The early pre-game meeting brought the freshmen together, no longer working alone, and began to get to know their teammates, although not all the freshmen together, but most of them still helped each other.

In the daily garrison training, in addition to themselves, they also asked for their own cooperation, although the movements were not skilled at first, but gradually knew each other's ability range and limit.

The pitcher formation and catcher are also carrying out activities in an orderly manner, not every catcher is like Miyuki, who has the ability to pitch the pitcher who meets for the first time, and there are many pitchers in the first grade, but the catcher is only one hunter, and he must try to remember the characteristics of several pitchers so that he can play to their strengths.

The one that Rong Chun cared about did not participate in this exercise, as a member of the club who was generally admitted to the school, he himself failed to get along with everyone, plus he was basically alone except for the necessary training, and it was difficult to find him.

Even Rong Chun had to admit that if Tsuiya Xiao could join this training, they would have a great chance against their seniors.

When it's not convenient to train, most of us form a group to discuss some tactics and discuss them together at a convenient time.

Because the lineup of the day was decided by Superintendent Kataoka, but according to Eijun's idea, Coach Kataoka must have wanted to know the performance of the players who came out of the Little Baseball, because compared to the middle school where the Little League came from a soft background, the Little League will practice hard baseball in advance, and the purpose of the Kataoka Supervisor is to select people who can enter the bench, and the Lesser League is more likely.

Therefore, the ace of Matsukata Lesser ---- in the national semi-finals, Hideaki Tojo, is likely to be the first player that Kataoka Supervisor wants to observe, after all, Seido's pitcher formation needs to be strengthened. Therefore, it is very important for Tojo to suppress his predecessors and make a good start.

When Tojo heard about Eijun's reasoning, his face turned white all of a sudden, and he didn't have much confidence in his own strength, so the pressure was even greater.

"Don't worry, Tojo, the garrison will support you well."

"I'm sorry, I'd love to calm down, but... I can't do it...., I can make it to the top four in the country because my seniors are very strong, and I can't do it after my seniors graduate. ”

Tojo sat in his chair, his hands crossed and clenched tightly, trying to give himself the courage he wanted. Rong Chun looked at Tojo, whose nervous lips were white, walked up to him, squatted down, held his hands, and felt the temperature coming from him,

"It's cold, your hands. It's a great way to see how nervous you look. Does Tojo also feel that he has no talent and ability? ”

"Also?"

"I don't think I've got any talent.... But they all think I have. I didn't have much confidence, I didn't even win a single official tournament in junior high school. I really feel like I'm weak..."

"But you're specially recruited, you must have some kind of talent."

"Maybe they've lost their eyes. Tojo, your technical and physical spirit, obviously none of them have been fully formed, people with better talents than themselves are born different from themselves, and if you want to subvert this gap, no matter what kind of effort, hard work, and partners you have, it is impossible to achieve it, and it is not too late to say this after you have done your best. Rather than only feeling that you are different from a genius and stagnating, believing that your ability is more than just this and moving forward wholeheartedly can be a very difficult and painful path. ”

Tojo looked at Eijun in front of him, his clear eyes clearly reflecting his embarrassment. And Rong Chun's words were ostensibly said to Tojo, but they were actually given to himself.

"Seize the opportunity to let talents blossom and bear fruit, maybe today, or tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, next year.... Maybe I won't have to wait until I'm 30 years old, and I'm not good at saying anything about my physique, but if I think I don't have talent, I probably won't have it for the rest of my life. ”

Rong Chun's eyes were full of tenderness, facing the dim light, and his honey-colored pupils were like amber, looking at Rong Chun like this, Tojo gradually calmed down, and his heart was warm, "I can think of myself as a gifted person, and I can try hard." ’

Rong Chun, who felt Tojo's hand gradually warmed up, put his mind at ease, in Rong Chun's opinion, Tojo is good enough compared to his peers, pitching, hitting, and guarding are not perfect, but they are also remarkable, as long as he overcomes his heart, he has absolutely no big problem.

"Well, you can almost let go of my hand."

Tojo is no longer a problem of his temperature rising, he feels that he is about to die, obviously holding his hand is a boy, why does he feel so shy. Looking at the flush on Tojo's face, Eijun smiled,

"Don't be shy, Tojo, let's go to the bath together after training in a while, and I'll help you rub your back."

"No need!! Don't you still have something to do? Hurry up and go. ”

Letting go of the thin-skinned Tojo, Rong Chun went briskly to find someone to discuss information, thanks to the start of school, now the new students are trained with the seniors of the Second Army in addition to their basic physical fitness, and the intelligence is much better than imagined.

"Keisuke Miyauchi's seniors, catchers, right throws and hits right, and the catcher is not as good as Miyuki, but the receiving skills are superb, the most important thing is that he has a good relationship with Tamba's seniors, and he will train with Tamba's seniors in private, which means that their cooperation and tacit understanding will be very good, I'm afraid it's not easy to play. Tanba Koichiro senior, pitcher, right throw right hit, large range of changes, powerful longitudinal curved ball is his decisive way, straight ball is relatively weak, but for us not necessarily, but the seniors are also high school students, there will always be a chance to take advantage of, Tanba senior's endurance is weak, in order to show ability, he will definitely make more use of the curveball, during this period will be mixed with some sweeter straight balls, you can aim and try. If you are confident in your strength, you can try to dangle a few balls, and even if you don't succeed, you can create opportunities for the next person. Masuko through the seniors, third baseman, right shot and right hit, good at playing straight, look at the physique can also find that he is a heavyweight hitter, the slightest trouble may be hit by a home run, according to the seniors' footsteps, long play may also come back, so you must be vigilant, really can't throw the ball to guide him to play crooked, rely on the guard to solve the ......"

"That's amazing, where did you get so much information?"

The admiring eyes of the people around him fell to the person who was talking eloquently in the middle, Rong Chun didn't care, since there was a situation where he couldn't find the catcher, he developed the habit of observing the people around him, these materials were collected by him from before, in fact, there were some other information, such as their preferences and the like, but it didn't matter much about this competition, so it didn't waste time sorting it out.

Although the seniors have more or less information, Rong Chun feels that something is wrong, and he always feels that he has overlooked something. Suddenly, he thought of some strange things that Miyuki-senpai had said when he ran up to him before.

"Sawamura, how did you know Chris-senpai."

"Huh?"

"When did you meet, and what do you usually say in conversation? Did Chris seniors mention me? Who do you like more than me or seniors? ”

“..... Did you take the wrong medicine? ”

Rong Chun had a flash of inspiration and thought of what he had overlooked,

"In this competition, we may meet a very strong senior."

Everyone who heard Rong Chun say this stopped the discussion and waited for him to explain the situation.

"Before Miyuki-senpai came to Qingdao, there was a third-year senior who entered the player's seat in the first year and became a full-time catcher, and that senior was very strong, Takigawa. Chris. Yu, when he was in middle school, he was named the No. 1 Iron Catcher in Tokyo, and under the teaching of his father's former professional baseball player, his baseball knowledge can be called the first in the team. However, because in order to live up to the expectations of the people around him in his freshman and sophomore years of high school, he concealed the shoulder injury game, which caused him to be recovering not long ago, and if there was no accident, he should be able to play normally now. Chris is a catcher who is very good at matching the ball and knows the state of the pitcher, and Tamba-senior has always wanted to partner with him. By the way, Miyuki-senpai didn't beat him once when he was in the country. ”

"Wow, that's so strong."

"It's ..... than Miyuki's predecessors"

"But the good thing is that Superintendent Kataoka won't let Tanba-senpai partner with Chris-senpai."

"Huh? Why. ”

"In order to evaluate the strength, in order to see the strength of Tanba-senpai's own strength and the recovery of Chris-senpai, so the two of them will be separated, the two demon kings have a first half and a second half, this is a hell-level copy. Chris is very observant and may catch a lot of loopholes, and the guard training has to work hard, but damn, the order of appearance and the number of bats are determined by the supervision, so it is not good to train the consistency of the line, so you can only do your best. ”

"Yes, we will do our best in the next training."

"Well, let's do it together."

"Damn, I'm so tired, I have reluctantly decided on a few plans, I hope it will be useful then." ’

Rong Chun twisted his stiff neck, ready to buy a bottle of drink to treat himself. Just around the corner I heard someone chatting,

"Ah, I've been trying too hard lately."

"That's right, I don't know if it will work for the seniors."

"I think it's very likely, don't look at what Sawamura guy said is so scary, have you forgotten that game? The third year in the city, the state is so bad, I heard that it has been like this before, maybe it won't work, this kind of thing is not common in wealthy families. ”

"Yes, yes, I feel like I can hit a home run when I meet a Tamba senior in that state."

"Hahaha, forget it, I think I'm almost okay, and the seniors who came back from rehabilitation, I've been resting for so long, and I'm in super bad condition, let's play a few more practice matches to hone and hone."

"Hahahaha....."

Rong Chun, who didn't want to disturb them and was about to wait for them to finish buying drinks before going over, heard these words, his face suddenly became stiff, and he interrupted their conversation without hesitation,

"Do you even feel underestimated before the game starts? It's still the seniors, you really have the guts, I'm scared enough, do you want to point out my skills. ”

Walking quickly in front of the three of them, looking at them deadly, his big eyes seemed to breathe fire,

"Sawamura...."

Looking at Rong Chun who suddenly appeared, the three of them were taken aback, thinking that what they had just said was heard by Rong Chun, their faces changed suddenly,

"I don't care if you are just talking, or you want to give yourself courage before the game, but if you are rude to those seniors, I will not let you go, if you are really capable, just hit the ball of Tamba's seniors and try it, then I can still look up to you, but I don't think that people who only complete basic training every day can touch the ace of pitching."

The three of them who found out that Rong Chun was really angry didn't dare to say anything, they were just afraid of the weekend's practice match, so they just found some reason to cheer themselves up, and now they were caught apologizing again and again, and quickly left here.

Looking at the three people who ran away in a panic, Rong Chun's stiff face didn't let go, he stood in front of the vending machine with a puff, stared at the drink he wanted for a while, and then pressed the choice button heavily.

"It's not good to vent your anger on the machine."