♫Wonderful Days♫Prince of tennis♫Hyotei♫

♫64♫ The branches of possibilities

The recognition party will be held at the pool this afternoon but Ranfa was busy looking for Oshitari to check with him if he's prepared for it. 

"What a great way to start the morning..." She had to look for him herself because he was not answering his cell phone. She told herself that she will hit Oshitari with the paper fan once she found him, no mercy for him. 

"Ah! There he is..." She can see his back! She took out her paper fan, about to go in for the kill but the moment Oshitari took a few step to the left, she can see he was actually speaking to another girl. The girl looked like a 3rd year and she was invading Oshitari's personal space, touching his cheek with a sultry smile. "I'd be a third wheel if I were to go in now..." Ranfa decided to hold herself back and go elsewhere but then she saw the girl slap Oshitari with all of her strength.

"How dare you say something like that to me?! I gathered the courage to come and tell you that I would date you and you turn me down?!" The girl was breathing angrily, eyes killing Oshitari again and again. "Why are you looking at me like that?!" 

Oshitari was giving the girl a cold look where one would pity the other. He felt rather sorry for her since she's got the face of an angel but a behaviour of a spoilt princess. 

"You...!" She was about to lay another slap again. 

Ranfa entered the scene, pushing Oshitari aside and then slapped on the face with her paper fan.

"Ranfa?!" Oshitari did not expect to see her here! The shock on his face was written all over the usual coolness.

"I don't remember you being the tennis manager, why are you hitting one of my regulars?! Know you're place!" Ranfa may whip out a few hits or two at the regulars to put them back on track again but that doesn't mean she will tolerate another person hitting or hurting any of them. If anyone wanted to hurt the Hyotei team, they will have to go through her first. And if she caught someone hitting them behind her back and she found out, she will tail that someone and return the favor.

The girl was so shocked to be hit by the paper fan, she recognized the pink haired girl as the male tennis club's manager and she instantly put on an angelic act. 

"You don't understand! Oshitari-kun is in the wrong here!" 

"H-how dare you pin the blame on me..." Oshitari sighed; there's no end to this girl's shattered pride. 

"You know I am the manager and yet you did not call me to hit him, that is my problem with you! If Oshitari-senpai is wrong, you should tell me so I will hit him! Who are you to hit my senpai?" 

"I just-" 

"You took matters into your own hands so I hit you in return for your arrogance. Know your place before you lay a hand on Hyotei's regular." She then looked at Oshitari, "You, follow me. You're late..." 

Ranfa took Oshitari away from the angry girl, who believed Ranfa will give Oshitari a nice beating. 

However, Ranfa never intended to hit Oshitari some more. She doesn't believe that Oshitari would be the kind of guy to make a girl angry for his own gain, that's not who he was. 

Sitting on the bed of the infirmary, Oshitari watched Ranfa wetting her handkerchief with cold water. Even without words being delivered, he knew of her intentions; she wanted to cool down the swelling on his cheek.

"Well, are you going to tell me what's going on?" She pressed her handkerchief against the redness the girl made on his cheek. Jirou cleaned it and returned it to her, she just didn't think she would make use of it again.