In front of the home plate area of the court, the main teams of Aoba Dodai High School and Tozuki Shirasugi High School lined up in two horizontal lines, facing each other and taking off their hats to each other, "Thank you very much for your advice!" ”

"Thank you very much for your advice!"

"Bang Bang Bang ......"

At the end of the game, the spectators and fans in the stands gave warm and affirmative applause to all the players of both teams. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

At this time, the two 'wounded soldiers' on the field, Watanabe and Inuya, looked at each other's left and right hands, both of which looked like they were fixed and hung with bandages around their necks.

After a while, Watanabe's originally expressionless face suddenly showed a toothy laugh: "Haha...... It's a bit of a hard time for us to be like this! …… However, you played this game beautifully, Inuya-kun, I lost to you! ”

With that, Watanabe hammered the dogtooth's chest with his intact left hand.

And Inuya, who has always been hostile to Watanabe, didn't feel any disgust with Watanabe's intimate gestures at this time!

It's weird, but it's also normal!

If it is said to be replaced by the dogtooth before the game, if Watanabe dares to do this at this time, it will definitely be a merciless punch from the dogtooth.

But after this game, especially in the direct duel between the two at the beginning of the game, the number of shots thrown by the side of the dog saw that he was facing this duel as a good friend and from the perspective of a good friend.

So Watanabe threw the ball with all his might, the kind without reservation......

And what about the canine himself!?

From the beginning, he was still very hostile to Watanabe, but after one throw after another, these hostilities were slowly dissipated by Watanabe's enthusiastic pitching.

Although it is not completely eliminated, at least through the pitching of the side, Inuya can somewhat guess what kind of thoughts Watanabe has in mind to fight against him.

So at this time, Inuya was a little overwhelmed, and he chose to respond with silence to Watanabe's warm friendship smile and greeting him again.

Watanabe also thought of the fact that Inuya still had a problem in his heart at this time, and he didn't know what to say, so he could only turn into a farewell blessing in the end: "Okay, okay, you guy is still so dead after so long!" …… If you feel uncomfortable, then let's go out alone before we go back, and I'll let you beat it up! ~”

"No~" The two words just popped out of the dog's mouth, but Watanabe filtered out the words of the dogtooth's refusal with a direct flash: "Then it's decided, I'll see you outside the stadium later, I'll go and talk to the coach~"

After saying that, Watanabe followed his teammates, who were already about to leave the field, and prepared to pack up and go home.

After a while, near the parking lot outside the stadium, Watanabe and Inuya met here to settle some past grievances.

"Come on, Inuya, if you're still uncomfortable, then beat me up and get angry! ~ If I can't help but fight back or shout in pain, then I'm not a man! After Watanabe finished speaking, he completely relaxed his body and faced Inuya with a look of waiting to be beaten.

Inuya looked at Watanabe, who was not wary of himself at all, and to be honest, for a moment he really wanted to beat the heart of the bastard in front of him.

I think of all the pains and trials I have suffered in my favorite baseball game over the years because of an accident when I was a teenager......

Inuya really feels like beating Watanabe and I don't think it's too much, but what if I beat Watanabe!?

Can you really relieve the grievances you have been holding back in your heart for the past few years!?

No, so the canine teeth could only grit their teeth and stare fiercely at Watanabe in front of him, but he didn't make any movement for a long time.

After a long while, Watanabe still didn't feel the pain of being beaten, so he opened his eyes and looked at the dog tooth with an unhappy face, and saw that the dog tooth looked like he was going to eat people, but Watanabe didn't think so, and he wanted to say something directly.

But before Watanabe could say a word, Inuya couldn't help but punch Watanabe on the right side of his face.

"Pong! ~”

"Ahhh~"

"Plop~"

Watanabe was knocked to the ground by a solid punch.

Although it wasn't very painful, Watanabe was a little surprised that he didn't expect Inuya to really hit him.

"Okay, you two, enough trouble is ......"

At this moment, a person's scolding voice suddenly came from beside the two.

Watanabe and Inuya, who were looking at each other two by two, looked at the person who had just scolded the two of them in surprise when they heard this voice, and shouted in unison, "Sensei!! ~~”

……………………

Two days later, on the baseball club court of Aoba Dodai High School, Watanabe stood on the pitcher's hill and practiced throwing excitedly.

"Whew! ~”

"Smack! ~”

"Good vote, Watanabe-kun! ~~" Catcher Anno passed the ball back after receiving a ball, and after complimenting it, he said: "Hela, I said that you have practiced enough balls today, it's time to end it!" ”

"Senior, I can still shoot a few more balls, please pick up ten more balls from me!"

“~~~”

"Come on~~ Watanabe, your ball count today has reached 180, and it's easy to have an accident if you throw it again! ~" Akai on the side reminded Watanabe.

He didn't care about Akai's reminder, and he replied to Akai very excitedly at this time: "It's okay, I'm in just the right state!" ~ So please, Senior Anno, I want you to help me catch a few more balls. ”

"Oh well~~"

Yasano, who was squatting in the catcher area, looked at Watanabe's state on the pitcher mound, and then looked at the coach Kawano in the rest area, and after getting the nod and approval of coach Kawano, Anno put on his head gear again and put the catcher gloves in the corner of the good ball belt to signal Watanabe to throw the ball here.

Watanabe, who was standing on the pitcher's mound, smiled excitedly when he saw Anno ready, and the baseball in his hand was even tighter.

He then began to step on the board and throw a curveball, which was the one he practiced the most today, and the one that Watanabe felt was the weakest at the moment.

"Whew! ~”

"Peng~"

Yasuno received the ball thrown by Watanabe in the low corner of the outside corner, and after he sighed that Watanabe had a beautiful shot, he passed the baseball back to Watanabe in his glove and shouted, "Come again, bastard, you have the ability to throw a few more shots like this!" ~”

"Hay! ~" Hearing this, Watanabe didn't look like he was tired at all, but more like he was stimulated by the beating of chicken blood, completely ignoring the limits of his body, and stepped on the board to throw the ball without hesitation.

……………………

On the other side, in the rest area, Kasugayun and Maki, who had just finished practice, watched Watanabe on the court still practicing throwing.

Maki was not calm all of a sudden: "Ah...... Enough of this guy! ~ I've been practicing all afternoon, and I'm still practicing! He's going to die~"

"~~" Kasugamo looked at Watanabe on the pitcher's hill and secretly thought in admiration: This kid has enough hard work! ~

At this time, Maki asked Tsuchihara, who had returned to the rest area one step earlier, to rest, "Hasn't that kid Watanabe finished practicing!?" ”

Tsuchihara said: "I'm done practicing, but just now Watanabe-kun proposed to Senior Anno to practice more...... I said, what is this kid doing these days, just practice every day, and practice so crazy! Lost in love!? ”

"Hell knows!"

"Does he have a love affair to lose!?" The spring cloud god made up a sentence, choking on Tsuchihara and Maki so much that he couldn't say a complete sentence for a long time: uh...... That seems to be the same~

At this time, outside the rest area, Hoshino hurriedly walked in with a stack of papers, and shouted to everyone in the rest area: "Outside, outside, the freshly baked campus baseball newspaper, someone is waiting for the report!" ~”

"What!? What the!? What's the ......?"

Suddenly, almost everyone in the rest area was attracted by Hoshino's words, except for Kasuga, who was completely unaware, and didn't surround to join in the fun.

At this time, Maki snatched the newspaper from Hoshino's hand and immediately read it seriously.

After a while, Maki shouted: "I'm really in the news!" …… Kanagawa Prefecture Regional Selection Tournament Yokohama Division Group E, Aoba Dodai High School vs. Shirasugi High School, Aoba Dotai starting pitcher Watanabe and opponent Shirasugi High School ace Inuya fought 49 goals in the first game, both defeated and injured at the beginning of the game; Then Aoba Michitai relay pitcher Kasugayun performed well, and the one-handed ball changed to comprehensively suppress the opponent Shirasugi High School's entire line, and the whole game had 9 strikeouts, none of them hit, no one on base, and the opponent was perfectly sealed, and Takahashi, the coach of Shirasugi High School, spoke highly of the player......"

At this time, Kasugayun heard Maki shouting his name next to him, so he asked Maki strangely: "What's the situation~ Senior Maki!?" ”

"Haha~ What else can happen, you kid is famous, look! ~”

Maki couldn't hide the excitement on his face and came to Kasugayun with the newspaper, spread it out and pointed to a box in the lower right corner of the front of the newspaper and introduced: "Hela, look, here, the names of our team, as well as the names of you and Watanabe-kun have been reported!" ~This is the weekly newspaper of regional college sports, you are famous, you know!? ”

"What the hell!?" Kasugamo looked at the newspaper puzzled.

I saw that this was a general A2 size newspaper.

However, unlike the newspaper that Kasugamo usually reads at home, the newspaper in Maki's hand at this time is obviously more niche.

Its genuine publication is titled Regional College Sports Weekly.

It is a newspaper produced by a local newspaper in Aoba Ward called the Sunday Sports Newspaper Club, and its coverage is only circulated in the Aoba Ward of Yokohama!

It is a privately owned newspaper for local school sports news.

At this time, Kasugamo saw that the front half of the front page of the newspaper was a large portrait of a person in the headline frame.

It was a pitcher in a white and blue jersey who was doing an arm-throwing action, Kasugamo had roughly read the headline, which read: Wasai Minitaka passed easily, and captain Masato Kawakami proudly said that there was no opponent in the city-level game!

However, Kasugamo didn't pay much attention to the headlines, and after only a cursory glance, he immediately put his eyes on the box where his school news was published.

After a while, Kasugayun finished reading it, and there was no surprise or excitement or excitement, as if his name appeared in the newspaper and it had nothing to do with him.

"Oh, that's it! ~~It doesn't seem like anything~"

"Whoop! ~~”

"Make no mistake, Kasuga-kun, you reported it! ~”

"yes, I saw it! ~" Kasugamo replied: "But so what~~"

Kasugamo didn't think there was anything great about publishing in the newspaper, or that he didn't understand the significance of reporting his name at all.

So, how could his sentence suddenly choke the teammates in the rest area half to death: What about me!? What's going on!! ~~Report it, and be featured in the genuine report of the regional sports weekly...... Oh my god, this guy doesn't understand what this means! ~~

For a while, Maki and the others almost wanted to strangle Kasugayun alive with their hands! (To be continued.) )