"Is that so?"
"That's right!! You came over here because you were scared, weren't you?!" Sendou said with a grin.
"I'm not scared!! If anything, I'm fired up now!!" Provoked like that, Sawamura forgot everything else.
"Then I'll help you warm up! You-san! I'm heading out first!" Sendou took the initiative and walked over.
"Yeah!" Senior Kuramochi knew he wanted to talk to Sawamura and did not say much.
"You don't need to worry about me! Sendou! I'm in great condition!!" Once the two were alone, Sawamura spoke directly.
"You've gotten smarter! But this time, I really wasn't worried about you!! You'd better be prepared for the possibility that I won't be able to offer you much help!"
"Yeah! Using Wooden Bats today, it wouldn't be strange if you didn't perform well... my ass!! You said the same thing back in middle school too, didn't you?!" Sawamura had almost started imagining things along Sendou's line of thought, but a memory suddenly surfaced, and he pointed at Sendou as he shouted.
"Huh?" Sendou froze.
"What did you bully Senior Ozawa into?!! I heard about it!!"
"Where did you hear that?!" Sendou asked suspiciously.
"This guy actually has that kind of awareness? He must have heard it by coincidence!" Sendou was suspicious at first, then immediately rejected his own guess.
"I overheard it by accident!!"
"Don't say something like that so proudly! I got it! I'll do my best!! Then please buy me a little time so I can adjust!! Though I don't know whether I can get myself into a condition I'm satisfied with... The opponent is strong, you know!! And they're Left Pitcher Killers!"
"Leave it to me!!" Sawamura instantly put on a Demon Face.
Before long, the game was about to begin!
"Line up!!" At the furious roar of