On the night of the victory over Inomi, the players were summoned again in the brightly lit indoor training room.
'This scene looks really familiar.. 'Kōshū stood silently behind the supervisor this time, far away from the players. Almost everyone stared at him after entering.
"I think you all know the reason for the meeting tonight." In the quiet training ground, there was only the sound of supervision.
"Kōshū injured his ankle in today's game, but it was not serious." This sentence was like a bomb, finally letting the undecided shoe in the players' hearts fall to the ground.
Looking at each other, 'So when is it? '
'Is it possible that you are injured and still insist on playing? '
'Really or not, there is no change at all. '
No matter how upset everyone was, the supervisor continued, "Miyuki!"
"Ah, hi!" Miyuki's mind was frantically recalling all the details of the game. When he was called, he was stunned for a moment and didn't even react.
"Practice cooperation with the remaining people in Pitcher Lineup tomorrow." This means that there will only be Furuya, Eijun and Kawakami in the next game.
Kōshū feels bitter in his heart, and also feels bitter in the back of his tongue. Now he has to miss the game again. It's finally possible to play.
And regarding his disposal, do we only need to submit a good plan? I can't believe that Kataoka Manager let me go like this.
The supervisor didn't stop talking. "Kawakami!"
"Hi!"
"As a senior, you must play your role in guiding the juniors."
Kawakami Senior had sweat on his face. It was all because of his own lack of strength, so he couldn't help the team much at all.
"Asou! Left field is yours."
"Hi!" Asou thought to himself. Although this is not a good thing, he, Starting Left Field, can finally play stably. Of course, at this time, he didn't know that Furuya would not be merciful in the next few games.
Just restating everyone's responsibilities one by one is a belated summary of today's game.
Afterwards, the supervisor directly announced the disbandment, leaving Kōshū to face the coaching staff alone.
"Supervision..."
"The third grade student who participated in National Sports Festival has returned. I have arranged for Chris to be your guide these days." Out of the corner of his eye, Ochiai Coach turned his head. It seemed that he did not agree with Kataoka Manager's decision.
Ace only had an ankle injury, and the doctor judged that it was not that serious. It was more than enough to be Pinch Hitter, but according to Kataoka Manager, it seemed that he would not be sent to the field until Ace's injury was completely healed.
"I think you also know that Chris was overtired when he was in the second grade. After getting injured, he kept hiding it from everyone. In the end, it led to very serious consequences and affected his career. From his side, you can know everything." Kataoka Manager was uncharacteristically uncharacteristic this time. He did not criticize harshly, and did not even talk to him too much.
Looking at the backs of the coaches, Kōshū felt very frightened. The supervisor looked like he was extremely disappointed in him. Baseball Club's playing list is drawn up by supervision, so supervision plays a decisive role in the future of the players.
'If you transfer to another school, you won't be able to play baseball for a year, but if you start playing baseball from your senior year of high school, you can. If you move to some less popular areas, you can also enter Koshien in the summer. The only problem is that the teammates in those areas will be very weak. '
From being the team's ace to being unable to play, there were only two injuries. 'No, he concealed his injuries twice. No wonder the supervisor is like that. '
Feeling uneasy, Kōshū also walked out of the training ground, facing the first-year quartet who had been waiting for a long time, followed by the captain and vice-captain.
Everyone else is gone.
"Don't look anymore, I sent them all back." Kuramochi took the lead and walked over with a sullen face, but was interrupted by Lang Zhi.
"Hey, why are you blocking here?" The two shortstops were standing face to face.
"Brother is injured, so let's just stand here and talk."
Kuramochi was a little surprised, and then realized that his face was probably too ugly, and Lang Zhi mistakenly thought there was something going on.
Kōshū put his hand on his younger brother's shoulder, and pressed the 'obstacle' steadily to move away, "What are you thinking about, Lang Zhi, Kuramochi, senior just has an evil face."
"You guy." Kuramochi's anger immediately transferred from Lang Zhi to the tall pitcher. He glared at him for two seconds, then Matsushita strengthened himself, waved his hand, and retreated to the wall to lean on, "Tell me, when did you get injured?"
"That time at home plate."
"Huh? Doesn't that mean there are several rounds after being injured?" Maezono was shocked. He thought he had worked hard enough, but he didn't expect that talented people would work harder than him.
"Oh, that's it. No wonder your ball control in the next game became very poor." Miyuki said in a moderate tone. His heart had completely left Kōshū and was focused on Pitcher Lineup's only three remaining seedlings.
"Brother..." Eijun was moved to tears, "I will inherit your last wish and perform it well!"
"I'm not dead yet!"
"Don't throw yourself at others when you cry." Lang Zhi intercepted the crying person midway, but was hugged by the other person and used his clothes as a tissue to wipe his nose.
"As expected... So does it still hurt now?" Haruichi, as the first and only person to see the problem, is qualified to ask everyone's most concerned question at this time.
"It doesn't hurt anymore, only a little edema is still there. But the supervisor must be completely disappointed in me. He didn't count the one time, he hid the injury twice..."
"Didn't you let senior Chris give you guidance?" Miyuki pointed out the key point, "Supervisors are very strict people. As long as someone in First String makes a mistake during the game, he will be demoted immediately. Second String. Although you didn't make any mistakes in the game, the seriousness is no worse than the mistakes, but the supervisor didn't say that he would take away your trump card or let you go to Second String, which shows that he still loves you very much."
After that, Miyuki also muttered, "I really envy talented people. No matter what they do, they are always forgiven." Maezono gave Miyuki a hard look when he heard this.
But Kōshū stopped listening. He immediately walked through the crowd. "Speaking of this, I remembered that senior Chris has been waiting for me for a long time. Let's go first!"
"Hey -" Kuramochi shouted in a long voice, but the guy walked too fast, and it didn't look like he had any injuries on his feet. He turned around and disappeared in an instant. He looked at the pitcher's last figure and whispered the next words, "Slow down..."
Kōshū Walking through the dark path, the light opened up the field of vision in front of him. There was a figure standing quietly at the door. The lamp hung quietly above his head, illuminating a faint halo around him.
"Chris senior!"