Ace of Diamond: Golden Cleats and Silver Bat
Chapter 41

Where's My Cola?

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"Don't make me repeat myself!"

"Don't use your glove to catch it, try to keep up with your feet as much as possible!"

"Takada, get up front a little more, you're backing up too much!"

"The ball speed is so much faster!" Takada said softly.

"What are you muttering about? Lower your center of gravity, catch the ball head-on, you're already slow. Do you need me to assign you a weight loss plan?"

"That won't be necessary!" However, Takada obviously didn't dare let Sendou hear these words, and could only mutter to himself.

"Next is the 643 double play! Take this ball slowly, I won't ask you to be too fast, but you must learn this kind of simple double play!"

"Yes!" The infielders, including Wakaba, responded in unison.

"Okay, one more ball! This time, a little faster!"

"Bang!"

"One more ball!"

"Okay, next ball, center fielder!"

"Left field!"

"Right field!"

"Okay, today's Bunt practice will be a little more difficult! I'll adjust the Pitching Machine to a random ball later, only touch the Strike!"

"Let's begin!"

"A Shin, what have you gained from the previous practice? Although I can't directly teach you practical command, you should be able to learn a lot from watching the defense practice!"

"I have some understanding of which position needs to catch which ball!"

"That's right, because I'm not very clear about the common range of each defensive position, many balls can be said to be relatively tricky, but this can actually allow you to learn a lot.

For example, when these special positions appear that anyone can catch or no one can catch, you can command your teammates based on our usual practice, which can greatly reduce errors.

How about it? A great trick, right? I came up with it temporarily today!"

"Sorry, Sen-chan! We can't help at all, we're leaving all the training to you!"

"Don't worry about it, I really admire you guys for being able to practice to this extent in the Tokyo summer heat! You're all amazing guys!"

"Um, Sen-chan!"

"Hmm?"

"Did something happen? I feel like Sen-chan is particularly motivated today!"

"How could that be? I'm in the terminal stage of laziness, there's no saving me!"

"Lazy cancer? What is that? Is it a serious disease? Cancer, ah! Are you okay?" Not only A Shin, but other partners including Fumino, who came to watch their training, all looked concerned.

"..."

"Does Japan not have a term for lazy cancer? Oh well!" Sendou thought to himself.

"Haha, you guys are really interesting! It's not what you think. How should I put it? Lazy cancer means that I'm so lazy that it's like a terminal illness, unchangeable!"

"...×N!"

"What the heck! You scared us for nothing!"

"Alright, everyone, go back to training! Seriously, how could there really be such a terminal illness in this world!"

"And you, A Shin, you interrupted me so much that I forgot what I was going to say, so you go back and train with them too!" But Sendou didn't think that way in his heart!

"I've already said everything that needed to be asked and said, so you guys will feel guilty, right? Hehe!!!"

If everyone heard his inner thoughts, they would definitely say he has a terrible personality or something along those lines!

"Alright, everyone is happily practicing (being roasted) under the scorching sun! I'll go have an ice-cold Cola and be happy too!" Sendou said in his heart.

In reality, he had taken full precautions against the sun, not only applying a lot of sunscreen but also wearing a sun hat, and even providing sun umbrellas for the places where everyone was hitting! (Indeed, a terrible personality!)

…-_-||

Saying that, Sendou walked towards the box of iced drinks next to him.

Opening the box...

"It's gone!!!" Sendou screamed!

"Why? I remember there were clearly some left! Could it be that I forgot to put them in and they're still in the refrigerator!?"

Saying that, Sendou trotted back indoors and opened the refrigerator...

"..."

"⊙▽⊙!" He discovered that there wasn't a single drink, let alone Cola, in the refrigerator!

Sendou sat down on the sofa in a daze, contemplating life!

"My memory can't be wrong, but why is it gone? Who drank it?..." Sendou fell into deep thought!

"Sa!!! wa!!! mu!!! ra!!! (Sawamura)" After a short time, the entire villa echoed with a deafening shout (echo)!

Saying that, a lightning-fast figure rushed out of the villa and towards the baseball field!

"Sa! wa! mu! ra! You bastard, did you drink my Cola!"

"What are you talking about?" Sawamura said with a calm and puzzled expression! (In the original work, Kuramochi and Masuko thought that Sawamura would be depressed because of Masuko's Home Run and planned to comfort him, but they saw Sawamura eating Masuko's Pudding and greeting them in that tone! Especially cute!)

"My Cola! Cola!"

"Who drank it?" He continued to maintain that tone!

"It's you, you bastard! Who else could it be besides you!?" Saying that, Sendou pointed at Sawamura, his expression as excited as could be! (Acting! But the thought that Sawamura drank it is real!)

"That!..." At this time, a discordant voice rang out, and everyone saw that it was Fumino next to them.

"If it's the Cola in the ice box, I drank it!"

Sendou looked at her, "..."

Sawamura looked at her, "..."

"..." Everyone!

"Teimei! (You, this should be you!)" Sendou said loudly to cover up his endless embarrassment!

"But I remember there should be two more bottles!" However, after covering up his embarrassment, Sendou immediately returned to normal.

"I just drank two bottles!"

"..."

"Okay, anyway, we've almost finished our drinks, we should buy some more, after all, summer has just begun! Okay, everyone come with me to buy drinks, Fumino and I will go by bike, you guys run!"

"Eh?!!!"

"That's it!!!?" At this moment, Sawamura's unique loud voice rang out!

"He just roared at me so loudly! This is that something..., that, that, that something!!!" The last 'something' was almost shouted.

"It's preferential treatment, baka!" Wakaba muttered softly. (I discovered that these companions are all little angels, only Wakaba fits this tucao plot!)

"Preferential treatment? Yes!!! Preferential treatment!!!

Look! Mi na sang (everyone, using honorifics to show closeness!) He was so!!! loud at me just now, and then so!!! gentle to Furuhashi-san! Right!" Sawamura said exaggeratedly.

However, the group neatly and uniformly took a step back!

"Are?" Sawamura uttered these two syllables, looking at the actions of the others, and suddenly began to sweat. At this moment, he heard the devil's whisper in his ear!

"Eijun, what did you just say?"

"Wah!!! Ugh ugh ugh!" Just as he opened his mouth to run away, Sendou instantly grabbed him, pinching his mouth with two fingers of his right hand.

"Was it this mouth that was talking just now?"

"Si ni na xin dei xi da (meaning 'I'm sorry,' but he can't pronounce it properly because his mouth is pinched!)"

"Hou? I didn't hear what you were saying?"

"Xi yi na jin" As Sendou's fingers tightened, Sawamura spoke more and more unclearly.

"Do you know you were wrong?"

"Fei!" Sawamura really wanted to say 'hai'!

"Fa wu fu ku d si (Pinyin roughly means 'ha na sei ke da sai,' please let me go with honorifics)"

However, Sendou seemed to feel that he had taught him enough and let him go!

"Ah!!!" Released, Sawamura greedily breathed in the air!

"Okay, hurry up and run to catch up! We won't wait for you!" Sendou said, picking up a bicycle at any time!

"Oh!!!"

Yesterday, I said that I was moved to tears by my own writing, that was fake, how many people took it seriously? ???? (Devil). The emotion was real, but not the part about those great achievements, but the part about the coach saying that he returned to the origin and found his home, and cherishing youth, friendship, and the shared experiences of his companions. This chapter has a lot of transliterations, so I wrote a few hundred more words. Thank me for not cutting off the part where Fumino revealed that she drank the Cola and Sawamura courted death, and putting the part about cleaning up Sawamura in tomorrow's chapter! (Evil smile) Finally, if you like this chapter, hand over all the recommendation tickets!

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