Ace of Diamond: Golden Cleats and Silver Bat
Chapter 20

This is the Genius Everyone Envies

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"Unwilling... am I? Since birth, I've never had such an emotion."

"That's right, I've never experienced any setbacks in my life. Whether it's academics or sports, I can get everything without effort. I've forgotten what it means to be unwilling.

The feelings of a loser, how to win, I've never considered these things.

So it turns out that these ten years of new life have been so empty. Everything is too easy to achieve, it's truly a life without any real feeling!

Soga, so you gou dou ga, (both mean 'so') before I knew it, I was already 12 years old, but time passed so quickly, so quickly that I didn't feel anything.

This emptiness is as if I haven't experienced anything in these 12 years.

Being a genius is also a kind of suffering! I don't feel anything about anything.

Emptiness, blandness, loneliness, no emotional fluctuations, no excitement, no stimulation, everything is taken for granted.

When anything can be done casually, and there are no opponents, then you quickly lose interest and become bored. This is the so-called genius that everyone envies!!!"

"If talent is the most unreasonable thing, then a genius is the most unreasonable person.

But under this overwhelming power, who can feel the loneliness within? The simpler things are, the less interesting they become!"

"Coach... huh? Sounds interesting! Then let's do it!" After everyone left, Sendou faced the moon in the sky alone, lost in thought.

"A text message!"

At this moment, Sendou's phone lit up and a notification sound was emitted.

Sendou picked up his phone and glanced at the message.

"As expected, I still want to study science. I definitely want to study Astronomy in college!"

Seeing the content of the message, Sendou replied.

"Ah! How enviable!"

"╰_╯ Are you being sarcastic?"

Soon the other party replied, with a very dangerous smile, at least that's how Sendou imagined the expression.

"What do you think?"

"You're not that bored, but what's wrong? What happened? I feel like you're in a bad mood."

"You're really perceptive, no wonder you're called... what was it again? Your nickname?"

"Please forget that nickname quickly!"

"I've already forgotten."

"Who are you kidding? So why are you in a bad mood? You shouldn't have encountered any problems, right?"

"Well... I just feel like life isn't real, you wouldn't understand, being called a genius is really a tough thing!

But you're different, you really like language arts, and you're called a genius in that area! And even if you were to study your terrible math, you wouldn't have this feeling!"

"⊙_⊙!"

"Enough about that, what's up today?"

"Hey, hey, Akila, save me! I'm dying (>﹏<), I can't understand any of these math problems!"

"..."

"Let's go on Line!"

"Roger that! ^ω^!"

(Several words omitted here.)

"Is this okay?" After a series of explanations and screenshots, Sendou asked helplessly.

"Yeah, (☆_☆), eternally grateful, eternally grateful!"

Japanese people, regardless of gender, like to use all sorts of emoticons.

"Then I'm going to sleep. Good night!"

"Good night!"

"Seriously, would it kill him to talk a little longer!" At this moment, someone whispered on the other end of the phone.

Since he was on the messaging app, he created a new group and pulled all his buddies in, then said one sentence.

"You guys better be prepared this week, get ready for a hellish life!"

After that, he completely ignored the group and went offline.

The next day, after school, Sendou went straight home to his house in Tokyo by train, taking away Coach Nakanishi's notes and a large pile of books that had been sealed away for three years.

Sendou was the type of person who, if he was going to do something, he would do it well, even to the point of being a bit of a perfectionist.

In the evening, he turned on his computer and started watching videos.

"That guy was pretty obedient today! Right." Saying that, he picked up his phone.

"Hello, Coach, sorry to bother you."

"Akila? This is rare, what do you need?"

"Could I trouble you to help me collect some game videos? Little League, youth baseball, or professional baseball videos are all fine, and it would be even better if there are highlight reels, please."

"Could it be, Sendou, do you want to play baseball?" Coach Nakanishi instantly became excited.

Although he knew that Sendou had been doing those exercises, he had never touched baseball, not even to casually play at the batting center.

Although Sendou had been insisting on exercising, so that his body wouldn't miss the growth stage and waste his talent, it was impossible to say that he wasn't disappointed.

"No, the guys here asked me to be their coach. And these guys are too terrible, so I want to see if there are any tactics suitable as the future development goals of this team. Then, while making up for the basics, I'll conduct targeted reinforcement training, hoping for a good result in the last Middle School tournament, after all, there are only two years left until the Middle School tournament."

"So that's how it is! Leave it to me!" Coach Nakanishi was slightly disappointed, but when he thought about it, understanding baseball tactics was also a kind of growth, and while techniques were easy to cultivate, tactical thinking was not, so he felt much better.

"I will also participate, but only in the games. Otherwise, with them, I estimate they won't be able to get a single win in Middle School." Sendou knew the other party's sense of loss, so he said this.

"Yosh, leave it to me!" Sure enough, the other party perked up.

"Do you need me to take a look at their characteristics and train their basics?"

"You're very busy there, right!? And you don't know how terrible they are! I'm enough. And if you, Coach, take over, I'm afraid I'll lose interest!"

"If you have any questions, feel free to ask me!"

"Hi, I got it! Well, I'll hang up first."

"Okay, then. I'll contact you on Line later."

"Okay, goodbye then!"

"Ah, good night!" Coach Nakanishi said, hanging up the phone.

"That old man is really energetic!" Sendou said, returning to the computer to watch the video intently.

"Tap, tap, tap!"

"Hai lei you (Come in)!"

"Akila, dinner's ready!" Sendou's grandfather came in and said to Sendou.

"Hi~" he replied casually with a pen in his mouth.

"What are you doing?"

"A recording of a match!"

"Is it about Eijun asking you to be his coach? I didn't expect you to be so serious about it!"

"Well, it can't be helped, I already promised!"

"Where's the match from?"

"A Koshien match from two years ago, let me see, um, Kiryu versus Yokohama."

"Soga! Good luck! It's rare for you to be interested in something."

"It's nothing, those things in the past couldn't be helped, things that are too easy to get, you also lose interest in them quickly." Sendou said, getting up and taking the ballpoint pen out of his mouth.

While eating, Grandpa and Grandma talked about Sendou's situation, and Grandma was also very happy for Sendou.

I couldn't take it yesterday, so I only wrote a little. I felt a little better in the afternoon, so I wrote some words and posted a chapter to make up for it, please don't mind! If there are any detailed problems, I'll fix them when I get better. These past few days have been especially rough at night. It looks like it won't get better in a few days. Finally, I can't come up with chapter names 2333.

Talent is the most unreasonable thing, and geniuses are the most unreasonable people. This sentence is what I felt when I saw those geniuses before, although I don't know if anyone has said it. But it is definitely not plagiarism, this sentence will appear several times in the future.

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