Mental Power Ball Skill: Complete Imprisonment

"Seigaku scores, the score is 1-0, change ends."

Hearing the referee's call to change ends, Horio walked directly to the other side of the court.

"Get up, it's time to change ends. If you're not dead, stop lying there."

Seeing Akutsu, who had a few red scratches on his face and was still lying on the ground, Horio showed no mercy.

Hearing Horio's taunting words, Akutsu struggled to his feet and changed ends.

"Your chances are over. Next, welcome hell."

Horio looked at Akutsu, whose mental state had declined somewhat, and decided to end the match quickly.

The tennis ball was tossed up, and then the purple racket was swung.

The ball flew out, and the sound of it frictioning with the air during flight clearly reached everyone on and off the court.

Then, after the ball landed and bounced, it hit Akutsu directly in the stomach, sending him flying again.

"Seigaku scores, 15-0."

Bang...

"Seigaku scores, 30-0."

"Seigaku scores, the score is 4-0."

The score reached 4-0 under Horio's one-sided dominance. At this point, there was not a single intact part of Akutsu's body.

He had even been dazed several times, but Horio still showed no mercy.

Those off the court even felt that Horio was the cruel one in this match, and Akutsu slowly became a figure of sympathy in their eyes.

"Two more games, eight balls. You'd better hold on."

At this moment, Akutsu, who had been beaten to the point of mental dispersion, felt Horio's pressing aura, and the unyielding and anger in his heart began to erupt.

Believing that Akutsu could no longer resist, Horio hit the ball without holding back.

The crowd off the court expected another outcome of him being sent flying and chose to close their eyes, unable to watch.

Just as everyone was waiting to hear the sound of Akutsu landing after being sent flying, they heard the sound of a racket hitting a tennis ball.

Everyone immediately opened their eyes and looked. They saw that Akutsu, who had been mentally scattered, now had a different look in his eyes.

It was not the look a human would show, but the look of a beast fighting back in a desperate situation.

"Hmm? A beastly aura?"

Sensing the change in Akutsu's aura, it was clearly beyond Horio's expectations.

"It's just half-baked. An uncontrolled beastly aura is equivalent to trash."

He then increased the power of his return shot again. Under the uncontrolled beastly aura, Akutsu recklessly squeezed out the last of his physical strength.

Facing Horio's increased power, Akutsu hit the ball back again.

After a few exchanges, seeing that he could still return a shot with nearly seventy percent of his power, Horio no longer hesitated.

His racket-wielding arm was enveloped in a purple aura, and then he returned the incoming ball.

The tennis ball, flying towards Akutsu with even more force than the previous one, touched Akutsu's racket and directly sent the racket flying.

"The complete Hundred Refinements Self-Acquired, plus that strange footwork. Truly terrifying, young man."

Seeing Horio use the ultimate form of Hundred Refinements Self-Acquired, Echizen Nanjirou, though it was within his expectations, couldn't help but be surprised.

"That... looks so familiar."

"It really does look like I've seen something similar..."

"It's Tezuka... although not to Horio's level, it's definitely something Tezuka used to hit."

"I think it was called the State of Selflessness, right. Yes, that's it."

"No... the legendary three gates. The State of Selflessness is merely the prerequisite for opening these three gates. Looking at Horio's situation, it's clear he's already opened one of the gates."

"Perhaps... it shouldn't be possible... He's only a first-year. Such a thing shouldn't happen."

"I know what you're thinking, Oishi, but Horio is a very special person. If you judge him by ordinary standards, you'll be mistaken."

Seeing the legendary technique displayed by Horio, the Seigaku members were once again shocked.

Bang...

Bang...

Bang...

"Seigaku scores, the score is 5-0."

Akutsu, who had awakened his beastly aura, was hit back repeatedly by Horio's Hundred Refinements Self-Acquired, and was helplessly reduced to his previous dazed state.

"Although I held back a lot, the fact that you could receive it shows you have some skill. Next, I'll make it so you can see the ball but can't hit it."

After speaking, Horio tossed the ball up and hit it with a normal swing.

A serve that was neither fast nor slow, most people inside and outside the court could clearly see the ball's trajectory, let alone Akutsu across the net.

Even though his body and mind were exhausted, he could still clearly see the tennis ball.

But as Akutsu prepared to move to receive the ball, he found that he couldn't move at all.

As the ball got closer and closer to him, Akutsu found that he could see the ball's trajectory more and more clearly, but his body became stiffer and stiffer.

And so, under everyone's gaze, Akutsu stood motionless.

Watching a normal serve score a point in his own court, while he could only stare helplessly.

"Seigaku scores, 15:0."

"You're the first person to try my Complete Imprisonment. Even if I hit an Underhand Serve, you still won't be able to receive it."

"Complete Imprisonment, is that a special ball skill? What's the principle behind it..."

"If it really is Complete Imprisonment, then wouldn't it be possible to just serve and score directly during the first-year's serve games?"

"Theoretically, yes. I just don't know to what extent it can be achieved."

"He really is an unfathomable person."

"What was that just now? That first-year clearly just hit a normal ball."

"Seigaku is truly terrifying this year, much stronger than last year. To be able to win so easily without their captain Tezuka, Seigaku has a great chance at the national championship this year."

"What a powerful Mental Power Ball Skill... To have honed a world-class skill at such a young age, it looks like the world is about to change."

Echizen Nanjirou had already been shocked by Horio's performance more than once today. Although he hadn't seen his own son's match, it was still worth the trip.

"Still not satisfied? Then let's go again. This time, I'll be even slower."

He then released the hand holding the ball and casually swung his racket.

Seeing Horio's movement, Akutsu, who had prepared to move early, stopped dead in his tracks the moment Horio swung and hit the ball, as if he had been paused.

Then he watched a slow Underhand Serve pass by him and land on the ground.

"Seigaku scores, 30:0."

Akutsu, whose mind was already scattered, completely broke down. Recalling this game, his hands and knees on the ground trembled uncontrollably.

"How does it feel to be defeated by tennis you looked down upon? You should have a deep understanding by now."

Looking at Akutsu's wide, terrified eyes, Horio didn't feel any pity for him.

He then stopped looking at him and returned to the baseline, hitting two more normal serves to win singles match two.

As for why he didn't use Complete Imprisonment, it was because it was unnecessary.