[Kokoshi] Echizen Boy's Tachikai Chronicle

"I received a notice from the school this morning that next month there will be a friendly tennis match with St. Andrew's Middle School in the United States. At that time, in addition to the main selection match, there will also be ordinary members. So this month, Everyone should hurry up and redouble their practice," Qingli purple eyes swept over every member present, with majesty revealed in softness, "You must remember that our King Lihai has no dead ends!"

"Yes!" The members replied in unison.

"Echizen-kun, come here." Echizen was about to train with Lihai's main candidates when he suddenly heard Yukimura call him.

"I applied to the school, and they agreed for you to participate in this friendly match. However," Yukimura paused, hesitating slightly, "You must participate in doubles."

"What?!" Echizen's reaction was more intense than Yukimura imagined, "I don't want doubles!"

"Uh, this..." Yukimura was at a loss for words, the ingenious doubles between Echizen and Takeshi Momoshiro in the regional preliminaries was spread all over the schools in Kanto, and Lihai even took it as a warning.As soon as the school proposed the conditions for Echizen to participate, the Son of God strongly opposed it, saying that Echizen's level is fully qualified for the singles position.

As a result, the consultant teacher of the tennis department laughed deeply: "You, Sanada, Yanagi, or Kirihara can all be competent in the singles this time, and there is no need to rely on the strength of students from other schools. If you want him to play... the doubles is fine. "

Yukimura naturally understood the implication of the advisor's words: the Lihai tennis team is strong, especially in singles.Although the friendly match is euphemistically called "friendship first, competition second", in fact, the two schools are also trying their best to show the level of their schools.As for the key singles position, the school will definitely not let students from other schools steal the limelight.

Regardless of the so-called honor of the school, Yukimura still hopes that Echizen can participate in the competition from the bottom of his heart.After all, having experienced the national competition and previous training, the child's strength should be regarded as a rare opponent in the whole country. St. Andrew's High School is a very prestigious tennis school in the United States. If we take this opportunity to give Echizen a direction Why not do it for a higher level platform?

"But the school wants you to play doubles." Yukimura shrugged, expressing that there was nothing he could do about it.

"Then I won't participate—"

"Echizen-kun," Yukimura cut off the boy's subconscious refusal, and taught earnestly, "Our opponent in this friendly match is St. Andrew's High School. Echizen-kun has lived in the United States for so many years, and he must have heard of St. Andrew's high school tennis master Yun set?"

Of course Echizen had heard of it. St.Andrew's School, St. Andrew's Middle School, has a long history and great influence in tennis. In history, nearly half of the US Open champions came from here.Before he returned to Japan a few years ago, he had encountered several difficult opponents in the US youth tennis tournament, almost all of whom were St. Andrew's students.To be able to compete with such a strong tennis school, just thinking about it makes the boy eager to try, but...

With a small face: "Senior, can I not play doubles?"

Yukimura looked embarrassed: "Echizen-kun, I don't care about this matter. Anyway, your singles is already very good. Cough, in order to develop in an all-round way, try doubles."

The Echizen boy stared at a pair of round cat eyes and was about to refute Yukimura's fallacies. Professor Yanagi Renji came back from some training ground, and said in a moderate voice: "The members are very serious in training. However, if someone is lazy, Yang raised the paper in his hand, "I specially asked for the formula from Qingxue. I heard that they use this to strengthen their physique."

Yukimura took it with great interest: "...the seventh version of Invincible Enhanced Dry Vegetable Juice?"

Echizen's face suddenly turned pale.

Did senior's vegetable juice seep into Lihai? ——Do you want to live? !

Yukimura looked at the formula carefully: "Ha, this formula is quite interesting. ——Echizen-kun, what's wrong with you? Are you uncomfortable?"

"No, no," the big amber eyes stared at the death talisman in his hand in fear. If he didn't agree to the double fight, he would die even worse, right? "Senior Yukimura, who will I form a doubles with?"

……Eh?Yukimura wondered why the little guy who was determined not to play doubles just now let go of his mouth suddenly. After realizing that the cat's eyes had been falling on the paper in his hand, he suddenly realized, his curved eyes showed a pure and flawless smile: "Kirihara."

W-what—? !

The little prince opened his mouth to protest, and it happened that Yukimura seemed to be unintentionally shaking the paper, so the boy withered like a long-standing cabbage: "...Okay, okay."

"Minister, vice-minister, are you looking for me?" Qieyuan was training vigorously, and ran over full of energy.

Yukimura nodded to Sanada, and Sanada understood, and said to Kirihara: "Kirhara, you will play doubles in this friendly match."

"Ah, doubles?" Kirihara scratched his head, dissatisfied.

"Don't want to?"

Seeing Vice Minister Sanada's stern face like a knife, Kirihara immediately faltered: "...No. Who am I going to double fight with?"

"Go ahead."

Kirihara looked at the expressionless Sanada in disbelief, and then at Echizen who lowered his hat and bowed his head in silence, did he hear correctly?Going to double fight with that stinky brat—? !The minister and the deputy minister didn't deliberately punish themselves, did they?Quietly cast an unwilling glance in the direction of the three giants of Lihai.

"But I—" and Echizen couldn't make a double at all!Isn't the face lost in doubles with Kamada Chu not enough!

If you say it now, you might be beaten to death by the deputy minister, right?Kirihara glanced guiltyly at the solemn and inviolable face of the deputy minister, thinking that saving his life was the most important thing.

"Since both Echizen-kun and Kirihara have agreed, we will start training doubles from today. Liu, you follow them to field B for guidance."

Liu nodded, and led Echizen Qiehara away.

Yukimura watched the three leave with a smile on his chest.Hey, I really look forward to how far our Lihai can develop Echizen-kun's doubles.

"Yukimura," Sanada's thick voice suddenly sounded in his ear, with a hint of puzzlement, "Why do you have to let Echizen play doubles?"

The Son of God raised his eyebrows and made a surprised expression: "It's not that I want Echizen-kun to play doubles, it's the school."

Sanada was silent.Saying that Echizen was not allowed to play doubles because of the advice of the consultant teacher, he was deceiving outsiders who didn't know the inside story of Lihai Tennis Club.He knew very well that Yukimura was not only the head of Lihai's tennis club, but also the actual coach of the entire tennis club. In terms of prestige, he was much higher than the nominal consultant teacher.If Yukimura insists on Echizen's singles, the consultant teacher can't control it at all.

Knowing that Sanada had seen through, Yukimura didn't intend to hide it from him, but just asked an irrelevant question: "Did you pay attention to Echizen-kun's training these days, including yesterday's match with Yagyu?"

"Ah."

"I believe you can feel it too. Compared with the national competition, Echizen-kun's strength has not changed much. In other words, there has been no improvement. Echizen-kun may not have noticed it himself, but in fact, his tennis has changed. It's the bottleneck period."

Sanada looked at Yukimura in shock.He was indeed aware of Echizen's stagnation, but he didn't dare to conclude decisively like Yukimura that Echizen's tennis had entered a bottleneck period!

The Son of God didn't know that what he just said had invisibly raised his evaluation in the emperor's mind, so he continued on his own: "In this case, it is useless for me to let Echizen-kun fight against more masters. It may make him fall into a more serious bottleneck. It would be better to let him start doubles and try to get involved in a field that is unknown to him, the effect will be better." The emperor, who is calm on the surface but full of waves in his heart, mischievously Blinking, "Also, doubles and singles have a lot in common."

....Sanada's dark eyes showed a faint admiration. Although he had known each other for many years, he always found out when he thought he knew the person in front of him very well, and that was just the tip of the iceberg he showed.As expected of a friend and opponent whom I have always respected.

It's a pity that he turned his back to him, and the Son of God, who was about to inspect the other training situations, once again ignored the emperor's admiration, and the next sentence he said to himself was that the emperor's admiration for him was almost full Instantly cleared: "I didn't expect Qingxue's vegetable juice to be so threatening. It seems that Liu must hurry up and prepare it... Well, who should be the first to try it? Kirihara? Sanada?...It's really nerve-wracking ah."

"The two of them know each other's ways very well, and the doubles match should not be low."

After patrolling the training ground, Yukimura and Sanada walked to the B field, and the first thing they heard was Dataliu's words.

While talking, Echizen and Kirihara had passed three or four goals. At this time, Kirihara went to the net and wanted to use this to intercept Echizen's powerful whirlwind smash. As a result, Echizen seemed to have expected it long ago. The swing was so ordinary that it could not be more ordinary. smash ball.

The emperor looked at the game in the arena and nodded: "Not bad."

Son of God: "It's better than I expected too. Liu?"

"Today, we can let them try to compete with Marui Sanghara. I thought they would have to get along for a while, but I didn't expect..." Liu Zhi wrote a line, "The degree of fit is higher than I imagined."

The game is over, Echizen wins.Yukimura listened to the professor's key points about Kirihara's doubles, while watching the interaction between the two (although it was mostly provocative), he greeted the duo who were resting: "Marui, Kuwahara, you two wait and Kirihara Echizen Let's play doubles."

"Wow~ Compete with the little guy?" Marui rushed to the Echizen cake at the speed of grabbing the limited cake, oh no, it was the Echizen boy.

Wearing a coat, Yukimura shrugged and looked at the boy in Marui's arms struggling unwillingly with a smile on his face. He thought to himself, since Echizen-kun came, the tennis club has become much more lively.And Echizen-kun's doubles...should work well with Kirihara.Yukimura smiled softly.

result.

"Stop, stop, stop—!" After Echizen Kirihara hit the opponent's head five times with the serve, they kept arguing after they tripped each other twice, and they quarreled after hitting each other thirteen times with rackets. Without stopping, Yukimura felt that his facial expression was about to collapse.

On the other hand, Sanada's face was as dark as coal.

"You two, come here."

Kirihara and Echizen looked at each other, feeling that something was wrong, they walked in front of Lihai's three giants with a guilty conscience like a child who made a mistake and was caught.

The magnificent purple eyes quietly stared at the two children who bowed their heads, full of oppression: "You just give me doubles like this? Huh?"

He didn't expect Qie Yue's first doubles match to be good at first, he just asked these two little friends not to quarrel like mortal enemies on the court, and please ask your opponents to be on the net, okay?

In the end, Kirihara thought that the minister was angry with their cooperation, especially at the end of the last sentence with a slightly angry "um", which made Kirihara, who was also deeply afraid of the minister, blurt out: "Minister, this kid Echizen doesn't know how to play doubles at all."

Echizen knew he was wrong, and the lowered brim of his hat just covered the annoyance in his amber eyes, and muttered, "So I said—"

Anticipating the boy's next sentence, Kirihara did not dare to overstep in front of Lihai's three giants, so he could only wink desperately to prevent Echizen from continuing.It was hard for him to hide the embarrassing doubles from the minister, the deputy minister and Kamada.

"—Let's play separately."

Unfortunately, the little prince and little kelp are not on the same channel either. (sigh)