"So your all-out pitching is so powerful?" Yukiichi also opened his ball sleeve and grabbed the baseball that Nagumo threw with all his might.

"But we're standing so close, you don't have to throw the ball with all your might!"

"I'm sorry!" Nanyun Shiyi immediately nodded and bowed.

"Okay, you've learned to throw the ball now, and I hope I'll have the opportunity to ...... with you on the court next time" After passing back the baseball he received, Yukiichi also smiled and took off the ball cover on his left hand: "I want to play baseball with you!" You're going to have to work hard to get through! ”

"Miyuki-san......" Under the encouragement of the catcher, Nanyun Shiichi, who was becoming more and more emotional, looked at the back of Miyukiichi who also turned away, and was about to raise his right hand to say goodbye to him, but suddenly turned his head and shouted to himself: "I'm waiting for you!" ”

"Thank you! Miyuki-san! ”

Listening to the voice in his ears, Yukiichi also raised his left hand and looked at it, "Damn...... I almost didn't catch it, didn't I just throw the ball with all my might! "If the strength is only like this, how can the position of the main catcher compete with Chris's predecessors.

……

After Yukiichi left, although he couldn't control the ball, he was already able to throw the ball to the fifth floor, and Shiichi Minamimo started practicing again.

"I also want to play baseball with Miyuki-san...... Want to know more about baseball. ”

"So, I must join the baseball club!"

……

On June 21, Shiichi Nagumo was standing under the seven-story bell tower.

"Today is the deadline I promised, but I can only throw to six floors, and the ball is not stable, what should I do?"

"Am I really not fit to play baseball?"

"That's not right!" After patting his cheeks with both hands, Shiichi Nagumo regained his strength.

"It's come to this, you can't give up! I want to play baseball. ”

"I can only fight-" Nanyun Shiyi kicked the ground with his left leg, jumped upwards suddenly, shook his right hand, and threw the baseball in his palm into the window on the sixth floor.

"Boom!"

Shiichi Nagumo looked up as he shifted his position and opened his holster upwards to catch the baseball that had fallen from the window on the sixth floor.

"Smack!" A baseball smashed on the bridge of the nose and bleeds from the nose.

"It's hard! Baseball's ball ......" Nagumo Shiichi looked at the nosebleed in his palm, as if he understood something?

At 17 o'clock in the afternoon, Kuraza Naoya leaned against the wall, looked at Nangumo Shiichi, who was still practicing even when it rained, and asked him, "Did you succeed?" "It's impossible to succeed, you should die.

"No, it's not ...... yet" Nanyun Shiyi, who was panting with his head down, shook his head with his hands on his knees.

"Huh?" After school, just after training in the club for an hour, Kuramochi Yoichi, who was pulled over, stood in front of the window of the corridor, looking at the two people who were raining under the bell platform and were a little puzzled: "Isn't that Kuroza and Nangumo?" It's raining, what are they doing there? ”

"Could it be ......" Kuramochi Yoichi, who seemed to remember something, turned his head to look at the black-bellied man who pulled him over next to him: "Is this your wishful thinking again?" ”

"I just want to see how this test will be decided?" Miyuki Kazuya's tone was very flat: "Nagumo should pass the test...... After all, they all said that they would play baseball together. ”

"Besides, I'll have to talk to them a few more words after this test is over!"

"Hey!" Kuramochi Yoichi really can't stand Miyuki's black-bellied qualities.

"Oops! I'm looking forward to the fun they can give me. Yukiichi also finished laughing.

"The heart is too dark." Kuramochi Yokazu, who couldn't stand it, could only complain there alone: "How much does this guy like to tease people!" ”

"After waiting for days, they're finally going to start testing." Following Miyuki's gaze, Yoichi Kuramochi focused his attention on Nagumo.

"With my current strength, this may be the last ball...... If you fail, your baseball career is over. ”

"Calm down, you should be able to ...... as usual" Nanyun Shiyi, who had adjusted his posture, stood on the tile in the center of the square, and after breathing steadily, he bent over, supported the ground with his right foot, and jumped up with his left foot.

"At the moment of releasing the ball, turn the front of your body to the front of the target...... Cast it! ”

The baseball that flew out of the palm of his hand swooped upwards and began to fall downward only after flying over the bell stand on the seventh floor, and then was grabbed by the ball sleeve that was still standing on the center tile.

“！”

Looking at the young man who had completed the test in front of him, Kuroza Naoya looked shocked at this.

"Hahaha!" Yukiichi in the corridor was also taken aback by Shiichi Nagumo's performance, "It's really fake!" This guy is too powerful, isn't it? ”

I didn't expect that the deviation of his throwing the ball to the sky would be so small, and such a level of ball control could be among the best in the country even if it was in the top.

"You just ......" Naoya Kuroza, who had not yet recovered from the shock, stretched out his hand to the boy in front of him and asked, "After throwing the ball, you didn't leave the starting point, did you?" ”

"Did you do it on purpose?"

"Ah, do I have it?" Because of the problem of hiding the seat, Nanyun Shiyi reacted at this time, looked down, and showed a look of sudden realization: "I didn't even find it myself!" ”

Throwing the ball into the sky, the closer you are to the point of throwing when you receive the ball, the better the ball control.

Even he has a lot of deviations, and can even reach 2 meters at the maximum, which is the reason why he set the range at 2 meters × 2 meters before.

But Nagumo didn't even move a single step, and successfully caught the falling baseball next to him.

Naoya Kuroza, who covered his mouth with his right hand, felt more and more incredulous the more he thought about it: "If this is not blinded, it means that this guy Nagumo may become the best pitcher in Kanto with the best ball control level - he has this potential!"

As far as Nagumo's performance just now is concerned, it is really possible that he will become the team's ace in the future.

"I can't believe it, 3 days ago, Nagumo was still a super newcomer who didn't even know how to flick his wrists......" The smiling Miyukichi also pulled Yoichi Kuramochi next to him out of the corridor and ran towards the baseball club's training ground.

"How did he come out of the woods in three days? It's getting more and more interesting. ”

"Okay, now that the test has passed. Nagumo, you come to the stadium now. ”

In order to confirm whether Nagumo is blind or not? Kuroza Naoya asks him to follow him to the baseball club's training ground.

"Practice pitching."

……

After Naoya Kuroza changed into the trapper's equipment, he took the man to the cowshed and let Nagumo start pitching.

"In response to the catcher, I'm going to throw the ball straight into the catcher's sleeve in front of me."

Raising his right foot, his left hand stretched forward, and the right hand holding the baseball followed closely behind, swinging out, Nagumo threw a straight ball with a very slow speed to the catcher.

"Whew!"

"Bang!".

Kuroza Naoya closed the ball sleeve to catch the straight ball thrown by Nagumo, his face full of disbelief: "This ...... This is? ”

"It's so slow!" The onlookers didn't have any special feelings about this, they just felt that the ball speed was so slow.