"High Hook, huh..." Tadano, his chin pinched, really repeated the homophonic cold joke from before as Narumiya Mei had told him to.
"A little funny... face!"
Narumiya Mei had not expected him to actually do it, and Tadano's foolish expression made him laugh.
Or rather, he was touched a little while laughing!
Still, he casually found an excuse to brush it off.
"Ah!" Tadano immediately turned into a little sun, his face full of delight.
He did not care why. It was enough that Narumiya Mei found it amusing.
Narumiya let go of his hand and was about to say something to comfort the little catcher when...
"I'm happy if I can help Naru-san relax!!
It was all for the sake of seeing that smile!!
Now! Let's focus and get going!!!" Tadano said happily.
"#!
I can't do that!!!
Next time you call a timeout, bring a funnier joke!!!" Narumiya Mei instantly flew into an embarrassed rage!
"Yeah!
Actually, I prepared several interesting topics..." Tadano completely failed to notice the white-haired boy's change in mood and actually took him seriously.
"No timeouts allowed!!
Don't come anywhere near the Pitcher's Mound!!!" Narumiya Mei grew even angrier upon hearing that and shouted.
"Hahaha!
Those two again!"
"What a helpless pitcher-catcher pair!"
From the moment the white-haired boy started raging in embarrassment, the spectators at the sidelines had already burst into laughter.
Sendou especially was laughing himself silly. He could roughly understand what they were talking about through lip-reading and nearly died from laughing at the two clowns.
"Yeah!" Tadano did not mind being scolded at all. He happily responded and headed back.
"Hmph!
Did he spend all night thinking about that?
What an idiot!
I finally wanted to say something a senior should say, and he dared interrupt me!" Narumiya Mei turned