Diamond Ace: Another Story of Sawamura

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As a result, Fūya was able to yawn even after missing the ball on the pitcher's mound.

"It's finally time to go on stage!" At this moment, the rest area for the second and third graders was filled with high morale and smiling faces, no worse than usual.

"Let's beat him up! One of the new monsters!"

"Ha~" Rongchun, who was standing in the right outfield and yawning out of boredom, received a provocative look from the pitcher's mound and looked over, thinking: "It would be good to use this momentum against the batter."

"Let's beat him up! Monster Rookie!"

With his pitching posture ready on the mound, Furutani's next pitch will be the beginning of his sensational success.

Kariba Ko, who had never seen Furuya pitch, never expected that the ball would fly to home plate at a very low angle at the beginning.

Then it will roll up the dust and sand and fly upwards, then float up sharply and fly over the gloves.

With a dull thud, the ball hit Supervisor Kataoka's mask. The heavy force of the ball caused Supervisor Kataoka's head to tilt back due to inertia, and then the mask was directly knocked off.

"Supervision..."

"Are you OK?"

"..." Amid the worried voices of the team members, Kataoka grinned, "You passed the test, Furuya. Come and join the first army's training starting tomorrow!"

"Eh?"

The supervisor's words surprised even Fūya himself, let alone others.

"what!"

"seriously!"

"I wanted to throw a few more balls... but forget it..." Furuya said to himself, looking at Eijun in the right outfield, "Anyway, I can let Miyuki-senpai catch my balls from now on."

"Are you showing off..." Eijun said as he turned around and listened to the players at home plate asking the coach to let Furuya continue pitching...

When Coach Kataoka said that no one in the first grade could catch his ball, Furuya interrupted, "There is someone in the first grade who can catch my ball!"

Under the confused gazes of others, Furuya pointed to Eijun in the right outfield and said, "You be the catcher!"

"What!" Rongchun never expected that such a weird scene would develop. He was so scared that he kicked his right foot towards his left foot and fell to the ground.

The stadium suddenly went from shock to silence, and then to laughter...

"..." Chris was stunned for a moment before he reacted and jumped up from his chair, "No! Sawamura is a pitcher! How can he be a catcher!"

"Chris!"

"Chris... calm down."

Since they joined the team, this was the first time they heard Chris speak so loudly. They were all a little scared, especially Miyuki, "Chris-senpai... there's no way that guy can accept this!"

"..." Rongchun slowly got up from the ground, wiped the non-existent sweat, and looked at the serious-looking Fūya.

To be honest, the supervisor was so shocked by this unexpected development that he didn't know how to react for a moment.

"Have you practiced ball control?" Looking back at the ignorant Fūya, Eijun was speechless, "I told you before, if you want me to help you catch the ball, practice ball control first!"

"I'm ready."

"..."Are you talking about the ball that was a complete bad shot just now...

"Change the pitcher! The next player should come to the plate!" Coach Kataoka spoke at the right time and rushed Jyoutani off the field.

But who would have thought that Furuya Horiki would stay on the pitcher's mound and refuse to leave. The pitcher who was about to come on stood there awkwardly, watching Furuya being pushed and dragged off the field.

"Pfft...Hehe~" Looking at that scene, Eijun suddenly remembered that there was a similar situation in his high school in his previous life, but he was the one who pushed Jyoutani to death at that time.

"Okay!"

Chris, like everyone else, looked at Rongchun who was squatting down holding his stomach with laughter, and was very puzzled when he heard him say, "Okay!"

"what!!"

"But I'll only take two games."

Under everyone's shocked gaze, Eijun allowed the flower-covered Fōguri to follow him back to the rest area to change equipment.

Then, under everyone's incredulous gaze, he really started to put on the protective gear unique to a catcher.

"Sawamura!" Chris was so anxious that he ran to the first-year rest area regardless of the game. "Do you know what you are doing?"

"Yeah." Rongchun looked at Senior Chris and was pulled aside by him.

"Even if it's only two innings, playing as a catcher is the same as announcing to outsiders that you are a catcher, and to insiders that you have given up being a pitcher and become a catcher!"

"It's also showing your attitude to the supervisor. The supervisor will think that you don't have the ambition to be a pitcher and may even give up on you."

"You know what the other contestants will think? They will..."

"They will make fun of me." Rongchun stopped Chris's words with a few words, "They will think that I am not a threat to them no matter where I am."

"..." Although Rongchun's words were a bit blunt, it was almost the same, "Since you know."

"Chris-senpai!" Rongchun pulled down his mask so that Chris could see his expression more clearly, "I'm a pitcher."

"..." Rongchun's expression was so serious and confident that Chris couldn't question his decision for a moment.

"I told you..." Eijun looked into Chris's eyes and smiled gently, "I want to form a pitching and catching partnership with Chris."

"..." Chris watched Rongchun put on a mask and ran back to the rest area, and sighed in distress, "But, you don't seem to have any desire to be a pitcher!"

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“You just throw the ball over here.”

Other than that, Eijun ran to home plate without saying anything else and crouched down.

"Oh... do you want to keep throwing?"

"Changed the catcher."

"That goal just now was such a surprise. Qingdao really got a treasure this time!"

"..." In contrast to the audience's enthusiasm, Director Kataoka had a gloomy face and his eyes kept jumping between Eijun and Furuya.

"Heh... Catcher..." Eijun patted his gloves, looked up at the approaching batter, then looked at the pitcher, "This perspective is really fresh..."

The current situation is that there is no one on the bases, zero outs, and a ball. Fūya looked at the glove that Eijun had placed, nodded, and made a pitching gesture.

As a result, just as Eijun thought, there was no need for any matching ball at all. Furuya couldn't throw the ball to the desired position anyway. Even if Eijun's glove was always placed in the middle, the ball would still float up.

However, because of this, and the speed of the ball, the batter either misses the ball or doesn't hit the ball at all.

As a result, he did throw his first three-up-three-down start of his freshman year.

"Sawamura! What are you doing!?"

Because he finished practice early and came to the stadium to watch the game, the starting lineup saw Sawamura wearing catcher's gear as soon as he arrived, and Isashiki immediately became angry.

"I haven't even beaten you yet, and you've already switched careers to become a catcher!"

"I absolutely won't allow that!!!" Isashiki said as he was about to rush forward, "Get on the mound! I'm going to beat you to a pulp!"

"Jun-senpai...you can't do that...you just finished a bunch of weight training..." Kuramochi quickly stepped forward and hugged Isashiki who was about to explode.

"Just watch the game quietly! Jun..." Yuki pretended to be calm, but he was furious.

"Wow! Yuuki-senpai!"

When Jyougumi was wondering, "Did these people keep exercising during their rest time?"

The first-year students all looked at Eijun strangely, even though he seemed to get along very naturally with Chris-senpai since the beginning of the school year. "Are you familiar with the seniors, Sawamura-kun?"

"..." Rongchun shook his head and was about to say that he had only been here a few times in junior high school, but the first-year students on the field had already gone up and down three times.

Eijun didn't respond to their signal for Fūya to come on stage.

The batter who was out was still lured out by the high fastball, and Furuya maintained this result, striking out six people in a row.

"The batter is out, the offense and defense switch."

"Weakling, what a crappy ball you threw..." In the two games, Rong Jun only said this one sentence besides the first one.

"!" Jyoutani was immediately shocked and turned pale.

"The offensive of the second and third graders has completely stopped..."

"The cooperation between that pitcher and catcher completely changed the situation of the game!"

In the second half, when Rongjun took off his protective gear, the freshman had already been hit three times, and he was the first batter in the top of the fifth inning.

"Hey..." Eijun gripped the bat and looked at coach Kataoka who said that Tamba should also be taken off the field.

"Get yourself in shape before summer!"

"Eh?" Tamba didn't react for a moment, and then he heard the supervisor continue talking.

"If you can get back to your original pitching, I believe you can be active in the national competition! You must have more confidence in your pitching in the future!"

"..." Danbo heard the supervisor's affirmation of him and responded loudly with excitement, "Yes!"

Hearing this, Kataoka turned around with satisfaction, but bumped into a baseball bat. He lowered his head and saw the eyes on his face, looking at him with a gleam in their eyes. "What's wrong?"

"The coach looks like he's already gained something and there's no need to compete anymore." Rongchun looked at the coach and whispered, "Can I play?"

To be honest, he didn't care whether he could play as a pitcher, nor did he care whether people of the same level should continue to play, and he didn't care whether he would be abandoned by the supervisor because he had no desire to be a pitcher.

"Is Chris going to play?" He just didn't want to disappoint Chris because he wanted to pitch. "Can Chris catch the ball for me?"

"..." Kataoka was a little surprised that although Eijun had no desire to pitch, he at least still had the desire to play. He was really a teachable kid.

"..." Rongchun looked at the supervisor's changing expression, and was stunned for a moment, silently stepped back and complained in a low voice, "Even if it's not possible, you don't have to make such a scary expression to refuse..."

"..." Kataoka frowned when he heard his mumbling, "Hurry up and get ready to roll into the batter's box. It's your turn to pitch in the next inning..."

"Oh...yes!"

Rongjun ran back to the rest area and was about to go on the court. When he saw Chris on the other side who had changed into his equipment, he immediately became excited as if he had been injected with chicken blood.

Chris also saw Rongchun, waved his hand and smiled gently, which made Rongchun burst out laughing, "Chris-senpai~ ahem..."

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