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~~JAMIE'S P.O.V~~
"Next is Eiji and Oishi," I murmured as rested my head against the wire fence, "Good luck." "We won, we won!" Eiji said, pumping a fist into the air. "Ne, Jamie, you seem worried," Fuji asked me smiling, "Why? We won the match." "I've got this bad feeling about the next match," I said, my brows furrowing. Fuji chuckled and poked the middle of my forehead. "Itai!" "Don't frown so much, you'll get wrinkles," Fuji said, still smiling. The match soon started.
I stared at the match in disbelief like the others. "No," I muttered, "Of all dreams, why this one…" Kaidoh heard me of course. I stood right beside him but he was way too shocked at the match before him. Seigaku's Golden Pair was losing terribly, 2-0. Not even one point. Kaidoh hissed and said in a soft voice that no one else could hear it, "It's not over yet. They won't give up." I looked at him for a moment before facing the match again. My grip on the wire fence tightened. I hope so. "Fuji," I said to the tensai, my eyes still glued to the court, "They're attacking Eiji with his worst style of play." Fuji gave me a silent nod. He must be concentrating on the match too. "Eiji has low stamina," I muttered to myself, "And this hot weather isn't helping him. He's losing concentration too…" 5-2
"Eiji's concentration has deteriorated," Fuji pointed out, "He's making a lot of unforced errors." I nodded slightly. Please let this not end like in my dream. "It just means Akazawa-kun is putting a lot of pressure on him," Fuji continued, frowning. "That's not it at all," Inui said, standing behind Echizen, Fuji and me. We turned to look at our in-house data master. "Akazawa is great at singles but still an amateur in doubles," he explained, "There must be a reason they used him in this situation." "What if," I said in a small fearful voice, much unlike my usual voice, "They planned to make Akazawa play singles with Eiji in a doubles match?" Now they looked at me. "I mean, if Akazawa is using his singles play only against Eiji and ignoring Oishi and let his partner help from time to time, wouldn't that still be considered doubles?" Inui sighed and said, "Highly unlikely but not impossible." I nodded. "Hey, doesn't it look like there are five or six balls?" Echizen asked. "What are you talking about Echizen?" Horio asked the super rookie. "The balls hit by that big guy in St. Rudolph." I squinted my eyes and saw what he meant. The ball was making several images of itself. "He's right," I said, almost in disbelief. Echizen rubbed his eyes a bit later after he saw the shot. I had to too. "That's it!" Inui said after watching the Akazawa guy for a while, "Akazawa habitually hits his backhand by hitting the ball at the top center of his racket." I raised my brow at this but let him continue. "Instead of using the sweet spot, he uses the impact from the racket to return it. That ball has the tendency to show lines of multiple balls. Normal people don't tend to notice but Eiji's ability to distinguish moving objects is uncommonly high. Which means he will subconsciously chase after all the balls."
So that's how he does it. "My eyes hurt. It's getting tired," Echizen stated, rubbing his eyes again. "Me too," I said, but kept straining my eyes. "No doubt," Inui said rather dryly. "Really? You see 5 to six balls?" Horio said, not believing, "I only see one." "Getting attacked in a disadvantageous manner like this," Inui said, his hands in his pockets, "Hot weather and that blurring ball. His uncanny ability to distinguish moving objects is robbing him of his stamina and concentration." "That means Kikumaru-sempai has been," one of the trio said and let Horio finish, "playing seeing tons of blurry balls." "Handicapped for having such a good eye is bad luck," the other one of the trio said. "This is why they made Akazawa play doubles and face Eiji," Inui revealed, "Using Akazawa's blurry balls to seal Eiji's abitlities. This was St. Rudolph's manager Mizuki's strategy against Kikumaru."
This is bad. "Kikumaru's will has not died yet," Inui said, to the St, Rudolph manager I suppose. "You remember what those two are called right?" Fuji asked, smiling again. I grinned, Eiji was twirling his racket around his wrist. Oh, yeah. That doubles training exercise. Eiji and Oishi against Momo and Echizen, the catch? They were tied together with rope. Momo and Echizen kept getting tangled while Eiji and Oishi never got stuck once. "That's right. They can't lose! They're the golden pair!" exclaimed one of the trio. "Go golden pair! Don't lose to some blurry balls!" Horio cheered. The Akazawa guy shot at Eiji when he lost his balance but the acrobatic tennis player let it pass him and into the hands of…
"Oishi-sempai!" the trio exclaimed in unison. I smirked, there is no way my dream's coming true. "Oishi's best move is coming," Fuji said smiling. "Yup, yup," I said, "It's the Moon Volley!" He hit a top-spin lob and it hit the area just before the line. "G…Great, that's what the golden pair is all about," Horio said, looking like he was about to cry. "Oishi is the only one who can pull that off," Inui said. I gave him a big smile and said in a cheerful tone, "That's Oishi for you!" We watched as the golden pair continuously took points. "30-30," the referee called out. "Eiji moves better when he's up against a stronger opponent," Fuji said, smiling, "He leads the opponent on and Oishi comes in at the best time to drop a ball into the open court." "Game Seigaku! 2-2!" "Yay!"
The next game, they used a different formation. "What?" I said as my eyes widened again. The guy hit to the left when he saw Eiji moving to his right only to let it be received by Oishi. It happened again and then the St. Rudolph guy screamed for no reason. After that the Akazawa guy, started fighting with the other guy for telling him what to do. "Hmm…" I said, staring at the guy who was telling the Akazawa guy what to do, "Fuji, Inui, we need to watch out for that guy."
~~NORMAL P.O.V~~
Just as Jamie said, the guy called Kanede almost scored a point but barely got past the line. "I'm off," Jamie said suddenly. Fuji and Inui turned to look at her. "Why, Jamie? The game isn't finished yet," Inui asked. "My brother asked me to meet him," she said, sighing, "He picked the worst time. I'll be back before Echizen's match." Fuji nodded. Jamie ran off into the trees.
Yay! Finally, I will introduce Jamie's Mystery Brother! Older or younger? Guess!
