After a night of horror at the campsite, Fujii and Uncle Amami returned home, and Miss Rin Kamiya, who was always late for school on Mondays, sat down at her desk early this time.

"Good morning, Fujii-san."

"Good morning, Kamiya-san."

After a polite response, the two stopped communicating, and Rin Kamiya arranged Shinnosuke for the newly accepted Shinnosuke at the shrine, and she didn't know that it was Fujii Tree who indirectly contributed to this.

The baseball club's training is carried out as usual in the afternoon after school, and Fujii has been a little more motivated than before since he saw the existence of a tanuki monster.

"Phew!"

Toru Harada hit a rare straight ball thrown by Fujii Tree, and after a brief contact between the ball speed of about 150 kilometers and the bat, he flew straight out of the field and disappeared.

"yes, it's a home run!"

Toru Harada, who had hit dozens of good shots in a row, was excited, and this was indeed a standard home run, although if it was on the playing field, the whole team would not be able to make such a home run.

"Is it counted as a blind one? Keep practicing for me. ”

Naomi Hayakawa unceremoniously twisted Toru Harada's cheek, flipped his fingers, and pulled him back in front of the catcher Shuji Kobayashi.

Throwing the baseball again, Fujii saw that Toru Harada's movement of the baseball bat was noticeably slower, and he knew that he had missed again.

"Good ball, go on."

Naomi Hayakawa hears the sound of a baseball and a catcher's glove coming into contact and supervises the entire process of training.

After practicing the four-stitch fast straight ball for a while, Fujii changed to a ball-holding method and switched to a two-stitch straight ball, which is a little slower than the former, but it is stronger and easier to hit the rolling ball, which is an option to perform the catch-and-kill (deliberately hitting the ball that is easy to pick up and eliminate the batter who runs the base).

After a boring day of training, when Fujii Shu dragged his somewhat tired body home, he found that Uncle Tianhai was entertaining guests in the living room again, this time, it was Teacher Yacai alone.

"The theatrical version of EVA has been released, and we plan to go to see it at night, do you want to go?"

Uncle Tianhai and Mr. Bacai, as senior EVA chefs, both changed into the same uniform as Commander Ikari, chatted and laughed on the sofa, and when they saw Fujii Shu coming back, they asked deliberately.

"No, you guys go, I'm tired today."

Fujii Shu has no energy to go out to wave, even if it is 2.4 times the body of ordinary people, he has practiced pitching for several hours, and his arms are sore, he has seen the theatrical version of EVA in his later life, and the riddler Hideaki Anno has spent more than 20 years telling a riddle, and he can still cheat so much money from the dead house of the island country, and there are really a lot of big grievances.

He went upstairs to his room, turned on the computer, and recently he was more interested in the legendary monsters, and he began to collect information and anecdotes about the monsters on the Internet.

After checking for a long time, it's all messy fake news, there are cats whose eyes will light up at night, and the lights of the abandoned hospital turned out to be homeless, and the imagination of the island people is no worse than that of any country.

The days went by, and soon it was July, the eve of the Koshien Regional Tournament.

Just like football, if you want to participate in the national Koshien Tournament, you must first fight your way out of the local high school, and Tokyo is also divided into two divisions, AB, and you have to beat six rounds of teams along the way to get a ticket to Koshien, which means that even if you just want to take away the Koshien memorial soil in one round, you must win at least six rounds.

After more than two months of training, Fujii's baseball level has reached the level of LV3/47%, mastering the four-seam and two-seam straight balls, as well as the OK ball and the finger fork ball, the latter two are skills with speed and direction changes, and he intends to use the straight ball against the opponent.

The first round of Hachioji High School is scheduled for the ninth of July, and the six rounds will be played in the remaining twenty days, which is also a test of the physical strength of baseball players, although almost every year, there is a kind of bridge code that is strong enough to drag the whole team forward.

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"Our opponent is Hachioji High School, which was very popular in the football program last year, and their football ace Fujii Shu, who only joined the baseball club in April this year, I heard that he is a pitcher."

Hirano High School, the enemy of the first round of the game, as a high school that was eliminated by Hachioji in football, is much better in baseball than Hachioji High School, which has always been fishy, and the coach held a battle meeting in the conference room before the game.

"Soccer to baseball? Even if this Fujii is a genius, what can he practice in more than two months, it's too naïve! ”

Nobutari Osaki, the number one baseball player in the baseball club of Hirano High School, clasped his hands on his chest and was faintly disdainful, if he played football, he would definitely not be as good as Fujii Shu, but he would never give a good face to such a disrespectful baseball and a guy who tried to achieve results by training for more than two months.

"We will treat them well, the football club lost face, and this year our baseball club will get it back."

Another starting pitcher, Tetsuhei Kawagoe, added with confidence that this confidence will be maintained until the day the ninth plays.

"Well, everyone is very motivated! Let's teach Hachioji High School a lesson and tell them that we at Hirano High School still have a baseball club, so we can easily beat them. ”

After listening to the speeches of his players, the coach of Hirano High School was inevitably a little floating, the fact that Hachioji High School was a fish belly has long been a well-known thing, and it is really lucky to meet this kind of team in the first round.

And when it comes to the game, whether you will regret it is another matter.

July 9, 2013, Hachioji City Municipal Baseball Stadium.

Fujii Tree, who has been practicing baseball for more than two months, finally has the opportunity to show his strength in front of everyone, his current position is the No. 1 starting pitcher, there are a total of nine innings in baseball games, divided into two halves, two teams each play with nine people, respectively as the offensive side and the defensive side, a strong enough starting pitcher, has the strength to end the game alone.

The Hachioji team got the opportunity to pitch first, which was considered the defensive side, and Fujii Shu, who was wearing white baseball short sleeves, walked up to the pitcher's mound, stepping on the soft sand, this was his first time on the baseball stage, and hundreds of spectators sat sparsely on the side of the field, and the heat of the first round of the local tournament was like this.

Watch me go straight to a home run!

Hirano High School's number one strong baseman Osaki Nobutei stared at Fujii Tree, this guy's body shape is not a power type at first glance, and he will definitely throw a speed ball or a change ball later, right?

Deal with your opponents in the first round and try not to show your cards.

Fujii made up his mind, took the four-stitch fast straight ball grip method, straightened the baseball cap, folded his left leg, raised his hands high, and moved instantly.