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"Deputy Director, Deputy Director Sanada..." Kirihara's voice trembled, he stuttered, and stretched out his hand to tug on Sanada's sleeve.

"Don't make trouble." Sanada reprimanded in a low voice.

"But--"

"Concentrate on watching the game, now is really the most important moment!"

Kirihara closed his mouth in fear, and when he looked away, he saw King Ni gave him a look of unknown meaning.

Sanada watched intently.

Not just a duel of the highest technology, but also... a battle of willpower.

He sighed slightly in his heart. It can be said that this is not an absolutely fair game.But isn't that what games are like?Absolute fairness is impossible. Skills, status, and various off-court factors may interfere with the court. Among those professional players who have been training for many years, which one has not been injured and trained?

In this slight distraction, he missed the thin figure leaving from the sidelines.

Beside him, his teammates chatted quietly.

"It's very difficult for Qingxue to win this match," Liu Sheng said.

"I didn't expect such an unexpected scene in the first match of the Kanto Competition," Liu Huanxuan said, "It seems that we have to play a play-off."

"That is to say, let the substitute play, right?"

Kirihara opened his mouth, but still didn't have the courage to speak out the doubt in his stomach.

"What's wrong with you today, one or two are absent-minded?" Sanada saw in his eyes and couldn't help frowning.

"He's broken in love." King Ren answered simply and neatly for him.

"Huh? No?!"

……

"I understand your feelings, Echizen." Taocheng said, the tennis ball was thrown up, dropped, caught, and repeated in his hands.

This warm-up match also has mixed emotions for him.

To warm up and prepare for the game, for the substitute players who have no hope of playing the game, they are naturally more happy to see the results. Who wants to sit on the bench all the time?But it also means that they are all ready to face the result of "Tezuka will lose".

"……Um."

"So, don't worry about anything, let's go and fight!" Taocheng said loudly, with firm eyes, "Qingxue will definitely win!"

He didn't say "minister" or "you", but said "Qingxue", the meaning is quite clear.

Ryoma nodded slowly and vigorously.

When they returned to the arena, the atmosphere of the audience had reached its peak.

It's like a taut string, on the verge of breaking, only the winner of the last ball is missing.

"Zero cut!" She heard someone yelling excitedly from the sidelines, but before the end of the sound was prolonged, she suddenly braked rapidly.

The 3.2cm sagging racket gently throws a yellow ball with a beautiful outline, faintly heralding its end.

--"competition is over!"

The referee let out a sigh of relief, and announced loudly: "The Bingdijibu, 7-6 win!"

The whole place was silent.

The young man who won, the smile on his face had already faded away.He walked to the net silently and held out his hand.

Hold it, and lift it up!

Until this moment, the cheers of the cheerleaders broke out again.

"Ice Emperor! Ice Emperor!"

"Ah, here we go again, it's so noisy..." Marui covered his ears, "Isn't the game over yet? The play-offs are coming soon!"

"That's right," Kuwahara said, "However, Ice Empress has two hundred reserve players. Even if there is a play-off, it will be beneficial to them, right?"

"Is that Hijiruo who played on par with Chiya in the rookie competition? I heard that he is the captain reserve of the next generation of Ice Emperor. He is really good."

"In contrast, the deputy director of Qingxue didn't register for the competition, so the only substitute left is..." Liu paused slightly when he said this, "That first-year freshman."

"Huh? That's it, it sounds amazing?"

"But you're still in the first grade after all..." Marui said this, noticed Kirihara's sluggishness, and couldn't help but stretched out his hand to give him a hand, "Hey, are you also suffering from heat stroke?"

Kirihara shook his head slowly, raised his hand, and pointed tremblingly.

Now, everyone including Sanada looked in this direction.

Tezuka, who was standing on the sidelines, seemed to be taking care of the players who were about to appear, and said something.

Soon, the figure blocked by the crowd turned around and jumped into the field, appearing in front of them.

The white ball cap was blown up by the gust of wind during the jump, and flew high into the air, and it took a long time before it fell.Excuse me, the exit reminded: "Echizen, your hat fell off."

"No need." Long Ma clenched his racket and walked towards the center of the court without looking back.

Compared with Rijiruo at the other end of the field, this overly slender figure really doesn't look like a powerful hidden trump card.

However, everyone at Lihai University can't take care of so much at this time.

boom!

Sanada's face suddenly changed, and he slapped the railing in front of him.

With a loud bang, almost half of the auditorium was attracted by him, and then they all lowered their heads to avoid him under his fierce and gloomy expression.

"Deputy Minister, calm down." King Ren said with a smile on his face, and was glared at by several teammates.

What are you doing!

At this time, don't watch the excitement, don't think it's a big deal, okay? !

"Calm down!" Sanada obviously lost control of his emotions, his expression changed rapidly, blue and white, white and black, and his chest heaved violently, "Is... Tezuka crazy?! Let a—"

"Aki!"

Nio quickly winked at Kirihara, rushed forward and blocked his mouth, and cooperated with other teammates to suppress Vice Minister Sanada who was going to go berserk for no reason.

"Huh...huh, what's the situation?" Marui opened his eyes wide, somewhat awkward.

Sanada glared at them and calmed down a bit, but his expression was still ugly. After a long while, he finally choked out a sentence: "You all, shut up first."

Marui continued to stare: We don't seem to have said anything yet, right?

but!etc--

He calmed down and narrowed his eyes again. In this way, the "boy" on the court seems to have seen him somewhere...

Is it? !

Marui was shocked, his neck stiffened, and he slowly turned to Nioh.

"You still remember." King Ni said meaningfully.

"Like, remember a little..." He stammered.

Before this semester, they had met Sanada's "little girlfriend"—no, according to him, it was just a student of their gym.

Let's not judge whether Sanada's definition of identity is true or false.

Back to reality, isn't it...

"Hush." ​​King Ren raised his index finger seriously.

Marui Bunta almost blushed, swallowed the exclamation he was about to blurt, blinked his eyes, and turned to look at other teammates.

"Needless to say," Liu Sheng pushed his glasses, his tone very vicissitudes, "I also understand."

Are you so calm? !

No, everyone has seen it.Does that mean I didn't read wrong?The first-year student from the Qing Xue School is indeed... a girl!

Why didn't other people respond at all? !

"Oh, maybe this is the loneliness of the king." King Ren sighed quietly, "I often feel out of place with others because I am too outstanding."

No, this is not a reason for you to commit a second grade.

"Just treat it like this, as if you didn't notice it?" Marui tentatively turned his gaze from one end to the other.

Sanada seemed to have recovered, looking solemnly at the court below.

After a while, he said, "Let's see."

"what?"

Kuwahara analyzed seriously: "After all, it's a match against Ice Emperor, and it has nothing to do with us. There's no reason to intervene... right?"

However, having said that, in the men's junior high school competition, a girl got in for some reason, but even if she wasn't found out, what would she do?

Several people looked at each other disapprovingly, thinking so in their hearts.

I don't know what Qingxue is doing, isn't this a joke...

However, Sanada suddenly said out of nowhere: "I see."

——I see, is she here to prove herself?

At this moment, Sanada's thoughts flew to that evening a few months ago.

Under the setting sun, the prolonged reflection, from the eyes of the girl he mistook for "Liangzi", saw the firm and fiery light, which made him slightly shaken.

What makes her so confident?

Sanada originally wanted to give a light snort indifferently, but unexpectedly, his calm mind made him have some different thoughts.

Being used as a secret weapon by Aigaku as a substitute, and being valued by Tezuka... What is the other side of Echizen Ryoma that he doesn't know?

Maybe it will be interesting.

……Snapped!

The yellow ball bounced off the racket neatly, and then landed. The reflection seemed to be reflected in the eyes of the brown-haired boy who widened in shock.

In today's game, there seemed to be too many things that shocked the audience.

The chants of the Ice Empress cheerleaders faded at some point, and the team members from each school who thought it was a boring overwhelming competition and were about to disperse were also cheered up.

When the ball landed very slowly, the movement was very light, but when it fell, it seemed to hit the hearts of all the audience, roaring endlessly.

"That's right, it's Zero Style." Liu Yi said sharply, "It's just that the racket drooped by thirty centimeters."

"It seems," Yagyu said softly, "there is no doubt about Tezuka's vision."

Although it is still a bit unbelievable, but... For them, the most concerned thing is not whether the opponent is male or female, and whether this conforms to the rules and regulations of the competition.

But -

Standing in front of them, is it a player who is unique and can be called an "opponent".

Nioh looked at Sanada, a little surprised.He who was frowning tightly at first, did not know when he actually relaxed, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, although it was very faint, but it did exist.

"I said, Sanada..."

"Huh?" Sanada came back to his senses, quickly adjusted his expression, and swept over with majestic eyes, "What's the matter?"

"That little girl," Nioh said slowly, "you really only treat it as a student, right?"

Sanada seemed to be choked: "...What nonsense."

"I hope you think so, because—" Nioh said, he stretched his arms around Kirihara's neck, pulled him over, and said with a smile, "Akaya, how do you feel?"

At this time, Kirihara was more focused on watching the game than ever before, he didn't come back to his senses for a while, he was stunned for a moment, blinked his eyes, and looked at the seniors.

"You, you all saw it!" He suddenly became excited.

Although everyone didn't know why he was so excited, they still nodded.

"Echizen Ryoma...seems to be very strong!"

Uh-huh.Then what?

Didn't you still target Tezuka before? Why, have you changed your mind now?

"It turns out, so I really read it right!" Kirihara clenched his fists, and even spoke incoherently, "I think I've been shot by Cupid's arrow?!"

"..."

"..."

Varied?what?

The people of Lihai, who didn't know the truth, had a blank expression.

Marui suddenly raised his head, just as he saw the smile disappearing from King Nio's mouth in time to hide, he suddenly realized, and thumped his palm: "Damn, so it's the same person?!"

Looking at Sanada whose expression suddenly became terribly dark, he felt a blur in front of his eyes.

It's over, Li Haida is about to lose peace...

……

In the silence on the sidelines, every movement in the stadium became more prominent.

The wind that started in the second singles never stopped.

The girl in the blue-and-white team uniform raised her hand, and the tennis ball fell from her palm. The wind blew the short black hair into a mess, her bangs were mixed with sweat, and rolled up and stuck to her forehead, clearly revealing A pair of persistent eyes.

A calmer expression than before, and a more arrogant smile than ever.

Make the opponent's heart tense.

"The next is the best? Sorry, you are still far behind."