After Sendou left, the Third Years watched him leave the bathhouse, exchanged glances, and said nothing.
Everything that needed to be said had already been made clear without words.
Dusk.
"Alright...
I'll try contacting the schools that submitted applications!
Looks like we'll need to adjust the schedule as well!" As Kataoka Coach was on the stairs, he heard Rei-chan speaking.
The match had only just ended, yet the captain and vice captain were already getting to work.
Their defeat in the Spring Tournament meant they could not participate in the Kanto Tournament.
Before the summer qualifiers, Seidou had no official matches left to play.
Naturally, they needed to fill that period with plans. They could not spend all of it in closed training.
After all, competition was the best way to adjust the players' condition.
Just like during the Autumn Tournament, everything they had accumulated in practice had quickly been refined through matches.
At Koshien and in the Spring Tournament, the Seidou players, eager to show themselves after achieving results, had instead lacked the mindset to properly come together.
Though they had all wanted to go further, their mindsets in the two tournaments had been different.
At Koshien, they had simply wanted to win, and quite a few had lost themselves because of their victory in autumn.
Going home after the Second Match of the Selection Tournament had made these high school students desperate to make a name for themselves in the Spring Tournament.
They wanted to prove they were not weak, while also venting some of their frustration.
That caused them to lose the pure, original mindset they had possessed during the Autumn Tournament.
"I see! I see!
So Furuya actually wrote something like this.
It certainly is moving!" Coach Ochiai suddenly spoke.
Everyone's attention shifted toward him.