Chapter 23: A date with Tachibana An?

"Brother, no matter if Shengzai has made huge progress or was hiding it before."

"But if he has this strength, we will definitely be able to win this regional tournament, right?"

As Tachibana Kippei's younger sister, An knew very well how much effort her brother had poured into the Fudomine tennis club over the past two years.

And the efforts of others in the tennis club, An had also been watching, which is why she had always been so concerned about the tennis club's affairs.

"Well, Shinji and Kamio's growth speed is quite fast, and Shengzai also has this strength. This year we might have hope of making it into the Kanto tournament."

"However, wanting to win the regional tournament shouldn't be an easy thing, because in the regional tournament, we still have strong enemies like Seigaku."

Compared to Fudomine Middle School, the Seigaku tennis club is quite famous locally.

In this year's regional tournament, they are also the first seed, and their Fudomine Middle School tennis club is not even considered a seeded player in the regional tournament.

However, the strength Shengzai showed today did indeed give Tachibana Kippei a surprise.

If the deployment is done well, this year's regional tournament, their Fudomine might really be able to make a splash and win the regional tournament!

In order to better see where Shengzai's limit is, to facilitate the subsequent deployment, Tachibana Kippei even personally went down to the court to play practice matches with Shengzai for a few days.

And the results of the practice matches also exceeded everyone's expectations!

Kamio being beaten by Shengzai is one thing, after all, the previous Shengzai was a bit stronger than Kamio.

But Tachibana Kippei, in the eyes of the Fudomine tennis club members, has always been an existence worshipped like a god.

Their captain not only revitalized the tennis club that was like a stagnant pool, but his own strength was also so strong that it made the tennis club members awe-struck.

However, in the practice matches of the past few days, the result of the battle between Shengzai and Tachibana Kippei was that Shengzai won more and lost less.

In other words, the current Shengzai is actually stronger than their captain!

"Shengzai, in the practice matches these past few days, you haven't used all your strength yet, right?"

Because the regional tournament will start tomorrow, today's training ended earlier, and just as Shengzai changed his clothes and was preparing to go home, Tachibana Kippei suddenly appeared behind him and asked.

"On this point, the captain should be the same, right?"

"Although I don't know what kind of past the captain has, I hope that one day, I can fight with you who have used all your strength."

After a few days of practice matches, Shengzai's use of swordsmanship tennis also became more and more skilled.

And in the practice matches with Tachibana Kippei, not only did Tachibana Kippei discover that Shengzai had reservations, Shengzai naturally also clearly felt that Tachibana Kippei was hiding a considerable degree of strength.

Or rather, it wasn't that Tachibana Kippei deliberately wanted to hide it, but that when playing against Shengzai, Tachibana Kippei was always very afraid that if he used his true strength, he might accidentally destroy Shengzai.

As one of the former "Kyushu Twin Heroes," his strength must be at least at the level of the national tournament.

But due to his past experiences, Tachibana Kippei is now quite restrained, so when playing against Shengzai, he only used the level of the Kanto tournament at most.

After hearing Shengzai's words, Tachibana Kippei smiled silently and finally chose to turn and leave.

Now he is no longer one of the aces of the former Shishigaku Middle School, but the captain of the Fudomine tennis club.

He will cherish his dreams and lead the Fudomine crowd toward victory. After clearly understanding Shengzai's level, he now has some confidence in his heart.

Because of ability sharing, Shengzai felt that he was now also a member who could play "murderous tennis."

Strength comparable to the national tournament level, maybe not particularly awesome in the later stages, but in regional tournaments, Metropolitan tournament level competitions, it is almost no different from opening a musou.

Although captain Tachibana Kippei said that he could go home and rest first today, Shinji and Kamio clearly attached great importance to this competition and were still training on the tennis court.

However, Shengzai had already carried his racket bag and was preparing to slip away first.

"Sure enough, I knew you definitely wouldn't stay and train obediently like Kamio and the others."

"Anyway, you don't have anything else to do when you go back, why not go to an interesting place with me, how about treating it as a date?"

Tachibana Kippei had just left, and Shengzai, who had just walked out of the school gate, was stopped by An, who had been waiting for a long time.

"Not so good, I'm not interested in dating, women will only affect my speed of drawing the sword... swinging the racket."

Facing the cute and playful Tachibana An in front of him, Shengzai directly showed a look of disgust, indicating that he is a Sigma man and will not be tempted by beauty.

And facing Shengzai's disgust, An, who had been waiting for a long time at the school gate with expectations, also changed her face instantly, and put her hands on her hips and pouted: "Stop lying, don't think I don't know you made an appointment with Hashimoto from the class to play video games tonight."

"Really, rejecting a date with such a cute girl like me just to play video games with a little fatty, Shengzai, you are too unromantic."

"Or is it that you are actually the legendary Nantong... If so, I have to go and talk to Auntie and Sister Ya Xiang properly."

That's right, in this world, Shengzai has family, and the family background is quite wealthy.

There is a successful mother at home, and an older sister who is an idol.

And An, as a classmate, has been to Shengzai's house, and his mother and sister have an unusually good impression of An.

Many times Shengzai is eaten to death by An, because this guy will report him to his mother and sister.

And once An reports him, Shengzai's mother, who comes from a company, and his sister, who is a national idol, will deduct his pocket money.

In the end, coerced by the other party's overbearing might, Shengzai was ultimately dragged away by Xiao Xing, albeit unwillingly...

"So the date you mentioned is just holding milk tea and watching others play tennis here?"

For the date with An, Shengzai didn't have much expectation, but Shengzai didn't expect that the other party would take him to a street tennis court to watch others play tennis.

"What does it matter, ordinary dates are nothing more than watching movies and eating, it's too boring."

"Compared to those boring things, it's better to come here to watch others play tennis, and I heard that this street tennis court also has many regional tournament players who will come here to practice."

"This way you can enjoy the date, and by the way, you can collect information on players from other schools, what's wrong with that."

An took a sip of the milk tea in her hand, suddenly felt the taste was a bit strange, so she directly stuffed it into Shengzai's hand, and then snatched the ice cream that Shengzai hadn't had time to eat a bite of.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 24 =====