This is the anti-theft badge.
Yukimura showed a surprised expression. "Have you decided?
You can play singles. "
"There's no place for me for the time being, is there?" Prince Ren narrowed his eyes slightly.
"I'm a very utilitarian person.
Yukimura. "
Yukimura blinked.
He tilted his head with a smile.
He nodded and said, "Have you confirmed it?"
Prince Ren was silent for two seconds.
His eyes drifted.
Yukimura: "…?"
"Puri ~ I'll leave it to you, Kazuyanagi -kun." Prince Ren finished.
He blinked a little embarrassedly.
After class in the afternoon, Prince Ren waited at the door of Yanagi's classroom.
The people he knew cast him a surprised look when they passed by. Prince Ren continued to stand by the wall by the door calmly.
He saw Yanagi pass by.
Then he stood up straight and took two steps in front of Yanagi.
"Prince Ren."
"Do you have time in the afternoon?"
"… The Student Union has an event."
"You won't finish before me," Prince Ren said.
Yanagi frowned a little in annoyance. "Do you want me to wait for you to finish your work?"
"That's not necessary." Prince Ren knew his training volume.
"But there's something I want to say to you."
"Can't you talk now?"
"A perfect answer needs a perfect setting." Prince Ren showed a rare serious expression. "Will you come to the tennis court after the meeting?"
"… I got it.
I'll be there. "
Yanagi himself didn't know why he agreed to such a request that sounded completely unreliable.
However, as long as the silver-haired boy showed a little seriousness,
People couldn't help but want to listen to him and believe in his decision.
From this point of view, it was actually a good thing that Wang Yazhi behaved so ridiculously normally.
Before the work began, Prince Ren went to find Yukimura and told him that he would be out for a while in the middle of the work.
He and Yukimura quickly became familiar with each other during the one-month training period during the spring break.
Yukimura Yukimura was such a person.
It was hard not to like him.
Even though Prince Ren was wary of Yukimura's overly sensitive senses and powerful aura, he was still delighted by the attentive attention of the handsome young man.
On the surface, he was ridiculing Yukimura for having a desire for control that did not match his appearance.
But in his heart, he really wanted to get Yukimura's approval.
He was very strong.
He was really good at tennis.
The strong always had special privileges.
As for the equally strong Sanada …
One had to choose the highest target.
Prince Ren refused to admit that he was traumatized by Sanada.
He simply didn't like Sanada, and Sanada didn't like him either.
The two of them had a very direct and unfriendly relationship.
Yanagi thought for a while after he finished his routine work at the Student Union.
He decided to be a man of his word.
He was invited to watch the training during the holidays.
On the first day of school, he also came to watch a farce because of the reckless behavior of a certain freshman.
He was already very familiar with the tennis department.
The freshmen were lining up on the tennis court for two weeks of basic training. Other than swinging the racquet, they were running long laps.
The second and third year students had more basic training, but they could already complete a lot of training in a very short time.
Yanagi stood by the barbed wire fence.
He saw the bright white hair in the crowd at a glance.
The white hair swayed with the people's movements, and after a while, it separated from the group.
Yanagi silently watched the "persevering" person open the barbed wire fence and walk towards him.
"I'm glad you didn't break your promise," Prince Ren said.
Yanagi raised his hand to push his glasses, and responded with silence to this difficult way of speaking.
The team was still in the basic training stage, and there was no one in the independent tennis court behind the indoor tennis court.
It had always been used by the official team for personal training, and it was temporarily empty during the screening of freshmen at the beginning of school.
Prince Ren walked over with Yanagi and casually found a topic to talk about, "You saw our training a few days ago, right? Do you have any thoughts?"
Thoughts?
Yanagi was a step behind, and he recalled the scene when he was invited to watch the tennis department's special training before school started.
The tennis court was very big, and the people holding the rackets were doing different actions. There were also people practicing, and they were all wearing Tachikai University's team uniforms.
Some of their movements were still jerky, at least compared to the international matches broadcast on TV.
But everyone's expression was very serious.
Even the person walking in front of him, who had always given him the impression that he had nothing to do with "concentration," had a different light in his eyes when he held the rackets and stood on the court.
It was something he couldn't feel on the golf course, and it was an infectious feeling that was difficult to describe with words.
Joining the tennis department should be a very good choice.
But if he agreed so easily …
Yanagi glanced at Prince Ren's slightly bowed back, and his mood was very complicated.
Prince Ren didn't know about Yanagi's complicated feelings.
He felt that what Yanagi said before was reasonable, and he needed to be more serious when inviting others.
So what was the best way to persuade people?
He thought of some of the shōnen manga in Shonen Jump.
… Not that suitable?
Then what about shōnen manga?
He walked to the empty tennis court and opened the wire gate.
"Come in?" When he turned around, he already had a smile on his face.
It was a rare smile that didn't have much malice in it, because there was no intention of pranking, and he didn't intend to deceive anyone.
Yanagi hesitated for a very short second before following him.
The empty tennis court was really large, and there were short trees planted next to each other.
The green rubber floor, the green short trees, and the green barbed wire suddenly broadened their field of vision.
The setting sun shone down, and it was golden.
"It's very big, right?"
Yanagi stood in a corner of the tennis court and nodded.
"It's too lonely to be alone on such a big battlefield," Prince Ren said.
Yanagi looked over in surprise, and he couldn't believe that such words came from Prince Ren's mouth.
He looked at Prince Ren's serious expression, and it was more real than ever.
"… Doubles …?"
"Do you want to try?"
"The doubles arena is even bigger than the singles arena."
"But it's two people.
On average, it's not that big, right? "
That was indeed the case.
But to suddenly make such a request …
"I thought you were just inviting me to join the tennis club."
"No, I'm inviting you to be my partner." Prince Ren asked with a smile, "Do I look like a selfless person?"
… No, you don't look like one at all.
Yanagi exhaled.
He glanced at the orange-red sun, and then glanced at Prince Ren's side profile, which was dyed in gold.
Some of the emotions that had been stirring before rose from his chest. He remembered the training that he had seen up close, and the way the first-year student, who was leading the team, stood on the court with a racket the day before.
He even remembered the way Sanada, who he was familiar with, stood on the tennis court and looked like she was burning.
Such a blood-boiling sport doesn't suit me at all.
Yanagi thought so, but his body nodded more honestly, "Okay, I agree."
Prince Ren really gave a good reason.
He accepted the challenge.
There were only three days to sign up for the club, and he was just in time to submit the application.
Prince Ren watched him enter the club and went back to training with satisfaction.
Yukimura received his application and asked him if he wanted to try to join the training.
"There are public tennis rackets in the club."
The head of the second-year students, who was wearing a jacket, smiled and said gently, "But the basic training for the freshmen is almost over, so you can join the training tomorrow."
"The others have to do other training, right?
Prince Ren and the others. "
"Yes.
Do you want to stay and watch us train? "
Yanagi nodded.
When they moved to the court, Prince Ren jogged over and briefly asked about the future partner that he had left to Yukimura.
"You should know how to play tennis, right?" he asked.
Yanagi was a little speechless, "You don't know if I know how to play tennis, and you directly invited me to be your partner?"
"He's just casting a wide net." A clear teenage voice came from behind.
Yanagi turned his head and saw dazzling red hair.
The shorter teenager caught up from behind and looked at Yanagi with some curiosity. He was still unceremoniously complaining, trying to expose Prince Ren's ugly face, "The others in the club all refused to partner with Prince Ren after the doubles training."
"Puri, your others include …"
"Me and Jack." Marui reached out his hand and counted them one by one, "And Sanada.
Those seniors shouldn't have refused, right? "
Fixed partners shouldn't come out to show off.
Prince Ren rolled his eyes and snatched a small cake from Kuwabara's hand, "You make it sound like I'm desperate.
I'm also very picky. "
Yanagi: Sounds like I'm the picky one.
Should I be happy?
Marui couldn't snatch the cake back and resentfully stuffed the rest into his mouth.
He vaguely asked Yanagi, "You know how to play tennis, right?"
"… Yes."
"Then there's no problem."