At the Budokan gate.

Ritsu Ninomiya and Yona Ichinose were separated.

Because he is going to participate in the draw for the high school kendo tournament and the Juggernaut title battle next, he only hopes that his character can explode today, and he will not draw Nakayama Kudan and Kondo Kudan, otherwise he will have to give up the high school kendo tournament.

"Ninomiya Kudan, good luck."

The chief referee smiled and nodded to Ninomiya Ritsu.

"Whew!"

Ritsu Ninomiya took a deep breath and put his hand into the holder.

After yesterday's round of elimination.

The remaining players today are actually only 1/3 left.

In addition, the semi-finals will be decided today, which means that the probability of encountering Asama and Kondo Kudan is very high.

He was in a state of uneasiness.

In the end, a small ball with a size 15 was randomly touched.

Don't care about anything else.

He hurriedly looked at the promotion chart on the right.

The location of number 15 is in the upper half.

Today, the top half of the bracket will decide two spots to reach the semi-finals, and the bottom half will also decide two spots.

There are 20 people in each of the upper and lower halves.

He saw it at a glance.

Kondo's name is in the lower half, but the upper half has the name of Asama Kudan.

This shocked him.

Is it going to be against the Asama Nine Sections today?

After a quick and careful look, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.

According to the promotion structure chart, he can't meet Asama Kudan, after all, there are two promotion places in the first half of the region today, and the semifinals will be redrawn tomorrow morning.

So today this level.

He's kind of a character explosion.

As long as there is another outburst of character tomorrow morning.

The third person other than Asama and Kondo Kudan was drawn, and the title of Juggernaut was basically won.

As for the draw of the National High School Kendo Tournament.

He picked up a number casually and didn't even look at the battle chart.

Anyway, no matter which school he wins, he basically has no reason to lose, it is better to say that any player in the main competition of the Juggernaut title can be killed casually in the high school group.

The only thing to consider.

It's probably how to make a quick decision and conserve your physical strength to the maximum extent possible in the high school kendo tournament.

When the draw for the Juggernaut title battle ends.

Naomasa Kudan, who was also in the upper half of the area, also breathed a sigh of relief.

Although he is confident that he is seventy percent sure that he can defeat the second house law, this does not mean that he dares not to take the second house law in his eyes.

A 30% rollover probability is no joke.

Before the semifinals, if you can not run into Ninomiya Ritsu, it is best not to run into Ninomiya Ritsu.

If you can get lucky.

Tomorrow's semifinals will put Ritsu Ninomiya against Kondo Kudan, then he will have a better chance of winning the Juggernaut title.

……

Lounge area.

Ritsu Ninomiya, Naomasa Asama, and Kondo Shihui are the three most happy, so the other players are naturally not happy.

Among them are friends of Yona Ichinose's parents.

The professor from the Faculty of Physical Education of Kyoto University, Haruhiko Fujitani Hachidan.

The players who can advance to the second round, in fact, few are mediocre, and those who came up in the qualifiers are under the seventh dan, and there is not one left who has been eliminated yesterday, so the remaining players today want to compete for the title of Juggernaut.

That's why most people want to see it the most.

It's Ritsu Ninomiya, Asama and Kondo, the three strongest points are in the same half, and it's best to fight to the death today, and it's best to meet again in the semifinals tomorrow morning, and only one of the last three will advance to the finals.

The one of the three advanced to the finals.

In case they run out of energy due to high-intensity confrontation, maybe they will be able to pick up a leak.

After all, luck is also an important part of the game.

But as soon as the lottery results came out, it proved that they were completely overthinking.

The three of them didn't even meet any of them today.

This also directly proves that if nothing else, the title of Juggernaut will definitely be produced among the three, and even the top three will not have anything to do with them. Sure enough, luck or something, it's not reliable at all.

However, what made Harukiko Fujitani even more desperate was that.

According to the results of the draw, he met Ritsu Ninomiya in the first round today.

Juggernaut title fights aren't a repechage.

If he loses to Ritsu Ninomiya, he will say goodbye to this game directly.

If you are eliminated in this position.

After he returned to Kyoto, he was expected to be ridiculed by those friends in the kendo circle for a long time.

"Fujiya-san, the result of the draw is not ideal?"

Hideki Ichinose asked strangely.

After the three of them separated from Ninomiya Ritsu, they came to the rest area of the Sword Saint title battle, and chatted with Fujitani Haruhiko, a friend, and saw that after Fujitani Haruhiko drew lots, his face looked ugly like something, so he asked.

"It can't be described as unsatisfactory."

Haruhiko Fujitani smiled bitterly: "It can be said that my luck is extremely bad, and I faced the eighth stage of the second palace in the first round today." ”

"Ninomiya Eight Sections?"

Hideki Ichinose was stunned for a moment: "What are you talking about...... Ninomiya Ritsu? ”

"That's right, it's the second palace and eight sections."

"He's very strong in kendo?"

"Why, you don't know?"

Fujitani Haruhiko said strangely: "Just now I saw you and Ninomiya Hachidan at the venue together, and I thought he was your junior, and today you made a special trip from Kyoto to watch him play." ”

"It's not a junior."

Hideki Ichinose hurriedly explained: "He is my daughter's ...... of Yona-chan Ahem, friend! We just met him today, so can Fujitani-san talk to us about him? ”

"It turns out that Ninomiya Hachidan is a friend of Xiao Yangna."

Haruhiko Fujitani looked suddenly enlightened, and directly thought that Ritsu Ninomiya and Yona Ichinose were lovers.

This time, the two couples came to Tokyo.

Most likely, it is to examine the son-in-law.

Therefore, he said good things: "Ninomiya Badan is a rare genius in kendo in a hundred years, and at the age of eighteen, he obtained the qualification of kendo badan, and he is one of the most powerful contenders for the title of Sword Master this time." ”

"So his strength is stronger than yours?"

In Hideki Ichinose's network circle, Haruhiko Fujitani, a colleague and friend, is considered the strongest kendo he knows.

He couldn't believe it.

Ritsu Ninomiya, a high school student, can defeat Haruhiko Fujitani.

"Let's put it this way."

Hideki Ichinose explained, "Although my strength is also at the top in Kyoto, it is not the best, but Ninomiya Hachidan easily defeated Shimahanbei Kudan, who is known as the first person in Osaka Prefecture to do kendo yesterday. ”

There was a pause.

He continued: "Maybe the verbal explanation is a little pale, it just so happens that the first game of today's Sword Saint title battle is the match between me and the second palace eight dan, you can intuitively see how strong the second palace eight dan is. ”

"Fujitani-san, you haven't thought about promotion?"

"Promotion?"

Fujitani Haruhiko shook his head and said: "Don't be kidding, yesterday the island half and nine dan failed to play three rounds with the second palace eight dan, and I can play three games with the second palace eight dan today, and it is estimated that I can blow in the circle for a whole year!" ”

“……”

Hideki Ichinose was speechless.

He glanced at his wife, obviously not expecting that his friend Haruhiko Fujitani had such a high opinion of Ninomiya Ritsu.

(End of chapter)