Diamond Ace: Another Story of Sawamura

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“What did you say!” Dong was irritated and hit Rongchun with a rage, “I won’t let you get off the mound until I make you cry.”

"I've already said it, I refuse!" Rong Chun was also enraged and directly pushed back, causing everyone around him to gasp.

Both of them stared at each other fiercely. Takashima Rei stepped forward and said, "Stop it. This is a baseball field. If you have any problem, use your baseball skills to speak for you."

"Hahaha... How funny..." At this time, Yuxing, who had been watching the show on the side, came to join in the fun, "Xiao Li, can I be his catcher?"

"roll!"

As a result, before anyone could react, Rong Chun shut everyone up with a vicious shout of "Get lost".

"Hey! You actually told us to get out, you're such an arrogant junior!" As a result, Miyuki was unmoved by Eijun's rudeness.

"I want to go back." Rongchun ignored Yuki and turned away.

"Hey! You're so scared of fighting, kid! Are you planning on running away?!"

Faced with Dong's provocation, Rongchun remained unmoved.

Dong was even more angry at being ignored, so he took a few steps forward to stop him. Seeing this, Chris hurried forward to stop him.

As a result, when Dong's hand had already grabbed Rongchun's shoulder, Rongchun immediately grabbed that hand, kicked his leg with his left foot, grabbed his arm with his right hand and threw him to the ground over his shoulder, then turned around and did a high kick.

Everyone in the stadium was shocked into deathly silence.

"..." Rongchun's high kick stopped just in time beside Chris's ear. Looking at Chris's shocked expression, Rongchun reacted and quickly retracted his leg.

"I'm sorry! I didn't mean to do that! It was a reflex!"

Rongchun quickly helped Dong-senpai up. Dong staggered a bit when he stood up, holding his waist and sighed, "I almost lost consciousness."

"Adong, are you okay?"

"Chris, are you okay?"

Everyone recovered from their shock and surrounded Dong Qingguo and Chris. They were one of the professional baseball draft picks and an important catcher!

"Hey! Kid! You're going too far!" Seeing his respected senior Azuma fall down, Isashiki grabbed Eijun and lifted him up.

"Chun! Stop it!" Seeing this, Chris hurried forward to beat him.

"..." Eijun stared blankly at Isashiki-senpai who was right in front of him, "I'm... I'm sorry! I'm sorry!"

"Hey!" Izashiki was suddenly frightened by Eijun and let him go. How could he, who had hit someone, be crying?

"What's wrong!?" Takashima saw that Higashima was frightened by Isashiki, and now he was frightened by Eijun.

"I told you I haven't played baseball for a long time. I just don't want to pitch anymore. Why don't you understand?" Rongjun slapped Miss Takashima's hand away and backed away while crying, "Don't touch me from behind! I'm here just to make my parents and grandpa happy!"

"..." Chris, like the crowd, looked at Rongchun in astonishment. He looked so helpless and sad, "Okay... I won't vote anymore, don't vote..."

"Hmm..." Eijun allowed Chris-senpai to touch him and stopped backing away, "I'm sorry! I didn't mean to kick you, I didn't mean to throw Azuma-senpai!"

"I know, it's a conditioned reflex!" Seeing him covering his face and trying to calm down, Chris gently touched his head.

“I just want to go home!”

Rong Chun said in a muffled voice and took a few steps back. He took something out of his pocket and the baseball fell out. He quickly put on his hat, picked up the baseball that rolled out, bowed to Senior Dong and Senior Chris to apologize, and left.

"I'll take you back..."

"I can go back by myself!" Eijun rejected Miss Takashima, took a few quick steps and then stopped to look at her, "Don't tell my family anything."

After saying that, Rong Chun ran away as if escaping.

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"I'm back~"

"Eijun!" When his mother heard that he was back, she hurried out and asked, looking at Rongchun who was taking off his shoes, "How was the tour?"

"Well, it's really an amazing school. The stadium is very big, and there are many machines I haven't seen before. The seniors are also very amazing. I also met Senior Chris, the one who came with Miss Takashima last time. His injury is almost healed. There is also another very amazing senior, who is a future professional baseball player..."

"..." Seeing him speak so happily, his mother was particularly happy, "That's great!"

"Well, why is our home so far from Tokyo? I'm so hungry and tired~"

"Then I'll make you something to eat, and then go and rest."

"Okay~ I want to eat noodles~"

"Okay, okay~"

After dinner and a shower, Rongchun searched all the pockets of his clothes, but only found a baseball, not a wishing card.

He hurried upstairs and searched everything but couldn't find the wishing card. Rongchun then confirmed that it must have fallen when the ball fell, but he didn't notice it.

"Xiao Li, I'm going to see Sawamura tomorrow."

"..." Takashima Rei looked at Chris and smiled knowingly, "I'll go with you."

"Ah."

He saved himself once, and Chris wanted to help him. Actually, it was mainly because Chris couldn't let Sawamura go on like that, and he looked like he needed help very much.

He said he doesn't play baseball anymore, but he carries a baseball with him and seems to take good care of it. He must really like baseball.

"It seems that he is really worried about the child." Seeing Chris's worried look, Takashima Rei couldn't help but laugh, but at this moment, the phone rang.

"Hello, I'm Rei Takashima."

"I'm Sawamura, I need to talk to you about something."

"It's Sawamura-kun! What's wrong? Have you figured out why you want to come to Qingdao?"

"This kind of thing is not important at all!"

"..." Takashima's mouth twitched. He didn't understand this kid at all. If coming to Qingdao wasn't important, then what else was important? Looking at Chris beside him, Takashima smiled helplessly.

"I may have dropped a small white card on the court. Did you guys pick it up?"

"A small white card?" After thinking about it, I didn't see anything like this today, and no one said, "No, no... Is it something important?"

"I'll look for it tomorrow!"

"Okay, then I'll help you look for it first, and let you know if I find it."

"OK, thanks."

After hanging up the phone, Takashima Rei looked at Chris and said, "Sawamura dropped a very important white card. Did you see it today?"

"No, no..." Chris shook his head, "I'll go look and see if anyone has picked it up."

The next day, Rongchun got up early in the morning, said goodbye to his family and went out. When his mother heard that Rongchun was going to Qingdao, she was very happy.

However, Eijun waited for the whole night but didn't receive any notification of finding it. He searched for a long time at the station on the way to Qingdao, but the staff didn't receive any notification of finding it.

He could only hope that Miss Takashima had found it.

"Did you find it? My card!" After arriving in Qingdao, Rongjun went straight to Miss Takashima.

"Um..." Seeing his anxious expression, Takashima Rei didn't know what to say, "I didn't find the little white card you mentioned... But Chris might have found it. I'll go ask him."

"Chris-senpai!" Rongchun spotted Chris coming over and ran to him, "Did you find my card?"

"Someone saw it..." Seeing Rongchun's eyes suddenly light up, Chris knew that the mouth behind his mask must be smiling happily, "But they thought it was useless and swept it away."

"It was swept away..." Rong Chun's expression darkened, and he turned around and walked away, "The garbage disposal station..."

Behind the warehouse, there is a garbage disposal station just a few minutes' walk away. The garbage from the stadium must have been thrown there.

Rong Chun ignored others' attempts to stop him and frantically and carefully searched the garbage for the small white card in this small place that no one approached because of its dirtiness and stench.

"My wishing card..." Under the incredulous gazes of others, Eijun kept muttering while checking bit by bit to see if his card was among the small pieces of trash.

“…” Chris couldn’t bear to watch it any longer, so he took off his protective gear and jacket to help find it.

"Chris!"

"Chris-senpai!"

The two men turned all the garbage upside down carefully, from inside to outside. The ground was covered with garbage, which scared everyone away. They searched for several times but couldn't find it.

Finally, they couldn't find it anymore, so they took the garbage back.

"Sawamura..." Chris wanted to comfort Sawamura, but after a closer look he discovered that Sawamura's hand was bleeding, "Sawamura!"

Chris grabbed his hands, which were so dirty that you couldn't even tell they were bleeding. The blood mixed with mud was sticky all over his hands, and you couldn't even see the scratches.

"Xiao Li! Sawamura is injured!"

"Hey!" Takashima, who was talking to Supervisor Kataoka, was startled when he saw the two of them in such a mess, "Hurry to the infirmary!"

Rongchun just stood there in a daze as Chris dragged him away. He didn't even say a word while the disinfection and medication were applied. He didn't say anything until his wound was treated.

"Sawamura..." Seeing his absent-minded look, Chris patted his head and smiled softly: "It's okay, I'll look for it again, I'm sure I'll find it."

“No need…” Rong Chun lifted up Senior Chris’s hand and whispered, “Forget it if I can’t find it. It may be at home. I’ll go back and look for it…”

After saying that, Rongchun took out a lollipop with a slightly trembling hand, tore open the package and put it in his mouth, then stood up and walked out. Seeing this, Chris and Takashima hurriedly followed.

"Are you going to go back like this? At least you need to wash yourself and change your clothes."

To be honest, they were really dirty and smelly. Takashima Reine said that even homeless people didn't look like this.

"The station won't let you get on the train if you look like this!"

"How am I going to explain this to your family?"

"Sawamura Eijun!"

Just as Takashima Rei's angry voice resounded through the sky, someone ran over.

"found it!"

"..." Looking at the card held in front of him, Rongchun raised his hand to catch the white wishing card.

"That's it!"

"..."Eijun looked at Kuramochi-senpai who gave him this card, and tears welled up in his eyes.

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