"Today, I'm going to pitch to my heart's content...
Huh?" Sawamura, who had been chatting and laughing with Yui, suddenly froze when he saw Miyuki gritting his teeth and practicing seriously on the field.
As the team captain, the first thing he had to do was hone himself. He couldn't dump all the responsibility on everyone else.
"I really heard your loud voice before I even saw you!
Sorry! Can you wait a little longer?
I'll clean up right away!" Hearing Sawamura's voice, Miyuki spoke apologetically.
"It's fine. Since I'm here anyway, I'll do some swing practice!" Sawamura answered somewhat blankly, sounding embarrassed instead.
Clearly, seeing how hard Miyuki was working made him wonder whether he had interrupted him.
"Thank you!" Miyuki said with a smile. After acknowledging Kimura, who had been tossing balls to him, he picked up his bat and headed toward the bench.
"Yui! You go back first!" Sawamura said calmly.
And it was precisely that calm tone that revealed the conflict in his heart.
"Okay!" Yui noticed that the atmosphere between the two was a little off, so he discarded his original idea of following along to watch.
"Hey! Yui!!" At that moment, Senior Kuramochi, who should have been practicing in the Indoor Practice Field, came running over.
"Senior Kuramochi!!"
"Where's Sendou?"
"Sendou-san is at Field B!
Is something wrong?" Yui asked doubtfully.
"The coach just asked me to tell Sendou to go to the Indoor Practice Field once he's rested up!!!
The coach will be there soon!!
Can you pass that along to him? I want to go back first!!" Kuramochi glanced toward Field B and didn't really want to go over, so he passed the buck to Yui.
"Yeah! Of course!!
Is something going on?" Yui cautiously asked, so he wouldn't be caught off