[Comprehensive] The Light Chaser

Kirihara was detained again today because he failed the English quiz.

He hurriedly copied the dictated words, showed the notebook to the teacher for checking, and quickly picked up the tennis bag after passing it with difficulty.

"Run slowly, and be careful not to fall!" The English teacher couldn't help worrying about the messy-haired kid with blue veins on his forehead, "Really..."

"Ah, I'm going to be late!"

Running all the way to the tennis court, I accidentally went the wrong way and almost went to the football club on the other side. While running, Kirihara thought that I must be too unlucky today, I haven’t lost my way for a long time!

"I'm sorry I'm late!" He said loudly and opened the door of the agency office.

"Huh?...Have the seniors started practicing yet?...Ah, yes, I was a long time late today." Kirihara looked around and opened his closet, "Damn, hate, hate, it's all Fujii-sensei's fault!"

"Don't complain about the teacher if your grades are not good. The teacher is also very tired." A voice with a strange tone sounded from behind.

Kirihara turned his head abruptly: "Senior Nioh?!"

"The person who gave you extra lessons is also very tired, isn't it, Liu Sheng?" The white-haired boy glanced behind him with a smile.

The person who came out behind him raised his hand and pushed his glasses, nodded to Kirihara: "Kirihara-kun."

"Senior Yagyu?!"

Kirihara, who said bad things about the teacher in the locker room and was overheard by his seniors, felt a little restrained when he walked out of the locker room with the two seniors.

The main reason is that one of the two seniors is mainly responsible for his English tutoring, and was "forced" to work with him in the social office every weekend in the last semester to make exercise books.

Kirihara himself knew his own level, and felt embarrassed to bother senior.But if he doesn't get the hang of it, he can't help it.

Ah, senior, you don't think I said bad things about him behind his back, do you?

Kirihara wrinkled his nose.

"Are the seniors late today because they were procrastinating?" Kirihara realized later that a certain senior who was giving him extra lessons was the president of the student union who would give a speech at the monthly inter-school assembly, and he couldn't help saying embarrassingly, "forget it."

"You're so nervous." King Ni took a look at Kirihara and scoffed, "Is Yagyu scary?"

"King Renwang." Liu Sheng called out warningly.

"Ah, I see, you are really boring." King Ren cut his throat.

Kirihara raised his head and carefully looked at the two seniors walking beside him.

He meant, did he accidentally watch the quarrel between the two seniors?

To be honest, he was quite curious about these two seniors.He is very curious about all the seniors.The Big Three are of course his goal, but Nioh-senpai defeated Sanada in the main selection competition half a year ago.That's the deputy minister!And beat himself.But even so, Nioh-senpai and Yagyu-senpai still do doubles training together, and they often play as partners in internal practice matches.

No matter how you look at it, you think the relationship between these two seniors is not good?

Since the relationship is not good, why insist on doubles?

"Why insist on doubles?" Nioh turned his head to bite the words, and looked at Kirihara with a smile.

Kirihara groaned before realizing it, did he say that? !

"No, no, senior, I'm not—"

"Yagyu, what do you think?" King Ni raised his eyes with a smile.

It was clear that this look was not for himself, but Kirihara still felt suffocated.He couldn't think right, why should I be afraid of Senior!

"Kirihara-kun." Liu Sheng said lightly, "Do you want to know?"

"...Ah, I do..."

"You can try it." Liu Sheng said, "Doubles, you haven't tried it yet, have you? There is an internal doubles training today. You didn't participate in the internal doubles training last year. This year..."

"Ryu and Sanada will definitely change your training plan." Nioh answered, "Want to fight?"

"Eh?!" Kirihara opened his eyes wide.

An hour later, after finishing the basic training and running laps caused by being late, he stood on the field in a fog.

Behind him is Senior Liu, and on the opposite side are Senior Nioh and Senior Yagyu.

How did this happen?

Probably--

"I think Kirihara can try doubles. He was very interested in this just now. How about, Liu, join Kirihara and play a game with me and Hiroshi?"

"...Alright."

At that time, he looked at Senior Liu showing a subtle smile, and nodded.

Doubles...?

"How to play doubles?" Kirihara clenched his racket in distress.

Liu Yong patted him on the back: "Don't be nervous, just hit him like you usually do."

"That's right." Nioh, who was opposite him, happened to be standing in the front court, and raised his lips at him, "There's still red eyes. I'm quite interested in that."

"I see, King Ren." Liu said lightly.

The intensity of the practice matches within the team will not be high. They are held after the basic training, and everyone is still wearing weights.You can even chat while playing games.for example--

"It's already decided? In this year's league, will you play with a weight?" Nioh asked.

Liu hummed: "In the past two weeks, everyone has tried the full-court practice match. Even wearing weights, they can maintain a certain competitive state. It is no problem to cope with the county competition and the Kanto competition."

"Oh? Ice Emperor is the same?"

"At that time, it will naturally be adjusted freely."

The spectators who deliberately left the field vacant looked at the situation inside and couldn't help but feel a little depressed.

"I always feel that this game..." Marui touched his chin.

"Somewhat strange?" Yukimura answered.

Marui turned his head to the side and his eyes lit up: "Minister, do you find it strange too?"

"Ah, yes, it's strange to have this game." Yukimura laughed, "Although Nioh said he was interested in the red-eye state, but..."

"However, the strangest thing about this game is Nioh." Marui concluded.

Yukimura tilted his head, glanced at Nioh, then at Yagyu who seemed to have a low sense of presence in the backcourt, and deepened his smile: "I see."

"what?"

"It's nothing." Yukimura shook his head, "I know the purpose of this game."

In the arena, after two tepid rounds, the situation finally changed.

"Laser beam!" Yagyu in the backcourt posed.

This is a trick he practiced last semester. The super-high-speed straight-line volley has extremely fast speed and strength, and can often penetrate the weakest point of the opponent's defense.

Kirihara's emotions were brought up, and finally showed signs of excitement after losing the ball.

"Damn..." Red bloodshots began to appear in his eyes.

"Is it finally going to appear?" Nioh in front lowered his body, stared at Kirihara and smiled.

"Chi Ye, back off!"

"Liu Sheng!"

Liu and King Ren spoke at the same time, and the formations changed simultaneously on both sides.

Yagyu and Nioh, who switched the front and back courts, met Yanagyu and Kirihara, who switched the front and back courts.

Of course, Qie Yuan was stunned for a moment, and then realized when Liu said again: "You go to the bottom line."

Kirihara is a direct offensive player, not good at defense, let alone bottom-line defense in doubles.

After a few balls he was a bit stretched.

"Damn, hate, hate!" The word almost became a switch, his emotions accumulated to a critical point, and his hair rose automatically without wind.

It happened to be his serve.

And with red eyes, he pinched the tennis ball.

"Knuckle serve!"

Like what happened in the main selection competition, the ball was bouncing around and headed fiercely towards the opposite side.

He was aiming at the bottom line of the midfield, so Yagyu standing there seemed to be his direct target.

however--

"Yagyu!" Marui outside the court opened his eyes wide.

Yagyu, who suddenly switched the racket to his left hand, touched the ground with his toes, and his backhand slice was extremely precise.

Facing that kind of incoming ball and such a low route, can you also slice the ball? !

Wait a minute, this way of playing...

"Nioh!" Marui suddenly realized.

"Ah, I'm sorry, I'm sorry." Seeing that the tennis ball hit the baseline and scored, Yagyu who hit the ball suddenly straightened up and took a time-out position.

Kirihara was stunned.

He looked at Senior Liu in front and nodded.

……what happened? !

"For a while, I don't know how Yagyu should respond to such a serve." Said Nioh who suddenly took off his wig.

Kirihara's eyes widened. He looked at the wig held by senior "Yagyu" in the front field, and suddenly broke down: "Senior Nioh?!"

"Actually, Liu Sheng made a lot of flaws before, but he didn't call for a timeout." Liu tilted his head and looked at King Ni, "I thought you suddenly had to pause because you couldn't stand his exaggerated acting skills. You should have many kinds How to solve this kind of serve?"

"puri."

"Are my acting skills too exaggerated?" Liu Sheng from the backstage came up, also holding a wig in his hand.He straightened his messy hair due to the wig, "It can't be helped, I'm not very used to invisibility."

"I can see it." Liu said, "And you probably don't know some details."

"Oh?" Liu Sheng raised his eyebrows.

"We have discussed the matter of carrying weights in the meeting three times. Nioh, wouldn't say 'Is the ice emperor like this?'" Liu smiled, "And since the last time the ice emperor After the practice match, I never heard him call you 'Birus' again."

"I see……"

Yukimura opened the door and walked in: "I don't really recommend that you participate in official competitions in this way. Neither of them can show their true strength."

"This is used to cultivate tacit understanding." Nioh explained while playing with the wig, "It can help empathy."

"Then what's your conclusion?" Yukimura asked with a smile.

"Conclusion... Well, my understanding of Yagyu is really not enough." King Ni shrugged, "But it's not to the point where hands are tied. Try a few more times to develop a different gameplay."

"Psychological?"

"Mentally."

"As for not understanding, I am the same. I don't know enough about Nioh-kun." Liu Sheng added, "Did you realize something was wrong from the very beginning?"

"Yeah, I just think Nioh is weird." Marui walked in, and he looked at Yagyu mockingly, "How is this, is this guy difficult to deal with? It's not easy to pretend at all."

"Obviously a large part of the tennis data cannot be captured, but the style is obviously distinctive." Liu Tucao, "King Ren, an ambivalentist."

"Hey, don't say that." King Ren waved his hand.When he turned his head to the side and saw Kirihara who kept his head down, he felt that something was wrong with this junior keeping silent.He raised his eyebrows: "Qieyuan?"

"Seniors, really..." Kirihara clenched his fists, raised his head suddenly and shouted, "It's too much!"

His eyes were still red, but when he said that, it made people feel that the child was very wronged.The seniors who were chatting were all stunned for a while, watching the child who had finished speaking this sentence suddenly turned around and ran out of the tennis court.

Wait a minute, the arm is still moving, is this crying?

When Kirihara ran to the gate of the tennis court, he ran into Sanada who was late.

"Kirhara? What's wrong?"

Sanada didn't get an answer.Kirihara didn't notice Sanada at all, and ran away by himself.

Sanada looked at the companions gathered in the arena in bewilderment: "What did you do?"

"Hmm..." Nio's eyes wandered for a moment, "Sanada, why don't you go and have a look?"

"...?"

"He was detained in the English quiz today, and he lost the game just now, so he may not be in a good mood." King Ren said.

Sanada immediately frowned: "Too lax!"

Seeing that Sanada really chased after him, Liu turned his head: "Lost the game?"

Nioh shrugged: "puri."

Kirihara did not get the comfort he imagined.

His eyes were still red when he was caught up, but Sanada directly gave him a "frustration education".

"Too slack!"

When he was brought back to the tennis court, he felt aggrieved, and he was about to cry with his mouth puffed up.

King Ren glanced at him, feeling a little guilty.He rubbed his nose, thinking that there is no way out of it! Who told you to bump into him and you just happened to speak ill of the teacher in front of Liusheng... It was Liusheng who answered the conversation at the beginning!

He played Liu Sheng today and didn't say a few words at all!

He winked at Liu Sheng.

"Go and comfort me."

Yagyu raised his hand and pushed his glasses to make a mouth shape: I just figured out the psychology of "Nio Masaharu".

ah?

What nonsense, you haven't had a good time yourself.

Thinking so, Nioh glanced at Kirihara again, and finally walked over.

Seeing him coming, Kirihara gave him a hard look: "Senior!"

"Well, angry?" King Ren clicked his tongue, "Because of what?"

"Senior lied again!"

"...I haven't lied to you for a long time."

"I'm not talking about you, Nioh-senpai!" Kirihara sniffed, "Why did Yagyu-senpai..."

"Don't think of him too softly, Chiya." Nio couldn't help laughing, he raised his hand and touched the back of Kirihara's head, "Everyone will lose his temper after giving you extra lessons for a long time."

"So even Senior Liu..." Kirihara became more and more aggrieved.

Renwang looked at him like this and shook his head: "Well, anyway, if you waste any more time, you will have to train again today."

"Eh?!" Kirihara immediately remembered that he owed extra training for several events because he was late.

He immediately clenched his racket: "Hmph! I won't be fooled by seniors all the time! One day I will defeat all of you!"

That's what I said, but Kirihara was cheated several times after that day.

Sometimes he realizes he's been lied to, and sometimes he doesn't.

On the contrary, Yagyu and Nioh's interplay progressed very quickly.After a week, when they acted against each other again, the candidates couldn't find out what was wrong immediately.

And Nioh did feel what he and Yagyu lacked in the process.

Not just trust.

As a teammate, he really trusted Liu Sheng, and Liu Sheng also trusted him.What they lack is not pure trust, but the confidence to believe that the other party can do everything at any time.

Compared to him, let me do it myself.

Many times they think so.

"After all, Yagyu is as arrogant as I am." King Ni said.

After hearing his words, the white fox turned his head: "Since when have you used 'arrogance' as an adjective for yourself?"

"Because I don't want to change." Nioh said, "I think a certain amount of arrogance is necessary."

"so?"

"So, as expected, my original idea was correct. It is impossible for Yagyu and I to enter the co-attribute state under normal circumstances." After finishing speaking, King Ni paused for a while and added, "It is impossible for others either."

"Oh?"

"There must be a solution." Nioh lowered his head, "I checked the information. In the U17 World Cup, the preliminaries require players not to play repeatedly, and the main match also has the same requirement. I have read the Japanese team's three years of participation. Many combinations seem to be formed temporarily. Even in the national competition, there are two doubles matches, which cannot be ignored. The coach will still let the temporary combination play under such circumstances, which shows that the individual's strength has reached After a certain level, it is possible to rely on personal strength to achieve the effect of 11>2."

The white fox flicked its tail: "Do you want to find that way?"

"No, I just think that I can focus on improving my own strength." Nioh shrugged, "If you are strong enough to defeat all powerful enemies, then the method of playing the game is not a problem at all, is it?"

The white fox thought that even if you said so, you would still practice coherence.

People who are too smart can always master various skills quickly, but they just get stuck on the same tune.Even if you are just unwilling, you will look for various solutions for this.

"Whatever you want." The white fox said, "Don't forget today's night patrol."

"'Night Watch'." Nioh clicked his tongue. "It sounds like Batman, but all of them are young volunteers."

"Don't look down on volunteers, what is lacking in modern society is kind-hearted volunteers?" The white fox said, "Besides, Superman will save kittens who climb up trees but can't get down. Aliens are so friendly, as you Shouldn't people on Earth express something?"

Nioh: "..."

"Speaking of which, besides the spirit world detective, I still have a competition to go." He asked the white fox, "What kind of competition is that? You have been refusing to say—"

"Just treat it as an underground tennis match. Just bring your racket and go." The white fox said casually, "So play tennis well now. Practice your tennis moves."

"...an underground tennis match."

"Well, the kind that requires you to smash at least one monster with one ball." The white fox raised his paw and pointed at Nioh, "The last time you faced Killian, you could only hit Killian with three balls to kill him, right? The running speed It’s not fast enough either. I said you’ve been training with weights on for so long, how come your physical fitness hasn’t improved much? Didn’t you eat well?”

Nioh: "..."

Is the physical problem to blame?

The evening "Night Watch" ended quickly.

Nioh was taken to a tennis club by the white fox.

He looked at the white fox curiously, and the white fox waved its tail: "I think about it and I still feel that your progress is too slow. Well, although you still refuse to call me a teacher, I still reluctantly guide you about tennis. gone."

Nioh: "What's the matter with this tennis club?"

"What? Are monsters not allowed to have their own entertainment hobbies?" The white fox signaled Nioh not to look at the weird-looking monsters at the front desk, "It's hard to find a tennis club that's open all night."

Nioh: "Mom will worry if I come home too late."

"Who are you lying to, isn't it you who often go out to play in the middle of the night? Didn't you run out to the game hall to play games in the game hall for a week when you were preparing to go to junior high school?"

"……how do you know?"

"Anyway, you should come here to practice for at least an hour at night!" The white fox took Nioh up to the second floor, and pointed to several ball machines, "I will turn on five ball machines at the same time, and remember to return every ball. .”

"Wutai?" That's not too difficult.Nioh thought.

The white fox glanced at him: "Also, since you have watched the national team's game, have you seen one of their serving skills?"

"You mean, the kind where you hit the tennis ball repeatedly in a very short period of time, so that the tennis ball has multiple ball paths, and you need to hit each one in order to hit it accurately?"

"Yes, so Wutai is a warm-up. You must be able to return ten balls at the same time within two weeks." The white fox narrowed his eyes, "I don't think you have forgotten what you need to do?"

King Ren was taken aback.

He looked at the white fox and narrowed his eyes: "...those dreams, it really was you..."

"That's what happens. Haven't you verified it?"

King Ren suppressed his smile.

He gripped the racket tightly.

A month later, Lihai University defeated Luchuan Middle School and Chengcheng Shonan, won the championship of the county competition, got the No. 1 lottery number in the upper half of the district as a seed, and entered the Kanto competition.

Their first-round opponent, Yinhua, forfeited due to food poisoning on the day of the match.On the same day, their old opponent, Ice Emperor, in the finals of the Kanto Competition for two consecutive years, lost to Qingxue.

The only ones who watched the "two-part battle" that shocked the middle school tennis world were Liu who wanted to collect information, Sanada who followed Tezuka, and Kirihara who was brought along.After returning that day, Sanada fell into a new round of tension.

Then, at the internal meeting, Yukimura slapped the table with his palm: "Sanada, our opponent in front of us is the semi-finalist, Fudo Peak. Tell me, what should we do?"

"Go all out and don't let up!"

"Then don't think about Tezuka, just watch the game in front of you! With Tezuka's injury, he will not appear in the finals. Your grievances and grievances have time to resolve, and more importantly, Lihai's way to dominate the country !"

The atmosphere in the conference room froze for a while, until Kirihara's voice broke the deadlock.

"Don't worry, Minister, they will all be defeated! I, Akaya Kirihara, broke the record for the fastest match in middle school tennis!"

Glancing at Kirihara, Sanada pursed her lips.He stared at Yukimura and readjusted his mood: "I won't relax!"

"I hope so." Yukimura said lightly.