Prince of Tennis: The Emperor's Eye

Chapter 35



The big news is that the game is going to be a success.

With Fudomine Junior High School winning the championship, many people who mocked before the game were severely slapped in the face, and the reporter Inoue Mamoru, who has been paying attention to the junior high school tennis world, remembered the domineering words said by Akashi in the previous interview. At that time, he thought Akashi was a little too blind. Now it seems that he underestimated the heroes of the world.

At the subsequent award ceremony, the expressions of the Fudomine regulars did not change. Akashi just kept a polite smile. For them, this regional competition was too easy. On the contrary, the faces of the other members of Fudomine were filled with proud and excited smiles.

On the other side, Yamato has disappeared from the Qingxue team, probably because he went to treat his arm injury. Ryuzaki Sumire accepted the runner-up medal on behalf of Qingxue, but her expression was very complicated, with reluctance, worry, and a hint of regret.

At this time, Fuji and others behind the Qingxue team looked at Akashi who was receiving the award on the stage, and their envy was beyond words, especially Fuji. His former friend Tezuka has begun to shine on the field, while he can only watch as a spectator.

Now Fuji is already thinking about what to do next. After returning this time, he wants to try to communicate with Coach Ryuzaki again. If it still doesn't work, then he can only start a revolution for himself and others as Akashi said.

In fact, Fuji had already roughly told Oishi and others about his ideas before coming. Kikumaru and Inui Sadaharu did not object, and Kikumaru was even eager to try, but Oishi was still hesitant. With his personality, it was indeed difficult for him to do such an extraordinary thing. As for Kawamura Takashi, he said that he would listen to everyone's final opinions.

However, after experiencing this regional competition and seeing the tragic defeat of Seigaku, especially the defeat that Minister Yamato could not save even if he tried his best, Oishi's heart has begun to tilt towards Fuji.

After the award ceremony, some people from Akashi boarded the bus one after another. On the bus, the members of Fudomine were still excitedly discussing this regional competition, and Akashi did not stop them. Anyway, they will get used to it in the future, and Fudomine will win many championships in the next three years.

Soon the bus sent the regulars home one by one, while the other members got off the bus at school and went home together. Only Akashi and the butler were left on the bus. At this time, Akashi asked the butler:

"Tanaka, how is the matter I asked you to investigate going?"

"Reporting to the master, the specific location has been found. In addition, I also learned that the master has some friendship with the person you told me!"

"Oh? There is an unexpected surprise! In this case, things will be easier to handle. Tell my father about my plan and let him communicate with him first!"

"Yes! Master!"

At this moment, Akashi looked out the window with deep eyes. The plan in his mind was being perfected little by little, and everything was being realized step by step according to his idea. He only heard him whispering softly:

"It's time to speed up the growth of everyone. We will be the only ones who can shine on the world stage!"

With the end of the regional qualifiers, major tennis magazines, journals and sports news have reported on the competitions in various regions this time.

As expected, several well-known tennis schools won the regional championships, such as Rikkai University, Hyotei, Yamabuki, etc. in Kanto, Makinofuji, Shitenhoji, etc. in Kansai, and Shishiraku in Kyushu.

Only one school was beyond everyone's expectations, that is Fudomine Junior High School, a school that many people have basically never heard of. In this regional qualifier, it actually defeated the old and famous school Seigaku and won the championship with a strong 3-0 crushing.

Although Seigaku's tennis strength has been getting worse and worse in recent years, it is still a seed school in the regional competition and a perennial champion. Coupled with the halo of Echizen Nanjiro, people still pay a certain amount of attention to Seigaku, so this time Seigaku's tragic defeat quickly spread to most people's ears.

As a result, the name of Fudomine has been known by more and more people, and there are many media fueling this. Compared with other unchanging champion schools, Seigaku's defeat and the emergence of the dark horse Fudomine are obviously more eye-catching.

"The rise of the dark horse Fudomine! Seigaku becomes a background!" Youth Sports News.

"Winning the championship with a perfect record! Fudomine's strength is unmatched

"Can't beat them!" Youth Tennis Weekly.

"The new Fudomine! Pioneer of the new era!" Tennis Monthly.

Various reports emerge in an endless stream. In this world where tennis is respected, even a small junior high school regional qualifying match can attract a lot of attention. Of course, there are praises, and there are naturally derogations and smears. There are always media that like to find other ways to attract attention.

"Shock! The all-first-year lineup won the championship, the sadness of the Japanese tennis world!"

"The violent incident on the Fudomine court! The Tennis Association has intervened in the investigation and may disqualify it from the capital tournament!"

"Bloody and cruel! The psychological state of the Fudomine tennis club members is worrying!"

"Is it playing tennis or venting violence wantonly? Let me show you the real Fudomine! "

The crucifixion of the Rabbit has become the focus of many unscrupulous media. Various exaggerated and distorted reports, as well as various out-of-context quotes, have made these media earn enough sales and eyeballs.

Many uninformed people, after seeing these reports, had a sharp decline in their impression of Fudomine. Some people even filed a complaint with the Youth Tennis Association, hoping to investigate Fudomine's violent behavior.

However, the Tennis Association naturally ignored it. When it comes to violence, Fudomine is far worse than the minister of Makino Fuji last year! As long as it is not a madman like Tono Atsuko, or a violent conflict off the court, the Tennis Association generally will not interfere with the game.

Just when people were talking about it, some unscrupulous media suddenly issued a public apology, admitting their own guilt for Fudomine. The media that did not issue an apology statement were involved in various lawsuits or financial crises, and soon went bankrupt one by one.

Needless to say, this was of course the work of the Akashi Group. Just kidding, the tennis club of the eldest son of the Akashi family, how could these small media provoke and slander it at will.

Akashi and his friends didn't care about the disturbances from the outside world at all. Akashi also believed that the family would help him deal with these messy things, so everyone in the tennis club has been training calmly these days.

During this period, Akatsu once again challenged Tachibana Kihei for the ranking. This time, the two played to the tiebreaker. Under the pressure of this high-intensity game, Akatsu's strength also broke through to the quasi-national level, and he was only a step away from the real national level.

In the end, Tachibana Kihei won the seventh game with 73-71, and the total score was 7-6 to keep his ranking. After losing the game, Akutsu began to train himself more frantically.

Except for Akashi, the other regulars felt the pressure when they saw Akutsu's amazing improvement speed, especially Kido. Seeing that Akutsu, who was originally not much different from him, has now slowly begun to distance himself from him, it is hard for him to accept.

However, Akashi was keenly aware of Kido's emotions. He could understand Kido's current mood. It was difficult to keep a normal mind when facing a monster like Akutsu. So Akashi specially talked to Kido after the club activities ended, and also slightly revealed some secrets, so that Kido would look at the long-term.

On the other hand, after Qingxue returned to school after the regional competition, Many students were somewhat dissatisfied with their defeat, which put a lot of pressure on Ryuzaki Sumire in the school's top management. Fortunately, there are still the upcoming tournaments. As long as they can perform well and even advance to the Kanto tournament, there won't be too many problems.

So in the past few days, Ryuzaki Sumire has increased the amount of training for the regular players of the tennis club, but what she didn't expect was that these regular players complained bitterly, cutting corners in training, and only Yamato dragged his injured arm and gritted his teeth to complete the normal amount of training.

This made Ryuzaki Sumire very annoyed, but she didn't have any good solutions. You said punishment, the original punishment of Qingxue was running laps or doubling the training, and now these regular players can't even complete normal training, let alone punishment training, which doesn't necessarily mean corporal punishment.

At this time, in the coach's office of the Qingxue Tennis Club, Ryuzaki Sumire and Yamato were having a headache about the training of the main selection. To be honest, Ryuzaki Sumire's patience with these people was almost exhausted, but she had been holding back and didn't get angry because she thought that she would have to rely on them to play in the Metropolitan Tournament in the future. At this moment, the door of the office was suddenly knocked.

"Come in!" Ryuzaki Sumire frowned and asked the person outside to come in.

"Hello, coach! Hello, Director Yamato!" Fuji walked into the coach's office with a smile on his face.

Ryuzaki Sumire saw that the person coming was Fuji, and her frown was also relaxed. She asked curiously:

"Fuji, what's wrong? What's the matter with you coming to see me?"

Yamato was standing aside.

She spoke, but she was just looking at Fuji quietly. When Fuji saw Ryuzaki Sumire asking, she immediately put away the smile on her face, opened her eyes, looked at Ryuzaki Sumire seriously and said:

"Coach Ryuzaki, I heard that the school has put a lot of pressure on the tennis club recently. You and the head coach have been strengthening the training of the seniors, but in my opinion, the effect seems to be very unsatisfactory. So I represent all the first-year students in the tennis club and hope that the coach and the head coach can give us a chance to prove ourselves!"

After hearing what Fuji said, Ryuzaki Sumire wanted to refute it reflexively, but it seemed that she suddenly thought of something and fell silent, while Yamato on the side was dragging his chin and thinking about something.

After a long while, just when Fuji was about to say something, Yamato, who had been deep in thought, suddenly spoke:

"Fuji! I roughly understand your thoughts. The current situation of the tennis club is indeed quite bad. As for the opportunity, it is not impossible..."

"Yamato! This matter is of great importance, and we need to act with caution!" Ryuzaki Sumire, who was standing aside, saw that Yamato seemed to be about to agree, and hurriedly spoke.

"Coach, don't worry, the opportunity I mentioned is for Fuji and the others to fight for it themselves!" Yamato's face showed a smile that he hadn't seen for a long time.


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