For what do you want to be strong?

As soon as this sentence came out, Tokugawa was stunned for a while.

Unlike Tokugawa in the main drama, that Tokugawa was full of "extreme" ideas because of the practices of Byodoin, and was committed to overthrowing Byodoin and reaching the top of the world with "righteousness".

And now because he has not experienced the beating of Byodoin, he does not have too drastic thoughts and insistence.

It can be said that he is now a "wandering spirit" running around without a goal.

Even if they were called to the U17 training camp, they only came because the team needed them.

He doesn't have any long-term goals of his own.

He was thinking about becoming stronger purely to cope with the current situation, and never thought specifically about why he wanted to be stronger.

So much so that the current Tokugawa actually lacks a "road sign".

Therefore, the ghost's questioning was quite sharp for him.

"Sure enough, you haven't found your way yet."

"Think about it."

"Why the hell are you here?"

The ghost didn't rush him to hand over the answer, but got up and prepared to go back to the dormitory to take a shower.

"Allah, let's go."

"You can always go to him, though."

Irie smiled, looked at the departing ghost, said to Tokugawa, and then followed.

"You have to think about this question carefully."

"For each of us, there is an obsession to be completed."

"If you come with the idea of doing nothing, you will only end up falling behind."

Byodoin scratched his head, beads of sweat, and looked at the junior in front of him, and he persuaded in a serious tone.

Although there is nothing special in this kid at the moment, since he is expected by a few ghosts, it proves that he is talented.

"My goal. Is it? ”

Looking at the three departing men, Tokugawa muttered in a low voice, and finally fell silent.

……………

"Toot toot!!"

Walking on the road back to the Ice Emperor, dusk shrouded the ground, and Tokugawa still had no clue.

What does he want to get stronger for now?

He couldn't answer that question himself.

Because since he came to the Under-17 training camp, he has lost his previous ideas.

If he was working hard to become a professional player overseas, he doesn't seem to care anymore.

Why did you change your mind?

He doesn't even know it.

I just feel that the career I once dreamed of is not in a hurry to get in touch now.

Perhaps subconsciously, he himself actually knows that he, who can't even deal with middle school students, has the qualifications to run to the territory of his profession?

"Smack!"

"Bang!"

As soon as he returned to the school building, Tokugawa heard a familiar voice coming from outside the window.

He walked to the windowsill and looked at the team members who were still exercising in the setting sun.

Ryo Shishido, Higaku, Takinosuke. Even Jilang, who has always dozed off, is exercising.

Coupled with a few first-year freshmen, they didn't seem to know about exhaustion at all.

"Ahh Birch. ”

The familiar tone came from the direction obscured by the trees, and even if he couldn't see it, Tokugawa knew who it was.

"Yes!!"

The sound of lack of breath sounded, and Birch dragged his heavy body to finish the last bit of distance, and then gasped violently.

"Trace, I feel like I'm used to it."

"Then let's go for arm training."

"Traces, I'm pretty much on my side."

"Yueren, you have to strengthen your physical strength, and remember to exercise your legs properly."

A barrage of questions rang out, but they didn't cause the ornate minister's impatience.

Tokugawa silently stared at the court below, lost in thought.

…………

"Goodbye."

"See you tomorrow."

"The seniors have worked hard!"

It wasn't until it was about to get dark that the members left one by one.

And when the people were gone, the trace was still in the stadium with the birch.

"Smack!"

With a snap of his fingers, the night lights around him lit up, as if the tennis court was used as a stage, and the traces stood in the center very forcefully.

"Birch, are you ready?"

"Yes!"

He took off his coat, matched it with his team uniform, held his racket in his hand, and shouted at the birch.

Tokugawa looked at the situation in the stadium unexpectedly, and for a while he didn't know what to do.

But then, he was stunned.

I saw that Birch had resisted a few makeshift ball machines from somewhere, and placed them on the court, and at the same time, he had made a few smooth walls for the court and placed them behind the tracks, on the left and right.

"Twelve?"

"And those walls"

Unable to fully see the view of the stadium, Tokugawa quickly changed floors, and when he looked from the roof, he found that things were not quite what he had imagined.

"Bang bang !!"

A series of tees rang out, and extremely violent fast balls rushed out of the body.

Birch waited for the ball machine to finish serving on the side, and then pushed a wall to the front of the track, which combined with the several walls just placed, just formed a closed environment for the entire court.

Twelve tennis balls continued to bounce back and forth in it, and the traces were swinging one after another, all hitting the wall without falling.

"I see, with the smoothness of the wall, the ball will keep bouncing, and because of the angle, the trajectory of the incoming ball is also different."

"Like a perpetual motion machine"

"In addition to such an amount, I want to catch them without missing a ball and not let them crash such as ball control and observation and technical power"

Observing the training of the traces, Tokugawa realized that he was still small before.

The current minister of the Ice Emperor is more crazy than anyone else.

It's no wonder that he played ten goals before, and he followed all the things as if he had nothing to do.

With the training method of the trace department, it is not a matter of playing ten balls.

Watching him constantly deal with the bouncing tennis balls around him in that cramped environment, and not letting them stop on the ground, the insight and technical prowess of the past are at their peak.

You must know that in that case, if you make a mistake, you may be smashed by the tennis ball around you and your nose will be swollen.

Not only did the traces not get hurt, but they all hit back, and even managed to stop halfway through without letting the balls collide with each other.

It realizes the real sense of "perpetual motion machine for batting".

His hand unconsciously grasped the guardrail, and Tokugawa was distracted.

…………

It wasn't until the end of the training session that Tokugawa slowly walked to the court.

"Didn't you say you were going to the bootcamp to ask for advice?"

"You don't seem to have made it out like that."

It's completely different from the traces he usually sees, he is sweating profusely now, and his team uniform looks like a "soup chicken".

"It's just a little bit incomprehensible."

"Huh?"

"What do you want to get stronger?"

Throwing that question out, Tokugawa wanted to know Kibe's answer.

(For each of us, there is an obsession to be accomplished.) ）

Recalling the words of Byodoin in his mind, he wondered what the obsession of the trace department was.

"I see, is that what bothers you?"

"That's right, now you're like a puppet, you don't have your own ideas, you completely go with the flow."

"Let's answer your question first."

"Why does Uncle Ben want to be stronger?"

"That's because there are a lot of people I want to take down."

"Seigaku's Tezuka and Fuji. Yukimura of Yakuzu Takaidai of Yamabuki, Shiratsu and Akaji of Sanada and Emperor Nishi. ”

"They're all opponents to look forward to"

"The main thing is"

"I want to lead the Ice Emperor to dominate the country!"

Hearing this, he sat down on the steps, the corners of his mouth slightly raised, and he smiled, and then looked at Tokugawa and replied solemnly.

Dominate the country

In just four words, Tokugawa felt an incomprehensible power and oppression.

Thinking about the strength of other schools, he would be a little eager to try.

Perhaps he had some hints of something about that.

"Since you don't know what to do now, how about I give you a little goal?"

But at this time, Jibu stood up, turned to look at him and said seriously.

“？”

Quietly waiting for the following, Tokugawa wanted to see what the trace would say.

"Become the first high school student in all neon! Tokugawa. ”

(End of chapter)