After all, the players of Kikusui High School were unable to hit a hit from Ichihei Fukushima. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The final offense in the first half of the ninth inning ended. Peace School won the game by a narrow margin of 1-0.

The two teams of players lined up to salute and then went to greet their supporters.

"Compared to the other side, the audience on our side is really small."

When he bent down and bowed to the audience, Li Yuanrang whispered.

"Kikusui is probably the last time I'll attend the summer convention. Originally, if he got a good result this time, there was still room for maneuver, but now he lost the first game, and probably the scrap department will not be able to escape. ”

Akio Yabe replied.

For Kikusui University, who had a bye in the first round, the just-concluded second round match was their first and last game of the summer.

By the end of the game, the audience cheering for Kikusui had reached nearly 1,000 people. That's more than the number of students in their whole school.

This includes the OB of the baseball club in the past few years, as well as the graduates of the baseball club who are not baseball clubs but are also from Kikusui High School.

Of course, there are also members of the school's own Wind Ensemble Club and Support Club.

On the other hand, on the side of the Peace Academy, the audience here today is mainly composed of the parents of the players. Almost no classmates came to watch the game.

"The students at our school don't seem to care much about the baseball club."

When he walked out of the field and was about to board the bus, Li Yuanrang said.

"It's just that the results have not been outstanding, but I think the situation should be different after today's game, maybe the media will come to interview you after you go back......"

Yabe's voice just fell. A young man in bib pants and a cap approached.

"May I ask who Fukushima player was who threw a no-hitter and no-loss match just now?"

Li Yuanrang pointed to Fukushima Ippei, who had an ice pack wrapped around his shoulder.

The young man leaned over and began to introduce himself.

"I'm Kira, a reporter from the Everyō News Agency, do you have time to say a few words about the game just now?"

"Absolutely."

Fukushima agreed to the other party's request for an interview, and the rest of the team mostly gathered around to watch the excitement.

This kind of post-game live interview is the first time that members of the Peace School Baseball Club have encountered it.

"Isn't every news a ......"

At the same time as the interview, Li Yuanrang whispered to his teammates.

"It's the organizer of the Summer Contest."

"Then this interview is going to be published in the newspaper!?"

Billy News is RB's second largest newspaper. It is also one of the top five daily newspapers in the world in terms of sales. If the content of the interview is published in such a newspaper. Almost 1 in 5 RB households will see it.

"I'm afraid it won't be published in the newspaper, but my job is to be in charge of the content of MOOKs related to college baseball......"

Hearing reporter Ji Liang's answer, Li Yuanrang realized that he had completely forgotten to lower his voice when he spoke just now. was listened to by the other party.

"What is this MOOK?"

Li Yuanrang asked.

"MOOK is a combination of a magazine and a book. You can just think of it as a magazine that is published from time to time. ”

Although it is irregular, in fact, the college baseball-themed MOOK that Kira participates in is often published frequently in the summer when the game is concentrated. One copy will be released in ten days or even a week.

"In addition, an abridged version of the interview article will probably be posted on the website, and maybe it will be available tonight."

Kira finished explaining his work and continued the interview. It's about something uncreative.

Things like "I started to realize that I didn't hit a hitter in the first few innings" or "How to concentrate in the game."

It was a question that the pitcher was asked 10,000 times in a no-hitter game.

Judging from the fact that he didn't recognize Fukushima's face before, the reporter named Kira may not have watched the game at all.

In fact, this competition between the 10,000-year-old fish belly Peace School Park and the public school Kikusui did not receive the attention of the media in the first place.

Even the MOOK editorial department of the news agency originally planned to watch the online broadcast, write a comment, and put it on the website.

It wasn't until near the end of the game, when the no-hitter and no-scorer record was about to be set, that the decision was made to send reporters for interviews.

"This reporter named Kira doesn't feel very professional."

On the bus on the way back, Li Yuanrang was finally able to say his thoughts out loud.

"It's a little weird to dress up."

Yabe replied.

"Don't all reporters wear that?"

Li Yuanrang recalled Kira's clothes. White shirt, bib pants, and a broken plaid cap, plus glasses.

It seems that many of the journalists I have seen in the comics in the past have been like this.

"Thirty years ago, journalists were like that. No, it wasn't right fifty years ago. And his glasses ......"

"What's wrong with the glasses?"

"There are no lenses at all, just for decoration."

Akio Yabe, who has always wanted to get rid of the shackles of glasses, doesn't quite understand the kind of people who wear decorative frames without lenses even though they have no problem with their eyesight.

"But Fukushima-senpai ...... today"

Li Yuanrang originally wanted to say something to praise Fukushima Ippei. Not for flattery purposes, from the bottom of my heart. But as he said Fukushima's name, there was a snoring in his ears.

Ichihei Fukushima, who finished nine rounds, sat at the end of the bus and slept soundly.

……

The facilities at the Fuchu Citizen Stadium are relatively rudimentary, and several games are held in a day. As a result, most of the teams participating in the tournament chose to wear the uniforms they wore during the tournament and went straight back to school.

The members of the Peace School Park are bathed and changed after the department's room. By the way, a combat meeting was held on the next game.

The presiding officer, of course, was captain Ichihei Fukushima.

After a break on the return bus, Fukushima is now full of energy, as if the fatigue of the race has been swept away.

"The next opponent is Akikawa. I've dealt with their people before......"

The so-called dealings refer to the detective Takeo Mutsu, who caught Akikawa.

Mutsu has provided some information, but it contains a lot of his personal opinions. But fortunately, Akikawa is a strong team in West Tokyo after all, and the information of the third graders of this team is still easy to collect through open channels.

"Which pitcher will Akikawa send to start next?"

Yabe asked during a discussion about the characteristics of his opponent.

"Last time Mutsu thought it would be Koike in the first grade. But I think it's more likely that Jin Sen, who is still in the third grade. ”

Akikawa High School's ace Hideyuki Kanemori, who wears the No. 1 jersey, is a left-handed side-shot.

This type of pitcher has some disadvantages when facing right-hand hitters. Therefore, Mutsu felt that if he was an overseer, he would definitely use Koike, who was a right-handed thrower from the Benge faction, as the starter.

But Kinson has been the team's de facto trump card since last summer. There is also enough pressure against high-level opponents.

Kazuhei Fukushima thinks it's safe to do so. Kingson has a better chance of starting the next game.