"No!
Today, I'm definitely making you delete all my dark history!!!"
"Pfft!"
"Piu!"
"Thud!!!"
While Sawamura's attention was completely on Sendou and the two of them were trading barbs, Miyuki and Furuya had already thrown several pitches.
"Is this enough for you?" This pitch was still quite far off. Miyuki pulled his hand back as he spoke.
"Not even close!!" Furuya answered with vigor.
"Then throw it properly into the Strike Zone!!"
"I can throw it..." Furuya was full of confidence...
It's clearly just individual practice...
But this sense of tension...
This is Seidou's true battery!!! Yui, who had not noticed anything amiss, felt a little excited inside.
Right before his eyes, Furuya's pitches—balls that Yui could not catch at all, as though they were alive—were easily caught by Miyuki.
He was awed by Furuya's presence and equally shocked by Miyuki's ability.
That was only natural. Previously, he had watched Furuya pitch as a spectator, so he could not tell how Furuya's current pitches differed from those of last summer, fall, or spring.
But after catching the baseball, Miyuki did not throw it back. Instead, he casually rested both arms on his thighs, lowered his head, and sank into thought.
"Whew!" Miyuki felt there was no need to confirm anything further.
"Furuya!!
What did you see at Koshien?"
Miyuki's voice echoed through the entire Indoor Practice Field. Even Sawamura and the others outside the door stopped what they were doing and looked over.
The others also wanted to know what exactly their captain meant by his question to the ace!!
Likewise, amid the silence, the change the ace hoped for was something they wanted to know too!
"Do you mean that game against Hongo?
Control, velocity, and that concentration!!
A complete nine-inning game with four hits allowed and thirteen