If there is one profession in the world that is most likely to feel the passage of time, I think it is teacher. Every time I see students who have graduated, I sigh: Ah, it turns out that they have all graduated for so many years.

Actually, when I was a kid, I dreamed of being a professional baseball player, and every now and then I thought if I could be like them. I actually played baseball for two years when I was in junior high school, and I enjoyed it.

When I was in the third year of junior high school, my father died because of that hateful family disease, my mother was a housewife without a job, and I had two younger brothers. As the eldest son, I could only be the breadwinner of the family, so I gave up playing baseball and started studying while working.

After that, Yun Chang and Yide's two younger brothers also played baseball one after another. Even though playing baseball was a lot of money and our days were difficult, I didn't want them to follow in my footsteps, so I became more diligent. Fortunately, their baseball talents were all above me, and in order to reduce my burden, they were admitted to the baseball masters outside Kyoto Prefecture as a special recruit, and later they all became professional baseball players.

Looking back, I was both relieved and a little jealous. But fortunately, I found a new dream later, which is to become a teacher, and then make up for the regrets of my youth through students.

***

After he graduated, Iktoku went to Chimien Nara in Nara Prefecture, and the two schools happened to be sister schools.

It was the first game I went to see after I became a teacher at Seifu High School, the Koshien Finals at Chimien Nara High School, where Hidetoku was located. I'm no stranger to their opponents, Reifuin High School, which is very close to Kyoto University, where I graduated, and I met a guy named Minami Kintaro when I was in graduate school, and it seems that he also belongs to their baseball club.

In the finals of the Spring Tournament, Chimian Nara once ended the myth of Reifuin High School's undefeated for nearly two years with Shotoku's goodbye home run, but in the Koshien finals, which decided the national supremacy, Mt. Hitok and they finally lost......

[Judgment is OUT!] The game is over! Reifuin High School defeated Chimian Nara 2-1 and achieved four consecutive hegemony in spring, summer, spring and summer! It's a pity that Zhimian Nara is only a millimeter away from breaking the monopoly! 】

It can only be said that the last two guards of the first-year fielders in the Spirit Wind Academy are really beautiful, and they saved the whole team in one fell swoop, if it weren't for him, maybe the score would have been reversed. Sure enough, in terms of overall strength, they are still superior.

"It's a shame, you almost won......"

"Big brother, are those two people the younger brothers of the friend you said before?" Yide sighed, "It's so strong, I can't handle it alone......"

"But they're going to retire soon, and you're unique in the high school baseball world, and you're only in the first year now, and you have two years left to be your best in Nara......"

Indeed, Edder's high school baseball career has only just begun, and there are still many opportunities to dominate the country. But what I know is that what he longs for most is actually a battle against the strongest team of Reikaze Academy, and he has already lost this only matchup.

After that, Yide led Zhimian Nara to win a spring championship and a summer championship each, although it is far from being comparable to the legend created by Reikaze High School, but it is already a very dazzling achievement. Later, he followed in the footsteps of Yun Chang into professional baseball, and after that, the two brothers moved towards the next stage - Major League Baseball (MLB).

I often wonder: the two of them have gone so far, leaving my big brother far behind. If I could do it all over again, could I be like them?

***

Time flew by, and after graduating from graduate school, I became a teacher, and then I also left Kyoto to teach at Seifu High School in Hyogo Prefecture. Because I still love baseball, I was appointed vice president of the baseball club a year later. However, it is a pity that Chengfeng High School, which is known for its high admission rate, is not a famous baseball school, and every time the county competition is either stopped in the first round or the second round, the members of the department will be moved to tears when they reach the third round.

Because of the changing of the guard system, I have been teaching at several public high schools in Hyogo Prefecture for more than 20 years. When I returned to Chengfeng High School, I was promoted to the principal of the school. At this time, the baseball club of Chengfeng High School still did not have the strength to enter Koshien, but its appearance has changed a lot. Later, when I went to the baseball club to investigate, I learned that it was all due to Kamibeppu Sensei.

Kamibeppu Kitatsuki, a health teacher at this school, seems to have come from a family of famous doctors, and her sister works at the prefectural general hospital. She has loved baseball since she was a child, but she is unable to set foot in Koshien because of her daughter. Even so, she never gave up baseball, and she came here to become a baseball coach admired by a group of boys.

***

"Teacher Kamibeppu, you are really amazing, as a female streamer, you work hard with a group of boys."

"What did the principal say, I was just trying to realize my dream," said Kamibeppu, "I really wanted to see with my own eyes what the stage that boys were looking forward to, and even thought that it would be nice if I were a boy...... I wonder if you think I'm too unfeminine, headmaster? ”

"How so? Originally, baseball was played by both boys and children, and now there are also high school girls' baseball games, so in a few years, girls may have the opportunity to set foot in Koshien. I said, "But when it comes to Koshien, I'm afraid it's not easy for even a boy to get a ticket to Koshien, right?" ”

"You're right, we are a public school, or a school based on the construction policy of further education, with our current student source, I am afraid that for a long time it will be difficult for our baseball club to reach the threshold of Koshien, not to mention that there is an absolute ......king of Akashi Chaofeng in Hyogo Prefecture," she sighed, "My sister is not a few years older than me, and now she is a well-known oncologist in the country, and she is married to a good family, and her children are so old, it can really be described as a double harvest of career and family, unlike me, I have spent all my time playing baseball since I was a child, So far, there have been no achievements that can be achieved...... Shouldn't I have followed my parents' wishes from the beginning and honestly become like my sister? ”

(To be continued)