[Gender-Bending Prince of Tennis] + [Everyone Has a One-Sided Crush] + [Passionate Competition] Twelve-year-old tennis prodigy Xiao Guang makes a reckless decision: she cuts off her long hair, disguises herself as a boy named “Sato Hikaru,” and joins Seigaku’s boys’ tennis team. Twelve-year-old tennis prodigy Xiao Guang makes a reckless decision: she cuts off her long hair, disguises herself as a boy named “Sato Hikaru,” and joins Seigaku’s boys’ tennis team.
Her childhood friend Echizen Ryoma is the only one who knows the truth, yet when a girl gives her a love letter, he sneers, “Mada mada dane.”
Data fanatic Inui Sadaharu’s notebook gets a new entry under “Gender Mystery” every day.
Genius Fuji Shusuke offers her a specially made lemonade: “I know more secrets than you think.”
Captain Tezuka Kunimitsu corners her against a wall: “Deception requires the strength to match.”
Atobe Keigo, the king of Hyotei, tosses her a rose in front of everyone: “The prey this great me sets his sights on never gets away.”
When the National Tournament arrives, the girl, her chest bound beneath her uniform, gasps for breath on the court. In the stands, figures rise at once from five different sections
“My girl, of course I’m the one who’ll protect you.”
“Xiao Guang, it’s time to come home.”
“Player Guang, keep moving forward.”
“If you can’t win, come be Hyotei’s queen.”
“The Child of God never admits defeat, especially not to you.”
(All characters learn the truth about her gender in the final chapter. The bonus chapters feature alternate-route endings.)
