The Prince of Tennis - I'm Echizen Ryoma

The day of the regional qualifiers.

"Ryoma, is there time?" Nanako asked with concern when I came down the stairs rubbing my sleepy eyes.

"Qingxue is the first seeded team, so I can arrive an hour late." I said, "Also, Senior Taocheng also agreed to pick me up."

Just as I was slurping my breakfast, the bad middle-aged man who was sitting at the door pretending to read the newspaper casually said, "Have you finally become the main candidate?"

"Hmm... I don't know." Old man, who is going to tell you.

Outside the door, Taocheng's hearty voice sounded. "Hey, Echizen, I'm here~"

Quickly pouring the milk into my mouth, I picked up the tennis bag and ran to the door. "I'm going out~"

"Hmph, I don't know... Pretending to be cool..." The bad middle-aged man muttered dissatisfiedly.

Following a group of seniors towards the reception, all eyes from all directions focused on this place.Is this blue and white shirt really that attractive?

"Report to the Youth Academy, and all eight candidates are here." Minister Tezuka calmly handed the form to the staff at the reception desk.

There were noisy voices all around. "They're here!" "It's Qingxue!"

There is also the scream of the girl, "Ah! Tezuka, Fuji, look here!"

"Hey, what's that little guy?" "It must be a freshman." "He's also a regular candidate? Qingxue is so leisurely." There are so many flies.

"Eh, Minister Tezuka is not going to play Yulin?" "Echizen actually teamed up with Momoshiro to play doubles?" Seeing the list of players at the registration office, the tennis club members of Seigaku started discussing in a fuss.Minister Tezuka is not going to fight?Is it to preserve strength or is it related to the recovery progress Mr. Ryuzaki said last time?

"That's right, we were the ones who proposed to play doubles." Taocheng said affirmatively.

"Is the sun out in the west?" the crowd muttered.

"...The winner of [-] out of [-] games advances. Also, because it is the first match of Qingxue, even if the result comes out, you have to play all [-] games." On the field, the staff explained.We stood in two rows opposite the players from Yulin Middle School across the net.

Sure enough, there were the two duo from last time among the players on the opposite side.Looking at the smug smiles on their faces, you can guess what they are thinking with your toes.

The sidelines before the game. "Eiji." Oishi-senpai who was sitting on the stool turned his head. "En." Kikumaru handed over a towel.Dashi took the towel and handed over the drink can, "Hey." Kikumaru took it and drank it, "Thank you."

"It's really a tacit understanding~" Horio and the others sighed.

On the other side, Taocheng was looking around in the bag. "Echizen, have you seen my one?"

"What that?" I don't understand.

Taocheng looked at me, and his face was covered with black lines. "The towel you sat under your ass!"

"Hey—" Horio and the others sighed.

"The first round of doubles. The members of the two teams stepped forward. Qingxue: Taocheng, Echizen's combination; Yulin: Nunchuan, Izumi's combination."

"It turns out that you are members of Qingxue who are famous all over the world~" one of the Yulin duo said with ulterior motives when shaking hands, "It's really surprising."

"Really, it should be said that we are very lucky." The other couldn't help but beam with joy, "If it was a single, you should win~"

"Of course." I said cleanly, "However, it's fun to defeat the opponent where they are good at!"

"You guys!" "Are you actually playing doubles for this reason?!"

"Fortunately, I was able to fight against you as I wished. I'm really relieved." Taocheng scratched his head, looking leisurely.

"So that's how it is." There was a chuckle from the sidelines.