Chapter 89: Ryuzaki's Delusion

Echizen Ryoma has a father who stands at the pinnacle of professional tennis players.

His father even began training him from the time Ryoma was very young.

He has pinned all his hopes on Ryoma.

Therefore, what Ryoma has received since childhood is elite education.

This is something no one can compare to.

Thus, Ryuzaki firmly believes that, as a first-year student, the newly appointed Captain of Rikkai is definitely not as strong as Echizen Ryoma.

Moreover, a Tennis Club Captain has so many things to worry about; what does a first-year student know?

Does he know how to arrange the lineup?

Does he understand strategy and tactics?

He certainly does not.

Picking up balls is the only thing a first-year student should be doing!

For Rikkai to find such a Captain is simply arrogant to the extreme, a path to self-destruction!

Besides that, the most important point is that Seigaku has her, Coach Ryuzaki, an experienced tennis Coach, sitting in the rear to provide unified arrangements and management, so the burden on Captain Tezuka is actually not heavy.

But Rikkai is different; they have no Coach.

The position of Coach is held concurrently by the Captain.

Although Yukimura Seiichi is only a third-year middle school student, Ryuzaki acknowledges his strength and management ability.

Yukimura is excellent enough to shoulder the position of Captain.

But now, having a first-year student serve as Captain while also shouldering the responsibilities of a Coach is simply a joke!

Without an older person sitting in the rear, young people will act recklessly.

Two consecutive years of National Tournament championships have made Rikkai proud and arrogant!

Finding a first-year Captain is just one of the most obvious manifestations of this.

Ryuzaki can see the big picture from small details and can even guess the performance of the other team members.

The other team members think that since they have already secured two consecutive National Tournament championships, it will be very easy to win another one this year.

Under such circumstances, with the other team members intoxicated by victory, can they still persist, persevere, and practice day after day?

Impossible, they will definitely relax and slack off!

Arrogance will surely lead them to Metsu!

It will end their road to the championship!

And this year, because of the addition of Echizen Ryoma, Seigaku's strength has greatly increased.

Even if Rikkai manages to win the championship again this year relying on their deep foundation, their trend of decline has already been revealed.

What about next year and the year after?

The moment Echizen Ryoma fully matures.

Both the Kanto Tournament championship and the National Tournament championship will belong to Seigaku.

Ryuzaki did not expect that as she approached retirement age, she would still be able to lead another team to a National Tournament championship.

This is strength and luck!

To achieve victory, both are indispensable!

Strength refers to relying on the strength of Echizen Ryoma!

Luck refers to the opponent, Rikkai, being proud and complacent, bringing about their own Metsu!

Thus, she hurriedly told everyone this good news to give them peace of mind!

However, everyone's attitude was not as excited as Ryuzaki had imagined.

Oishi looked at the excited Ryuzaki and said reluctantly: "Rikkai also has a 6-0 record in this year's matches; I'm afraid they haven't been intoxicated by victory as the Coach said!"

Ryuzaki said with dissatisfaction: "That is because they still have some foundation, and the opponents they encountered before were too weak. This year we have the addition of Echizen Ryoma, and Rikkai has started to become proud and arrogant, so it is not impossible for us to defeat them."

"Oishi, Tezuka is not here; as the Vice Captain, do not boost others' morale and dampen your own!"

Oishi immediately fell silent.

Fuji, Inui, and the others had grave expressions and did not speak.

The usually cheerful Momoshiro broke the silence and said: "I understand what the Coach means. With the addition of Echizen, we have a lot of hope!"

Ryuzaki nodded with a smile.

……

Kanto Tournament final day.

Heaven was not kind, and it started raining early in the morning.

The Rikkai group were all taking shelter from the rain in a pavilion.

Takahashi put down the comic book in his hand and said helplessly: "Kirihara, stop pacing back and forth; my eyes are getting dizzy."

Kirihara said: "The rain has been falling for so long; can we still play today?"

Sanada also spoke up: "That's right, if the rain doesn't stop, it will be dark soon."

Yanagi Renji said: "According to my calculations, the probability of this rain continuing is 95%."

Listening to the discussion among them, Takahashi gave up on reading his comic and said: "Mindset! Mindset! Where is your mindset!"

"If the rain stops, then we play; if the rain doesn't stop, then we wait for notification."

"Stay calm! Getting anxious over a small matter, you all still need to continue training!"

Takahashi's words made the group quiet down for a while.

Not long after, Kirihara got up and started wandering around again.

Takahashi held his forehead and said helplessly: "Kirihara, since you are so anxious, then go run some errands for me!"

"And Sanada and Yanagi, if you are also worried, then go together!"

"Help me hand these to the tournament committee, and while you're at it, ask them how the matches will be arranged if the rain doesn't stop."

While speaking, Takahashi picked up the documents on the side and handed them to Sanada.

Watching the three of them leave, Takahashi breathed a sigh of relief.

Finally sent them away; no one would disturb him from reading manga now.

The place where Seigaku was taking shelter from the rain.

Momoshiro, Echizen, and the others were all feeling extremely irritated by this sudden rain.

Suddenly, three figures appeared in their field of vision.

The three were wearing yellow and white team uniforms; they were none other than Rikkai's Sanada Genichiro, Yanagi Renji, and Kirihara Akaya.

The three had solemn expressions and a powerful aura!

They come with ill intent!

These four big words instantly appeared in the minds of everyone from Seigaku.

The atmosphere in the air froze.

Sanada took a deep look at the shortest one among them, Echizen Ryoma, and then shifted his gaze to Fuji Shusuke.

Just when everyone thought a great battle was about to break out.

"Let's go!"

Sanada spoke, turned around, and led Yanagi Renji and Kirihara away.

Yanagi Renji felt very puzzled by Sanada's behavior.

After leaving the tournament committee, it was Sanada who had taken the initiative to suggest coming here to Seigaku to take a look.

After arriving, Sanada's entire state was off; he seemed to be very guarded against Seigaku.

Yes, guarded!

Yanagi Renji rarely saw such an emotion appear on the powerful Sanada.

Moreover, just when Yanagi thought something was going to happen, Sanada spoke up and led them away again.

This made Yanagi even more puzzled.

"Genichiro, this doesn't seem like your style of doing things."

Yanagi asked the question in his heart.

Sanada lowered his head, his eyes completely hidden inside his hat.

After a long while, Sanada said: "Have you seen the lineup for the finals?"

"Hm? Doesn't the Captain not announce the lineup in advance?"

Yanagi was even more puzzled.

"That is also the strange part to me; the Captain did not deliberately hide the lineup for this match against Seigaku."

"In the documents the Captain just asked me to hand to the tournament committee, our lineup was included."

Sanada said.

"Then on the list..."

Yanagi asked.

Sanada recalled what he had seen:

Doubles No. 2: Marui Bunta and Jackal Kuwahara

Doubles No. 1: Niou Masaharu and Yagyu Hiroshi

Singles No. 3: Yanagi Renji

Singles No. 2: Kirihara Akaya

Singles No. 1: Takahashi Yanichi

"It's very normal, a standard match lineup, nothing reckless."

Sanada said.

Upon hearing this, Yanagi Renji fell silent.

Normal?

Standard?

These were all fine; they were good things.

But given Takahashi Yanichi's personality, not doing anything reckless was the most reckless thing of all!