10 Expansion

Ultimately, Shirakawa, Harada, and Narumiya Mei also snatched a few gloves. But Su Qing didn't care, anyway, he had a lot of stuff.

And Narumiya Mei and the others had long been accustomed to Su Qing having some strange things here. Every night, Su Qing would leave Inajitsu for a while, always carrying a big box. They naturally thought that the things were bought back by Su Qing from outside. Sometimes they would mutter a few words about Su Qing wasting money, but every time they would happily take some things from Su Qing.

In fact, the big boxes that Su Qing brought back each time were empty, and the boxes he carried out were full. It's just that common sense made Narumiya Mei and the others think that the box came before the things.

Su Qing had successfully rented a small house around Inajitsu, and currently 1/4 of it has been piled up with his various sneakers, hats, gloves, bats, and all kinds of strange things. This made Su Qing complain endlessly, because if this continued, he would have to find a way to rent a large warehouse, after all, the housing prices in Tokyo are quite expensive.

Originally, Su Qing was planning to buy one, but he was successfully dissuaded by the housing prices.

After Su Qing left dozens of pairs to be distributed to other teammates in the team, he threw all these gloves into his empty box, preparing to take them back to the rental house at night.

Today is destined to be an extraordinary day, because Su Qing received several love letters. In Inajitsu, being able to enter the baseball team, especially the first string, is a bonus in the eyes of the girls, especially since Su Qing does look quite good.

Facing the love letters, Su Qing didn't feel anything, because whether in his previous life or this life, except for playing baseball, he was a complete emotional idiot.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have been a wanderer in his previous life.

He turned a blind eye to the expectant and shy gazes of the girls, casually put the love letters in his bag, and went directly to baseball training after class.

Being able to safely bring the love letters back to the dormitory, Su Qing felt that the environment of high schools in Japan was really good. If it were his previous life, his mischievous friends would have publicly executed the girls who wrote love letters and him long ago.

Now Inajitsu's pitching training has changed a lot. In the past, the pitchers would pitch, and Coach Kunimoto would watch from the side. Now, the pitchers pitch, and Su Qing watches from behind.

Coach Kunimoto is not a person without tolerance. After confirming that Su Qing's training method was indeed beneficial to pitching, the training that Su Qing and Narumiya Mei had been doing privately was brought out into the open. Even adjusting Inajitsu's other players together.

"It's off. It was adjusted yesterday, why is it off again today."

Narumiya Mei snorted coldly.

Su Qing quickly went up to smooth Narumiya Mei's feathers.

"Go practice yours, I have the captain watching here."

"Yes, yes, yes, good luck."

In fact, the catcher can just watch this matter, after all, the catcher squats behind Home Plate, definitely seeing more clearly than him, but Coach Kunimoto insisted on letting him watch first, and then hand it over to the catchers completely after a while.

After watching for a few days, Harada has now found the trick, which is to see the position of the release point. He also understood this before, judging what kind of ball the pitcher is throwing based on the release point.

As Narumiya Mei's partner all along, Harada is the clearest about what kind of changes Narumiya Mei has had since the release point stabilized.

Although Narumiya Mei is still a bit slow to warm up, his control is much more stable, and he has not shown the unstable performance of pitching at the beginning again.

Even if it's just this point, Harada feels it's a great harvest! Narumiya Mei, who has stabilized at the start, plus his batting, so what if he is still slow to warm up, he will no longer let Narumiya Mei lose points at the start!

The afternoon pitching training ended quickly. After the fielding training also ended, Coach Kunimoto gathered everyone, including the second-string players.

"Everyone should already know that the Golden Week round-robin tournament will begin this Saturday. The first-string players will depart for Miyagi and have exchange matches with Ikuei, and I plan to divide the second-string players into two groups, both staying in Tokyo, one going to play against Yakushi, and one staying at the school to play exchange matches with Sosei. The following is the list."

"Although I will go with the first string, Coach Yoshida and Coach Okugawa will help me observe everyone." Although Coach Kunimoto didn't say it explicitly, the meaning in his words was already very obvious.

"In the upcoming Golden Week, I will give every player a chance to play! I hope you can all have no regrets this summer!"

"Yes!"

"Dismissed."

"Thank you for your hard work, Manager!"

After confirming that all the players had dispersed, the Inajitsu baseball team manager walked to Coach Kunimoto's side.

"Has the roster been finalized?"

Coach Kunimoto shook his head, still hesitant about the roster.

"You're hesitating between Maruse and Kuwahara, right? After all, with Su Qing, one of Maruse and Kuwahara is enough."

Coach Kunimoto still shook his head.

"I plan to finalize the roster after the Golden Week is completely over! I can't let down the efforts of every player!"

"Yes!" The manager also knew he had said the wrong thing. After all, he didn't understand the sport; he was just sent by the school to assist Coach Kunimoto in running the baseball team. Asking about this kind of thing was indeed a bit presumptuous.

"I'll be leaving with the team in a couple of days, so I'll have to trouble you with the affairs of the club."

"What are you saying? This is what I should do!"

In fact, the manager was right. Coach Kunimoto did intend to choose one of Maruse and Kuwahara to replace. But Maruse and Kuwahara were both third-year players, both of whom he had trained himself, and this was their last summer. Coach Kunimoto felt a little unbearable, so he wanted to take another look.

In the evening, Su Qing also asked about the roster. Anyway, the entire dormitory consisted of regular players, so there was nothing wrong with asking.

"The coach usually gives the roster after the Golden Week."

"That late?"

Su Qing remembered that Seido next door seemed to have finalized this thing very early before the Golden Week started. After all, it was good to have a hellish training camp after the roster was set. After the training camp, Coach Kataoka would devilishly make the protagonist group drag their tired bodies to play games. At the time when he watched it, he felt it was too perverted. Weren't they afraid of ruining the players by training them hard before the game?

"Oh, right, are we going to have a training camp? I heard that Seido next door is almost finished with their training camp."

"Oh, you even know about Seido's affairs. We will have a training camp, but it's not as perverted as Seido's. It's just doubling the usual amount of training and bringing forward the morning training."

"Bring forward!"

Getting up every morning to go to morning training was already painful enough. Su Qing didn't want to get up even earlier!

"We have to arrive at the playground at 6 o'clock in the morning."

"6 o'clock!!!"

"Can I not participate in the training camp?! I think I might get sick those few days."

Su Qing immediately thought of feigning illness. He didn't feel anything about doubling the training, anyway, Inajitsu's daily training volume wasn't very high. Coach Kunimoto was still very serious and responsible.