Chapter 54 Kanto Competition,
While everyone in Lihai was working hard to improve themselves, other schools also experienced more or less different changes. For example, Hyotei's Ryo Shinto and Houchotaro are already free to synchronize; Qingxue's tennis club also broke the previous rules this year and allowed a newly admitted first-year student to participate in the main selection; Kanagawa's Jojo Shonan's coach Still happily promoting his theory of "perfect work" everywhere; Yamabuki's Akutsu rejoined the tennis club after persuasion...
Not long after, the lottery ceremony for the Kanto Tournament began. Since the lottery venue was at Rikkai University, most members of Rikkai University had to go to help.
The lottery ceremony is usually held at nine o'clock in the morning, but many members of the tennis club have already arrived at seven o'clock. After all, the training at Rikkai University will not stop at other times except holidays.
People from other schools came so early to see how the king, Rikkai University, trains. At first, they thought that Rikkai University would stop them. Unexpectedly, they did arrive at the tennis club smoothly and saw a lot of people. Man is practicing his swing.
At first, Tatekai Dai thought about whether to use things to isolate people outside or conduct indoor training, but after discussing with Yukimura, he felt that it didn't matter.
Because Yukimura feels that it doesn't matter even if the other party sees how they train. The strength of the Rikkai Daishou is constantly getting stronger through challenges and tempering again and again. If other schools can do it, then do it. They I wish there were more evenly matched opponents on the road to tennis! After all, competition will lead to progress, right?
Tiangong Lan and others felt that this was very correct.
Seeing that the members of the Tennis Club of Rikkai University, even the non-elected ordinary members, have already started training at around seven o'clock, many students from other schools just feel their scalps go numb. This must be too hard! Even the main selection in their school has not reached this level! No wonder it is a strong tennis school!
In short, it’s like a person who is a loser will have an indescribable feeling when seeing someone who works hard. These members of the foreign school who originally wanted to find out about Li Hai University’s training methods hurriedly left the area where the tennis club was and went to the lottery. Designated place.
The drawing location is the auditorium where the opening ceremony is held at Lihai University. Amamiya Arashi and Ryu Gang walked into the door holding Kirihara who had completed basic training, and heard the discussion about Hyotei coming from other schools.
"The Ice Emperor has been lonely this year!"
"Indeed! We actually lost to a rubbish school that came out of nowhere!"
"That's it!"
"Hey~ I heard that in this year's metropolitan competition, Hyokui didn't even make it into the top three? Is it true?"
"Of course it's true! You don't even know how surprised we were!"
"..."
"Have you heard? Minister Rikkai seems to be sick!"
"Really? Isn't it Tatekai..."
"But there are also deputy ministers and other main candidates!"
"It's not like there are just a few great people in other schools..."
Amamiya Lan didn't expect that Hyotei Academy, as its 'dead rival', would be so unlucky. During the metropolitan tournament, they sent out the second team without investigating the opponent's information in advance, thus accidentally losing to the 'dark horse' school that suddenly appeared. Dongfeng later regained the qualification to participate in the Kanto Competition due to the resurrection competition.
But looking at the discussion inside, you will know how serious the hidden danger this failure left for the Ice Emperor!
Moreover, because of this failure, although Hyotei can still participate in the Kanto Tournament, he has lost the qualification to be a seed team, so he can only rely on drawing lots to determine the number of games.
Seigaku, who won the championship in the Metropolitan Conference, replaced Hyotei's seed team.
Tiangong Lan and Liu looked at each other, opened the door and entered the auditorium.
With a "squeak", the door was pushed open. Representatives from each school's tennis club sitting inside saw the three people wearing Rikkai Daisho uniforms. The people who were still discussing stopped instantly.
The three of them randomly found a place to sit down, and not long after, the Ice Emperor arrived.
After a while, the lottery started. As the seed player, Rikkai Dai has always been the number one, while Aigaku, who has replaced the Hyokui position this year, has been the sixteenth lottery.
After the lottery started, the representative of Yinhua Middle School who was sitting in his seat looked at the match list on the white board and kept muttering: "Don't ever meet Qingxue... Never meet him!"
"Qingxue is No. 300, as long as we are not No. !" At the metropolitan conference, the members of Qingxue's tennis club caused a huge psychological shadow on them. They were completely humiliated at the thought of being singled out by a first-year student from Qingxue who singled out their entire tennis club and were forced to give away tennis balls!
"As long as it's not Qingxue!" The representative of Yinhua Middle School secretly encouraged himself, as long as it's not the 15th!
"Next, Tokyo Yinhua Middle School."
"Yes...he's here!" The representative of Yinhua Middle School stood up, took a deep breath, and when he walked to the drawing position, he took another deep breath.
The two staff members standing in front of him who were recording the lottery looked at the Yinhua representative with strange eyes. One of them even wanted to call the emergency number.
The representative of Yinhua Middle School closed his eyes and shouted: "Come on!" He put his hand into the lottery box with a look of death.
Although the representative of Yinhua Middle School mustered up the courage to pull out a piece of paper with his eyes closed, he did not dare to open his eyes to read it. So he had to ask the staff to help him open it. Before opening it, the staff member was still muttering to himself about the nervous behavior of the Yinhua representative and wondering if there was something wrong with this person's brain.
As soon as the results were opened, the staff's sympathetic eyes immediately fell on Yinhua's representative. He looked at their opponents on the whiteboard and looked at them with loving eyes for a while.
"Number 2!"
The representative of Yinhua Middle School didn't know what number 2 represented, but he knew that the number they drew was not number , which meant they didn't have to face the devilish Qingxue. This made him cry with joy involuntarily.
"No. 2! It's No. 2! We drew No. 2! Hahahahahahaha who is our opponent! Do I want them to cry... in front of the reborn Yinhua?" When the members of Yinhua came to the stage to draw lots, they saw When No. 1 was written "Lihai University Affiliated High School," my brain felt like it had been hit hard, and my vision went black.
But the people in the audience seemed to be about to cry. It was better to go to school! Although the great minister at Rikkai seems to be ill, the others are not easy to fight either! For example, the 'Emperor' Sanada, the 'Strategist' Yanagi Renji, the 'Magic Master' Amamiya Arashi, the 'Deceiver' Nioh Masaharu, and the 'Red-Eyed Demon' Kirihara Akaya... there are not many that are easy to deal with. !
"It seems that some people think we are easy to bully~" Amamiya Lan pretended to look at the representative of Yinhua Middle School sadly, and then turned his head to Kirihara, "Aka will solve the game in ten minutes."
"Of course!" Kirihara replied loudly, and then looked at several representatives of Yinhua Middle School angrily, "How dare you underestimate our Tachikai University, just wait and see!"
After hearing Kirihara's words, several people in Yinhua began to tremble. The overlord of the Kanto region, Rikkai, was much more difficult to deal with than Seigaku.
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After the lottery was over, Amamiya Arashi and the main players of the tennis club went to the hospital to pick up Yukimura from the hospital.
In early May, Yukimura started comprehensive treatment with drugs and acupuncture. After more than two months of treatment, Yukimura's condition had improved greatly. So after asking the doctor for advice, Yukimura planned to leave the hospital. Although he can't play now, he can still go to the scene to cheer for his friends.
After knowing that Yukimura could be discharged from the hospital, everyone made an appointment to pick Yukimura up from the hospital together after the lottery was over.
After being discharged from the hospital, Yukimura returned to the tennis club. Although he couldn't train with everyone yet, at least seeing Yukimura made everyone in the tennis club feel very at ease.
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Two or three days later, the Kanto Competition officially started. Yukimura led everyone in the tennis club to the court.
Rikkai University's opponent in the first game was Ginka Chunghwa. The members of Rikkai University still remembered the farce that happened at the lottery ceremony, and they also told Yukimura about it as a joke, so this time Yukimura directly arranged it All the main selections are on the field.
Doubles 2: Bunta Marui x Jack Kuwahara
Doubles 1: Nioh Masaharu x Yagyu Hiroshi
Singles 3: Kirihara Akaya
Singles 2: Genichiro Sanada
Singles 1: Liu Renji
In addition, Amamiya Arashi and Yukimura took turns sitting on the coaching bench.
Seeing the competition list submitted by Lihai University, the staff felt sorry for Yinhua. This is really...
However, when all the members of Lihai University gathered and waited for the members of the Yinhua Middle School Tennis Club to show up, there was no one on the opposite side.
This made the people at Lihai University feel irritated, and they began to think that Yinhua Middle School was arrogant and arrogant...
As time passed little by little, and seeing that Yinhua Middle School was about to lose the qualification to participate due to timeout, the referee got the news that members of the Yinhua Middle School Tennis Club were unable to compete due to food poisoning and had to abstain.
Although Li Hai won the game effortlessly, they were not in a good mood.
This is mainly because the proud Li Hai looks down upon such an opponent who loses courage in the face of a strong enemy. In their view, fleeing without a fight is a shameful act, not to mention that the excuse they used for "food poisoning" sounds false!
They felt very bad about this.
Fortunately, they only saw one such shameful school. The schools behind were still normal. Although they were weak, they at least competed seriously!
Lihai University successfully advanced all the way to the semi-finals. At the same time, Hyotei and Yamabuki also won the top four spots, but Seigaku was still fighting for the top four spots with the 'dark horse' Fudomine Academy.
After the game, Tatekai Dai, Hyotei and Yamabuki all came to the arena where Seigaku and Fudomine were competing.
Seeing Tatekai Dai, Hyotei and Yamabuki who finished the race, Oishi Shuichiro couldn't help but worry in his heart, these are all Seigaku's strong opponents! Then he turned his attention to the arena.
What was going on on the court at this time was a two-on-one match between Fudomine's Ibu Fukaji and Aogaku's Echizen Ryoma.
In the previous doubles match, Fudomine's Sakurai & Ishida VS Aogaku's Fuji & Kawamura, Aogaku abstained and Fudomine won.
In the doubles match, Moritatsu & Uchimura of Imfudamine VS Aogaku's Kikumaru & Oishi, Aogaku won 6-2.
In the singles match between Kamio of Sanfudomine and Kaoru Kaido of Seigaku, Seigaku won 7 to 5.
The total score is one to two, with Seigaku in the lead. If Echizen Ryoma wins the two singles match, then the game is over. Seigaku will directly lock in the semi-finals. Once Fudomine wins, then we still need to watch the last singles one.
However, looking at the current situation, it seems that Qingxue has the upper hand! But the protagonist’s talent is really cheating, isn’t it? It’s so difficult to fight against the Kanto-level Fukaji Ibu. Isn’t it unusual to wait for the national competition in more than a month to challenge a player of Yukimura’s level? You must know that Yukimura is not an ordinary national-level player!
But considering that Echizen Ryoma is a hot-blooded shounen manga, it doesn’t seem so abnormal... right? Tiangong Lan looked at the two people on the field, but couldn't help complaining in his heart.
He decided that in order to avoid overturning, it would be better to face Echizen Ryoma by himself. Then when the Kanto Competition is over, he must find a way to improve everyone's strength. If it doesn't work, he will trick everyone into training at the back of the U17. .
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"Wow! Prince Ryoma is so handsome!" Suddenly, a female voice that sounded like a nympho interrupted Tiangong Lan's thinking.
Amamiya Arashi followed the sound and saw that it was Echizen Ryoma's fan leader Tomoka Kosakada. The little girl with pigtails next to him must be Ryuzaki Sakurano.
As for the reason why Kosakada Tomoka suddenly shouted so loudly, Amamiya Arashi looked at the court and it turned out that Echizen Ryoma had used a new move, 'cool whip'. By the way, the new name here seems to have been thought up by the active little boy next to the two girls.
As Echizen Ryoma successively used the 'one-legged basic step', 'cool whip', and 'whip ball A' and 'whip ball B', Echizen Ryoma won the singles two with 6 to 3, and Seigaku was successfully shortlisted. The top four.
After knowing that their opponent in the semi-finals was Yamabuki, everyone at Rikkai University was still a little disappointed. It was not that they looked down on Yamabuki, but because like Hyotei, Rikkai University had already played against Yamabuki Academy many times. Now they I just want to change to a fresher opponent, for example Qingxue is very good.
Of course, although it is a bit disappointing, it does not affect their serious game.
When facing Yamabuki's doubles, both groups of Rikkai's doubles had to show some strength because the opponents on the opposite side activated synchronization.
Looking at the synchro on the opposite side, Marui and Kuwahara, who had been tortured in the hands of Amamiya Arashi, also started to synchro.
This immediately surprised the audience. After all, they haven't seen a match between the same tune and the same tune before!