The Possibility of Integrating Kendo into Tennis!

Tokyo, Fudomine Municipal Middle School.

"Ring-ring-ring-ring—!"

The dismissal bell had barely rung when the female teacher, believing that staying even one extra minute would be a loss, left a few inconsequential remarks and padded out of the classroom.

The moment the teacher left, the students in the class instantly unleashed their true natures.

Some could not wait to go home and play games, some had arranged to go shopping together, and quite a few were preparing to attend club activities.

"Seiya, this year's regional tournament is about to begin. My brother said you have to visit the tennis club today."

Seiya had just finished packing his bag. Since he had shared power from Sword Art Online Seiya last night and was considering whether he could incorporate kendo into tennis, he had originally planned to skip club practice today.

But before he could put that plan into action, a sweet and adorable girl with chestnut shoulder-length hair suddenly came over and spoke to him.

"I have something urgent to do at home today. Can you ask the captain for leave on my behalf?"

The sweet girl before him was named Tachibana An. Not only was she Seiya's classmate, but she was also the younger sister of Tachibana Kippei, the tennis club captain.

As a municipal middle school, Fudomine Middle School had a considerable student population and scale within Tokyo City.

Yet until last year, Fudomine Middle School's tennis club had remained completely unknown.

The irresponsible coach and senior club members, who judged people by appearances, were mediocre themselves yet constantly suppressed the exceptionally talented juniors.

As a result, although Fudomine had many students with talent for tennis, it had achieved nothing in all kinds of competitions for many years.

This situation did not begin to change dramatically until last year, when a student named Tachibana Kippei transferred there.

Just as Sword Art Online Seiya had needed to complete a prerequisite mission before unlocking the system's true functions and entering the Mind Dream Space, the Seiya of this world had also received a similar system mission.

What difference was there between coming to a tennis world without playing tennis and going to the Yu-Gi-Oh! world without becoming a duelist?

Naturally, after learning that he had come to the world of Prince of Tennis, where tennis elements were everywhere, Seiya had resolutely picked up a racket from a young age.

At first, as a Transmigrator, Seiya had thought that since he was one of the great transmigration army, even if he could not crush heaven, earth, and air in an instant, he should at least have extraordinary talent.

But after many years had passed, he sadly discovered that his talent for tennis was only slightly above average.

Since his family was well-off, Seiya had even hired quite a few private coaches. Yet after years of effort, he discovered that apart from his naturally superior dynamic vision, he had almost no talent in any other area.

To be honest, Seiya had been hit quite hard when he learned the truth.

After all, in the Prince of Tennis world, if you fucking could not play tennis, how were you any different from a salted fish?

If National Tournament-level "Murder Tennis" was out of reach, he should at least be at the level of the Kanto Tournament or Metropolitan Tournament.

Unfortunately, aside from having naturally better dynamic vision than most people and possessing better stamina and endurance than his peers from years of training, Seiya had almost no other distinguishing traits.

Of course, being handsome was also a trait, but in this world, being handsome was utterly useless.

Because among the regular team members of any famous school, you could pick out any one of them and they would be a certified handsome guy.

In this world, not only did you need to be handsome, you also needed to be good at tennis to become a top star.

Just when Seiya was about to lose all hope, the so-called system suddenly appeared and gave him a prerequisite mission.

The mission was roughly for him to become a regular team member at some school in Tokyo City within three years, and that school's overall strength had to be at least at the Metropolitan Tournament level.

There were quite a few schools with that level of strength in the Prince of Tennis world, but considering his slightly-above-mediocre ability, if he wanted to become a regular team member...

After looking around, Seiya ultimately found only Fudomine Middle School.

Before Tachibana Kippei arrived, Fudomine Middle School's tennis club had been pure trash.

Seiya would not even mention Seigaku, Hyotei, Yamabuki, or even Rikkai. The competition there was simply far too intense.

With his tennis level, if he went to those schools, he probably would not even qualify to be a background extra.

But Fudomine was different. They only had seven regular team members, so no matter how bad he was, getting a substitute spot should not have been a problem, right?

For that reason, Seiya had refused his family's plan to send him to Hyotei Academy and chosen Fudomine Middle School instead.

During his first year, just like Kamio and Shinji, Seiya had been heavily oppressed by the senior members of the tennis club, picking up tennis balls for an entire year until Tachibana Kippei arrived.

In terms of tennis talent and potential, Seiya could not compare to geniuses like Kamio and Shinji, but he at least had years of tennis experience.

So after Tachibana Kippei drove out the original coach and took on the burden of Fudomine's tennis club, Seiya successfully secured one of the regular team positions.

"This year's regional tournament is about to start. What could possibly be more important than tennis club training?

Don't tell me you're running off to date some girl again?"

Tachibana An braced both hands against the desk and leaned her face right up to Seiya's. Her bright black eyes fixed tightly on him with an appraising gaze.

"The captain's training schedule lately has been so intense that when I get home, I can barely be bothered to move. Where would I find the time to date anyone?

Isn't a new game coming out today? So I was thinking..."

Before Seiya could finish, Tachibana An had already grabbed his arm and dragged him toward the tennis courts.

"Seriously, I thought it was something important, but you just want to go home and play games.

Could you be any more self-indulgent? My brother said before that if you do not work harder, Shinji and Kamio will surpass you sooner or later."

When she heard that Seiya's so-called important matter was simply going home to play games, Tachibana An became quite angry. Ignoring the stares of the people around them, she directly dragged Seiya outside.

"Shinji and Kamio were always more talented than me. Besides, I'm not being self-indulgent. I just want to try incorporating techniques I learned in games into tennis.

An, stop pulling me. I can walk by myself. If Kamio sees this, he'll nag me about it again."

Seiya wanted to integrate kendo into tennis, and calling the Sword Art Online World a game world was not wrong at all.

However, Tachibana An believed his serious explanation was nothing but nonsense.