Chisaki Sora, the Passerby, Doesn't Want to Win

Sora Chisaki was once very close to the summit. As the youngest "abandoned child" in the U17 training camp, he returned to his starting point - the junior high school of Youth Academy with all his injuries and psychological shadow. There is no hellish dormitory, no suffocating high pressure, just noisy peers, endless burgers and a group of idiots who innocently shout "become the first in the country". This is exactly what Chisaki Sora wants. Low-key, ordinary, unknown. He hid himself in the corner of the first grade, buttoned up neatly, and tried not to make people notice the thick calluses of his mouth. He did not join the club, did not show off his skills, and even deliberately served throw-ins in physical education class. He thought that as long as he didn't swing the racket, the past would pass like the wind. Until that day—— Facing the challenge from the tennis team, the senior had to catch the ball in order to protect a fallen classmate. Just one ball. The racket didn't break, the net didn't break, but the concrete beneath his feet cracked. "Hey, Chisaki," the hat-wearing boy Echizen Ryoma tilted his head and looked at him, "Are you playing tennis too?" This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.