The way Kimijima Ikuto had been humiliated would have drawn teasing from the high schoolers at any other time...
At the very least, Ōmagari Ryūji, who was on good terms with him, certainly wouldn't have passed up the opportunity.
But at that moment, everyone's attention was fixed on the four players on the court. No one noticed him.
This was the first doubles pair from Japan Team in this U-17 World Tournament to be able to activate Ability Resonance.
Their opponents had Ability Resonance too.
No one wanted to miss a clash between two teams with Ability Resonance.
On the court...
"As expected of Spain's ace doubles pair. They can even activate the realm of Ability Resonance."
Irie and Yukimura watched the two glowing figures across the net, both frowning.
Although they had won the first set, they knew the two Spaniards hadn't gone all out. So they planned to give their opponents no chance to drag things out.
They intended to reveal their trump cards right at the start of the second set, withstand the counterattack, and win quickly.
They hadn't expected their opponents' trump cards to be Ability Resonance as well.
This doubles ability was even more powerful than Synchronization.
Of course, entering the realm of Ability Resonance was incredibly difficult.
The U-17 World Tournament was already nearing its end. Quite a few doubles pairs had activated Synchronization, but only a handful had achieved Ability Resonance.
Only Switzerland Team and Germany had demonstrated Ability Resonance.
Even on Japan Team, no one else had achieved it besides Yukimura and Tokugawa, who had shown it in the original story.
Now that Tokugawa and Yukimura had no chance to team up, Irie seemed to work almost as well with Yukimura.
Still, Irie and Yukimura's pairing had broken new ground for Japan