Chapter 56 Difficult Advancement
Amamiya Arashi in the audience looked at Kirihara Akaya helplessly, Yanagi and Yukimura on the side were snickering, and the others... were suppressing laughter.
Tiangong Lan:……
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As Aobe came on the stage, the attention of the spectators on the sidelines also shifted to Atobe.
At the same time, the Hyokui cheerleaders cheered.
"The winner is Hyoudi, and the loser is Qingxue!"
"The winner is Hyoudi, and the loser is Qingxue!"
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Atobe threw his coat up in the air, snapped his fingers and said, "I will be the winner!"
Tezuka watched Aobe's fancy operations, walked to the net, fist-bumped with him, and said helplessly, "Have you had enough?"
"Uh-huh~" Atobe's mouth curved upward, "Of course, Tezuka, I hope your skills haven't deteriorated!"
"Ah, don't be careless." Tezuka responded calmly.
Then the two of them turned around and returned to their proper positions.
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"Now we can win two games!"
"Now we have one win, two losses and one draw. Atobe can win this game, right?"
"Senior Atobe can definitely do it."
"Of course, he is Hyokui's minister!"
"..."
Watching the confrontation between the two on the field, other members of Ice Emperor were also talking about it.
On the field, Atobe serves the ball, and Tezuka's return is to hit the ball to the corner of the field, thereby mobilizing Atobe to run back and forth on both sides, draining his energy, or making it too late to catch the ball.
Although Tezuka had a good idea and the angle of returning the ball was tricky enough, Atobe was not a vegetarian. Relying on his extraordinary physical strength, eyesight and skills, he successfully returned the ball at a tricky angle.
"Ah, it's a chip!"
"It looks like I can win this point."
Everyone in Seigaku saw that Atobe suddenly made a mistake and hit the ball onto the net. The ball followed the force and came straight to Tezuka from the air. Tezuka took advantage of the situation and hit a chip. This made several people in Qingxue extremely excited, thinking that Tezuka would definitely be the first to score a point.
"That's not right!" Qing Xueqian suddenly shouted as if he saw something.
At this time, Atobe jumped high and swung the racket directly at Tezuka's sliced ball. The tennis ball landed in the center of Tezuka's racket, but the huge force directly caused Tezuka's racket to break away from the palm of his hand and land on the ball. on the ground.
"15-0"
As the referee spoke out, Atobe took the lead and scored the first goal.
"Indulge yourself in my wonderful skills!" Aobe touched the mole at the corner of his eye with his hand, and then looked at Tezuka, "What's wrong, Tezuka, have your reactions slowed down?"
"A beautiful interception ball." Looking at Atobe with a smile on his face, Tezuka was expressionless.
"Really? Thank you so much! Then -" Atobe heard Tezuka's words and started to serve, "Next ball!"
The yellow ball rushed towards Tezuka quickly. Tezuka tightened his grip on the racket and swung it, hitting the ball towards the corner. No matter how Atobe returned the ball after that, Tezuka always hit the ball toward the corner.
"Play diagonally!"
"Tezuka is really good at it."
"Yes, not only did he hit diagonal balls from the left and right corners, he also aimed all the balls at the corners, and every ball could easily fly out of the court."
"Huh, this kind of left and right bow is useless against the base."
Watching the fight between the two and Tezuka's actions, Hyokui's other main candidates were also having heated discussions.
"That's..." Seeing that Tezuka had not moved his position, several first-year students from Qingxue were very surprised.
"Tezuka Domain" Inui Sadaharu adjusted his glasses and explained, "The ball hit by the opponent will come back to Tezuka, as if it was attracted."
"15-15"
Following Miki's explanation, Tezuka also scored a goal.
"Hahaha... You're so capable ~ Tezuka." Seeing Tezuka score, Atobe smiled and then said seriously, "Just use that wrist... your left hand... your wrist is hurting! Right? Tezuka?"
After hearing Atobe's words, some people who didn't know the whole story looked around curiously.
Shuichiro Oishi of Seigaku was agitated and shouted anxiously toward the field: "No, Tezuka's elbow has healed!"
"So that's it." Atobe got the news he wanted, "It turns out it's an elbow!" He wasn't actually sure, but he didn't expect Qingxue's people to be a bit...
Having achieved his goal, Atobe continued to fight with Tezuka.
As for Seigaku's teammates, Shuichiro Oishi told everyone about the origin of Tezuka's injury with a look of embarrassment on his face, which made their faces full of anger.
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"0:1, the youth score in this game"
"Type Zero?" Atobe muttered to himself as he looked at the ball that wouldn't bounce on the ground.
"You're welcome, Atobe." Tezuka pointed at Atobe with the racket, "show your true skills."
……
"The Ice Emperor scored in this game, the score is 1:1"
"Young students score in this round, the score is 1:2"
"The Ice Emperor scored in this game, the score is 2:2"
"The youth score in this game, the score is 2:3, the two sides exchange venues."
In the next game, the scores between the two increased alternately until the referee announced a change of venue.
"Atobe-senpai... seems to have been suppressed..." Hyotei's members murmured to themselves.
"What expressions are you looking at? It's like I've lost." Seeing that his members didn't have good expressions, Atobe turned around and said a few words, and then snapped his fingers toward the sky.
Seeing Atobe like this, Coach Sakaki directly suggested that Atobe should take control of the situation and warned him not to be careless.
Atobe replied that he had taken control of the situation, and explained that Tezuka's eagerness to attack meant that he was afraid.
Listening to the conversation between the two, the members of the Ice Emperor began to smile again.
……
The two men returned to the court to exchange places and continue the game, still fighting each other evenly as before.
Suddenly, Tezuka looked at the ball hit by Atobe and responded with a lob.
"Tezuka hit a lob~" Amamiya Arashi watched with interest as Atobe and Tezuka went back and forth.
Atobe on the field looked like he had come at the right time, but he did not use the "Waltz to Destruction" move.
Seeing that Atobe didn't use any moves, Sanada pressed the brim of his hat, a little confused, and said in a voice that only he could hear, "Atobe, what do you want to do?" while Yanagi on the side began to add information.
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"Hey~ The two of them won't give in to each other."
"Well, this is going to take time!"
"This game doesn't look good..."
Regarding the match between Tezuka and Atobe, everyone in Seigaku's group had their own opinions.
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"The elbow is indeed healed, right, Tezuka?" Hitting a ball back, Atobe continued, "You can't hit a zero slice with an injured elbow!"
Tezuka looked at Atobe in surprise, but continued with his hand movements and successfully returned the ball.
"But your unconscious movements to protect your elbows have increased the burden on other places - your shoulders," Atobe explained while replying, "I can see it, but you don't seem to notice anything~"
Such a game would take at least twenty minutes, but it would be too boring. Atobe looked at Tezuka and thought: At least I want you to be destroyed along with me.
"Atobe - are you delaying time on purpose?" Looking at Atobe's actions, Kikumaru asked, then looked at Fuji, "Why?"
"He wants to destroy Tezuka's elbow with a protracted battle." Fuji's expression remained as usual.
Taocheng asked anxiously: "Can't we end the game early and decide the winner?"
Fuji shook his head: "Atobe is not such a simple person."
Qian adjusted his glasses: "If you rush to attack, you will definitely expose your flaws, and he won't let it go."
Fuji sighed, "That's how serious competition is."
"It seems that he was not bragging when he said he had taken the initiative!" At the Hyotei player's table, Hiyaketo turned to look at Ninzu Yushi.
"Well, you have definitely fallen into Atobe's rhythm~" Looking at Atobe dragging Tezuka into a protracted battle, Ninzu couldn't help but admire.
"If it's a long game, that's Atobe's specialty!"
"It seems like he wants to get rid of Tezuka once and for all~"
"If that guy Tezuka doesn't attack forcefully, he will probably be fatally injured, right?"
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Okay, hurry up and attack impatiently, Tezuka! Looking at Tezuka who was dripping with sweat, Atobe couldn't help but think in his mind when he returned the ball.
However, Tezuka did not do what Atobe wished and continued to fight a protracted war with him.
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"It's really amazing! Tezuka Kunimitsu." Liu praised.
"Did he choose Seigaku's victory over his own elbow?" Sanada rested his chin on his hand and fell into thought, "Is this the minister's responsibility?"
"If it were me, I might choose this way even if I have no other choice." Yukimura said with a smile.
"...Impossible, I won't let you do this. Rikkai University is not the kind of school that requires the minister to sacrifice himself to win." Amamiya Arashi looked at Yukimura seriously, and then looked at Yanagi speechlessly. and Sanada, "Tezuka... is indeed a respectable opponent, but have you forgotten that if it weren't for Qinghao's school violence, he wouldn't have been injured at all, or if he was injured and treated properly, he wouldn't have recovered for so long. Well, I remember that Tezuka was injured not long after joining the club in the first grade. He is now in the third grade... Even if he had to take over the tennis club in the second grade, what was he doing when he was injured in the first grade? What? He still has to pay for Qingxue like this? If I had stopped doing this a long time ago, besides, tennis in the world is all about individual competition. To be honest, with the school spirit of Qingxue, there is really no need to be so dedicated... …Don’t talk about the responsibility of the minister. If the members of the team competition team like middle school are not up to par, the minister will be useless even if he is a professional player, right?" Amamiya Lan became more and more angry as he spoke, and then he didn’t even know what he said. Anyway, he just remembered Ba Ba Ba Ba Ba criticized various shortcomings of Qingxue.
After hearing Tiangong Lan's words, several people looked at each other.
"And I heard that Echizen Ryoma from Seigakushu encountered blackmail or something when he first joined the club this year." Amamiya Lan paused, "That person seems to be named Arai or something."
"..." Liu Yiyan looked at Tiangong Lan with difficulty, "Are you telling the truth?"
"That's not the case! I never lie!" Amangong Lan said confidently, but then he thought about how he had deceived Najuru and Sibi many times in Country Y. His ears turned slightly red for a while, and then he thought of Najuru and Sibi. I'm not a human being, so I feel like what I said is right.
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The people at Rikkai University saw the decision made by Tezuka, and Fuji, who was a genius, also saw it.
"Tezuka, you are ready to fight a protracted war." Fuji's tone was low, as if he couldn't bear it.
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"The youth score this time, the score is 4:5"
"This time Ice King scored, the score is 5:5"
"The youth score this time, the score is 5:6"
"Tezuka!" As Seigaku scored again, Atobe couldn't help shouting. He looked at Tezuka with a complex expression: This guy...doesn't he care about his hands at all? !
"Okay, don't be careless!" Tezuka understood Atobe's eyes and thought to himself: I'm sorry, Atobe. We...want to win!
Then came another zero serve.
"15-0"
Then there was a lob. This time Atobe did not miss the opportunity and directly used the smash "Waltz to Destruction". Unfortunately, this move did not knock off Tezuka's racket, and Tezuka held on tightly. The racket hit Atobe's ball back.
Looking at Tezuka who responded with a smash, Atobe decided to attack the opponent's empty right field.
As if he had guessed Atobe's actions, Tezuka directly activated the 'Tezuka Domain' and brought the ball to his hand.
"40-0, serve first"
As the referee finished speaking, Tezuka started serving again. When Tezuka was about to serve, the pain in his elbow prevented him from holding the racket.
Seeing the racket falling to the ground and Tezuka half-kneeling on the court in unbearable pain, there was an uproar outside the court.
Seigaku's main candidates crossed the barbed wire fence one after another, wanting to see Tezuka's injuries, but were stopped by Tezuka. He still wants to continue playing.
Tezuka was seriously injured and was indeed no match for Atobe. Even though he dragged the game into a tie-break, Atobe finally won the victory, but he was not very happy because the last ball would have been lost if it weren't for Tezuka's strength. But because the tennis ball couldn't pass the net, he might be the one who lost in the end. In addition, Tezuka is now dragged down too much by Seigaku!
After the singles match ended, Atobe walked to the middle of the court and raised Tezuka's arm. At this time, applause also broke out from the sidelines.
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Since Ice Emperor won the singles match, the total score at this time showed that the two sides were tied, so an extra game was required.
In other words, substitutes from both sides will come on stage.
Hyotei's substitute is Hiyoshiwako, and Seigaku's substitute is Echizen Ryoma. Both are successors chosen by the head of the academy's tennis department.
In the final substitute match, Seigaku's Echizen Ryoma was even better and won. In the semi-finals of the Kanto Competition, Seigaku won, which meant that they were about to face the biggest BOSS, King Tatekai Dai.
However, the Rikkai members, who had little interest in this substitute match, came to the sushi restaurant to order food after the match between Atobe and Tezuka. While ordering, they did not forget to continue discussing the match between Tezuka and Atobe, as well as the violence that had occurred within the Seigaku Tennis Club.