The sky was bright.

The friends of the Qingdao High School baseball team are already up and running.

"It's really a giant, and this training is too strict."

"Wake up earlier than chickens, eat less than cows, and sleep later than dogs......"

The first-grade students, when they get together, occasionally tease each other.

Don't look at the fact that it has been three or four months since joining the team, many of them have not fully adapted to the high-intensity training rhythm of the Qingdao High School baseball team.

Although I understand it in my heart, I can't complain about it.

Kurachi is one of them.

Although he usually trains harder than other friends, he is not polite at all when he complains.

"Who are those two figures?"

Maezono asked suddenly.

The first-grade friends followed the prestige and saw two figures walking on the bright dam, talking and laughing.

Almost at first glance, Kuramochi recognized the identities of those two men. As one of the best of his age, this is not a difficult task for him.

"How could it be them?"

Kuramoto's expression was a little complicated.

The two people who came were both first-year freshmen. One is Yu Xing, and the other is Zhang Han.

Originally, he practiced in the morning, but only Zhang Han himself. After he saw the messages of blessings in China, his whole chest was filled with excited blood.

Thinking that there are still people in the motherland who are silently paying attention to him, he feels that there is infinite energy surging in him.

Originally, he played baseball to fulfill one of his dreams. As for the other benefit that baseball brings him, he can get a scholarship to study on the Qingdao High School baseball team.

That was a bonus.

Other than that, there is nothing else.

Today, however, this has changed radically.

Zhang Han played baseball, not only for himself, but also with the expectations and blessings of more than a dozen people.

Despite the fact that he has a cold face on weekdays, he doesn't seem to be easy to touch.

But he himself is actually a very responsible person, and if people are willing to believe him, he will do it even if he puts in 120% effort.

Previously, when he was in Matsukata, he was able to progress from a beginner to the core of the team.

A very important reason is because of Ono Binzhi's expectations for him.

In order to live up to this expectation and cultivation, he has put in so much effort and achieved such achievements.

If it weren't for such a solid foundation, even if Zhang Han himself had a certain talent, it would be difficult for him to shine when he graduated from junior high school.

The same is true today.

In order not to disappoint those friends who blessed him in his hometown, he had to behave.

Enter Koshien!

In order to achieve this goal, Zhang Han gets up an hour early every day to practice swinging the stick.

Originally, it was just him, but then somehow, he was known by Yuyuki. That guy had to follow along, and Zhang Han was helpless.

"People who are better than themselves work harder than themselves! That's probably how it feels. ”

Chuanshang, who had just been promoted to the Second Army, scratched his scalp and said bitterly.

As players of the same age, these players who have come to Tokyo from other places to study are undoubtedly the most conscious.

Before coming to the Seongdo High School baseball team, they were ready to take on any challenge.

When I first arrived, I was also ambitious and wanted to make a difference in the team and lead the team to Koshien.

But once you're in the team, they'll find out.

That kind of thought, I think too much about myself.

Not to mention being up-and-coming, there is a performance. It is very difficult for them to join the army.

And the most terrible thing is that no matter whether they perform well or not, whether they work hard or not. In this team, there are always people who do very well.

If the psychological quality is a little worse, if you don't do it well, you will be completely desperate.

Maezono clenched his fists tightly and didn't say a word, this incident obviously had a huge impact on him.

After the first round of matches, another week passed.

The second game of the Seido High School baseball team began, and this time their opponent was the Metropolitan No. 3 High School, also known as the No. 3 High School, which they had never heard of before.

Just by the name, you know that the other party is a public school.

In Nishitokyo, he was able to pass the test and reach the third round of the competition, and his strength must be very good.

Don't underestimate the third round, among the more than 100 schools in Nishitokyo, the teams that can make it to this round have basically eliminated 3/4 of the teams.

Before the game, Takashima Rei gave everyone this popular science.

Remind everyone not to be negligent to others just because they are public schools.

This is a big no-no in the game.

Don't say it, my friends really listened to it.

So before the start of the competition, one by one they were ready to prepare. Especially the main players, they are ready to play in full force.

Just the tactics against the enemy, everyone studied several sets in private.

Regarding each other's information, as well as the video of their first two games, the friends also carefully studied it several times.

There's no way, in the first game, the friends suffered from this loss, and they really had enough.

Originally, against the Musashi High School baseball team, Seido High School could win more easily.

But at the beginning of the game, it was inseparable from others.

Although they got their face back in the later stage, they were also scolded by Kataoka Superintendent.

As the saying goes, eat a trench and grow a wisdom.

This time they said they couldn't make that kind of low-level mistake again.

As a result, everyone prepared very well, but the day before the actual competition, Superintendent Kataoka said.

"Considering that Saturday and Sunday are reliant battles, we made a slight adjustment. In tomorrow's match against public schools, the main team will not play, and the substitutes will come on. ”

The co-author talked for a long time, and the only ones who really regarded public schools as opponents were the players.

From the very beginning, Kataoka's supervisor and members of the coaching staff did not take this opponent seriously.

"Anyway, the other team also made it to the third round, wouldn't it be a bit of a bit like that?"

Captain Tanaka asked.

"Just let the substitutes come on first, and the rest of the people naturally have to be ready to play when the situation is not good."

Kataoka said.

After he finished speaking, he found that the substitutes were staring at their captain viciously.

What do you mean, don't believe in our strength?

Zhang Han had no intention of intervening in the competition among the third-grade seniors, and he shrugged: "Since I don't have to play tomorrow, then I can practice more tonight, right?" ”

"Who told you you didn't have to play?"

Kataoka asked.

"Didn't you mean the main force?"

"Who told you that you are the workhorse? Don't think that wearing the number 6 number is the main force of the team. If you don't behave well, replace you immediately. ”

I......

Zhang Han opened his mouth and didn't say a word.