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

Originally, Kouta Tanaka and Shota Otani felt a little sympathetic towards Kitahara Takashi, but when they heard this, they both pouted.

"Aoba High School has such a high deviation value. Did you all get in through your own hard work?"

"We all practice sports, but aren't you better than others?"

Beiyuan Zun bent down to take out a soda from the vending machine, turned his head and looked at him, smiling: "Aren't you also the protagonists of your own world?"

"What's wrong, young man? Are you starting to doubt that you are not the protagonist?"

But just as Kitahara Takashi said, Otani Shota's eyes were fierce and he would help without hesitation.

"Ding, 155km/H, this ball broke my personal record" Bang!

Before the commentator could finish his words, there was the metallic sound of a bat hitting the ball.

The ball that broke the personal record disappeared into the blue sky at an even faster speed.

It kept flying, flying over the infield, over the outfield, and finally into the popcorn bucket in the outfield audience seats.

"Ahhhhh!!!!"

Shota Ohtani roared to the sky and hit his chest hard with a hammer.

Maybe he is not as handsome as Ayanokouji Kiyotaka, not as good at studying as him, or not as smart as him, but in the field of baseball, he does not think he is worse than anyone else.

In the baseball team with hundreds of members from freshman to junior year of high school, before Kitahara Takashi, he was the only one who became a main player in his freshman year.

When everyone else was waiting for their seniors to graduate and the seniors to retire, he was the only one who fought his way out with his own strength and forced the seniors to give up their positions.

"Home run!"

"Goodbye home run!"

"Aoba wants to get not one point, not two points, but a full four points."

"Four players, four batters, four runs, a miracle!"

"Tanaka Kota showed the world with his strength why he is a guaranteed starter."

"Aoba doesn't just have one genius, Kitahara Takashi. Otani Shouta is also a genius."

The male commentator was spitting, speaking quickly and shouting excitedly.

Neither Musashi Katsuda nor Takashi Kitahara expected that Shota Ohtani could hit a home run.

The two originally wanted to take two or three points.

Who would have thought that Shota Ohtani would give them a surprise.

The two men reacted and rushed towards Shota Otani at the same time.

“Great job!!!”

Musashi Katsuda ruffled Shota Otani's hair violently.

"You're so good, kid!"

Kitahara Tsutomu rushed over and punched him hard.

Then players rushed out from the bullpen one after another.

Ohtani Shouta's eyes were red as he raised his fist towards Kitahara Takashi: "I told you, leave the batting to me."

Kitahara Takashi also smiled and bumped fists with him again: "Leave the defense to me."

Shota Ohtani's goal greatly boosted the morale of the Aoba team.

Several players also hit Ayanokouji Kiyotaka's ball. Although they didn't score, their momentum to overthrow Koukou Ikusei frightened Horikita Gakuto.

The offense and defense switched sides. Kitahara Takashi originally wanted to engage in a war of attrition, walking three people to base, and then striking out three people to prevent the opponent from scoring.

However, perhaps influenced by Shota Ohtani, or perhaps due to the secretion of dopamine, Kitahara Takashi did not choose to do so this time.

Eliminate the opponent with three strikeouts.

In the sixth game, everyone became serious when facing Aoba.

This time, Ayanokouji Kiyotaka cooperated with his teammates, preventing Aoba from scoring and not allowing the opponent to get even a single point, keeping the score at 6:11.

The High Level Cultivation Team has always been very strong, and Kitahara Takashi also values ​​them very much, so he has been trying every possible way to reduce their combat power.

In the seventh and eighth innings, on the defensive end, Kitahara Takashi did not allow Kotoko Ikusei to score.

On the offensive end, he ignored the heart-wrenching pain in his right arm and once again launched "Popeye", hitting two home runs and scoring two points.

The score is 8:11.

As the game progressed, everyone's mood became more excited.

Even if Kitahara Tsun managed to score another point in the ninth game, Aoba would still be the loser.

The turning point occurred in the top of the ninth inning. Just as Kotoyuki was about to win the game, Albert Yamada, who had been being run around by Aoba like a dog, twisted his foot while running and fell to the ground holding his ankle.

His fall also made Gaodu Yucheng's persistence throughout the game go to waste.

By now, everyone is very tired and they haven't rotated the players yet.

In the final ninth game, Aoba scored three consecutive points and successfully dragged the time into overtime.

In the tenth inning of overtime, Kitahara Takashi hit a walk-off home run.

"boom!"

Everyone just watched the ball sink into the electronic screen.

The electronic screen has become distorted, but it still stubbornly displays the score.

Aoba:12.

Highly bred: 11.

"what--"

The whole stadium seemed to be hit by a tsunami.

The audience waved everything they could get their hands on wildly.

At the moment when Kitahara Takashi ended the game, he fell to the ground, gasping for breath and unwilling to get up.

"Zun, we are the champions! We are the champions!!!"

Shota Otani directly pressed his entire weight on Kitahara Takashi.

"We did it!"

"We are the champions, Hagar!"

Then, Musashi Katsuda, Yusei Noda, Kaname Momotani... famous players rushed into the court, one after another pressing on Kitahara Takashi, piling up in front of everyone at the high-level training center.

Even coach Kensuke Amaya rushed forward excitedly at this moment.

"Get up quickly, get up quickly, I'm going to be crushed to death."

Kitahara Takashi slapped the ground frantically with his left hand.

Everyone finally reacted and stood up and threw Beiyuan Zun into the air again.

"Fuck, you guys don't want me to live."

Although Kitahara Takashi was cursing, he was laughing happier than anyone else.

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Chapter 241 Now he is yours.

competition is over.

The moment the air raid sirens were sounded, they were accompanied by the enthusiastic cheers of tens of thousands of fans on the scene.

"We won, we won."

"Champions, we are champions!"

All the teachers and students of Private Aoba School stood up, raised their arms and roared.

The Aoba cheerleaders hugged each other and jumped up and down.

Among the revelry crowd, the most excited ones were the senior students from Aoba who came from various places specially for today's game.

They have waited a long, long time for this championship.

"Did you see that, old fellows?"

Nakano Ichika discovered that the elegant old man she was interviewing was already so excited that he was crying.

The straight spine also bent at this moment.

"What we didn't do, our younger generations did for us."

Most of the players who made it to Koshien in the first year have already left.

Wanting to witness Aoba win the championship while he is still alive has become his obsession.

“A moment in life where you ask for nothing.”

In the live broadcast room of "Decisive Battle of Koshien", Ichiro Suzuki took off his headset and looked at the boiling Hanshin Koshien Stadium. He couldn't help but sigh.

“Before becoming a professional player, my only dream was to help my alma mater win the Hagar championship.”

Shohei Otani felt deeply about this.

“Unfortunately, I didn’t realize my dream until I graduated from high school.”

“When I lost a game in my senior year, I cried secretly.”

When Mai Sakurajima saw Kitahara Takashi win the championship, she felt inexplicably happy for him and spoke bolder.

"Hey, Otani-senpai cried too? I remember you were spotted by the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters coach early on and were guaranteed to be selected first overall."

At that time, Shohei Ohtani joined the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters with a contract that was the highest standard for draft players, with a signing fee of 1 million yen, an annual salary of 1500 million yen, and an incentive bonus of 5000 million yen, which shocked the entire Japanese sports world.

In Mai Sakurajima's opinion, it was unbelievable that someone who could earn so much money at the age of 16 would cry for a Koshien tournament.

"Different."

Shota Ohtani looked at Kitahara Takashi who was abandoned by his teammates, and there was a hint of envy in his eyes.

The youth, passion and dreams of young people are all in the Koshien finals. After becoming professional baseball players, slowly, the innocence and love for baseball in their youth gradually disappear, and in the end, only the pursuit of money and fame remains.

To destroy a person's beloved hobby is to turn it into work.

Shota Ohtani hasn't had fun playing baseball in a long time.

He later became stronger, but it had been a long time since he had the chance to win a match he most wanted to win.

Just like the girl who didn’t mind your poverty and didn’t want anything else but just wanted to be with you, she won’t come back just because you are rich.

The regrets of youth will eventually take a lifetime to let go.

"I really envy him."

Ichiro Suzuki looked deeply at Kitahara Takashi who was laughing heartily and spoke out his true feelings.

If possible, he would like to give up everything he has now and become Beiyuan Zun.

Looking at him, he seemed to see his unbridled youth and the past that had passed.

They lost the game they wanted to win the most, but Kitahara Takashi won.

*

“He really did it.”

Yanagisaka Arisu looked at Kitahara Takashi who was abandoned by everyone, and felt a little complicated when he said this.

She didn't expect such a result.

She never thought that Highly Raised would lose.

She admitted that Kitahara Tsutomu was very strong, and Aoba, who was under his command, was also strong, but she never thought that he would be the final winner.

Obviously, they are stronger in terms of strength.

They also have a chance to win.

But the highly educated one loses because of arrogance.