Yagami stood at the pitcher's bench and threw the baseball in his hand at Yukiichi Mikoya on the opposite side while moving his shoulders.

Yukiichi, who was standing in the catcher position, also wore windproof goggles and neat protective gear, raised his hand to catch the baseball thrown by Senior Yagami with his arm, and then passed it back casually.

The two of them passed the ball back and forth to each other like this, and Yukiichi also suddenly stopped and asked, "Senior, are you uncomfortable?" ”

"No, why do you ask?" Yagami was puzzled by this.

"The baseball thrown by the senior doesn't seem to have much strength, and if the senior doesn't want to practice, it's okay to end it like this today." Yukiichi didn't point it out, he could feel that the senior was a little absent-minded about this, and if he wasn't in the state, the pitching practice wouldn't be meaningful.

"No, I'm in good shape." Yagami immediately retorted.

"If that's the case, that's for the best." Yukiichi also waved the baseball back again, and then the whole person squatted down and continued, "Now can we start?" ”

"Well, first of all, it's a quick straight ball." After Yagami turned the baseball in his hand, he strode forward with his right leg, shook his left arm, and pushed the baseball in his palm with a slight force with his fingertips.

"Whew!"

The baseball shot straight out of the pitcher's mound, cut a straight line, and swooped into Miyuki's open sleeve with a sound that burst through the air.

"Bang!"

“Nice pitch.“

Yukiichi also felt the slight numbness in the palm of his hand, and he could also know that the ball thrown by the senior was very good, so he took out the baseball from the ball sleeve, and then got up and shook his hand and passed it back to the Yagami senior.

Yagami took the baseball from Yukichiya and waited for him to squat again, then flicked his arm and threw the baseball in his palm again.

……

"You're all here."

After the pitching practice, Yagami Yagami, who had come all the way with a bat, looked at the second-year students who were practicing their swing behind the walls of the dormitory and greeted them.

"Yagami, is the pitching practice over?" Koichiro Tanba had a rare opportunity to practice swinging here with a bat today.

"Hmm." Yagami nodded, ready to find a spot to practice swinging.

Chris walked over from a distance and asked Yukiichi Mikami, who was following Yagami Night, "How many balls did Yagami throw just now?" ”

"Three sets, a total of 45 goals." Faced with Chris's senior's inquiry, Yukiichi also answered immediately.

"In that case, Yagami, you should go for a massage now." Chris patted Yagami on the shoulder: "You're only starting to train again, you shouldn't throw too many shots, go home early and rest." ”

"Hey, Takikawa, don't keep an eye on my pitch count! A few of them swung their sticks a lot of times, right? Yagami Yaya asked Tetsuya Yuuki, who was standing not far from him, "Yuuki, how many of your 500 swings have you done today?" ”

Tetsuya Yuuki, who was named by Yagami Night, thought for a moment, then shook his head: "I don't remember." ”

Tetsuya Yuki wiped his face with a towel hanging around his neck, "Since I don't remember, let's swing the stick three hundred times next!" After saying that, he raised the bat in his hand again.

"That's a good proposition." Ryosuke Kominato also smiled and raised the bat in his hand and resumed his swinging practice.

"Then swing it three hundred more times!" Jun Izaki also joined the bat-wielding bandwagon, as did Toru Masuko, Ichiro Sakai, and Fumiya Kusunoki.

Yagami looked at the energetic students in front of him, and felt that he was isolated by them.

……

On May 3, today is the day when Qingdao Road and Heishikan will play a practice match, with the 2nd Army against the 2nd Army in the morning and the 1st Army against the 1st Army in the afternoon.

Of course, none of the above has anything to do with Yagami Night, because his foot injury has not healed yet, and Superintendent Kataoka does not let him play, but also allows him to move freely.

After wandering around, he came to the gymnasium shared by several sports clubs.

"Yo, Yuzuo, I wish you all the best in the inter-school competition!" Yagami said hello to his former table game, Ryo Sa.

"Humph!" You Zuo Liangren snorted coldly, and walked over directly ignoring Yagami Ye.

"Your character is as bad as ever." Yagami followed behind Ryo Yusa and walked towards the men's badminton.

The so-called inter-school competition is a preliminary selection for the Tokyo National High School Sports Tournament, which starts in late April and ends around Golden Week in May. The secondary selection usually starts in June, and the winning school from the second selection will represent Tokyo in the National Higher Education Championships Badminton Competition to be held in August.

Yagami followed You Zuo Liang to the badminton club, only to find that their freshman retention rate this year is very high, he asked Mizushima Hikaru before that there are a total of 12 freshmen in their class who want to join the badminton club, nearly a month later, only four of them quit the badminton club and joined other clubs, in previous years, only five or six people would choose to stay, such as You Zuo Liangren, only five people stayed in their current session and the third grade.

After all, there are not many people who can participate in the competition, but the inter-school competition is okay, and there can be three groups of people (6) to participate in the doubles of the individual battle, plus the team battle with five participants, and it is not necessary for the individual strength of the members to reach the top four to become the main selection to participate in the competition; However, in the second qualifiers of the Tokyo Metropolitan Conference in June, the strength of the members must reach the top four to become the main selection, and they are eligible to participate in the individual battle, only the requirements of the team battle will be as relaxed as always, as long as the cooperation between the two sides is good enough, even if the strength is slightly worse, it can also become the main selection; The problem is that even so, under normal circumstances, there will only be five or six places at most, resulting in the competition intensity of the badminton club is no worse than that of their baseball club. (Water Word Count).

Speaking of their baseball club, the retention rate of freshmen this year is not high, a total of 41 freshmen chose to join the baseball club last month, after nearly a month of elimination, now only 23 freshmen are still in the baseball club, plus after the end of the Red and White War, the only two third-year seniors in the three armies because they failed to be promoted to the second army as they wished, have been shaken, give up the persistence of the past two years, quit the baseball club and focus on their studies, Qingdao baseball club has only 78 existing members.

The number of existing members of the baseball club will continue to decrease in the near future, after all, in addition to the first-year freshmen, there are still a few second-year students in the current three armies, and if they can't be promoted to the second army in a relatively short period of time, they will definitely be shaken and give up their careers in the fields.