"If you can't play tomorrow's game, the most unwilling thing should be...... Let's hide it! ”

Looking at Chris, who was caring about his junior brother next to him, Yagami had to sigh in his heart, he was indeed a very gentle person.

"The heart that wants to win is twice as strong as others, but you can't play ...... game"

"If he loses tomorrow's game, he will definitely feel that he has a lot of responsibility-"

"In that case, we will win tomorrow's game...... Let's lead the team to the top of the country together! Before Chris could finish speaking, he was interrupted by Yagami next to him.

"Hmm!" Faced with the pitcher's ambitions, he nodded vigorously as a catcher.

Reaching the top of the country is not only their ambition, but also the common goal of the first-year juniors, third-year seniors and their peers, as well as the supervisors and ministers (Kazuyoshi Ota and Rei Takashima).

……

"Haha, it feels so good!" A red-haired, 1.74-meter-tall teenager was waving a bat while laughing: "Go on!" ”

"Nagumo!" Kenta Maezono clenched his right hand into a fist and roared at the young man next to him, "How long are you going to be satisfied?" "As a club-wielding maniac among the students of the same level, he has been defeated by the momentum of the transfer student in front of him.

"I'm tired and a little uncomfortable." I didn't even watch the seniors' games, and I have been swinging the baton since lunch, and even he, the person who swings the baton most seriously among the students in his class (June and before), is a little unbearable about it.

"You're still a beginner." Seeing this, Yagami walked over to them with Chris: "Actually, you don't have to be so desperate at first. ”

"Maybe it's because I'm a beginner......"

"Huh?!"

Different from Yagamiya's doubts, Chris understands Nanyun's desperate practice of swinging the stick: "Only I don't understand anything, and I can't do anything well, so I want to be like everyone as soon as possible!" I've met a few of these people before. ”

"However, Nagumo, you've been swinging your stick long enough." Yagami said as he walked forward, "Whether it's the stance on the blow or the feeling of pressure that can affect the opponent, it's perfect for now. ”

"Humph! I didn't expect that the eight gods would also praise people. Nanyun Shiyi showed a very proud expression when he heard this, pointed at himself with his right thumb and said, "However, this is just the beginning for me, who is known as a prodigy. ”

"Who called you a prodigy?" Kenta Maezono next to him was unconvinced by this.

"Classmates and seniors of the kendo club." After answering the question of the front garden, Nanyun Shiyi immediately ran to Chris, "Senior Takikawa, when you practice casting with Senior Yagami, can you let me be a beater next to me, I think ......." ”

"Yes!" In the face of the cute junior's request, do you still need to listen to his reasons? No, you don't. Before Nan Yunshi could finish his words, Chris directly agreed.

……

"Whew!"

With Shiichi Minamimo ready on the right batting area, Yagami Yagami waved his arm to home plate and threw a straight ball into the inside corner.

"Bang!"

Shiichi Minamigumo, who faced a speedball with a speed of more than 145km/h for the first time, remained in the same position of waiting for the blow, and Chris, who was crouching next to him, opened the case forward to catch the straight ball that the hitter could not react because of the speed of the ball.

"Good shot—"

Yagami Ye stretched out his right hand to catch the baseball passed back by Chris, he and Chris had a good shooting practice at the beginning, I don't know why it became the current actual combat practice, a combat practice used to test the level of Nagumo Shiichi's blowing, although there was only one round of batting.

"Whew!" Following the catcher's code, Yagami waved his arm and continued to throw a straight ball into the home plate near the belt.

"Huh!"

Unlike the previous ball, Nanyun Shiyi, who reacted in time, swept the bat in his hand hard, but unfortunately because the timing of the swing was a little slow, the swing failed.

"Good shot!"

Standing behind Chris, Kentaro Matsuda, who acted as the referee, raised his right hand to make a decision, "It's too slow." He could see at a glance why the beater's swing was missed.

"Nagumo, he didn't keep up......" Chris, who got up from behind home plate, stretched out his right hand forward and threw the baseball he had just received back to Yagami Yagami.

The expression on Nan Yunshi's face, which was standing in the right-hitting area, became more and more serious, "... I want to fight..."

"I want to strike! I'm going to have to hit a hit and get the front yard on second base back to home plate. ”

With such a belief in his mind, Shiichi Nagumo, who was holding his bat high and turned his head to look at Yagami Night, suddenly burst out with an indescribable momentum, which surprised everyone around him who was affected.

“！”

After Chris put the catcher case back in its original position, Yagami Yagami held the baseball with his left hand out of the sleeve and swung his arm forward as he stepped forward.

"Whew!"

"Ping!"

At the moment before the flying baseball was about to fall into the catcher's ball sleeve, it was hit by the bat that Nangumo Shiichi swung hard and flew high to the left.

"Out of bounds!"

Even if the beater knocked out the throw-in, Chris still didn't change his mind about the ball, and continued to put the ball in a similar position as before.

"Whew!"

"Ping!"

Shiichi Mingumo swung his bat again and again and hit the inside corner of Yagami's throw, causing the baseball to smash forward and fall to the ground behind the catcher in a collision with the bat, and then bounce out.

"Smack!"

……

"Bang!"

After Chris changed the ball, Yagami threw the fifth ball with an arm swing that was a straight ball with an outside close belt that was grabbed by the ball sleeve he stretched forward.

"Bad ball!" It seems that Yagami was also surprised by Nagumo's growth rate, and threw a bad ball under his mood swings.

Nanyun Shiichi, who was sweating and panting heavily, held the bat with both hands and waved, leaning the bat on his right shoulder while turning his head to look at Senior Yagami.

"I want ...... Knocking out a batter from the Eight Divine Seniors is the first step towards the goal. ”

Although he was asked by Chris to only throw some straight balls with simple paths, Yagami was able to give full play to his speed advantage, lifting his right foot and stepping forward, and swinging his left hand forward.

"Whew!"

The straight ball from the near belt, which was speeding towards home plate at a speed of 150km/h, was hit by the batter swinging from the outside, and flew backwards towards the right field.

"Ping!"

Kenjiro Hakushu, a midfielder, jumped up with his legs, but didn't catch the baseball flying from above, allowing it to bounce into the depths of the outfield after hitting the ground in the field.

"Smack!"

Right fielder Ichiro Sakai was desperately chasing after the baseball bouncing deep into the outfield, and by the time he reached out to grab the baseball on the ground and was about to turn around and pass the ball to the second baseman, runner Shiichi Mingumo had already stepped past first base.

"Safe base."

When shortstop Fumiya Kusunoki caught the pass from second baseman Ryosuke Kominato in a crouching position, Shiichi Minamimo took the lead in stepping on the base bag of second base with his left foot. At the same time, runner Kenta Maezono also happened to step over the home plate to score.