Chapter 57

On this point alone, he had to win!

Subsequently, the entire Hyotei team received the Metropolitan Tournament championship trophy.

Atobe Keigo held the trophy, his heart still relatively calm.

And at this moment, Kamishiro Aki came over and said one thing.

"Captain Atobe, don't forget, our goal is the National Championship!"

Once these words were spoken, Atobe Keigo's heart surged like ocean waves!

Yes, the Metropolitan Tournament championship was just the beginning!

Hyotei's goal was the National Championship!

The teams that could enter the Kanto Tournament were all very happy.

Except for Seigaku.

They were now facing a big problem.

Tezuka Kunimitsu, because of his life-and-death battle with Atobe Keigo.

Had already sustained injuries.

If he were forced to participate in the Kanto Tournament, not to mention whether they could achieve good results.

If Tezuka Kunimitsu played in an injured state, he might very well ruin his future.

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

Kamishiro Aki only received this news a week later.

Incidentally, during this week, Kamishiro Aki finally started his paid sparring sessions.

He accompanied the Hyotei regular players in practice until ten o'clock almost every night.

The training content was that everyone in Hyotei had to return Kamishiro Aki's Finger Pistol serve!

After a week of training.

All the Hyotei regulars could already return Kamishiro Aki's Finger Pistol serve at eighty percent power!

And only four people—Atobe Keigo, Oshitari Yuushi, Kabaji Munehiro, and Akutagawa Jirou—could return the full-power Finger Pistol serve.

Besides that, there was also targeted training for each person by Sakaki Taro.

It wasn't just the regulars who were practicing desperately; the second and third-string players were too.

Because with the end of the Metropolitan Tournament, Hyotei's internal challenge matches had restarted!

And Sakaki Taro had moved the challenge matches to Saturday.

Those who wanted to participate signed up on Friday.

One could challenge anyone.

Finally, the statistical results came out.

Atobe Keigo was challenged twice.

Kabaji Munehiro was challenged three times.

Oshitari Yuushi was challenged once.

Akutagawa Jirou was challenged three times.

Kamishiro Aki was challenged twenty times!

Even Kamishiro Aki himself hadn't expected this!

Good grief!

They were all coming for him.

Could it be that he hadn't played fiercely enough in the Metropolitan Tournament?

Making these second and third-string people think he was just lucky?

Actually, that wasn't it; they just wanted to be crushed.

Kamishiro Aki didn't use any special moves.

They couldn't even handle his ordinary serves.

He successfully defeated twenty challengers.

There was another rule for the challenge matches.

If the person being challenged won the first and second sets consecutively, they were considered the winner.

Although it was a bit unfair to the challengers.

But rules were rules.

And if you had the strength, you didn't need to worry about this at all.

However, these weren't the main event.

The main event was the ranking match for the Hyotei regulars!

It wasn't just Seishun Academy that had internal ranking matches.

Hyotei Academy had them too.

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

And there were two purposes for this ranking match.

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 be the new captain!

This was the point everyone was most concerned about.

Because Kamishiro Aki's performance in the Metropolitan Tournament was there for all to see.

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

Kamishiro Aki was also looking forward to this ranking match.

Atobe Keigo was the same.

The format for this ranking match was a group elimination tournament.

There were eleven regular players in Hyotei.

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

The remaining ten people would be divided into groups.

The winners of each group would then proceed to another round of elimination duels.

The tournament format was very clear and simple.

Finally!

The day of the ranking match arrived!

Kamishiro Aki arrived quite early.

Because he had to clean the warehouse.

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

Akutagawa Jirou was, of course, there as well.

They were the last three who had been late for the Metropolitan Tournament final report.

When he saw Atobe Keigo pick up a broom to sweep the floor, Kamishiro Aki teased him.

"Captain Atobe, is sweeping the floor fun?"

Atobe Keigo laughed.

"What? Have you become obsessed with my magnificent sweeping posture?"

Once these words were spoken, Kamishiro Aki rolled his eyes directly.

At this time, Sakaki Taro arrived.

He posted the matchup list 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 Kabaji Munehiro were assigned to Group A!

Good grief!

Even Kamishiro Aki hadn't expected that he would have to play against Kabaji Munehiro right from the start.

Kabaji Munehiro's move was the ability to replicate others' moves to fight. ===== CHAPTER 148 =====

This guy could even replicate the Tezuka Zone!

Kamishiro Aki didn't know if he could also replicate his own moves.

However, he knew there was one move that Kabaji Munehiro could never replicate.

That was his Sharingan!

Since that was the case, Kamishiro Aki planned to put the Sharingan to good use.

As time passed, everyone arrived.

Sakaki Taro held an assembly.

He said.

"I announce that the internal ranking match now begins!"

"Group A matches will proceed first!"

"Group A contestants, go warm up."

"That is all!"

After speaking, he extended two fingers in his signature gesture.

Subsequently, Kamishiro Aki and Kabaji Munehiro warmed up.

Warm-up finished!

The match between the two was about to explode!

The referee sat on the observation tower and immediately blew the whistle, shouting.

"Group A match now begins!"

"First-year Kamishiro Aki versus second-year Kabaji Munehiro!"

"Kabaji Munehiro to serve first!" ===== CHAPTER 149 =====