World-Famous Scene: Bai Yu Is Still Going Crazy? The Fall of a Genius!

"You're the one who needs treatment. Don't think you can shake my resolve to crush you with words..."

The match seemed to be more than just a contest of tennis. It was more like two people with conviction putting their beliefs into practice through action.

Ayanokoji Kiyotaka bent down and casually picked up a tennis ball that had rolled to his feet. It was visibly worn and scratched, and he could still faintly feel a trace of warmth from it.

It looked like Horikita's resolve was quite strong.

Could the captain successfully withstand her unstoppable offensive?

Ayanokoji Kiyotaka tossed the ball he had picked up back onto the court. Bai Yu caught it casually and gave him a wicked smile.

Ayanokoji Kiyotaka quickly looked away, lest this guy suddenly get inspired and decide to add more scenes for himself.

Only after Bai Yu refocused on the match did he cast another quiet glance over, only to notice something slightly off. Had this guy always been left-handed?

Horikita Suzune frowned. Wasn't he taking far too long to get ready?

She said to the lively yet unlikable boy in front of her, "Tennis isn't gymnastics. Or did Bai suddenly want to push himself, challenge the limitations of his body, and try joining the School Cheerleading Squad?"

Hey, hey.

Do you know what you're saying? Don't drag the School Cheerleading Squad into this war.

Ayanokoji Kiyotaka could not help praying inwardly.

"That really is a good idea."

Bai Yu stopped his twisting and swaying, finally ending his full-on dance routine. He nodded in agreement. "Continuously challenging and trying fields you've never touched can greatly help you grow. Just like Horikita joining my Service Club—she'd open up a whole new world."

"..."

"Wait until you beat me and join the Cheerleading Squad first."

Horikita Suzune had no intention of continuing the small talk. She had underestimated just how thick this person's skin was.

She spun her racket once, aimed its tip directly at Bai Yu, and challenged him again. "Come on. Let me see how much strength you really have."

"Heh... hehehe."

Bai Yu suddenly let out another sinister laugh.

He lowered his head slightly, imitating Horikita during her serve by bouncing the tennis ball he had just caught on the ground, as if he were preparing some move.

"Horikita..."

"?"

"Have you ever heard the story of Seigaku?"

"Seigaku..." Horikita Suzune looked suspicious. "That's a school, isn't it? Why bring it up all of a sudden?"

Bai Yu's gaze darkened, hollow as though there was nothing within it.

He lowered his head from time to time, his entire face swallowed by shadow. Horikita and the spectators at the sidelines could not make out his expression for the moment.

"Sunshine without a rainbow, even in loneliness, you must be strong, must be strong..."

Bai Yu suddenly began chanting softly.

Horikita: "?"

"Strongly protect your dreams, let wind and rain sweep past your side! Past your side!"

Everyone: "???"

"Please don't add scenes for yourself and sing background music in the middle of a match."

Horikita Suzune was deeply shaken.

The onlookers below were seeing this kind of outrageous stunt for the first time. Amid a sea of astonished expressions, one fellow Chinese citizen could not help mocking him. "Are you the modern-day Qiao Feng?"

A bead of sweat rolled down Hirata Yosuke's forehead as he blurted out, "Seigaku... could he mean..."

"Watch this, Twist Serve!"

Bai Yu suddenly sprang into action. He shouted something far too technical, but his movements looked like an ordinary jumping smash serve.

The tennis ball shot across the court like a bullet. It did not slow after clearing the net, flying straight toward the opponent's valid scoring area.

Based on her past experience, Horikita Suzune predicted where the ball would land. She immediately moved swiftly there and got into position before it hit the ground, thinking she had this return in the bag.

Unexpectedly, after bouncing off the ground, the tennis ball did not move along the normal trajectory of a smash. Instead, it bounced high and shot toward her upper right. In an instant, she lost the chance to intercept it. The ball slammed into the protective net not far behind her, spun for a while, then leisurely fell as if a child had grown tired of playing...

This...

That brilliant serve instantly heated up the atmosphere below.

Horikita Suzune snapped out of it amid everyone's cries of surprise and turned to look at Bai Yu across the court.

He had one hand on his hip, lightly tapping his shoulder with his racket as he said to her, "You still have a long way to go!"

"..."

This was infuriating!

But he really had pulled off a genuine Twist Serve. Was it a coincidence? His movements did not look like the starting motion for a Twist Serve...

Horikita Suzune was somewhat annoyed. Even she had not learned how to perform a Twist Serve yet.

She walked over and picked up the ball. Perhaps he had simply gotten lucky and accidentally pulled off a serve that even he could not replicate.

The server held an enormous advantage in tennis. Losing a point was no big deal. As long as she made good use of her own service games, she could still win.

After briefly calming herself and analyzing the situation, Horikita Suzune regrouped and prepared to serve again. Then the person opposite her suddenly spoke once more. "So, Horikita, how is it? How strong is the Demon King?! Hahahaha!"

"..."

Horikita Suzune wanted to kill the person across from her.

She retorted calmly enough, "It's only a service game. Get cocky after you break my serve."

With that, Horikita bent her knees slightly and replicated the serve that had earned her the first point...

"Ayanokoji, Bai Yu seems to have pretty outstanding athletic ability."

"Yeah. How did we not notice that before?"

"Uh... Horikita isn't bad either."

Several of Bai Yu's one-week fans suddenly crowded around them. For a moment, it was hard to tell whether they genuinely admired Bai Yu's athletic ability or simply wanted an excuse to put Horikita down.

Ayanokoji Kiyotaka answered blandly as if it were nothing. "Well... this is also my first time seeing the two of them face off head-on. Overall, it is indeed a little surprising."

Overall... Ayanokoji could not really comment on Horikita, but Bai Yu's athletic ability was truly startling.

If he remembered correctly, Bai Yu was not even using his dominant hand right now.

And judging by that bizarre set of warm-up moves earlier, Bai Yu did not seem like someone who played tennis regularly. He had probably watched it on television or in anime once or twice, received some simple on-the-spot guidance from the PE teacher just now, and then matched Horikita blow for blow. He had even begun to gain the upper hand... Once again, Ayanokoji Kiyotaka felt that this man was anything but simple.

Bang! Slap!

Slap! Bang!

The battle on the tennis court grew increasingly intense.

The tennis ball flew back and forth between the two halves of the court at high speed, already battered and scarred.

Neither player showed the slightest sign of letting up. Two agile figures darted rapidly around their respective courts, returning and serving the ball so fast that they almost left afterimages...

After several exchanges, the score was, to everyone's delight, tied at match point.

According to the rules of tennis, whoever scored two points first could end the match and claim victory.

Horikita Suzune wiped the sweat from her forehead, then used her sleeve to wipe the beads of sweat running down her neck.

She drew her gaze back from the referee keeping score in the middle. As long as she seized this service game in one push, then held off her opponent and broke his serve in the next round, victory would be hers.

Horikita raised her focus to the utmost. This was the advantageous situation where she could take control, and she could not afford to make a mistake here.

She gathered her thoughts and focused on the battle before her, her eyes locked on the man in the center of the opposite court.

He had his head lowered and seemed somewhat tired. The hand holding his racket kept trembling in his shadow.

"Sunshine without a rainbow, no longer possessing dazzling brilliance, dazzling brilliance..."

Horikita: "????"

You're doing this again?

Watch me interrupt your casting!

As an honor student, Horikita Suzune had always been good at summarizing the reasons for failure and learning from them. She felt that her stamina was gradually reaching its limit too, so she began doing whatever it took to win, slowly abandoning all sportsmanship.

She tossed the ball high. While her opponent was still chanting something incomprehensible, she instantly recovered the explosive power from the beginning of the match, leaped up, and smashed the ball through the air...

"I grow through failure, I will erupt, erupt, erupt..."

The tennis ball streaked across the sky, briefly blocking out the blazing orb above. When it emerged again, it seemed fire-tempered, shooting toward one side of the court like a meteor.

Everyone could not help worrying for Bai Yu, who was about to receive the ball. Their hearts rose into their throats. That ball clearly was not meant merely to score... it was meant to utterly destroy his confidence in tennis!

Their gazes rushed ahead to Bai Yu on the opposite side of the court, and one second before the ball landed, they witnessed a world-famous scene...

Bai Yu was still fucking chanting!

Boom!

The tennis ball brushed past the boy, smashing into the ground at a forty-five-degree angle at the speed of light. It bounced toward the protective net behind him like a cannonball and lodged fiercely in the mesh...

The spectators could no longer contain their emotions and covered their faces as they wept.

...That day, they seemed to witness the fall of a genius.