Episode 50: Seigaku's Claim to Fame



Firstly, Inoue saw Shiba's photograph from the day before. Suddenly he saw the picture of Kirihara and thought that he was spying for Rikkaidai which means, Seigaku's really getting popular. Inou told Shiba that they'll be going to Seigaku that day, Shiba doesn't understand why, since, she just went there and there's no new happenings to note. Inoue just smiled at her and told her to pack her things.

Meanwhile, Inui's treating all the regular members with cold shoulders, I think it's because he wanted to concentrate on the upcoming Intra-School Ranking Tournament, and he couldn't afford to get distracted. Anyway, on the tennis club locker room, everyone was hyped up. Oishi told the regulars that the ranking matches starts from that day on until the next 3 days. He told them to do their best, since the line-up for the Kantou tournament lies on this ranking matches, they needed to weed out the weaker players to give way to the stronger ones. This has been Seigaku's tradition to remain strong.

The Blocks were already written and posted on the board It seemed that on same block Inui, Tezuka and Momoshiro were together. This proves to be problematic since the top 2 of the 4 blocks are the only ones who would be the regular player. This means, 1 of the 3 would be letting go of his regular position. So the ranking matches began. Nothing significant, although Ryoma defeated Oishi on their block (Oishi managed to retain his regular spot since he only lost once on their block). So far, Kikumaru was the first to retain his spot, then Kawamura, Fuji, Kaido, Ryoma and Oishi. Only 2 more spots left.

On the last day of the ranking tournament, Inui and Momoshiro faced off. It seemed that the 2 months of observation on Inui's part paid off since he defeated Momoshiro quite easily and quickly (the actual match wasn't shown). Now, the catch was, Momoshiro already lost to Tezuka-buchou, and now to Inui. He just lost his regular spot. He left the court with a very serious expression.

Everyone was surprised with how well Inui plays now. It's now time for Inui to face Tezuka-buchou. Inui told Tezuka that he's sorry for him since he'll be taking this game from him. So next episode is the showdown of the New!Inui and Tezuka-buchou~!