The day before the tournament, on Friday, July 7th.

As the qualifiers for the Kanto Convention, the hottest region, the semi-finals and finals of Nagano Prefecture are held during this time.

Semi-finals on July 8 and finals on July 9.

Then there was a one-week truce, followed by a week-long Kwantung Congress.

The top four teams at the Kanto Games will go directly to the national competition. The remaining five to eight will fight each other to determine the fifth place. The fifth place winner of the Kanto Games will compete with the runner-up in Tokyo for the last place in the competition.

Kanto and Tokyo, there are a total of six places. One and a half in Tokyo and four and a half in the Kanto region.

Sawamura gave the teammates a holiday early, asking them to go home and take a shower and rest well in order to reserve their strength. The opponent is a familiar opponent who can no longer be familiar, and the countermeasures that should be studied have been thoroughly studied for a long time.

At this time, I am afraid that the grinding gun will have no effect. It's better to let everyone relax their tense nerves. After all, this is not the first time that Akagi's friends have participated in the semi-finals in Nagano Prefecture.

Of course, not everyone can relax.

in the teacher's office.

Mr. Wada looked at the little ones of the Nagano baseball team with an anxious face, and left with a smile on his face. On their immature faces, Hetian didn't even see the slightest nervousness or uneasiness.

His brow furrowed, and he looked for Sano, the head of the baseball club, with a heavy heart.

"Would you like to let everyone leave like this? Anyway, tomorrow is a battle of life and death. ”

Wada asked worriedly.

It is important to note that the Kanto Games are not the same as the Nagano Prefecture competitions, and although the Kanto Games are not national competitions, they are not at all less popular than the national competitions in the entire Kanto region.

The biggest difference is in live television, which is broadcast live and rebroadcast by TV stations throughout the Kanto region. Webcast, Video ......

This kind of publicity is enough to make people worth a hundred times.

People who have watched Sawamura's game think that Sawamura's strength is definitely not worse than Nanami's, and even stronger. But Nanami Haruka is still one of the next generation of the Twelve Heavenly Kings and one of the strongest middle school students in the country.

Sawamura can only be ranked second, and his strength is still questionable.

Why is that?

It's because fans across the country have watched Haruka Nanami's performance, and Sawamura's performance can only be promoted through short videos on the Internet and "Baseball Boys".

I haven't had a great performance in several baseball games in a row, especially if I haven't seen you firsthand. How do you convince others of your strength?

That's where the Kanto Congress and the National Contest come in!

Any athletics and competitions are pyramid-structured. The more you go to the later you go, the more glory and fame you bring.

The gold content of the Nagano semi-finals cannot be compared with the gold content of participating in the Kanto Conference. Similarly, the first round of elimination and two rounds of elimination in the Kanto Convention are different, not to mention the Kanto semi-finals with a place in the national competition.

Previously, Akagi had fallen in the semifinals twice, and this time he couldn't say anything without being fully prepared.

"Rest assured, Rong Chun, he will be ready."

Sano said with a smile.

Wada looked at Sano puzzled, and smiled bitterly in his heart. Of course, he knows Sawamura's ability and strength, and he also believes that Sawamura can lead Akagi's friends to create miracles. To be honest, even if tomorrow's opponent is Nagano's strongest Tenryuji Middle School, Wada will not be so nervous.

But tomorrow's opponent of Akagi Junior High School is not Tenryuji, but Nagano Metropolitan Residence!

The strongest Nagano Metropolitan Stand!

Wada will never forget that summer, he would be so excited that he couldn't sleep all night because of a group of teenage kids.

Nagano Prefecture is landlocked and dominated by tourism and agriculture. It is difficult for such an area to produce a strong sports school. Whether it's basketball or football, there is no team that can show heroism in the country.

Elementary, junior high and high school, Nagano's best result in the country was the national second round.

The top four teams are always Kanagawa, Tokyo, and Osaka.

Many viewers have raised questions about the fact that if a team in a small place like Nagano is really dragged into that kind of fierce battle zone, I am afraid that it will be at the level of the top eight.

It's hard to hear, but cruelly, it's also true.

It is not once or twice that the teams participating in the national competition in the non-fierce war zone have been bloodied by the teams in the fierce war zone.

Nagano is a non-fierce war zone, so the teams that come out of Nagano are generally not very strong. But all this was rewritten three years ago, by a group of teenage elementary school students.

Nagano Metropolitan Little League Team!

They made it all the way to the national competition, and in the national competition, they beat strong opponents and reached the final.

In the finals, the performance was also very eye-catching, once pressing the lesser baseball overlord Emperor Shaoba, and finally in the playoff game, the pitcher Nanami Haruka withdrew and lost to the opponent by one point.

……

It was the first time that an elementary school student had received such attention, and the whole of Nagano Prefecture was in a state of madness. All the fans cheer for this group of kids!

Really let Wada say that that kind of fanaticism is very similar to the current Brotherhood of the Red Heart.

It's just that there was no one to organize at that time, and there were more people and more dispersed. Besides, elementary school students are elementary school students after all, and relying on their performance in elementary school, it is not certain what will happen to them in the future.

So the crowd then dispersed, until the 'Brotherhood of Red Hearts' appeared. The core members of the fraternity are also the backbone of the fans at the beginning.

But since then, Nagano has been transferred.

In that team, there were three of the top 100 baseball players in the country.

Tenryuji ace Nanami Haruka, Nagano Metropolitan ace Mari, and Akagi Junior High School's main No. 2 catcher Hosho Okuichi.

After graduating from elementary school, the rest of the team either stayed in the youth league or attended Nagano Metropolitan Junior High School, with the exception of aces Haruka Nanami and Okuichi Hosho.

Now, that team has grown!

They are the main force of Nagano Metropolitan Junior High School now, the strongest Nagano Metropolitan School.

Although Tenryuji Middle School won the national semi-finals last summer, Wada feels that Tenryuji is not as good as Nagano's generation.

After all, they're a legend!

Known as the generation of Nagano's Golden Age.

On the other side, on the court of Nagano Metropolitan High School, Okuichi Hosho was practicing swinging his bat.

He didn't have a pitching machine in front of him, and he was doing an imaginary exercise that a junior high school student would rarely do.

"Buzz! ～”

A low swing of the stick, accompanied by sweat from the hair, spilled out.

"Something?"

In the silence of the environment, a voice suddenly came from the darkness.

Feng Xiang Ao looked at the figure in front of him suspiciously.

"Nope!"

The figure chuckled, "I really didn't know that you had such glory in the past. ”

As he spoke, the man pulled out a newspaper with a date from three years ago.

The front page of the newspaper was a group photo of a group of children.

"Nagano Metropolitan Government, National Runner-up !!!"