Summer Homework

Hearing the coach's words, the players were in high spirits.

After all, Coach Kataoka said that this is an opportunity to test the team's strength.

From the players' perspective, this is also an opportunity to test their abilities and determine the roster for the Autumn Tournament.

Everyone who hears this news, except for a few idiots, will understand one thing.

So far, among all the opponents we've faced in Practice Match this summer, only Yakushi High School can be considered a top-tier team.

This means that the content of this match is of great reference value for Kataoka Coach when selecting the roster of players for the Autumn Tournament.

How could this not excite them?

For first-graders, this is the best opportunity for them to join the First Team.

Similarly, for the First Team players, whether they can guarantee a spot in the Autumn Tournament will largely depend on this match.

The competition was scheduled for the first Saturday after the start of the school year, which was September 3rd.

The day after the match against the pharmacist, the Drawing Lots for the Autumn Tournament qualifiers will begin.

The official schedule for the Autumn Tournament is set to begin the following Sunday, September 12th.

After hearing the news, I took a break the next day.

A new Practice Match will be held on the first day of school.

His opponent was Chiba Shota, whose strength was only average.

Therefore, the predecessors who were eager to avenge their previous defeats were also ready to fight.

But before that, we have to face the fact that summer vacation is about to end.

Don't assume that the Baseball Club doesn't have summer homework.

"Tojo! Aren't you going to practice your bat swing later?" Kanemaru asked.

"After all, there's Practice Match tomorrow!" Tojo replied.

"Could you take a quick look at my swing?"

"Of course! We must give them a good beating and make them perform well!"

"These are the last few matches we have left to make it into the First Team!" Tojo was as gentle as ever.

"The Autumn Tournament is just around the corner, I absolutely have to make the starting lineup," Kanemaru said confidently.

"Kanemaru-kun! Tojo- kun! May I bother you for a moment?" Koharu pushed the door open and came in.

"Kominato! Why are you so flustered? What happened?"

"You look quite rare!" Tojo said gently.

"Furuya-kun!... Furuya-kun! It seems like you haven't done much summer homework!"

"What? But school starts tomorrow."

"How could it be finished in just one day?" Tojo was very surprised.

At that moment, Furuya also came in.

"I didn't do much, it's just... hey!... Furuya!"

"Where are you at with your current research project?" Kanemaru asked Furuya.

"The subject is physical ability (physical strength and ball control)," Furuya replied.

"This isn't about baseball!!!"

"They're talking about summer vacation projects... homework." Kanemaru got angry right away.

There's a limit to how Natural Airhead you can be.

"What are you talking about?" Sendou walked in at that moment.

"Sendou! You're here! We were talking about summer homework. Furuya hasn't done much of his summer homework."

Hey Furuya, hurry Furuya and tell us!

"Where are you on your summer homework?" Kanemaru explained to Sendou.

"Ah! I'm reading a book and preparing to write a book report," Furuya said in a dazed manner.

"What book are you reading?" Tojo asked.

"This!" Furuya took out the book.

"...! Seton Animal Chronicles ..." Xiaochun read aloud, looking at the title.

"Isn't this a book for elementary school students?!" Kanemaru shouted, unable to contain his anger.

"What about the others?" Tojo remained patient.

"The others?" Furuya looked completely bewildered.

"For example, English, math, Chinese, and so on!" Xiaochun replied.

"Ah!... I forgot." Furuya remained bewildered.

"Really?!... You had to retake the exam last semester because you failed, right?"

"If I don't finish the assignment, I'll be supervised and reprimanded." Kanemaru said helplessly.

"You might not even be able to play in the match." Tojo was gentle, but his words hit the nail on the head.

"... They won't let me pitch?" Furuya immediately looked dejected and said dejectedly.

"... This guy may be expressionless, but he's easy to understand, just like Stupid Village," Kanemaru remarked.

"Hahaha! What a pity, Furuya!"

I've already searched the Pitcher's Mound for the starting pitcher... By the way, who's this idiot villager?!!!!" Zhe Chun suddenly appeared out of nowhere and laughed heartily.

But before he could finish speaking, he suddenly realized that Kanemaru had just been cursing at him.

"Eijun-kun! You're taking the starting Pitcher's Mound... what do you mean?" Xiaochun asked, somewhat puzzled.

"If the guy who finished his summer homework can't play in the game..."

"If I finish my homework, then I can definitely send it out first, right?" Sawamura's thought process was very peculiar.

"Ah, no! This was just a hypothetical scenario to trigger Furuya-kun's sense of crisis!" Koharu explained somewhat helplessly.

"It seems that Sawamura's understanding has been extended without permission," Tojo laughed.

"And... have you finished too?" Kanemaru asked, puzzled.

"Hmm... Let me show you your homework!!" Sawamura excitedly tossed out his homework.

"Ah, this! This is!"

"Kanemaru Kanemaru Tojo exclaimed in surprise after briefly flipping through the workbook.

Neither of them ever dreamed that Sawamura would one day do math homework.

"Everything within the scope... is done." Xiaochun said in surprise.

"Unbelievable..." Furuya said, bewildered.

"I never expected... that Eijun-kun who hates studying..."

"The sure way to deal with summer homework is to accumulate little by little."

"Every day's accumulation and continuous, down-to-earth effort," someone said with a smug look.

"Sawamura... is actually talking seriously." Tojo was so surprised that he couldn't speak fluently.

"It's just a stupid village..." Kanemaru was also a little speechless.

"I told you not to call me stupid village!!!"

Now you understand, right? Furuya!

I'll take care of the Pitcher's Mound. You can focus on your homework without worry!

Then get a good night's sleep after school starts!

Ah, hahaha!!!

"I absolutely have to finish my homework!" Someone had already turned on the gas stove.

Meanwhile, Sendou, standing to the side, didn't say a word, silently flipping through his workbook.

After flipping through it, I only glanced at it once before my brows furrowed.

"... No, no! It would be better to start writing from the beginning!" Kanemaru remained speechless.

Seemingly noticing Sendou's actions, Tojo also started looking at the math workbook.

"This is?! Sawamura's math homework..." Tojo asked Sendou in surprise.

"What's Tojo?" Kanemaru asked, puzzled.

"It's all wrong!" Sendou said expressionlessly.

"What?!!"

"It's no wonder this guy can't do it right." Seeing Kanemaru's surprise, Sendou said calmly.

"Really! This one too, this one too, this one too... all of them!!!"

"It's wrong from beginning to end." Xiaochun picked up her workbook and started flipping through it.

"No, no, no! The result doesn't matter! As the ancients said, participation is what matters." Sawamura waved his hand dismissively.

"That's not how you say it, and it's not appropriate to use it here!!!" Even the usually gentle Koharu shouted loudly.

"And doing your homework properly is a matter of course."

"As expected of a stupid village, this is terrible."

The other guys also spoke one by one.

Only Furuya and Sendou were watching from the sidelines. Furuya was just being Natural Airhead, while Sendou was mainly there to watch the show and have a good laugh.

"What?!!!

What about all my efforts?!

"Disappeared like bubbles?" Xiaochun laughed.

"Don't say that, Xiaochun!!!"

Hahaha! Rewrite it!

"My stomach hurts so much!!!" Sendou finally couldn't help but laugh, clutching his stomach.

"Are the other assignments okay?" Tojo was already starting to worry about his other assignments.

Judging from Sawamura's unreliable attitude, Tojo felt things were going to be very difficult.

"Huh? The others?" Sawamura asked, looking puzzled.

"There are many more, such as long English articles, like reading twenty pages!"

"Memorize English vocabulary!"

"Translate the beginnings of ' The Hōjōki ', ' Essays in Idleness ', and ' The Pillow Book ' into modern Chinese."

The group chatted amongst themselves, explaining their homework to him.

Meanwhile, Sendou was clutching his stomach, laughing so hard he could barely breathe.

"So many?!" Sawamura was going crazy.

"More than in junior high..." It wasn't just one person who had homework; Furuya was also a bit bewildered.

"And then there's Chinese Classics, literary history, and the like..." Sendou added, finally catching his breath.

"Ah...!!!

"Please stop talking! I don't want to hear it anymore!!!" Sawamura shouted, covering his ears with both hands and shaking his head frantically.

"Ah! So Sawamura didn't do anything either?!" Kanemaru exclaimed in a summarizing manner.

"Same as me." Furuya said happily, with a look of delight on his face.

"Don't look so happy!!!"

"Furuya!" Sawamura shouted.

"Ah, so neither of you did your homework!" Tojo sighed.

"The starting Pitcher's Mound is so far away!..." (Kanemaru grins slyly)

"It might be difficult to even get into the players' seats." Even Xiaochun has followed suit and become a bad influence.

"What?!" Sawamura exclaimed in surprise, his expression one of disbelief.

"I can't participate in the competition..." Furuya's expression fell again.

"Sendou! Quickly help me think of a solution!"

"Oh right, hurry up and take out your homework. If you're just copying, you should be able to finish it in one night." Sawamura tugged at Sendou's clothes, pleading as if he wanted to throw himself at him.

"Why did you only think of this today?" Sendou said speechlessly.

"No way! Eijun-kun!"

"Copying homework is bad behavior," Xiaochun quickly stopped her.

"Really? But I used to copy this guy's homework all the time in junior high."

This guy can finish all his homework in just a few days.

But why?

"We went to Koshien for the competition, why are we getting so much homework? I'm going crazy!" Sawamura said, holding his head.

"Is it a lot? I don't think it's a lot. If I knew all of them, I could finish writing them very quickly," Sendou added.

"That's just you all alone!" Kanemaru sighed.

"You're right," Xiaochun said.

These two guys are definitely two extremes.

One can do everything, the other can do nothing.

"Alright, stop bullying people."

Sendou is absolutely right. If you work hard, you can actually finish it in just a few days!

However, if you work hard, a day and a night shouldn't be a problem.

"Everyone will help you," Tojo said gently.

"Tojo!!!"

"You're such a good guy!" Sawamura was unusually moved and touched.

"But... I feel a sense of relief!" Xiaochun said with a smile.

"Huh? What are you saying, Xiaochun!"

"Because it was expected!"

"You two doing homework... it's really unimaginable," Xiaochun exclaimed.

"What?! Xiaochun, what do you mean by that?"

"I can't accept what you're saying," Furuya said with a serious expression.

"I understand! I understand!" Tojo said with a smile, completely ignoring what the two guys were saying.

"If that really happens, it will definitely rain and snow tomorrow," Kanemaru interjected.

"So you guys are still too young. I've known this guy for so many years, and he's never done his homework by himself."

That's why I never believed him from the beginning!

Hoping this guy will do his homework or something...

If this guy studies hard and does his homework properly, he won't be stuck at the fraction level in math when he graduates from junior high.

"Sendou added insult to injury from the side. Sendou was the one who had the most say about Sawamura."

"Fraction?!!"

"Really?"

"Incredible!!!"

"What did you say? Furuya!!!"

Were you much better at math than me in middle school?!

"This guy got in through the regular entrance exam."

"Although I don't know how he did it," Sendou said, pointing at Furuya.

"...!"

Unbelievable!!! Sawamura was speechless after being rebuked.

"That does seem to be true. How did you get in?"

Furuya-kun! "

"I want to know too!" several people nearby chimed in.

The others seemed to have started to shift their attention as well.

"I'm just doing a normal review!!" Furuya said with a blank expression.

"What does the normal one look like?" Kanemaru pressed.

"I just read books every day!"

"Uh!..." Everyone was speechless after hearing Furuya's answer.

"I think we shouldn't ask this. I doubt this guy even knows how he passed the exam."

"Perhaps this year's entrance exam questions were easier, or perhaps they were questions he had already memorized!" Sendou said with a smile.

"Isn't reviewing usually just about memorizing?" Furuya asked, puzzled.

"Okay, the truth is out."

That makes sense! There's only one way to get someone to pass an exam in such a short time.

"And the entrance exam is relatively easy. It covers a lot of material, but it just so happens to be stuff you can remember." Sendou said, shrugging.

"Yes! That's true!" Jianggu nodded obediently.

"So you let your guard down after enrolling, which is why you failed the final exam..." Kanemaru sighed.

I've written more than half of it; this is the second official radio drama I've chosen. Unfortunately, it ended abruptly at a point where it wasn't easy to wrap up, so I'll stop here.

I won't be making up for the missed update today. There's a funeral going on nearby tomorrow, and I have to go...

These past few days have indeed been my unlucky days, with all sorts of things happening one after another.

And since I only updated after midnight today, I've lost my perfect attendance bonus for this month. (Crying!)

Goodnight everyone.