Chapter 2: The Incredibly Powerful Idle System

Takahashi Yanichi was born into a wealthy family. His parents both work abroad, leaving him alone to attend school in Japan, and they left behind a large sum of living expenses.

After finishing a simple dinner, Takahashi Yanichi couldn't wait to open the system.

He pressed the pause button in his mind, preparing to see the results of the past few hours of idling.

At the same time, a trace of unease lingered in his heart.

The idle mini-games of his past life consumed electricity, so would the current Idle System practice consume his energy? Would it place a burden on him?

He saw that the Idle Character in his mind was much more proficient in its movements compared to the afternoon.

It calmly tossed the tennis ball upward, and once the ball reached the appropriate position, it swung the tennis racket with force.

"Bang."

The small yellow ball drew a perfect arc in the air, heading straight toward the baseline on the opposite side of the net.

Seeing the Idle Character's skillful movements, Takahashi Yanichi could not hide the excitement in his heart.

In just 2 hours, it could become so proficient; the progress was nothing short of significant.

In fact, for an average person practicing tennis, especially a beginner, at most 1 hour is spent, and they still need to pick up balls in between, so the actual time available for practicing serves is not much.

However, the Idle Character's efficiency is extremely high; it only needs to consider serving and does not need to pick up balls (the system automatically retrieves the tennis balls). It is practicing every single moment, so it can be said that those 2 hours were entirely spent repeating the serving and swinging motion; how could the progress not be significant?

Clicking to collect the results, Takahashi Yanichi felt his whole body jolt, only to feel waves of warmth surging toward his limbs, and his limbs were filled with a sense of power.

Takahashi Yanichi felt it carefully.

No soreness!

No fatigue!

It seems the system will not leave the aftereffects of the practice to him, but will only transmit the results of the practice to him.

Ha! Ha! Ha!

The idle mini-games of his past life still consumed electricity.

Yet the current Idle System consumes nothing at all.

He has suffered no loss whatsoever!

That means he can idle every single day from now on.

Twenty-four hours a day, not wasting a single minute or second!

This is truly terrifying!

After all, theoretically, there are twenty-four hours in a day, but who can truly make full use of these twenty-four hours and practice by fighting for every second?

Not to mention whether a normal person's body can handle it, just the time spent on necessary life activities like eating and sleeping must be subtracted.

Moreover, everyone is a junior high student; one cannot completely abandon their studies!

Secondly, practicing tennis requires a massive amount of physical strength.

Practicing for 2 hours in a row is no big problem, but what about practicing for 8 hours in a row?

That is definitely impossible!

One must rest after practicing for a period of time; otherwise, not to mention that human physical strength cannot keep up, it would also cause irreparable damage to the body and arms.

Therefore, the time available for daily practice is limited; even professional tennis players cannot exceed a certain amount of time after making various preparatory exercises, let alone junior high students like them.

So even for students with rich tennis experience and several years of tennis background, the time actually spent on tennis is not much.

Although there are twenty-four hours in a day, the time that can actually be spent on practice is very scarce.

The theory is beautiful, but reality is harsh!

But with the Idle System, Takahashi Yanichi can solve all of this easily.

The Idle Character can practice desperately all day long without interruption.

And it won't consume the host's body or energy!

It is still twenty-four hours a day; others' effective practice time might be 2-3 hours, while he can truly make good use of every minute and second of these twenty-four hours.

In this way, compared to ordinary classmates, Takahashi Yanichi's effective practice time will be nearly 20 hours more per day.

That means, compared to classmates at the same starting line, he can have about 20 more hours of effective practice time every day!

20 more hours in one day, the effect might not be obvious.

But what about 10 days?

200 more hours!

What about 100 days?

2000 more hours!

The more days pass!

The greater the time gap!

The difference in tennis level will be worlds apart!

Leaving them far behind!

Thinking again of that group of people currently active in the junior high tennis world.

Relying on his own Idle System, wanting to catch up to and surpass them doesn't seem like a difficult task!

The future is bright!

The future is wonderful!

However, looking at the system panel which only has "Serve" and "Return" as the two options, he couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

In fact, he had also considered the essence of tennis, which is nothing more than making your opponent unable to receive your serve and making your opponent unable to return your return.

The principle is also very simple and crude.

So, it is actually just a matter of practicing these two techniques to the pinnacle.

Then the next steps will be simple.

Just practice repeatedly!

One hundred times, one thousand times, ten thousand times...

As long as it doesn't kill you, practice until you're dead!

Anyway, it doesn't waste his time or energy!

Just let the Idle Character work hard!

Let's involution!

Involution them to death!

He doesn't believe that if he practices hundreds of thousands of times, he still won't be able to improve his level and ability.

Regional Level strength!

Kanto Level strength!

National Level strength!

Just by constantly grinding the number of repetitions!

Just like how he constantly ground through test papers in his past life.

But in this life, he has the help of the Idle System.

World Level standard is not a dream either.

As long as he idles long enough!

He calmed his excited mood; after all, this is only theoretically speaking.

He hasn't witnessed the various exquisite tennis techniques that appeared in the original work yet, and there might be other variables.

"Ding."

"Host has completed idling for the first time, reward issued: White Racket."

"Host has mastered Basic Tennis Knowledge. To match the host's strength, Spin Serve technique has been automatically loaded. Do you wish to start idling?"

The system's voice interrupted Takahashi Yanichi's thoughts.

What!

The system can also automatically provide the next step of practice based on the Idle Character's strength.

This is simply a cheating tool!

A divine artifact!

A great divine artifact!

Now, the future that was originally a beautiful phantom seems to have become the near future.

National Level, he is coming!

World Level, he is coming!

In the early autumn season, the autumn air is crisp and the sweet osmanthus is in bloom.

Takahashi Yanichi is holding a sandwich and slowly strolling into the classroom.

"Takahashi-san, good morning!"

His deskmate Yamamoto Taro greets Takahashi Yanichi excitedly.

Then he talks enthusiastically about tennis, looking forward to the Tennis Club's first practice in the afternoon.

"Slap!"

A copy of "Basic Tennis Knowledge" falls from the sky, its cover somewhat worn, and lands on Takahashi Yanichi's desk.

"We are all classmates, so I'm giving it to you. This is a book I used when I first came into contact with tennis three years ago; I'll lend it to you for free."

"Ask me if there's anything you don't understand."

"I have three years of tennis experience, after all."

"Teaching a newbie like you with zero experience is more than enough."

"If you are willing to take me as your master, I can definitely let you pass the Tennis Club's assessment smoothly."

Kimura Kojiro stands with his hands on his hips, his voice carrying a bit of showing off as he deliberately flaunts himself.

Takahashi Yanichi looks at Kimura Kojiro's smug, condescending appearance, nods slightly, and gives a perfunctory reply.

"Mm."

But he does not take the book.

Waiting until Kimura Kojiro turns around uninterestingly, Takahashi Yanichi props up his head and gazes out the window...

In reality, he has opened the system in his mind; after 8 hours of idling last night, he has initially grasped the technique of the Spin Serve.

"Do you wish to idle for Return practice?"

Confirm.

He changes his practice target and begins to idle for Return.

After nearly 10 hours of Serve idling practice, he feels it is more than enough to handle the Tennis Club activities in the afternoon, so he begins to practice Return.

Meanwhile, Kimura Kojiro, who has already turned his head, feels very unhappy inside.

He clearly has no experience at all, yet he doesn't know how to respect his senior; he must perform well this afternoon and let Takahashi Yanichi admire his superb tennis skills, as he has three years of tennis experience.