Playing Tennis, but with Digital Monsters

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[Upcoming novel blurb]

Though he sometimes slept through class, Mouri's biology grades were decent, and he thought people probably couldn't lay eggs.

So could someone explain what this persimmon-red egg was, doing in his bed when he woke up?

Thirteen-year-old Mouri had just moved to Kanagawa Prefecture. Today, once again, he thought the Kanto region, where people apparently laid eggs, was really strange.

Little theater bit

"You say you're the me I want to be?"

Mouri was planning to slack off, but he'd been forcibly given a makeover and sent to the tennis court. He didn't believe a word from the person claiming to be his "Guardian Character."

"How could the me I want to be possibly work this hard!"

The cat even put forward a reasonable argument.

Then, after being forced to do extra training all day, Mouri belatedly realized this wasn't over yet.

Why did the me he wanted to be not only enjoy training, but also get along with everyone so easily?

Quick, let him slack off!

He absolutely did not want to spend his time mixing with people from Kanto while speaking in that weird Kansai accent!

Reading guide:

1. Ochi x Mouri, one-on-one, no other couples.

2. The main cast of Shugo Chara! are older here. Everyone is a middle school student or older.

3. The plot mainly follows The Prince of Tennis.

4. That's about it. If you're fine with all of that, please read on.

[Blurb for this novel]

Very few people knew that Ochi, who was 2.26 meters tall, had a 1.33-meter-tall younger brother named Hoshino.

The brothers were not only nearly a meter apart in height, but also separated in age by a gap of two or three generations.

There was a reason Ochi rarely mentioned that he had a younger brother.

Six years ago, the brothers had been kidnapped. Though their elders had found them in time, Hoshino had then encountered the digital world by accident and been drawn into it. He had not opened his eyes since.

For six whole years.

After Ochi, now a high school senior, finished his first singles match in this year's Kanto Tournament, he got a call from his mother.

Through her intermittent sobs, Ochi's mother told him:

"Hoshino is awake."

Little theater bit

After Hoshino woke up, successfully enrolled at Hyotei Academy, and joined the tennis club,

when the kid hit an incredibly cool return and Mukahi asked him what the move was called, he blurted out, "Heaven-Splitting Blade!"

Atobe happened to be standing nearby: ...What an unrefined name!

Also known as “What Do You Do When Your Little Brother, Who Was Still a Kid in the Digital World, Returns to the Real World and Becomes Your Older Brother?” / “No Matter Who It Is, Everyone Seems to End Up Raising a Kid” / “What's Wrong with Digimon Showing Up on a Tennis Court?”

Reading guide:

1. Mainly tennis, with some Digimon-related chapters.

2. The tennis plot begins after the National Tournament and before the U-17 training camp.

3. Everyone dotes on him. No main couple. Side pairing: Tsukimitsu x Juzaburo. That's all.

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Original title: “After Ochi's Younger Brother Woke Up”

Theme: Everyone shines in their own field.