Hidden Plays

30: But I kept going back to Phase 1

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Atobe lost a close game.

Satomi stood in front of the Hyotei team.

"We had a good run in nationals. Buchou-senpai will have until his graduation to choose a new captain for next year's team. Let's continue doing our best! Everyone but the regulars are dismissed." Satomi said.

"I was going to say we'll go eat and celebrate our good run at nationals, but I realized I have somewhere to be." Satomi said.

She took a taxi to her house. She entered the code and entered the estate. She went straight to his office. She knocked on the door and heard a 'Come In'. She opened the office door to see him working on papers.

"Is there something you need?" He asked.

'So I'm a maid now?' Satomi thought.

"Actually, yes, there is something I would like help with." Satomi said. He stopped working and dropped his pen in shock looking up.

"I need help adjusting my style of tennis." She said.

"Satomi? What are you doing back in Japan? I thought you were continue training in France." He said.

"Before I continue training in France I need a different style of tennis. One that's not as 'harmful' according to Coach Mauresmo." Satomi said.

"...Hmm...Go back to where you're staying. Tomorrow go to the Yoshida Tennis Club, Tokyo Location at 8:00. I'll have an idea by then. Wear your mask and everything. Tomorrow will be an open evaluation, which means the public can see." He said. She nodded and left. On her way back she saw a big pile of tennis players, and Coach Ryuzaki all piled together. She saw an old man holding the bill. She approached him.

"What happened here?" She asked him.

"They had a competition and most failed after weird smoke came out." The man said.

"What's the amount they have to pay?" She asked.

"¥1,274,960." He said. She sighed and put opened her bag.

"Oh no, I couldn't let a stranger pay for them." He said.

"I'm one of the team managers. If I do this it's not that big of a deal, they'll have to give me extra laps." She said. She gave him the money needed and sighed.

"I'm sure the boys would like your name." He said.

"No need, all you need to know is I'm half foreigner." She said.

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As soon as Atobe woke up he looked around to see the old man holding a big wad of cash.

"What's the total?" He asked about to pay for it.

"Don't worry about it a nice young lady came up and paid for it." He said.

"What?!" Atobe shouted waking up everyone else. They all got themselves organized, a few still with the feeling of wanting to barf.

"What did she look like?" Atobe asked.

"She had a ash blond hair, kind of like his." He said pointing to Ootori.

"Her bangs covered one of her eyes, the visible eye was a blue. She said she was the manager of one of the teams and would just have her team run extra laps. Then she told me she's half foreigner." The old man said. The Hyotei team's faces went pale.

"If we have to run extra laps, so do you," Atobe said to everyone else.

"Atobe you must be forgetting we have Ochibi. Your manager loves Ochibi, and would never have him run any laps, so if Ochibi convinces her to have the whole Seigaku team not run, we won't be running." Kikumaru said.