Chapter 103: To prevent Takahashi from slacking off, Saito stays up all night to revise the rules

U17 Training Camp.

The next day, inside the Monitoring Room.

"Tsuge, how are the middle schoolers who arrived yesterday doing?"

Saito entered the Monitoring Room and asked Coach Tsuge, who was specifically in charge of physical training.

While doing push-ups, Tsuge replied: "Takahashi's physical fitness is quite good. I originally thought it would take a middle schooler 6 hours for the same training volume, but he was able to finish it in under 3 hours, just like the high schoolers."

Saito was somewhat surprised.

The U17 physical training was personally designed by Mifune General Coach, and its strictness far exceeded the level of ordinary middle schoolers.

Kurobe and the others had originally evaluated Takahashi by saying it would be very good if Takahashi could complete everything within 6 hours.

They hadn't expected him to be able to finish it in under 3 hours, just like the high schoolers.

"Takahashi's endurance, explosive power, and various bodily functions are all very good; even among high schoolers, he would be considered upper-middle tier. I don't know why he would stay on the worst court, Court 16?"

Tsuge asked with some confusion.

Saito was also confused: "He is still on Court 16?"

Sensing that something was wrong, Saito pulled up the monitoring footage for Court 16.

There, Takahashi was sitting in the rest area to the side, holding a manga in his hands.

Saito, Tsuge:...

Court 16.

"Hello, Coach Saito!"

As Saito approached, the others on the court stopped what they were doing one after another and greeted him.

Saito strode to the rest area and arrived in front of Takahashi.

"Hello, Coach!"

Takahashi didn't forget to greet Saito while flipping through his manga book.

"It's training time now, why are you reading manga?"

Saito suppressed the anger in his heart, trying to calm himself down.

"Doesn't the training list say that it's free training time now, and that one can challenge others or arrange their own schedule?"

Takahashi looked very innocent.

"Then why aren't you going to challenge anyone?"

Saito continued.

"I did challenge them; I'm the boss of Court 16 now."

Takahashi continued.

"Why don't you challenge the courts ahead?"

Saito's face was almost black.

"As long as I'm not at the very end and don't get eliminated to the Back Mountain for training, it's fine. I don't have that much ambition."

Takahashi said.

As soon as he arrived, he discovered the biggest problem with the U17 camp.

The facility is divided into 16 courts; those on higher-numbered courts challenge those on lower-numbered courts, with the winner successfully advancing to the lower-numbered court and the loser being demoted to the higher-numbered court.

Making progress bit by bit feels very good and gives a sense of accomplishment.

However.

Once you reach Court 1, you have to face endless challenges from players on the courts behind you, and you cannot refuse those challenges.

To keep one's position on Court 1, the pressure is immense!

And there are no benefits.

The training volume for all courts is the same.

In fact, to keep one's position on Court 1, one even has to desperately increase their training volume.

Forced competition and forced involution have formed a vicious cycle.

Once you are in the middle of it, you can't even stop.

Therefore, Takahashi felt that Court 16 was just fine.

He has now dealt with the others on this court, and the others don't come to challenge him.

He also doesn't go to challenge anyone on the courts ahead.

We mind our own business, how nice!

Just living a comfortable life on our respective courts.

After all, the training volume is already this high.

Why add unnecessary pressure to oneself!

Listening to Takahashi's words, Saito's face had turned completely black.

This rule of dividing courts for challenges was formulated by them together under the leadership of General Coach Mifune.

Originally, they thought this rule was excellent and considered every aspect.

It both gave the weak a chance to challenge the strong and kept the winners from slacking off.

Every player on the court, whether strong or weak, has a certain sense of crisis.

One must both protect their own position from being successfully challenged by others and strive to challenge those ahead.

It inspires everyone to be positive and upward-striving!

They never expected that an outlier like Takahashi would actually appear.

He clearly has the strength to at least challenge Court 5, yet he insists on staying on Court 16 and refuses to leave.

He actually managed to exploit a loophole in the rules!

Although there are some people in the Training Camp who intentionally stay on courts that don't match their strength, they have other intentions.

Unlike Takahashi, who actually wants to slack off in the U17 Training Camp.

It's simply outrageous!

Saito didn't know how to respond for a moment.

He has been a Coach for so many years and has seen many players with average strength but great ambition and arrogance, but he has never seen such an unmotivated player!

Generally, such unmotivated people wouldn't even be able to enter the U17; after all, the U17 selects the elite.

But now, he has encountered one: a player who is strong but unmotivated.

A freak!

Too much of a freak!

However, the rules in the Training Camp do not stipulate that every player must challenge others during this free time, so Saito cannot criticize Takahashi either; after all, Takahashi has completed all his other training on time and in full.

Speechless, Saito could only return, fuming.

The third day.

After the three-hour morning training ended, the broadcast began to announce loudly.

"In order to better supervise the players, starting today, there will be random matches every day. The list will be posted on the bulletin board to the side. Designated players, please prepare; the match will begin on the Main Court in 10 minutes."

Takahashi, who was on Court 16, was very confused; he hadn't seen any random matches before!

"Hey, did you have this kind of match before?"

He stopped someone and asked.

"No, originally it was players taking the initiative to challenge, or the entire court launching a team match against another court."

"This kind of individual random match is appearing for the first time."

That person replied.

Takahashi had a strange premonition; he felt that this match was aimed at him.

Sure enough, he saw his name on the bulletin board at a glance.

Next to it was written Court 1, Tokugawa Kazuya.

Did he actually run into Tokugawa this early?

Takahashi was a little surprised; not giving him any ordinary players, but making him face someone so powerful right off the bat?

This group of people is truly ruthless, and they aren't even afraid that a little first-year middle schooler like him might be beaten into a state of withdrawal.

Takahashi sighed helplessly and opened the long-unused system page in his mind.

Tennis Hanging System

Host: Takahashi Yanichi

Age: 12 years old

Speed: 5.8

Power: 5.8

Stamina: 5.5

Spirit Power: 6.5

Technique: 7

Total: 30.6

Strength Evaluation: World Level

Takahashi silently closed the screen in his mind.

This strength seems to be enough!

……

In the Monitoring Room.

Kurobe held a cup of coffee and said: "Saito, your idea is very good. Adding a random match allows us to select players from two different courts to compete according to our own ideas, which adds many possibilities. The Head Coach also agrees with your proposal."

Saito smiled and said nothing.

He wasn't really considering the big picture; he only came up with this method because he was angered by Takahashi Yanichi.

Otherwise, according to the original rules of the Training Camp, except for the team promotion matches, Takahashi could lie flat on Court 16 for a month, and after a month, he would have to go out to participate in the National Tournament.

If he really let him lie flat here for a month, how could Saito live up to his title as a U17 Professional Spirit Coach?

Therefore, he started with the rules, and his main purpose was to prevent Takahashi from slacking off!