"This guy was growing at an astonishing rate too...!" Miyuki looked at Sawamura, who still had not withdrawn from his pitching motion and wore an embarrassed expression, and added silently in his heart.
"Sorry! That one went off target!" Sawamura apologized loudly.
Okumura, meanwhile, had not recovered from his shock at all.
Or rather, he had gone from squatting to kneeling on the ground, consumed by self-doubt!
Though Okumura could be a little absentminded normally, he was a catcher after all, and a smart one at that...
With just one pitch, he understood that at his current stage, before he had grown accustomed to that pitch, there was no way he could catch it.
Miyuki looked at the still-disbelieving Okumura and smiled faintly. He knew that was the limit of this Little Cutie.
In truth, Okumura's performance had already been stunning. He had been hailed as a prodigy and had captained his team at the elementary school world tournament.
Looking solely at receiving, he had left Yui far behind.
Though a catcher's receiving skill was only one aspect of the position, it was already enough to demonstrate how outstanding he was.
At that moment, while Sendou was watching Sawamura, he failed to notice that the guy beside him had already walked out.
"All right! Is it my turn?
Hehehe!" Miyuki chuckled happily as he looked at his outstanding junior.
Okumura, however, took those words as mockery and that smile as an evil grin.
"Grrrrr!" Okumura unconsciously made the sound of a Little Wolf Cub.
But in the end, he calmly nodded.
"You're already outstanding enough!
By the way, when this guy was testing them out, he missed quite a few pitches too!
He nearly got hit several times!!" Sendou comforted him when Okumura walked over to his side.
Hearing Sendou's