"The key is that he already has that awareness and bearing!"
Listening to Sendou, the others were momentarily dazed.
That guy who had still been a beginner, doing Banzai Catches, had grown this much in the blink of an eye.
"We can't lose to him!"
"Hm?" At that moment, Miyuki's voice pulled everyone back to their senses.
Everyone turned to look at him...
"We're not going to lose to him! We..." Miyuki said excitedly.
Miyuki had been completely fired up for a while now.
The third year seniors wore smiles as if this was exactly how things should be, while Furuya's eyes were filled with shock.
Furuya had never imagined that his friend and rival had, at some point, earned such high recognition.
At that moment, only one sentence echoed in his mind!
"It's not becoming the ace that earns everyone's recognition!
It's earning everyone's recognition that makes you a true ace!!"
"That's right!!!
For us Third Years, what comes next is what matters most!!
We absolutely can't lose!!
We absolutely have to go to Koshien one more time!!!" Maezono suddenly leaned his big head close to Miyuki's ear and shouted.
The shout from that close range made Miyuki's ears ring.
"Too close..." Miyuki muttered, still dizzy from the noise.
"Let's go! Koshien!!
In the end, we'll definitely win!!!" Senior Maezono did not hear Miyuki's complaint and raised an arm as he shouted.
But Sawamura was not here, so there was no way anyone would respond to such an excessively chuunibyou display...
"Shut up!! You're too loud!!"
"What did you say?" Maezono had been using Kansai dialect from the start because he was too excited, making the argument even more comical.
It even made Sendou want to visit Kansai...
"A-Yuan! You're just like Sawamura now!!
Did he infect you?"
"A-Yuan