"Whew!"

"Huh!"

"Ping!"

Yagami threw a ball from a low position in the outside corner (with a small diagonal displacement, a speed of 141km/h), and the bat, wielded by the beater, Ryota Inoue, flew high and flew backwards in the direction of the field.

"Smack!"

Nakamidfielder Daiki Murasuke ran from right to left, spread his case upwards in the depths of the midfield, caught the baseball falling from the air and took the runner Ryota Inoue out.

After the midfielder opened his case to catch a baseball that the runner had hit, the first base judge clenched his right hand into a fist and raised it.

“retire.“

Fukui Sho player Inoue Ryota was lying on the sand of the first base, his right hand, wearing batting gloves, gripped the black soil on the ground hard, and wiped the tears that kept flowing out with the palm of his left hand.

"I don't want to give up yet!"

……

Seido and Fukui Sho players gathered at home plate, lined up in two teams, and then took off their hats and saluted with the referees next to them.

"Buzz-buzz-buzz-"

The sound of air raid sirens above the stadium symbolized the end of the match, and the players from both sides came together to shake hands one by one before parting.

The players of Fukui Sho stood at the entrance and exit of the rest area on the third base, watching the selection of Seido at home base lined up and singing the school song of Seido.

After the Seido contestants finished singing the school song, the runners from both sides bowed to the spectators who had come to support them, and the difference between the two sides was that the Seido contestants were smiling, while the Fukui Sho contestants had red eyes, and some even cried because they had lost the match.

"We're in the quarter-finals!"

"Well done, Qingdao!"

"We must keep winning!"

After receiving the blessings of the audience, the Seido runners also walked back to their rest area like the players of Fukui Sho.

Yagami and Chris pitched at each other outside the lounge area, while the others walked into the lounge area and began to put together their own bags and backpacks, and there were other players after them to play, so they had to make room for it as soon as possible.

By the time the two of them went in to pack up the belongings they had brought with them, the others were basically packing up and going outside the rest area to be photographed by reporters.

After the staff came to inform them that they could leave, the Qingdao players who gathered outside the rest area put on their backpacks, bags or things they had brought with them, and walked into the exit tunnel next to the rest area one by one.

Soon, a staff member came over and asked Superintendent Kataoka and Higashi Kiyokuni to come over for an interview.

Thinking that he would have to wait for the end of today's four games to draw the list of quarter-finals with the supervisors and captains of other schools in the next two days, Superintendent Kataoka asked Minister Ota to bring the others back first, and when the draw was finished in the evening, he and Higashi would go back together.

After walking to the school bus and sitting down, everyone in Qingdao was very happy to win the competition, and many of them were still humming the school song of Qingdao there.

Without making them wait, the Qingdao school bus quickly drove back to the hotel parking lot, and they each got off the bus with their own things and walked back to their rooms.

After Yagami returned to the room, he took out his mobile phone and turned it on.

Looking at the bunch of messages sent to him by others after the phone was turned on, Yagami began to look through the replies one by one.

【…… Congratulations, so far, I can't lose! 】

Looking at the message sent by the ace of the Shosho Society, Yagami quickly pressed a sentence on the button and replied to the past.

[Thank you, I will continue to work hard.] 】

I flipped through the messages again and saw the message that his mother, Takako Yagami, had given him.

[Come on, son! I even bought tickets for the finals]

Yagami's slightly raised corners of his mouth showed that he was in a happy mood right now, and his fingers tapped on the buttons of the phone, giving her a reply.

[Mom, wait and see how I perform!] 】

After this, Yagami overturned the message that Nozomi Yanagi had given him.

[Brother Ye's performance is good, and now he can finally stand alone. 】

The second women's hard ball tournament will not be officially contested until this afternoon, and although the first round of the tournament starts at 15:00 in the afternoon, it is still commendable that she was able to take time out of the morning to watch their match.

[Then you still need to say...... Cheer for the afternoon race! 】

After flipping through a few more messages, Yagami turned off the screen of his phone and threw it to the bedside.

After chatting for a while with Chris, who had also returned to the room, Yagami took out a clean set of clothes from the luggage he had brought with him, grabbed his toiletries, and got up to go to the large bathroom of the sprinkle shop.

The day after tomorrow is the quarter-finals, and he has finished shooting the whole game today, so he must reduce his training in the afternoon and evening, take a shower and have lunch, and have a good rest.

When Yagami walked to the bathhouse, he found that he was the last to come in the starting team except Chris, and everyone else came to take a shower early, and even Yukiichi, who only played in the eighth and ninth innings, also came to take a shower with everyone, and it seemed that they all wanted to reserve some more physical strength for the later games.

Kuroza Naoya is soaking in the bath, with a towel on his head, leaning against the edge of the bath and closing his eyes.

Yagami rinsed off in the shower before walking to the bath and sitting down next to Kuraza Naoya.

Kuroza Naoya, who was taking a bath, felt someone coming, opened his eyes and looked at it, and said hello to Yagami who was sitting next to him: "Senior Yagami Senior." ”

"Hmm."

Yagami nodded, put the towel over his face, and leaned against the wall of the bath.

Kuroza Naoya picked up a towel and wiped his face, then stood up from the bath: "Senior, I'm done, let's go first." ”

He got dressed and walked out of the bathroom, and after returning to his room and throwing his dirty clothes into the washing machine, he went down to the first floor to take a look around.

Seeing a few people wearing Seido Baseball Club uniforms asking the hotel staff at the front desk, Kuroza Naoya walked over and looked, "Kuramochi? Higasa? How many of you? ”

After hearing his voice, several people who were asking the staff at the front desk turned their heads to look over, and Kuramochi Yoichi laughed heavally after seeing the Kuraza Naoya behind him: "Haha, Kuraza, you really live here, I didn't expect Meimoto's information to be really reliable." ”

"Why are you here? Don't you have to go back to Tokyo in the afternoon? Kuraza Naoya looked at the same level student in front of him and asked.

"Tomorrow is the quarterfinals, and it was too much trouble to run back and forth between Nishinomiya and Tokyo, so the school helped us and other students who came to support us rent a nearby house that could be used for multiple people to rest." Kenta Maezono, who was next to him, explained to him, "We just had time to come out and take a stroll, and then we came here." ”。

"Well, that's hard." Before he could finish speaking, he heard a voice coming from behind him.

"You know that everyone is working hard, so you have to perform well in the next games." Ryosuke Kominato, a second-year senior, suddenly appeared behind him and said with a grin.