[Prince of Tennis Fanfiction | Time Loop | Sweet and Bittersweet Fate]
This is a battle across time and space, involving tennis, redemption, and love. No matter how many times the world resets,
when Lin Wan wakes up for the thirteenth time in the Hyotei tennis club lounge, her head throbbing, only two obsessions remain: make Atobe Keigo win the Kanto Tournament, and get him to say, “I love you.”
She is trapped in a time loop that ends with the final match. Every reset costs her some of her memories, yet leaves behind her feelings for Atobe and the suffocating sense of being stuck in the loop. To break free, she infiltrates Hyotei as the team manager and uses the tactical experience she has accumulated through the loops to guide their training. But her ability to “predict the future” draws suspicion and scrutiny from Atobe’s purple-gray eyes.
“No one gets to tell me how to play.” At first, he is Hyotei’s flamboyant and imperious king, suspicious of her deliberate attempts to get close. But when the “Time Keeper” repeatedly tries to thwart them, threatening strange phenomena on the court and the erasure of their memories, he freezes danger for her with “Ice World.” As fragments of memory flash before him, he grips her hand. “No matter how many times we repeat this loop, I won’t let you disappear.”
From one-sided probing to a mutual awakening, from unraveling “superpower tennis” to defying the rules of time and space, Lin Wan gradually realizes that it isn’t the loop trapping her. It’s the “Help me” she never said in her previous life, and the devotion he hides beneath his “flamboyant” mask, spanning time and space.
“Atobe Keigo, this time, I’ll be the one to lead you out of the cycle.”
“No,” he says, embroidering her name on his wristband. Amid the cheers at the final, he leans down. “We’ll win together.”
