Phi-Fic Chapter 2: The transfer student wants to challenge Atobe?!
Chapter 2: The transfer student wants to challenge Atobe?!
After class, the Hyotei Tennis Club fan club group chat exploded with messages.
The top of the post is a photo of Mochizuki Ryou standing in front of the podium with her violin on her back.
The shooting angle was quite tricky, obviously taken secretly, but the boy's superior physique managed to withstand the unfortunate angle, making him look like he stepped out of a fashion magazine.
The photo caption was just a few words: "[New here, mixed race, plays tennis.]"
Someone found a transfer announcement that the academic affairs office had recently posted on the school's official website and forwarded it to the group.
[Wang Yueling, of Japanese and French descent, has excellent academic performance.]
The group messages started ticking in seconds.
The transfer student is so handsome...
[Wait... Mochizuki?! Could it be the Mochizuki Group, the leading conglomerate in Japan's tourism industry?!]
I'm not sure, but I didn't see him at last year's conglomerate summit.
Will he join the tennis club?
Have you ever fought against Atobe-sama?
[He just arrived, how can we fight him? But he's carrying a violin, so he'll probably join the music club?]
[But the girls in Group C of the third year said that the new classmate also likes tennis.]
The discussion gradually shifted from "He's so handsome" to "Will he join the tennis club?", and then from "Will he join the tennis club?" to "Would he dare to play a match against Atobe-sama?"
Then a group member nicknamed 100% replied: "[Wang Yueling, according to existing data, the probability of having no appearances in any French or Japanese open tennis tournaments is 98%]."
The people behind them immediately joined the group.
Isn't that just amateur level?
[Amateur level players dare to challenge Hyotei Stadium?]
After the news circulated several times, everyone concluded: "The transfer student is saying he's coming to the tennis club to challenge Atobe."
The group was silent for three seconds.
Then the news poured out like a burst dam.
Fabricating something out of nothing, three people making a tiger, and public opinion melting metal...
It has been made concrete.
Wang Yueling: Little friend, do you have a lot of questions? Hey?! Your Honor, I only gave a self-introduction the whole time. When did I say I was going to challenge them?!
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Mochizuki Ryo, who was rumored to be going to challenge the dojo, was completely unaware of this.
He was having a pleasant time with his first friend at Hyotei, Jiro Akutagawa, and their relationship quickly deepened during the ten-minute break between classes.
The reason for the sublimation is simple: Mochizuki Ryou promised Jiro that she would make him a cotton doll.
"Can you really make me a Bunta like him?" Jiro asked, his eyes shining like light bulbs as he leaned on the table.
"able."
"As cute as yours?"
"It should be a little less cute than mine."
Jiro gasped, his hands gripping the table, and excitedly leaned towards Mochizuki Ryo: "Then I'll treat you to bread for a month! No, bread for a whole semester!"
"No need." Mochizuki Ryo straightened the textbook that he had pushed askew. "Just tell me Marui-kun's preferences now, and I'll pick a few elements to combine later."
"He loves sweets! Cakes, cream puffs, he likes anything delicious!" Jiro counted on his fingers. "He has red hair, purple eyes, and when he plays ball, he chews green grape-flavored gum and blows huge bubbles..."
He got so excited that he took out his phone and showed Wang Yueling his photos.
The photos scrolled by one after another.
Marui Bunta on the court, Marui Bunta in the rest area, Marui Bunta eating cake, Marui Bunta blowing bubbles... The angles are novel and the image quality is clear, it's obvious that they waited for a long time to take these pictures.
Wow, I didn't realize this little lamb had the potential to be a paparazzi.
That's great, we can exchange ideas and learn from each other then.
Wang Yueling zoomed in on the photo and noted down the color of the wristband, the style of the racket, and the curve of Marui's smile.
"Do we have enough material?" Cilang asked.
That's enough.
"So when are you going to start?"
"weekend."
Cilang cheered, startling the students in the front row, who turned around and glared at him irritably.
He smiled shyly at the person and said in a low voice, "Ling, you're so great. You're the best person besides Bunta and Atobe."
Wang Yueling watched as Cilang made a fool of himself in his excitement, suppressed a laugh, and handed the phone back to him.
I glanced down at the cotton doll hanging on my violin case.
A bit narcissistic and arrogant...
Is it really that good?
Why not order a small Mochizuki-ryo (moon-shaped ornament) in my own image and bring it to Yukimura as a gift this weekend?
That's a really good idea.
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In the third year of class A, during a self-study session, Yuushi Oshitari leaned back in his chair, using his textbook as cover to play on his phone, his thumb slowly swiping across the screen.
He was bombarded with messages from a cute, long-legged junior he had been chatting with recently.
The junior was a senior member of the Hyotei Tennis Club support group. She messaged him, saying that a super handsome guy who could play tennis had transferred to Jiro's class.
As a level-ten internet surfing expert, "Hyotei News Expert" Yuushi Oshitari received the gossip signal radar and quickly infiltrated the fan club to get some juicy gossip.
Click to enter the group message.
[The transfer student declares he's going to challenge Atobe to a match at the tennis club!!!]
The huge, eye-catching headline startled him.
Renzu jumped to the beginning of the post and browsed through it. After getting a general understanding of it, he was somewhat astonished.
Tsk, look how this has become a rumor.
He wasn't surprised that the new head of the Mochizuki family was attending Hyotei University, but would he really come to challenge Atobe?!
He glanced sideways at Keigo Atobe, the other party involved in the "melon" incident.
Atobe was reading an English magazine, turning the pages slowly and intently. The light from the window shone on his profile, making the beauty mark under his eye particularly noticeable in the play of light and shadow.
Renji, always eager to stir up trouble, raised an eyebrow and teased with a smile, "Hey, Kei, a French transfer student has joined Jiro's class. It must be that ruthless young master of the Mochizuki family. Rumor has it he's really good at tennis."
Atobe didn't look up: "Hmm?"
"The new head of the Mochizuki family. He's in Class C of the third year. He said he's coming to the tennis club to challenge you."
His sassy tone, coupled with his Kansai accent, made him even more annoying.
To maintain his composure, Atobe resisted the unseemly urge to roll his eyes. After listening to what Shinobu said, he closed the magazine and glanced at the phone Shinobu handed him.
Looking at Wang Yueling's photo on her phone, she subconsciously touched the beauty mark at the corner of her eye with her finger, then slightly raised her chin.
"Uh-huh," he drawled, "I told you not to call me that unrefined title."
"That's not important," Shinobu said again, secretly stirring things up. "The important thing is that they're coming to challenge us."
"Challenge them?" Atobe's tone was emotionless. "What's their level?"
"I don't know. There are no official match records."
"Then it's not worth paying attention to." Atobe looked away and opened the magazine again.
Shinobu didn't say anything.
But he noticed that Atobe was a beat slower than usual when flipping through the magazine.
"Instead of wasting your time on these trivial matters during class," Atobe turned a page and continued, "you should go and collect more information on the contestants of the Kanto Tournament."
Oshitari sensibly uttered an "Ah," and said nothing more. He naturally noticed that Atobe had become interested; having known him for almost three years, he had that much observational ability.
This year is their last chance to compete nationally in their third year, so any possible assistance is crucial.
Hopefully, this transfer student from France will perform well and not disappoint our King of Hyotei.
Regarding collecting information on opponents, Yuushi Oshitari stated that Hyotei has always competed as a seeded team, so there are not many opponents worth studying in major tournaments.
As for the Kanto Tournament, it's still the same few schools that are worth paying attention to.
Thinking this, he smoothed his medium-length blue-gray hair and, not one to miss a good spectacle, took out his phone to share the gossip in the official fan group.
Someone's coming to challenge the tennis club. @Everyone
One message brought out all the regular members who had been slacking off in the group.
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Before the last class, Wang Yueling received a message from her cousin.
Come to the music room.
So she asked her teacher for leave, took her violin case and went to the music building. But the campus was too big, and Wang Yueling wandered around the campus for a while and successfully... got lost.
Finally, we ran into a second-year student who was having a PE class, and he helped us find the place.