Prince of Tennis Fraudster

Topspin serve!

This is one of the most classic serves in the original Prince of Tennis series.

Without hesitation, Niou took a deep breath, and images of Echizen's topspin serve flashed through his mind like a slideshow.

He was very familiar with The Prince of Tennis; it was an anime he had watched more than twenty times. After mentally reviewing Echizen's movements, he focused and tossed the tennis ball into the air.

call!

The jackal, who was observing from the side, shook his head and said, "It was cast too high."

Swish!

But the next moment, Niou jumped up on the spot.

"This..." Jackal was stunned for a moment, but then smiled wryly and said, "This guy, is this his first time serving?"

It's not a big deal if you throw too far, since you can always go for a second shot. But Niou's "remedy" left him both amused and exasperated.

Indeed, when the 1.73-meter-tall Niou jumps, the lack of coordination between his feet and arms makes him look like a fat person dancing ballet, which is quite unsightly for tennis, a sport that emphasizes elegance.

boom!

However, Niou's racket still touched the tennis ball.

But the tennis ball, once hit, struck the net with a loud thud.

"Serving error!"

Referee Nakagawa spoke, his face expressionless, but inwardly he was somewhat puzzled. "This guy, is he the Niou that Nakajo-kun has always resented? He's so low-class..."

The "low" he referred to wasn't Niou, but Nakajo. As members of the reigning champion Rikkai, although they weren't as outstanding as the regulars, they still had their own pride.

"To hold a grudge against a tennis novice for two years, Nakajo is too petty."

At the same time, he also felt some regret. If Vice Minister Sanada found out what he had just done, he would definitely suffer a terrible fate.

"Fine, since we've started, let's see it through!"

A cold glint flashed in his eyes, and Renou's serve touched the net twice. Nakagawa announced, "Double fault, 0-15!"

"Sigh, I can tell now, this guy is playing tennis for the first time." Jackal said with a wry smile.

Double failures are very rare. Especially since Niou's opponent was Nakajo, a guy he could easily beat 6-0.

Marui shook his head and said, "Let's take another look."

Snapped!

"Serving error!"

The tennis ball hit the net again, and Nakagawa curled his lip in disdain, saying, "Double fault, 0-30!"

"call……"

Niou let out a long breath. He hadn't expected that the serve that 12-year-old Echizen could easily hit in the original story would be so difficult to put into practice.

But he also knew that giving up too easily would only make him lose even more miserably.

call!

The tennis ball was tossed up again, causing the jackal on the sidelines to cover his eyes in disbelief: "Does this guy have no brains? Why is he tossing it so high?"

Marui, standing to the side, had a glint in his eyes when he saw the height of Niou's jump and the position of the racket spin.

boom!

The tennis ball was hit by the racket and immediately began to vibrate violently. Under the pressure of Niou's arm, the tennis ball drew an arc and landed with a thud at Nakajo's feet.

"Did it pass through the network?"

"Still a close-range ball?"

Nakajo, who was leisurely watching Niou serve, suddenly changed his expression, but then a mocking smile appeared on his face: "Not bad, not bad, you've really improved a lot, but..."

However, just as he was about to swing his racket to catch the ball, a flash of yellow light suddenly appeared in front of him. Startled, Nakajo shrank back, a cold sweat breaking out on his back.

"Wow, so fast..."

Cold sweat streamed down his face, and his scalp tingled slightly. If he had been a fraction slower in dodging, the tennis ball might have hit him in the face.

“By chance, yes, it was by chance…”

He comforted himself, while the first-year students around the field had just recovered from their stuporous state.

"Amazing!"

"Did you see that? Did you all see that? That serve just now!"

"Hmm, it bounced at that angle... this is..."

"Outside spin... serve!" Marui said.

His eyes grew brighter. From the beginning, he had noticed that Renwang's movements were very similar to the serving posture of a certain little guy on the team.

The jackal beside him nodded, but a wry smile returned to his face. "But I reckon this guy's first time hitting this kind of ball..."

In the distance, a young man wearing a coat laughed and asked, "What do you think?"

"Although it's not quite standard, it is indeed external rotation," the squinting young man said.

The young man wearing a baseball cap also spoke up, but only uttered two words: "Rough!"

Indeed, Ren's serve, both in terms of the motion and the quality, is far inferior to a standard topspin serve. This assessment is quite accurate.

But this very serve left Nakagawa speechless with shock.

"Hey, referee."

Renwang pointed his racket and said with a smirk, "Why wasn't this point called?"

"Phew..." Nakagawa finally came to his senses, looked at the marks left by the tennis ball's spin in front of Nakajo, and nodded, "Serve is valid, 15-30!"

Snapped!Snapped!

Niou took out a tennis ball, hit it a few times, and looked up at Nakajo with a smile: "Don't blink!"

boom!

The tennis ball was hit and flew over, landing with a hissing sound as it rubbed against the ground.

Swish!

The tennis ball bounced rapidly, heading straight for Nakajo's face. Startled, he turned his head again, barely avoiding the topspin ball.

"Gulp..." Nakagawa swallowed hard and declared, "30-30!"

boom!

"40-30!"

boom!

"Game! Niou, 1-1!"

Four consecutive topspin shots allowed Niou to hold his serve. At the same time, he became increasingly familiar with this body.

Chapter Five: The Secret

"Ding!"

At that moment, the long-absent system voice suddenly rang in the source brain: "Congratulations to the host for mastering the skill, External Spin Serve lv1 [White]".

"Upon first mastering a skill, the achievement system is activated, and the achievement 'Skill Beginner' is obtained, rewarding 100 points."

Have you mastered the topspin serve?

Niou was secretly pleased. "It seems my talent is not bad after all."

But in fact, the reason why he was able to imitate Echizen from the original work and learn the outside spin serve in a very short time is largely because his body was originally very good.

Once your skill level is high, you'll naturally learn faster.

However, Niou soon noticed that the topspin serve he had learned was graded as level 1, and it was followed by a white annotation.

"what is this?"

The system replied: "Skill quality!"

"Skills, also known as ultimate moves, are divided into six levels: white, blue, purple, orange, red, and black. Each time a skill advances to a higher level, it undergoes a qualitative change. The final black level is the so-called ultimate technique, the other dimension!"

Another dimension!!!

Upon hearing the system's reply, Renwang's eyes immediately burned with fervor, but seeing that he had only mastered the ordinary level, he felt somewhat disheartened.

boom!

Just then, a serve landed right at his feet, startling him so much that his body trembled.

"15-0!"

"This guy..."

He glanced at Nakajo, who was laughing strangely across from him, and a cold glint flashed in his eyes.

In tennis, there is an unwritten rule that the server must respect the opponent; that is, the server cannot serve directly if the opponent is not ready.

But clearly, Nakajo didn't have this idea.

At the same time, Niou glanced at the silent referee Nakagawa beside him. In this situation, the opposing team not only didn't issue a warning, but also awarded the point.

"This is what it's like to play away from home..."

Although he was at Rikkai University, as a player who wasn't in the tennis club, he was still an outsider and naturally didn't receive fair treatment.

"call……"

He took a deep breath, his gaze sharpening. The more intense the situation, the more determined he became to win, and to win spectacularly.

"Oh?"

In the distance, Marui watched Niou, whose fighting spirit was rising, with some surprise. Jackal nodded as well, "This guy has a good eye."

"Ha, are you angry?"

Nakajo looked at Niou with a mocking expression, and sneered, "You'll probably go berserk in the next match, won't you?"

boom!