Diamond Ace: Another Story of Sawamura

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"What is that third baseman doing!"

"Are you an outsider?"

"Huh?" A sudden grumbling sound was heard when they arrived at the stadium in the passage. When Rong Chun walked out of the passage, he heard the pharmacists in the rest area cursing Lei Shi.

"Hehe..." Lei Shi, who was on third base at the moment, was trying to get away with a silly smile. Based on Rong Chun's understanding of him, "It seems that Lei Shi did something strange."

"Eijun..." Noticing Eijun sitting down, Koharu smiled and said, "Did you get Yang-senpai's line?"

"Yeah, I got it..." Rongchun raised his phone and showed Xiaochun Yang Shunshin's line page.

That cold-blooded guy was so cunning. Because Rongchun wore a hat and a mask during the game, Yang said that he thought he was a girl at first. In exchange for adding a line, he at least wanted him to get to know him.

He was also teased by a group of people for showing his face. They said that it was surprisingly not out of place, even though they were a group of people who had just lost a game. "What happened in the game just now?"

"That..." Seeing Rongchun's face flushed and his tone was a bit gnashing, Xiaochun quickly followed his meaning and changed the subject, "The batting line of the city's juniors is very strong. They keep hitting the pharmacist's pitches. Just now, the pharmacist's third baseman made a defensive mistake and threw a big pitch..."

In Rongjun's opinion, most people generally believe that the quarterfinals should be between Qingdao and Ichidai San. Before Yakushi's batting line exploded, no one would pay much attention to this team.

“Three highs!”

“Three highs!”

"Six points in one inning, the city junior is really impressive..."

"It looks like we'll only see once again how strong they are..."

"This game...will end early..."

"..." After hearing the comments from the seniors, Rong Chun directed to the Pharmacist team, which was about to attack, "The Pharmacist's core batting line is all first-year players. They don't have any special plans, they are just very confident in their own attacks..."

"Indeed... Chris-senpai and Miyuki-senpai were also discussing this just now..."

"Especially the freshman who was promoted to fourth bat, he should have some outstanding qualities..." Chris heard Eijun's doubts, turned around and chuckled, "We need to take a good look at his hitting."

"Yes!"

Even if he didn't attract Senior Chris's attention to the pharmacist, Rong Chun thought, 'The next blow from Lei City will really make everyone pay attention to him.'

What developed next was just like what Rongjun had seen in his previous life. A beam of white light shot across the court like a cannonball, passing through the net at an extremely exaggerated speed, and causing a burst of bird calls.

At this moment, everyone in the stadium was so shocked that they couldn't close their mouths. This amazing swing made people watching outside the stadium actually hear the sound of the bat tearing the air.

"Haha...hahahahaha! Awesome...the ball turned right beside my hand..."

“Baseball is awesome!”

"You... run to the bases quickly..." The umpire was shocked to see such a swing from a first-year student, but it was another matter to see him yelling in the batter's box.

"He's really amazing... Boom..." Thinking back to this period in my previous life, I was traumatized by him and almost collapsed...

"Yeah..." Chris could hear the fear in Eijun's tone. Looking at Hong who was running the bases while laughing, he could hardly imagine that it was a first-year's swing. "If the opponent in the game was him... would you have the confidence to block his swing?"

“…” I didn’t expect Senior Chris to ask this. Rong Chun was stunned for a moment and looked at Lei Shi, then chuckled and said, “Yes.”

"I have one, too." Kouya, who had been pricked up to listen, responded unyieldingly.

"Oh! The momentum is pretty good..." Yukichi was also pleased that the pitcher was so powerful, "But it's only the first inning, the game is still hard to predict!"

The game did not proceed in a one-sided situation as expected at the beginning. Instead, it turned into a tug-of-war between batters. The pitchers of both sides looked low-key compared to the batters.

"The sixth game hasn't ended yet, 11 to 8..." This development was indeed unexpected. Yukichi said solemnly, "Although the city is leading, I didn't expect it to turn out like this..."

"..." Chris also frowned solemnly, "The two-run home run in the first inning completely disrupted Shinichi's rhythm..."

"..." Regarding this situation, Tamba looked at Manaka with a worried look on his face.

Before he could keep calm, the fifth batter hit a solo home run. In order to calm Manaka down, he had to temporarily send him to the outfield to defend.

"What's scary is the strong bat that broke the pitcher's heart with just one home run and the supervisor who had three freshmen batting center who had never played in previous games."

"yes..."

"Hmm..." Rongchun also agreed with Chris's opinion. The summer of his junior year in the city was shattered by this father and son.

'An almost paranoid passion for baseball...' This is Rong Chun's most intuitive evaluation of Lei Shi, and it is also the point that Rong Chun thinks he is not as good as him.

'Perhaps it was because he knew nothing but baseball that he was able to achieve such amazing results in his later years in the professional baseball career.'

"What's going on..." Kuramochi looked at the movement in the rest area of ​​Pharmacist in disbelief, "The coach and the players actually started fighting in the rest area..."

"Is this okay?" Liangjie looked over there with a somewhat forced smile.

"What kind of team is this..."

"It's probably because you don't have enough food." Rongchun supported his face and scanned the drama in the pharmacist's rest area, and smiled helplessly.

After his father retired from professional baseball and squandered the family fortune to pay off debts, his wife ran away. If Lei Shi hadn't gone out to do odd jobs to supplement the family income, the father and son wouldn't even be able to afford food.

Later, as his father expected, as long as he held the bat in his hands, he would become a real money-making machine...

However, no matter how much money Lei Shi made with his baseball bat, it would not be enough for his father to squander.

So in order to make Lei Shi feel less psychologically burdened in this regard, Rong Chun often invites him to dinner...

"Tsk... We're having a tough battle against such a team! We need to win this game quickly!" After seeing the farce in the pharmacist's rest area, Isashiki was very unhappy.

After all, they are old rivals, and if the city's third team loses here, how can they take revenge? He will never allow that result before they win back.

"No..." Chris and Yuki both had serious expressions on their faces, and they thought of the same thing tacitly.

Although the city's third team is leading, the pharmacists are very strong. If the game ends in a tie, it will be hard to predict the outcome...

If we really want to win this game, we still have to rely on him...

Everyone is waiting for the city's junior ace to pick himself up again.

In the bottom of the seventh inning, the conference announced a substitution for City University Junior, and the City University junior ace, who had rested for a long time in right field, once again stepped on the mound.

"Eh? Manaka-senpai is back on the mound?" Koharu was puzzled as to why Yuichi Daisan would bring back his defeated ace at this time.

"Of course! He is the ace pitcher of the city's junior college!" Miyuki was not at all surprised by the current arrangement on the field.

"If we can't pick ourselves up now, this team won't be able to move forward." Chris expected this development.

"An ace pitcher is like this!" At this point, Miyuki suddenly felt resentful and teased the two juniors, "Furuya, Sawamura, you two still have a long way to go if you want to become an ace! Learn from them!"

"I won't lose!" Jiang, who had been holding a towel and dying, suddenly burst out with a spirit of refusing to admit defeat.

"..."Eijun glanced at Fūdani who was so easily irritated. He felt that it didn't matter whether he was a king or not, and instead directed his murderous gaze towards Miyuki.

He actually deliberately mentioned this matter in front of Senior Chris. This is a question that Senior Chris has been asking indirectly. Senior Chris will be disappointed again when he hears it.

"..." Even Chris could feel the murderous gaze of Rongjun, and he had no choice but to glance at Yuki.

When senior Chris expressed his disapproval of his actions, Miyuki shrugged his shoulders and said it was no big deal, after all, the two pitchers have always had a good relationship.

On the contrary, what Miyuki needs to worry about is the feelings of the pitcher and the catcher. Sawamura is just indifferent and distant to him, and only knows how to please Chris Senior...

As expected, Furuya is more obedient and likable...

Deciding to ignore Miyuki's presence, Eijun turned his attention back to the field. Manaka, who had regained his spirits, was in high spirits and struck out Mishima with three pitches in the first inning.

Little did he know that the next batter would completely shatter his self-esteem.

Facing a batter who caught him off guard in the first inning, Masanaka would not be careless. He would first use a changing ball that turned into a ball to make the batter swing.

Finally, throw a straight ball so that the batter won't have time to get out...

An unexpected accident happened here. With Lei Shi's terrifyingly fast and powerful swing, the ball was completely hit away.

However, this ball was not hit well, and flew straight towards the pitcher's mound, hitting the pitcher who was completely unprepared. Shinaka was knocked to the ground by this powerful attack.

Lei Shi was also startled. As he looked at the pitcher's mound, his base running movements became a little hesitant.

Under the horrified gaze of the crowd, Manaka gritted his teeth and struggled to get up, "We... are the kings of spring, the third high school of the city university... so... we can't stop at a place like this..."

"Ah ah ah ah ah!"

'That stage...is waiting for us...'

Shinaka roared as he threw the ball he caught, and it landed in the glove of his teammate at first base before Lei Shi reached the base.

"Ooooh! Manaka-senpai!"

"That ball just hit him, didn't it? Did it hit his glove?"

Amid the audience's discussions, Manaka gave Lei Shi an unyielding smile, then suddenly showed a painful expression and squatted down, covering his left shoulder.

"..." Amid the serious and shocked expressions around him, Rongchun silently put on the mask.

Without their ace pitcher, the city's junior team is bound to lose!

Although the players showed fighting spirit in this round, no points were lost in this round.

But the powerful pharmacist slowly caught up with them, and finally in the bottom of the ninth inning, they lost the game due to a timely comeback hit...

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