Chapter 73 Invitation Letter
A few days after the national competition ended, it was the beginning of the new semester.
In addition to a few main candidates who have filled out applications for withdrawal but have not yet submitted them, other non-main candidates in the third grade also submitted applications for withdrawal on the first day of school - although they did not become main candidates. It is a pity, but as a member of the tennis club and watching the main players win three consecutive national championships under the leadership of the director, these regrets seem to be gone.
As the main force that led Rikkai University to win three consecutive championships, Yukimura and others have filled out the withdrawal application, but in order to facilitate the training of their juniors, they have not yet submitted it. Even if they turned it in, no one would say anything if they wanted to come, but they still planned to follow the rules. After all, the tennis club had a rule that "non-tennis club members are not allowed to enter without permission."
After the national competition, Liu and Qing Xue exchanged information and information, and perhaps because Qian still couldn't let go, Liu received calls or text messages from Qian Sadaharu almost every day, which created a The effect - whatever happened to Aogaku, Yanagi would immediately get the news; and if something happened to Rikkai Dai... it would depend on the specific situation... Anyway, Inui Sadaharu might not know.
It was also because of this that one day Qian received the news that Qingxue and his party went to Kansai to have a battle with Tiantianbo Temple in which the third grade did not participate.
After hearing the news, Yanagi immediately told Yukimura and others. Yukimura felt that Seigaku's approach was worth learning from, so he planned to ask Hyotei to have a similar competition. Of course, he only made this decision. As for other matters such as game arrangements, candidates, and contacting Hyokui, he left full power to the current minister-Kirihara Akaya.
Although Kirihara doesn't seem very reliable, that's only when there are seniors to rely on. Kirihara himself matures once he has no one to rely on. What's more, Hoshino and Urayama can help.
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It was only two hours after Yukimura informed Kirihara of this plan. With the assistance of Hoshino and Urayama, Kirihara quickly settled everything. At the same time, he also confirmed the time and place of the game, as well as the candidates and games.
Since the Rikkai Dai'Umihara Festival is about to begin, various departments have been arranging programs recently. Although the tennis club has not yet decided on a specific program, it also needs to prepare some small stalls to facilitate the sale of weekly posters and the like. Things, so it's still not convenient to entertain 'guests', so the game was held in Hyokui.
On the day of the game, all the third-year seniors from Lihai University went there, mainly to see how these successors performed in the game and to help formulate some training plans.
In addition to Kirihara Urayama and Hoshino, there are four other people who need to compete in Hyotei this time, namely Chiba, Makino and the Sakai brothers. Among these four people, Chiba and Makino are doubles one, and the Sakai brothers are doubles two. They are also the four strongest people left in Rikkai University after the third-year students and Kirihara.
Because it had been agreed before that it would be a competition between the next generation, so this time the Hyokui who came forward was Hijiro who was regarded as the next minister.
Watching Kirihara and Hiyoshi arrange the game in an orderly manner... Yukimura and Atobe on the side showed "pleased"/"relatively satisfied" eyes in unison.
Several second-year players on Hyotei's side who had participated in the national competition faced off against Kirihara, Urayama and Hoshino respectively. Except for Kirihara, who won, the other two games ended in a draw because there was no tie-break. As for the two doubles, one won and the other lost, which can be regarded as a different kind of tie.
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After returning to Rikkai University after the game, someone from the student union came to press for the tennis club's program list.
In order to find a way to win the 'Best Program' award, Kirihara racked his brains, but all his ideas were rejected by Urayama and Hoshino... In the end, they had no choice but to find Yukimura.
With the suggestions and help of Yukimura and others, they decided to perform an adapted version of the 'fairy tale'. As for the roles, they were decided by drawing lots, but due to some people's behind-the-scenes manipulation, the female character would only be Kirihara. If there is a female supporting role in the story, then the possibility of Hoshino and Urayama being drawn is quite high...
Unbelieving, he tried many times, but every time he got the heroine, Kirihara hugged his head and desperately accepted the fact that he was the heroine of the stage play. By the way, maybe it was to lure people into trouble. Under the constant stalking of the trio of second-year students who were frightened by women's clothing, in addition to Yukimura and Arashi Amamiya, the other third-year seniors also had to participate in the performance.
Among them, Nioh plays the fairy godmother, Kuwahara plays the king, Yagyu plays the queen, Sanada is the prince, Yanagi plays Cinderella's father, Marui plays the evil stepmother, Hoshino and Urayama are the evil stepsisters, Kirihara is the center of the stage play - Cinderella, That is Cinderella.
After knowing the result, Hoshino and Urayama suddenly began to sympathize with Kirihara, and decided that although they were dressed as women, it seemed that it was not unacceptable. After all, Kirihara and Sanada were going to play the love story between Cinderella Ryo and the prince, so they dressed as women. It’s not so hard to accept.
As for Sanada, who got the news, his face darkened immediately, while his unscrupulous teammates on the side were still laughing.
A few days before the start of the Kaihara Festival, members of the tennis club sent invitation letters to some familiar opponents. Of course, the invitations from Shitenhoji Temple were made by phone. After all, it was impossible to ask them if they wanted to participate in Tatekai University's Kaihara Festival. Just run to Kansai.
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On the day of the Umihara Festival, there were many people invited to participate in the Umihara Festival, such as Aigaku's group who gathered around to eat takoyaki, and Akutagawa Jirou who was holding the Q-version pillows of Marui and Amamiya Arashi, as well as those pretending to be themselves Hyotei and his friends who don't know him, and Kintaro and Ichi who want to participate in the Couple Challenge but are being discouraged from participating in it, can also see Kintaro Toyama running around in the gourmet shop on the way...
After they had eaten and drank enough, they came to the last stop - the 'stage play' performance.
Here they saw two people surrounding a 'little girl': Amamiya Arashi and Yukimura Seiichi.
When they got closer, they realized that the person dressed like a little girl was Kirihara Akaya.
"Pfft~Hahahahaha" Echizen and Toyama didn't have enough concentration and laughed directly. Although the others also wanted to laugh, they finally held back after seeing Kirihara's smoke coming out.
Not long after, Marui, who played the evil stepmother, said that the show was about to start, and then took Kirihara away.
After a while, the stage play started.
Because the script has not been changed in this way, and everyone who is quite familiar with Cinderella's story has not rehearsed much, the performance is still quite good.
The only shortcoming is the scene where Cinderella runs away after the ball. Due to an accident, Kirihara's skirt was torn.
Several people gathered in the dressing room to discuss how to solve this problem. Nioh directly borrowed the needle and thread left by other departments to fold the torn hem of the skirt and mend it.
However, after the patchwork, Kirihara always felt that the skirt was a bit too short.
At this time, Echizen Ryoma wanted to return to the audience after using the restroom, but he didn't expect to run directly to the dressing room backstage because he didn't know the way.
Echizen Ryoma originally planned to find someone to ask for directions, but he didn't expect to see several pairs of expectant eyes as soon as he knocked on the door.
Under Amamiya Arashi's explanation, Nioh's rhetoric and Kirihara's provocation, Echizen Ryoma was full of reluctance, but in the end he still put on that pink and tender skirt.
During the subsequent performance, Sanada was surprised for a while when he saw the person playing Cinderella changed from Kirihara to Echizen, but then he put away his emotions and continued the performance.
Due to the light, the audience in the audience could only tell that the heroine on the scene might be a different person, but they could not see clearly who it was. However, for those who are familiar with Echizen, they still recognize their 'little pillar' at a glance.
Seeing the cross-dressed Echizen being held in Sanada's arms, several people in Seigaku opened their mouths, and Fuji also opened his eyes. Kikumaru Eiji also didn’t forget to take photos with his camera.
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After the performance, Echizen was angry when he learned that his senior had taken photos in women's clothing. It was not until Kikumaru promised to delete the photos that he returned to normal.
A few days later, everyone who returned to Qingxue received a video tape sent by Li Hai. A few people looked at it curiously, but found that this was the stage play that day, and it was a high-definition, uncensored version...
Of course, in addition to Seigaku, Rikkai University also sent a copy to other schools participating in the Kaihara Festival.
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Life after that could be described as uneventful. Every day he would go to the tennis club to train his juniors, and then find appointments with other schools for practice matches, and so on.
Of course, Yukimura and others who have achieved the goal of three consecutive championships will not find this kind of life boring. They often have barbecues and picnics together in their free time, or go out to see art exhibitions or museums.
In this way, the dull and warm days passed day by day.
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Just when everyone had adapted to this ordinary life, one day, Tiangong Lan suddenly dropped out of school without warning. At first, Yukimura and others, who thought Amamiya Arashi was just asking for leave for something, went to his residence in Kanagawa many times, only to find that the two people who were with him, Flame Mirror and Ice Mirror, were also missing.
Feeling worried, Yukimura went directly to the teacher and got the contact information of the Kinomoto family.
After the call got through, they learned that Tiangong Lan had been picked up by his grandfather, Mr. Tiangong, and that the old man had also sent people to handle the suspension of school procedures, so it seemed so sudden.
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A certain area·Tiangongzhai
Amangong Lan was playing chess there with an old man who looked quite energetic. However, although the two of them seemed to be equally matched in terms of momentum, in fact, most of Tiangong Lan's black ones had been eaten up by the old man's white ones, and the rest... wouldn't matter.
"pat"
"Hey~ I can't play any more!" Tiangong Lan first threw the chess pieces on the chessboard, and then said coquettishly in a slightly complaining tone: "Old man, you clearly know that I can't win, but why don't you put some effort into it?"
"..." Mr. Tiangong took a sip of tea and spoke slowly: "If you always have this idea, then no matter what, you will not succeed."
"So...Old man, you asked someone to bring me here just to talk about this?!" Tiangong Lan looked quite shocked.
"No, I just want to know your plans for high school and college." The old man said meaningfully, "If you don't have any plans, you can start to slowly take over the group's affairs."
"..." Tiangong Lan's eyes were a little dodgey. He always knew that he needed to inherit Tiangong Group, but he didn't expect that it would happen so quickly. If it was before, it actually didn't matter to him any time, but now...
Looking at Tiangong Lan who fell into silence, the old man sighed, "I can give you up to three more years, but in this case, you will have a hard time in college."
Hearing this, Tian Gonglan's eyes lit up and he shouted in surprise: "Thank you, grandpa!"
"I haven't finished speaking yet!" The old man glanced at him, "Your study progress needs to be accelerated. I will check it when I have time, but for convenience, I will notify you of this time in advance."
"Okay, no problem, I'll do my best!" As long as he can still play tennis with Jingshi, there will be no problem. Tiangong Lanru thought.
Looking at Tiangong Lan's appearance, if it weren't for the fact that the assessment of this boy had not been completed, the old man would have thrown him out.
In the next few days, in order to return to Lihai University as soon as possible, Amangong Lan began a series of assessment tasks for the successor.
Finally, a week later, Amamiya Lan, who had gone through all kinds of hardships, passed the assessment and went directly to the housekeeper and asked him to find someone to send him to his residence in Kanagawa.
While Amamiya Arashi was still on his way back to Kanagawa, Rikkai's championship-winning lineup headed by Yukimura, that is, a total of eight main players except Amamiya Arashi, each received a letter signed "Middle School Tennis Association" letters. Invite them to participate in the national representative selection training for high school students that has already started and will last until the winter vacation, referred to as the U17 training camp.
"Select a group of people from junior high school students to participate in the training camp for high school students?" Marui looked at Liu curiously.
In the conference room, several people sat together, but there was an empty seat between Yanagi and Yukimura for Amamiya Arashi.
In response to Marui's question, Liu opened the notebook at hand: "Yes, it is said that the U17 training camp convenes a group of high school student candidates every year, but this is the first time that candidates are selected from junior high school students."
"Besides, this is a training camp for national representative selection..." Yukimura said with a smile, "It's a good opportunity that I can't refuse."
"Indeed," Niou hesitated for a moment, but still turned his attention to the vacant position, "Then what about Tiangong? Although there is an invitation letter from him, we still don't know when he can come back..."
Others didn't know what to say when they heard this.
Later, it was Liu who broke the atmosphere of silence. He picked up the invitation letter belonging to Amamiya Arashi on the table and gave it to Yukimura for safekeeping.
Afterwards, as the sky began to get darker, they left the tennis club's conference room.
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