At the end, the Kiryu players once again agreed with their seniors that Koshien would fight again, and Sendou was the one who said this the most. I was really impressed by his performance today.
Sendou wanted to be in Hirobi Tate's line because this guy openly told him that he liked his smile, which made Kiryu's jaw drop.
"Sendou!" When Sendou followed everyone out and Daimon was bidding farewell to Kiryu's players, Coach Kataoka stopped him.
"What's wrong? Sunglasses Uncle!"
"#!"
Although he got used to the nickname Sendou gave himself, and Sawamura also learned to call it, (Coach Kataoka thought), when called in front of other coaches, Coach Kataoka was still full of black lines.
"Phew! You can have a day off tomorrow! Hurry up and recover from the training fatigue.
Thank you for your hard work today! (Kind words are similar to farewell words)"
"Sendou-kun!" Coach Matsumoto spoke.
Hearing the sound, Sendou turned around.
"Today's performance was really perfect. I look forward to your growth. See you Koshien!"
"Hey! I'll be rude then." Seeing that the coach was okay, he caught up with everyone.
"Sendou-kun is really an interesting child!"
"Where!"
Then the two began to say goodbye.
"Kataoka-san! Just like what Sendou-kun said, let's fight at Koshien next time!"
"Hi!" Seeing Coach Kataoka reply, Coach Matsumoto walked towards the bus.
"Yo west! I'm going to Kanagawa tomorrow. Cheer up!"
"Hi!"
"Thank you for your advice!" When the car started, Captain Tetsu took the lead and bowed goodbye!
"Thanks for the advice!"
Hirobi Tate ended the day's battle with a parting smile after the car started.
"Laughing!" Furuya stared blankly at the bus Kiryu left.
"You laughed! Go back!" Sendou answered gently, appearing to be in a good mood.
"Hey? Sendou! You are in a good mood today!" Sawamura looked at Sendou cutely.
"What's wrong?"
"Then..., do you want to catch the ball I just evolved?"
"I want to vote too!" Furuya seems to want to compete with Sawamura in everything or like to imitate Sawamura, not to mention Sendou, whom he somewhat admires.
"I almost died just now, who cares about you!
I'm back! "
"One goal is good! ~Sendou~" Sawamura looked at the back of the person hiding away, acting coquettishly and cutely.
However, Sendou ignored him completely.
night!
"Dong dong dong!"
"Who is it?" Sendou opened the door tiredly.
"Sendou! I can't sleep! Go running laps with me!"
"Do you know what time it is?" Sendou looked at the clock in his room!
"Forget it! Let's go!" Looking at Sawamura's firm eyes, Sendou couldn't refuse.
"By the way, aren't you afraid of disturbing others?"
"I saw Watanabe-senpai, saying you were the only one sleeping."
"Doesn't it count if I make a noise? Hey! Don't ignore me on purpose, kid!" Seeing that Sawamura didn't treat himself as a human being, Sendou expressed that he was very angry.
"Ah? You guy, why are you practicing secretly here alone?
So cunning!! "When the two walked to the court and saw Furuya running alone, Sawamura was unhappy.
A second later, Sendou seemed to realize something when he saw Sawamura.
"Wait! Isn't that my aibo?
This is not possible! Classmates! "
"So it's this! It seems that this scene happened in the previous life! I can't remember clearly." Sendou was speechless at Sawamura's brain circuit.
"What does it matter? If it's yours, you should write your name on it!"
"I wrote it! Look here! Here!" Then Sawamura pointed it out to him!
"You really wrote it! When did you write it? I have no impression at all!" Sendou choked on his saliva.
So Sendou just watched the two people bickering with interest.
"Hey! You guys!" After a while, Miyuki's voice came from the slope.
The three of them looked up.
"Sawamura, Furuya, just because you don't have to play in the game tomorrow doesn't mean you can sleep well!
You have to get up early tomorrow too, don't be too reluctant!
And Sendou, why are you doing here if you don't go back to sleep? "
"You have to take care of it! I don't know why I'm here!" Sendou whispered.
"Well! You two got fifteen points, so of course you can't sleep!" Then, this guy went back to sleep.
Only Kuramochi next to him was left stunned to watch him.
"So that's it! There's this unfolding! Poof!" Sendou remembered this.
Now Double Pitcher was completely heartbroken.
"Wait a minute! Bastard! We both lost fourteen points in total! Don't add up randomly!"
And Furuya's trembling "Yes! Don't add it!"
The two of them are extremely cute.
"Just take off your hat and goggles and no one will recognize you!" Sawamura said non-lethal rubbish, leaving Sendou speechless and thinking about whether to teach him how to hurt others?
In the end, Sendou rejected the proposal. What if this kid learns to pierce my heart?
"Okay! Go back to bed quickly!" Sendou interrupted Sawamura who was furious on the spot.
The next day,
Practice Match and Furuya, who played Inajitsu, played as the starting left fielder and Koharu played as the starting second baseman, and they were basically substitute players.
But this has nothing to do with Sendou. He has a rest today. Last night, due to being dragged out by Sawamura, when he woke up, the game was almost over.
After waking up, I fell into deep thought.
According to the original trajectory, Senior Tanba would be injured today. Although he didn't know if it would happen again, he thought about it again and again and found that he could do nothing.
Could it be that you will be injured and not play today?
He will definitely be regarded as crazy!
Even if there really was a solution, he couldn't think of it!
Even Sendou doesn't know whether to go to the game today.
After much thought, I finally decided, go!
However, in the end, I stopped watching Practice Match for Shu Bei.
As promised, Sendou got dressed and when he was looking for snacks, he found that they were out of stock. Then he remembered that he was so tired during the training camp that he hardly went shopping.
So I walked to the cafeteria and asked for a bunch of bananas.
"It's almost time to go, Ming! I hate this guy!" When Sendou walked to the court casually, he heard a big guy from Inajitsu saying such a sentence.
"That's right! He was completely suppressed by Kazuya's leadership last summer!"
"It's so noisy! Let's go quickly!"
They meet again by fate, but they don't know each other.
"That guy is Inajitsu's catcher Harada Masakatsu! He's so big! Hmm!" Thinking about it, Sendou took a bite of the banana.
"Speaking of! Have I seen this face before? Well! Is it normal to have seen such an ordinary big face?" Thinking like this, Sendou walked over.
"Well, see you later!" Narumiya Mei had just finished saying this, and before turning around, he noticed the presence of Sendou.
Sendou, which is over 180 centimeters tall, is extremely conspicuous. Although there is not much information, this face is remembered.
"One of Seidou High School's monsters! Sendou Akira!" Narumiya Mei spoke in a low voice, and his voice sounded a little awkward.
Pitcher and hitter, this is a natural opposition, and Sendou has what he does not have.
That is, Sendou's debut starter is Spring Tournament, and he is Summer Tournament but not the starter.
So Narumiya Mei is very concerned about Sendou Akira, but no one can tell what kind of care it is, which also led him to remember this name and this face.
"What did you say?" Harada heard Narumiya Mei's voice, turned his head and saw the next scene.
"What are you doing here? Is our match with Inajitsu over?"
"What are you doing? Sendou! Why are you here now!"
"I have a day off today! And I just woke up!"
"You just woke up!!!" Sawamura was very dissatisfied when he heard this answer.
"It's still the same, the expression of a big shot!
But your performance was really good yesterday.
And I'm very tired, so it doesn't matter if I take a day off! "Kuramochi also joined the discussion.
"Yesterday? I heard them say before that I had a Practice Match with Osaka Toin yesterday!
What kind of performance is it?
There is too little information about this man!
Say it! How do I feel like I've seen him somewhere? It's like I should know the name Sendou! What's going on?
If I had known about a player like him before, it would have been impossible for him to remain unknown this year! "Harada also fell into deep thought.
"What's wrong Ya-san, didn't you say you wanted to go back?" Narumiya Mei also noticed Harada's contemplation.
"Nothing! Let's go!" Just like that, while Sendou was chatting with his teammates, Harada turned around, ending their first meeting in six years.
There is nothing wrong with the two forgetting each other. After all, it was more than six years ago and they had only met once. Sendou's attention was not on his opponent at that time.
The same goes for Harada. Although Sendou's performance at the time was amazing, it is normal for elementary school students to be beaten or to beat others. It is easy to forget after a long time, and elementary school is just a stage, nothing more.
Even if he wanted to form a shooting partner with him in the future, even if he went to the Wildcats later and wanted to know why Sendou didn't play in Summer Tournament.
But after knowing that the other party moved away on the second day of Practice Match, as time went by, the name Sendou Akira only became an impression, even if the impression was so profound at the time.
"Sawamura! The pitcher who is a left-hander like you should take a good look at it!" Miyuki said to Sawamura seriously after the two left.
"Huh?"
"Last summer when Semifinals... they were the ones blocking our way!" Kuramochi also fell into memories.
"To us, they are marriage rivals!
We can't get to Koshien without defeating them!
Inajitsu's second grade ace! Narumiya Mei! "
"Let's go! Go to senior's place and watch the battle together!"
Out of respect, there will be no one in the catcher's perspective, so the few people joined the seniors.
Sendou was complained about his physical strength by his seniors.
After that, they watched the battle together.
Although he only allowed five hits in the first six innings, the pitching in the seventh inning suddenly seemed to be full force, completely overturning his previous performance.
Demonstrated the ace's physical distribution ability.
Slider with full stamina, Forkball that rushes to the ground at extremely high speed, and a straight ball with a maximum speed of 148 kilometers.
Sendou watched Narumiya Mei's pitching at close range for the first time, and was shocked.
In his previous life, he was a layman watching the excitement. Only after he truly entered the world of baseball did he realize how terrifying these balls were, and he knew that the winning ball of Narumiya Mei had always been Changeup.
But even if Changeup is not included, in the eyes of Sendou, Narumiya Mei is an extremely troublesome person.
Sendou couldn't imagine what the outcome of the duel with him would be. He only knew that his strength should be inferior to that of his opponent, but he was not completely powerless to fight back.
Recently, even Sendou himself has felt it. He is now in the growth stage and can even intuitively feel that he has become stronger.
In a matchup between a pitcher and a hitter, the result will be different if the hitter has several opportunities to hit the plate and selectively gives up some balls.
This estimate is very inaccurate. Sendou himself does not know his own level, and Narumiya Mei is also more than this level.
Even though it was not accurate, Sendou felt that he just couldn't win deep down in his heart, which made him want to stop.
"How is it? Sendou! This pitching performance? Are you scared? And you are a left-handed hitter and the compatibility with that guy is not good!" Fox-senpai asked with a smile.
"Nothing! This pitcher is very strong! But it's interesting to see an opponent who doesn't know whether he can win, isn't it?
Moreover, compatibility cannot be absolute. Maybe he and I don't have a good compatibility! "
"Ah haha! Interesting!"
"How dare you say that!"
"But the incredible thing is that it makes people believe it!" Seeing everyone relax because of Sendou's words, Senior Chris said to himself in his heart.
At this moment, Narumiya Mei cast his Changeup.
"Change...Changeup!" The one who spoke was the straightforward Jun-san.
"What? That ball that's neither fast nor slow!" Sawamura asked curiously.
"What's wrong? Everyone?" Sawamura saw everyone's expressions were wrong and asked.
"Because that ball is not easy to deal with!"
"Why?"
"That's the Slow Ball hidden under the high Fastball. People can't adapt to its speed! So it's hard to fight!"
"Hmm... I still don't understand!
Why aren't you nervous? You are a hitter too! And he became a five-bat hitter yesterday! "
"Ah! Because that kind of ball is useless to me. I have a good sense of space, so my perception of the ball speed prevents me from being deceived by the speed difference."
"What are you talking about? I don't understand it at all!"
"Just remember, normally, that's a very troublesome ball."
The seniors were completely immersed in their own world and did not hear the conversation between the two.
"Tch! That ball just now was no joke. It already had a powerful straight ball and a horizontal and vertical Changeup. What's more important than that?
That bastard! To what extent do we need to evolve? "
However, as soon as Jun-san finished his evaluation, he was annoyed by the confident expression on his face.
That kind of condescending expression made even the good-tempered Sendou want to teach them a lesson.
"I really want to punch them in their confident faces!"
"At this time, there should be a pitcher to attack the ball!" Sure enough, Onisang's heart was the worst.
"First of all, we have to compete in today's game!" Masuko-senpai is already thinking about how to cook Shu Bei high school.
Everyone's Fighting Spirit has been ignited, and Senior Tanba called Miyuki away.
Sendou said nothing and closed his eyes to simulate.
After the simulation ended, he left without saying a word.
"Are you going back?" Sawamura spotted Sendou leaving.
"Yeah!"
"Looking forward to it! Inajitsu!" The last words echoed in Sendou's heart.
At this time, Senior Tanba can be said to be flawless, and will not have hittable straight shots from time to time like after returning from injury in the later period.
Instead, you can basically suppress the opponent by relying on straight balls, and curve balls at critical moments can always play a role.
Coupled with the mentality that will not collapse, it can be said that Seidou now has its own trump card.
Tanba's injury may be lucky for Furuya and Sawamura. This is the key to them getting a lot of playing time and rapid growth in the first grade, especially Sawamura.
For Seidou, this is unfortunate.
When Sendou knew that Senior Tanba was injured, he could only remain silent in his heart.
4,350 words, which is enough to make up for those original dialogues! It's so interesting that I can't bear to delete it. Remember, it seems to be calculated in thousands of words. If you add a few hundred words more, you won't need more starting coins. I guess it's because I don't know much about this thing.
Finally, please vote, thank you all.