Becoming a Top Student Scientist in a Sports Anime

[To return to the third dimension, I've decided to invent a time machine.]

As a once hard-core shut-in, Zuo Jing Ying Shi never imagined that, despite having long since outgrown her chuunibyou phase, she'd somehow end up transmigrating.

In the real world, she had a successful career and a happy life. A large research grant had just been deposited into her account, and her newly renovated home was shared with three cats...

Her cats!!! QAQ

A time machine... If only she could invent a time machine! Time machines exist in the two-dimensional world, so it only makes sense that she should be able to build one too, right?

First, enter a few competitions and build an impressive resume. Then transfer to a prestigious school, make friends with rich kids, and come up with more inventions to establish her reputation as a genius scientist.

After that, she can find some sucker to fund her research...

And so.

"My dream is to build a time machine that can travel between worlds."

In front of a group of kids, she boldly declares her ambition without a hint of hesitation.

In the hearts of every athletic boy of the same generation, there's a shadow they all share.

Its name is "someone else's kid."

Whether you play tennis, basketball, volleyball, or soccer.

Whether it's a shogi tournament, a piano competition, or an academic Olympiad.

No matter what extracurricular activity you take part in outside of sports, you can't escape the oppressive terror of that name.

Saijing Yingshi of Hyotei Academy.

Always in first place, never defeated, the kid every parent wants, and the shared nightmare of both top students and slackers.

Among all her many defeated opponents, if you ask who's suffered the most from her,

that would have to be Keigo Atobe, who's gone to the same school as Saijing Yingshi since third grade and has lived in her shadow ever since.

"A genius." "A prodigy." "Number one." "She's so incredible, she must have superpowers!"

Ever since she transferred to Hyotei, all these dazzling accolades have gathered around her. And Keigo Atobe, who always considered himself the ruler of Hyotei, has never beaten her even once!

"Hmph. Everyone praises her as a genius, but she's not the least bit flashy. She's got no stamina."

"A weakling who throws up after running 400 meters. Once she sees my dazzling technique, she'll be so impressed she'll fall to her knees and worship me..."

Then one day, he runs into a robber and watches Saijing Yingshi pull out a tennis racket and smack the culprit flying more than ten meters with a single shot. Atobe's world comes crashing down.

"But... aren't you a sports idiot?!"

"You're right. But after countless failed experiments, I've finally realized the truth: the most overpowered thing in this world is tennis. If I can't invent a time machine, it's because I don't understand tennis!"

Saijing Yingshi calmly adjusts her glasses in front of Keigo Atobe.

"So I built this 'Fully Automatic Copy-and-Return Sci-Fi Tennis Racket.' Right now, it can only just manage to send people flying. But when our power levels start going through the roof in ninth grade, I'll be able to copy all your techniques and get back to studying my time machine."

"Keep it up, Kage. I'm looking forward to the day you can hit black holes, meteorites, and dinosaurs."

You haven't given up on your time machine?

Wait, that's not the point!

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What kind of tennis can hit black holes and dinosaurs anyway?!

The result of wanting to bully Atobe.

[The entire story is currently drafted. New chapters will appear at random intervals. Once the full draft is finished, updates will become regular. If you like it, please add it to your favorites! qwq]

Theme: Work tirelessly to achieve your ideals.