Chapter 176: Takahashi, Oomagari vs. Fuji, Kintaro

"I understand!"

Sanada answered solemnly.

At this moment, he was also drenched in sweat.

Sanada's gaze became incomparably firm.

"Bang!"

……

"Bang!"

A black air current once again wrapped around Sanada's body.

"Ah!"

After already swinging his racket, Sanada roared and swung his tennis racket two consecutive times.

"Is he trying to change the trajectory direction twice?"

"Anyone would know that such a thing is impossible."

Mouri said with a smile.

He stared closely at the tennis ball and immediately turned his racket toward the right.

However, the moment the tennis ball turned to the right, it continued to change direction 45 degrees downward.

"Thud!"

"The score is 6-4!"

"Match over, the pair of Sanada and Niou wins!"

……

"Amazing! This kid actually really made the tennis ball change direction twice in mid-air!"

Irie exclaimed.

"Black Dragon Single Slash, no, now it should be called Black Dragon Double Slash!"

"What Sanada needs to do next is to make this move have a one hundred percent success rate."

Takahashi said.

"Was it hit by accident?"

Oni asked.

"Yes. For someone like Sanada, pressure is also motivation!"

"The pressure from this match allowed him to successfully execute the Black Dragon Double Slash!"

Takahashi said.

"This match means we of the 1st String lost, who is going up next?"

"Don't go embarrassing yourselves again!"

Byodoin's irritable voice rang out.

"Oh, it's my turn!"

Takahashi picked up the tennis racket at his side and stood up.

Standing up at the same time was No. 6 Oomagari Ryuji.

"Hey, hey! This match is a doubles match, right!"

"Why would Takahashi play doubles, and with Oomagari at that?"

"Can the two of them coordinate?"

Irie felt very surprised.

"No wonder Takahashi asked me yesterday who the Two-Sword Style user in the 1st String is."

Tanegashima answered with a smile.

"As a middle schooler who just joined the 1st String, Takahashi must play in this match."

"I originally wanted him to play singles."

"But I failed in my negotiations with him, and he wanted to play doubles!"

No. 7 Kimijima Ikuto spread his hands toward Byodoin, indicating he was helpless.

"This No. 2 really is an unfathomable character!"

"Isn't that very interesting?"

Tanegashima's face was full of ease.

……

"The following doubles match will be between No. 2 Takahashi Yanichi and No. 6 Oomagari Ryuji versus middle schoolers Fuji Shusuke and Shiraishi Kuranosuke."

The broadcast voice rang out.

……

"Eh! Master is playing doubles? How strange!"

"He has always played singles."

Hearing the broadcast, Kirihara was the first to shout.

Afterwards, Kintaro also started making a fuss: "Shiraishi, I want to play against Takahashi!"

"I'll switch with you!"

Shiraishi had a bit of a headache and said: "That doesn't follow the rules, does it!"

Kintaro said dissatisfiedly: "I didn't get to play against Takahashi at the National Tournament, if I lose this opportunity now, then when will I be able to have a decisive battle with him?"

Under Kintaro's fussing, Shiraishi communicated with the Coach, and in the end, the middle schoolers playing in the match were changed to Fuji Shusuke and Toyama Kintaro.

Watching the four people standing on the court, Yanagi Renji could not help but exclaim, "This doubles match is truly incredible."

"Kintaro, I remember him being a singles player, right!"

"I have also never seen Captain Takahashi play doubles, let alone with a high schooler as his partner."

"I even doubt whether he just met that Oomagari Ryuji."

Hearing this, Sanada was also stunned and said, "This is truly slack!"

Yukimura smiled and said, "It looks like it will be a very brilliant match!"

"Best of three sets, first is Fuji Shusuke's service game."

The umpire announced loudly.

Fuji took a tennis ball out of his pocket and gently bounced it.

Accompanied by the rhythmic sound of the tennis ball hitting the ground, Fuji opened his eyes, his gaze fixed straight on Takahashi's figure.

Takahashi had successively defeated Fuji's teammates Echizen Ryoma and Tezuka Kunimitsu, displaying incomparably powerful strength.

Even in that match against Tezuka at the National Tournament, Takahashi had not displayed his full strength.

Fuji had originally thought that in the middle school tennis world, Takahashi should be the undisputed number one.

But he did not expect that after entering the U17, Takahashi would still be an existence at the pinnacle of the pyramid among high schoolers.

Just when Fuji was shocked that he had defeated Tokugawa of Court 1, he turned around and became the No. 2 of the 1st String.

Even though he was the same age as Echizen, he was ridiculously strong, and his radiance overshadowed everyone around him.

And because of the departure of Tezuka and Echizen, among the Seigaku members currently at the U17, Fuji's strength was the strongest, so he wanted to take this opportunity to personally experience Takahashi Yanichi's strength.

Fuji wanted to know just how far they at Seigaku were from Takahashi!

Fuji gripped the tennis ball, then turned his wrist with force, and the ball fell downward with complex spin.

"Boom!"

Accompanied by the crisp sound of the ball being struck, the tennis ball drew a yellow trajectory in the air.

"This ball will disappear!"

Fuji's gentle voice also rang out at the same time.

"The serve wasn't tossed upward, but served directly downward; it's a very strange stance."

Kirihara was very puzzled.

"Is Fuji using the Vanishing Serve right from the start?"

Kikumaru was very surprised.

"The Vanishing Serve?"

Yanagi Renji repeated.

Inui Sadaharu explained, "This is not an ordinary underhand serve. Before striking the ball, he uses his hand to spin it, changing the contact point between the tennis ball and the racket. Therefore, the ball darts rapidly outward in front of the opponent, making it look as if it has disappeared."

Yukimura nodded and praised calmly, "A very creative move; Fuji Shusuke is worthy of being Seigaku's genius."

Momoshiro said, "Aren't you worried about your Captain?"

Yukimura signaled to Momoshiro with his eyes and said, "Watch the match!"

In Momoshiro's view, the yellow tennis ball did indeed disappear after crossing the net.

He only saw Takahashi move forward two steps unhurriedly, raise his arm, and swing his racket.

He couldn't even see the trajectory of the ball, so what was the point of swinging the racket?

Just when Momoshiro was feeling a bit happy.

"Boom!"

A crisp sound of the ball being struck rang out.

Momoshiro's pupils shrank violently.

A yellow tennis ball had appeared on Takahashi's racket.

"Thud!"

The tennis ball disappeared again in Momoshiro's view, leaving only the sound of it landing heavily.

Momoshiro blankly shifted his gaze to Fuji's half of the court, where a clear ball mark had appeared at the midpoint of the baseline.

"0-15!"

"Takahashi and Oomagari pair scores!"

The umpire announced loudly.

"This..."

"He actually returned it just like that!"

A trace of horror appeared on Kikumaru's face.

"And the tennis ball returned by Takahashi also looked like it had disappeared!"

Momoshiro exclaimed.

"Fuji's serve only added some spin to the ball, changing the ball's trajectory to make it look like it disappeared."

"But when the Captain returned the serve, the speed of the tennis ball reached 240km/h; the excessive speed made it impossible for the human eye to keep up, so it looked as if it had disappeared."

Yanagi Renji explained.

"How do you know what the ball speed is?"

Kikumaru turned his head curiously, and he was surprised to find that Yanagi Renji was holding a speed gun in his hand.

"I was just curious about what the speed of the Mach Serve was, so I brought my own speed gun along."

Yanagi Renji said.