"If you let the ball hit the school building, it fell to the roof, or it hit a potted plant."

After Naoya Kuroza explained the rules, Nangumo Shiyi looked up at the seven-story bell tower in front of him, and said that it was impossible to throw the ball to a seven-story building: "At the same time as throwing the ball to a seven-story building, you still have to catch it in this range of about 4 square meters?" It's absolutely impossible for the average high school student......"

"See clearly." Just as Nagumo Shiichi was thinking about this, Kuroza Naoya walked to the tile in the middle of the square, clenched the baseball with his right hand, and the whole person bowed his body, his left foot jumped violently, and his right hand swung upward.

"Whew!"

The baseball flying upwards from Naoya's fingertips quickly flew past the clock stand on the seventh floor, and when it fell downward, it was firmly grasped by Naoya's left hand raised upwards to the outside of the middle area of the square.

"Bang!"

"Give." Kuroza Naoya reached out and took out a baseball from the ball sleeve and threw it to Nangumo Shiichi next to him: "It's impossible for you to learn it right away, I'll wait for you for a week." ”

"If you really want to join the club and play baseball, learn this from me!"

Naoya Naoza, who turned around and returned to the baseball club, looked surprised, "Kuroza he... He said and succeeded... It's really surprising - he is a genius among the many first-year students in the baseball club (the number of new students in a kendo club is only a few people, or the number of boys and girls combined, and a club like a baseball club with more than 40 new students is very scary)! ”

After that, Nagumo Shiichi, who began to practice the sky, fell, fell, was hit by a falling baseball, and couldn't pull his hand away and couldn't lose his hand, all of which were all difficulties that he, a beginner who could only lose three stories at first, had to overcome.

"It's hard to get a sense of direction when throwing a ball into the sky, and you can't throw the ball straight at all."

"It's a rare test like this!"

……

At 7 o'clock in the afternoon of June 18, Miyukiichi, who was wandering around after finishing training, also happened to pass by the bell stand where Shiichi Nagumo was.

"Hey, isn't that Nagumo-san? What are you doing? ”

"Hmm... It turned out to be... Miyuki-san, who is in the same class.。 ”

"What!" Yukiichi, who learned about what happened, couldn't help but exclaim: "If you want to join the baseball club, you have to throw the ball to the height of the bell tower, and you have to catch the ball before it hits the ground?" ”

This kind of test is probably only possible for first-year students to do it, with Kuraza, and Kimura as a pitcher (plus Kurosaki Ichitaka, who has transferred to Kuroshikan).

The guy from Kuroza said that this was a chance for Nagumo...... But he didn't plan to let Nagumo join the baseball club at all!

As a training method, throwing the ball into the sky is to use the smallest space to practice the movements that can best exert and control the power.

To drop the ball to a height of seven floors, you need to be able to throw the ball at least 100m away from your shoulder, plus the ability to control the ball.

The problem is that Nagumo, as a beginner, doesn't know this, and that's what makes people surprised.

"No, I can't find an idea at all......" Nanyun Shiyi squatted on the ground, leaning against the wall, with a depressed face.

"When did you start practicing?"

"Huh? I started four days ago. Faced with Miyuki's inquiry, Shiichi Minamigumo replied with his decadent head raised.

"Practicing so late every day?" Yukiichi also continued to ask, after all, he also wanted to know what kind of effort Nagumo was willing to make to join the baseball club as a man of the year during this time?

"No, there are also in the morning and at noon, but unfortunately ......there is no progress at all," Nanyun Shiyi said more and more decadently.

"What is it that makes you want to join the baseball club so much?" While asking, Yukiichi secretly rejoiced in his heart, and in vain he was looking for an opportunity to come over and pretend to ask, and he would immediately see the reason why Nagumo wanted to join the baseball club, and became the fourth person in the baseball club to know the reason.

"Huh? Hmm......" Nagumo Shiichi's originally decadent expression began to disappear, replaced by joy.

"He is my favorite friend, but he has to leave his favorite baseball because of a serious injury, and his once bright eyes are dim because of this, seeing this scene, I want to work hard with him lying in the hospital bed!"

"It's not about standing next to him and letting him continue to be decadent, but about taking his share, working hard in the same place, and finally standing on the stage of Koshien with his dream and winning the championship."

"Hee-hee, you're such a weird guy!" Miyuki Kazuya, who knew the reason, smiled and continued: "It turned out to be an agreement with my best friend? I thought it would be a more imposing motive? For example, I think kendo is very hard, so I have to quit the company; I joined the baseball club purely because I wanted to hit a home run or something. ”

"Well, no, I still like kendo a lot." Nanyun Shiichi, who has the potential to become a hot-blooded teenager, shook his head very seriously, "Everyone in the kendo club is very good people, but ......"

"I ...... I have friends who I want to work on more together. Nanyun Shiyi's eyes became more and more serious.

"I think he will definitely go on a very different path from me in the future, so I only have 2 years to make up for his regrets, and I have to grasp the present."

"Because I don't want to regret it!"

Looking at the red-haired boy in front of him who was getting more and more serious, Yukiichi was also a little embarrassed to have fun with him, since this was the case, then the guy in the Kuraza couldn't achieve what he wanted.

"Alright! Nagumo, let's pass the ball. Yukiichi, who was sitting next to him, smiled and stood up from the ground, and said to the red-haired boy next to him, "You haven't learned the pitching posture at all, you have to start with the basics of passing and receiving." ”

The index finger and middle finger are pressed on the suture in the middle of the baseball, the thumb is pressed on the bottom of the baseball, and the ring finger and little finger are pressed on the other side of the suture.

"You've been pouring power into your wrists," Miyukichi said as he made the corresponding movements to make it easier for beginner Shiichi Nagumo to understand: "The wrist should be relaxed and thrown out at the moment of release." ”

"Shake?" When Nan Yunshi heard this, he twisted the wrist of his right hand holding the baseball to relax himself.

"Whew!"

According to what Miyuki told him just now, Nagumo Shiichi threw the ball to Miyuki who was standing in front of him with a flick of his right hand.

"Bang!"

Yukiichi also opened his ball sleeve in front of his chest and caught the baseball passed by Nagumo, "Yes, that's it, you're very good." ”

"Good shot!" He took the baseball out of the case and said as he threw the ball back.

"Really?" Facing the appreciation of the students of the same level who were even more powerful than the Tibetan seats, Nangumo Shiichi seemed very happy.

"yes, that's great." Mikoichi also stretched the ball cover on his chest forward and opened it, allowing Nagumo to pass the ball back again, "A few more balls!" ”