I, the wind child of the tennis world

At noon, Fuji went home to eat. After all, the venue of the competition was not far from home. It only took 20 minutes by taxi.

In addition, the semi-finals were at 3 pm, so there was plenty of time.

After lunch, Fuji took a short rest and then set off for the competition venue.

However, Tezuka was not so kind. He promised his grandfather, Tezuka Kuniichi, to accompany him to go fishing.

After lunch, Tezuka went to the river with his grandfather.

"It seems like I haven't taken you fishing for a while! Guoguang!"

Tezuka Kuniichi sat by the river, holding a fishing rod and sitting there quietly, looking at his grandson, Tezuka, who was also sitting there fishing, and said kindly

"It’s been quite a long time!"

"I remember the last time I went fishing with you was a month ago!"

Although there was a competition in the afternoon, Tezuka was very calm. He sat there, fishing and said to his grandfather:

"Do you know why I often take you fishing?"

Tezuka Kuniichi asked

"I don't know!"

Tezuka shook his head.

He only knew that fishing was his grandfather's hobby, but as for why his grandfather took him with him, Tezuka didn't know.

He simply thought that his grandfather might take him with him every time because it was too lonely to fish alone.

Seeing that Tezuka didn't know, Tezuka Kuniichi also said:"That's because in my opinion fishing can temper a person's character! When a person is restless, fishing can calm his inner restlessness!"

"So that's it!"

Tezuka suddenly realized.

So this is the reason why his grandfather took him fishing every time.

"So don't think fishing is a boring thing. If you can understand the mystery of it, you will gain a lot in tennis!"

Tezuka Kuniichi smiled.

""I'm learning from you, Kunimitsu!"

Tezuka nodded in agreement, and then, without saying anything more, he accompanied his grandfather to fish patiently.

In this way, time passed by little by little, and Tezuka seemed to have gradually forgotten that he had a competition in the afternoon.

In a blink of an eye, it was three o'clock in the afternoon.

At this time, Tezuka, who was fishing, subconsciously looked at the time and found that it was already three o'clock, and his face changed.

Tezuka Kuniichi has lived with Tezuka since he was a child, and it has been twelve years so far, so he can naturally notice some changes in Tezuka's expression at a glance.

"What's wrong? Guoguang!" he asked

"Um... Grandpa, I have a competition in the afternoon!"

Tezuka did not hide anything and told him everything about his competition in the afternoon.

Upon hearing this, Tezuka Kuniichi said helplessly:"You little guy, you have a competition in the afternoon and you still accompany me, your grandpa, to fish!"

"that is because……！"

Tezuka was about to speak, but was interrupted by Tezuka Kuniichi

"I know!"

"But you have a competition, and grandpa can't stop you from going, so hurry up! I hope you can still catch up!"

""Yeah!"

Tezuka nodded, put down his fishing rod and trotted away.

Looking at Tezuka's hurried figure, Tezuka Kuniichi also smiled and shook his head.

Not long after, Tezuka returned home, picked up his tennis bag and went straight to the competition venue.

"Hope to catch up!"

……

While Tezuka was heading to the competition venue, the semi-finals also started. There were two semi-finals.

One was between Fuji and Sanada, and the other was between Tezuka and Yukimura. Fuji and Sanada's match was fine, both players were there, but Yukimura was different. Because Tezuka was late, Yukimura was the only one in the stadium.

"Didn't come?"

Looking at the empty opponent area, Yukimura frowned. It's not like Yukimura has never seen someone absent from a big competition. In the past, he had occasionally encountered someone absent from the competitions he participated in in Kanagawa. But those were all in the preliminary rounds and semi-finals. This was the first time he had encountered such a situation.

"Are all the players in Tokyo so casual? They didn't even come to the semi-finals?"

Yukimura thought that his opponent didn't come because he was late or something. In his opinion, no one should be late for such an important event as the semi-finals!

After all, he participated in the previous games, but didn't come to the semi-finals. There was no reason for this.

The referee didn't expect that there would be someone absent from the semi-finals. This was the first time he had seen such a thing in all his years as a referee.

After waiting for a few minutes, he saw that the player named Tezuka Kunimitsu still didn't come, so he announced the result of the game.

"Since one player didn't come, Yukimura Seiichi won this match!"

After hearing the referee's decision, the audience around him were talking about it.

"We advanced already, what good luck! It’s the first time I’ve seen someone advance directly from the semi-finals!"

"Me too!"

Good luck?

Hearing the discussions of the audience around him, Yukimura shook his head helplessly.

He would rather not have this so-called luck, he would rather the opponent be there, and have a fair fight.

This way of promotion is what he hopes for.

However, the opponent did not come, Yukimura had no choice, so he went to the competition field next door to Sanada.

Sanada had finished warming up, and when he saw Yukimura coming, he frowned.

"Aren't you in the game? Yukimura, why are you here at this time?"

"My opponent was absent, so I advanced directly!"

Yukimura shrugged helplessly.

"Absent?"

Sanada was stunned.

Absent in the semi-finals?

"I can't help it! But that's how it is!"

Yukimura smiled faintly, and then said:"But it's good this way, I can watch your game, Sanada!"

"Come on, Sanada!"

"Yes!"

Sanada nodded.

……

On the other side, Fuji, who had just finished warming up, heard the conversation between Yukimura and Sanada. For a moment, he also looked towards the court next door.

"As expected... am I late again?"

Fuji smiled and shook his head.

But it didn't matter.

After all, being late didn't mean Tezuka wouldn't come. At this time, Tezuka should be on his way.

So, Fuji stopped thinking about it and turned his attention to his opponent in this game.

The future emperor of Rikkai.

Genichirō Sanada.

Although Sanada's strength was not as strong as Yukimura and Tezuka, Fuji was still happy to fight him.