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"Speech"- Japanese
"Speech" English+ location references
'thoughts'
Yukimura spoke. "Very well." He looked at his regulars. " I'll have you play ...Niou-san." He gestured to the white-hared trickster.
Ryomi scrutinized Niou for sometime...
"Alright. Let's play."
Niou spun the racket. "Which?"
"Smooth." replied Ryomi
The racket landed on rough.
Both players got in position.
Niou served.
It was a normal serve- by Rikkaidai standards. Which- weren't escatly at the same level as everywhere else.
Perfect serving stance, the positioning was so perfect the the ball bounced ON the out line, a speed that even an injured and tired regular could return... by Rikkaidai standards of course.
Ryomi received the ball and returned it twice as fast, and the rally began.
Ryomi and Niou started slowly( or at least they thought so), testing each other. Quick and precise shots were exchange to the corners of the courts.
The regulars watched .
So the girl possessed some skill after all.
The court was silent as they watched the progressing rally. It was starting to get fast and intense rally.
The non-regulars were slowly getting up and watching the mysterious girl battle rikkaidai's trickster.
Both sides continued rally equally. Their game ended 17-15 when Niou hit a drop shot. Ryomi rushed to receive it and it dropped over the net, bounced and rolled backwards toward the net.
"A Zero Shiki Drop shot!" gasped the audiences. The famed move of the captain of the Seigaku team.
"Puri." Niou winked. "It was time to get serious. Dropping so many points... Unforgivable.'
Ryomi watched with interest. "So there's a tennis player in Japan's junior high circuit who can hit that shot? What a guy. Maybe coming to Japan wasn't a waste of time after all."
Akaya snorted. "In the end she was all talk. That girl talks big but she doesn't have the skills to back it up!She really can't beat Niou-senpai! I should have known! After all s'a just a dumb girl."
"No." Akaya looked up, shocked to see the usually stoic vice-captain speak.
"He's right." remarked Yukimura watching Ryomi intently.
"That girl was able to rally equally with Niou-kun after defeating all of or non-regulars ans has shown no signs of fatigue. And... that girl knew Niou was copying Captain Tezuka's move. This is what i assume her first time to see that move and the first time playing Niou-kun. How could she have recognized that ot wasn't his move? That girl must have exceptional observation skills."
Akaya looked down after being told off.
Ryomi looked at Niou for a long time. Niou felt like her golden eyes were looking through him... to his darkest fears and secrets...
"Not bad. Not bad at all. So Rikkadai did have what it too to win the Nationals." she muttered. "So does this mean I'm allowed to get serious? Hmmm...Mitsu-nii and Ryo-ni will get mad at me though..."
Ryomi suddenly walked to the side of the court. Everyone watched her surprised. There she suddenly yanked off her wrist warmers and ankle warmers and she put them down...
CLUNK!
The regulars were startled. There was no way such a light and fluffy material could make that sound unless... of course. There were weights.
"87% of those being weights." Yanagi muttered. Niou whistled.
"So you had those on the entire time?"Hime-chan, you've been holding out on me!" Puri. " Ryomi ignored him and got back to her position and got ready to serve.
She smiled "I hope to see some of your real potential" and with that she served.
The ball hit toward Niou and it... jumped up in Niou's face. Niou ducked out of the way as the ball hit the wall with a cracking sound. A large and obvious im[rint was on the wall from the impact...
"So are you going to call that or what?" Ryomi called passively to a third-year who was refereeing. He was surprised.
"Y-YA!15-love! Girl to serve!"
"A twist serve..." muttered the Master.
"Twist serve?" Akaya asked. "What's that?"
"Generally, a twist serve is the opposite of what's a slice serve, however because there is bounce, the ball will rebound when there is rebound."
"So it flies to the face." Yukimura supplied. "It's a difficult serve to master. Especially considering teh power behind that one...There aren't many players in junior high who can use that serve."
Ryomi, hearing their words looked up and smirked coolly at the regulars.
"Mada Mada Dane."