Shirakawa, the catcher of Yono High School, ran towards the pitcher's hill, and the infielders also surrounded him. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

After losing consecutive points, pitcher Oe became even more impatient. After being reassured by his teammates, he temporarily stabilized his mood.

But then facing the ninth stick of the Heiwa School Park, Yamaba,Oe threw four bad shots in a row.。

Once again, it was the turn of the third-year student Masamune Miyagi, who was the first batter. This time, the first shot from Kenzo Oe was hit into the delicate area behind the third baseman close to the touchline.

Lee on second base rushed back to home plate before the return pass arrived. The score became six to two.

Kenzo Oe had already lost possession of the ball, and in order to grab a good number of balls, he had to risk throwing the ball into the area of the heart in the middle. And the ball speed that he is proud of is gradually being adapted to by the players of the Peace Academy.

For Yono High School, if you still want to play well, you can't change pitchers now.

Shirakawa came to Oee again, and a player ran out of Yangno's rest area, as if to convey the coach's instructions.

The match was temporarily suspended.

A bench player who was able to pitch began to warm up on the sidelines and looked like he could be substituted at any moment.

At this moment, a boy in the audience wearing a black stand-up collar school uniform jumped directly over the guardrail and jumped into the arena.

"That kid, it can't be the South, right?"

Kazuhei Fukushima squinted his eyes and looked at the other party's rest area.

"It seems like it's really a southern senpai. How could he be wearing Yangno's uniform? ”

First baseman Masaoka took out a telephoto camera out of nowhere, took a picture of the rest area opposite, and then zoomed in on the LCD screen to show his teammates.

"Who's in the South?"

Watching his teammates eagerly discuss, Li Yuanrang was confused.

"He was the ace pitcher on the team when he was in the third grade of Fukushima Senpai High School, and his name was Yoichi Minami. When I was in high school, I seemed to have been poached by a famous baseball school in Kanagawa Prefecture. ”

When Yabe was in the first grade of junior high school, he and Nanbu were shooting partners.,So there's some friendship with each other.。

"But why is he wearing Yono's uniform now?"

Li Yuanrang asked.

"Then you'll have to ask him himself."

At this time, Yono's coach walked to the rest area of the Peace School Park on the first base side. I discussed the issue of temporary substitution with Mr. Sato.

"Since it's not an official game, it's not a violation of the rules, and whoever plays can be replaced."

Sato replied.

After getting permission from his opponent, Yono officially announced a change of pitcher.

In order to save time, Yoichi Minami temporarily changed his jersey in the players' rest area. Teammates are responsible for blocking the view of the spectators.

Fukushima and Yabe walked to the sidelines on the third base side to greet him while they were changing clothes in the south.

followed these two people, as well as Li Yuanrang, who came to see the excitement.

"You want to ask me how I became a student of Yono...... right?"

Before Fukushima could ask, Nanbu himself explained the cause and effect.

When he was in the third year of Southern Middle School, he achieved a good record as the ace of the team. On the eve of graduation, three or four elite baseball schools came to recruit him.

In the end, Minami chose Kawasaki Industrial High School in Kanagawa Prefecture to study. The reason is very simple, it is just to be close to home.

Kawasaki is one of the closest places in Kanagawa to Tokyo. If you're traveling from the Peace School, it's not much the same distance between going to Kawasaki and going to destinations like Akihabara Asakusa in downtown Tokyo.

"But a famous family is a famous family, and the competition is too fierce."

Nanfang continued.

The Kawasaki Koko Baseball Club has more than 100 members, and each school year is able to form three separate lineups.

After the first training session after entering the school, the new students will face a different fate. Some directly entered the first team, and more entered the second and third armies.

The situation in the south is a bit peculiar. He trains directly with a team. But his role is to be a striker who feeds the ball to the team.

To put it bluntly, it's just a sparring partner.

Whether it's a practice match or an official match. As long as the opponent's information is obtained, the coach will ask the south to imitate the opponent's pitcher's habit of pitching a few days in advance, and let the other regular players practice adaptation.

But when it came time for the game, not only would the south never appear on the field, but there was no place for him in the bench rest area.

"After persevering for a year, I couldn't stay any longer, so I wrote a withdrawal application and transferred back to Tokyo......"

Nanbu crouched down and straightened his sneakers as he told his story. He untied all the laces and tied them again.

After putting on his feet, he jumped on the spot a few times. After all, it was something borrowed from a teammate temporarily, and it didn't fit so well.

"But a school like Yangno can't be transferred in casually."

Yabe asked.

Yono is a public school, but it is also a prestigious school, and it is not something that can be attended just by living nearby.

"Of course I got in. Don't underestimate my ability to study seriously! ”

When I was in Nanfang Yangyi Middle School, my grades were not too outstanding, and I could only be regarded as middle and upper-middle. But that's without missing a single baseball team practice. It's not surprising that if you concentrate on your studies, you'll get better grades.

"What did the coach say just now?"

Fukushima suddenly remembered this sentence.

"I can't participate in the official competition for one year after transferring to another school."

In order to avoid problems such as poaching between elite baseball schools, there is a rule in the Japanese high school baseball industry that transfer students cannot participate in official competitions for one year. Although there are some conditions for exemption, the case of Nanbu Yangyi is certainly not within the scope of it.

"However, I am qualified to participate in this year's summer conference."

After saying this, the warm-up exercise in the south was barely completed, and he ran to the pitcher's mound to prepare for the test throw.

"Summer Assembly? Aren't you all in the third grade, and you still have to participate? ”

Fukushima shouted at the back of the south.

"The rule that you can't play in the third grade is not written down on paper!"

The answer from the south was correct.

The tradition of the Yono High School Baseball Club to leave the club early for third-year students is not a black and white rule. As long as he personally wants to, the coach will not object. In the last summer of high school, the last meeting, Nanbu Yoichi does have the right to show his strength.

Fukushima and Yabe returned to their seats. The rest of the pitch was in place.

Nanfang Yang and the catcher started their own test pitch after the code was corrected.

The first ball was shot, and the players of the Peace School were staring at the computer screen in the rest area, looking forward to the data of the ball speed.

"One hundred and seventeen kilometers."

Considering it was a straight ball, the speed wasn't worth mentioning.

"Is it more regressive than when I was in junior high school?"

Yabe muttered.

He used to take a lot of pitches from the South. When he was in his third year of junior high school, Nanbu was also a pitcher who could shoot more than 130 kilometers of ball.

The next second ball, one hundred and twenty-three, and the third one hundred and nineteen. There was no sign of urging the ball at all.

The southern part of the pitcher's mound seemed to be happy with his pitching. Signal that the game can continue.

Now the situation on the field is one out, one or two bases.

It's the turn of the second batter of the Peace School.、The first-grader who hit the left, Masaokaji.。