The Preliminaries Begin!

Akutsu now is not as arrogant and unruly as in the original story.

Although his personality remains proud, he knows he is a member of Hyotei and will fight for Hyotei's victory!

Chiba Yun Chuan completely subdued Akutsu with his strength. For the past few months, Akutsu has been challenging Chiba Yun Chuan to matches almost every day, and each time he ended up covered in wounds! Chiba Yun Chuan, in order to stimulate his potential, made each subsequent attack heavier, as Akutsu's body could withstand it!

Chiba Yun Chuan directly used Akutsu as a punching bag!

It wasn't until yesterday that Chiba Yun Chuan helped him open the door to the opposite of the State of Selflessness: the Asura Path!

To be honest, Chiba Yun Chuan was quite surprised. The Asura Path was a state that Akutsu only comprehended much later!

He didn't expect him to have mastered it already!

This is naturally good news for Hyotei, as it greatly increases their chances of winning the championship!

At the same time, this has given Akutsu the capital to dominate the junior high world. With the Asura Path combined with his unparalleled physical talent, the current Akutsu is a human weapon with strong offensive capabilities!

Thus, Hyotei's three singles players are approaching invincibility!

Of course, besides singles, Hyotei's two doubles pairs have both reached National Tournament level strength, although they are just entering that level.

This is truly astonishing!

With such a lineup, only Rikkai Dai can contend with them at this point!

Coupled with Akutagawa Jirou, who is close to National Tournament level strength, and Hiyoshi Wakashi and Kabaji Takahiro, who are at Kanto level strength.

Hyotei's lineup is outrageously powerful.

In addition, there are the basic footwork techniques that Chiba Yun Chuan taught every Hyotei player!

Although they haven't mastered them perfectly, they can still be used in actual matches!

However, this information is currently known only to Hyotei's regular members; the outside world is unaware of it.

They only know that Hyotei's regular members are very strong this year, but they don't know how monstrously so.

As for Chiba Yun Chuan's strength?

Every year, from the district preliminaries to the National Tournament, there is a draw. Generally, there is a month between each competition.

The opponents are decided by a draw two days before the competition begins.

The district preliminaries do not require a draw; matches are held directly on-site.

Only the champions and runners-up of the district preliminaries are eligible to participate in the district tournaments. However, there are no particularly strong teams around Hyotei Academy, so taking first place should be a matter of course!

After listening to the players' complaints, Hana said again, "Now I will announce the lineup for tomorrow's match!

Shishido Ryo, Ootori Choutarou, Mukahi Gakuto, Oshitari Yuushi."

"Coach, do we really need to play in a district preliminary? The opponents are all scrubs! I say we should just send the second team," Mukahi Gakuto asked, confused by Hana's arrangement!

"What, do you have a problem with my arrangements? Go run thirty laps around the track! With your partner Oshitari! Go now!"

Hana directly punished Mukahi Gakuto for questioning her, and even his partner Oshitari was implicated!

This wasn't the first time he had been punished. Oshitari had been implicated by Mukahi Gakuto many times in the past few months!

"Yes, Coach."

Hearing this, Mukahi Gakuto didn't argue further but accepted with Oshitari.

Because they knew that if they objected, the punishment would be even more severe!

"Next, I will continue to announce the lineup:

Akutagawa Jirou, Kabaji Takahiro, Hiyoshi Wakashi, Akutsu!

This is the lineup for tomorrow!

You are now free to organize practice matches as you wish."

"Yes, Coach!"

After Hana finished speaking, she stopped paying attention to them and began packing her things to go back.

In reality, she was going for private training.

The tennis club is naturally managed by Atobe, as he has the time.

"Atobe and Captain Chiba are not playing, just as I expected!" Shishido Ryo said slowly, watching Hana walk away.

"For a match of this level, I can't even be bothered to watch, but Coach Hana said everyone must attend! I wonder why! Right, Kabaji?"

"Yes."

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In fact, Hana was quite surprised. She didn't expect that in such a small junior high school, there would be several exceptionally talented players!

Not to mention Chiba Yun Chuan, both Atobe and Akutsu, in Hana's opinion, have the potential to go professional!

And their ranking among professional players wouldn't be too low!

However, this only surprised her for a moment. After all, with a freak like Chiba Yun Chuan around, nothing else mattered!

Besides, she wouldn't be coming to Hyotei in a few days anyway. She was going to train and prepare for her return to the professional court.

The next day

Regional Qualifiers Venue

"It's really unlucky to be in the same division as Hyotei!"

"We have no chance of winning against Hyotei."

"It's Hyotei every year, let's just forfeit."

Basically, not many people watched the regional qualifiers, but because Hyotei was involved, quite a few people were present.

There was still an hour before the match started. Participating teams had to report to the venue within the specified time, or they would be considered to have forfeited!

Hyotei's regular members began to emerge from a van, one by one. Leading them was none other than Chiba Yun Chuan!

With half gray and half white, their uniforms with black collars gave them an imposing aura.

The surrounding teams looked at them with a hint of fear.

Actually, the main reason was Hyotei's immense reputation in this region, coupled with the fact that Hyotei's tennis club was indeed very strong.

So, the tennis teams here were a bit intimidated.

"Are those Hyotei's regular players? Is the one walking in front Hyotei's tennis club Captain, Chiba Yun Chuan? I heard no one has ever seen his true strength!"

"Hyotei's aura is so strong! It looks like they're determined to win the qualifiers championship."

"The one in front is their Captain, Chiba Yun Chuan, also known as Yagami!"

Although there was a lot of chatter around them, it didn't affect Chiba Yun Chuan in the slightest. However, some people within the team did exchange words.

"These people are so noisy," Akutsu said loudly, sweeping his gaze around as if to remember everyone who was speaking.

As his gaze swept over them, the surrounding voices quieted down!

"Akutsu, you still can't change your temper. Only the strong are discussed. Enjoy this feeling!" Atobe ruffled his handsome hair and replied to Akutsu.

"Tch!" Akutsu couldn't stand Atobe's showy demeanor and ignored him!

They slowly walked towards the venue. Upon reaching the entrance, Chiba Yun Chuan handed the participant list to the staff. After a thorough confirmation, they handed a badge to Chiba Yun Chuan!

"This is your participation badge. Please keep it safe."

"Thank you."

At this moment, Hyotei's lineup had been released!