“…… It's really great! ”

Nanyun Shiyi propped his hands on his knees, and after waiting for his breathing to be smooth, he looked up at the sky and showed a bright smile.

"Well done Nagumo!" Fumiya Kusunoki stared at the red-haired boy in front of him, he could work so hard in the actual combat practice of a mat, people couldn't help but want to cheer for him!

For Nagumo's second-base hit, the people who helped Yagami and Chris guard the inner and outer fields were a little incredulous, and on the contrary, the surrounding spectators cheered him on Nagumo's base, or waved their fists.

Nanyun Shiyi shocked everyone present with his performance, regardless of whether he won or lost tomorrow's game, the third-year students who will retire soon are mainly envious of this, but those first- and second-year students who have direct competition with him have all kinds of emotions, especially those who belong to the second army with him.

Shiichi Nagumo caused a sensation at the time when he quit the kendo club on June 14 two months ago and then transferred to the men's hardball club.

As a freshman who attracted much attention as soon as he joined the club, he led the kendo club in the breakthrough regional qualifiers to enter the top 16 of the national university comprehensive kendo competition Tokyo Yukankai in early June, and the Seido Kendo Club could only rely on luck to enter the Tokyo Metropolitan Yukankai this battle before that, after all, it could be ranked in the top 30 at most among more than 100 schools in Tokyo.

If that's all there is, Shiichi Nagumo can't be called a genius by the people of the martial arts club, but he actually broke through all the way to the finals of the Tokyo Metropolitan Selection Conference (the second since the establishment of the kendo club) on June 11 (the time used here is 2021, the individual battle is May 28, and the team battle is June 11), even if he loses the game when there is only one last step left in the national competition. No one would have doubted that he would not be able to lead Seido Kendo Club to another national tournament in the fall a few months later.

Such a highly anticipated person suddenly proposed to quit the kendo club and transfer to the men's hard baseball club, which also led to the fact that even if the baseball club is the school's ace club, it is still difficult to be accepted by everyone.

The first to oppose was not the teacher of the kendo club, but the superintendent of the baseball club, Kataoka, although he did not refuse students who wanted to become members of the baseball club, but Mingumo Shiichi was not an ordinary student, he was sure to be able to bring Qingdao into the national competition in the kendo club, and then dominate the country - this is the honor that Kataoka superintendent could not bring to the school after becoming the superintendent of the baseball club, but it is a pity that even if he is a teacher at the school, he cannot interfere with the normal club activities of a student.

After Shiichi Mingumo obtained the consent of his kendo club teacher to quit the club, and when Kataoka Supervisor had not yet agreed or rejected his application for membership, Kuroza Naoya, who had a fierce passion for baseball, was the first to find him.

"I'm sorry, can I ask you to give up the baseball club?" Kuraza Naoya, who is looking for someone to talk to, is very serious in both his expression and tone.

"Huh...... Hey? Nagumo Shiichi was puzzled that he had only joined the baseball club for more than two months when the superintendent of the baseball club had not expressed his position, so why did Naoya Kuroza, who is also a first-year student, say this?

"If you want to get into Koshien, you have to race against time in every practice." Kuraza Naoya looked directly at the teenager in front of him, and said the cruel reality in gentle words: "Neither I nor anyone else has time to teach a beginner (subtext: a complete layman), for the sake of the team, please don't join the club." ”

"How so...... How so? Nanyun Shiyi listened to the words of the peer in front of him, and clenched his fists: "Wait a minute, Zangza-san...... Do you have the right to call the shots? ”

"Nope. However, I think sooner or later other members will say the same thing as me. Kuraza's gaze became sharper and sharper.

"Sure enough, laymen will only become stumbling blocks, and I won't be able to join the baseball club to play baseball if I continue like this......" Shiichi Nagumo, who became more and more emotional, thought of his friend who could only stay in the hospital for a long time after being injured: "Shiichi, we said okay, you want to help me stand on the stage of Koshien, win the championship, and get on the podium of the first place in the country." ”

This was the promise he made when he looked at his friend lying in the hospital bed, and when his once bright eyes became dull due to an injury that required more than a year of recuperation.

In order to be the best and favorite friend from childhood to adulthood, no matter how straightforward and cruel Kuroza's words are, it is impossible for him to give up his agreement with his friends.

"I'll just take your consent." Before the words fell, Kuraza Naoya couldn't wait to turn around and leave.

"Wait! I'm not going to give up, no matter what you say, I want to play baseball. ”

"I'll say this for your own good," Kuraza Naoya stopped, turned his head to look at the red-haired boy behind him, and said, "As I said, neither I nor anyone else have time to teach you. ”

"If you want to join the baseball club now and start practicing, you won't be able to catch up with others, and you will still have to quit when the time comes, and you will only waste your time."

"But...... I just want to play baseball, I want to make a promise! Seeing that Kuroza Naoya was unmoved by this, Nagumo Shiichi could only continue to express his thoughts.

"If you join just because you want to fight, it will cause us trouble!" Kuraza Naoya, who stood sideways, looked at the boy in front of him who wanted to play baseball just because of a temporary idea, and he had to stop his ridiculous thoughts here: "Anyway, in the end, I have to quit the club, there is no point at all!" ”

"I won't quit the club casually!" Nanyun Shiyi clenched his fists and expressed his attitude to Kuroza Naoya in front of him: "I will also try not to hinder others." ”

"The road to Koshien is very steep," Kuroza Naoya said with an unhappy face, "A guy like you who has no backbone (evades the responsibility of leading kendo clubs to the top of all Japan) and loves to talk big (the agreement with a friend) can't keep up." ”

"I have a reason why I can't give up!" Nanyun Shiyi, who had an emotional outburst, yelled.

"You're annoying!" Kuraza, who is also getting worse and worse, replied: "An appointment with a friend? Don't confuse that boring game with high school baseball. ”

"Bastard!" Nagumo Shiichi was really angry at Kuroza Naoya's words, "I'm not playing any game!" ”

"Then I'll ask you ...... in turn" After startling Naoya Kuraza in front of him, Nan Yunshi always asked him, "What do I learn so that you are willing to let me join the baseball club?" ”

"Okay, since you've said so, I'll give you a chance." After saying that, Kuroza Naoya took the person to the bottom of the seven-story bell tower.

"Pitch to the sky." Kuraza Naoya looked up at the bell stand on the top of the building and explained to Nangumo Shiichi next to him, "You have to throw the ball to the height of the bell tower and catch it before it hits the ground." ”

"It's within the square of tiles on the ground, a range of about 2m × 2m."