The Prince of Tennis: My tennis skills come from Naruto

Three days later, when the special edition of the new issue of the professional tennis monthly/weekly magazine was released, the news of Hyotei, Rikkai, and Makinofuji's successive reforms once again caused a huge stir in the junior high school tennis scene.

……

Osaka, Shitenhoji Temple,

Golden Spring, with ballet-like steps, twirled and leaped, waving a magazine as she ran in.

"Hey, Kenji, look, look! This guy must be that cousin you mentioned before who transferred to Hyotei, right?"

As he spoke, Golden Haru spun around a few times before stopping in front of Oshitari Kenya, revealing the magazine in his hand.

Professional Tennis Monthly (Weekly)

The cover features a photo of Hyotei's 13 starting players lined up, with the headline on the right: Hyotei takes the lead in completing the starting player reorganization, with 10 first-year students!

With a flick of her wrist, Jinse Koharu flipped the magazine to the second page. "Look," she said, "this ranking says, 'No. 4, Oshitari Yuushi.'"

Yuji Ichiji leaned over and flipped the magazine back to the cover page. "I didn't expect Hyotei to actually have an internal ranking system."

"However, looking at this photo, I feel that this Oshitari doesn't look much like our Kenji."

"Snapped!"

Koharu Konjiro tossed the magazine to Kenji Oshitari, then turned away in dissatisfaction, pouting at Yuuji Ichiji.

"Yuji, why are you staring at other men so intently?!"

Golden Spring's face screamed, "You've let me down," and "Are you trying to fall for someone else?"

"No, Koharu, how can a mere Yuushi Oshitari compare to you?" Ichiji Yuuji explained with deep affection.

"..."

Kenjiro Oshitari had a black line on his forehead. Although he had seen this scene many times, he still felt speechless every time he saw it.

He barely ignored the two people bickering beside him, picked up the magazine, and looked at the dark blue-haired figure in the first position on the left of the third row and the silver No. 4 medal on his chest.

Yuushi has become a regular member of Hyotei, and he even finished fourth...

However, Yuushi's strength is only fourth...

Kenjiro Oshitari glanced at the top three figures. The first one was Yo Kamiya. Hmm, this one was normal, because he had seen the previous report about the final champion. Yuushi also told him that the photo was genuine.

So, the next two...

Yuushi Oshitari turned to the text page: No. 2 Keigo Atobe, No. 3 Jusaburo Mori...

"Mouri, he's a guy who's a bit lazy but very strong."

When Kenya turned around, he found that Coach Osamu Watanabe, who was holding a toothpick in his mouth, had walked up to him at some point.

"However, I didn't expect Mori to be ranked third at Hyotei..." Watanabe Osamu's eyes were filled with seriousness.

He knew that given Mori Jusaburo's personality, he would definitely challenge the number one player, Hyotei's captain, Kamiya You. As for the second-ranked vice-captain, if his strength was not much different from his, he would most likely not choose to challenge him.

That means that Atobe Keigo, the vice-captain of Hyotei, is at least on par with Mori.

hiss--

With Mori, Atobe, and Kamiya, how are they going to compete in singles this year?!

Watanabe Osamu flicked the toothpick from the corner of his mouth. "This is troublesome."

"Coach, our tennis club..."

After seeing Yuushi Oshitari become a regular player for Hyotei and Rikkai University and last year's champion Makino Fuji also allow first-year students to become regular players, Kenya Oshitari could no longer suppress his ambition and desire.

Watanabe Osamu picked at the toothpick, "Then let's wait until after the regional tournament to hold the regular selection again, and you first-year students can participate then too."

As for why it's next time? Because Watanabe Osamu said that the regional competition registration forms have all been submitted, and if they are selected again now, the selected candidates won't be able to participate in the competition.

It will also affect the performance of the current main players participating in the competition.

The main reason is that Watanabe Osamu didn't intend to be the second, or at least the third or fourth, otherwise it would be difficult for him to survive in the industry. But he didn't expect that after Hyotei, Rikkai and Makinofuji would also innovate so quickly...

Don't they even bother to check the effects of Hyotei's reforms?!

Then, Watanabe Osamu heard Shiraishi Kuranosuke exclaim in a shocked tone, "Rikkai University is like Hyotei University, both the captain and vice-captain have been replaced by first-year students?!"

Okay, now Watanabe Osamu understands why Rikkai's major reform is happening so fast—like Hyotei, they have two exceptionally high-achieving first-year students.

But why did Mu Zhi Teng move so quickly?

Coach Sano of Makino Fuji is not as open-minded as him.

In response, Makino Fujii's coach, Kenichi Sano, stated that allowing first-year students to participate in the regular selection was an instruction given by the school's board of directors, and he dared not disobey it.

Regarding this, Makino Fuji, a director who strongly pushed for the success of this proposal at the board meeting, said that he had wanted to board the Kamiya Group's giant ship for a long time, even if his position was only on a deck or in a lower cabin.

Just as Kamiya-kun publicly announced his intention to reform the tennis club rules, after learning in advance about Kamiya-kun's love for playing against strong opponents, Director Makino Fuji believed that responding to Kamiya-kun's call and taking the opportunity to change the rules of his own tennis club might demonstrate his sincerity to the Kamiya Group.

Unexpectedly, Rikkai University snatched the second junior high school spot from the list...

However, the editors of the tennis monthly magazine are stubborn and unwilling to change the facts, which has resulted in their Muzhi Teng only being able to rank third. Therefore, their attempt to curry favor has been much less effective!

……

Tokyo, Seishun Academy.

After a boring afternoon of retrieving balls and being teased and pranked by some upperclassmen,

After the tennis club seniors gradually dispersed, Inui Sadaharu ran to the gatehouse to get the latest tennis monthly and weekly magazine. He quickly flipped through it as he walked back. Hmm? Hyotei has been reformed, but so has Rikkai?!

So fast?!

Inui Sadaharu's gaze fell on Yanagi Renji, who had a dark brown bowl cut, squinty eyes, but a gentle demeanor.

Renji is now a regular player for Rikkai University...

And he was still retrieving balls from Seigaku...

This comparison further solidified Inui Sadaharu's resolve to continue persuading Tezuka Kunimitsu to reform the tennis club.

As he flipped further, Inui Sadaharu discovered that even Makino Fuji, the champion of the previous school year's national tournament, had undergone a transformation!

With this news, Inui Sadaharu felt that Seigaku's Coach Ryuzaki and Captain Yamato had no reason to remain stubborn!

So, after returning to the tennis club, Inui Sadaharu faced Tezuka Kunimitsu, who was preparing to play a game against Fuji Syusuke on the tennis court while all the senior members of the tennis club had left and the captain and coach were also absent.

"Tezuka, don't rush to play tennis with Fuji. Fuji is right here and can't run away. There's plenty of time later."

"The key point is that Seigaku really needs to reform. Look, the latest issue of the magazine shows that after Hyotei, three schools have now reformed their tennis clubs: Hyotei, Rikkai, and Makinofuji. Seigaku really can't stay stagnant!"