must love tennis

Taichi Tan, the first-year tennis manager at Yamabuki Middle School, has noticed that his beloved Akutsu-senpai is in high spirits these days.

On the morning of the competition, he actually arrived at the venue ahead of schedule!This Ke Suosi doesn't usually come to practice, and has to be tricked by Coach Banda to condescend to step into the tennis court Akutsu!

Sure enough, senior also likes to play tennis very much.Although I didn't say anything, I was already excited in advance...

The altar classmate thought happily.

A rather rare scenario occurred in this year's Metropolitan Conference semifinals.

On the one hand, the team members had a car accident on the way to the field, dragged their injured bodies to the field, and were ordered to abstain after being discovered by their captains. The bad belly can't play joke.

Is it artificial or a coincidence?

In this way, the beneficiaries of the two sides, Yamabuki Middle School and Youth Academy, are about to meet in the final, and they meet outside the court, very confused.

However, thanks to this coincidence, before the start of the finals, Altar had plenty of time to scout for intelligence on the powerful enemy.

I heard that Qingxue has a very good first-year rookie.Tan was flipping through the small book while walking, muttering words.

Senior Akutsu seems to be interested in this Echizen Ryoma, what kind of person is he?In any case, it is really enviable to be the main candidate for the tennis club in the first grade...

"Ouch!"

Accidentally, he was too preoccupied, he didn't notice his feet at all, he tripped over a stone on the side of the road, stumbled and fell to the side, the sweat towel on his head immediately slid down and covered his eyes.

Holding a notebook in one hand and a pen in the other, Tan was at a loss for a while. After losing his balance, he couldn't even see the direction clearly. He rushed into the grass by the roadside, screaming.

The expected tragic scene of hitting his head on the tree trunk did not happen, but his waving arm was still scratched by the branch, and his knee hit something again. Finally, he lost his center of gravity completely, struggled hard, and still fell flat on the ground. on the ground.

"Ugh... it hurts!"

I seem to have hit someone?Tan hurriedly lifted the sweat towel that covered most of his face, got up, and bowed immediately before he could see the other person's face clearly.

"Sorry! I didn't mean to!"

Longma yawned and crossed his legs: "You, watch your walk."

"Hold, I'm sorry..." Tan looked at Ai Ai in embarrassment, his face was a little red, and he was relieved when he found that the other party was not angry.

"I heard that if you walk around in the woods next to the tennis court, you will definitely bump into a sleeping person... So this legend is true." He couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

"What?" Ryoma asked.

"Well, I heard it from my classmates too! It seems to be from the Hyotei Academy..."

Ryoma scratched his cheek and thought to himself, is all the strange talk so messy now?

"It's not an urban ghost story," Tan seriously corrected, "it's luck."

"……what?"

I don't really understand today's teenagers.

Ryoma sat up slowly, and took the ball bag leaning against the tree.Tan still looked at her with some embarrassment, and suddenly realized something, his eyes lit up: "Ah, you are a student of Youth Academy!"

"Ok?"

"You guys are very good this year," Tan said, his eyes shining brightly, "especially that first-year student named Echizen Ryoma! You must know him, right?"

"...Well, yes." Long Ma paused and replied.

"Can you tell me more about the situation?" he asked expectantly.

Ryoma looked at the notebooks and pens scattered at his feet: "Collect information?"

"Well, it's sort of..." Tan scratched his head embarrassingly, "I just want to know more about my opponent before the game. After all, I won't be able to participate in the game, there is only so much I can do."

"Aren't you from the tennis club?" Ryoma was puzzled.Looking at his sports uniform, it can't be... from the women's tennis team, right? ?

She couldn't help but take a few more glances.

This young man is about the same height as him, with delicate features, ahem, he should be thinking too much.

"Actually, I'm just the manager of the tennis team, not a team member." Tan quickly explained, "After all, with my conditions, how could I be eligible to play! But, I also like tennis very much. I hope I can do something for everyone in the tennis club, so..."

"Is that so?"

Tan stared at her blankly: "Yes..."

"Because you're in first grade, or is it because of something else?"

"I'm in the first grade." Tan said with a blushing face, "Besides, I'm so short and thin, unless I'm like Akutsu-senpai, otherwise, otherwise——"

Ryoma also looked at him, but didn't speak.

"By the way, my name is Tan Taiyi," Tan swallowed, remembering that he hadn't introduced each other after chatting for a long time, so he quickly added it, paused for a moment, and asked cautiously, "What about you?"

Ryoma took out Fanta from the ball bag, pulled the tab and took a sip unhurriedly, before saying, "I am Satoshi Horio, who has played tennis for two years."

"Ah... oh..." Dan-san nodded confusedly, "Horio-kun, are you and Echizen classmates?"

"Ah."

"Then he—" he asked tentatively.

"It's the same as you." Ryoma simply interrupted his words, pursed his lips, and gave a half-smile.

Tan was confused by that smile for a while, a little dazed: "Ah? What's the same?"

But Ryoma didn't answer any more, got up with the ball bag on his back, waved his hand casually at him, and walked away.

Tan Taiyi stayed in place for a long time, until Qianshi from the team passed by and called him: "Taiyi, what are you doing?"

"Senior Qianshi! Well, I wanted to collect information about the first-year election of Qingxue... But I still didn't find anything." He suddenly recovered and said embarrassingly.

"Echizen Ryoma?" Qianshi became interested when he heard it, "It's so mysterious. I didn't see it when I went to Qingxue last time."

"Yeah, and senior Yakutsu seems to take this opponent seriously, so I want to help him."

"Hmm." Qian Shi smiled, "It's also strange that you like him so much. Even I am troubled by that guy."

"Because senior Yakutsu is really powerful!" Tan said seriously.

"Don't you think he is bad?" Qianshi pointed.

Tan shook his head: "I don't know why, but I always feel that he...is very lonely. Because he is too strong and can't find a suitable opponent, so he doesn't seem to be interested in tennis, but once there is someone recognized by him The opponent... I think, there must be no problem!"

"Lonely?" Qian Shi was stunned for a moment, then suddenly raised his lips and smiled, "You mean, he has been looking forward to an opponent who can defeat him?"

"Maybe... right?" Tan also said with some uncertainty, "I just have this feeling."

Qian Shi was noncommittal, stretched out his hand and rubbed his hair which was messed up by the turban, and said, "It's not that simple."

"Eh?"

"He is a hunter." Qian Shi said, "What he is looking for is a suitable prey."

It was a pleasure to run after pretending to be forced, but before Ryoma raised his foot, he bumped into something in the bushes...

Um?Wait, this touch?

She retracted her legs calmly, raised her hand and pushed aside the bushes to have a look.

【I heard that if you walk around in the woods next to the tennis court, you will definitely bump into someone who is sleeping...】

After recalling, Ryoma looked forward again.

Warm yellow curly hair, a peaceful face, and relaxed limbs, like a Sleeping Beauty, lying heavily on a pile of dead leaves.

Are the rumors true? !

Could it be... a ghost? !

Ryoma silently took a step back and ran away.

She ran fast, and in a blink of an eye she was on the other side of the bushes and disappeared.Here, the big boy rubbed his eyes and sat up belatedly, looking up sleepily and yawning.

The branches in the distance are still trembling slightly.

"Huh... what is it?" He muttered, "A cat?"

He sniffed: "It seems to smell like dried fish?"

"Hey, Jiro." Atobe's blunt order came from the other side of the forest, "Get up, get ready for the game!"

When Cilang looked at the time, he immediately regained his energy. He struggled to get up, patted his buttocks, and shook off the leaves and hay clippings.

"Come on, come on!"

He ran out, and was looked at by a group of people with silent attention. He was at a loss for a while: "Why...?"

"It's nothing." Atobe said lightly, "Recently, many girls in school have believed the rumor. You... choose a better place to sleep next time."

Cirou was at a loss.

"Don't you understand?" Ninzu hooked his shoulders and pulled him aside, lowered his voice, and said seriously, "What Atobe means is that we don't object to tennis club members falling in love. But no matter what, it must not affect the game score."

He still doesn't understand.

Xiang Ri raised his hand: "I have a problem too."

"Ask." Atobu nodded.

"Aren't we a sports fan? Why should we consider dating?"

"..."

you shut up!

On the other hand, Ryoma returned to the seniors as if nothing had happened.

Entering the summer, the sun is scorching, and the game has not started yet, just standing under the sun is sweating.Ganzheng is working tirelessly to distribute refreshment drinks to everyone.

——What the hell is the vegetable juice he messed up again!

As expected, he was violently beaten by everyone.

Longma found a shady place to sit down, next to him, he sipped vegetable juice with a satiated expression on his face.Haitang sat opposite him, his lips turned blue and trembling slightly, he could only pretend to be calm.

"It's not easy for Maxima to find Bole." Buer put down his cup and began to make chicken soup remarks.

Ryoma quietly rolled his eyes.

"It's really hot, and the clothes are so wet and uncomfortable." Fuji sighed, and suddenly called again, "Echizen."

"Ok?"

"Your shoulder straps are showing..."

"!!!"

Ryoma trembled, almost jumping up on the spot, and subconsciously stretched out his hand to press on his shoulder, only to remember that he was wearing a sports vest, how could he see it? !

She looked up, glaring.

Under the sun, the originally light-colored eyes were illuminated with a bright golden color, and the lips were pursed into a line, but this posture of anger and anger was not threatening to Fuji.

He smiled slightly: "Just kidding. You should relax before the game."

Relax you bastard!

Sure enough, the feeling of sharing a secret with someone like this is... so unsettling.

Long Ma was thinking anxiously, when Fuji suddenly moved closer and said with a smile: "As you wish, the coach has arranged you for the second singles."

"……what."

She thought about it seriously, could it be that Bu Er was secretly expressing dissatisfaction with her?Also, the throne of the second singles in the past belonged to him.Now she has been robbed...

Ryoma blinked: "Isn't it the third single?"

Bu Er shook his head.

"Yamabuki Middle School's practice is to place Qianshi in the third singles, because their doubles are very strong, and they can basically guarantee the first three points, so there is no need to delay the follow-up."

"I see." Long Ma nodded thoughtfully, "Is Tian Ji a horse race? But for me, it doesn't matter who the opponent is."

"That's not what you said before." Fuji reminded, "Didn't you say you were going to defeat Akutsu head-on in the arena? - Aaron said that he was the one who tried to attack you that day."

"It's him?" She suddenly realized.

"Did you just know?"

"Hmm..." Ryoma looked thoughtful. "Who is Qian Shi?"

"It was the last time..." Buer stopped in the middle of speaking, sighed softly, and said funny, "It was the person who taught you how to play tennis last time. Do you remember?"

In the second half of the sentence, he turned around and looked to the other side.

Ryoma was taken aback, turned around, and stared at a group of people in Yamabuki uniforms.

what.

"It's you?!" Qian Shi and Tan said in unison, pointing at her.

Ryoma: "..."

Oops, caught red handed.

After a short period of commotion—Student Qianshi looked a little unsteady, but was stopped by his teammates when he was excited——there seemed to be some disharmonious arguments among Yamabuki's main players.

"Akutsu, let me change with you."

Yajiujin gave his teammates a cold look: "You have a good idea."

"Wow, that's too much! — That kid was obviously the one I fell in love with first!"

Your words are a little weird, okay?Do you think it's picking up girls, and there are first-come, first-served ones?

Yajiujin looked sideways, and said unceremoniously: "It was mine first."

"..."

Ryoma withdrew his gaze and asked quietly, "What are they doing?"

Buer rested his chin: "I don't know, it looks like I'm just learning from the scene..."

"Again," Kawamura looked worriedly at the hostile Akutsu over there, and couldn't help asking, "Echizen, when did you offend him?"

Ryoma also frowned, thought for a while, but didn't have any clues, and answered decisively: "I don't know."

"Did you provoke someone again unintentionally?" Taocheng also expressed doubts. "You seem to do this kind of thing a lot, don't pretend to be stupid! Ice Empress did the same thing last time!"

"Absolutely not this time." She confirmed.

"Then what else?" Kikumaru rubbed his chin, "Could it be that he still fell in love with you at first sight?"

...Hey, the more you talk, the more outrageous it is!