25 Camp

After teaching Su Qing, he ran off. He was exhausted after a day, and he just wanted to take a shower and laze around in bed, because he had classes the next day! And there was a game in the evening!

To Su Qing's surprise, he wasn't sent to the field by Coach Kunimoto the next day. He didn't even get to play as an infielder. The protagonists of the two games were Maruse and Kuwahara. So Su Qing went to train with Narumiya Mei. In his opinion, Narumiya Mei's Trajectory Synchronization still needed work.

So he grabbed the catcher's mitt from the various gloves the system had just sent and went to catch for Narumiya Mei. After all, the catcher who catches the ball has the clearest view.

When Su Qing felt that today's training volume was almost enough, he dragged the very unwilling Narumiya Mei, who still wanted to continue practicing, to the stadium to watch the game. The game was over, both the First String and the Second String games.

Kuwahara pitched in this game and barely managed to win. It can only be said that it was all thanks to the strong batting lineup, and Kuwahara also did his best, pitching 7 innings, with a total of 128 pitches, 5 runs allowed, 2 strikeouts, 3 walks, 8 hits, and 1 error.

This put some pressure on Maruse.

But in Su Qing's opinion, the Manager was obviously more biased towards Maruse. Maruse's opponent in this game was a powerhouse from Nagasaki. Whether it was the batting lineup or the pitchers, they were obviously much stronger than Kuwahara's opponent in this game. So, as long as Maruse could win, his First String spot would be secure.

Unfortunately, Maruse was unable to get the win, pitching 6 innings, with 110 pitches, 5 runs allowed, 3 strikeouts, 3 walks, 7 hits, and 1 error.

Su Qing even suspected that Maruse was doing it on purpose, because the two had similar results. When the time came, Coach Kunimoto would hesitate and probably bring both of them.

To thank the team from Nagasaki for coming from afar, Su Qing, who was watching the game on the sidelines, was temporarily pulled onto the field as a strong laborer. Su Qing pitched the remaining three innings. Overall, Su Qing had a very good impression of this team, and even felt that this team's batting lineup was stronger than Yamamori's, because they could touch Su Qing's ball!

Although they only touched it or hit it into a fly ball or a weak ground ball, they did indeed touch it!

In terms of batting, even with Su Qing's comeback, they still couldn't get 2 points from the still-strong Nagasaki Ace. In the end, Inajitsu lost to the Nagasaki team 3:4.

From his own perspective, Su Qing believed that Coach Kunimoto would most likely choose Maruse. Although the two had similar results, Maruse faced a stronger opponent. It was already very good that he only allowed 5 runs in 6 innings. You have to know that once a pitcher explodes, they completely explode, giving up several points at once. It was not easy for Maruse to only give up 5 points. Of course, Kuwahara also worked hard.

After the game that Maruse pitched ended, Inajitsu's Golden Week also came to a successful conclusion. On Friday, Coach Kunimoto announced the roster, but did not give out the jersey numbers...

"As Su Qing expected, Maruse was the one who ultimately stayed on the First String, and the one who was exceptionally promoted to the First String was none other than little Tada. Obviously, Coach Kunimoto also realized the problem with Inajitsu's catchers and brought Tada Itsuki, the Second String catcher who performed the best during this Golden Week, to the First String.

This made many third-year players very unwilling, but there was nothing to say, because they had also seen Tada's performance. What could they say if their skills were inferior to others?

And Kuwahara also accepted this fact calmly. The third-year players of the Inajitsu baseball team didn't cry like the Seido players. In fact, the main reason was that everyone had already expected it and had already made plans not to continue playing baseball. Moreover, they were already third-year students, and they had to plan for graduation. Baseball was at most a hobby, and life was the most important thing.

They had to start preparing whether to continue their studies or go straight to work. After all, even if they could continue playing baseball, they might not be able to go to college or play professionally by playing baseball.

Everyone was very realistic, but there were still a lot of third-year players who expressed their willingness to continue staying in the club and contribute their strength to Inajitsu's Koshien journey.

After announcing the roster, they naturally entered the training camp stage that both Su Qing and Narumiya Mei were very resistant to!

On the first day of the training camp, Narumiya Mei and Su Qing became the sleepyheads of the dormitory and were forcibly pulled out of bed by Carlos, Harada, and Shirakawa.

This time, the system thoughtfully provided sunscreen! Su Qing was originally puzzled, because they got up so early that the sun hadn't completely come out yet, but when it was almost noon, Su Qing really felt the malice from the sun and put on the sunscreen without saying a word.

I have to say, the system's products are good! Not only does it protect against the sun, but it's also cool! After that, the sunscreen was taken away by the quartet. Su Qing looked at Harada and Carlos's faces and deeply suspected that they really needed sunscreen?

Although Inajitsu's training camp wasn't as deadly as Seido's, it was still super tiring! Especially after Su Qing was assigned to the infield by Coach Kunimoto, Su Qing felt that his picking up and throwing the ball was almost numb.

Especially if he didn't pick it up or throw it well, he had to do ten frog jumps! It was too terrifying!

After the first day of the training camp, Su Qing once again came up with the idea of asking for sick leave.

Then, the next day, he was once again dragged away by his unscrupulous roommates. Su Qing thought that the weekend was over and it was a working day, so the amount of training should be reduced, after all, there wasn't enough time.

But it didn't! The amount of training didn't decrease at all! The only thing that changed was the time they went to the dormitory! Su Qing saw the scene of Inajitsu's stadium with all the large floodlights turned on for the first time.

It was so blinding! And they still had to practice batting and base running! This went on for a whole week, and the training camp finally ended. Su Qing couldn't wait to sleep to death in bed and make up for all the lost sleep.

But at eight o'clock in the morning, he was once again pulled up by Harada. Although the training camp was over, normal training still had to be done.

Su Qing couldn't get up no matter what, clinging directly to his bed. Fortunately, he didn't like sleeping naked, otherwise the scene would have been very chaotic.

In the end, Harada couldn't win against Su Qing, so he could only drag Narumiya Mei, who wanted to imitate him but didn't have enough strength, to training.

After sleeping until 11 o'clock, Su Qing finally felt that he had recovered his energy. After tidying himself up, he prepared to report to the baseball field.

Then he ran into Shirakawa. Before he could greet Shirakawa, he was quickly pulled away by Shirakawa, sprinting all the way to the field, not giving Su Qing a chance to breathe.

When he arrived at the field, Su Qing understood why Shirakawa was so anxious. It turned out they were issuing jersey numbers. After greeting Coach Kunimoto, and under Coach Kunimoto's fairly friendly gaze, Su Qing followed Shirakawa and stood at the end of the line. Next to Su Qing was the isolated and helpless little Tada.

Upon seeing Su Qing, he started winking at Su Qing like crazy.