(Continued)

"Winning tomorrow's game is nothing more than winning a regional championship, our ultimate goal is to achieve four consecutive championships in spring, summer, spring and summer, and that Zhimian Nara may become our biggest opponent this summer," Xiao Heidao, "If you play with that guy, it is very likely that you will expose all your hole cards, which is very bad for us." ”

I still wanted to compete with the super newcomer, but what I said made a point, and I came on as a starting outfielder on the day of the final. As for the pitcher hill, it was handed over to Kazama, Tennojiya and Ebihara for the relay.

The opponent Chimian Nara, I thought that they would send Nakano as a follow-up, but I didn't expect to let him appear directly as a starter! Even if it's just a game that has nothing to do with Koshien spots, it's too big to let a first-year player come on as a starting pitcher so early!

We started the game, and of course we tested each other's strengths at the beginning. And we quickly felt the intimidation of the ball speed of 150+. Good guy, compared to the video, this guy has grown a lot, this ball speed is more than 150, and he has learned to change the ball, but the ball control is still a little rough. If I had been told that this was a third-year veteran, I would probably have believed it.

Luckily, their line didn't break through our pitchers, and Nakano, who came on as a nine, seemed to be interested in watching our pitchers, and the first few hits were all seen strikeouts.

In this way, the game turned into a pitcher battle, and the score remained 0-0 until the ninth inning. In the first half of the 9th inning, Nakano's physical strength still hasn't bottomed out, and he can still throw balls around 150, which makes us helpless. It's scary, is this guy really only in first grade? It can't be a professional baseball player who lured his age to get into the baseball club, right?

In the second half of the 9th inning, standing on the pitcher's mound was Ebihara, who could be regarded as the second-in-command of the pitcher's lineup, and the fastest ball speed even surpassed me. After two outs, it was the turn of the 9-batter Nakano, who had observed three rounds before, and this fourth round of play was bound to take action.

His strange aura seemed to envelop the entire stadium, and the whole team was vigilant about him. Outcome......

[Hit out!] The ball has to be quite far-reaching! Still flying! Still flying! Fly out! Goodbye home run! 1-0, Chimian Nara won the championship of the Spring Tournament! Reifuin High School's official competition streak of 64 wins is over! 】

Lost......

The first-grade pitcher not only made the pitch and the seal, but also hit a goodbye home run, and we were really beaten by him alone! At the moment, I'm a little glad it's not summer.

"How does it feel to lose in a long time?" Xiao Hei asked by patting me on the shoulder.

"I said you, you really know this result!" I said coldly, "Tell me how you feel first!" Aren't you a coach? ”

"I don't care if the winning streak is ended, on the contrary, I think it's a timely defeat," said Xiao Heidao, "How about it?" Do you think you'll be able to beat that guy if you're on the board? ”

"Then the question becomes who will fall first, me or him, and in the summer, that guy may be stronger......"

"That's true, but that guy isn't invulnerable," said the little black, "have you noticed?" Today we wielded a lot of big sticks, and if we used some tactics flexibly, it was actually possible to defeat him. ”

"But you didn't deploy it that way, did you?" I wondered.

"So didn't I say that? Because now we need such a timely defeat like rain, otherwise everyone will still be drunk in a sweet dream and will not wake up......"

"You're still so black-bellied......" I sneered.

"Also, do you think that you are not allowed to pitch just to retain your strength?" "That guy is very observant, and after standing in the strike zone and watching the pitch a few times, he can see the pitcher's problems when he throws, and it's too dangerous to let you get on the board. ”

I was stunned, did he even think about this kind of thing?

I can't help but think of the scene when we first met......

***

I started playing baseball when I was in elementary school, and as for why I play baseball, I can only say that I follow the crowd. But at that time, I was just a newcomer, and when I got into the league, I could only pick up the ball like a caddie.

It was on that Sunday that I met him. The boy, who was about my age, caught the ball from the coach with his bare hands.

"You seem to have caught the ball with your bare hands just now, you're very good! Why don't you stop by us? ”

"I think it should be possible......

So I took his hand and made a formal invitation to him. At that moment, it seemed that thousands of memory fragments flashed through my mind, but they quickly disappeared.

The person in front of me, did I already know him a long time ago?

Actually, it doesn't matter if it's because I want to be friends with him to play baseball with now. That person is Blackie.

And just like that, my life changed because of him. I got stronger, and then I got stronger, and I quickly became the ace of the team, and he was the catcher. The same is true when I play youth league in junior high school.

In the eyes of others, we have long been in a different dimension among our peers, but I don't know if we have been with him for too long, and many things seem to me to be just a matter of course.

Hei is especially good at tapping into the potential of others, and I am the one who has benefited the most from it. So the truly incredible person is him, not me.

One day before graduating from junior high school, he finally told me the secret he had buried in his heart.

"Xiaobai, there are some things I want to talk to you about...... I told you before, my parents ran an orphanage, right? Actually, they are not my biological parents, I am actually a Chinese......."

"You...... What are you talking about? I was surprised.

"I have a special power," he said, "and I seem to be able to communicate with myself in different worlds, and then gain knowledge and abilities from them, and that's how I learned about my origins." ”

What he said was quite incredible, but if it was all true, then a lot of things would make sense. This is probably the secret of his strength.

However, I soon realized that this ability was a double-edged sword, and more of a huge burden for him. Communicating with countless selves, what kind of stress will his brain go under? How is he going to digest the sheer amount of information he gets from it? What if this ability brought him great benefits? I could feel that for a long time, he was afraid, afraid that he would be isolated because he was different from others.

Then I realized that the reason why he told me these things was because he wanted to ask me for help.