"There's a new team member here!"

While I was talking to Mr. Sato, a little girl popped out of nowhere and shouted into the stadium with a plastic megaphone. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The teammates who were practicing stopped their movements and turned their heads to look at the sidelines together. Then they came over one after another.

Li Yuanrang glanced at the little round-faced girl with a single ponytail in front of him with his residual vision.

"School uniforms, you have to look at your face......"

Li Yuanrang thought so in his heart.

She wasn't actually wearing a school uniform, nor was she a baseball team jersey. It's a sportswear that you wear in school physical education class.

The knitted red fabric is trimmed with white edges and is loose and loose. It is somewhat similar to the school uniform of Chinese high school students, but there is no bloated feeling when the girl wears it, but it highlights the youthful atmosphere.

"The team's acting manager, Aki Suzuki, can call me Aki in the future."

The girl spoke up first and said hello.

"I'm Li Yuanrang."

While introducing himself, Li Yuanrang found that the girl had already stretched out her hand to shake hands. So he had to stretch out his right hand, and then he found that the other party was stretching out two hands, so he had to stretch out his left hand as well.

Just like that, the four hands were held together.

"It's time!"

Mr. Sato, who was next to him, didn't know when he took out a stopwatch to time, and then pushed Li Yuanrang, who was shaking hands, away.

Li Yuanrang glanced back at Yaji, who was waving goodbye behind her.

"I said Mr. Sato, isn't this way of greeting a little strange?"

"It's standard for handshakes."

Sato-sensei doesn't know why, but seems to be very proficient in these.

"Handshake?"

"Suzuki, the baseball club, is an active idol."

"I'm a member of the Majors." Yabe, who was standing aside, added.

The Majors are a girl group that debuted a few years ago with a total of over 50 members. With the exception of some groups named after numbers, the group with the largest number of people in Japan is the Majors.

But Lee Won-rang knows almost nothing about the three-dimensional girl idols, so he's only heard of the names of Majors, and he doesn't know what the specific members are.

Of course, even the average Japanese teenager, or Majors' own FAN, may not know Aki Suzuki.

The producers of the Majors are baseball fans, and the entire team structure is modeled after Major League Baseball.

The only people who usually appear in the media are the so-called Major group, a total of nine people. The other members are divided into groups 3A or 2A and perform for the audience in various small theatres.

Yaji is now only a member of Group 2A. For the development of her career in the arts, she was admitted to the Peace School with flexible teaching time when she was in middle school, but she won the certificate of full attendance for three consecutive years. Even the extracurricular activities of the baseball club have been almost never absent since middle school.

……

At some point, the players who practiced on the field had already gathered around. Li Yuanrang counted it, and there were only seven people including himself. It seems that two other players were absent from training today.

The teammates introduced themselves to each other. Then captain Ichihei Fukushima suggested that Li Yuanrang do a team test first.

"Then I'll go change into my tracksuits."

Li Yuanrang is still wearing the uniform he wore in class. The uniform of the School of Peace is a dark blue suit with a white shirt. Obviously, it is not appropriate to wear this body for exercise.

In addition, sportswear for physical education classes is also distributed. Unlike girls' styles, boys wear blue. This is what he was going to change.

"It's better to go directly to the department and get the team uniform." Captain Fukushima said so.

The baseball club is located right next to the ballpark. It's not the same as the kind of temporary wooden houses that are common in general comics. The Peace School Baseball Club has a separate three-story building with a reinforced concrete structure.

The first floor is a small indoor practice range, and the other floors have not only equipment storage, but also tactical conference rooms equipped with audio-visual media playback. Changing rooms and showers are also available.

"Isn't it a little too luxurious compared to the number of members......

Li Yuanrang stood at the door of the warehouse, muttering to himself.

"The school's OB provides a lot of sponsorship every year, so it's like this."

Yabe, who came with him, explained.

OB is an abbreviation for OldBoys, which basically refers to seniors who have graduated. However, abbreviations are generally not used in Europe and the United States. Only the Japanese use it that way.

As a private school with a relaxed academic style, there are many famous artists or entrepreneurs among the alumni. That's why the school is so well funded in the field of extracurricular activities. Even the baseball club, which has never achieved anything, has a lot of light in this regard.

For example, the jersey was sponsored by an alumni who inherited a sporting goods store from his hometown in Yamanashi Prefecture. The team members can receive it for free without paying for clothing.

"Also, have you been to the curry shop across the street from the school?"

"Shibanya?"

"The owner of that store is also an OB of the baseball club, so if you want to supplement your nutrition, you can go to Sato-sensei and ask for a meal ticket."

Yabe introduced the benefits of baseball members one by one. Not only restaurants, but also the striking practice range in front of the station can be practiced whenever there is a vacant seat. Vouchers are also available at the nearby laundromat where you can get them, and you don't have to wash the jerseys you change during training without having to wash them yourself. The laundry will come and collect it every day.

After hearing this, Li Yuanrang began to feel that his decision, which may not have been well thought out, was the right one.

Whether for local students or international students, the tuition fees of the Peace School are not cheap, although the Li family's parents can afford it, but the relative living expenses are relatively tight.

It's just that Li Yuanrang, as an otaku who loves ACG, has a bunch of things to buy in Japan. Money is always not enough.

Now you can save some of the food expenses or something, and this money can be turned into pocket money.

After changing into his jersey, Li Yuanrang returned to the courtside for a simple warm-up.

"Just test the basic physical fitness and stuff, don't feel pressured......"

Fukushima, the captain in charge of the test, told him.

And the nominal team coach Sato just moved a chair to sit next to him and is now scrolling through his phone.

The first is the 50-meter run, and Li Yuanrang's time is a little more than seven seconds. It's not bad in ordinary people, but it's definitely not good in sports clubs.

The second is baseball long-range shooting. This test can test a player's ability to pass the ball, and it will also have some reference value for the potential of ball speed when practicing pitching in the future.

After a few attempts, the final result was 76 meters.

This distance is not worth mentioning if it is a strong school in baseball, but it can already be ranked in the middle of the current team.

What's more, Li Yuanrang didn't master the essentials of long-range casting at all, and his action posture was not standard, so there was still a lot of room for improvement in this data.

The final project is the strike test.

The ball machine was moved into the court by his teammates, and the ball speed was set at 120 kilometers of the average level in high school baseball.

Li Yuanrang put on his striking helmet, stood on the left side of the home plate, swung his bat a few times to find a feeling, and then motioned to his teammates to start serving.