(Continued)

The baseball club of Kyoto Darebukaze has been operating for several years without realizing it, and it is still a little far from Koshien. As a baseball club that has been overturned and rebuilt, the current results are actually not bad, and there has also been a record of upset defeats against strong men in official games, but it is still the last piece of the puzzle that is only the last piece of the puzzle from the birth of the team's soul.

Until one day, I met a senior of the Fire Palace, whom I hadn't seen for many years.

"At first, I thought you would follow in the footsteps of the two seniors of the Kusakabe and Mito Divisions into the professional baseball field, but I didn't expect to return to my alma mater as a teacher and coach the newly established baseball club. You're pretty noble. Senior Huogong smiled. @·error-free start~~

"The senior really made fun of me, and I'm afraid the strength of the baseball club is not as good as when we were captains." I smiled wryly.

"No, I really admire you for having that kind of thought," Senior Huogong said, "Speaking of which, my child is about to enter high school, and I'm thinking about whether to let him take the exam for you?" ”

"I remember it's called Ash, right? I saw it at the class reunion more than ten years ago, and I have grown so big in a blink of an eye," I sighed, "Since the senior said so, then come to my side to try it." ”.br>

Homiya Tomo, the son of the senior of Honomiya, is a pitcher.

I heard the senior say that his child has played in the school's soft baseball club and the youth baseball game outside the school in the past three years in junior high school, and under his leadership, both sides have won the championship of the provincial competition, so it seems that he is a very powerful person. And when I saw his pitch with my own eyes, I was convinced that he was the last piece of the puzzle I was looking for.

In the summer of the first year, Ash showed his might, and he was definitely the best newcomer of the year. Unfortunately, we were one step away from Koshien, even though this was already better than my last year at Reifuin High School.

But what I didn't expect was that Ash's limelight was completely overshadowed by a newcomer last year, who was the Chinese ball of Hiyogo Prefecture Chengfeng High School.

A female coach and a child from China led a previously unknown public school team to defeat last year's national champions and reach the quarterfinals of Koshien as ACE. The year before, this news caused a sensation in major media across the country, and it also shocked me. And this year's Spring Jia, they won the runner-up.

If the legend of my era is the two seniors of white and black, then the legend of this era is undoubtedly the Dongguo instrument. Dong Guo's performance on the field also deeply stimulated Ash, even if he was recognized as a genius, he felt that there were people outside the world, and after that, he worked harder than other teammates.

Ash really wants to have a dream showdown with the legendary Dongguo in the Koshien arena, and he is working hard for this dream. In the autumn tournament of that year, we won the championship of the prefectural competition, the semi-finals of the competition, and got the ticket to the spring armor of the following year.

But fate played a joke on him, and the legend he longed for had fallen that summer......

Although I regretted this very much, I soon noticed that there was another legend in Chengfeng High School, and perhaps because Dongguo was so dazzling, many people didn't notice him - he was Nan Shiyi.

The reason why Chengfeng High School can suddenly compete with the national-level powerhouses is not because of Dongguo alone, but also by the existence of Nan. Although the fall of Dongguo has had an impact on the strength of the team, after watching the game of Nan @ starters, I feel that the team spirit brought by Dongguo to the team has been inherited by Nan Perfectly. In addition, the new coach from Chengfeng High School turned out to be the senior of the Japanese Division, and I firmly believe that such a team will be able to replicate the legend of Reikaze Academy.

It's a little unwilling to say that the closest thing to the legend of Lingfeng Academy in this era may not be us, but their Chengfeng High School. But despite this, I think this may also be an opportunity, since there are ready-made goals, let's prove that I am not inferior to them!

That's how I persuaded Ash.

***

During the winter break, an unexpected figure visited us, and he was the Mito Department senior.

Since the retirement of the senior of the lower part of the sun, he seems to have faded out of people's field of vision unconsciously. At first, people thought he was just in bad shape and was transferred.

The main team was reorganized, and even more serious was demoted, but I didn't expect him to retire after that season.

If you think about it carefully, his last game @ starter is obviously still in good shape, and his career is still on the rise, where is there a reason to be called out of the fighting force? Unless he applies on his own initiative.

According to Mitobe, he is now employed as the first baseball coach of an international school in Gunma Prefecture. Maybe that's what everyone has their own aspirations, right? At the end of the day, the two seniors I had hoped for were now baseball coaches like me.

***

In the first round of Chunjia, although we defeated Niigata's Daikotsu, in the second round, we encountered Hyogo's strong Akashi Chaofeng. Ash fought to the end, but our line was helpless to take a word, and we lost 0-4. @*~~ In the end, Akashi Chaofeng won the spring armor championship this time, and sure enough, there is still a gap between us and the national championship.

On the other hand, another representative team from Hyogo Prefecture, Mofu High School, entered Koshien for the first time and achieved the quarterfinals, and with these two opponents, I am afraid that it will not be easy for Chengfeng High School to enter the summer armor this time.

Nan is already in the third grade, and if you want to fight them, I'm afraid this Hagar will be the last chance, but even if we and them both score this Hagar, we may not be able to face off as we wish.

In that case, we can't care too much about Chengfeng High School.

After the baptism of Chunjia, Ash and they also grew further. If Koshien can survive in the summer, it will be the only goal to win the national championship.

After the Spring Tournament ended, we quickly adjusted our form to prepare for the Spring Tournament, and Ash maintained his good form, and we also came out of the Tournament as we wished, and entered the Tournament in May.

On the other hand, although Chengfeng High School, which had been dormant for more than half a year, did not encounter old rivals such as Akashi Chaofeng and Mofeng in the spring prefectural competition, it still showed amazing strength, easily won the prefectural competition, and also advanced to the competition.

It seems that the heavens still favor us. We belong to the same school as them in, so even if we can't meet at Hagar, we can meet at the Spring Tournament in late spring.

In May, the Spring Tournament came as scheduled. Judging from the results of the draw, we and Chengfeng High School fell into two and a half districts, and each half of the district is also guarded by the two strong heroes of Osaka and Osaka Tongyang, and it is still a little difficult to challenge Chengfeng High School led by the senior of the Japanese department.

However, the two teams didn't seem to fight hard in the semifinals, and the opportunity to challenge the seniors of the lower part of the day was .......