The early morning at school is always noisy and energetic, but this rule doesn't seem to work very well for someone returning from the United States.

Sakurano looked at Echizen, who was sleeping soundly with his head covered next to him, and smiled, and there was a faint light in his quiet eyes.

"Sakurano, the ranking tournament of your tennis club starts today, right?"

Xiao Pengxiang turned around with interest, and couldn't help but glance at Echizen who was lying on the table, and deliberately lowered her voice.

"I heard that Echizen was also included in the competition department, is it true?"

"Hmm,"

Sakura's heart moved slightly, and she turned her head to look out the window, "It's true." ”

"Wow! Awesome! ”

Xiao Pengxiang's eyes lit up, and the bell rang at the right time, and she had to purse her mouth and turn around if she wanted to say more.

Sakurano looked out the window alone, just through a layer of glass, as if there were two worlds of noise and silence.

After a long time, she sighed softly, and retracted her gaze to her slightly trembling hands, which were the unrest in her heart.

Last night's dream was the endless darkness, some vague and trivial light and shadow, and even some cheers and cheers that made her familiar in her heart. couldn't help but close her palms, Sakura clenched her hands, only to feel that the rough cocoons on her fingertips were slightly hot, and she couldn't help but burn into her heart......

In the tennis club.

"Hey, look, there's a year-old in the competition department!"

"Really, is there a mistake!"

"How can there be a year!"

As soon as the news of the addition of a year-old student to participate in the school's main ranking tournament spread, the tennis club exploded, and almost everyone flocked to the bulletin board to distinguish the real from the fake, and the whispers were endless.

"That Echizen is the one who fought with Arai yesterday, right?"

"It's him, and he looks pretty strong. But anyway, he's only a year old, why was he also ranked? ”

"I heard that he came back from the United States, it's quite dragging!"

"It's really the first case, I don't know how many such things will happen in the future!" ……

Sakura leaned against the fence outside the arena, turned her face sideways, and everyone's doubts and discussions fell into her ears word for word.

The black racket stood beside her lap, and a sad aura gradually spread around her, and no one saw the gloom that unconsciously appeared in Sakura's drooping eyes, and it was faintly painful.

"Here you go."

A bottle of water was handed to Sakurano, and he looked up in a little surprise to meet Echizen's expressionless face.

But there was an awkward look in his eyes, Sakurano pursed his lips, smiled and took the water bottle, feeling that the headache that had just suddenly ached was better.

"What do you care about what those people say?" Echizen leaned down next to Sakurano, paused and spoke, "They are talking about me, not about you." ”

"Huh? No, it's just a bit of a headache. ”

Sakurano was stunned for a moment, then shook her head, a smile on her face, "Is Echizen worried about me?" ”

Hearing this, Echizen's expression was stunned, and he pressed the brim of his hat in disguise, and the strange feeling in his heart became stronger and stronger, "I just, I think, the feeling you give me is a little familiar." ”

He didn't know that his few words made the eyes of the girl next to him waves, Sakura stood up straight slightly, the smile on his face was slightly constricted, so that he could sort out his mood, Echizen, who had just raised his head, looked at it, and was stunned in this extremely gorgeous smile, this feeling, so familiar.

"Hey! Echizen! ”

A sudden greeting completely ruined the strange atmosphere between the two, and Sakurano and Echizen followed the prestige, just in time to meet Momojo who was walking towards them.

"Senior." Nodding at Echizen's salutation, Momojo moved his gaze to Sakurano on the side, while wrapping his arms around Echizen's shoulders, he shook his hand at Sakurano with a clear smile, "You're Ryuzaki." I'm Takeshi Momojo, your senior. ”

"Senior Momojo."

Sakurano bowed politely, "I'm Ryuzaki Sakurano, please advise." ”

"Tsk, look at how polite people are! Look at you again, your eyes are all up to the sky! ”

Touching his chin, Momojo unceremoniously patted Echizen on the shoulder and quipped, his tone was surprisingly familiar, "Today's ranking match, you have to work hard!" Senior, I'm waiting to see you make a big move! ”

Momojo's loud voice attracted everyone's attention, and he came to cheer for Echizen, and then left his back in the shouts of the electors on the side and left in style.

"I also think I'm familiar with Echizen."

Sakurano also looked at Echizen, who was still standing in front of him, and said softly, "Echizen... Ryoma, come on. ”

Slightly stunned, he looked at the back of Sakurano, who turned around and left after finishing seriously, and Echizen held the pat, and he couldn't say it in his heart, and tightened.

As twilight approached, standing in front of the scoreboard, Sakurano squinted her eyes and pursed her lips as she looked at the half-filled tournament record.

"Ryuzaki-san,"

Hearing her name, Sakurano turned around and faced the shiny... Glasses, "Just call me Sakurano, senior Qian." ”

"Sakurano, I noticed that you watched almost every match and made some notes, right?"

Following the dry sight, Sakurano looked down at the notebook in his hand, "Oh, I wrote some unconsciously." ”

"Is it data?" Looking at Qian, who seemed to be very interested, Sakura smiled and shook her finger slightly, "It doesn't count." ”

"Uh... Such. ”

Qian pushed his glasses and turned sideways, "Next is the Tezuka competition, do you want to take a look at the strength of the Minister of Youth?" ”

"Oh, of course, the odds of me going are 100% ...... as the senior thought"

Smiling sharply, Sakurano shrugged and walked towards the court with some of the Shanran.

"I heard from my grandmother that Minister Tezuka's dominant hand was injured, what kind of injury was it?"

"Well, when he was a year ago, his arm was swung vigorously by the racket, and then he practiced too much, which led to the recurrence of the old injury,"

Qian's voice was very flat, but he could still hear his faint regret, "So I've been recuperating all along." "That's right."

The game had been going on for a while, and Sakurano had been watching carefully, staring at the reliable figure in the field like a pillar, and whispered, "Rigorous... Conscientious... The technique is exquisite, and, with a heart to love tennis. ”

Hearing this, Qian cast his eyes in surprise, but saw Sakurano's soft and delicate side face in the twilight.

"He must be a good leader, and he must be the support for Qingxue to keep moving forward."

"Yes! He is the pillar of Qingxue! ”

Qian's tone was firm, implying his incomparable trust in the man on the field.

As the game approached the end, cheers and shouts sounded in the ears of the two, and they looked at Tezuka who walked steadily out of the stadium together, and they all had a little thought and warmth in their hearts.

"Wow!" “Burning！” ……

There was a commotion and a noise not far away, attracting everyone's attention.

"I guess that genius was born in the first year!"

Qianwu muttered to himself, and beside him, Tezuka and Sakurano, who had already finished the game, nodded and followed, "I'll also go and reserve his data." ”

Slowly walking into the arena and lowering the brim of his hat, Echizen's eyes flashed with a wisp of belligerent excitement.

"Kawamura, it's your turn."

Oishi, who had finished the game, approached and reminded Kawamura, who seemed to be out of shape on the side.

"Huh? Oh. ”

Kawamura smiled innocently and walked into the court in a daze, forgetting to even take the racket.

Momojo outside the court laughed "hehe", grabbed the racket and threw it towards Kawamura, "Kawamura!" Your racket! ”

"Oh! Thanks! ”

As soon as he grabbed the racket, Kawamura's expression instantly cheered up, and his gaze at Echizen suddenly burned, "Burning!" Come on！ I'm going to beat you! Brat! ”

The sudden roar surprised Echizen on the other side, and Sakurano, who saw Kawamura for the first time outside the court, was also a little surprised, and then stood in front of the net with his chest crossed with great interest, and looked at the court for a long time.

"It's a game to win or lose. In the first game, Kawamura serves! ”

“Come on！ Feel my burning! ”

Kawamura swung his racket with great excitement, and a serve flew towards the unhurried Echizen with a sharp wind.

Looking at the ball flying towards him, Echizen's eyebrows were imperceptibly lightly raised, and the voice was not loud or small, just enough for the audience to hear, "Qingxue's tennis club, is it so strong?" ”

"Bang!"

Kawamura didn't even see Echizen swing his racket, the return shot was so accurate and so hard that he didn't even have time to move.

“15-0.”

"Good fellows! Are the current first graders so arrogant? ”

Momojo grinned and looked at Echizen on the field, and said curtly, "Although it does have a little momentum." ”

"Shhh...... It's naturally much better than you, a one-legged violent man! ”

Haitang on the side has always been at odds with him, taking the opportunity to hit Momojo, who was injured in his left foot due to the game. "What?! Violent man?! Taocheng suddenly became angry, "Dead pit viper!" Are you sure you're not talking about yourself?! ”

"That's you! One-legged violent man! ”

"Alright, alright. Stop arguing! ”

Dashi hurriedly stepped forward to play a round game, but the two competed against each other, where could they listen.

At that time, just after the end of the game, Tezuka, who came to watch the game, saw the noisy two people at a glance, and his aura suddenly opened, "Taocheng, Haitang disrupts the order of the competition venue, and is punished, run ten laps around the field!" Go now! ”

"Isn't it! Minister, I still have a wound on my foot. ”

Taocheng's appeal only ended in a more tragic end. "Peach City, add five more laps!"

…… Everyone looked at the two of them with sympathetic faces and resigned themselves to their fate, but Kan still chanted to Echizen on the field, "Kawamura's strength has just been exerted fifty percent, and such words will undoubtedly provoke his anger." ”

Sakura, who heard the dry muttering, smiled slightly, and the silhouette of the rebellious boy on the field was reflected in his eyes.

"Arrogant boy! You'll pay for your words! ”

Kawamura really began to be irritable, glaring at Echizen angrily, and the clapping of his hand tightened and tightened, "I'm going to crush you!" ”

"Come on!"

The corners of Echizen's mouth hooked up a provocative arc, and his tone seemed to be disdainful, "If you have the ability, come and break me." ”

"You!"

Kawamura couldn't control it anymore, the ball in his hand was thrown high, jumped up, swung the racket vigorously, and the serve shot with terrifying power towards Echizen, who was waiting on the opposite side.

"Eighty percent, eighty percent power!"

Pushing the glasses, "Can Echizen stand it?" ”

Forehand attack, full force hit Echizen's net, the huge impact took him back a step, stalemate for a few seconds, he left hand together, and hit back hard.

“15-15.”

The return ball did not pass over the net, but fell after hitting the net, and the score was leveled.

"Still no."

Writing down a note in his notes, Qian's tone did not fluctuate, "There are still some disadvantages to a power-type golfer like Shanghe Village." "Eat me again!"

With the same force, Echizen's pupils shrank, and he walked quickly to the net, a leap, and a volley in the air.

At the moment when he stopped in the air, Echizen stopped the serve with a little difficulty, gritted his teeth, and held his left hand, and the counterattack stayed in the midfield that shot back to Kawamura in an instant.

"Bang!"

Although he didn't expect the ball to be knocked back, Kawamura still caught the ball back as soon as possible and raised his hand to strike.

Echizen could only watch in the air as the return ball smashed into his midfield, stirring up a puff of dust.

“30-15.”

"Caught it."

Although Echizen still lost this point in the end, his performance of catching Kawamura's eighty percent strength still surprised several people watching the battle, and his subordinates moved slightly, quickly recording the data, "Is the adaptability to strength so strong." ”

“1-0”

Just as Echizen gradually began to adapt to Kawamura's eighty percent strength and began to return the ball, the sudden increase in Kawamura's strength still caught him off guard and lost the first game.

"Whew."

Echizen slapped his racket, the lowered brim of his hat obscuring his extremely bright eyes, and the excitement and fighting spirit hidden in them were almost dazzling.

"Excellent! You've managed to turn me on! ”

Echizen raised his head, his bright eyes looked directly at Kawamura opposite, and the smile on the corner of his mouth was shockingly confident and arrogant, "However, that's all." You're still far away! ”

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