that man lost his horse

against Switzerland,

Three boat coaches have enabled a large number of high school students.

Byodoin Phoenix, Duke Watanabe, Omagura Ryuji, and Irie Kanata are four junior high school students, and three junior high school students, Akutsuhito, Kite Eishiro, and Fujisuke, who must participate in the competition according to the competition rules.

This team with Byodoin as the captain, against the Swiss team,

It is "Mei Squad".

It looked like it should be a winning layout, but Lin's eyebrows jumped wildly for no reason in the lounge.

I always feel that... this game will not go so smoothly.

As expected, the game was not going well.

In the doubles two, the combination of Senior Daqu and Mu Shou,

It was Peter and Henry of the Swiss team.Daqu senior's two-sword style and Mushou's land-shrinking method took the top points in the early stage of the game.In the middle of the game,

However, the Swiss team, which had collected enough information, overturned the game, and the effects of both the ground reduction method and the two-handed style became very limited.

双打二，3-6，3-6，总分0-2,

defeat.

In the doubles, the combination of Duke Watanabe and Fuji,

Their opponents are Randy and Albert of the Swiss team.In fact, Duke Watanabe and Shusuke Fuji were allowed to partner again, which was decided by coach Mifune after a lot of entanglement.

As a combination that has played once in the warm-up match,

It is estimated that the information on Duke and Fuji has already been fully understood by information collectors from other countries.Not only Duke and Fuji,

Believe in the information of the 28 members of the Japanese team when they beat the German team,

It has been collected clearly.

This is why Sanchuan coaches try not to arrange fixed doubles partners to play.

Fixed doubles partner?I'm afraid that the information has been wiped out by them long ago.So Mifune has been working on developing different doubles partners, many times,

Relying on impossible doubles partners, creating one incredible victory after another,

It was just a flash of his idea.

But against Switzerland,

The three ships still put Duke and Fuji in the doubles position.

The Japanese team's record of winning two consecutive games in the group stage has guaranteed that they can qualify for the group stage.Under such circumstances, the three ship coaches will be more cautious when arranging troops.He can't focus on the match with the Swiss team, he has to take a longer view.

won the warm-up match against Germany (although Germany certainly did not use all its strength),

Having won Greece and Australia in the group stage, Japan has already achieved its best result in the past year.Then, they should look a little further.For example, the finals, such as trophies, or... if you are lucky, the champion can also think about it.

If you think about it from this perspective, Mifune will try to retain the Japanese team's junior high school students and top high school students.After all, the rules clearly stated that there must be junior high school students in every game, and no matter how you say it, high school students are the main force for the Japanese team to win.

Against Switzerland, losing is not a problem.Rather, the current Japanese team just needs to lose a game to wake up those hot-blooded brats.It's good to win, but if they lose, they can qualify.Against the Swiss team, although Byodoin was arranged, Mifune put him in the best position. Unless the first four games were tied 2-2, it would not be Byodoin's turn to play.

Amadeus is not that easy to deal with, and the Swiss team he leads is also difficult to deal with.And the Japanese team cannot consume too much combat power on the Swiss team.

The doubles one game lost faster than expected. The ins and outs of the combination of "Destruction King" and "Genius" have long been known by the Swiss team, and the players sent here are even specially restrained.

As for the singles three... It would not be an exaggeration to say that it was a match.

Akutsuhito, who was beaten again and again, and Amadeus, who seemed to be able to handle it with ease.

"Even if I used 'No Consciousness', I couldn't win the next game..."

After watching the coach call for a waiver, the medical staff on the sidelines hurriedly carried the unconscious Yajiujin down on a stretcher.

The junior high school students who had been overwhelmed by winning against Greece and Australia calmed down.After this game, I believe they have a preliminary understanding of the cruelty of the world.

Japan lost to Switzerland with a score of 0-3, and also qualified for the group stage with the No.2 result of the group.

Shortly after the end of the group stage, the final round opened.

Japan's luck this time is pretty good. The first game is against an unknown small country, which seems to be called Mei Hanong. After that, the opponents of the second and third games will depend on the winner of the same game. who.

"Based on the data, our opponent in the second match will be France, and in the third match, we will face the German team again." Although he has been selected as a substitute for the national team, Liu still did not fall behind. For data collection.Rather, gathering data happens to be a way for him to improve his tennis game.

After the group stage, the World Cup Organizing Committee left enough time for the countries that have not yet been eliminated to replace players.This is a decision made in consideration of the playing habits of each country and the differences in the tennis skills of the players, and the fact that injuries in the group stage often occur.

Among the high school students, Tono was the only one who was injured so badly that he could not participate in the next competition.The position of Tono was filled by the original no.5 Kaji Futa.

Among the junior high school students who were substituted due to injuries, one was Kirihara and the other was Akutsu.As for the vacancies of the two of them, after discussing with the coaching staff, it was decided that Liu and Ninzu Yushi would fill the vacancies respectively.

On the day Renzu joined the team, Lin joked about Jibu and said, "You are not the only Ice Emperor now, are you happy, Xiaojing?"

Atobe had nothing to say to Lin, his bad friend, and left with a snort.

As soon as Liu's guess about the opponent in the finals came out, the atmosphere in the meeting room instantly became a little weird.

Part of it is because of Germany, and part of it is because of France.

The German team, of course, is because of Tezuka.Among the 28 members of the representative team present, quite a few had "ties" with Tezuka.

Lin counted on his fingers in his mind: Fuji and Echizen who were in Seigaku with Tezuka; Sanada, Atobe, and Kite who never forgot after playing against Tezuka.

Excuse me, there are 14 middle school students in total, more than a third of them are related to Tezuka!

Thinking of the arrangement for the match against the German team in the future, I smiled unkindly: I just don’t know if these people will grind Coach Mifune just to fight Tezuka.

The high school students are here because of the French team and also because of Duke Watanabe.The news that the "Wrecking King" of the French team left the French team and switched to the Japanese team two years ago was quite a big deal at the time.

After all, the French team was firmly among the top four teams in the world at the time, while the Japanese team failed to qualify for the group stage.

Many people think that Duke Watanabe's move is tantamount to self-destruction of the Great Wall.

But only Duke Watanabe knows that he has no regrets and has never regretted it.He just felt a little guilty about Camus.

The Japanese team's first match in the finals was supposed to be against a religious national team named Alamenomma, but for some unknown reason, the country announced its abstention before the start of the match.Therefore, the Japanese team did not play on the first day of the finals.

Coach Sanchuan waved his hand: "Then let's go to other countries' competitions!"

This can be regarded as spying on the enemy in another sense.

Considering that both France and Germany will be their next opponents, middle school students and high school students were divided into two groups to watch the game.

Junior high school students who had more "ties" with Tezuka were assigned the task of watching the German team match.

The German team's opponent in the first game of the finals is South Africa, ranked 15th.

During the pre-match etiquette stage, the South African players looked at the German team players through the net.

"The German team entered the finals, and the two absent professional players also returned to the team." Even if he doesn't play data tennis, he has nothing to do with Tezuka.But he adhered to the idea of ​​aiming for the highest position when he came, and studied the information of the German team clearly. "Those two are known as the no.17 doubles players in this U1 World Cup!"

Nioh casually tugged at the braids at the back of his head, but his eyes were full of interest: "Is the No.1 doubles... puri~"

Liu glanced at him, changed the subject without saying anything, "You must have noticed Tezuka's position."

Yukimura nodded: "The generals of other countries seem to be particularly wary of him." The leader of the junior high school student wearing a jacket is not surprised by this situation, and he is no stranger to this situation, "It really is Tezuka."

"After all, the German team has been advancing all the way, and it is about to win the tenth consecutive championship. Tezuka must have contributed a lot in it." Speaking of this, Lin sighed, "It really depends on comparison. The former middle school student of the German team You're still dissatisfied with Tezuka, don't you change your style now?"

Yukimura hit the nail on the head: "It's because of strength. Tezuka had just joined the German team not long ago in the warm-up match, and his strength has not yet been recognized by them."

If Yukimura Kazurin and other Lihai University teammates are still calm and objective, then the rest of them are obviously not so calm and rational.

Fuji, who has always been smiling and indifferent, opened his eyes and stared at the familiar figure on the court, Tezuka...

Echizen Ryoma lowered his hat but couldn't hide the strong fighting spirit in his eyes.

Mu Shou and Sanada have their own concerns, their eyes are still fixed on the field, but their minds have already gone to other places.Atobe looked at Tezuka on the field, and laughed directly.

Before rubbing his forehead, Tezuka is really a "charismatic" player.

Fortunately, the pre-match etiquette is over, and they didn't react too aggressively after the game officially started.

Even though they were thinking about fighting Tezuka again, they still knew that the purpose of coming today was mainly to estimate the German team's data through the game.

The same goes for the high school students watching the French team game.

When Duke Watanabe saw the French team leader Camus, he silently clenched his fist on his leg.

And the main general of the French team looked up at the auditorium if he felt it, put his left hand on his chest, and raised his hand in the direction of Duke Watanabe with his right hand holding the racket.

"Duke, betrayal is what's needed, there's no need to feel sorry."

"Camus..."

After each country has finished the first game of the finals, the quarter-final match list is also freshly released.

As Liu guessed, the Japanese team's opponent in the quarter-finals was the French team.

Tomorrow is the day when the Japanese team will play against the French team, but Duke Watanabe is not at peace.

Byodoin could see what he was thinking at a glance.Is this a trick of fate...?Whether it is for Watanabe or Camus, it is a battle of fate!

"Boss, for tomorrow's game... can I play **?"

The Court of Equality was not surprised that Watanabe would make such a request.

"Want to fight Camus, eh?"

Duke Watanabe nodded silently.

Byodoin stared at Watanabe, "The order of appearance is determined by Coach Mifune, and I will help you decide, but whether it will succeed or not..." What Coach Mifune hates the most is that someone interferes with his thoughts and tells him what to do.Although Byodoin also hopes that Watanabe can get what he wants, he does feel that coach Mifune may not really arrange the order of appearance according to their ideas.

When Byodoin went to find Coach Mifune, Coach Mifune was half lying on the sofa drinking.A few pieces of paper, two dice and a bowl were randomly thrown on the low table in front of the sofa.

Byodoin looked away after taking a look, and directly informed Coach Mifune of his intention.

Mifune put the wine gourd on the table heavily, "No! **I've already ordered it! It's you, Byodoin!"

Without waiting for Byodoin to speak, Coach Mifune continued: "Yes, Duke was originally a player of the French team, and he was indeed known as the 'Wrecking King'. He is very powerful. However, Camus is stronger than him today. !"

Coach Mifune raised his eyelids, looked at Byodoin Temple, and snorted.

"Also, if there is any personal affair in the game, it will inevitably lead to failure. You know this best, right?"

Byodoin clenched its fists for a moment.

Having reached this point, Mifune raised the gourd in his hand to see off the guests.

"I've said all I need to say! Get out! Don't hinder me from drinking!"

Byodoin gritted his teeth, if the man in front of him was not the head coach of the Japanese team...!

He raised his fist and slammed the wall hard.

"Don't break the wall," Mifune reminded lightly, and then poured another sip of wine into his mouth, "Good wine!

Byodoin slammed the door and left.

And just when he was about to go back to the dormitory, he found many people at the door who shouldn't be here.

For example, the few people lying on the wall listening to the corner, or Ochi and Kimijima who were pulled here at first sight, and Oni, Irie and Tokugawa who pretended to be passing by but were obviously not good enough, a "family of three" combination .

The Byodoin House knew what the group of people were here for as soon as they guessed - the answer was so obvious that even a blind guess could guess it.

But he doesn't think they can convince the three ships coach.Don't look at the carefree and sloppy appearance of coach Sanchuan, he is actually very stubborn.

So Byodoin just snorted and left.

Therefore, Byodoin did not know what these high school students did after he left.

Of course he didn't expect that this group of high school students were planning to secretly change the list.

Knowing this afterward, he was rarely silent for a few seconds.Coach Mifune... is not as harmless as it looks.

After returning to the dormitory, Byodoin went out again with a racket, probably to vent excess energy and temper.

Lin himself was the only one left in the entire dormitory.The dormitory during the World Cup is a dormitory allocated according to the standard of 3-4 people.When allocating dormitories, the coaches considered Byodoin’s image and status among high school students, and finally decided to arrange the high school student team leader and junior high school student team leader in the same dormitory.

Fearing that they would quarrel, the coach even thoughtfully arranged for Lin to join in.

As the cousin of the high school student team leader, the team member and friend of the junior high school student team leader, if the two of them really quarreled, who would you not choose?

Lin swears that he really saw such meaning in the eyes of the coaches.

But now, Byodoin went out with a racket, Yukimura also went, and he was left alone in the entire dormitory.

At this time, a little paper man slipped in through the crack of the door.

It was the one given to Liu during the training camp. At first, it was to keep in touch. Later, it was found that it was more convenient to communicate with each other, so Lin didn't want to go back.

"Come on, according to the data, something interesting happened on the 13th floor, do you want to go and have a look?" Liu's meaning couldn't be more clear.

Lin, who had already finished his daily rest and basic training, was indeed aroused a little curiosity by Liu's words.Because of this, after he finished replying to Liu, he sat down on the floor and drew a formation with his spiritual power in the center of the room.

After the white light dissipated, the array truthfully presented what was happening to him.

The four seniors, Omagari, Kaji, Ochi, and Mori, are climbing up outside the hotel wall to enter the room where Coach Mifune is.

Lin was horrified at their boldness and bravery.If he let go... He stared intently at the four seniors in the formation, holding four talisman papers with his other hand, preparing to use the talisman papers to reduce the impact if their arms lost strength, thus saving them.

Fortunately, what Lin worried about did not happen.

The screen then changed to the room of coach Sanchuan.Kimishima-senpai, wearing a Japanese team uniform, knocked on the door of Coach Mifune's room with a cart carrying wine.

"This is the wine sent by the conference operation as a condolence product." Senior Jundao pushed his glasses, and while taking out a wine from the ice bucket to introduce the place of origin to Coach Mifune, he quietly rubbed it against the air conditioner controller Turn up the air conditioner temperature.

After finishing this series of actions, Kimishima wanted to open the window of Coach Mifune's room as planned, but was warned by Coach Mifune.

If you wander around again, you will get hurt... I don't know if the coach saw something.Jundao took out his mobile phone and sent a message. Fortunately, he had a backup plan.

The four people who managed to sneak into Mifune's room after going through untold hardships encountered strange things one after another in Mifune's room.

——Why are there ** in the hotel room?

I thought this was the most surprising part, but what happened next was even more jaw-dropping.

...Why are there lions, dominoes, and weird tea pillars in the tennis coach's room? !

Fortunately, the high school student finally managed to get the envelope containing the list of appearances after going through untold hardships.

Just before opening the envelope to change the list, Duke Watanabe stopped them.

"Everyone, please wait a moment!"

This always smiling and good-natured man opened his eyes for the first time, with a relieved expression on his face.

"In order for me to fight Camus, everyone tried their best to win me this amazing gift." The majestic Japanese-French mixed race on the court was very moved at the moment, but it was precisely because of his touch that he wanted to stop everyone : "However, what value is there in the victory achieved by tampering with the playing order arranged by the coach who has been guarding our u17 team, and everyone did not hesitate to take joint and several responsibilities?"

After speaking, Duke Watanabe bowed deeply to his teammates.

"Sorry everyone!"

"indeed……"

"yes……"

Just when everyone was full of emotions, Mao Li who quickly opened the envelope shouted out the moment he saw the list.

"Wait, wait a minute! Everyone, don't you take a look?"

Everyone heard the sound and leaned over to look, only to see the four characters "Duke Watanabe" impressively written on the ** form.

After watching the whole process, Lin sighed: "That's great——"

"Well, although the seniors are very nice, but Lin, do you think there is anything that needs to be explained to me?"

A familiar voice came from behind Lin.

The black-haired boy froze for a moment.He clearly remembered that he locked the door, didn't he? !

As if knowing what he was thinking, the familiar voice continued: "It's true that you locked the door, but I didn't go out at all today."

"Minister—" Lin dragged out the end of his voice, and turned his head wanting to cry without tears.

Yukimura sat on the chair, smiled and shook his fingers, "No, although I guessed it a long time ago, I still want to hear it from Lin himself."

The amount of information in this sentence is really too large, and it took several seconds to fully digest it before reacting.

What do you mean... you already know it? !Minister, what do you know? !

Also, when did you appear here, Minister?I just saw that no one is here, so I locked the door before I dared to use my spiritual power openly!

The boy with blue-purple hair smiled and nodded his cheeks.

"I don't mind answering Lin's questions one by one—but, after I finish answering, shouldn't Lin also tell me whether my guess is right or not?"

Lin Mumu nodded.He is in a mess right now and needs time to sort it out.

"I, I have been here just now. I did go out for extra training from the beginning, but today's training volume is enough, so I came back early to rest."

"Maybe it's because I came back earlier than you, and because the upper bunk was covered with a quilt, Lin didn't notice me when I was relaxing on the bed."

Lin slapped himself on the forehead: He really has lived and returned, and he didn't even check to see if there is anyone in the house. If his cousin finds out...

Lin shivered.

"As for knowing this a long time ago, well, I went to Atobe to verify it when I was in the training camp. Although he didn't say anything, his body movements clearly revealed everything I wanted to know. "

"Why, didn't Atobe tell you?"

Yukimura blinked, the corners of his lips curled up slightly.