"I'm also a catcher first, and then a catcher." Yukiichi also followed Takuya Kimura to the bath.

These catchers who like to spy on the minds of pitchers are really annoying!

"Although in the arena, Takuya will try to restrain your emotions as much as possible, but your emotions are still easy to read in daily interactions."

It seemed that the water temperature was too high, and Takuya Kimura felt the sweat on his back merge with the water in the bath along his spine.

Catchers who like to spy on pitchers' minds are as annoying as ever.

"Takuya, you're a pitcher with a lot of personality and don't want to be treated as a pitcher you think you are. I haven't surpassed Chris's predecessors to become a better catcher, but I also hope that the pitcher will remove the halo from my head and treat me as a person like Yukikazuya. ”

"I've been wanting to have a good conversation with you face-to-face for a month, and from my observation, as a teammate, Takuya is a good teammate that people can trust; As a catcher, Takuya is also a very challenging pitcher, and I would like to form a nationally renowned pitching group with you, and lead our generation to Koshien and dominate the country. ”

"There were stars twinkling in his eyes." Takuya Kimura looked at Yuki'ichi who was looking at him affectionately, and this sentence couldn't help but pop up in his mind.

Yukiichi's affectionate words pierced Takuya Kimura's heart, especially the last sentence.

Everyone who chooses to join the Seido Baseball Club has a belief in their hearts that they will become one of the nine starters, and then lead their teammates to Koshien on the court, but unfortunately people always have to face the reality, so strong seniors only won the Tokyo Metropolitan Conference last autumn and entered Koshien, and the rest of the time they were blocked out of Koshien by other schools, so can they really be weak and weak?

He has been thinking about how to enter Koshien after the seniors retire, and he needs a group of teammates who have the same belief and strength.

No matter how good a pitcher is, if he doesn't let his opponent score, he can't win the game as long as he can't score on the line. In the same way, no matter how high the score of the line is, the pitcher will not be able to complete a good defense and will only lose the game.

The core of the team's defense is the pitcher and the catcher, even if he is strong as a pitcher, the catcher is not in vain! Yukiichi is also a well-known talented catcher, and partnering with him to form the team's first line of defense is currently the best solution.

It can be said that Takuya Kimura should gladly accept the overtures of the catcher Miyukiichiya, after all, their goals are the same; The problem is that it is difficult for him to trust a catcher wholeheartedly.

"I'm sorry!" Takuya Kimura felt that his throat was a little dry: "I ......"

Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Yukiichi next to him: "Please don't be in a hurry to perfunctory or reject me, let me finish what I want to say first." ”

"It's our catcher's job to connect with pitchers, and I haven't been looking for you before, it's my problem...... However, I've been keeping an eye on you! ”

"Takuya, what kind of existence is the catcher in your heart?" Yukiichi also exhaled in the pitcher's ear with calm words.

"Baseball isn't a one-man sport, and since I've been thinking about how I'm going to grow with a pitcher like that, ever since the entrance test."

"Under such circumstances, I think our combination will become the number one in the country in the near future!"

Yukiichi also smiled and flicked his wet forehead hair to the sides with his hands, "Let's put aside our identities as catchers and pitchers and get to know each other again." ”

"My name is Yuyuki Kazuya, please give me a lot of advice in the future! Partner. ”

Who can resist this! Takuya Kimura was like a young man from a good family who was deceived by a scumbag, and held the right hand stretched out by Yukiichi with both hands: "Partner! My name is Takuya Kimura, please advise me in the future......"

"Huh? You two ......."

The door of the bathhouse was opened again at this time, and Kurosaki Kazutaka walked in, and couldn't help but disturb the two people who were playing affectionate codes.

Since he touched the scumbag who was deceiving the young man of the good family, how could he not save him when he died? At the very least, it is necessary to make the process revital.

……

At 16 p.m. on the second day after the end of Golden Week, it is a necessary basic training for first-year freshmen every day.

As always, an army of first-year runners continued to run around the perimeter of the course, with second-year Chris leading the line, followed by two talented catchers, Kazuya Miyuki and Naoya Kuraza, and the other first-year freshmen.

Another monotonous and repetitive day.

Kurosaki followed at the end of the line, looking at the noisy classmates in front of him, feeling a little bored.

Eyes on Court A, those second- and third-year seniors who are also training, and Superintendent Kataoka, who is sweating profusely.

In sight, Superintendent Kataoka, wearing a baseball uniform, stood at home plate and swung the metal bat in his hand vigorously, knocking the baseball flying from the pitching machine to every position on the field, and the second- and third-year seniors ran to the place where the baseball fell.

It's been six days since the end of the Red and White War between the old and the new, and Superintendent Kataoka still hasn't made any moves?

Kurosaki Kazutaka retracted his gaze looking at Court A, passed through the peers in front of him, and looked at Takuya Kimura, who was closely behind Miyukikazuya, and narrowed his eyes.

Is this guy's strength very good?

It's so good that Superintendent Kataoka thinks that he alone can make up for Aomichi's shortcomings in the pitcher lineup? After all, among the five pitchers of the First Army, the only real good ones are Senior Yagami and Senior Jinguji, and as for Senior Tanba and Senior Sakai, they are all defective products with big defects.

While Kurosaki was thinking wildly, the sound of the radio suddenly sounded in his ears, and the person who spoke was Miss Takashima Rei.

"Kimura, Kawakami, and Kurosaki, first-year students, please meet at Court A as soon as possible."

Kurosaki Ichitaka began to slow down his pace, surrounded by classmates with different expressions after hearing the announcement, and the second round of scouting about pitchers began.

On Court A, the three first-year freshmen who heard the announcement and gathered stood in a row, opposite to Takashima Rei with a high ponytail and gold wire glasses.

Behind Rei Takashima stood two teenagers wearing catcher gear, as well as Senior Chris, who had previously run with the first-year freshmen; One of those two catchers is Kentaro Matsuda, the current main battle catcher of the First Army, and the other is Keisuke Miyauchi, the main catcher of the Second Army.