[Xinwangwang] On that distant mountain

At the beginning of May, on the weekend before the Kanto Grand Prix, the Kansai Grand Prix and other regional contests officially started, a certain training base in a mountainous area on the outskirts of Tokyo restarted after resting for more than two months and undergoing maintenance. Work.

The staff of the coaching staff and the logistics team gathered together to prepare for the physical examination and five-dimensional test of the new members. The players who were not selected for the first army in the previous year or did not return to the training camp from the beginning to the end were determined to know their shame and go on. Yong, into the camp of the first army.

As for the contestants who participated in international competitions as members of the first army and the representative team in the previous year with regrets or enthusiasm, they gathered together in this season that induced spring sleepiness to perform a certain routine... with prizes Guessing activities.

"The only harvest from last year was Tokugawa." Irie pushed his glasses with a smile as he walked, and he turned to look at the few people walking behind him: "Several of the people you selected were detained by Coach Mifune."

"If you can't even pass the test of Mifune's coach, it means that you are not good enough." Taneshima lowered his voice, with an inexplicable smile in his Kansai accent: "But Tokugawa is the only 'we selected'."

"Huh? I clearly remember there were other people besides Tokugawa." Irie said.

Tanejima raised a finger: "You said 'you', since it is a group pronoun, then the only person whom we 'together' fancy is indeed Tokugawa."

"Tokugawa is the only one who gave Byodoin a 'lesson'." Taneshima said.

Of course, Tokugawa was not the only one who stood out, but Tokugawa's overseas returnee elite temperament was indeed particularly conspicuous at that time.

Although Byodoin had a bad temper, everyone present also recognized the strength and leadership of Byodoin.

From this point of view, it is normal for Tokugawa, who can be beaten like that by the Byodoin Institute and has not lost his fighting spirit, to be looked at differently.

Byodoin, who heard his name, glanced at Tanejima blankly, and expressed his meaning with a nasal voice.

Tohno looked bored while walking.

He clasped his hands behind his head and dragged his voice. He didn't know whether he was complaining or complaining: "Actually, why do we spend so much time observing new students? Isn't there several batches? Why don't we practice more if we have this time."

"You can't say that, Tohno-kun." Junjima next to him pushed his glasses, the corners of his mouth curved just right, "It is the duty of seniors to love newcomers."

"It's hard for a rookie to enter the training camp and participate in the competition in the first year, right?" Tono rolled his eyes, "The 'Tokugawa' you've talked about so much is still in the Second Army. "

"Tohno, Oni and I are also in the Second Army." Irie said with a smile.

After the national competition, Irie and Oni discussed with the coach to retreat to the second army's stadium.

These two people joined the national team when they were freshmen in high school, but they seem to be more willing to give some guidance to the second army in the stadiums with lower numbers.Many people in the First Army and the First Army Reserve (that is, Court One) do not understand them.

Whether you understand it or not, Irie and ghosts don't matter.

If you do this kind of thing alone, no one will understand and you may feel lonely, but if you do it together...

There are mutual understanding partners, other things, whocares?

Tohno obviously understood this too.He choked and snorted: "Who knows what you and the ghost are thinking."

The tone of this sentence softened later.Apparently Tohno didn't intend to talk back to Irie, considering that this boy who can play the saxophone in the middle of the night is not particularly vengeful...

Well, yes, I'm not afraid of him, I just don't want to be 'revenge'.Tohno thought so in his heart.

The chat stops here.

These teenagers walking together passed through the crowd, and went to the No. 16 tennis court, which has always been used to gather new recruits during the recruiting period.

"Byodoin Temple, Tanejima, Watanabe, Oni, Irie, Kimijima, Tono, Ochi, Omagari..." There were exclamations one after another from the practice field passing by, "Is the representative team complete?"

"Let's get it all together. After the seniors graduate, the rest are all third-year students this year."

"Wow, there are so many people."

……

These exclamations are also very interesting to hear in the ears of this group of people.

Irie couldn't help laughing.

He turned around and said, "They are all third-year students... There are quite a lot of people in our group, right?"

"It's better to have a few more people who can 'undertake'." Taneshima yawned, "They're all old faces, and it's tiring to look at."

"There will be." Oni said seriously, "In addition to Tokugawa, there are also second-year students Kaji, Mitsuya and Fupo. Maybe there will be a few more capable ones during the two-month gap period. There are also first-year students. Isn’t there always a few potential first-year students every year? Otherwise, when we graduate, the coaches will feel better if we don’t take over.”

"...What the hell, why are you thinking about things after graduation now? We haven't even started this year's middle school league, right?" Tono looked over in disbelief.

The ghost coughed lightly, "It's just planning for a rainy day."

"It's right to worry about people." Tohno snorted.

Kimishima silently glanced at Tohno, thinking that you hurt your knee for "execution" in last year's competition, so why don't you plan to restrain yourself... Oops, I want to change partners again.

He raised his head sideways and turned to Ochi who didn't really want to chat (because of his height) unless necessary: ​​"Speaking of which, are you planning to play doubles this year?"

"...Let's take a look first." Ochi quietly glanced at Kimishima with his eyes under his bangs, "Maybe there will be an ideal player among the rookies."

"You're quite optimistic, you." Jundao said with a smile.

Ochi's heart: ... If you want to change partners, don't drag me into the water. I don't match Tohno's style of play at all, and neither do you.Well, I know you don't want to be my partner but neither can Tohno, seriously.

Ochi, who is a minister in the ice emperor, is always tired when he gets along with the friends of the national team, but his taciturn style makes this tiredness not show.

I had no choice but to complain about my teammates in my heart at various times.

In addition to personality, you can also complain about the differences in things.In the national team, Kansai has greatly overwhelmed Kanto, which makes Ochi, who is in the ice emperor, still a little depressed.

Speaking of from middle school to high school, as a minister (and the No.1 who made Ice Emperor famous all over the country), Ochi is clearly a sharp singles player, but after coming to the training camp, he found that his skills also have many shortcomings. plate.

There are advantages and disadvantages brought by height, and the advantage in mental strength is not absolute.

He started practicing doubles in the U17 training camp.

Contrary to many people's expectations, his height is out of place in the crowd, and he plays doubles very well.

Therefore, in the national team competitions, Ochi played more doubles games than his few singles games.

after all……

There are [-] people on the representative team, if you want to compete with those people for the singles position...

Ochi crossed his thick bangs and let his eyes glide over Byodoin Temple, Watanabe, Tanejima and Oni.

Ah, yes, yes, and...

Looking down, Ochi looked at Irie.

There is also this person whose strength is elusive but instinct tells him to be careful.Although the height difference makes him feel safe, as an opponent, this elusive type is the most annoying.

The ice emperor's road to national supremacy is really difficult.

Ochi sighed silently.

From Stadium No. 16 to Stadium No.16, after enjoying the envious eyes and sour words (?) of the Second Army, the group of ten people came to the stands of Stadium No.[-].

As Tohno said, the recruiting of new recruits is done in batches.

And of course there is a reason for the first army to come to "see the newcomers" at the very beginning.

Every "first" is meaningful, and so is recruiting new people.The coaches of the training camp don't have so much effort to dig out the "potential players" in the deep mountains and old forests. The first invitation places that they think of are of course those who have already made their mark in the middle school tennis world.

Usually, the first batch of newcomers also have the most potential.

Sitting down directly in the first row of the stands, Daqu estimated the time: "It's almost there, we just came after finishing the basic training, the first batch of newcomers is only about a hundred, and the physical examination and five-dimensional test are almost over. gone?"

"Every year at this time, I feel that there are really many people playing tennis in Japan." Taneshima sighed.

"Here we come." Jundao said.

Outside the court, coach Saito, wearing a white coat (?), walked over with a stack of papers slightly hunched over, followed by the so-called "newcomers".They were all still freshmen in high school, and they all carried a youthful aura that could be clearly seen by the few high school seniors who were watching.

Coach Tuozhi, who maintained order, directed the freshmen to line up, and the rule was probably the initials of their surnames.

This kind of process is fast and slow, but it is actually quite boring.

Irie kept putting his hands on his knees and holding his chin with an interested smile to watch the freshmen line up, then he suddenly straightened up and pointed at someone in the line: "Well, he's quite tall? "

"Which one?"

What Irie pointed out was probably because the initials of the surnames lined up and encountered a few dark red heads that were 1.7 meters tall and looked particularly obvious...

"Like 1.9 meters?" Kimishima guessed.

After he finished speaking, he couldn't help smiling and glanced at Ochi next to him: "Hey, when we were freshmen, didn't the seniors point at Ochi in the stands and say 'that kid is quite tall'?"

Ochi: ...you caught me running on you today, didn't you?

Now that he was ridiculed like this, Ochi couldn't help observing the boy pointed at.

When you are still in the queue, what you can see is of course the face and figure, so height is a very important factor to stand out in the crowd.

From the stand, you can see the boy's side face. Ochi looked at it and felt that the little red curly hair... looked familiar?

Where have you seen it?

Ah, the... national competition in junior high school?

It should not have been encountered in a competition, maybe I glanced at it during the scouting process, because I have a little impression but more can't remember it.If you think about it a little more...

This little red curly hair seems to have been discussed with the deputy minister at the time, because...

Because Lihai is big?

Is the first year of Lihai University a regular election?

Then it is...

"Mori Kosaburo." Ochi said suddenly.

"What?" Jundao, who was sitting beside him, didn't respond.

Ochi said indifferently: "The freshman you mentioned just now is Mori Kosaburo."

"...you know him?" Jundao asked in surprise.

Ochi nodded: "I met you when I was in middle school."

"When you were in the third grade, he... met him in the first grade? The tennis team usually doesn't have first-year students." Irie asked curiously.

"It's true that he is the main candidate, otherwise I wouldn't remember him." Ochi said, "Li Hai University's first-year student is the main candidate.... He has grown a lot taller."

"Hahahaha, the smarter you say it, the more interesting it is." Taneshima, who was listening, couldn't help laughing and said, "It's normal to grow taller from the first year of junior high school to the first year of high school. It's not like everyone long."

"Hey, hey, why do I think that what you said by Taneshima means something?" Irie narrowed his eyes slightly and looked over.

Taneshima curled his lips and raised his hands in a gesture of surrender, blinking at Irie: "Did I say something?"

The teammates quarreled again, and Ochi automatically blocked the infighting between the two (emphasized) short men.

With a height of [-] meters, he was a level taller than his teammates when he sat down. He straightened his back silently: the first-year contestant, the Lihai University player, suddenly looked forward to it.

Mori Kosaburo...?

The author has something to say:

After reading a few analysis posts, I have a new view on the text. To sum it up, no matter how I write it, I have marked "privately set up like a mountain" on the copy in advance...I always feel that the analysis emperor and the textual research emperor saw it My writing will vomit blood, after all, the subjective consciousness is very strong.Anyway, my Lihai group fan is a fox, no matter how XF is set, anyway, in my eyes, a fox is handsome, handsome, strong, and strong!snort!

And this article will probably end with 10,000+ words. I really plan to finish all the articles before the end of the summer vacation and retreat. Read, read, read! ! !

Speaking of which, without a CP, it feels like there is no ranking at all... Ah, forget about the path I chose, and I have to walk it on my knees!

... I'd better let everyone show cuteness to attract readers hhhhh

Speaking of which, Moonlight-senpai is a Leo, but my Leo friend is quite vivacious, it's a bit hard to imagine Ochi-senpai's true character.But if you stay with a group of people... there shouldn’t be a lot of presence (except for height) ╮(╯▽╰)╭

After all, the strength is still a bit weak... hey.

Alright, all the troops are on stage, let's applaud~