Rong Chun, who was taught a lesson by his mother, returned to the ward in a huff, lying on the bed feeling a little irritable inexplicably, not knowing what to do, lying on the bed and tossing and turning. Grandpa Tanaka on the side couldn't help but say when he saw him like this,

"Rong Chun decided to go to Qingdao next year, what are you going to do, although it is said that it has not been in Koshien for four years, but it is also an old baseball powerhouse, and the pressure will be great!"

"Is that so? Wherever you go, just playing baseball, isn't it? As long as you have a ball and a bat, you can play! ”

Rong Chun lay on the bed, tilted his head and said weakly. Grandpa Tanaka looked at this ignorant child and sighed, although he was right, this is also the essence of baseball, but,

"Rong Chun, although what you said is right, do you think Qingdao is just such a place?"

Feeling the serious eyes of Grandpa Tanaka, Rong Chun was puzzled, but recalling what he saw, heard, and felt on that training ground that day, Rong Chun couldn't help but shiver, sat up, put his back straight, and replied seriously,

"No, Qingdao is one, how to say, excited? Enthusiastic? It doesn't seem right. ”

Grandpa Tanaka looked at Rong Chun, who suddenly fell into his own world, and a helpless smile hung on the corner of his mouth,

"Intense, intense, battlefield-like place, right?"

"Uh-huh, that's right, there are big tall people everywhere, and the body is also very strong, but the body is unexpectedly flexible, and the ball runs over with a swish, and the ball goes into the glove as soon as it snaps, and there are many people who can hit the ball far away, it looks super terrifying, and there are quite powerful seniors doing throwing exercises, but they were all beaten out by a metabolic disease senior....."

Tanaka listened carefully to what Eijun had seen and heard in Aodo, and the eyes of the people in front of him were shining, and the honey-colored eyes seemed to be dyed with sunlight.

"That's right, the giants are such a place, Rong Chun, you can't survive there without a firm heart, each of them is very strong, and you will be a good teammate, but the premise is that you can also become one of them, that place is a battlefield as I said, not only in the Tokyo Fierce War Zone, but also in itself."

Rong Chun didn't quite understand Grandpa Tanaka's words, it was obviously a team, why it was a battlefield, remembered the war movie he watched with his grandfather, his face changed, he remembered the stumps flying around, the flesh and blood blurred body, and assassination, could it be that there would be assassination or something?

'Is Tokyo such a scary place to be on Aotomichi?' ’

Although it was not clear what Rong Chun was thinking, that thinking was obviously off track, and Grandpa Tanaka looked at the stupid child who didn't know what he was thinking and scared himself so that his face turned blue, and sighed helplessly again.

"I'm talking about the competition, what are you thinking?"

"Isn't that battlefield where people die?"

"How is it possible, it's just high school baseball, how could something like that happen..... No, wait, it seems like there were. ”

Rong Chun, who heard the affirmation, was completely sunk this time,

"Wait, calm down, listen to me. There have been accidents in Koshien that have resulted in the death of players, but it was an accident, and this kind of thing is very rare. By battleground, I mean students competing against each other, and in that Tokyo Ward, where there were more than 200 schools, only two teams could go to Koshien in the summer, and the rest could only be defeated in tears. As long as you lose one game, all the hard work of the three years of the three years will be in vain, so each team is carefully selected, did you see more people that day? ”

"Very ..... Many...."It's completely different from the atmosphere of his own school.,It's obviously a big baseball field.,Occupied by people doing all kinds of training.,Inexplicably significantly narrower.,And that's just a court.,Qingdao has other outdoor courts.,Indoor practice room,Equipment room,Cowshed, etc.,At this time, Rong Chun finally had some vague understanding.,What kind of existence is the place where he will go,

"That's right, there have always been a lot of players from the giants, almost nearly 100 people, but Rong Chun only 20 of these people can enter the bench of the qualifiers, if it is Koshien, the number will be reduced to 18 people, and only nine of these people can really stand on the field to play, many bench players may not be replaced once in a game, Rong Chun, this is baseball."

Rong Chun never thought that there would be a situation where he couldn't compete, because he was very reluctant to gather the most basic number of people in the team when he was in junior high school, he never thought about it like this, it turned out that just standing on the field was such a difficult thing, and those seniors who worked hard in Qingdao were struggling in what kind of mood.

On this day, Eisun's world changed completely, and Grandpa Tanaka told him a lot about high school baseball, from other schools, Koshien, and more about his own story. Rong Chun also really understands how one-sided the sentence is that playing baseball with a ball and a bat is enough, if you want to enjoy baseball better and play baseball more happily, then you need to have enough strength, otherwise you can only look at the person who defeated you and smile and hug, and then leave the field.

Because on the baseball field, only the winner can enjoy baseball freely, and there will be nothing left for the loser but regret and tears. What has worked hard in the past three years, what has no regrets, what is good to do your best, all are lies. Only I know how empty and unwilling I am in my heart, and I only hate why I didn't work harder, why I didn't run faster, why I couldn't hit a home run or a home run. But they, really didn't make an effort?

You can see how hard they work and how strong they are in Seido, but even so, they didn't get a ticket to Koshien for four years. No one has the ability or qualification to deny them, except for themselves, and it is precisely because of this that they will be even more painful.

"Now, it's the final of the Tokyo Summer Liga Qualifiers in a week, let's go and see it, I think it will be good for you to feel the atmosphere in advance."

Rong Chun agreed to Grandpa Tanaka's invitation, and after two days in the hospital, Rong Chun finally got his mother's permission to be discharged, but in fact, he has not been resting well recently, and has been watching the game video during the day, thinking about Grandpa Tanaka's words, he will always dream of many strange things at night, and he has not much impression after waking up, which makes people irritable inexplicably.

Time passed day by day, and the day agreed with Grandpa Tanaka finally came, Sawamura's mother sent Rongchun to the station, and Grandpa Tanaka was already waiting there,

"Mr. Tanaka, I'm going to bother you today, I'm okay with my body, it's really okay to let Rong Chun go alone, after all, it's also a big child."

"Hahahaha, it's okay, Mrs. Sawamura, I haven't been to the finals for a long time, and I'm looking forward to going with Rong Chun."

"Then I wish you all a smooth journey, by the way, Rong Chun don't make trouble for Mr. Tanaka!"

"I won't!!"

------------------------------------ the Dividing Line of the Field--------------------------------------------

"Wow, it's big. There are so many people. ”

Rong Chun lay on the fence, looking at the huge stadium and couldn't help but sigh, all the people around him were crowded.

"Alright, Rong Chun, sit down, the game is about to start."

The atmosphere at the scene was very warm, and Rong Chun felt his heart pounding even when he was sitting in the audience. As the air defense sirens sounded, the game officially began.

Both sides are Tokyo's giants and have shown a strong offensive and defensive battle from the start. The game was in a scorching state, and although he could hit a hit, he was repeatedly stopped when he scored, which was completely different from the game in Nagano Prefecture, and it didn't score, but it gave people the feeling that the game was so intense and the level was so high.

During the intermission, Grandpa Tanaka asked Ei Chun how he felt when he saw this game, and Ei Chun stared at Seido's bench, smiled and clenched his fists, suppressed his excitement and said

"Sure enough, you can't just watch baseball, you have to play it yourself."

Grandpa Tanaka looked at Rong Chun in surprise, thinking that he would be timid when he saw this middle and high-level competition, but he didn't expect it to arouse the desire to fight.

'Sure enough, it's a pitcher!' ’

"But it's weird, isn't Chris's senior a regular catcher? Why didn't you play in such an important game, it was Miyuki who played... Miyuki Kazuya, who's coming? ”

"Don't you know? That genius catcher, he was very famous in junior high school, and I heard that many wealthy families in Tokyo invited him, but I don't know why he came to Seido. The audience next to him saw Rong Chun's blank face and explained kindly

"Is that Chris on the disc? Probably the phone call you made some time ago worked, and it was replaced! Seeing the situation on the field, Grandpa Tanaka touched the beard on his chin.

Rong Chun's hand in front of him clenched suddenly, not knowing what to do.

"Don't worry, it's not necessarily a good thing to replace him now, he still has a chance to return to the field, it's really amazing, it seems that there must be something special about using a first-year catcher in the finals."

Neither Eijun's worries nor Grandpa Tanaka's exclamations could delay the start of the game. The offensive and defensive battle in the second half of the game kicked off again.

In the last few rounds, Daoshi replaced the trump card, and it was the first-year pitcher Cheng Gong Ming who came on the field, and Qingdao High School, who thought he was underestimated, was really a little annoyed, but he didn't completely attack Cheng Gong Ming until the end. Inami's good defense greatly promoted the explosion of the line, and in the final moments, Inami's four bats hit the outfield again and successfully scored two points, and these two points also laid the foundation for the victory of the game.

In Rong Chun's last memory, there were probably only the crying faces of the seniors, and it was only when he realized that the catcher was the catcher who picked up his ball in Qingdao that day, and the terrifying fat senior couldn't hit the ball of Cheng Gong Ming at the last moment. Rong Chun stood outside the court with his fists clenched, quietly looking at the misery in the field, but there was only one thought in his heart, he really wanted to play! I really want to stand on this arena, I want to fight with them, and fight with the strong.