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The next day I watch Ryoma closely and notice him fainting over bloodshed eyes.
"Wash your damn faces!" I yell at all of them and they comply immediately.
"Lin?" Ryoma asks as he gains consciousness.
"Yeah." I say and he sighs.
"I need to get stronger." We both say in unison and I chuckle.
"You beat him." I say and Ryoma looks at my knees as though he just noticed the bruises.
"Why aren't you scared of those eyes?" Ryoma asks me.
"I'm more terrified of the player behind those eyes. He tried to take me down the same way he did you. I was no help at all." I say as I shake my head while they return with Ryuzaki-sensei.
"How is it that only two of us got enough sleep?" I ask them and Oishi points at my legs.
"What happened to them?" He asks and I scratch the back of my head.
"Funny story actually. I lost focus and hit the balls towards my knees, can you believe it." I say and Ryoma stares at me.
"Why are they staring at you Echizen?" Momo asks as some of them look at me while we enter the courts.
"Must be your imagination." I shrug.
"Eiji!" I yell after we've lost the first match and Eiji got hit near the eye.
Rikkaidai wins another match and I hurry towards the guys with water bottles.
"Rest up, ne?" I beg of Eiji and he slowly nods as he sits down.
The other guys all win their matches and I feel slightly better as their captain walks over to the court.
"Why not let the devil play?" He says and the umpire allows it.
"You're already late, right? Just give me twelve minutes, I'm getting hungry." I say before I unleash my dark aura.
"Lin." Ryoma says as it flows around me.
"Seigaku service game!" He says and I ace my serves easily.
"Game Seigaku one game to love change court.
"You're going down." He says as Seigaku watches me closely.
"Wrong again." I say as I return his serves where he can't reach.
My aura starts to change colour as I feel the need to get much better and end it within ten minutes.
"Game Seigaku, two games to love!" The crowd keeps cheering as my new aura takes shape around me.
"You're improving." Sumire says as I gulp down an orange Fanta.
"I may damn well hope so. I need to keep up with those guys." I say as my aura becomes brighter as I head to the court to serve.
"Game Seigaku, three games to love." The umpire states and I stare at my opponent.
"She's really fearsome." Some girls say.
"She used to be number one in the under twelve category for five years in a row without ever losing a point." I hear someone say as I return his key shot.
He starts to use his special moves and I sigh as I use the zone before I return his shot in the same style and he stares at me as I stand balancing on the front of my left foot.
"What is that?" Momo wonders as Inui looks up data before he writes the data down.
"That's a one footed zone." Fuji says as I gain another game from him.
"How's the time so far?" I ask as I take another few gulps from the Fanta.
"We're six minutes in." Oishi says and I grin.
"Good, two more per game and I'll have been right." I smile as I get back and prepare to serve.
"Ah, vanishing serve?" The three freshmen say as the ball is called.
"Fifteen love." I prepare for the Light speed serve and manage another point.
The aura appears again and they start to wonder how I still have so much stamina left.
"Here goes." I sigh before I hit a serve by jumping up with an arched back before I thrust my all downwards towards the other side of the net.
The ball connects and rolls further like a tsunami wave while Seigaku cheers for me.
"Say, I thought you were the best of this team?" I say and even Momo and Kaidou agree on it being a bad move.
"Mada mada dayo." I say and they all stand shocked at how the phrase leaves my lips.
I hit another serving ace and get back to my position to receive. I get back to standing on one foot and sure enough the ball heads my way and I return it with a two handed hadoukyuu.
"Even like that." Inui and Fuji say in shock.
"She's at her limit from running around." Ryoma says as he watches me closely.
"Love fifteen." The umpire declares as I get back to two feet.
"She's really good to maintain that aura for so long, but she should stop using it now." Inui says.
"The longer it's used the more damage it causes to the body, since it's wearing them out." Keigo says and I get ready to seal this game with zero shiki.
"Game Seigaku, winning 6-0. Winner Seigaku 3 wins 2 losses." The umpire says as I allow myself to fall on my back.
They look at the time and Inui grins.
"Nine minutes and fifty seconds." Inui says and I grin as I close my eyes.
"Oi, devil-chan. Join us." He calls out and I sigh before I walk over to the team.
"Next time I'll play you one on one." He says and I shrug.
"Sure, but only if you quit targetting my joints you shithead." I say and they all stare at me.
"Sure thing." He grins as we shake hands.
"Devil-chan?" Momo wonders as he looks at me and the guy bursts out in laughter.
"Name's Kirihara, try to remember devil-chan." He says and I sigh.
"Seriously, I'll never answer any of his calls if he begs me for a match." I say as we leave the courts and Ryoma chuckles.
"Even if I'm being tortured by him to get you to play?" Ryoma asks with a grin and the team all faces us.
"I'd let you do it on your own, you saved yourself pretty well after worrying me so." I say and they start to glare at Echizen.
"However, if he were to try and hurt you so much that you'd never play again I would without question target his balls next time." I say as I glare at the sky.
"Rinda, you fought him!?" Momo asks as Oishi glares at Echizen.
"Ryoma, you provoked him!?" Oishi yells and we both shrug.
"Lack of judgement, really." I say as I point at Ryoma and they all sigh.
Fuji glares at me with open eyes and I stare back at him.
"You've gotten yourselves in a mess, you got injured because of it." Fuji says and I hold my hands up in surrender.
"Yeah, I put myself at risk to protect you guys. I doubt that you've noticed me doing that all the time. I go beyond my limit to help you guys out, because I know you can make it to the nationals. You, not me. I'm simply a girl who got too strong for girl tennis and is too weak to admit to the strength I have inside me." I say and they all stare at me.
"I'm glad you feel good enough to glare at me though, does that mean you can see again baka-senpai?" I ask and he sighs.