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Start of a War (開戦 Kaisen) is the 317th chapter of manga, Baby Steps.

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Before the start of the match, Kageyama asks Yukichi how strong Takuma is. Yukichi says Takuma is 8th in Japan. He compares Takuma and Ei-chan. Takuma: offense, 10; defense, 10; physical strength, 8. Ei-chan: offense, 6; defense, 8; physical strength, 6. But he adds that he thinks Ei-chan has an edge in mental strength. He points out that in tennis, even the world's no.1 is often defeated in the first round, which is why ranking is based on points earned during the year. However, Coach Miura attributes Takuma's recent advancement to mental growth. During the warm-up, Takuma thinks it's been a long time since they'd played against each other, but he feels he knows Ei-chan's tennis well: Ei-chan grows abnormally during a match. Even in the 1R match that Takuma went to watch, it seems that Ei-chan had exceeded Takuma's imagination, because Takuma thinks that Ei-chan is truly a terrifying/terrific guy... and Takuma apparently decides he'll steadily pay attention to that point and crush him. Ei-chan thinks he'd been able to prepare his heart, technique, and physique, so what remains is deploying all that on court. Takuma won the coin toss so it's his serve. Serves go as soulelle said. After the first serve, Ei-chan thinks he can't imagine a strategy where Takuma continues to shoulder the risks of such a serve from the start, but it might be better to just remain prepared. Ei-chan manages to return the second serve, but it's a chance ball and Takuma puts it away. Ei-chan's surprised that Takuma's glaring at him. [Maybe Takuma hadn't expected Ei-chan to be able to return it?] 

Ei-chan thinks the variety of Takuma's serves is also different so he can't match the timing easily. He remembers how in the past, he couldn't return even a single serve of Takuma's, and thinks that today, he'll return it, break it...and win! With the third serve, Takuma goes to the net. Ei-chan thinks if it's unreasonable to aim for the sides, he'll sink the ball at Takuma's feet. However, Takuma handles it easily. Ei-chan feels Takuma's coming quite aggressively, and he thinks that if he doesn't attack more intensely than now to break... The next serve is an ace. So 1-0 for Takuma, and the next game is Ei-chan's serve.


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