......

"Is everything assembled?"

Coach Saito saw that the boundary between the two teams was very clear, so he smiled maliciously, but his tone was still gentle and non-aggressive: "Then from now on, we will have a one-on-one singles match."

"Okay! Let's start doubles... Wait?"

Singles match?

"Aren't we going to have a doubles match?"

Kikumaru Eiji looked up in confusion, thinking he had heard wrongly.

That's right.

The other contestants also thought they had heard wrong, and many of them looked at the figure on the podium in disbelief.

"Now, let me announce the rules of the game."

Coach Saito's voice seemed to be the same, but it also seemed to have become much crueler, making people feel a chill in their hearts.

But this was not enough, the conditions announced right after were hard to accept!

"The loser will be eliminated~"

He looked at the pairs of incredulous eyes below and added in a good mood: "Yes, I want to fight against the partner you just found."

The losers will be eliminated?

Isn't this tantamount to asking them to kill each other?

Jingguang's heart sank.

Spiritual strengthening, so this is what it means?

Will you confront your former comrades who have fought side by side with you, eliminate each other or be eliminated by them?

Do you feel "betrayed" and hostile from your partner?

At this moment, he finally remembered what made him feel familiar and alert!

Everyone was already in a state of relaxation in the morning, and coupled with the gentle and non-aggressive attitude of this "spiritual coach" and his silly and natural behavior at the beginning, everyone had a wrong "first impression".

It seems to inadvertently give people a soft and harmless feeling of unintrusive territory.

Then, when they asked everyone to form teams, they deliberately used an ambiguous attitude and vague hints to induce the unsuspecting people to subconsciously think that they were going to play doubles, and then they chose their closest teammates, partners, friends or brothers.

He quietly waited for everyone to make a decision, then suddenly bared his fangs, catching everyone off guard! !

"......"

But the biggest trouble now is not him.

Jingguang's eyes swept over everyone. Everyone had already accepted the reality. The relaxed atmosphere just now was gone. An awkward and even invisible sense of tension and competition had begun to emerge between the partners who should have been close.

His eyes swept over his brother beside him.

Atobe Keigo frowned slightly, and looked at him with a look that was no longer gentle.

Or,

Wearing a completely unconcealed competitive consciousness and sharp scrutiny.

He felt a pain in his heart.

In any case, he didn't want to stand across the court from his brother.

Become the opposite side.

This kind of "betrayal" which may not be considered as betrayal by others is something he cannot accept.

He is different from other brothers.

Fuji Shusuke and Fuji Yuta both truly enjoy playing tennis. There are misunderstandings, competition, and warmth between them.

Even if you stand on the other side of the net, you won't be polite.

But he was very clear, or rather, he realized it clearly after the match between his brother and Tezuka.

He never really liked tennis, or rather, he liked it but not passionately.

Maybe I was subconsciously resisting standing on the other side of the net with my brother.

So even after more than two years at Hyotei, he has never stood against Keigo Atobe in any formal occasion.

The two had never met in any of the school's practice matches, and no one knew whether it was accidental or intentional, but they had never met before.