Diamond Ace: Another Story of Sawamura

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"Coach, the training camp is about to start, and the practice match schedule is about to end. Do you still have a chance to perform?!"

Takashima Rei pushed her glasses. She was not worried about Chris because it was a foregone conclusion that he would be in the upper ranks, but it was a different story for Eijun.

He played too few times.

Although his performance every time he played in the game could astonish everyone, it was obviously difficult to convince people with only two games since he entered the school, one of which was as a catcher.

Of course, Kataoka had also thought about Takashima's worries. With someone as talented as Sawamura, the appearance of any school would be enough to make the school ecstatic.

But when it comes to his attitude towards baseball, he only shows enthusiasm in front of Chris. It would be a pity if this child who has not even realized his potential wasted his talent.

"When Chris goes for a physical, take Sawamura with him. If he's in good shape, let him play in the last practice match."

On the team side, during the time when Rongjun was ill, the second team would not be weakened just because he was missing a pitcher. Everyone was eyeing the position of the first team covetously.

The last game of next weekend will be their last chance to perform. As long as they combine their previous performances and present their greatest strength to the supervisor, they will have the best chance of being selected.

Compared with the game against the first army, the second army received constant good news, which really put a lot of pressure on the first army. This is a great opportunity for the second army.

"Who do you think will be promoted to the first army?" Ryosuke, one of the few who least needed to worry about his position, asked with a smile.

"Chris will definitely come up." Danbo affirmed. He knew Chris's strength very well.

Moreover, when partnering with Chris, his pitching condition was very good. Chris's pitching rhythm was bright and smooth, and he was very tolerant of the pitcher on the court. He was much better than Miyuki in every way.

"Well, he's in great shape now."

"..." Miyuki seemed to have sensed some hint from Tamba, and when he saw Furuya nodding and dozing off, he curled his lips, "I think the possibility of Sawamura being promoted is also very high."

“……” Originally, Furuya had no interest in who was promoted to the first team, but his sneeze bubble burst when he heard Sawamura’s name.

"Well, Sawamura is also very likely!" Yuki nodded in agreement, "Sawamura's strength is obvious to all the second and third graders. I believe that no one will doubt him if he is promoted to the first team."

"Wow, Sawamura-chan is really amazing!"

"But...that kid has only participated in two games since joining the club!"

Isashiki's seemingly casual words caused everyone to fall into a brief silence.

"It all depends on the supervisor's arrangement..."

"Is Furuya here?!"

"?!"

Everyone was startled by Rong Chun's sudden appearance. They all looked at Rong Chun at the door in unison, feeling as if they had been caught saying something bad about someone.

"Sawamura! Don't you know you should knock before entering?"

"But, isn't this the cafeteria? Do we have to knock on the door?" Eijun found Fūya among the soldiers and invited him, "Do you want to pass the ball?"

"Yes." Fūya responded and quickly walked to Eijun, "How many pitches do you want?"

"Just for a while!" Eijun saw that he just wanted to shoot until he was satisfied. If he exceeded the capacity, he would be the one responsible, so he would not let Furuya shoot too much. "Then...seniors, I will take Furuya away."

"Oh..."

Watching the two people walking away, Kuramochi reacted and shouted, "Sawamura! You are still in the forbidden practice!"

"Run!" Afraid of being caught if he walked too slowly, Eijun grabbed Fūya and ran.

Fūya admitted that before this, he had never considered Eijun as a competitor.

As the first person to catch his ball and give him guidance, Furuya respected him.

But after the previous practice match, Furuya heard about his performance from others. As naive as he was, he felt a sense of crisis about Eijun, "The pitcher's mound will be taken away."

But this doesn't seem to prevent him from still liking Rongchun very much.

"Well, the ball control has gotten a little better."

"real!"

"Yeah." Eijun looked at Fūya, who was beaming with joy because of the praise, and said with a smile: "At least it can be thrown into the glove, so I don't have to chase after the ball."

"Yeah, I've been practicing ball control."

Because Eijun taught him the pitching techniques and the importance of ball control, Furutani practiced very hard every day.

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There are still two days until the next weekend competition, and Rongchun is tempted by a lollipop, on the condition that he goes to the hospital for a follow-up checkup with senior Chris.

"Well, you're recovering well." Looking at Rong Chun, who looked healthy and had bright eyes, the doctor nodded with satisfaction.

"Doctor's face looks like it has recovered well." Rong Chun mentioned the face that he had hit, which was no longer swollen. "That's great."

"..." Chris felt awkward standing aside if nothing else. Seeing the doctor's eyebrows twitched but still maintaining a professional smile on his face, Chris coughed dryly.

"..." After receiving Chris's hint, Rongchun immediately bowed his head and apologized, "I'm sorry."

"It's okay. After all, you were already unconscious at the time." The doctor shook his head. Many people came to apologize to him, including Rong Chun. "I didn't consider that you would be so wary when you were asleep."

"..." Rongchun smiled out of habit. In fact, he no longer knew what he looked like when he was asleep. After all, the number of times he fell asleep was so rare that he could count them on one hand.

At Chris's strong request, Rongchun underwent a full physical examination. After the doctor's clear reply, Chris took Rongchun back to school.

"parking!"

On the way back, Rongchun saw something that attracted him from the car window and immediately stopped the driver.

"what happened?"

The driver was obviously startled by the sudden grab on his shoulder, and he looked for a place to pull over and parked the car, but Rongchun eagerly opened the door and ran out before the car stopped.

"Eijun!"

Rongchun turned into a small road and got rid of Chris. If he saw correctly, the person who just flashed by was, "It was him!"

Rong Chun could hardly hide his excitement. He thought he was not qualified to go with them, but he was disappointed to have missed the family ball.

However, when he saw that figure, his body chased after him before he thought, because he missed them very much.

"what!"

Rushing out of the alley, Rong Chun bumped into someone passing by. The two of them flew out due to inertia and bumped into other people, and several people fell to the ground on the street.

"..." The scene fell into silence for a while, and then people came over to help the person who was knocked down, "A Ming! Are you okay?"

"I'm fine..." Cheng Gongming sat up in pain and pulled away the person who was still pressing on him, "No way! I'm a pitcher! What if my precious left hand gets injured! My team relies on my pitching genius..."

"It looks like everything is alright."

"What!" Ming shouted angrily at the people who ignored him and went to help the child, "Don't you worry about me, your trump card?"

"Don't get angry at others just because you can't buy the gloves you want..."

"It's my fault, I'm sorry..."

"..." Ming looked at the child who apologized with a nasal voice, and was killed in return, "Hey! Why are you crying?!"

"Ming! Look, you scared me to tears!"

"No! I didn't mean to do that!"

"Rong Chun!" Chris, who was looking for Rong Chun everywhere and was attracted by the noise here, found Rong Chun who was surrounded by Daocheng Industrial as he wished.

"Chris..." Looking at the aggressive Chris, Harada Masamiya quickly signaled others to step back to avoid being misunderstood as bullying.

However, the child, who was crying at this moment, seemed to need an explanation from them.

"What's wrong?" Chris ran to Rongchun and asked him worriedly what happened.

"It's all my fault..." Eijun shook his head, turned around and snuggled into Chris's arms, "That's why he became like that..."

"Don't cry..." Chris hugged Rongchun and gently comforted him, looking at everyone in Daocheng with a dark gaze, "What happened?"

"Misunderstood!!!"

Standing on the side of the road, Harada Masamiya explained the whole misunderstanding to Chris from beginning to end and finally resolved the misunderstanding, and then he breathed a sigh of relief.

"It's okay." Chris gently touched Rongchun's head, "Don't bother with an ignorant child."

"..." Cheng Gongming said that he understood the hint. Didn't he know that Senior Chris was so sharp-tongued before?

"Hehehe...that's right!" Carlos smiled and stepped forward to put Rongchun's hat on, "Little girl, you are a big shot, don't bother with a child."

"No..." Chris took Eijun's hat, and saw that Eijun finally showed his face.

Rong Chun turned his head from Chris's arms and looked at Carlos, frowning and retorting unhappily, "Are you blind? I'm a man!"

Looking at this thin, fair-skinned child with long hair, everyone in Daocheng was stunned.

It turns out that it’s because I’ve been in the baseball club for so long where there’s a lack of females, that I find all the boys pretty...

"Eh!?"

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"Sorry, that kid bumped into you."

Because Rongchun said he wanted to eat ice cream, Chris invited everyone in Daocheng to come together.

"It's okay, it's just that Ming guy was exaggerating." Harada shook his head indifferently. Nothing happened anyway.

"Chris-senpai is very worried about that boy." Shirakawa looked at Rongchun and the other regular players who were eating ice cream and playing in the game hall across the street.

"Hmm..." Seeing that Rongchun seemed to dislike Ming, Chris said with a smile: "The child had a serious illness a few days ago. I took him to the hospital for a follow-up check today."

"He's a pitcher, right?" Harada wondered, but he thought that a child who could make a catcher care so much about him was most likely a pitcher.

"...Um."

Looking at the people who were walking over noisily, Chris pushed the fried chicken to Rongchun who was sitting down, "It's time to go back after eating. The teacher will be worried."

"Good~"

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