Tennis: One look can subdue me, one sword can break the clothes of heaven!

"What is this place?"

Looking at the world covered with ice and snow around him, Yukimura couldn't help but ask in surprise.

Oreki Yu smiled and said:

"This is my spiritual world. You should know that when the spirit reaches the level of another dimension, you can touch this ability."

Yukimura nodded slightly. Being familiar with tennis, he naturally knew this.

Human mental strength is a magical thing. When the five measurements reach 3, the player's willpower will be greatly increased. Once it reaches 5 points, it means that the player has officially entered the national level of spirit. When playing tennis, he will naturally have the player's own willpower. For masters, this is a means of adding wings to a tiger. He himself is currently at this stage.

But mental strength does not end at this point, there are higher levels behind it. Once the five values ​​​​break through 7 or above, you will step into the realm of another dimension!

It is a mysterious realm. Even looking around the world, very few people can reach this level, so that this realm also seems very mysterious. Those who have not truly set foot in it cannot understand its mystery.

But Yukimura himself has an extremely high spiritual power talent, and he can understand the mysteries of this realm better than ordinary people. Therefore, when Oreki Yu talked about this realm, he already understood most of it in his heart.

"Have you reached that level yet?"

Oreki smiled and said:

"In fact, it's still quite far behind. However, my 'No Thought' can temporarily increase my mental power, so I can barely create this inner world. When my mental power is exhausted, this world will be forcibly closed."

Yukimura nodded to show his understanding. During this time they had been together, he had also heard Oreki Yu talk about his abilities.

The 'state of no thought' is quite magical, and it can raise his mental power to an extremely high level. Currently, Oreki Yu's mental power is actually similar to his, hovering between 5 and 6, but through this state, he can leap several steps ahead of time and directly rise to above 7. This is why he can always exert strength far beyond his own five parameters.

Yukimura looked at the world with some curiosity.

Snowflakes were flying in the sky and the earth was desolate. There was nothing but a thick layer of snow. If it weren't for a ray of light shining above the clouds, this would really be an extremely depressing world.

Yukimura couldn't help but think of a lot of things. The Oreki Yu he knew was a person who hid his true self. He had many secrets, but he never told them out. He was also a little distant from others, but he was very good to his teammates in the tennis club. Whenever they had problems, he would always lend a helping hand.

If you must say it, he is not actually a gentle person, so this makes Yukimura even more curious about what kind of person he is.

At this moment, he said thoughtfully:

"So... this is your spiritual world. The spirit reflects a person's inner heart. Your heart is actually such an icy field..."

Oreki Yu didn't care about this at all. He said calmly:

"Don't worry about that. Do you know why I brought you here?"

Yukimura sighed softly, knowing that Oreki didn't want to talk about himself.

He thought for a while and asked uncertainly:

"You said you want to conduct special training. Does that mean you want to conduct special mental training?"

"You're right."

Oreki took off the tennis bag from his shoulder, took out the two prepared rackets, and gave one to Yukimura.

"Next, we will have a total of 500 tennis training matches here until both of our mental strength is exhausted!"

"You mean the training match? Here?" Yukimura was slightly stunned.

"Any questions?"

"But, this is a fake world after all. Can it really be effective if we can't really move our bodies?"

Upon hearing this, Oreki Yu revealed a somewhat mysterious smile.

When Yukimura saw this smile, he suddenly realized something.

"What I lack now is the understanding and experience of tennis. Could it be that... you want to use this method to make me recover?"

"As expected of you, you thought of this so quickly. Look, isn't this the best environment? Although it's fake, the passage of time is very slow. Even... as long as your will is strong enough, it won't be a problem for you to stay here for 500 years."

"500 years..."

Yukimura's pupils shrank slightly when he heard this.

"Haha~ I was just saying that. It's impossible for a person to maintain his willpower for so long. Even if I used to meditate every day, I only stayed here for a year at most. A world with nothing will cause a person to have a mental breakdown."

Oreki Yu said jokingly.

Yukimura couldn't help but tremble inwardly.

One year...

In this cold and empty world?

Is this... really something a human can do?

At this time, he also recalled that Oreki Yu once said that his tennis is about the concept of "eternity", that is to say, this inner world is the place where he forever closes his inner self!

This... How desperate must a person be about this world to give birth to such an inner world?

"Oreki, are you okay?"

Yukimura was a little worried. He was really afraid that Oreki Yu would keep himself closed off and stay in this world forever.

"What can I do?" Oreki Yu couldn't help but laugh. "Even if there was, that was in the past. Now I have no reason to stay here. It's more fun outside than here."

Oreki Yu glanced into the distance with a smile on his face, as if he was thinking of something beautiful.

Yukimura breathed a sigh of relief.

"Okay, let's stop here. Next, you have to play 500 training matches with me. I won't let you go until you complete them."

"Although I thought your training would be very harsh, I didn't expect it to be this harsh."

Oreki Yu smiled and said:

"I'm warning you in advance. If you can't hold on and your mental body collapses, you'll be permanently injured and it may be difficult to recover in this lifetime."

"So, do you think I'll back off?"

Oreki Yu shook his head.

"No... But as long as we are human, we will have fear. No one can guarantee that they can always move forward firmly, right?"

Yukimura was silent for a long time before he began to tell the story.

"In the past, I thought tennis was everything to me, so I always seized every opportunity to train hard to hone my skills and win all the matches. I thought that this would live up to myself and others' expectations. But until the day I lost to you, I realized that these were all illusions.

The taste of victory is good, but there should be another crucial thing that keeps me going. I didn’t understand it before, but now I think I know it. This power is called support. It is because of your support that I can’t retreat! "

"Even if what awaits you ahead is destruction?"

Yukimura's smile was as gentle as the wind, but there was determination in his eyes.

"For me, not being able to move forward with you is the true destruction."