Chapter 22: Has Shengzai been hiding his strength all along!

"Forty to zero!"

"This game is won by Wenren Shengzai, the match is over, the final result is six to one..."

When Ishida, who was responsible for acting as the referee, announced the final result, everyone on the scene was stunned.

The audience standing outside the court looked at Shengzai, who was still swinging his racket in the air, without blushing or panting, and was also full of disbelief.

As for Shengzai's opponent, Kamio Akira, he was lying completely on the ground in a big-character posture at this moment, panting heavily.

"Are you kidding me? Akira was actually defeated by Shengzai with such a wide gap of six to one!"

"And didn't you notice? Except for the first game he lost, and dropping a few points from the second game, from the second game on, Shengzai, this guy, didn't drop a single point at all."

"Even facing Akira, who had already mastered the rhythm, he controlled the situation several times directly by serving to score."

"Was Shengzai this strong before? Could it be that this guy has been hiding his strength all along?"

"Why is Shengzai so strong? If it wasn't Kamio who played just now, but me... why didn't I grab it from Kamio just now? It was clearly my turn to train with Shengzai today..."

Everyone directly chose to ignore Shinji's muttering, and they were also unusually surprised by the strength Shengzai showed today.

Everyone was promoted from the first year, and everyone knew how much weight each other had.

Shengzai was a bit stronger than Shinji and Kamio, but the strength was very limited.

In previous practice matches, the score was generally seven to five, six to four.

And Shinji and Kamio's growth speed was very fast. Recently, in practice matches, they had started to occasionally win against Shengzai.

But everyone never expected that such a situation would suddenly appear today.

"Today's Shengzai, his movements are completely different from before, but his movements are incomparably natural, feeling like they have been tempered through a thousand hammers."

"In other words, was he actually hiding his strength before?"

"Then what kind of opportunity led him to not want to continue hiding his strength?"

Looking at Shengzai, who won by crushing six to one, Tachibana Kippei, as the captain of the Fudomine tennis club, also looked at Shengzai's back seriously.

That's right, compared to others, he was more convinced that Shengzai was hiding his strength, rather than suddenly growing up.

Because to say that someone could grow so much in a short time, he, Tachibana Kippei, definitely wouldn't believe it.

And Shengzai's movements and reactions just now, although different from before, whether it was serving or returning, there was no sense of rawness at all.

This means that these things were actually what Shengzai already knew, but he just hadn't used them.

Tachibana Kippei didn't know the reason for hiding his strength, but everyone has their own secrets. After all, as one of the "Kyushu Twin Heroes," isn't he the same?

As for the opportunity for Shengzai to choose to reveal his strength...

Tachibana Kippei looked at his younger sister An, who was cheering on the side, and seemed to have made up some things again.

Today's practice match opponent for Shengzai should have been Shinji.

But when he saw An intimately dragging Shengzai's arm into the tennis court, Kamio jumped out to challenge Shengzai.

Then it was the scene before his eyes.

Tachibana Kippei was quite troubled. Whether it was Shengzai or Kamio, in his eyes, they were both excellent juniors, and he didn't know who to help.

If only he had another sister...

And Shengzai on the court, if he knew Tachibana Kippei's thoughts at this moment, he would definitely cry out that he was wronged.

Originally, he wanted to go home and try to integrate swordsmanship into tennis, but he was inexplicably pulled to the tennis court by An.

Then Kamio was inexplicably jealous, saying he wanted a duel between men.

Since he was already on the tennis court, based on the idea of playing with whoever, Shengzai accepted Kamio's challenge.

At the beginning, because Shengzai was still familiarizing himself with the difference between swinging a racket and a sword, he lost a game to Kamio.

But when he gradually became familiar with this feeling, and under the surge of physical fitness and reaction, Kamio was soon beaten up by him.

Tachibana Kippei would think he was hiding his strength before, which is actually not strange, because after the power sharing, those swordsmanship insights and memories of Sword Art Shengzai were as if he was born with them.

Using things he had already mastered, naturally there could be no sense of rawness.

And to say something that made Kamio feel hurt, after adapting to his own abilities, Shengzai didn't even use three percent of his strength, but Kamio, as an opponent, had already fallen.

When looking at Kamio, who was exhausted on the ground, Shengzai, who walked out of the tennis court with his hands in his pockets, also remembered a very famous cool line from his previous life.

"That year I walked with my hands in my pockets, not knowing what an opponent was. As long as I made a slight move, I already knew the limit of this segment."

"Shengzai, hurry up and tell us what kind of special training you did to become so strong!"

Seeing Shengzai beat Kamio, An, who had been watching the battle, finally reacted from the surprise state of her mouth slightly open, and then ran into the court, asking Shengzai excitedly.

"So didn't I say it before? I have been playing games before, and trying to integrate some techniques in the game into tennis."

"Before, although my foundation was quite solid, I didn't have my own style, right?"

"But now, I think I have found a tennis style that suits me."

Hearing Shengzai's words, An, including the others in Fudomine, were all dumbfounded at this moment.

No, playing games can also make you stronger? Do you believe this yourself?

"What is the name of the game you play?"

Although he felt that Shengzai was talking nonsense, out of curiosity, Tachibana Kippei still asked the question in everyone's mind.

"Uh, the name, I didn't understand it, because it's a foreign game, but the type is a combat adventure game."

"My movements just now were all imitating the swordsmanship movements in the game. In this aspect, I seem to have quite a talent."

Speaking of swordsmanship, Tachibana Kippei finally remembered why Shengzai's previous movements gave him a familiar feeling.

Because integrating martial arts into tennis, Shengzai is not the first person to do so.

Not to mention Shitenhoji far away, Sanada of Rikkai, and a second-year freshman of Hyotei, all seem to be this type of player.

However, as Shengzai said, his swordsmanship movements were all learned in the game, Tachibana Kippei didn't believe it.

Then such skilled racket swinging and returning, Tachibana Kippei would rather believe that Shengzai is also a swordsmanship master tempered through a thousand hammers in reality.

Otherwise, just playing games, it is impossible to possess such physical memory.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 23 =====