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It's another rainy day. The last class ended in the afternoon. Akio Yabe rushed out of the school building with his schoolbag on his back and ran towards the baseball club's indoor training ground.

And Li Yuanrang opened the umbrella unhurriedly and slowly walked in the same direction.

Walking into the indoor practice range, Li Yuanrang found that all the lights that should have been turned on were turned off. It was pitch black inside on a rainy day.

At this time, the happy birthday song suddenly sounded. The teammates shouted Surprise in RB-style English pronunciation and came to Li Yuanrang from the supply warehouse next door.

"Happy Birthday!"

Captain Ichihei Fukushima took the lead in congratulating Li Yuanrang.

"But it's been a long time since my birthday......

Lee Wonrang's birthday was at the end of May, and it was exam week, so even he didn't think much about it.

"What's the matter, anyway, idols' birthday festivals are basically not held on their birthdays."

The team's first baseman, Masaoka Ji, is an idol nerd, and he likes to make analogies to things in the idol world.

"That's right! And cakes. ”

The manager, Aki Suzuki, walked to the supply warehouse next door and pushed out the birthday cake hidden there in a trolley.

Sixteen candles were placed on the cake, and Yaji lit them one by one. Then he planned to push it over to Li Yuanrang.

In the process of moving, the wheels got stuck in the seams on the floor, and the cake fell forward to the ground under the action of inertia.

"There's no cake now."

I don't know who in the crowd said this.

"There's no way around it, anyway, idols' birthday festivals occasionally drop cakes on the ground......"

It was still first baseman Masaoka who said this. He himself had witnessed something similar happen at the show.

……

After the brief birthday party, Li Yuanrang cleaned up the mess on the ground with everyone. Afternoon training takes place as usual on the indoor driving range.

At this time, Akio Yabe brought a cardboard box and handed it to Li Yuanrang.

"It's a birthday present."

Li Yuanrang opened the box, and inside was a brand new glove. It's just for catchers.

"What is this?"

"Don't be in a hurry to use it first, you have to shape it first......"

"I mean, why the catcher's glove."

Although he made a cameo appearance as a catcher, Li Yuanrang's official garrison position is still outfield.

"In the fall, it's probably really up to you to squat, and recently I've been pulling people everywhere to join the team, and there has been no progress at all. There will certainly be no new pitcher before the fall convention. ”

If a new pitcher is not found before the fall, Akio Yabe will be pushed to the position of temporary ace.

"Didn't you say there was a Daisuke Ohno in Group B? In terms of age, it should be the parents' generation who like Daisuke Matsusaka, right? ”

"I went to ask yesterday, and his father is actually a fan of Daisuke Matsui, and he usually only watches football......"

"Then there's Tatsuya Imaizumi, who is always a favorite name in the baseball family."

"It's like his mom is the fan of a five-member male idol group.,It's the one who usually acts in the form of a BAND.。 That's where the name Tatsuya comes from. ”

It seems that Yabe's recent search for additional members by name has not been going well.

"Is there anyone else?"

"There is one, but ...... It's also based on the name. ”

……

"No, no, no, it's different from what you think, my name has nothing to do with baseball."

The person who is talking to Akio Yabe is Tokuda Ballo, who also belongs to the first grade.

Students who played baseball during their RB high school days were called college ballers. Many parents who like baseball will also use the word "ball" to name their children.

"If it has nothing to do with baseball, why is it called that?"

Li Yuanrang asked.

He was dragged by Yabe to convince Tokuda together as an excellent representative of the new recruits.

"My family is from Okinawa, and that place used to be called Ryukyu, and Qiuer means 'Ryukyu athletes'."

Tokuda Ball Junior High School, who had lived in Okinawa for the past year, came to Tokyo this spring following his father's job transfer. So Yabe doesn't know much about his situation either.

"Even if it's not a name for baseball, you can consider the baseball club, and we can provide ......."

"Yes, I can participate in the baseball club."

Before Yabe could begin to detail the various benefits of the baseball club, Tokuda had already agreed to join the club.

"Actually, I've always been interested in baseball, and I played it in elementary school, but I didn't have a baseball team in middle school."

Seeing Yabe's stunned face, Tokuda explained.

"Then why don't you join the baseball club as soon as you enter school?"

"When I started school, I saw the poster of the 'Fighting Game Club'. In order to play the game, I joined on impulse. But now the interest has almost faded......"

Tokuda Ball is a fan of traditional 2D fighting games, and likes Street Fighter 2 the most, in addition to this, the KOF level in the 90s is also good. So when I first chose extracurricular activities, I joined a club where I could play fighting games.

But after I really joined, I found out that the club is a club after all. Most of the members are not very good.

In Tokuda's own words, fighting these people is like the reward level for smashing cars and gas barrels in Street Fighter. It's not challenging at all.

"What about baseball, won't it be a few days before the interest is gone?"

Lee Wonrang worries that Tokuda's interest in baseball is only a momentary one.

"Baseball is different, and the baseball club of the Peace School is also aimed at Koshien, right?"

"At least the slogan is also 'Goal!' Koshien! That's right. ”

"Wouldn't that be the best team in the whole RB? It's a lot more challenging! ”

Tokuda Qiuer filled out the application form so happily.

On the second day of training, he appeared on the practice pitch for the first time as a new player.

He was joined by a blonde American. His name is Donald Hirata.

He has a quarter RB bloodline. But I don't know anything Japanese. Until now, classes have been based on guesswork. Because of this, I have not signed up for any extracurricular clubs.

"Who brought him closer to the baseball club?"

Yabe had tried to win Donald into the team before, but after trying once, he found that he couldn't communicate, so he dismissed this idea.

"I brought him here, and I told him that as long as he sat in the lounge area in his jersey, he would have pork chop curry to eat at night."

The speaker was Masaoka Masa.

"What language did you use to talk to him?"

"English, of course, I learned it every night by watching a foreign movie."

Junko Fujiwara, the actress that Masaoka admires, is known for her love of watching foreign movies. Unlike RB people, who generally prefer dubbed versions. Junko Fujiwara basically watches the version of the original subtitles.

In order to imitate his idol, Masaoka also started renting Hollywood movies a year ago.

Of course, relying on the little English learned in the movies alone is not at all enough to communicate with Donald. In order to be able to pull the other party in, Masaoka also used a lot of "body language".

That's it.

With the efforts of Yabe, Masaoka and Li Yuanrang. The team finally had two more members before the registration deadline.