Chapter 29: Backup! Fudomine

Tachibana Kippei felt that he from a few days ago was truly ridiculous.

Simply short-sighted and narrow-minded!

To actually harbor the delusion of recruiting someone like Takahashi, who possessed the bearing of a Captain, to be their team member.

This was not merely his ignorance, but also a great disrespect toward Takahashi.

With strength so formidable, he, being weak, had issued a challenge to him.

Yet he had not looked down upon or slighted him in the slightest.

Instead, he had even offered him guidance after the match.

Such magnanimity.

It was truly so generous!

It only served to highlight his own narrow-mindedness and ignorance!

Thinking of this, Tachibana Kippei lifted his feet and walked a few steps outward, shifting his position.

His upper body bent at a 45-degree angle toward Takahashi.

He bowed to Takahashi!

This action stunned the members of Fudomine nearby.

They had thought Takahashi was already very impressive.

Yet they never expected their own Captain to actually bow to the other party.

Although they did not know why, they adhered to the belief that whatever the Captain did was right.

They also followed suit and bowed in unison toward Takahashi.

Neat and uniform!

Their inner admiration and respect for Takahashi reached a new level!

Takahashi was somewhat speechless.

He was also a little touched in his heart.

Just because of this Tian Ji horse racing strategy.

Tachibana had bowed to him.

One must know, this was by no means the best strategy!

Only those with insufficient strength would rack their brains to think of such tactics.

When one's strength is sufficiently powerful, all tactics have no place to be used.

No matter how much you think or how ingenious your plan is, as long as the opponent's strength is sufficiently formidable, you will still be crushed in seconds.

This is merely the weak struggling to survive.

Even if the Tian Ji horse racing strategy is used, Fudomine will likely still be unable to win against Seigaku.

Even if Tachibana Kippei, as Singles No. 2, were to defeat Echizen Ryoma.

There would be no one left to deal with Tezuka Kunimitsu in Singles 1.

Fudomine would still lose.

Even if Tachibana Kippei appeared as Singles No. 3 and defeated Kaidoh Kaoru.

Upon encountering Echizen Ryoma and Tezuka Kunimitsu afterward, Fudomine would still lose all the same.

The outcome would not change.

Therefore, strength, strength is the most important thing of all!

Without strength, everything is just empty talk!

Tachibana Kippei continued, "Inviting you to be a member of Fudomine was my mistake; my vision was too narrow. If one day in the future you wish to participate in the National Tournament and have no team to go to, the position of Fudomine's Captain will be reserved for you."

Tachibana deliberated repeatedly in his heart before speaking.

He also knew that someone like Takahashi would not look favorably upon Fudomine.

If he wanted to participate in the National Tournament, other prestigious schools would also take the initiative to extend an olive branch to him.

But he also wanted to express his goodwill.

Even if it might be useless.

Takahashi replied helplessly, "I really do have a team!"

Tachibana nodded and continued, "I understand. What I mean is that you can treat Fudomine as a backup option to give yourself one more choice."

His tone and attitude were extremely sincere!

Takahashi was very speechless.

Understand, what exactly do you understand!

Did you understand the pile of words that followed?

Takahashi realized that Tachibana Kippei was fine in other respects, but his ears were no good; how could he not understand human speech!

I have a team.

Are these three words so hard to understand?

After the match, he had talked with Tachibana Kippei for a while, which delayed him quite a bit of time.

Seeing that the evening anime time was about to start.

Takahashi strode away, taking two steps in one, and in a short while, his figure disappeared.

Inoue Mamoru, who was outside the match venue, wanted to wait for Takahashi to come out to interview him.

By the time Shiba Saori finished packing her camera bag, Takahashi's trail was already gone.

Shiba apologized, saying: "It's all my fault, my movements should have been a bit faster."

Inoue also hadn't expected that in the blink of an eye, Takahashi would have vanished.

Thus, he had no choice but to go forward and look for the members of Fudomine.

The members of Fudomine were immersed in the shock of their Captain being defeated, and had absolutely no mind to care about Takahashi's whereabouts.

Kamio said: "I think I saw him walking toward the small gate of the park."

Inoue continued to ask: "Then do you know which school he is from?"

"We don't know."

Inoue looked at them and sighed; these people had nothing but tennis on their minds.

He hurried toward the small gate of the park.

He saw that there was a bus stop not far from the small gate.

Could he be someone from another region?

In the Tokyo region, besides Seigaku, there is also Hyotei.

The strength of Hyotei's Tennis Club is even above Seigaku's; last year they were the champions of the Metropolitan Tournament and the runners-up of the Kanto Tournament.

Could Takahashi be from the prestigious school of Hyotei?

If he were from Hyotei, why wouldn't he participate in the tournament and instead run over here?

If not, then which school is Takahashi from?

Various questions appeared in Inoue's mind.

It seemed he would only be able to answer these questions when he went to interview Hyotei.

Inoue was full of confidence and high in fighting spirit.

Because this rising new star had been discovered by him first.

If he could successfully obtain all of Takahashi's information.

In the future, his status at Tennis Monthly would also rise with the tide!

……

In the evening, after finishing an anime and playing some games, Takahashi had some free time.

He thought about how his one-month appointment with Sanada Genichiro was almost here.

Takahashi collected the training results of the Idle Character and simultaneously opened the system panel.

"Tennis Hanging System

Host: Takahashi Yanichi

Age: 12 years old

Speed: 4.75

Power: 4.75

Stamina: 4.5

Spirit Power: 4.5

Technique: 5.5

Total: 24

Strength Evaluation: National Level（）"

！！

This data left Takahashi shocked beyond measure.

The last time he opened the panel was one month ago, after his match against Kirihara Akaya.

He hadn't expected that in less than a month's time.

His progress would be so great!

The data had actually improved by so much!

Tennis is like other studies; getting started is not difficult.

By spending more time and energy, plus hard work, it is easy to reach Regional Level or Kanto Level strength.

But the further one goes, the longer the practice time required, and the greater the difficulty in improving one's strength.

This is just like a math exam.

For someone scoring 20 points, improving to 60 points requires an increase of 40 points.

The difficulty is not great.

As long as one's IQ is online, it can be achieved through a period of hard work.

For another person scoring 60 points, if they want to improve by 40 points to get a perfect score of 100.

That is harder than ascending to heaven; one would have to risk their life.

Madly drilling problems, madly competing, and staying up late to study.

Most importantly, one's IQ must also be above average.

Although both are 40 points, the difficulty between them is worlds apart and cannot be mentioned in the same breath.

Therefore, Takahashi had actually already leveled his mindset.

He let the Idle Character practice continuously and improve slowly; he was not in a rush.

Do one's best and leave the rest to fate!

In the later stages, it wouldn't just be his progress speed that slowed down; everyone is the same.

So, possessing the Idle Character, he actually still had a huge advantage.

Twenty-four hours a day, every second counts; he would never waste a single minute or second!

However, today the system panel gave Takahashi a huge surprise.

Speed and strength had increased by 0.25 compared to before.

Just as Takahashi had expected, it was very slow.

He could accept that too.

This is the essence of how things develop.

The further one goes, the harder it gets!

However.

Technique had actually increased by a full 1.5, with the data reaching 5.5!