Chapter 189: Q.P's Vigilance, the Light of Reserve

On the court.

Q. P stands at the midpoint of the baseline, quickly raises his arm, and swings his racket with force.

The more successfully he returns the opponent's incoming ball, the more Q. P feels a sense of trepidation.

He has been accompanied by tennis since he was young and has received the most scientific and cutting-edge tennis training in the world; he is the greatest masterpiece of the D Country Tennis Training School, so he trusts his premonition.

This looming sense of crisis has not disappeared, and has even become increasingly intense!

Even knowing that once he breaks the current stalemate, he might be seized by his opponent to score, Q. P does not dare to continue this rally any longer.

"Bang!"

While hitting a Short Ball, he moves forward two or three steps, so that he has sufficient time whether reaching the net or returning to the baseline.

Takahashi watches Q. P's movement, immediately moves to the net, and returns a diagonal shot.

Q. P immediately moves in the opposite direction, and as the tennis ball arrives, he jumps high and uses all his strength to perform a Smash against the tennis ball.

Takahashi stands at the net without moving, watching that powerful tennis ball; he holds his racket with both hands, faces the incoming ball, and swings his arm with force.

Borg suddenly speaks: "Q. P possesses an almost perfect ultimate physique; the power of his full-force Smash is unimaginably strong."

"Takahashi is just a 12-year-old middle school student; he simply cannot return such a ball."

Indeed, as Borg said, from the moment the tennis ball touched the racket, Takahashi felt something was wrong.

This power is even stronger than Oni Jujiro's Black Tomahawk.

Moreover, Takahashi is just standing in place and did not utilize the impact force brought by running.

He swings his hands forward with force, resisting the power brought by the tennis ball.

After a few seconds of stalemate.

"Clatter!"

The sound of the racket hitting the ground rings out.

"Score 2-0!"

"Japan Team scores!"

Q. P turns around in surprise, only to see a yellow tennis ball bouncing continuously in his own half of the court.

"At the moment the racket left my hand, did you successfully return it?"

"Your power is even stronger than I imagined!"

Takahashi rubs his wrist and says: "I returned it first, then let the racket fall to the ground."

Although the Idle Character practices without a moment's rest, constrained by Takahashi's 12-year-old age and physical bone development, facing Q. P's full-force Smash, although Takahashi caught it, he had no strength left the moment he finished the return.

……

During the halftime break, Q. P walks to the bench and picks up his water bottle to drink.

The coach on the side, Returu, asks: "Didn't we agree to conserve our strength at the beginning and save our full power for when it comes to the final decision?"

"Why did you use your full strength on that last Smash?"

Facing the coach who raised him since he was young, a hint of warmth appears on Q. P's cold face.

"This Takahashi is very tricky! He is not only powerful in strength, but his mind is also quite clever."

"I suspect he is using a Spirit Power-based special move."

"Not only me, he is also conserving his strength."

Returu's expression begins to turn serious, and he says: "A Spirit Power-based special move?"

"If it comes to the last resort, we can also use the trump cards we originally reserved for the finals."

Although today is an exhibition match, the match Bismarck played ended 6-0, and Borg will also play in a match next, so he will surely be able to secure a victory as well.

If only Q. P loses among the three matches, it will not have much impact on the entire D Country Representative Team, but it will have a major negative impact on Q. P's future development.

As the coach who trained Q. P from a young age, from a personal emotional standpoint, he absolutely does not want to see this happen.

……

On the court.

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

Accompanied by the crisp sound of hitting the ball, the two begin an intense match again.

……

"Strange!"

"Why have the landing spots of the balls Q. P hits started to have subtle changes?"

"Could it be that he has started to have small mistakes under heavy pressure?"

Bismarck feels very strange.

Conversely, when Bismarck turns his gaze to Q. P's half of the court, he discovers that the tennis balls Takahashi hits still land in the same position.

Borg crosses his arms and frowns slightly, saying: "With Q. P's perfect tennis quality, he would not make such a mistake."

"The only possibility is that the opponent is using Spirit Power to influence him."

"By the way, do you all feel it?"

"The looming, obscure, and ominous feeling?"

Bismarck says: "With Q. P's powerful willpower, could he still fall for a mental attack?"

Borg says: "It's not an ordinary mental special move; it's very obscure."

"It seems it cannot be resisted with willpower."

"Actually, since Q. P broke the stalemate between the two in the previous game, I have had a feeling."

"But that feeling was too faint; it wasn't until this game started that it gradually became obvious."

……

At the same time, Q. P on the court also noticed that the landing spot of the tennis ball he hit seemed to have shifted slightly.

In Q. P's view, this was almost impossible.

Because 12 years ago, when 5-year-old Q. P was still studying at the German Tennis Academy, he had made a pact with Coach Returu to practice hitting the ball at a single point every day.

With the experience gained from so many years of practice, Q. P could hit the tennis ball to the exact spot he wanted even with his eyes closed.

So how could he make a mistake on this move, on his signature technique?

Since it wasn't his own mistake, then the opponent must have done something.

Immediately after, a burst of intense light erupted from Q. P's body.

After the light vanished, specks of starlight enveloped Q. P's entire person.

……

"Peerless Perfection?"

Tezuka Kunimitsu, who was watching the match, blurted out.

Bismarck said with a smile: "Is that what it's called in Japan?"

"Where we are, this radiance is known as the Light of Restraint!"

"According to ancient records, when a tennis player breaks through their own limits and recognizes their own strength and weakness, the Light of Restraint will surround their entire body."

Borg explained: "There are three levels of the Light of Restraint, and what is appearing on Q. P now is one of them: the Brilliance of Love."

"The appearance of this radiance is due to the most natural love and joy for tennis welling up from the bottom of one's heart."

Bismarck said: "Once the Brilliance of Love covers the entire body, all negative mental states can be eliminated; in this way, the opponent's mental attacks lose their effect."

Borg's expression remained very serious; he always felt that things were not that simple!

As a player who is also skilled at mental attacks, Borg had a keen intuition that relying on the Brilliance of Love alone might not be enough to break through this layer of mental blockade.

To be honest, this Spirit Power is not very aggressive, and the negative states it possesses are also very weak; it is quite troublesome!

While thinking this, Borg took a deep look at Takahashi.

A middle school student, actually able to force Q. P to use the Brilliance of Love (Peerless Perfection).