[Comprehensive] The Light Chaser

The result of the match against Fudo Peak was as everyone expected.

Although the fact that Fudo Peak's head of the tennis department is Tachibana Juping surprised everyone in Lihai University, the lion that lost its claws has already disappeared.Under Kirihara's red eyes, Tachibana felt the despair that his opponent once felt.

Pain, and blood.

When he fell to the ground again and again, he was actually slightly relieved.

Is this retribution?

As me, the retribution of playing such violent tennis that even sent Chitose to the hospital...

"Senior Orange!"

He saw the concerned and disbelieving expressions of the sophomores in the team.After seeing such an expression, he was actually a little relieved.

He looked at his red-eyed opponent again.

Expression, momentum, and eyes.

A young opponent, just like him last year.Ambitious, short-tempered and innocently cruel.Tachibana doesn't think that he can be called an "old man" when he is only in the third grade of junior high school, but compared with Li Haida's so-called "second-year ace" who is opposite him, he has indeed lost his spirit.And his tennis has also lost its vigor.

If my tennis can be reborn from confusion, then my chances of winning...

But now, it's too late.

In the middle of the game, he once lost his sight, and his head hurt from being hit by the ball. He thought maybe he had a concussion?What about Chitose?When Chitose was injured in the eye, was he as desperate as I was?

Ju barely suppressed these negative emotions and insisted on standing on the court.

He thought he was not a good role model, and the juniors behind him shouldn't look at him standing in such a mess on the court.But he doesn't want to give up any outlier games.He has given up enough.

"Gamewonby Tachikai, Kirihara Chiya, 6-2!"

"Double Heroes from Kyushu? That's all." Kirihara ignored the Fudo Peak people who were glaring at him, and returned to the team with his racket on his own.He was still in a red-eyed state, and he was in high spirits, and he also showed a provocative look in the face of the Big Three and King Ni who had defeated him.Sanada frowned at Kirihara's lip-licking gesture, while Nioh didn't take the junior's change of face at all.

He thinks that the red-eye state is also a good development direction from the results of the game.

Although the state of selflessness is the most orthodox, it also has many limitations.For example, someone like him who can freely control spiritual power (although the accuracy is only the most basic level in the mouth of the white fox) can use it directly, but like Kirihara, who has relatively thick nerves and is not good at mental power, it is delayed to enter. If you can't reach the state of selflessness, even if you enter a state that is estimated to be uncontrollable, it is a good way to use excited emotions to stimulate the potential in the body.

"You guys are so despicable!" The girl in Fudo Peak's team, who probably belonged to the manager, turned her head towards Li who was about to line up Everyone in Haida stared angrily.

Yukimura raised his eyebrows, but didn't comment.

As for Qieyuan himself, he let out a cry: "Despicable? He is too weak, hahaha."

The contempt and arrogance in his tone made everyone in Fudo Peak clenched their fists, resisting the impulse to not rush forward.

"You devil!" The short-haired female voice glared at Kirihara, turned around and trotted away with the car, and waited until everyone at Fudo Peak had exited, before Sanada raised her hand and pressed Kirihara's head.

"Chi Ye, you are too arrogant."

Under Sanada's aura and shadow, Kirihara finally withdrew from the red-eyed state and snorted: "I'm not wrong."

There is nothing wrong objectively, but of course there are some problems in reason.However, Li Haida has always had this kind of style, and sometimes he finds such an attitude very annoying when he is in it.But making the opponent lose his mind through words or actions is also part of the battle itself.Therefore, the three-year-olds were not too harsh on Kirihara's attitude.

When he suffers, he will naturally change his attitude.Otherwise, even if their seniors said something, it would not be very convincing.

Setback education.

What Kirihara received in Lihai has always been setback education.

Nioh's game was assigned as a singles one, so he didn't play.It was not voluntary, but drawn by lot.

Important decisions such as the order of appearance have always been discussed and decided by the Big Three.After Yukimura fell ill, Nioh somehow participated in the meeting. There is quite a new trend of "Big Three".After Yukimura returned, he tried to skip the meeting, but failed.Yukimura would make it a point to go to the conference room with him every time.He complained that Minister, didn't you come back?Doesn't it seem strange that half of the positive elections have decision-making power?Yukimura said you have this right.I don't care if you want to give it up, I have to make sure you have the right.

"Li Haida's rules are rules, and rules cannot be broken." Yukimura said.

King Ren understood what he meant, and later stopped complaining.

The order of appearance in this competition was decided by the four of them drawing lots in the conference room.Except for Kirihara, who is fixed at the third place in the singles (they should also cultivate the so-called "second-year ace", otherwise, what will they do when they graduate from Lihai University? Competition experience can't be accumulated only by the national competition), everyone else is playing. Messed up the draw.

Yukimura refused to play singles with his real name, saying that since he came back, he has been playing singles in the county competition. He didn't make it to the game, and his bones were itchy, so he had to try other positions.There is no problem with doubles, it should be said that it is best to draw doubles, otherwise singles two and singles one will not be able to play.As a result, he drew a substitute, which made King Ni laugh hard.

"Is there any difference between your singles one and my substitute?" Yukimura folded his arms and looked at him sideways, "It's not the same as not being able to play."

Nioh, who rarely smiled so happily, covered his face and waved his hands. It took him a long time to recover: "It's not a question of whether to play or not. Yukimura, you were so confident just now, I thought you were just...hahahaha."

Yukimura: "..."

Sanada and Liu who were on the sidelines were also holding back their laughter, but they were not as bold as Nioh to really laugh out loud.And Yukimura glanced at Nioh with some depression, and found that he really didn't have much way to "revenge privately".

After the semi-finals, there was only one opponent left, and that was Qingxue.

In the tactical meeting before the game, Nioh showed too much attention.

"Speaking of which, you have been very concerned about Qingxue since last semester." Liu tilted his head, "What happened? No data can be collected at all. There is no winter competition in junior high school. Only last year Qingxue even won the Kanto competition." I don’t think they have any reason to pay attention to the record of not making it. Of course, this is my negligence, because now Aigaku has entered the finals of the Kanto Tournament and defeated Ice Emperor.”

They have played practice matches with Bingdi and know Bingdi's strength.

And the two-year students of Ice Emperor who played in the practice match (then they were still first-year students) would not have less potential than Kirihara.

"But Tezuka was injured and went to Kyushu for treatment... I heard that he transferred to Germany during this period." Liu added, "Without Tezuka's Aigaku, his strength has been at least halved."

"Yu, tennis is a team competition." Nioh stretched out his finger, "Excluding Tezuka, there are others."

"I know. But paying too much attention to it will be counterproductive, Nioh." Liu opened his notebook, rarely revealing his aura as the "consultant" of the tennis club and the "power behind the scenes" (the real power who controls the economic power) , "The odds are 72.8%."

"...How do you calculate the decimal point?"

"Trade secrets."

King Ni let out a sigh of relief and lay down on the table: "You are right, but..."

The meaningless dispute was interrupted by Yukimura.

"We will do our best against any opponent, so there is no need for you to discuss whether you care or not here. Let's start discussing the order of appearance directly." Yukimura said.

"...The order of appearance was determined by drawing lots in the last game, so you are not guilty of saying that you will go all out..."

"We are indeed going all out with the current lineup and carrying a heavy load." Yukimura smiled, "Do you have any comments, Nioh?"

"No, no. Piyo~"

Yukimura, who tried to play in the semi-finals but drew a substitute, still expressed his desire to play this time.But the final itself needs to play five games, so it doesn't matter where he is.Tezuka, the director of Seigaku, is still not here—it may be a good thing that Tezuka is not here, otherwise Sanada will definitely ask to fight Tezuka.He doesn't care about the position of singles one, it's just...

Forget it, nothing.

"I'm Singles [-]." Yukimura clicked on the positions of Singles [-] and Singles [-], "Sanada Singles [-]. Kirihara... Let him be a substitute for the time being. In the last game, he played a bit better."

"Indeed, Red Eye's state is very unstable." Liu nodded, "If it wasn't for Ju's own problems... To be honest, I'm a little afraid that Chi Ye will develop a knot like Ju in the future."

"Isn't it?" Nioh raised his head, "Speaking of which, why did Tachibana transfer to Tokyo?"

"Because he injured Chitose with a ball during a practice match during the holidays." Liu opened his notebook, "My information is that Chitose quit the tennis club after going to the hospital for treatment, and changed schools when she was in her third year of junior high school. Went to Sitianbao Temple."

"Puri, did the Kyushu duo just go their separate ways..." King Ni blinked, "I almost fought with them last year. It's a pity."

"National-level doubles." Liu clicked on the orange photo on the profile, "The level of the first two rounds of the above match is also a national-level singles."

"But Chiya is a complete singles player. Let him have a knot like Tachibana..." Nioh thought and laughed, "Will any of us be hurt by his ball?"

"...Anyway, it's better to be more cautious." Liu Wei frowned.

Probably the other three people present thought that he was worrying unfoundedly, but Liu was naturally worried about that junior who was usually careless.Playing violent tennis is not a big deal, but those who can really make a name for themselves on this road have a strong heart.But Kirihara...

Liu suppressed his thoughts and began to analyze the list again: "So singles three, am I still King Ren?"

"Why am I on the shortlist?" King Ni opened his eyes slightly and raised his finger to point at himself.

Liu hummed: "According to the data, there is an 83.3% chance that Qingxue played three times in singles because of Fuer Zhouzhu."

"……so?"

"Originally, I thought that Fuji-kun would be a good opponent for Akaya. However, based on the situation in Tachibana last time, Tezuka has already lost in Seigaku..." Liu glanced at Sanada who suddenly turned black, and changed his words, "Well, considering the fact that Seigaku's director, Tezuka, has been absent due to injury, if another injury occurs, it will be detrimental to Lihai's reputation formally."

"Oh? Such a vain reason?" King Ni laughed.

Liu glanced at Nioh, who was sitting on the chair out of line, and continued to add solemnly: "No, there are many reasons. Let me list one, two, three? First of all, assuming that it is me who plays the singles three, you and Yagyu plays doubles one. The lineup sounds good, but—"

"With all due respect, Nioh, you and Yagyu have not made much progress in doubles." Liu said very bluntly, "It is true that your 'special training for cultivating tacit understanding' has achieved certain results, but in comparison, your doubles is just that. Simply one plus one equals two, even if you still can't show your full strength. You can win the golden pair of Qingxue in doubles, I am very sure of this. However, just beating is not enough."

"In the final analysis, your current 'positioning' must be changed." Liu took out two "Tennis Weekly" from under the table, "You can take a look at the interview drafts of the county competition and the Kanto competition. In the ranking of strength, you are even behind Kirihara."

Nioh: "...But it doesn't matter, right? It's all outsiders' opinions."

"No, it's very important." Liu shook his head. "A lot of opportunities, including training camps, and even club trial invitations, will actually refer to the magazine's statement and the record of college competitions. If you have no strength, you will be overestimated." , Although it is a kind of deception, it is a waste to be underestimated if you have strength. Nioh, you have been underestimated too much."

Nioh straightened up because of these words.

The chair he was shaking made a screeching sound, but the other three people present did not change their expressions - well, exclude Sanada who has always been black-faced.

Probably because Nioh's expression was too delicate, Yukimura smiled and said, "Nioh, I still mean that. Don't forget to escape all the 'obligations' you can do."

What kind of obligation is that?

Nioh thought dejectedly.

But the worst part was that he couldn't refute Liu's claims.

The combination of him and Yagyu can beat Marui and Kuwahara every time in team practice matches, not because of cooperation but because of their own strength.Not only himself, Yagyu, who joined the tennis club in his second year of junior high school, quickly combined his advantages in golf, and also made rapid progress in tennis.

"I think I can play well with Liu Sheng in doubles," Liu said.

King Ren glared at him: "When did you poach my partner's corner?"

Liu smiled slightly: "I need to dig a corner? Do you think he has a better relationship with me or with you?"

Nioh: "..."

Nioh: "Consultant, I remember you are a singles player. Didn't you say in your freshman year that you joined Lihai University in order to find more possibilities for singles? When did you return to doubles?"

Liu tilted his head, and smiled: "You actually remember? In fact, I really want to try doubles with you. I have been unable to collect a lot of information..."

"Okay, stop making trouble." Yukimura concluded, "Let's just decide."

The list of contestants will be announced two days in advance to prepare for the finals.But in order to prevent accidents, there is room for it.

Nioh was still thinking that although he and Yagyu always had problems, they couldn't be worse than Liu and Yagyu who had never practiced together, right?As a result, heavy rains began the next day, and the final was postponed for a week.

He thought it was all right now, and after a week of practice, he could completely develop a decent tacit understanding.

"Why do you care so much?" White Fox was puzzled by Nioh's complaint, "You don't really like doubles that much, do you? At first you practiced doubles only because of lack of strength, but now you have..."

"Because I'm not reconciled." Niwang touched his braid with his backhand, "Didn't you always say that I am a child? Of course a child will be unhappy if his beloved toy is taken away."

"……Toy?"

"analogy?"

"It's because of your attitude that this resulted in this result." The white fox said bluntly, "That's your partner. Do you know the meaning of partner? Partner, it's very special."

Of course he knows that a partner is a very special existence, but too many accidents have happened, so that he should have cultivated something with Yagyu, but now he has nothing, and even the partner is only obsessed .But Nioh also knew that these were all excuses.In fact, his attitude towards Liu Sheng was wrong from the very beginning.Aroused interest because of one dream, and approached hastily, and chased after other things because of another dream.

"However, when did the relationship between Liu and Liusheng get better?" Niwang was a little puzzled, "I didn't find out at all."

"Young man, the relationship between people is too bad."

"Crap."

The next day they received the news.

Qing Xue went to Karuizawa for a week's extra training, and Ice Emperor's main selection also took leave to go to Karuizawa on the same day. It is said that the villas of the two schools are very close to each other.

"Isn't it? Ice Emperor is going to help Qingxue special training?" Marui suddenly became angry after speaking, "Who has a better relationship with them?"

"Do you think Bingdi should come to help us with special training?" King Ni laughed.

Marui raised his head and thought for a while, then shivered: "No, Atobe, Sanada, and Yukimura have a different atmosphere when they are in the same place."

"Isn't it? Atobe-kun and Sanada-kun have a good relationship." Yagyu recalled the scene of the last practice match.

Marui snorted and said: "Yes, it's a good relationship. From the beginning of the first year of the country, we played at least twice a year. Including official games, training camp games and private practice games. In terms of the relationship between victory and defeat, plus Last time we had a practice match with Bingdi, they were just tied."

Last time Sanada lost.

But after the game, the track department said bluntly that you actually hid your clumsiness for my uncle?Not too flashy.

It's not good to know each other too well.

But mentioning this...

"After Sanada lost the practice match last time, he didn't seem to have carried out the 'Iron Fist Sanction' yet." Nioh touched his chin, "Have you found someone else to fight? I thought he would let us do it together. For example, let's gather around Circle him and stand in the middle, one by one."

Marui: "That's too much, it's just a practice match. And did you forget? We went to the hospital to visit Yukimura, and he and Yukimura went to talk alone."

"That's why I feel it's a pity. Yukimura must not have used much force at the time." Nioh added after finishing speaking, "The main reason is that there is no way to use force."

Yukimura suddenly appeared: "Hehe, what did I hear?"

Nioh was taken away by Yukimura, Marui and Yagyu looked at each other for a while.

Then he laughed, and pushed Liu Sheng's waist with his elbow: "Hey, Liu Sheng, what do you think? The order of appearance in this competition..."

Liu Sheng pushed his glasses.

"King Nio doesn't seem to be willing. It's rare to see him deflated." Marui rolled his eyes after speaking, "What do you think?"

"I?"

"You..." Marui tilted his head, "Actually, Nioh really cares about you. Although I don't understand what you two are fighting for. If you really don't want to partner with Nioh, you should talk to him directly. .Although it looks heartless, Nioh is a person who knows how to get into a dead end."

"Marui-kun, are you on Nioh-kun's side?"

"Ah, that's right." Marui nodded calmly, "That guy is troublesome and difficult to get along with, but he can be regarded as a good companion and a good friend. Compared with Kuniichi, he has really changed a lot now, I'm not very good at saying whether this change is good or bad, so I don't understand why he must compete with you and is unwilling to take a step back. But it's normal not to take a step back, Nioh is that kind of person. So, it's impossible to make you angry If you accept it...it's better to say it directly."

Unacceptable?

"Marui-kun, from the very beginning, I joined the tennis club just to become Nioh-kun's partner." Yagyu said.

His expression didn't change, he was still a gentleman as always: "If I can't even reach the original goal, then the further goals I found in the tennis club will be meaningless."

"Marui-kun, you have indulged too much to Nioh-kun."

After finishing speaking, Liu Sheng took the racket and left. He and Liu still had urgent doubles training.After all, the final of the Kanto Tournament has a different meaning from other competitions. It is impossible for them to rely on the results of their usual doubles and training to play.The opponent is Qingxue's golden combination, the gap is too big, maybe there is a danger of capsizing in the gutter.

And Marui watched Yagyu's back go away from the same place, and took out a bubble gum from his pocket.

He tore open the package and stuffed the candy cube into his mouth, thinking while chewing, pampering?

"I pamper Nioh? Are you kidding me?" He blew a bubble.