Summer nights always come later. It's the same today, it wasn't until after seven o'clock that it began to get dark.

At this time, the lights were still on in the conference room of the baseball club of Yokozuna Middle School.

The players of Yokozuna Junior High School, led by the head supervisor Takeda, watched the video of the competition at Akagi Junior High School together.

Until now, there are two complete game videos circulating in Akagi, one is the Nagano Prefecture finals taken by Yokozuna himself, and the video of Akagi Junior High School's match against Tenryuji Temple. There is also a video of the just-concluded match between Akagi and Santai.

After watching the two game videos, the team's assistant coach took out a notebook and read the data of Akagi Middle School calmly.

"Akagi is a team formed with Sawamura Eijun as the core, whether it is attacking or defending, it is with Sawamura-san. If Akagi Middle School is compared to a sharp arrow, then Sawamura is the arrow of this arrow. If you want to defeat Akagi, you must pull out this arrow. ”

As he spoke, a photo of Sawamura appeared on the projector screen behind him.

Next to the photo of Sawamura, various data of Sawamura are marked.

"Star pitcher, Eijun Sawamura. His stats are at the top of the entire middle school baseball world. As a pitcher, the ball speed, ball control, ball power, and ball tail power are perfectly impeccable. Some media joked that Sawamura is the uncrowned king. In fact, this statement is not exaggerated at all. In terms of pitcher quality alone, Sawamura should be in the top five of all middle school students in the country. ”

Speaking of which, all the players in Yokozuna invariably turned their eyes in another direction.

There, too, there was a heavenly king.

There are a total of 12 heavenly kings for middle school students, and half of them are in the soft ball league and half in the hard ball league. And this one is Ken Uesugi, one of the six heavenly kings in the soft ball league. He is also the least favored of the six heavenly kings and even the twelve heavenly kings.

Pitchers are evaluated by various values, and one of the twelve heavenly kings is counted as one, and the values are the top in the country. And the most complained about by Uesugi Ken is that he is the only king who has been surpassed in these values.

Beyond him is Sawamura!

A small role that was previously unknown is now a challenger to Yokozuna.

Ken Uesugi wears glasses, looks uncontested, suave, and feels like a good student of that standard.

Seeing everyone's eyes and looking at him, Uesugi Ken pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose with his middle finger and said softly, "Isn't that great?" Let me see how much strength this uncrowned king has? ”

Hearing his ace say this, everyone in Yokozuna laughed.

Of course, they are aware of the criticism of their trump card from the outside world, but this does not shake their trust in their trump card in the slightest.

"I don't think you need to worry about Uesugi because although Akagi is very strong, the overall striking strength of their team is not strong. The impact on us should not be large. Even if it is a conservative estimate, they can take a point or two from us, which is the limit. ”

"Eijun Sawamura, batting rate, 5 out of 65, 7 out of 1 on base. Feng Xiang Ao's batting rate is 5 into 3, and the on-base rate is 5 into 8. Both of these guys have good long-hitting ability and belong to the national level of striking masters. With the strength of the two of them, it should cause a little impact on Uesugi, but this impact will not be too big. As for the reason, it's very simple, except for the two of them, Akagi's other beaters can't play with them in tandem at all. ”

"Against Akagi, the most important thing is to see how to overcome their trump card, Sawamura Eisumi's pitching. You watched today's game. Sawamura just uses ordinary pitching to have the combat power to clean up three Tai. Don't be fooled by today's game, Sawamura is not a striker pitcher. When he pitched in Nagano, he managed to get double-digit strikeouts in every game. ”

……

While Yokozuna was researching Akagi, Sawamura also studied Yokozuna's video with his friends.

Yokozuna is strong!

The players in each of their positions are very tough, and their overall strength is not at the same level as Akagi's friends at all. After watching the video of the game, Akagi's friends felt weird.

Yes, Yokozuna is very strong, even if you just watch the game video, you can feel the strength of Yokozuna. But it's strange here, such a yokozuna doesn't make the friends feel scared.

Akagi, who originally thought that the national overlord should be extremely strong, suddenly found that Yokozuna didn't seem to be as strong as he thought.

"After all, they are also middle school students of the same age as us, not Nezha with three heads and six arms. No matter how strong it is, it is only as strong as it is. ”

In this regard, Sawamura summed it up.

The hegemon of the country often gives an unfathomable impression. But in fact, they are both middle school students, and they can't really be strong enough to crush their peers.

Of course, to be able to win the national championship, the strength, they definitely have.

Even from Sawamura's critical eye, this Yokozuna is quite powerful.

All members can hit a ball of 135 kilometers, and the development is relatively early, and one person is tall and big. Although the technique is still a little rough, the tactical literacy has already taken shape.

This is a very strong team!

Takeda is worthy of being a professional senior, and he still has a good set of coaches.

Sawamura nodded secretly.

What especially warns Sawamura is that Yokozuna is not the kind of team that is a legion. They also have several star players in their team who are far beyond the level of middle school students.

Ace pitcher, Ken Uesugi.

Super strong, Otomo ancestors.

Strongholds, strikes, garrison all-round guerrillas, Nishimura Moriki.

and Kanosuke Yamanaka, the catcher.

The strength of these four people is far beyond the level of middle school students.

It's no wonder that Tianlongsi Middle School fought against them at the beginning, and they were beaten and had no power to fight back.

Sawamura fell into deep thought, and everyone in Akagi didn't say a word.

Wada and Sano, the two leading teachers, looked at Sawamura with big eyes and curious babies.

"Rong Chun!"

Feeling the solemnity of the atmosphere, Wakana quietly pulled Sawamura.

Sawamura suddenly woke up.

As the student coach of the team, Sawamura also helps everyone develop tactics.

"You don't have to worry about the other party's blows, leave them all to me. The most important thing for you is to think carefully about how to get points from Uesugi Ken. ”

……

Time passed, and in the blink of an eye, the time of the day passed. With the release of the Kanto quarterfinals, the most important match of the Kanto Tournament began.

The quarterfinals of the Kanto Games are even more exciting than the championship and runner-up finals of the Kanto Games.

Why is this happening?

Actually, it is not surprising at all, because the most important goal of the Kanto Games is not to determine the champion, but to determine the four teams from the Kanto region to participate in the national competition. As long as this game is won, the most important goal of the team to participate in the Kanto Convention has been accomplished!

In the first match of the quarterfinals, Nagano Prefecture's Akagi Junior High School played the host Kanagawa Yokozuna Junior High School.

This game, because of the participation of Ken Uesugi, one of the kings of the soft ball league, and Sawamura, the uncrowned king, was also nicknamed the 'Battle of the Kings' by "Baseball Boy"!