Acting Skills

"Attack! Sawamura!"

"Let him call! Sawamura!"

"We don't need to be polite!"

Facing this attacker, bring out all your weapons and fight him to the death!

"Come on, Sawamura!" Miyuki opened his arms, inviting him to throw himself at him.

"Thank you so much, Sendou!"

Thanks to you, I'm no longer surprised by any kind of attacker I encounter!

"I'm not afraid at all!!!" Sawamura looked at the same left-handed fighter and seemed to see the shadow of Sendou.

"Relax as always... Relax your body!"

All the nerves in my body are concentrated at my fingertips!!!

"Puff!"

"Call out!"

"Smack!"

"Nice shot!"

"Yoshi! Nice ball Sawamura!!"

"Attack! Sawamura!!"

"Go!"

"Two out! Two out!"

"First goal Inside Corner Ball!

"This kid..." Coach Okamoto didn't expect that the opponent would dare to throw the first pitch into the inside corner of the Strike Zone when facing Kenken Ken.

"Puff!"

"Call out!"

"Ping!"

"Outside the boundary!"

"Is it really that far?"

Moreover, the timing was difficult to grasp, and I almost missed! "Kenken Ken thought to himself with a solemn expression.

This pitcher is almost as dangerous as Furuya!

"Yoshi! We're chasing him!"

"The inner angle is high followed by the outer angle being low!!"

"The attacker couldn't seize the opportunity at all!!"

"Attack!! Sawamura!"

"Keep a calm mind!" Sawamura said, trying to compose himself.

"Puff!"

"Call out!"

"Smack!"

"Bad ball!!"

"Further away! This state..."

Indeed, the decisive pitch is synonymous with this pitcher!

"Inside Corner Ball!!" Kenken Ken's expression became even more serious upon thinking of this.

This hitter is no less dangerous than Captain Tetsu.

Narumiya Mei in the spring, had all suffered at his hands.

In his previous life, Kenken Ken was the only one who could get Home Run from Narumiya Mei.

Moreover, that ball was definitely not easy to score, a fact that even Captain Tetsu couldn't deny.

Kenken Ken is already a well-established player; any further progress will be based on his current level, with continued refinement and improvement.

Therefore, even if this man is compared to the Sendou, he can only be considered a fighter of the same level.

No one dares to say that the Sendou can suppress him by an entire level.

However, Sendou has significantly more room for improvement and is relatively stronger. (Not considering periods of low morale)

For Seidou, a team that can achieve rapid improvement through a single Autumn Tournament is a testament to the coaching abilities of Coach Kataoka, even among coaches in the same region.

"It looks like he's already on guard for Inside Corner Ball!"

However, the layout is already complete!

There is no way we can back down here, neither I nor you!

"Come on! Your synonym... inside corner high straight shot!" Miyuki straightened up and opened his glove.

"Puff!"

"Call out!"

"Hmm?" Kenken Ken sensed Sawamura's aura when he saw the ball, and his expression changed.

"Smack!"

"Bad ball!"

"Phew!!" Kenken Ken slowly exhaled, suppressing his shock.

"Phew!" A group of people in Teitou also exhaled at the same time.

This shot was incredibly close; Kenken Ken forcibly stopped swinging his bat halfway through, making it a truly thrilling moment.

"That was close!"

If I were to make a move, I would undoubtedly be eliminated!

A bad ball with a low outside corner combined with Hanging Ball with a high inside corner... is there really such a way to extend the batter's Strike Zone?

The feeling of that ball was like it was about to hit me!

Moreover, the pitcher seemed to have staked everything on this one pitch, putting pressure on me!

In that instant, thunder roared in my mind. "Kenken Ken thought to himself, 'I've learned something.'"

"As expected..."

However, there's no way to forcibly take it back.

The real deciding point is yet to come! Miyuki also admired this batter from the bottom of his heart.

Today, apart from relying on Furuya guard, it can be said that there was absolutely no way to suppress this batter.

Even Furuya's ball flew very far, only a few meters away from the Home Run net.

"It was like a high pass to the outside corner that hit right into the chest!"

Let's decide the outcome with this one shot!

If the pitch is missed, it's undoubtedly Ball Trajectory super easy shot to hit, and even Home Run wouldn't be surprising.

You... can you do it, right? Sawamura!

"You can do what you say today!!" Miyuki smiled secretly at the end.

"Really?! This person?!" (referring to Miyuki)

Throw that ball at this person!

But why?

My heart is pounding with excitement!

"Puff!"

"Call out!"

"Pfft!" Seeing such an easy Ball Trajectory, Kenken Ken had no reason to let it go.

"Call out!"

"Um?"

"Ping!"

"Outside the boundary!"

"Huff! Huff! Huff!" After the attack, Kenken Ken was panting heavily.

He had already given it his all to make that shot go out of bounds.

"This is... a Carter ball?"

"It was so close, it was almost over!" Kenken Ken in shock and doubt.

To an outsider, a typical Carter shot looks very similar to a straight shot and is almost indistinguishable from one.

Even if you stand in the Batter's Box and actually fire a shot, it's still something you have to guess at and there's no certainty about.

Kenken Ken's ability to achieve this result is already quite remarkable.

"Really? This person!"

How come they're still not out?

But it really startled me!

Sawamura's condition Tenzawa is simply divinely inspired!

If even this can't eliminate you, then it's a test of endurance. Miyuki showed no sign of backing down.

After catching his breath, Kenken Ken returned to the Batter's Box.

"Sawamura! Don't lose!"

"Attack!!"

"Let him call!"

"Xian Gang! This is a test of endurance!"

The most difficult time is over!

Coach Okamoto mentally encouraged his students.

"Puff!"

"Call out!"

"Ping!"

"Outside the boundary!"

"Puff!"

"Call out!"

"Ping!!"

"Left field! Third base!!" Miyuki shouted.

"Not good!

"The arc was too high!" Kenken Ken recalled his feel as he ran on the base.

"Puff!"

"We've landed!"

"Yoshia!!!"

"I'm so lucky!!"

"Run! Run! Xian Gang!"

"Runner on base!!"

The ball landed luckily in left field, with third base and shortstop in the middle, a no-man's-land.

As Kenken Ken ran to first base, the Little Tiger resurfaced in his mind.

"Mmmmmm! Mmmmmm!" Sawamura glared fiercely at Kenken Ken, looking like he was "super fierce".

"Don't worry about it, Sawamura!"

"The ball just happened to land in a bad spot!" Kuramochi shouted.

"Focus on dealing with the next attacker! Eijun-kun!" Xiao Chun shouted along.

Let's tackle them one by one!

"Let them attack!"

"Yoshi! Keep the attacking!"

"Like Gabu! Gabu!!!" Coach Okamoto shouted loudly to the players on the bench.

"Five sticks! Backbone, Sumida-kun!"

"Because he's a pitcher, it's only natural that he gets hit!"

Mmmmmm!

"Isn't this just turning into cat eyes?!" Kanemaru shouted, watching Sawamura take a deep breath, then stare at Kenken Ken again with resentment.

"Change it for me!"

"Huh?" Kenken Ken puzzled by the stare.

He realized he hadn't even planned to steal a base!

Moreover, he didn't believe he could steal a base from a left-handed pitcher!

However, I just can't understand why this highly talented pitcher is fixated on me.

"Call out!"

"Smack!"

Kenken Ken was thinking that, Sawamura threw a Pickoff Throw...

"Hmph!" After receiving the pass back from Maezono, Sawamura let out a heavy breath through his nostrils.

"Hmm, my foot!"

"The opponent didn't move at all on first base!" Now a group of people were loudly criticizing him.

"Calm down!" In reality, Sawamura was just trying to calm himself down this way.

However, it doesn't seem to be working very well. This guy is clumsy, but he's definitely not stupid!

Just like Amakusa's complaint, if it's serious recklessness, it can't be called recklessness.

To put it bluntly, Sawamura sometimes deliberately plays dumb to cover up his true thoughts.

"A bad ball is fine too!" Miyuki gave the first Signals.

Sawamura nodded...

"Puff!"

"Call out!"

"It's off course!"

"Ping!"

"They've gone through it!"

"Two players out, first and second!!"

"Keep going!"

"Eijun-kun!"

"Sawamura!"

"That guy!" The team members stared worriedly at Sawamura's retreating figure.

"Sawamura!!!"

"Let's switch gears... um?" Miyuki called out halfway before suddenly noticing that Sawamura had taken action.

Sawamura stretched out his left hand high!

Two out!

There are still two outs! Everyone, please!!

"!!!" The group of people were startled by his shout.

"Although it's a crisis on top of a crisis..."

But don't panic, let's proceed steadily and surely!

"Uh!" The group of people gave helpless smiles, and even Kuramochi grinned.

"Once you're kicked out, you feel like there's nothing you can do!"

"Everyone on guard, please change your mood and go!" Sawamura's small, diamond-shaped mouth uttered words he shouldn't have said.

"No, no, no, no!" the second-team substitutes in the stands protested frantically in their minds.

"What is that?!" Coach Okamoto asked the recorder next to him, looking completely bewildered.

The recorder gave him an awkward but polite smile; he had no idea what it was either!

You have no right to say that!!!

"You're the one who needs to change your mood!!!"

"Why do you sound like you're about to explode?" (This is a sarcastic comment about his tone, as if he's venting his emotions because someone made a mistake.)

"They actually said everything we were supposed to say!!!"

"Baka Village!!!"

The crowd in the stands was filled with fervor, united in their hatred of the enemy, and launched a furious counterattack against Sawamura.

It seemed to be a retaliation against the words Sawamura had said earlier, which had left them speechless and frustrated, causing them to swallow their true feelings.

Sawamura's antics rekindled Seidou's momentum, which had been dampened by two hits.

"This is where I am... this is where I am standing right now. Even if I'm panicking, what's not there is not there!"

I can only fight with my current strength!

"Really!"

Does it mean he's come to terms with it, or that a fool becomes very strong once he makes up his mind?

"Your Fighting Spirit is far from dead!" Miyuki thought to himself as he saw Sawamura's determined gaze.

"Baka!" Sendou said softly in the outfield, his voice tinged with heartache.

Time seemed to have traveled back a year and a half, Sendou seemed to see himself again, lying in the hospital bed, looking at his comrades' smiling faces after their defeat.

I saw that Sawamura pretended to be indifferent at the time.

Sendou had realized that the hit he had just received had completely woken Sawamura up.

"Two outs already! Let's focus on the batter!"

"Let him call!"

Let's crush him in one fell swoop!

"Teitou!!"

"I'm no longer confused!" Sawamura stared at the fighter in front of him, then revealed his signature silly grin.

"Come on! We've had enough balls already."

"Puff!"

"Call out!"

"Smack!"

"Nice shot!"

"Low edge at the outer corner!!"

The pitcher is back in form!

"No, no, no! We don't know yet!" The audience on the sidelines were completely baffled by Sawamura's intentions.

Sawamura often exceeds people's expectations, both in a good way and in a bad way.

Having been surprised so many times, I'm hesitant to draw any conclusions. These are all Seidou fans of Seido, who are very familiar with the characteristics of each contestant.

The happiest people about Seidou are probably these die-hard fans.

They've waited for far too many years!

Finally, Seidou entered Koshien, and finally, the day came when Seidou would dominate the nation.

The latter is even longer; in the history of Seidou, only Coach Kataoka reached the Koshien finals in his second year of high school and won the runner-up title.

The championship has always been just a dream.

They never dreamed that their dream, which had lasted for decades, would suddenly come true.

These Seidou Seido fans would be very familiar with these players.

For example, Sendou, this meritorious Main Gun, has had everything investigated thoroughly from childhood to adulthood. (Wildcat, a Sendoh fanboy, and a certain stupid villager. "I know nothing about it!")

Sure enough, the striker started to watch out for Inside Corner Ball and aimed for Outside Corner Ball.

It must have been an instruction from that old man over there!

Instead of aiming for an unfamiliar Inside Corner Ball, why not aim for the outside corner that we've seen quite a bit of before...?

"Good judgment!" Miyuki thought to himself, and placed the gloves on the outer corner.

"Puff!"

"Call out!"

"Ping!"

"Smack!"

"Out!"

"Three outs, change of game!"

"Received it!"

"But that was a pretty good shot!"

Have you started to adapt to that Ball Trajectory yet?

"However, in this game, the Teitou Center Batting Lineup can't directly take points from him!!"

Coach Okamoto also relaxed his hands, which were mimicking tiger teeth.

Sawamura's shot was so effective mainly because the opponent was unfamiliar with him.

If Teitou had fought against Seidou at Koshien, more precisely, he had fought against Sawamura.

It seems that Sawamura's limit is that he can only hold out for one round against this lineup.

However, the world doesn't offer so many "what ifs".

"Yo~shi!!" Sawamura shouted as he ran toward the bench.

"You did a fantastic job!" Kuramochi exclaimed, but Sawamura was running too fast to hear him.

"Nice, throw the ball! You bastard!" Kuramochi then shouted.

Oh my god... how did I end up going to bed so late without even realizing it?!

No, I need to adjust my sleep schedule; I don't want to die young...

Goodnight everyone.