The Prince of Tennis: Mao Li's Cat Adventure Diary

Content warnings: 1. Rikkai has 16 plus 3 members.

2. No couples in the main story; the extras depend on how things go.

3. Plot changes ahead! Fans of Seigaku and Fudomine, read with caution.

After graduation, or rather, after seeing Seiichi Yukimura in the hospital, Juzaburo Mori secretly kept tabs on his younger teammates for a long time. He witnessed their failures and pain, and watched their team quietly fall apart. But it was only at the U-17 training camp that he and the younger boys really got to know each other. He wanted to help, but had no idea where to start. After that, he threw himself into the professional tennis circuit, with few chances to get together with them.

After winning a Grand Slam, he went with his juniors to visit a shrine when they met up. After agonizing over it for a long time, he bought an ema votive plaque. But he had already achieved what he wanted, and had no wishes left. In the end, he wrote nothing and simply hung it up. As he watched it sway in the breeze, he drifted into a reverie and, somehow, thought of the past.

If only I could go back, he thought. It wasn't right for a senior like him to be absent when his juniors needed help most. If only...

And so, time turned back.

Core Theme: As a dependable senior, try being the one who gives your adorable juniors a place to lean on!