Lehigh High School Boys Tennis Club

It was late when Yukimura returned to his room.

He took a shower before he went to train with Nioh. Compared with Nioh, he didn't need to consume too much, which was just the amount of his daily mental strength training.When returning to the room, the abnormal Mori and Echizen were not there, only Tokugawa was sitting at the desk writing something.

There is only one desk in the room with two canopy beds, and no one will use it on weekdays, and even if they do, they will ask others for their opinions in advance.It feels very polite to get along with.

Yukimura was fine with such politeness.

In fact, he has a personality that is easy to get along with people, and his attitude towards people in daily life has always been very gentle, so he often quickly becomes friends with other people and mingles with them.

But since his roommate insisted on maintaining the atmosphere in the dormitory at this "concentration", he wouldn't say anything.

Nothing bad.

Putting the racket back in the tennis bag, Tokugawa turned around as Yukimura sat on the bed.

He leaned sideways on the back chair, half of his face was hidden by the light from the desk lamp.

Even so, Yukimura could still see Tokugawa's slight frown.

"You're back?"

That sounds like the start of a serious conversation.

Yukimura took off his headband, nodded with a smile, "Yes. What are you doing, senior?"

"...Write a diary." After Tokugawa said so, he closed the notebook on the desk behind his back and turned off the desk lamp.

There was an overhead light in the dormitory, and the light from the desk lamp was even brighter. When it was turned off, Tokugawa's face was completely exposed in front of Yukimura.

With a slightly puzzled expression.

"You... went to Byodoin today?"

"There is something I want to ask Senior Byodoin Temple." Yukimura said.

"He." Tokugawa snorted uncontrollably from his throat.

Yukimura is surprised by Tokugawa's dedication to Byodoin.

Although I have known for a long time that Tokugawa has a heart knot with Byodoin, but has it not disappeared after a year?

"...can I ask? About what?" Tokugawa said.

Yukimura didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "What can't you ask about this? It's about the selection of the national team."

Tokugawa pursed his lips after hearing this.

He does not belong to the scope of the national team call-up, so there is no need to consider this issue.But Yukimura asked about the national team at this time... Isn't it a bit too early?

"Senior." Yukimura saw Tokugawa's thoughts and laughed, "Senior, do you think it's too early for me to think about the national team?"

"...Ah." Tokugawa hesitated for a while, then nodded.

"Senior, do you think that my determination to compete for No. 1 is fake?" Yukimura's smile was a bit sharp and cold, but it was still gentle when he looked carefully, "I am the number one in Japan." High school students."

Tokugawa was stunned.

Yukimura's arrogance is not in the same style as the domineering tennis players he has seen.

Tokugawa is familiar with Byodoin, who doesn't listen to people's words, and Yougui, who is more friendly, all of which are domineering and exposed.

But Yukimura is usually a very gentle person, the tone of his speech, and the things he does.

When he resonates with Yukimura's ability, he can feel Yukimura's struggle and confusion, which makes his impression of Yukimura inevitably have a trace of "should be protected", which also affects his judgment of Yukimura.

And at least until now when he re-entered the training camp, the expression of Yukimura he had seen was not much different from last year.He is more confident, but he understands that this is because his body has improved.

But it turned out that Yukimura's ambition was like this.

Yukimura, who said those words, burst out sparks of surprise from his eyes for a moment, and then took them back.

He is still gentle and gentle, his tone is very light, and his smile is very sincere: "Didn't senior regard me as a competitor? If not, I will be sad."

Tokugawa turned his head in embarrassment, blinked before reorganizing his words: "No, it's not like that. I'm just worried that Byodoin will hurt you."

"Senior Byodoin is not an unreasonable person."

Tokugawa didn't believe this at all.

In his eyes, Byodoin is the best bastard in the world, the most unreasonable person.

But he also understood that this sentence and Yukimura said that Yukimura couldn't empathize with him.

Because the attitude of the Court of Equality towards other people is indeed much gentler than that towards him.

So Tokugawa was angry at first and felt that Byodoin Phoenix was an unreasonable person.How could there be such a domineering and unreasonable person?This is a violation of human rights!Will such people still exist in a society ruled by law, or are they "leaders"?This is ridiculous.

Going back to the beginning, Tokugawa did agree to the invitation to the Japanese U17 training camp with a contemptuous attitude.He has been receiving elite training and has a tacit understanding with the club, but he is still close to the record and has not officially signed.He also hesitated for a long time when he received the invitation from Japan. In the end, he came to Japan considering that he could not get an important position in the French team, or even not easy to play.

It is no exaggeration to say that at that time he really entered the training camp with the mentality of "I am the savior of the Japanese team".

Then he was beaten up by the Byodoin Institute as soon as he entered training camp -- with tennis balls.

It was the first time that he lost so badly.In other words, it was the first time that he lost so much that he seemed to lose his dignity.

When he came back from the devil training in the back mountain, he thought he could avenge his shame.But he lost again to Byodoin, which was no different from before he went to the back mountain.

After that, he gradually became obsessed with Byodoin, and wanted to make Byodoin look at him seriously.

And because his "eyes" on Byodoin were too hot, Oni and Irie began to help him, and also told some stories about Byodoin.

The Byodoin Phoenix has become a knot in his heart, and Tokugawa knows this better than others.

So last year, in the seemingly unimportant first-army transposition match, he would rather kill himself than defeat Byodoin.

But it turns out that didn't work either.

It was as if his faith was really fragile, unable to resist the attack of Byodoin's blood.

Tokugawa looked at Yukimura.

He played a very important role in the national team last year, but he is actually not satisfied with his performance.

It counts that he has been in the Japanese national team for three years, and he was not even selected for the selection team in the first year (this is so different from what he imagined before he came to Japan, although he did not pass the selection of the French team, but it is the Japanese team!) , the next year became the next No.1 vaguely recognized by everyone.

Then the World Cup changed the competition system, and more and more talented players came out.

Tokugawa liked Echizen very much.

In his eyes, Echizen is an undoubted future star.

And Echizen's way of tennis is healthy tennis that he recognizes.

But to be honest, do I see Echizen as a No.1 competitor?

Tokugawa played a stint in the wild card game in France.

He is not yet a complete professional player, but he has just been in contact with the club, and he also plays some games between professional and non-professional, and has contact with the French team.

Before returning home, the French team also invited him to join, but Tokugawa himself refused.

When he came back, he wanted to take the position of No.1 leader and practice his own way of tennis.

Although he regretted that he didn't pull people down when Byodoin was still No.1, he wanted to change the too iron-blooded style that Byodoin brought to the entire training camp.

But when he came back, he realized that things were not what he thought.

Mori Kosaburo, Yukimura Seiichi, Echizen Ryoma.

Before coming back, he didn't regard these three people as his competitors.

Needless to say, Maori, although he was already in the first army last year (from this point of view, Maori's talent is even higher than when he was in the first grade, but Tokugawa has always believed that Maori's will is not enough), but he is a bit lazy in temperament, really Will he have the fighting spirit to fight for the No.1 that the coaching staff wants him to fight for?

Yukimura, he has played doubles with him, and his ability to empathize has given him an understanding of Yukimura's strength, and this understanding has also hindered his expectations of Yukimura's "progress".He subconsciously thinks that Yukimura is someone who needs his protection.

What about Echizen?There was too much age difference between them, and he didn't think Echizen would be a qualified team leader.He thinks he will win.

But the reality is completely different from what he imagined.

Maori's fighting spirit is not obvious, but it is there.His unique physical condition and talent really made Tokugawa feel threatened.What's more, more than half of the group of high school students who came to be teaching assistants were helping Mao Li.Not counting Byodoin, Ochi found Tono and Taneshima, and Tanegama brought Oku to do special training for Maori together.Although Oni and Irie are biased towards him, they don't dislike Maori.To be honest, Maori is definitely a "Japanese reserve army", and he cannot be regarded as a pre-selected member of the national team.

What about Yukimura?

Yukimura was even more surprised.

Previously, he had only vaguely sensed the undercurrents hidden under Yukimura's calm appearance, but now he is facing Yukimura's ambitions directly...

No, how could he back down because of Yukimura's declaration of war?

He shouldn't carelessly think that the position of team leader belongs to him.

Then Echizen is the same.

Can't junior high school students be the team leader?

There is no such reason!

When Tokugawa recovered from his thoughts, Mori had already returned, and got into the lower bunk and whispered something to Yukimura.

He and Yukimura slept on the same row of canopy beds. He should have slept on the lower bunk because of Moori's height, but he also said that the upper bunk was a bit dangerous, so he asked Yukimura if he was afraid of shaking, and when he got the answer, he went to the upper bunk by himself.

Tokugawa also finds this amazing.

In his impression, although Maori has a good temper, he is not a warm person.

He is indeed a well-behaved and obedient junior to Yuezhi, but he only maintains a distant and polite attitude towards other seniors.

But what about Yukimura?

Tokugawa could feel Mori's vague concern and respect for Yukimura.

Yes, Tokugawa even felt that although Maori joined the battle for No.1, he had no desire to fight against Yukimura.He recognized Yukimura as his leader.

It's too weird.

"Senior Irie arranged a new song today. It's so ugly." Mao Li's voice was a little sticky.

"In the room? Actually, Irie-senpai can play the saxophone outside." Yukimura said.

"After playing for too long in the training camp last year and causing everyone insomnia, Coach Saito banned Senior Irie from playing the saxophone in public." Mao Li rubbed his ears, "The sound insulation effect of the dormitory is so good, you have nothing can you hear me?"

"No. But I went out to train with Nioh before, and maybe I avoided playing."

"Okay, let's go." Molly sighed.

Yukimura just laughed: "You don't have to go to the dormitory of the seniors."

"Then the seniors invited me." Maori said.

He seemed to have thought of something, turned his head and called Tokugawa: "Senior Irie said that if you have something to do today, he will not invite you, but let you go to him tomorrow."

"Really? Well, I see." Tokugawa was taken aback for a moment, and replied.

Then he was a little depressed again.

It feels like even the two seniors have been snatched away.

The author has something to say:

An informative dialogue and Tokugawa's inner portrayal.

Tokugawa is definitely OOC, after all I want him to lose...