The next two matches were exactly the same as canon. Kaidoh-senpai manage to get by with his boomerang snake and Ryoma manage to overcome spot using alternating hand
Though I visibly sigh in relieve as Ryoma managed to dodge his racket in the final moment only causing a small cut on his temple. Looks like suggesting acrobatics play to him was good decision.
Originally I suggested to him about acrobatics play was because he was really flexible, like gymnastic worthy flexible. That's why I suggested to him to go gymnastics and told him to invest in acrobatics play. You also probably help him in his future moves such as Drive B.
Though if I remember clearly, it was after losing badly to Tezuka-buchou then he decided to start creating his own moves rather than copying… well lets hope that doesn't change…
In the mean time I need to increase my power so I can successfully return a hadokyu… And also know how to use it…
I smirked, Fuji-senpai finally showed one of his tripe counters… Well lets see if I can recreate it… Tsubame Gaishi huh… Now it only left Higuma Otoshi and Hakugei before he starts making more.
In the mean time I also need to get used to Boomerang snake… Kaidoh-senpai is really amazing… Such a difficult shot to pull off.
It appeared it happened already Tezuka-buchou and Ryoma's match… Ryoma decidedly more sulky than usual and asked me to skipped a fee days with him... Only to see him playing with father...
Well I am not complaining… I will be upgrading my weights today… I need to get used to it now…
Currently doing push up while Ryoma is playing with Nanjiroh… 100 hundred more before laps…
Though it is amazing to see Ryoma evolving right before my eyes… Ryoma is really a prodigy ne? To see his style evolve from Samurai Nanjiroh's…
I widened my eyes… Ryoma managed to score against him… I could feel that… That intensity… At that moment he tapped into Muga no Kyochi…. He is truly evolving now…
Their match lasted until night time until they both can't handle their hunger...
Haha like father like son…
35 crunches left before dinner need to finish it soon…
Maybe I should increase my weights tomorrow…
Managed to prevent the Karupin disaster by taking out his favourite toy out of Ryoma's bag… So it was a rather normal school day.
Woke up Ryoma early for the day of the competition.
Fighting against St. Rudolph… Was annoying… Really annoying
Because I was in reserve… All my pent up adrenaline was all wasted because of not being able to fight a single person…
And also Mizuki was a huge as bastard
Though Momo-senpai's Dunk Smash was rather impressive… Another thing for me to practice on I suppose.
And its great to see the infamous Kaidoh-Momo pair…
Oishi-Eiji pair lost surprisingly…
Yuuta was using the twist spin short that was known to cause injuries… Mizuki is really a bastard...
Though Ryoma won against Yuuta displaying his Drive B and it was amazing to get the ball drop that low… It is nothing short of amazing… though I narrowed my eyes as I overheard Mizuki telling Yuuta to aim for Ryoma's recently injured side… I want to kill him so much…
"Ne… Fuji-senpai…"
"Hm~ Ryota-kun?"
"Kill him."
"With pleasure…"
I can visibly see the others inching away from us (even Tezuka-buchou) while muttering about over protective brothers. I suppose that is true… Anyone that is knowingly hurting either Ryoga or Ryoma I will not hesitate to destroy them utterly… I can see that it is the same for Fuji-senpai.
And I watched with increasingly annoyance as he kept scoring and boasting about his data and Fuji's weak side
And how satisfying to see him crumbling all down…
Fuji senpai let him in match point before taking everything back aces and return aces… Mizuki stand no chance at all… What a useless bastard… Not even useful to show off the rest of Fuji-senpai's moves…
Whelp how did Ryoma also get into this kinda of trouble… Currently Ryoma and I are wiping out all of the Ginka players out while taking their balls. And we managed to transport them out when our father pick us up… Though I cant help but forget about something...
Fuck I forget about Akustu that bastard have came Seigaku and injured Ryoma (and some other people whose name I forget but Ryoma is more important)…
I need to send him a message…
"Ryota don't." I look over to see my brother covered in bandage and immediately fury came over me…
" What do you mean don't? He served rocks at you!"
"Look I need him to be able to play tennis to get back at him… Please don't make him like that man…"
I narrowed my eyes…
"You sure you can win?"
He snorted "What do you think?"
I sighed… I can never refuse him can I…
Though… I still need to send him a message.
Before official practice start I tracked him down…
"Ne~ Akutsu right?" I asked even though I know exactly who he is.
"The freshman regular? No… You're not him…"
"Echizen Ryota… Another freshman regular and Ryoma's twin brother dozo…"
"Oh… You're here for revenge he… Then!" He picked up five rocks and served at me I smirked before returning all of them. He managed to block 2 while the rest scratched him.
"Brat!"
"He~ lets play tennis with rocks then how many? 15? I can play a rally with 15 rocks." I smirked as I saw him get angrier.
He swung at me while I easily sidestepped him and tripped him.
"Ne listen." He visibly stilled…
"Don't come after our tennis club… Ryoma wants to beat you in tennis so I am letting you off with a warning… ignore it and you won't get mercy."
He glared at me before walking off… But I suppose my message is sent...
Maybe I should have been more severe in my warning… I have done worse after all but he later on becomes a rather important person in Ryoma's growth… So I suppose I will let him off with an easy warning.
I ran back to practice.
Today is lap practice and the introduction to penal tea… Shit I shouldn't have worn my heavier weights. At the final spurt I was already dead tired and I struggled to keep up with the rest.
"Ryota-kun was 2cm later to reach the finish line so here."
I paled… Shit I need to get use to the new weights faster…
I closed my eyes and sighed before gulping down the entire cup… And found myself still standing… I blinked…
That was… Spicy and thick and disgusting… But wasn't as bad as his vegetable juice…
"No way… He still standing!"
"Niichibi how do you do it!?"
"Ah… It was still disgusting… But I can handle spices better so maybe that's why?" I suggested.
"Ehh! No fair!" Kikumaru-senpai groaned. Inwardly I sighed a relieve… Dodged a bullet today because Penal tea wasn't as bad as it seemed…
"Hmm… Good data maybe I should add wasabi to make it taste worse…" I blanched I think I just made penalty even worse… Definitely not losing tomorrow.
I rejected Momo-senpai's offer to the burger joint after practice as I have to build up my stamina with the new weights… Tomorrow I cannot lose…
It would appear Ryoma have a small confrontation with Akutsu… Which I don't have time to mull over as we are having the horrible laps again.
Today though none of us lost since I managed to finally get used to my new weight… Maybe I added too much?
"How long are you going to continue to sit there?" Tezuka-buchou called out as we are panting on the ground… Ah we will be playing a few games now…
Fuji vs Ryoma…
Ah… So that is Higuma Otoshi… It really is an amazing move to be able to counter any smashes… But the weakness lies in that it won't work when the opponent outmatches you by a lot… I think even Momo-senpai's future Jack's knife would be able to break it.
Though Ryoma manage to show the prodigy that he is by aiming at the net to let the ball go off course… that would have been impossible by real life standard but I guess this is where the anime logic comes in.
Ah… Looks like I would be playing against Kaidoh-senpai.
"Oi are you going to take of those weights?"
"Maa~ force me too please."
He 'tched' before serving… Saa lets see how your snake deals with my power.
I made sure to return all and every shot with as much power as I can give. The whole point of this was too increase the success of boomerang snake after all.
Though he is rather unsuccessful at that though and his attempts are quite pitiful…
He really is not used to playing against a power player huh.
Though from the corner of my eyes I can see Inui-senpai writing in his notebook. It was because of Inui-senpai that's how Kaidoh-senpai become one of the stronger power players in the future with his boomerang Hadokyu.
Time Skip…
The day on the tournament we would be facing against Ginka which they completely surrendered before we even played a match… I smirked.
"Oi Echizen that doesn't count! We didn't even get to play!"
We made a deal that I get to play singles 3 next after Momo-senpai get singles 3.
"Maa~ Tezuka-buchou does that count?" I asked Momo-senpai wouldn't talk back to Tezuka- buchou.
"A deal is a deal."
Ahh it's a been a long time since I managed to play singles in this… Most of the time I was playing doubles with Fuji-senpai.
I narrowed my eyes… Yamabuki… The school that allows Akutsu to play even knowing what he did… well then I think I have to teach him a lesson.
If I remember correctly Akutsu said he would be singles 3… Or something...
The first round was Momo-senpai and Fuji-senpai but they lost… Ah… They were not a strong enough doubles team huh…
Next was the golden pair's match and it started off badly but they managed
Huh apparently I am wrong it's the captain Sengoku.
Well it seems like it will a good game.
"Oh~ playing against Echizen's twin how disappointing." I can't help but smile… Ah still being underestimated… Its kinda adorable.
"Maa~ before we start… Do you know what Akutsu has been doing to our team?"
He seems to look a bit guilty but replied "Ah I don't agree with what he did… But still he can win games for us."
"Is that the reason?"
"That should be reason enough~" he replied cheerfully…
I decided to drop my façade.
Ryoma POV
Yare yare… Ryota is so going to kill him. What the guy said was probably the opposite of what Ryota wanted to hear…
From our side we can practically see Ryota's aura become darker and even the stupid guy is starting to realise how wrong his answer is.
Ryota smiled darkly "Well I suppose now I won't feel guilty releasing my frustration on you."
Ah this is going to be a quick game huh… Ryota's combined frustration of not being able to play singles and being forced to not to anything to Akutsu is huge… Luckily he spend most of that in physical training but most of his frustrations were still not spent…
The game started where Sengoku-san allowed Ryota to serve… Definitely a horrible decision.
"Ah there it is Shajikuame!" Some of the first years called out…
The ball moved a lot faster and more powerful than when fighting Fudomine… it no surprise that guy was unable to return it.
Though he managed to return it with a lob allowing Ryota to do a smash.
"40-love"
Though he did managed to return the Shajikuame the next time with relative power and a huge counter spin. Heh he is actually quite good.
He forced Ryota to return with a lob.
"That is the Yamabuki's Sengoku, his motion vision allows him to return most balls with a counter spin." Inui-senpai helpfully supplied
And then that jumped and did a Dunk smash.
"Oi isn't that my dunk smash!" Momo-senpai exclaimed.
Which Ryota returned effortlessly.
"Game Seigaku 1-love"
"Ah… You're really good! But you wont be able to score even once next!"
Ryota just silently accessed him before snorting.
I looked on with interest when he toss the ball to high up… Wow that was a fast ball! The ball sailed right passed Ryota.
" The Koho… Yamabuki's Sengoku's signature move"
"He~ you're pretty good." Ryota commented before switching the racket to his right hand. Many from out team and Yamabuki's tema gasped… Ah he is serious.
"O-oi ochibi! Is niichibi right-handed all this time?"
"Mada mada dane senpai."
Sengoku served with another Koho… Only to have the ball return in double the speed and power.
"O-Oi Echizen! T-that's!"
"The Hadokyu!" The first years exclaimed.
"But wouldn't that hurt Ryota's arm?" Kachirou asked
"lie, that arm was only using 80% of Ryota-kun's arm strength… He added the spin in the ball to compensate for the lack in strength. Sort of like a spin hadokyu… But even so 80% of that seems to have already become more powerful that Ishida's hadokyu."
"Wah! Sugoiyo Ryota-kun!"
Sengoku served another Koho and Ryota returned with another Hadokyu.
Sengoku rushed and managed to reach the ball… Only to have his racket blown away.
"Ne… Sengoku-san"
Sengoku visibly froze while I smirked in amusement… Ah he is so destroyed.
"Be careful not to get you arm broken."
Judging by the power of the ball I am pretty sure that is not a idle threat…
And it seems Sengoku knows that too judging by his grimace and nervous laughter.
"Mada Mada… Ne."