[Comprehensive] The Light Chaser

Echizen fell into an unprecedented daze.

The always proud teenager has experienced the most painful moment, probably when he was playing basketball in the United States, being ridiculed wantonly by those tall Caucasians and almost turned into a violent incident.Even the elder brother who played with him when he was a teenager and left without saying goodbye was not so painful.That is the pain of dignity being trampled upon and worldview being rebuilt.So he later picked up the tennis racket again (although he was teased too many times as a child and lost interest in tennis), and found the pure joy of becoming stronger in the world of tennis.

But now?

He is in a space that he doesn't know how to describe, maybe this space overlaps with the tennis court.

He cannot see, hear, touch, or hold.

Where did tennis come from, where did it go, or did I hold the racket...

thump.

He dubs in his head.

Anyway, he didn't know whether the ball was received or not.

Of course he can deceive himself that he has it, but it is more likely that he does not.

He thought about it, he was too tired, so what if he just dropped the racket?

It was too painful to keep going.

But if he chooses to give up again this time, isn't his life just like a joke?

Besides tennis...

Tennis has become an inalienable part of his life!

He really likes tennis!

From being able to remember...

He let out a longing cry when he didn't realize it, and sweat slid from his forehead.The way he opened those cat eyes wide to try to see clearly, and then tried his whole body to try to regain control of the court, is particularly moving.

Buer on the sidelines involuntarily opened his eyes and suppressed his smile, while the other seniors of Qingxue also showed shocking expressions.

How miserable is he?

You can feel it from the scene.

But the desire emanating from every pore seems to be a huge force.

Such Echizen made Yukimura involuntarily narrow his eyes.

He thinks so, this is why Tezuka treats you differently.

For a moment he was bored.

To be honest, he started using Yips with the idea of ​​destroying the annual.Yukimura doesn't do much to create opponents for himself.Although he has enough confidence in his own strength, he values ​​Li Haida's three consecutive championships more.

The establishment of a dynasty is destined to be accompanied by blood, and in Yukimura's view, it is better to make opponents despair than to make one's own companions sad.

But the freshman in front of him was a little bit beyond his expectation.

On that immature face, exuded unwillingness and dedication to tennis.

During his more than two years as a minister, he has seen too many annuals.Some of those who join the Lihai University Tennis Club are for the title of Lihai King, and some are just for reasons such as "fitness".Many people who keep saying that they like tennis can easily give up.

Yukimura didn't care about this.After all, there is no unreasonable love in this world, and the love and affection for tennis also takes time to accumulate.As a minister, he has enough time and energy to build up his own tennis dynasty bit by bit.

Now, he's changed his mind a little, a little.

Such as no longer using Yips to make the game end quickly.

He has never had the hobby of giving lessons to other juniors (from this point of view, Atobe of Ice Empress is more enthusiastic than him, although he has a bad reputation), but facing such a first-year student, he can't help feeling a little bit emotional.

Did you see your miniature?

No, my desire for tennis is not of this nature.

But empathize.

In pain, hold on to a glimmer of hope, persistently want to break, want to break free.

And in that moment of despair, the most important thing that conditioned reflex wants to protect——

He raised his wrist and hit a standard long-line volley, and the tennis ball hit the corner of the baseline over his head.

The first-year physiology should not be seen or felt, but when the tennis ball hit the ground, the pale-faced first-year still raised his head.

Yukimura thinks so.

Then give you a chance.

At the end of the round, he suddenly withdrew his mental power, or his Yips.

The sudden light caused the boy opposite to squint his eyes, and a look of light appeared in his pupils.Yukimura likes that look, it means a mature and powerful enemy is growing.

But he is not afraid of any challenge.

He didn't say anything and walked off.

King Ren looked up at him from the steering seat: "Minister, are you relenting?"

"No, how come." Yukimura smiled and shook his head, "I just want to see how far he can do it."

And even without Yips...

"I just finished warming up." Yukimura said with a smile, "The first official game after recovery is worth celebrating."

"It's worth enjoying, right?" King Ni tilted his head.

It's okay to say enjoyment.

Besides—

"I always need some rituals to express my feelings about the return of 'Son of God', right?" His words had a joking tone, "Of course, it would be better if the magazine could be changed to 'God's Fall'."

"Can't wait to usurp the throne, it's scary, Minister~"

The young man who was described by the word "scary" for the second time in a short period of time snorted.When he turned around, the jacket naturally raised a beautiful arc, and then he looked at the cat-eyed boy who had recovered from consciousness with angry eyes.

Ah, ah, this is it.

"How far can you grow?" He said to himself, "If not only mental strength, but also tennis skills are crushed... Will your cognition collapse at that moment?"

The score on the court was already 4-0, and Yukimura didn't think the freshman on the opposite side could come back.

Of course, the high-spirited first-year students are indeed more pleasing to the eye than those who staggered and insisted on playing in the first two rounds.

"You still...MADAMADADANE!" The cat-eyed boy gritted his teeth.

Yukimura smiled: "Are you still saying such things at this time?"

The person who fell into despair is clearly you.

And if it wasn't for my whim--

Ok?

He showed an expression of interest.

In his field of vision, the young man who was burning with anger and residual obsession gradually lit up with a familiar white light.

"Selfless Realm." He tilted his head, "Is this useful?"

"Ahhh!" The boy didn't answer his words.

Yukimura got the answer from his suddenly blank eyes.

This is different from the dazedness in Yips sinking, it is a kind of daze that is involuntarily displayed under the control of power.

If you have mastered the realm of selflessness in the first grade, let's just count it as your talent.

After thinking this way, he was amused by himself.

For Yukimura, opponents who have entered the realm of selflessness are easier to deal with than those who have not entered.

Especially this kind of person who has not yet fully grasped the realm of selflessness.

"Swipe B!"

"It's still too slow." His movement looked elegant, but he reached the landing point of the tennis ball almost instantly. "Is this the only strength? It's too light."

"Snake Ball!"

"It's too slow. Learn to listen to people, kid."

"Into the bottle smash!"

"So what are you hitting lightly?"

There is no need for a counter attack, and Yukimura's kick back is just an understatement.

Taocheng on the sidelines opened his eyes wide: "Even my 'bottle smash'--"

"Ah, that's Seiichi Yukimura." Kan's face was still as pale as Sanada had shaved 6-0, "Seiichi Yukimura is known as the 'Son of God'."

"but……"

"What the hell is Yukimura doing? Is he suddenly in high spirits?" Atobe in the audience snorted, "A good trick is used as soon as it is used, why did it stop after half of it?"

As a result, he almost found out the flaw of this move!

Hmph, his Insight...

"Maybe it's because Echizen is cute." Shinozu held his chin beside him, "Atobe, didn't you accidentally play the guide match when you were in Karuizawa?"

Atobe: "...you shut up, sir!"

"Yes, yes. Atobe-kun—" Shinobu pushed his glasses and dragged out his voice.He was about to tease Atobe a few more words, but suddenly his attention was attracted by the situation on the court, "Hey, that's Sanada's..."

"Aggression is like fire."

Utilizing the explosive power of the muscles of the whole body, he hit the ball with full impact in an instant, making the ball like a burning meteorite, which is the so-called aggression like fire.Not just strength and skill, but also momentum and every subsequent offensive step.

After all, "Fenglin Volcano" is not a simple tennis trick, it more or less includes calculations at the level of military tactics.Yukimura, as the person who is most familiar with this trick (he even thinks he is more familiar with this trick than Sanada himself), even teased Sanada and said, "Your elm brain can occasionally use the true strength of this trick."

Of course, that was the effect of using "Fenglin Volcano" together. Now that the balance is broken by "Yin Lei", the overall energy still has a tendency to increase.

and so--

"Farewell?" Yukimura smiled helplessly, "Sanada's trick is not that you can..."

He swung his racket back to hit the ball, and watched the racket in the hands of Echizen, who was trying to catch the ball on the opposite side, fly out and land on the ground.

"Hmph!" Sanada crossed his arms in the player's rest area, "This trick can't be used by just anyone!"

Of course, Echizen didn't have his own consciousness but was controlled by instinct, so he just picked up the racket and continued to play.

only--

"Gamewonby Yukimura, 5-0!"

When switching places, Yukimura turned his head and glanced sideways at the boy with white light on his body: "How long can you hold on?"

Echizen looked back blankly.

"No Self State, in the final analysis, is a very energy-consuming move. If you can't control it, it is really a waste. Of course, you have already consumed a lot of energy because of my 'Yips'." Yukimura said.

This scene was watched by other people in Lihai.

Marui frowned dissatisfiedly on the armrest: "What is Yukimura doing, there are so many people in our Lihai University Tennis Club, did he run to preach to his opponent?"

Yagyu next to me thought of Marui-kun, put your grievance away, I don't want to know what Yukimura-kun did to make you so abnormal today, but it's not so much preaching, it's more like a verbal attack, right?As Lihai's players, routine ridicule has become a common method, hasn't it?Although Yukimura-kun's expression is a little bit...

"Minister~" Nioh held up the water in his hand and the watch he dug out from nowhere on the instruction seat, "Do you want to check the time?"

Yukimura: "..."

The last game was Yukimura's serve.

He looked across at the panting first-year.

He thinks you should be very tired now.Whether it is physical or mental, then let me help you free yourself?Sometimes, I also want to be a good person.

He raised his eyebrows and threw the tennis ball, and the coat that was still hanging on his shoulders was brought into a smooth curve by his movements.

But still did not fall.

Because of this, whether it was Li Haida's teammates, or other people watching the game in the audience, or even Qing Xue's other main players shouting for cheers, they all knew that this game would have no other ending.

Yes, no matter from which angle you look at it, Yukimura Seiichi did not give full play.

He had indeed taken off his weight, but aside from his words and deeds, the coat that had been hanging on his shoulders was...

"Is there a hidden buckle?"

Many people on and off the court thought so.

And Yukimura probably guessed it but never explained his coat.

The arc of his lips brought his usual arrogance: "It's over!"

Echizen finally regained consciousness as the tennis ball fell behind him.

What is he thinking?Am I not playing?The darkness just now finally passed, but it entered a place full of light, and then?

Then?

"Gamewonby Tatsumi Dai, Yukimura Seichi, 6-0!"

The moment the referee's whistle sounded, Echiqian fell down with his eyes closed, and his seniors climbed over the railing of the rest area and rushed into the field to support him.

"Easier! Easier?! Are you okay?"

"He should just be asleep," Yukimura said.

He ignored the angry eyes of the Qingxue people, just raised his hand and waved: "The realm of selflessness, good potential. But if you can't control it, don't use it casually in the game. Fortunately, there are only two rounds, otherwise in the If you fall down in the middle of the game, what should you do?"

"you!"

Turning around to keep all malice behind him, Yukimura walked towards his own teammate in the still bright sunlight.

He was in an unprecedented good mood: the game was won, Li Hai also won, and he stood on the court again and finished a fairly satisfactory game.

"Shadow, it's over."

He whispered so, raising a sincere smile.

The official trophy awarding ceremony and the announcement ceremony of the shortlist for the national competition were held on the second day after the competition. The top five schools in the Kanto competition have the qualifications to enter the national competition.Apart from the semi-finalist schools, the fifth spot is determined by a play-off.In the competition, Yamabuki defeated Saint Rudolph and got a ticket to the national competition.

"So, Ice Emperor missed the national competition? It's a pity." Marui whispered.

King Ni turned his head slightly: "Who are you feeling sorry for? Is that your little fan?"

He got no answer.

what happened?

He raised his eyebrows, turned his head, and met Sanada's gaze.

"You two..." Sanada lowered his voice, but the veins still popped up on his forehead, "It's too slack!"

Yes, yes, why are you slacking off on everything?

King Ren turned his head away, deciding to be out of sight and out of mind.

It has been three days since he saw the white fox again.

In the past two days, he once thought that the white fox would not come back, and wondered angrily how to settle his account.But when the white fox really came back, he breathed a sigh of relief.Probably because he understands that he is actually very weak, but the white fox is very strong.

It was his hunch, untested.But at least the first half sentence is true, so the second half sentence...

"You didn't say a word, and suddenly disappeared." He knelt down and whispered.

The white fox opened his eyes wide, probably out of surprise: "Are you thinking of me?"

"I was wondering why you made trouble for me." Nioh rolled his eyes, "During the game, what did you do?"

Although he is fine now, but...

"A little help." The white fox wagged its tail, confidently said, "Boys, don't be indecisive, but make a quick decision!"

What a mess.

Are idioms used indiscriminately by you?

Nioh moved closer.

He squinted his eyes, seized the opportunity to stretch his hands forward, and the speed almost produced an afterimage.

However, he still failed, and the white fox leaped gracefully, avoiding his hand.

King Ni leaned on his knees and sighed: "So what if I touch it?"

"Go and pet other dogs, I'm not your pet." The white fox bared his teeth.

Niwang tilted his head to look at him: "Puri, did you use your spiritual power that day?"

"Ok?"

"It's almost exactly the same as mine." Niwang stared at him, "Speaking of which, you can't be my relative? You also said that you were a human being in your previous life, so are you the grandfather I have never met?"

White Fox: "..."

"Did I guess right? No way."

White Fox: "..."

"Just to put it bluntly, it's like I'm singing a one-man show alone, it's silly."

"Aren't you stupid?" The white fox also narrowed his eyes, with a bit of dissatisfaction in his expression, "You can say such things...

"So you are not my grandpa. Then who are you?" King Ren raised his lips, "Are you me?"

White Fox: "..."

"This time, right." King Ren let out a breath, "You are so undisguised, if I don't guess correctly, I will definitely be severely retaliated by you. No, I will be severely retaliated by 'I'."

The white fox was a little surprised.

He jumped up and stood on the fence, so Nio stood on his knees and looked up at it.

"Why do you guess so?" White Fox asked.

King Ren rationalized his thoughts during the past three days.

When he found that the spiritual power given to him by the white fox had easily integrated into his dantian and meridians, he knew that the white fox and himself must have unusual spiritual power.And you need to find this out yourself, because the white fox is so unabashed.Think about it, what this fox wants people to know, what he wants people to do, he will achieve his goals by any means, otherwise how could he let Yukimura see his "jumping" process?

So who is the white fox?Why do you have the same spiritual power as him?

If there is nothing wrong with the spiritual power counseling courses he studied, there is only one possibility.

They are the same person.

This is a ridiculous guess, but combined with the inexplicable dream, it is a guess with a high probability of being correct.

Nioh has always been puzzled why his "precognitive" dreams are so real.That kind of panic and unwillingness cannot be simulated by a dream, it must be experienced in real life.

Besides, every detail is too vivid to be created out of thin air.

And the white fox's words on the field were too obvious, so obvious that it was clearly reminding him of something beyond his cognition.

"You really lost, right." Nioh said, "I still remember it for a long time, so that I went back to the past from the future. Why don't I feel that I am such a vengeful person?"

The white fox thought, Nioh Masaharu is indeed not such a grudge, but he is not quite Nioh Masaharu anymore.

And he didn't hold grudges, it wasn't the past events or the past people that made him brood, but...

It was the only obstacle on the road that he had walked so smoothly for so many years.

"And then? Children are too good at telling stories, they will be laughed at." White Fox said.

King Ni tilted his head and continued: "There is a special reason why you have been following me, right? Two identical people cannot appear in one time and space. I remember this theory has been mentioned in many works. In the documents of the Government of Time That's what it said. If this is correct, then you must be accompanied by some kind of restriction. For example, you can only become a fox? Who knows, maybe it's your preference. The books say that monsters can live It's been a long time, I've lived for hundreds of years, and I'm only 14 years old, so I shouldn't use my current thinking to simulate your thinking. If I think so, I shouldn't pursue why you suddenly gave me spiritual power and left Such a big flaw makes it impossible for me not to think in this direction.”

The white fox let out a weird laugh.

He said, "Then do you think I'm still the same person as you?"

"It's impossible." King Ni said, "I am the only one who is human. You are a monster."

They stared at each other through a cloud of air.

King Ni thought he shouldn't be so reckless, he should spend enough time to lay out the layout, arrange the chessboard, and break the various plans of the white fox.But he really hasn't seen the white fox for many days.Well it's only been three days but it's been a long time.What if the white fox doesn't show up anymore?So all the calculations he has suffered so far, can he just consider himself unlucky?

"Too cunning," he thought.

And this sentence seems to be scolding himself.

Besides—

I will not change.

Nioh thought.

So is spiritual power, and so is the soul.

He went to ask the Lucky Cat. During the three days when he didn't see the white fox, he inquired about many monster stories.Lucky Cat said that this kind of monster who comes and goes freely, is smart and expensive must be a big monster, and your concubine is really good to you.

After hanging up the phone, King Ni thought, if it is a big monster, then his spiritual power has not changed after living for so many years, so he really will not change.It is true in the spiritual power textbook that there is no identical spiritual power in the world unless it is the same person, but he and the white fox are separated by a race, but they still have the same spiritual power.

So it is no problem to use the current thinking to guess the thinking of the white fox.

King Ren stretched out his hand to the white fox: "Shouldn't you let me hug it?"

"... puri?"

"If I become like you in the future, it's really impossible to complete this move. Do I still have to hug my knees? It feels so desolate."

The white fox flicked its tail and said speechlessly, "What are you thinking?"

"Will you disappear? If the future has changed, will you disappear? I shouldn't be like you again. So, I..."

Nioh's eyes widened and his uncontrollable vocal cords stopped.

The white fox jumped on top of his head, then came down from the top of his head and grabbed his shoulders: "All right, all right, stop being coquettish, just hug you, okay?"

Nioh's ears turned red for a moment.

He scratched his hands behind him indiscriminately, and rubbed the white fox and the big white tail that he had been looking at for a long time into his arms.

"I'm not going to disappear." The voice in his arms was still the same, "You dare to guess, aren't you afraid that I'm a strange bad guy? Just come over like this and be eaten by monsters No one knows."

"No." King Ni blinked, "Mom said no."

"... puri?"

"She said you didn't call her mother, she was a little sad."

The white fox was silent for a while, pulling Nio's pigtail with his claws: "Are you only three years old?! Acting like a baby to your parents?!"

"That's your fault for disappearing so suddenly! And why didn't you call her mom?"

White Fox: "..."

He is no longer the age to call a big male monster "Mom"!What a shame!And kid, how long are you going to hold until your fur is going to be plucked off!

It broke free from King Ren's arms and returned to the wall: "Have you had enough trouble?"

Niwang blinked and said oh.

"You can go home," he said, "Mom told me to call you home for dinner."

White Fox: "..."