"Strike!"
"Batter out!"
After the head umpire called him out, Sawamura's excited, wild grin visibly faded at an astonishing speed.
After calmly bowing to the head umpire, he turned and walked off the field.
Even the head umpire was stunned by this scene, his expression seeming to ask, "Who is this quiet young man?"
"This guy...
It was as if nothing had happened!!!" Senior Asou and the others in Seidou's dugout cried out in their hearts as they watched Sawamura's somewhat Zen-like expression.
They stared at Sawamura in shock, as though Buddhist light were shining all around him...
"Idiot!!
Use a bunt stance!
Bunt!!"
"Don't just wildly swing for the fences!!"
"Kurah!!"
The classmates and upperclassmen in the stands had collectively turned on him. They were completely different from when Sawamura had been pitching just moments ago...
"Uh!
What's going on?
Why are his teammates booing him?" Miyagawa asked, utterly baffled.
Though they could not make out what the Seidou stands were shouting, they could roughly tell it was nothing nice.
"No idea!!" Hoshida shook his head.
Others would never understand the romance within Seidou's team.
"Haha!
The guy responsible for comedy and warming up the crowd is off the field. Now the real show begins!" Sendou said with a laugh.
"That's true." Shirazu-senpai nodded as he prepared to leave the dugout.
"Let's score that idiot a few runs and make his pitching easier!!" Kuramochi laughed as he rose from the on-deck circle.
Though they did not know what was being said in the dugout, their feelings were about the same!
Their foolish kid had played enough. It was time to get serious.
Sawamura, Sendou, and Miyuki's batting had always been largely left to their own devices.
When Sawamura batted, they just treated it as him going out to have