Sendou's Personal Day Off

As conditioning training continued, February arrived in the blink of an eye, and Coach Kataoka was nearly finished with his studies.

With the end of conditioning training, Seidou's practice intensity began to decline as the training regimen changed.

For the period before Coach Kataoka returned, Coach Ochiai was still arranging the training schedule.

It had been more than a month and a half since the Jingu Tournament ended, and they had not touched a baseball since.

Their top training goal now was to regain their feel for actual games.

A large number of simulated game exercises had been arranged.

Through batting, fielding, baserunning, and other all-around drills involving the ball, the players were rebuilding their touch.

Although this training came close to real games, there was still quite a gap. In other words, the batting side either focused on tactical coordination drills or hit balls fed by batting practice pitchers.

Senior Maezono and Higasa-senpai's altered stances went unnoticed. Even when coordination errors occasionally occurred, they were attributed to them not having adjusted to their new bodies yet.

After the twenty-fifth, reporters returned for interviews, but they mainly interviewed Sendou and Miyuki.

On one hand, the others' personalities—or rather, their experience—did not make them suitable for continued interviews.

On the other hand, harsh as it might have been for them, most of them were merely supporting cast in the reporters' eyes and did not need much coverage.

So the Good-for-nothing Duo, who were very experienced when dealing with reporters, blocked those interviews.

Of course, no one would allow them to be interviewed during practice at such a crucial time.

Coach Ochiai noticed that Sendou had been seriously unfocused lately. Thinking his training intensity might have been a little too high, he simply gave him a day off.

When Isashiki-senpai heard the