Rainy Day Fun (Part 1)

Although Seidou had lost two key players in the Autumn Tournament, all the important games were already over, and the Jingu Tournament was being treated as a platform to test the team's overall strength.

Having won the Autumn Tournament as well, all the players were brimming with fighting spirit and eager to show what they could do.

As a result, the fighting spirit they displayed during practice only grew stronger.

High morale caused a surge in adrenaline, putting people in exceptionally good condition.

So over the past few days, the players' condition and the results of their training had been quite intimidat—no, quite encouraging.

Even relying on that momentum alone could let them perform beyond their usual level.

Coach Kataoka saw all of this clearly. The Jingu Tournament was meant to temper the team; the real main event would be the Winter Training Camp.

After all, once the Jingu Tournament ended, the official competition ban period would begin.

During the ban period, no team could organize any form of external match, and it would last until March, before the Spring Koshien began.

That was why this ban period was when every team grew the fastest, and why summer was called a team's complete form.

The Winter Training Camp, especially, was mainly meant to train and strengthen the players' bodies. Often, in just those few days, the players' physiques would visibly become more robust.

Naturally, such rapid growth in a short period came at a price. That was why participants throughout the years had all cried from exhaustion.

Of course, the first-years did not know about that yet, and the second-year upperclassmen would not tell them.

For them, watching the first-years suffer before staring around in dazed confusion was also a little diversion that eased their own stress.

Sendou setting Miyuki