Diamond Ace: Another Story of Sawamura

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"Supervisor! I'm sorry I'm late!"

Eijun's appearance broke the originally serious atmosphere. Kataoka looked down at Eijun who apologized obediently with a dark face, "Go change your clothes and run until the practice is over."

"Yes." Rongchun responded obediently and ran away, glaring at Xinyi when he passed by.

"Hehe..." Yi stuck out her tongue at him mischievously and pulled Xin to sit on the viewing chair next to her.

"Masuko, Kuramochi." After Sawamura ran away, Kataoka called out the senior who shared the same dormitory with Eijun, "Sawamura went out early in the morning and didn't come back to the dormitory all night."

"Uh..." Zengzi stammered for a long time in embarrassment, not knowing what to say.

Sawamura-chan often comes back very late, and by then he is already fast asleep, and only hears the sound of the door opening when he is half asleep.

Moreover, no matter how early I woke up the next morning, Sawamura-chan would be up first. Although she would be in the dormitory early sometimes, she would always go out soon.

"Kuramochi." Seeing that Masuko couldn't answer, Kataoka turned his gaze to Kuramochi.

“……” Kuramochi frowned and looked at the supervisor, thinking that he should still talk to the supervisor.

Every time Sawamura came home late, he would deliberately make the sound of opening the door, then climb directly into bed, and there would be no movement after that. When they got up, Sawamura was gone.

Sometimes there is not even the sound of opening and closing doors, it is so silent as if it does not exist.

Kuramochi hesitated for a while before replying: "Sawamura... often doesn't come back to the dormitory all night, or goes out in the middle of the night and doesn't come back until the early morning..."

"What!?" Chris was originally still worried about Eijun, but was shocked by Kuramochi's words and looked at the supervisor whose face was getting worse and worse.

"Coach, although Sawamura is difficult to manage, he won't do this without a reason!" Chris's words were somewhat unconvincing. If this was really the case, he would not speak for Eijun.

Supervisor Kataoka didn't even look at Chris, his favorite student, and asked in a low voice, "Often, how often?"

"..." Although Kuramochi couldn't be sure of the number of times he noticed this, he was sure of one thing at least, "...he almost never stayed in the dormitory for a whole night..."

"Why didn't you tell me earlier!" Kataoka shouted angrily, "What if something happens to him?"

"I'm sorry." Kuramochi also knew that this was wrong and had talked to Eijun about it.

But he was helpless as Rong Chun just kept yawning and brushing it off.

Everyone was frightened by Kataoka's angry roar and dared not breathe.

Kataoka looked at Xinyi outside the field, then turned to Takashima Rei and said, "Call the two students who came with Sawamura over here."

"Okay." Takashima Rei pushed his glasses with a serious expression and walked towards his favorite girl who was joking and laughing so hard that she covered her stomach.

"Is there a problem?"

As soon as Xin opened his mouth, everyone was stunned and speechless, "Boy! Twins?"

"..." Kataoka didn't expect that such a beautiful child would be a boy, but it didn't matter. "Was Sawamura with you all night?"

"I heard what you said." Xin looked at the team supervisor in front of him and smiled politely, "He will be with us tonight."

"What are you doing together that you have to do in the middle of the night? Don't you even need to sleep?"

"..." Yi looked at the team manager in front of him who looked unhappy, and smiled knowingly: "So you guys didn't know..."

"..." Seeing that they really didn't know what was going on, Yi tilted her head and explained, "Eijun suffers from severe insomnia!"

"what!"

Hearing this, everyone looked incredulous.

"How is that possible! That guy has always been in good condition."

"Yeah! He always looks so relaxed after training!"

"I have a good appetite and good energy, it doesn't look like that at all!"

"Hmm..." Yi blinked and looked at them seriously, "Do I look like I'm joking?"

"..." In the silence, Chris lowered his eyes and whispered: "So, this is why he can't open his eyes?"

"Even if he takes medicine, it won't work. He won't be able to fall asleep unless he is knocked unconscious or collapses from exhaustion."

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"Haqiu..." Just after changing his clothes and going out, Rongchun sneezed. He rubbed his nose, "I have a bad feeling...Did Xinyi do something?"

Helplessly, he scratched his head and walked towards the stadium. When he arrived at the stadium, Xinyi was still sitting outside. When he saw Rongchun coming, he gave a meaningful smile.

Eijun looked at the two of them in confusion, but they ignored him. Eijun sighed helplessly and followed the first-year students who were already running.

"First-year Sawamura, please come to the rest area immediately."

"..." This attracted the attention of everyone in front of him. He looked strangely at Takashima Rei who was waving at him in the rest area.

Facing everyone's gaze, Eijun felt very uncomfortable and ran towards the rest area, only to see Miyuki and Fūtani were there.

Is it time to assign a catcher? Rongjun looked at Chris-senpai, but for some reason Chris-senpai walked up to him with a serious face.

"How long have you been awake?"

"..." Rongchun was shocked by Chris's angry tone. He stared at him for a while, then looked at Xinyi, blinked, smiled knowingly, and shook his head, "I forgot."

'Forgot...' That means he did not deny that he suffered from insomnia, and Chris's expression softened at once.

Rongchun usually performs very well in training, as if he has endless energy. When all his classmates are exhausted, he always acts like nothing happened.

No one could have imagined that he would suffer from insomnia in that condition.

"So...when was the last time you slept?"

"..." Rong Chun frowned in distress and smiled helplessly: "I forgot."

"..." Seeing Rongchun's bitter smile, Chris stepped forward and patted his head with a heartache, "I have good news to tell you, you have been promoted to the second army."

"Really..." Rongchun looked up and chuckled, "That's good. Instead of sitting on the bench in the first team, you can still participate in the competition in the second team. Has Chris senior joined the first team?"

"No, I am also in the Second Army."

"Why!" Rongchun suddenly shouted loudly after hearing this, and pointed the tip of the stick at Miyuki, "With Senior Chris's ability, he is fully capable of being a detective in the First Army! Why are you placing Senior Chris in the Second Army? Supervising him..."

"Hey, hey...don't point your finger at me, senior!" Yukichi was helpless. Why was he still so rude?

"I asked to stay in the Second Army myself." Chris chuckled, interrupting Rongchun's roar, "I hope to let my shoulder get used to it."

Is it because of me?

"..." Eijun almost asked, but he didn't. Instead, he relaxed his brows and said, "This is also good! I can form a pitcher-catcher team with Chris-senpai. Chris-senpai will be in charge of me."

"Well, I'm the catcher in charge of you."

Then, Senior Chris completely cleared his practice schedule, let him sit in the rest area and watch others practice, and then accompanied him to the hospital in the evening to have his shoulder checked.

No matter what, after knowing that Chris-senpai was in charge of him, Eijun was in a happy state, surrounded by an atmosphere that seemed to be full of small flowers.

Therefore, even if he was stared at by Senior Chris and had to sit in the lounge area all day, he could still spend the whole day reading.

After accompanying senior Chris to the hospital for a check-up, Rong Chun was ordered to be checked as well as expected, and was forbidden to leave the dormitory at night.

When I returned to the dormitory at night, I couldn't help but receive the intimate love and care of Kuramochi-senpai.

"If you've been beaten to pieces by a senior, you should just hide in a corner and cry like a newbie! You're still leisurely picking up girls over there!"

"No..." With Kuramochi-senpai holding his fate by the neck, Eijun replied helplessly: "We are..."

"Oh... my phone is ringing..." Kuramochi threw him aside before Eijun could finish his words, "You actually brought a phone in here! Let me see who sent you a message..."

"..." At this time, only Wakana would send a message. Eijun climbed up indifferently and looked at Masuko-senpai, "I bought a lot of snacks. Let's eat together! What would you like to eat, Kuramochi-senpai?"

"..." Kuramochi's face gradually changed as he looked at the phone. He turned over and used the Scorpion Method, "Damn it! Do you have a girlfriend in the country? Who is Wakana?!"

"She's just a childhood sweetheart..."

"Don't get carried away just because you made a few shots, brat!" Seeing Eijun's calm face, Kuramochi became even angrier, "Wakana sent you so many messages, and you only replied with a single word 'hmm'!"

"Don't think I can't do anything to you just because your body is so soft! How dare you be so arrogant!"

"These are two different things..."

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"The results of the examination showed that Rongchun was very tired. The doctor recommended that he should not do too much exercise for the time being. Regarding Rongchun's condition, the doctor did not prescribe any medicine, but only emphasized that he must rest well."

Kataoka held Eijun's medical report and listened to Chris, then looked at Masuko and Kuramochi, "How was his performance last night?"

"Masuko and I took turns watching him the whole night. He was either lying in bed in a daze or sitting at the desk reading. He never closed his eyes..." Kuramochi yawned very sleepily.

As a result, the next day, Rongjun continued to train and attend classes as if nothing had happened.

"..." Kuramochi carefully observed that Eijun did not have serious dark circles under his eyes, and his condition had always been the same. It was hard to imagine how long he had not slept.

"There's nothing we can do if he can't sleep..." Kataoka put down Eijun's medical report and looked at Takashima Rei, "Have you contacted the Sawamura family?"

"Yes." Takashima Rei pushed up his glasses. "His family knew about it, but the doctors couldn't do anything. They could only follow the doctors' advice and treat this as a part of his life."

"Keep an eye on him, don't let him overtrain, and see how he's doing first."

"Yes!"

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