The host is really working hard.

Time passed quickly. With the help of the last game, Zizhou had already entered the No. 4 court. After a few more games, Zizhou had successfully entered the No. 1 court. The coaching staff seemed to be training Zizhou intentionally. Every game was a different type. Zizhou had never played against Irie, but he could often see Irie and a senior named Tokugawa coming to his court to watch their games.

Yukimura and Nioh also entered Court 3 and Court respectively.

On the contrary, Marui and Kirihara were promoted more slowly, both of them were in the fifth pitch.

That day, just as Zizhou finished his training, Kirihara came to see him.

"Senior Zizhou, tomorrow we will be playing on Court No. 3 on Court No. 5. Please come and cheer for us then!" Kirihara's loud voice made everyone on Court No. 1 stop what they were doing.

Look at this kelp head that is now disturbing others without knowing it.

When Zizhou noticed this, he quickly lowered the volume manually and took Kirihara aside.

"Do Yukimura and the others know?"

Kirihara smiled innocently, with pride in his eyes.

"I've already talked to the director, and he said he'd cheer us on. This time I'm the one playing, and Marui-senpai isn't on the roster, but as long as we win the team competition, we can advance together to Court 5."

"I see. I'll go with Niou then. I guess he's hiding somewhere. I don't know what information Niou got from Mori-senpai. He actually found a lot of hiding places."

Knowing the pitfalls of my teammate, I can only try to find him when the time comes.

After the agreement was made, Zizhou decided to go to the back mountain tonight. He had secretly gone up several times last time with the help of the route provided by Senior Tanejima and brought some daily necessities and food for Sanada and the others.

When he heard that Zizhou was going to the back mountain, Qiyuan looked thoughtful, as if he was thinking about something important.

Yukimura and his team covered Zizhou's whereabouts. Although Yukimura and his team also wanted to go to see Sanada and his team, too many people would make them too conspicuous. In addition, it was very dangerous to go up the mountain at night without lighting.

If he didn't need to watch the road at night, he wouldn't have been able to hide from the coaching staff's surveillance.

During the meal, Zizhou and Yukimura told him that if they needed anything, they would bring it with them, and they would set off at a certain time after everything was ready. However, Kirihara never came to eat, and Yukimura and the others thought that it was because everyone had made great progress during this period, which stimulated him, so he was training day and night without eating or sleeping.

But when Zizhou was about to set off, he encountered a big surprise - Kirihara.

Zizhou was about to leave from an intersection when he noticed something unusual happening in the bushes. He went to take a look and found a person covered with leaves.

I lifted the leaves and saw that it was Kirihara who had been missing for dinner tonight. Now he was sleeping soundly.

"Akaye, wake up, Akaye!"

Amid Zizhou's shouting and violent shaking, Kirihara finally woke up. With sleepy eyes, he wanted to see who woke him up. He must dye him red!

Unexpectedly, as soon as he raised his head, he was hit directly on the forehead by a critical hit.

"Ouch, it hurts, who is it?"

Zizhou looked at Kirihara unhappily. This afternoon everyone was happy for Kirihara's hard work, but who knew that this kid was sleeping here now? Anyone would be angry if they thought about it.

"Akaye, why are you here? And what's going on with this thing on you? Are you trying to learn from Niou and escape from training?"

Zizhou put his hands on his hips, and if the original answer was yes, he would punch him again.

After finally seeing who hit him, Kirihara put away his fierce expression.

"Senior Zizhou, I want to go out of the back mountain with you too. Look, I have prepared all the equipment. I spent an entire night making this. Isn't it very secretive?"

Zizhou took a look at the so-called equipment in Qiyuan's hand, and the blue veins between his eyebrows couldn't stop throbbing.

"So you're not going to dinner today because of this?"

The only response he got was a 'gugu--' sound, and even Zizhou felt helpless.

Without looking at Kirihara's face which was as red as a cooked shrimp, Zizhou gave one of the chocolates in his bag to Kirihara. Originally, this chocolate was intended for himself to fill his stomach when he was hungry when he went down the mountain, but he didn't expect Kirihara to join him, so this chocolate was consumed in advance.

"Oh, that's great, Senior Zizhou. I've been waiting here for a long time but I couldn't help falling asleep when I didn't see you coming. Now I'm really hungry." After saying that, he immediately ate up all the chocolate in no time.

In order not to cause more noise and to prevent Kirihara from getting lost again, Zizhou had to take Kirihara with him. But Kirihara refused to leave his camouflage equipment behind.

Along the way, Kirihara fell countless times. If Zizu hadn't been paying attention to Kirihara's movements, Kirihara would probably have become a black cat on this road tonight, literally black.

I really think that if Kirihara continues walking like this, it will waste time. Zizhou stopped.

"Akaye, let's stop first. If we keep going like this, we probably won't be able to get down the mountain before daybreak."

"I'm sorry, Senior, I'm holding you back."

Zizhou could hear the guilt in Qi's original voice. It was because he heard it that he felt that he couldn't just keep walking around aimlessly like this.

"Akaye, how do you feel after walking this distance?"

The air was quiet in an instant. Qi Yuan really didn't expect that there was a science to walking, but his brain capacity did not allow him to think about such profound questions.

"This... this... um... should... probably... just groping in the dark?"

Zizhou sighed, thinking that he was wasting his time, otherwise why would he ask Kirihara this question so stupidly.

"Forget it. I'm probably a little confused at night. Let me be frank. Mountain roads are difficult to travel at night. However, after your eyes adapt, you can see a little light. But even so, it's still very difficult to distinguish obstacles ahead. So you have to learn one thing, which is balance."

But Kirihara was confused. It seemed that what Zizu said made sense but he didn't understand it.

Zizhou had no choice but to teach him, otherwise this kelp head would not have the capacity to think.

"Does Kirihara know the center of gravity of his body now? Do you know how the body should react to different inclinations?"

……

It was not until Qiyuan began to understand a little bit that Zizhou and the others started again.

Finally, Kirihara became familiar with the techniques that Zizhou mentioned. He found that every protrusion and depression would affect the body's different conditioned reflexes. What surprised Kirihara even more was that the longer he climbed, the stronger his body balance became.

After gradually adapting, the two finally reached the mountain in no time.

Zizhou did not go to the junior high school students' playground first, but went to the wooden house that belonged to Coach Mifune.

He placed a bottle of wine from his backpack in front of the door of the cabin, knocked twice, and left with Kirihara.

Kirihara saw that his senior actually brought wine, and it looked like this was not the first time he did this. He was really curious about why Zizhou did this.

"Senior, why did you put a bottle of wine there?"

Zizhou was not surprised by Kirihara's question, because in this country, minors are not allowed to drink alcohol. Although he himself did not drink, it was strange for him to bring alcohol.

"It was just a deal. I brought him some wine, and he let us bring food and supplies to Sanada and the others."

"Him? Who is he?" Kirihara had never been to the back mountain, and he usually didn't care about anything other than tennis, so when Zizhou and the others talked about the news they had heard recently, Kirihara didn't listen seriously at all. As a result, he didn't know a lot now, and only knew that Deputy Minister Sanada was having a hard time.

"It's Coach Mifune, the current coach of Sanada and his team. He's just a little sloppy."

Thinking back to the first time he met Coach Mifune, Zizhou's eyes turned red at the smell of alcohol on the coach.

But the coach looked at him seriously, as if he knew the purpose of his visit, and said that as long as there was wine, he could turn a blind eye to some things.

So the next few times, I would give a bottle of wine to Coach Mifune just like today.

After all, it was U17's wine, and he didn't need to buy it. He could just bring it from the cafeteria. It wasn't a loss-making thing, so there was no need to go against it. And Sanada and the others who benefited, from this point of view, still made money.