Some of the players who had met the school team continued to join the tennis club after they were promoted to Junior high, while others gradually left formal training and only went to watch games as a hobby.

However, no matter who it was, they still remembered the name that dominated the elementary school, Xingcun Jingshi.

They had also thought that they would meet Xing Cun again when they reached junior high. However, what was surprising yet expected was that before they met on the field, they first saw him at the district preliminaries' lot-drawing convention.

The khaki-colored sportswear wasn't particularly handsome, but everyone in the venue sincerely admired this uniform.

This was the color of the ever-victorious Tachikaidai, who had dominated Kanto for 13 years. The teenager standing at the front had fair skin, and his purple hair was neatly tucked in a white headband. His clear and penetrating eyes swept through the crowd one by one, and he smiled when he saw many familiar faces.

On his left was Sanada, who was known as the "Emperor." Many people had submitted to this person's powerful and domineering style of play. On the other hand, there was a girl who wasn't famous. She wasn't tall and didn't look intimidating. What was so special about this person that Yukimura had to bring her to the court?

Yukimura originally didn't want to make this trip.

Jin Senbae persuaded him that it would be better if the newcomers went first. If the seniors went to draw the lots, the outside world might look down on the three national students.

Touched by the kindness of the seniors, Yukimura happily gave them extra training and asked them to take care of the tennis club's training.

Tachikaidai's preliminary matches all ended with a crushing speed.

Except for the first round, which had to be played to the end, the other matches were all won by 3: 0. Sanada Yukimura didn't play either.

And Kuwabara Marui, who played doubles twice, was so relaxed that it scared the other schools.

Blowing bubble gum on the court, and that foreigner … Tachikai, too cunning!

Ryohei, who won all the decisive matches in singles, earned the title of "Military Adviser" with his accurate and frightening judgment.

For a time, the name of the "Big Three" that was heard from Tachikai's reserve team spread to the outside world.

In the following Kanagawa Tournament, when they finally saw Gross Profit, who had transferred to Tachikaidai, the audience was surprised to find that the former Tachikai Minister and the ace teamed up to play doubles.

They looked at Gross Profit, who played the net with ease, and Jin, who played an iron wall at the baseline, and sighed at the lethality of this unexpected combination.

The audience on the sidelines listened to Liu's analysis with relish, and their eyes couldn't help but drift to the youth sitting on the court.

It was this person, who looked like a work of art, who had the discerning eye to arrange the most suitable position for everyone. She even knew more about them than he did.

And from the back, he sat on the chair with a coat draped over him. Although he was slender and gentle, he emitted endless light, making people involuntarily trust and respect him.

After winning the Kanagawa Tournament with a perfect record, Yukimura and the others returned to their daily lives for the time being.

There wasn't much homework for the first year, and in addition to his studies, his club work gradually began.

As early as the beginning of May, the Art Department began to collect works for the annual Tachikaidai Art Appreciation Competition.

This competition was considered a tradition, so many people had been preparing for it for half a year.

After returning to the Art Department, Yukimura was assigned the job of registering authors by his seniors.

Because of this, every afternoon, his friends couldn't see Yukimura's figure.

In order to facilitate the movement of large works, the collection location was set on the first floor of the Friends of the Sea Hall.

This was the old Tachikaidai Exhibition Hall, and it was often used for student activities such as lectures and exhibitions.

The Art Department applied for the right side of the first floor as the venue for this competition, and Yukimura sat in the office on the side, waiting for the students to sign up.

He scanned the registration form in front of him, and entered the information of the registered works into the computer on the side.

He didn't think that Shinichiro would also submit a work of calligraphy!

He smiled, thinking of the vigorous and powerful ancient calligraphy. When his friends were registering, they lamented that Yukimura wasn't participating in the calligraphy collection. After all, Yukimura's calligraphy was praised by his grandfather.

Yukimura blinked. After all, he was a member of the Art Department, and painting was his main job.

His own exhibition series was in the watercolor section, and the object was a white magnolia in his garden that bloomed every year at the end of winter and the beginning of spring. It was clean and pure white, like a jade carving. Against the dark green plant, it was elegant and noble, and also awe-inspiring. Yukimura couldn't help but think of his two good friends.

He wrote a sentence in the information column of the painting: Even in the cold winter, the tall and beautiful blooming figure is just like those two people. They are my best friends, and also my most respected opponents.

What kind of expression would they have when they saw this sentence, Upsilon Arietis, Shinichiro?

In addition to calligraphy, paintings were divided into different categories, and there was even a manga section.

Among the large-scale works, the sculpture section was also famous for its strange oddities. Since Yukimura was absent from the Art Department's activities in the early stages of the competition, he had already seen many funny and magical works when he took over the work. He often sighed at the strange thinking of the Tachikai students.

The deadline for the collection was early June.

The Art Department spent five days selecting works and decorating the venue. The originally empty hall became as beautiful as a museum.

In the middle of the hall was the sculpture section, which divided the exhibition hall into several large spaces. Calligraphy, paintings, and other paper works were either hung on the wall or placed on the exhibition tables.

The manga section occupied a corner, and the Art Department member in charge used a huge two-dimensional display board to create a trolley car wall, which was very eye-catching.

The appreciation event officially began in the middle of the month.

After the tennis competition ended, Yukimura took a few interested friends to look around. Many of them lamented that they didn't have time to sign up.

They were standing in front of Sanada's calligraphy work, which Sanada had picked out from his own work not long ago. Now, he found a lot of shortcomings.

Seeing Juvenile Stain frown with dissatisfaction, Yukimura sighed that this person was really strict with himself.

When they came to Yukimura's work, they all said that this was the work of art they were looking forward to.

Although part of it was to annoy Sanada, they really liked this painting. Under the layers of light and shadow, the white orchid quietly blooming on the right side of the painting attracted everyone's attention.

When they saw the label and description below the work, they all turned to stare at Sanada Kazuyanagi with a smile.

Of course, the two protagonists also clearly saw the sentence.

There was a slight smile on Liu's face, and his gentle gaze turned to Yukimura. His good friend was carefully observing them with his arms crossed. He couldn't help but shake his head and sigh with a smile.

Sanada, on the other hand, really showed what it meant to blush instantly.

This kind of shock was an eye-opener for everyone. Until they left, they were all thanking Yukimura -sama one by one for letting them see Sanada's embarrassment.

The exhibition of the appreciation event would last until the summer vacation.

Soon, Yukimura found a problem that gave him a headache.

In the new chemistry course, there was a problem that he really didn't like.

Although his mid-term exam results weren't bad, compared to the other courses, Yukimura really hated the smell of chemical reagents. What he was learning now was only the basics. Next year, Yukimura couldn't help but sigh when he heard that there would be more experimental classes.

During the lunch break, Yukimura, who was in charge of the gardening area, couldn't think of a solution.

When he was a child, his body wasn't very good. When he was two or three years old, he often went to the hospital. As a result, half of his earliest memories were associated with the smell of disinfectant.

Later, after he learned to play tennis, his body gradually got better and he didn't get sick as much as before. However, his hatred of hospitals remained.

When he thought of the first experimental class, he couldn't help but frown the whole time. He really didn't like this subject.

Although he didn't tell anyone, some of his classmates noticed this and kindly helped him complete the experiment. This made Yukimura very touched.

However, he still hoped to overcome this by himself.

Sanada knew Juvenile Stain's preferences very well.

They weren't in the same group, so they couldn't help. However, Sanada still worked harder to take down chemistry notes, hoping to explain to Yukimura when he was distracted.

Yukimura thought of his own Juvenile Stain and his eyes softened.

He touched the green leaves in his hand and smiled. "I envy you so much. You only need to bloom with vitality."

At the beginning of July, a transfer student was transferred to Marui's class.

During lunch, he couldn't wait to complain to Yukimura and the others about this boy named Nin Of Gojoseon Masaharu.

"Silver hair, please, if Sanada sees him, what will happen?"

"He's so lazy and he even has a weird way of speaking. Does he think he's funny?"

"He's so tall, his eyes are raised as if he's looking down on people, and he's so handsome!"

"And!" Marui poked the rice ball angrily. "He eats so little, but he's still so tall?!"

So that's the key to your anger?

Yukimura supported his face with his hands and watched Marui eat in big mouthfuls.

He had met this Nin Of Gojoseon Masaharu once.

At that time, when he was taking care of the flowers and plants in the garden on the roof, a boy curiously asked him a question.

He knew that the roof was the responsibility of the gardening department and that there weren't many people there, so he left satisfied.

At that time, Yukimura also thought that he was from another class who came to slack off. He only remembered the eye-catching silver-blue hair.

At that time, he didn't seem to notice that he had a weird way of speaking.

"Nin Of Gojoseon Masaharu, height 165 centimeters, weight 50 kilograms, serious food preference, daily caloric intake of 2000 calories …"

"How much is that?" Marui asked, puzzled.

"… Seriously insufficient. Currently, he's submitted to the tennis department for admission," Liu added.

Sanada also thought of a person who recently joined the training, but he wasn't in charge of supervising the new members. Liu knew more about this.

Speaking of practice, he suddenly thought of something. He turned around and asked Yukimura, "This Sunday should be a practice match with other schools. What's the current arrangement?"

Since Yukimura took office, he thought that the previous practice matches of other schools were too weak and didn't improve. He changed the scope of the practice matches from last year.

According to his observation, the current Tachikai Tennis Department didn't need to show their crushing level in practice matches. Instead, they looked for schools with similar strength.

However, seeing that the Kanto Tournament was about to start, the surrounding schools basically had no chance to participate. He didn't want to share information about Tachikai's strength before the tournament.

After hesitating for a moment, he still refused.

"But the joint practice on Saturday still needs to continue. Liu, please inform the high school department that this Saturday will still be the same as before, but the players on the court will be the reserve team."

Liu nodded. There were a few people in his data that were worth paying attention to. He wanted to use the practice match to let the seniors train the reserve team.

Only Yukimura took the reserve team to this practice match. Liu and Sanada stayed in the Junior high school department to do basic practice with the main team.

When Yukimura and the others gathered in the indoor tennis hall of the high school department and waited, his eyes swept over a few members who were called out by Liu alone. Yukimura deliberately paused on the silver-haired boy.

He hadn't seen Nin Of Gojoseon play a match yet, and according to Liu's observation, he should be a technical player.

Therefore, today he deliberately asked the seniors in the high school to send a skilled senior to guide him. He didn't know what secrets this Nin Of Gojoseon was hiding.

In the past, Liu always led the team to practice together. This time, because of Yukimura's visit, the head of the high school department also came to greet him.

Although he hadn't played against Yukimura before, the head admired Yukimura's strength and his coaching style.

The two of them discussed the outstanding players in the reserve team for a while. The head of the high school department introduced him to the player who was playing against Nin Of Gojoseon.

"His skills are excellent, but his stamina is weak. We can't entrust him to play an official match at the moment. However, if Yukimura wants to observe the members, he's the best choice."

Yukimura nodded and observed Nin Of Gojoseon's movements.

He was indeed as Liu predicted. He was very sensitive to the ball. He might have good dynamic vision, but his height didn't give him an advantage. His strength was weak, and his return was a little soft. However, his control of the ball was very good. He could calmly face the high school students. He was the type who liked to set up.

Yukimura could roughly see Nin Of Gojoseon's characteristics. He thanked the head beside him.

This was a player whose strengths and weaknesses were very obvious.

His skills and mental strength were strong, but his weakness in stamina and strength was too obvious.

If such a person was seen by Sanada, it would really be like what Marui said. He would yell that he was "too relaxed" and then give him more training …

Also, every time he scored, he would say something like that … Yukimura could already see the anger on Nin Of Gojoseon's opponent's forehead.

This would definitely be seen as a provocation.

After observing a few other members, Yukimura and the head of the high school department encouraged each other and ended the joint practice match.

He found that the reserve team members of the high school department didn't have much of an advantage. The score was basically half and half.

As for the high school department that was about to participate in the high school IH conference and the autumn national sports competition, he didn't know if they could keep their honor this time. One had to know that last year, those monsters had all advanced …

After returning to the Junior high school, Yukimura immediately found Sanada Kazuyanagi. Not only did he explain in detail the strengths and weaknesses of several key members, but he also "specifically" emphasized that he was optimistic about Nin Of Gojoseon.

"… It's just that his weakness in strength and stamina is too obvious." Yukimura looked meaningfully at the silver-haired youth not far away.

He happily looked at the black-faced Juvenile Stain. Obviously, Sanada completely understood what he meant.

Liu also supported Yukimura's view. Since there was the ability to improve, of course, they couldn't let the blind spots exist.

After all, Nin Of Gojoseon was different from senior Gross Profit, who skipped training. The three of them couldn't reprimand their seniors, but could they not reprimand a junior?

In early July, Yukimura and Sanada attended the Kanto Tournament draw in Tokyo.

This was their first time attending the Junior high Kanto Tournament. The formal venue made them feel a little excited.

As the top school in Kanagawa, Tachikaidai was once again the seeded team to meet the strong teams from other prefectures.

And the result of the draw was that Tachikaidai would meet Chiba's Shikawa High School in the first round.

In the preliminary selection meeting, according to Liu's data, everyone understood that this was a Junior high school that focused on advancing to a higher school. In the past, they didn't have very good results.

This year, they recruited excellent sports students. It seemed that they wanted to apply for funding from the prefectural government for the school, and hoped that the sports club's results would be better.

"It feels like they have a strong purpose …" Marui frowned.

Liu continued to spread the information. "The deviation value is about 65. The tennis club's main members are all top students."

Everyone was shocked by the number.

Tachikai University High School's average deviation value was only about 60. This was already very good. After all, their school combined intelligence and physical fitness, and their sports club was famous in the country.

For a moment, everyone hated and envied Shikawa. Instead, they ignited the flames of war. Was this what Liu had expected?

According to tradition, the first round of the competition had to be completed in five matches.

Senior Duo of Doubles 2 and Maori Jin Duo of Doubles 1 quickly won all six rounds, and the remaining three singles matches also ended without any suspense at the speed of brushing up points.

Less than two hours had passed since the end of Lihai's match.

After the two teams shook hands, Yukimura led Tachikaidai Army out of the venue. He didn't even warm his seat in the supervisor's chair.

The onlookers from other schools sighed. Even though they had a new first-year minister, Tachikaidai was still as strong as ever … and their score was as good as that beautiful and slender teenager's.

According to Liu's speculation, if nothing unexpected happened, their opponent in the finals this year was likely to be the new Ice Emperor Army.

When Yukimura saw this name, he remembered that he had seen this name in a magazine when he was in elementary school.

Later, this person became the minister and led the Ice Emperor to enter the country. In the two years that he was in office, the Ice Emperor had always been the winner of the National Assembly.

Although this year they were promoted, it was said that there was a new minister who wasn't inferior to them, and he carried out a big reform.

And this team made up entirely of first-year students was also the winner of the National Assembly. This was the reason why the outside world paid attention to this.

When everyone walked to the Ice Emperor Stadium, Sanada's face was a bit ugly as he listened to Liu's explanation.

He remembered the fiasco when he was in the sixth grade. The name Tokyo awakened his memory of Youth Academy, but he learned that this team was defeated by the Ice Emperor this year. Although they entered the Kanto Tournament, they were currently in a different group from Tachikai and would only meet in the finals.

That was the school that Tezuka went to. How could they be so weak?

Not only Sanada was puzzled, but Yukimura also felt that it was quite strange.

After receiving a reply from Liu's friend, both of their faces sank.

That school team of Seikyo Academy didn't allow first-year students to be the main team?

How stupid!

Sanada and Yukimura didn't know if they were disappointed or regretful.

They originally had high hopes for this school. After all, Tezuka was at a level that could beat Sanada. If such a player wasn't allowed to participate … Yukimura didn't believe that Tezuka would hide his strength. As long as that person entered the tennis club, he would definitely become the center of attention. Would the minister of Seikyo Academy rather hide their ace than let him play?

Yukimura shook his head. Perhaps this year, he could only hope that the new minister of Ice Emperor would be his opponent.

When they arrived at the Ice Emperor Stadium, the match was in the second round of singles.

The player on the court had a hairstyle that was very similar to that of Liu's sister. His clean and crisp playing style put his opponent at a disadvantage. His game seemed to be calculated, making people wonder if he was another tennis player who was good at statistics.

The last player in the first round of singles was a proud blonde boy. As soon as he appeared, he was accompanied by the cheers of the Ice Emperor Cheerleaders. This scene surprised Tachikai.

"Speaking of which, this kind of slogan, 'The winner is the Trace Section, the loser is so-and-so' is really infuriating …" Marui blew a bubble. Although he said that, he still curiously looked at the boy who threw his jacket in the air. "Pfft!

That's too exaggerated! "

Yukimura looked at him with interest. Although he had a different impression, this boy's level of arrogance was actually not lower than Tachikai's. It was just that he always wore his jacket and wouldn't make people shout his name to show off.