Prince of Tennis: I Touched Tezuka's Racket and Learned the Tezuka Zone

Takizawa Kita transmigrates into the Prince of Tennis world. He's just graduated from elementary school, has only been playing tennis for three months, and his total stats are below 12. The monsters Tezuka, Yukimura, Kintaro, and the rest have already swept the nation. He thinks he's just here to be a background character, until he wanders into an old racket repair shop on a street corner and casually picks up a battered racket wrapped in layers of old tape.

System notification: Touch a racket to extract its original owner's starting skill. Tezuka Kunimitsu's old racket detected. Congratulations, you've learned Tezuka Zone: 5% proficiency. Bonus talent: See opponents' stamina bars.

He heads straight to a street court and runs into Kaidoh Kaoru and Momoshiro Takeshi practicing. Kaidoh lets him serve first. The moment Takizawa Kita activates his Zone, every Snake Shot gets sucked into a one-meter circle. Kaidoh runs all over the court for an hour, his stamina dropping to 76%, while Takizawa Kita barely moves. The match ends 6-2. Afterward, he borrows Kaidoh's racket and touches it: Snake Shot, acquired at 5%. He touches Momoshiro's new racket, but the System gives no response. He dusts himself off and leaves, while Momoshiro shouts after him, "Are you coming to Seigaku?" Without looking back, Takizawa Kita replies:

"Go to Seigaku and pick up balls? No thanks. I'm looking for people who'll let me touch their rackets."

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.