Somewhere in the back of the crowd at the sidelines, Tamagawa ducks his head, his cheeks hot with shame from the memory of that match.
"Sorry, Sanada-kun!" Aya says with a renewed determination to cover her half of the court better for Sanada's sake. Yukimura was as skilled and ruthless as ever; she hadn't been ready for him to steal that smash. What was he doing coming into Flayn's area like that?
As the match continues (along with the boys' banter and occasional taunts at their female opponents rather than each other), it becomes increasingly clear that this move wasn't a fluke, either. Yukimura was exploiting their assumptions about territory to throw off their game and maximize the span of the court he's defending, making it even harder to score points off them. Aya is at once begrudgingly impressed at the evil genius of it and sorry for Flayn because she isn't getting to play much at all like this! It didn't look like much fun. But then, fun and tennis never did really mesh together when it came to Yukimura, did they?
It's the last thought she has before a volley that fails to clear the net, and she realizes she didn't feel the ball hitting the racket. Yukimura smiles darkly at her from across the court.
"From the looks of it, you've lost your sense of touch."
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"Sorry, Sanada-kun!" Aya says with a renewed determination to cover her half of the court better for Sanada's sake. Yukimura was as skilled and ruthless as ever; she hadn't been ready for him to steal that smash. What was he doing coming into Flayn's area like that?
As the match continues (along with the boys' banter and occasional taunts at their female opponents rather than each other), it becomes increasingly clear that this move wasn't a fluke, either. Yukimura was exploiting their assumptions about territory to throw off their game and maximize the span of the court he's defending, making it even harder to score points off them. Aya is at once begrudgingly impressed at the evil genius of it and sorry for Flayn because she isn't getting to play much at all like this! It didn't look like much fun. But then, fun and tennis never did really mesh together when it came to Yukimura, did they?
It's the last thought she has before a volley that fails to clear the net, and she realizes she didn't feel the ball hitting the racket. Yukimura smiles darkly at her from across the court.
"From the looks of it, you've lost your sense of touch."
Oh no...