Diamond Ace: Another Story of Sawamura

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The coaching staff was in the office at this time. After a moment of silence, Kataoka exhaled a puff of smoke and said what he was thinking, "I plan to let Furuya play in the Kanto tournament."

"Eh? Let Furuya play in the game? Sawamura is more suitable than Furuya..." Minister Ota stood up in shock, and only realized Sawamura's physical condition before the words came out of his mouth.

"..." Kataoka reached out and put out the cigarette butt in the ashtray, "That illusion-inducing high-speed ball, it seems that no one can hit it even in the national competition."

Minister Ota was also convinced by Kataoka's statement. After all, the supervisor who was hit directly by the ball was the one who knew the power of the ball best.

"What about Sawamura-kun?"

As the person who discovered this diamond called Eijun, Takashima Rei was also shocked by his pitching. He realized that he really couldn't understand the Sawamura Eijun that the Sawamura family talked about at all.

"It would be good to let Furuya hone his pitching skills in the actual Kanto tournament. As for Sawamura, I won't let him play too much until his body returns to normal."

"..." Although Kataoka gave her the expected answer, Takashima was really worried about his future arrangements, "That precise pitching posture, coupled with his flexible fingers that can control the speed of the ball freely..."

"In terms of natural aptitude, he is better than other pitchers." Kataoka gave a reassuring answer to Takashima's concerns, "I believe that after careful training, he will have the ability to deal with almost all high school hitters."

"Anyway, let Chris watch over it for now!"

"Yes..." Takashima smiled with satisfaction.

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When Chris returned to the court, he saw Eijun standing in the dugout in a daze after running laps, so he walked over quickly and said, "Sawamura, you've finished running, right?"

"...Yeah." Eijun responded and pulled Chris to complain helplessly: "I wanted to keep running but they wouldn't, then I wanted to defend but they wouldn't, and I wanted to attack but they still wouldn't..."

"Hehe..." Chris patted his head with amusement, "Then let me help you stretch."

"Ah."

"Pfft..." Seeing Furuya unable to catch the ball during the defensive practice and telling others not to worry about it, Eijun laughed, "I always thought that guy was so impressive when pitching, but he knew nothing about defense... How interesting."

"..." Chris chuckled helplessly. They had been doing stretching exercises for more than 30 minutes, but Rong Chun was not in a hurry at all. He even had the leisure to watch others laugh at him. "Get up."

"Good~"

Eijun stood up and stretched his body, then saw Chris took out his notebook and wrote as he spoke.

"Your shoulders, elbows, ankles, and joints throughout your body are very flexible, your body is flexible and strong, and your fingers are long. These are the qualities you have to be a good pitcher."

"Really..." After all, this body contains the memories of the previous life. After training in this life, it naturally has advantages that are inconsistent with the age of this body. "Senior Chris, do you want to catch the ball?"

"Well, throw a few balls."

"Chris-senpai, don't you think I'm not qualified to be a pitcher?" Rongjun held the ball in his hand without looking at Chris's expression.

"A so-called pitcher must shoulder the expectations of his teammates who are unable to play and stand on the pitcher's mound to pitch for the entire team." This is what you, Chris, told me. "You know best how the seniors have fought for the past three years."

"Will Chris-senpai agree with me, someone who doesn't take baseball seriously?"

"..." Chris looked at Rongchun who finally looked up and pursed his lips.

"You don't say anything, you deny yourself directly like this, and always want to avoid baseball, but why do you always agree to my requests..."

"Throw your best pitch into my glove! I'll catch every pitch you throw!"

"..." Rongchun was stunned for a moment, looking at the determined eyes of Chris senior, his eyes moistened, and he threw his best ball to the catcher's glove in front of him.

In the evening, Eijun couldn't stand the boredom anymore and had to go to Chris senior's place with the consent of Kuramochi senior.

"It's so noisy... What time do you think it is now?" Someone knocked on the door in the middle of the night when I was ready to go to bed. Kanamaru's unhappy expression disappeared when he opened the door and was scared by Rongchun outside. "Fuck! Do you still need to wear a hat and a mask in the middle of the night?"

"..." Rongchun tilted his head and looked at the people in the room, "Chris-senpai, can you help me catch the ball?"

"What are you talking about! It's already past 11pm! Are you stupid?"

"..." Hearing this, Chris put down his pen, stood up and walked towards Rongchun at the door, "Can't sleep, right?"

"Yeah." Eijun nodded honestly, "Kuramochi-senpai said that if I dare to sneak out, he won't let me go back to the dormitory."

"......" Chris thought it was funny that Eijun would stay in the dormitory obediently just because Kuramochi told him not to go back. "I heard from Kanamaru that you have been reading medical books? I have some related books here, do you want to read them?"

"Yeah." Rongchun nodded politely to Jinwan, then leaned forward and walked into the house.

"..." Jinwan felt helpless when he saw the two people still reading together at this time.

"Will you go watch the Kanto tournament tomorrow?" Because Eijun had never watched a game before, Chris hoped that he would go, as long as there was something that could arouse Eijun's interest, "This time, the whole team is forced to participate."

"..." Rongchun took the book from Chris and shook his head to indicate that he didn't want to go.

"..." It seems that a more direct question is needed, "I hope you can go with me to see it, okay?"

"Okay."

"Wow!" Jin Wan accidentally tripped when he heard it, but luckily he was just about to get on the bed and threw himself on it, 'This guy really only listens to what Chris Senior says...'

"Kinmaru, be careful!"

Then, the matter was happily decided.

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"This is the first time that Rongchun-kun has come to watch a game!"

"is it?"

'That's it!'

The next day, on the way to the game, Rongchun appeared in the car reading a book, shocking many people.

As we all know, Sawamura is a gentle, cheerful and polite guy, but if someone disturbs him while he is reading or asks him to do something he doesn't want to do, that's a different story.

"Yeah!" Xiaochun smiled and said what everyone else was thinking, "Except for training and class time, we hardly see Rongchun-kun, let alone during competitions."

"Yeah..." Fūya nodded in agreement, even though they were in different classes and didn't talk very often, "You always disappear suddenly."

"Really..." So, as soon as Rongchun got out of class at school, he would either go to the next class to find Xinyi, or Xinyi would come to find him.

"I often go to the rooftop of the teaching building. If you want to find me, you can go there directly."

"Okay." Xiaochun replied with a smile.

"Yeah." Jyougiya nodded.

Ever since the Red and White Tournament, Furutani has been very attached to Eijun, and for the first time ever he would run to Eijun's classroom to find him, even though Eijun was rarely there.

Anyway, Eijun would catch the ball for him, teach him defense, take him to read novels and comics, and take him to run errands for his seniors...

Fūya even went to the supervisor and asked to switch classes and be in the same class as Eijun, but of course, his request was rejected.

“…” Chris felt relieved to see that Rongchun could get along well with his teammates.

In fact, at the beginning he was worried that Rongchun’s strange personality would not allow him to get along well with his classmates, so he would go to his class to check on him out of concern.

Seeing that he got along well with his classmates, Chris no longer went to the first grade specifically.

"Here..." Rongchun shared the candies he brought with them, turned over and lay on the back of the chair, and gave the candies to Chris in the back seat, "Chris, do you want some candy?"

"Hmm..." Chris took the candy that Zhang Bei had carefully opened the bag of and ate it, "So sweet, you really like sweet things..."

"Yeah, because I'm still a kid." Eijun laughed so hard that he rolled over and laid down on the front seat, "Kuramochi-senpai, eat candy!"

"Why are you eating candy all the time..." Kuramochi said this while still holding the candy in his mouth.

"Hey! What about me?" Yuki pointed at himself and said, "I'm not picky about flavors!"

"But, there's no more..." Rongchun smiled regretfully, sat back in his seat, and ignored Yuki's complaints.

There are quite a lot of people in this car. Minus those who don't like sweets, it's good enough that Eijun can keep Koharu, Furuya, Chris-senpai, Kuramochi-senpai, and Masuko-senpai. Why would he specifically keep Miyuki?

"You are such a heartless guy..."

When they arrived at the stadium, the first army followed Coach Kataoka into the stadium through the player channel, while Eijun entered through the spectator channel with Senior Chris and others.

The cheers from the audience were as hot as the sun now.

Today's preliminary match is between Seidou from Tokyo and Yokohama Kohoku Gakuen from Kanagawa.

When the whistle sounded, the two teams lined up and rushed to the field.

"Please advise!"

Hengxue attacks first, Qingdao attacks later.

Rongchun changed into a comfortable position and prepared to start watching the game. He picked up his backpack and took out the lollipops he had prepared in advance, but he didn't touch his candy jar as he wished, but some boxes.

"..." Rongchun looked into the bag curiously, his movements froze, and he silently zipped it back up, 'I took the wrong one... No wonder it's so light.'

The game started with a pitching battle. As the batters on both sides were not yet accustomed to the pitcher's balls, neither side scored in the first two innings.

In the third inning, the Qingdao batter cooperated with the starter to score a point, but in the next inning, Tamba's pitch was seen through and Yoshigaku reversed and scored two points.

"What do you think..." Chris turned around to ask Eijun what he thought, only to find that Eijun had quietly slipped away without him noticing. "Where's Sawamura?"

"Eijun-kun said he wanted to go to the bathroom." Hearing Chris-senpai's doubts, Xiaochun was distracted from the game, "But, he has been gone for a long time... It's been four games..."

"..." He had been gone for so long and still hadn't returned. Chris thought he might not be lost... "I'll go find him."

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