Chapter 147

For this alone, he must win!

Subsequently, the entire Hyotei team won the Tokyo Metropolitan Tournament championship trophy.

Holding the trophy, Atobe Keigo's heart remained relatively calm.

At that moment, Kamishiro Aki spoke up.

"Captain Atobe, do not forget, our goal is the National Championship!"

Upon hearing this, Atobe Keigo's heart surged like crashing waves!

Yes, the Tokyo Metropolitan Tournament championship is merely the beginning!

Hyotei's goal is the National Championship!

Teams that advanced to the Guandong Tournament were all happy.

Except for Seigaku.

They now faced a major problem.

Tezuka Kunimitsu, having fought Atobe Keigo to the death,

had already sustained injuries.

If he forced himself to participate in the Guandong Tournament, it was uncertain whether they could achieve good results, let alone anything else.

If Tezuka Kunimitsu, in an injured state, played another match, he would very likely ruin his future.

However, under the insistence of the entire Seigaku team, Tezuka Kunimitsu had already gone to Germany for treatment.

Kamishiro Aki received this news only a week later.

By the way, during this week, Kamishiro Aki finally began his paid training sessions.

Almost every day, he trained with Hyotei's regular players until ten o'clock at night.

The training content was that every Hyotei player had to return Kamishiro Aki's Finger Gun serve!

After a week of training,

all of Hyotei's regulars could already return eighty percent of Kamishiro Aki's Finger Gun serve!

Only Atobe Keigo, Nishinori Yushi, Kabaji Chihiro, and Akutagawa Jiro could return the full-power Finger Gun serve.

In addition, there was Sakaki Taro's targeted training for each individual.

Those practicing desperately were not only the regulars, but also the members of the second and third teams.

Because the Tokyo Metropolitan Tournament had ended, Hyotei's internal challenge matches had reopened!

Moreover, Sakaki Taro had moved the challenge matches to Saturday.

Those wishing to participate registered on Friday.

One could challenge anyone.

Finally, the statistical results were released.

Atobe Keigo was challenged twice.

Kabaji Chihiro was challenged three times.

Nishinori Yushi was challenged once.

Akutagawa Jiro was challenged three times.

Kamishiro Aki was challenged twenty times!

Even Kamishiro Aki himself did not expect it!

Good heavens!

They were all coming after him, weren't they?

Hadn't he fought fiercely enough in the Tokyo Metropolitan Tournament?

Did these members of the second and third teams think he only won by luck?

Actually, that was not it; they simply wanted to be beaten.

Kamishiro Aki did not use any special techniques.

They could not withstand even his ordinary serves.

He smoothly defeated the twenty challengers.

The challenge matches had another rule.

If the challenged player won both the first and second games consecutively, they were declared the winner.

Although this was somewhat unfair to the challengers,

rules were rules.

Moreover, if you had the strength, you need not worry about this at all.

However, these were not the main event.

The main event was the Hyotei regulars' ranking match!

It was not only Seigaku that held internal ranking matches.

Hyotei Academy had them as well.

Sakaki Taro scheduled the ranking match between the regular players for Sunday.

This ranking match had two purposes.

One was to test the strength of the regular players.

The other was to rank the regular players.

The person who ranked first in the ranking match would become the new captain!

This was the point everyone cared about most.

Because Kamishiro Aki's performance in the Tokyo Metropolitan Tournament was visible to all.

So everyone was extremely looking forward to the showdown between Kamishiro Aki and Atobe Keigo!

Kamishiro Aki was also very expectant of this ranking match.

Atobe Keigo felt the same.

The format of this ranking match adopted a group elimination system.

There were eleven regular players on the Hyotei team.

The current captain, Atobe Keigo, would receive a bye.

The remaining ten people were divided into groups.

The winners of the groups would then proceed to another round of elimination showdowns.

The format was very clear and straightforward.

Finally!

The day of the ranking match arrived!

Kamishiro Aki arrived quite early.

Because he had to clean the warehouse.

Atobe Keigo also came, because he too had to clean the warehouse.

Akutagawa Jirou was of course also there.

They were the last three who were late for the report on the Inter-High Finals.

When he saw Atobe Keigo pick up a broom and start sweeping, Kamishiro Aki made a teasing remark.

"Captain Atobe, isn't sweeping the floor quite fun?"

Atobe Keigo laughed.

"What? Are you fascinated by this great one's magnificent sweeping posture?"

Upon hearing this, Kamishiro Aki immediately rolled his eyes.

At this moment, Sakaki Tarou arrived.

He posted the list of matchups for this ranking match.

Seeing this, Kamishiro Aki went over to take a look.

There were four groups in total.

Groups A, B, C, and D.

Kamishiro Aki and Kaido Takahiro were assigned to Group A!

Good heavens!

Kamishiro Aki hadn't expected that he would have to fight Kaido Takahiro right from the start.

Kaido Takahiro's technique allows him to replicate others' moves to fight.