediately focused their attention and turned their gazes towards the court.

……

Inside the court, the two opponents were already standing in front of the net, guessing the edge.

Kiyosumi Sengoku guessed the front side, and Kunimitsu Tezuka chose the back side.

The racket fell to the ground, facing up, and Sengoku Kiyosumi won the first serve.

"Haha, how lucky! My luck is still as good as ever." Sengoku Kiyomizu smiled slightly, then he looked at Tezuka and said, "I was unlucky last time and lost to you. I felt bad for a long time."

"But this time, I have specially trained a secret weapon. You are doomed to lose."

Faced with Sengoku Kiyomizu's slightly provocative tone, Tezuka Kunimitsu looked at him expressionlessly, then immediately turned back to his receiving area, waiting for the game to begin.

Seeing that Tezuka Kunimitsu ignored her, Sengoku Kiyosumi just felt that the other party was really boring and there was no interaction at all. She could only walk back to the receiving area in disappointment.

"The match begins, Sengoku Kiyomi serves against Shouzuka Kunimitsu, the set ends, Sengoku serves."

Seeing that both sides were ready, the referee sitting outside the center area immediately announced the official start of the third singles match.

clap, clap, clap...

Sengoku Kiyosumi tapped the tennis ball a few times, tested its elasticity slightly, then grabbed it and threw it up quickly.

At the same time, after throwing the tennis ball up, his knees slightly bent, and then he jumped up like a spring.

His body instantly caught up with the tennis ball which was in mid-air and had not yet started to fall, and then he swung the racket in his hand and smashed it hard.

The tennis ball flew like an arrow from a bow towards the center line where Tezuka Kunimitsu was.

"That Sengoku guy used the tiger cannon right from the start."

In the Yamabuki preparation seat, Minami Kentaro, who had been resting for a long time, was very surprised to see this scene. He was surprised that Sengoku Kiyomizu used his skills right from the start.

"It's most likely that this was arranged by Coach Banda." Dongfang Yamei on the side guessed.

They looked at Mikiya Banda in the coaching booth. After Kunimitsu Tezuka came on the field, the latter no longer had a smiling expression on his face, and even his previously lazy sitting posture straightened up a little.

The tennis ball instantly fell into Tezuka Kunimitsu's half of the court. The tennis ball bounced at the center line, and then a tennis racket appeared behind it, and the aggressive tennis ball was easily blocked.

boom.

The tennis ball was hit back like a shadow, and it exploded at the feet of Sengoku Kiyomizu in the blink of an eye, then flew out of bounds and was blocked by the iron net outside the court and fell to the ground.

At the same time as this process ended, Sengoku Kiyomi's feet had just landed on the ground a second ago, leaving him with no chance to react.

"Hehehe——"

Outside the field, seeing this scene, Maya Yuuki couldn't help but smile, attracting the attention of other people from Rikkai University.

"What happened to Yui Castle?" Marui Bunta's eyes were full of confusion, because he didn't notice anything funny happening nearby.

"Nothing, I just happened to think of some happy things, it has nothing to do with this competition." Yuuki Maya shook her head and said.

Seeing this, the others didn't think much about it and continued to focus on the current game.

In fact, the reason why Yuuki Maya suddenly laughed was very simple. It was caused by the ball on the court just now.

He was very clear about the principle of the tiger cannon serve. The so-called "tiger cannon" was to throw the tennis ball into a high ball, and then follow up with excellent jumping ability. When the tennis ball reached the maximum distance in the air, he swung the tennis racket and hit it at the highest hitting point.

The speed of this kind of tennis ball will be very fast, and because it chooses the shortest landing area on the center line, it will make it difficult for the opponent to defend and lose points.

However, this serve has a fatal flaw. Once the jump is too high and the opponent receives the serve, a comical situation will occur where the server's body is still in mid-air, while the opponent's return ball has already landed in his or her own half of the court.

The ball just now had already shown this sign, and he also saw that Sengoku Kiyomi still had the energy to jump higher, so if Tezuka Kunimitsu caught the ball again...

There was a hint of anticipation in Maya Yuuki's eyes.

Chapter 47 Luck

After seeing his proud serve "Tiger Cannon" being easily hit back by Tezuka, Sengoku Kiyomizu's heart was still a little moved.

But he didn't show it. Instead, he concentrated on his serving posture and prepared to start his second serve.

call--

Taking a deep breath, Qianshi's pure eyes were focused. He raised his arm and threw the ball. The tennis ball flew high even higher than the previous one.

Sengoku Kiyosumi bounced up again and jumped to a higher height than the first ball.

"This is the real tiger cannon!" He shouted loudly, slammed the tennis racket, and the tennis ball that was hit shot out at a faster speed than before.

In a flash, the tennis ball fell on the center line again and exploded. This time, Tezuka Kunimitsu seemed to have never heard of it. He did not catch the tennis ball. Instead, he stared at it slightly sideways when the tennis ball fell behind him.

"15 to 15." The referee announced the score, and Sengoku Kiyomizu clenched his fists to express his excitement.

"Okay, let's take the first ball." After seeing that his serve was effective, Sengoku Kiyosumi seemed to become more confident.

"Nice serve," Tezuka Kunimitsu praised expressionlessly.

"Thank you for the compliment, but even so, I will not show mercy." Sengoku Kiyomizu was very pleased with Tezuka Kunimitsu's compliment and responded in a relaxed tone.

After a brief conversation between the two, Sengoku Kiyomizu no longer hesitated and decisively served again, still using all his strength to hit the ball.

When he saw the tennis ball coming towards him like a gust of wind, Kunimitsu Tezuka's expression did not change at all. This time, he swung his racket and instantly caught the tennis ball that was about to pass by his side.