Stussy served again.
She merely bounced the ball twice.
Then she tossed the tennis ball upward, bent her arm, and brought the racket down hard from directly overhead.
[Bang-------]
It looked like an ordinary serve.
Yet the instant the ball was struck, no golden beam formed. It vanished in advance!
Esdeath, who had just started moving, immediately came to a halt.
All she could do was helplessly listen to the sudden sound behind her, followed by Historia calling the score.
"40-0!"
She did not even know where the ball had landed. How was she supposed to return it?
Observation Haki sharpened the five senses, allowing one to detect the aura of nearby living beings and predict the trajectory of incoming attacks.
But a tennis ball was not a living creature, and Stussy had not infused it with Haki. To predict its trajectory, she needed to sense some degree of disturbance.
Yet Stussy had used her ability to make the tennis ball smaller than a bullet.
It was even small enough to slip through the gaps in the racket strings, producing far too faint a disturbance.
Esdeath was not completely unable to sense it, but reacting immediately was still somewhat difficult.
Looking at it this way, Stussy's service game was practically impossible to counter!
Stussy was not surprised by the outcome at all.
She took a new tennis ball from the battle bunny maid, bounced it a few times, and once again served an invisible ball.
[Bang!]
Air pressure burst outward, but there was still nothing to be seen.
Akame and Kurome outside the court could only sigh helplessly, both feeling that Esdeath was about to lose this game.
Yet Esdeath had no intention of giving up.
Fine cracking sounds began to ring out from the court.
Then everyone saw an