Didn’t you say you were just using me as a substitute?

The air raid alarm sounded, and the stadium staff began to go on the field to clean up the place. Then, at the entrance and exit of the third base cheering stand opposite Aoba, a large number of boys began to file out.

They were all wearing the same dark blue uniforms, and there were at least five hundred of them. They moved in an orderly manner and filled the cheering seats in an instant.

As they appeared, two teams of fellow travelers walked out from the left and right.

Aoba and Osaka Kirin, led by Kitahara Takashi.

Two teams appeared resolutely. Three boys, each wearing a uniform and with their white ribbons fluttering on their heads, stood at the front with their backs to the court. They raised their hands in unison, their long sleeves rippling, and shouted in unison: "Who will dominate the country?"

Over 500 students in the cheering booths held plastic bottles filled with small amounts of soybeans, clapping their hands in unison and shouting in unison: "Osaka Toin!"

“Who can reach the top of the mountain?”

"Osaka Kirikage!"

"Recast the glory of Tongyin!"

"It is our duty!"

More than 500 people roared at the top of their lungs, their momentum instantly overwhelming the entire audience.

"We have more people than you, so who's afraid of who?"

Nari Kamikawa turned to the cheerleaders and support team and said, "Let's get started."

"Ah."

Unlike the roar of five hundred people, Nari Kamikawa and the others chose to respond by playing their own symphony.

The sports department, headed by the Kendo Club, was responsible for cheering loudly.

After both sides warmed up for a while, the referee looked at his watch and immediately blew the game whistle. Both sides lined up and saluted each other.

Takashi Kitahara stood on the pitcher's mound, took a deep breath, swung his arms, and pitched.

"Beep! 156 km/h!"

"A good shot!"

Osaka Toin didn't even bother to swing the bat. He just watched the white ball enter his glove quietly, his eyes expressionless.

After two games, everyone knows that Kitahara Takashi can only shoot dessert shots.

During this period, in order to deal with Kitahara Takashi, all major teams began to practice using serving machines with ball speeds of up to 160km/H to adapt to the ball speed.

Kitahara Takashi is very fast, but no matter how fast he is, his ball speed is not as exaggerated as 160km/H.

"Beep! 156 km/h!"

"One" bang!

Before the referee could say anything, the ball was hit by a metal baseball bat and sent flying.

After confirming the hit, the first batter of Osaka Toin was about to throw away the baseball bat and run towards first base, but he quickly stopped.

Because the white ball crossed the third base line and hit the protective netting of the audience stands.

This is a standard foul ball, the difference between it and a home run is the different flight path.

If the ball flies within the sidelines on both sides and finally falls into the audience seats, that is, outside the field, it is a home run. If the ball flies out of the base lines on both sides during the flight, it is considered a foul ball.

"A good shot!"

The referee waved his hand to indicate that the goal was valid.

First, the second foul ball is also considered a strike for the pitcher, but from the third one onwards it is considered neither good nor bad and the batter can continue to hit without being counted as a strikeout until a strike is missed or hits the field.

"It went in! The player from Osaka Toin hit the ball out."

Although this goal was counted as a valid one, looking at the male commentator yelling excitedly, it seemed that the loser was Kitahara Takashi.

Yuta Kamiezu imitated Kitahara Takashi's gesture of pointing at Hideka, pointed his bat at Kitahara Takashi and shouted, "Maybe you are a piece of gold, but Koshien is full of gold."

Yuta Kamiezu hates people like Kitahara Tsuyoshi who have talent but waste it.

He's a freak of talent, and he doesn't understand what it took for us to get here.

I don't understand at all how much we mediocre people like him desire the things that he discards like a piece of trash.

Yuta Kamijo knew that his limit was just barely making it into professional baseball.

He will definitely be inferior to Kitahara Takashi in the future.

Maybe tomorrow, or maybe the day after tomorrow, Kitahara Tsutomu can surpass him with a little effort, but it definitely won't be now.

He wanted to tell Kitahara Tsun that hard work can defeat talent.

"handsome!"

"That's it, Shang Jiang, defeat that arrogant boy in one go."

"Kitahara-san, are you ready to drop your little pearl?"

Little pearl?

Sorry, it can't drop at all.

Kitahara Takashi took the baseball thrown to him, flexed his wrist, and tore the corner of his mouth.

Have you worked hard?

Sorry, I'm going to cheat!

216

Chapter 216 Will I win?

"I thought he could make it to the quarterfinals and join us. Looks like I overestimated him."

In the front row of the audience, Nan Yunya looked regretful.

This year in Xiajia, the most popular person is Beiyuan Zun.

Even though he only played two rounds of competition, his popularity is now no less than that of popular idol groups.

There are many people who criticize him, but there are also many people who like him.

Nan Yunya didn't even dare to imagine how the media and the people who were slandering Beiyuan Zun would praise her to the sky if she could successfully snipe Beiyuan Zun.

In fact, there are many people who hold the same idea as Nan Yunya.

The opponent that all the major baseball schools are most eager to meet now is Aoba.

Because they all saw that Qingye was just a Cheng Yaojin who only knew three tricks.

People who didn't know him at first might be stunned, but now after two games, Kitahara Takashi has been thoroughly studied, and everyone can see that Aoba is strong on the outside but weak on the inside.

It seems fierce, but as long as the players can play the ball like Kitahara Takashi, Aoba will not collapse immediately, but will also enter a slow death, just like the dog easter that hired a certain Kasa.

Who made Qingye's team start with two injured main players?

"He shouldn't have gone to Aoba."

Horikita's words were brief, but everyone understood what he meant.

If Kitahara Takashi had gone to Koukou Ikusei High School instead of Aoba, he would not have been eliminated in the round of 16.

"But if he had chosen high-level breeding, his story wouldn't be so legendary."

At this time, Yanagisaka Arisu, who was sitting elegantly beside him, spoke.

Even Nan Yunya, who only wanted to step on Kitahara Zun to get to the top, had to agree with this point.

Why Kinzoku became a legend in Koshien.

Because they made it all the way to the finals from being underdogs at the beginning.

Their tenacious performance is the representative of the traditional Koshien values, and the heroic performance of ace pitcher Terusei Yoshida, who is the core of the team, has won countless fans.

Kitahara Takashi is now following the same path as Yoshida Terusei, and is even more legendary and discussed.

"Unfortunately, he is not Yoshida Teruhoshi."

Horikita Suzune said coldly, crossing her arms.

A friend was hospitalized, he played for his friend, the main player was injured, he was called upon to take charge in an emergency, and was exposed online... If Takashi Kitahara can have the last laugh, his story is enough to write a light novel or be adapted into a manga.

But as it stands now, let alone having the last laugh, he can't even reach the level of Yoshida Terusei.

After all, Yoshida Teruhisa made it to the Koshien finals that year.

And you were defeated in the round of 16, what does that mean?

It's like a novel with a strong start but a weak finish.

*

Seeing Yuta Kamiezu hit Kitahara's ball away, Kensuke Amatani's heart sank instantly.

He had only one thought at this moment.

‘It’s over! ’

everything is over.

Kitahara Takashi can only be used as a killer, but not as a conventional weapon.

Good news, Kitahara Takashi is very good at throwing straight balls.

Bad news, Kitahara Takashi can only throw straight balls.

Of course, even so, Kensuke Amaya never criticized him or even put any pressure on him.

Because in his opinion, Kitahara Takashi had done it perfectly enough.

If anyone else could lead the team into the round of 16 when the main players were injured, playing with two fewer players, and starting, and facing the moral judgment of the Internet saint off the court, this would be a nearly perfect answer for Kensuke Amaya.

But full marks are useless to him.

For the people of the island nation today, it won’t work unless you, Kitahara Takashi, win the championship, it must be Five.

Who made you act so wild before?

He acts like he is the boss of heaven, second to earth, and I am the third.

Kitahara Tsutomu's initial attitude towards public opinion completely angered those who liked to act like emperors on the Internet and act like they were giving orders, as well as those who were unhappy with their lives in reality.

In fact, they don’t care how many girls Kitahara Tsutomu has cheated on, nor do they care whether the story is true or not. They just can’t stand the fact that Kitahara Tsutomu is living such a happy life.

They just want to vent their frustration that they have nowhere else to vent in life on someone.

It doesn’t matter whether this person is Kitahara Takashi or not.

Even if Kitahara Tsutomu wasn't there, there would be someone else.

Kitahara Takashi was just the one who happened to be pushed out and chosen.

*

At the moment when Kitahara's ball was hit away, not only Kensuke Amatani felt depressed, but the entire Aoba felt depressed.

The Aoba players on the field and the students in the audience fell silent.

The flute player in the wind orchestra was a delicate girl who bit her lip nervously.

Beside her, the boy in charge of percussion also stopped playing the drums.

The cheerleaders in the aisle, drenched in sweat, still raised their legs and stopped waving the colored balls in their hands.

All the teachers and students were organized to raise the signs in their hands and once again form the huge word "must win", but the numbers were also sparse.

Students who can be admitted to Qingye are not fools.

Everyone knew that Qingye would lose.

Although the slogan says that the goal is to win the championship, the fact that Aoba has not won a trophy since the start of the Koshien competition tells them that this is an impossible goal.

However, Kitahara Takashi's strong performance, which has never allowed his opponents to score even a single point, gave them a glimmer of unrealistic hope.

"If it were him, perhaps they would actually see Aoba dominate the country."

But now it seems that perhaps the expectations were too high.

In the quiet Aoba auditorium, no one had any hope in Kitahara Takashi. When everyone was quiet, the euphonium with a lingering tone like a love song suddenly sounded, carrying with it a reckless momentum.

Everyone in Aoba looked in the direction of the voice, only to see a black-haired girl with a high ponytail ignoring everyone's gaze and staring at the boy standing on the pitcher.