The Prince of Tennis: The Quincy of Rikkai University

Chapter 9: Testing, tricky abilities
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Maya Yuuki held the racket in her right hand, hit the tennis ball twice with her left hand, and then gently threw it up.

bah—

The crisp sound of the ball was heard, and he opened the battle with a very simple serve.

There is no skill involved in this serve except that it is fast.

"Nice serve, solid fundamentals."

This serve may appear very fast in the eyes of onlookers, and they may even only be able to catch a hint of it.

But for Zeus, it was only a good serve, and he even had time to comment on his opponent's serve in his mind.

Swing the racket, stand in the path where the tennis ball will bounce in advance, and then hit it back easily.

The tennis ball was hit back, flying over the net at a faster speed than before, and falling towards an unguarded area like a bolt of lightning.

"So, how do you deal with it?"

Zeus thought to himself that the speed at which he returned the ball was so fast that ordinary people would not have time to react.

He glanced towards where Yuuki Maya had been standing before, but all he saw was an empty space with no one in sight.

On the court, Maya Yuuki suddenly appeared in front of the tennis ball that was hit back, and swung the racket backhand to hit the tennis ball in the opposite direction of Zeus.

when? !

Zeus was a little surprised that he didn't notice when Yuuki Maya moved.

However, although it was surprising, it was impossible to score from him.

Suddenly accelerated and moved towards the landing point of the tennis ball.

Even though Maya Yuuki's return shot landed in the bottom corner of his other half of the court, with Zeus's speed, there was no problem for him to arrive before the tennis ball bounced.

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After a few tentative exchanges of balls, the pace became faster and faster.

In a blink of an eye, the two sides exchanged more than twenty rounds of attacks.

However, the outcome of this ball was still undecided, and the offensive momentum between the two players showed no signs of decreasing, but instead became more and more intense.

They all knew in their hearts that the outcome of this game had just begun!
At the same time, the passers-by watching outside the stadium were so shocked by the strength displayed by the two young boys who were fighting on the field that they were incoherent and stunned.

If they hadn't seen it with their own eyes, they really couldn't believe that these two junior high school students could play tennis at such a high level.

"this--"

"Oh my god! Are we watching a professional tennis match?!"

“Is this really the level that someone of this age can play at?”

Such a fierce confrontation also constantly attracted the attention of new passers-by, and the outside of the stadium was already crowded with all kinds of pedestrians.

When a new foreign tourist saw such an exciting game in the stadium, he couldn't help but ask the person who seemed to have been standing there for a long time:

"Hey, what's their current score?"

He was eager to know who had the advantage in scoring between the two evenly matched players on the court.

"0 to 0."

The person being questioned did not turn around to look at the man, but just shook his head slightly and replied.

"Damn! Are you kidding me? These two guys haven't even finished a single round yet?"

The foreign tourists who received this answer looked a little stunned. They had never expected that the game between the two guys on the field would be so intense.

"Wrong, it's not a game. Those two people have been playing for more than 50 minutes and haven't even finished a single ball..."

"What!?"

He turned his head and looked at the stadium with eyes wide open in disbelief. He wondered if he had heard it wrong... inside the stadium.

The fierce fight continued, with waves of dull but fast-paced hitting sounds echoing all around.

Zeus swung his racket and once again steadily hit back Maya Yuuki's extremely fast and high-quality reverse ball.

On the other side, Maya Yuuki took a step in advance and moved to the path of the flying tennis ball, intercepting it before it landed.

The two sides are tit-for-tat. If you hit me backhand, I will hit you in a blind spot.

Moreover, as if it had been agreed beforehand, both sides tacitly did not use any skills after playing for such a long time, intending to win the game with pure basic tennis skills.

At this moment, Zeus once again hit back the flying tennis ball and gave Maya Yuuki a straight through ball.

"Ok?"

Just as Zeus hit the tennis ball and observed Maya Yuuki's racket grip, preparing to move in advance to the predicted path of the next ball, his eyes fixed and the corners of his mouth pursed slightly.

Then, he immediately retracted his left foot that was moving sideways to the left and chose to move forward instead.

At the same time, on the other side of the net.

A second before returning the tennis ball, Maya Yuuki had already made a swinging gesture with the racket held with both hands, but the moment she returned the ball, she changed it to one hand.

He made a fake move, trying to give Zeus the impression that he was going to play a diagonal ball, but in fact he was going to play a short ball.

"Nice idea, but it didn't work for me."

Zeus' voice came out, and he himself had already arrived in front of the net before the tennis ball crossed the net.

Maya Yuuki did not respond to him, but the moment her fake move was seen through by the opponent, she had already reached the middle serving line area, and greeted Zeus' next move with a calm face.

This goal was a spur-of-the-moment idea of ​​his. His purpose was to confirm his own idea. He had no intention of ending the game.

When Zeus saw Maya Yuuki's quick reaction, he gave up the idea of ​​hitting a short ball to retaliate. Instead, he deliberately took a step back, created a little distance, and suddenly changed his forehand into a backhand and hit a backhand cutting lob.

The tennis ball flew high over Maya Yuuki's head and flew diagonally towards the corner of the baseline.

How are you going to deal with this ball? Zeus thought to himself.

He was very curious about what choice Yuuki Maya would make, because he was now standing not far from the net. Unless Yuuki Maya could hit the ball behind him, he would surely win the next ball.

"Just as I thought, he can see through my play no matter what."

Yuuki Maya thought to himself as he quickly retreated. After fighting for so long, he had already confirmed this fact from the deliberate feint just now.

From the first ball, no matter where he hit the tennis ball, the opponent was always able to hit it back in an orderly manner, and he never even misjudged the landing point of the ball.

"He's a tough guy. As expected, even the second-ranked player in the G10 of the Japanese team, Shima Shuji, finds him a tough guy."

"But... now he is just that."

Yuuki Maya had an idea and had the thought of ending the game.

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In order to prevent Zeus from intercepting the ball in front of the net, he swung his racket with ease and hit a diagonal ball.

The tennis ball drew an arc in the air, went around the outside of the post and headed straight for the baseline behind Zeus.

“It’s quite the right choice.”

Zeus couldn't help but admire Yuuki Maya's calm response, but this still did not exceed his expectations.

Zeus once again retreated to the baseline and hit the ball back, this time into the diagonal.

The ball was moving very fast, and it bounced off the ground, and Maya Yuuki arrived at the position just a moment ago.

"Let's stop here——"

Yuuki Maya suddenly spoke to Zeus, who looked puzzled at that moment.

But in the next second, Zeus's face changed immediately.

Because in his eyes, at this moment, Maya Yuuki raised her right hand slightly, and the racket in her hand emitted a dazzling golden light without warning.

(End of this chapter)