Ever so slightly, Echizen's brows furrow at the upperclassman that cuts off the approach of one of the other freshmen before his first step has even hit the ground. What was that about?
The meeting seems to come to order shortly after with a tall, broad-shouldered club member in a black ball cap moving to the front of the crowd and facing them with a stoic expression and arms folded across his chest.
"Welcome to Rikkai Dai Fuzoku Chuu's men's tennis club. I'm Sanada Genichirou, vice-captain and acting head of the team in our captain's absence. For the past two years, we've carried our strength all the way to the National Championships, securing consecutive undefeated seasons. Yukimura has tasked us with fulfilling the remainder of his legacy with a third straight year as the undisputed strongest."
After a moment's pause, the level tone in his voice vanishes as he booms, "Naturally, I won't stand for any slacking off in the pursuit of that legacy!" A good 80% of the freshmen around him straighten with a startled jolt and newfound apprehension. Personally, he's not fazed. No slacking off means getting stronger faster, which is all he cares about.
With either no awareness or no remorse for the fear he's just put into the hearts of his audience, Sanada continues at his previous volume, but with a lingering tightness to his words. "Those that wish to be part of the Rikkai tennis club should be prepared to pour blood, sweat, and tears into every practice. If you bring here every day the will to become the strongest tennis player you can be, you'll find the growth and the company of like minds that you seek. That's all. Regulars, warm up and begin practice! Returning club members, stay in this area for strength training. First years will rotate ball duty and clean-up for the regulars with swing practice and body training. For today, those in the back row will clean up. Those in the next row up will fetch balls. The rest of you, join the regulars with 20 laps around the courts!"
Echizen is content enough to be among those exercising instead of fetching balls, as oblivious as Sanada himself to the severity of a 20 laps assignment for a group of predominantly beginners. He wordlessly walks to the perimeter and starts jogging, working up to a run after a couple of warm up laps.
It's not hard to pick out the regulars from the group, and he's just proud enough to be determined not to be outpaced by any of them, if only to prove it to himself. He maintains pace with them for the duration.
Honestly, he expected it to be harder. But then, those weights the regulars are wearing look pretty heavy...
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The meeting seems to come to order shortly after with a tall, broad-shouldered club member in a black ball cap moving to the front of the crowd and facing them with a stoic expression and arms folded across his chest.
"Welcome to Rikkai Dai Fuzoku Chuu's men's tennis club. I'm Sanada Genichirou, vice-captain and acting head of the team in our captain's absence. For the past two years, we've carried our strength all the way to the National Championships, securing consecutive undefeated seasons. Yukimura has tasked us with fulfilling the remainder of his legacy with a third straight year as the undisputed strongest."
After a moment's pause, the level tone in his voice vanishes as he booms, "Naturally, I won't stand for any slacking off in the pursuit of that legacy!" A good 80% of the freshmen around him straighten with a startled jolt and newfound apprehension. Personally, he's not fazed. No slacking off means getting stronger faster, which is all he cares about.
With either no awareness or no remorse for the fear he's just put into the hearts of his audience, Sanada continues at his previous volume, but with a lingering tightness to his words. "Those that wish to be part of the Rikkai tennis club should be prepared to pour blood, sweat, and tears into every practice. If you bring here every day the will to become the strongest tennis player you can be, you'll find the growth and the company of like minds that you seek. That's all. Regulars, warm up and begin practice! Returning club members, stay in this area for strength training. First years will rotate ball duty and clean-up for the regulars with swing practice and body training. For today, those in the back row will clean up. Those in the next row up will fetch balls. The rest of you, join the regulars with 20 laps around the courts!"
Echizen is content enough to be among those exercising instead of fetching balls, as oblivious as Sanada himself to the severity of a 20 laps assignment for a group of predominantly beginners. He wordlessly walks to the perimeter and starts jogging, working up to a run after a couple of warm up laps.
It's not hard to pick out the regulars from the group, and he's just proud enough to be determined not to be outpaced by any of them, if only to prove it to himself. He maintains pace with them for the duration.
Honestly, he expected it to be harder. But then, those weights the regulars are wearing look pretty heavy...