V3_Chapter 10: Soft Spot

According to the rules of the competition, after five innings are over and the score difference reaches ten points, or seven innings are over and the score difference is seven points, it can be regarded as a completed game.

At the end of the five-inning match between Seidou and Maimon, there was a full 23 points difference, so it was a Called Game.

Among them, the terrifying strength displayed by Seidou High School has aroused the vigilance of all potential opponents in West Tokyo.

Seidou didn’t care about that. There are barely three weeks. In such a short time, no team can deal with their current opponents while making tactics against Seidou.

Just like Seidou, in the past month or so, they had only done targeting tactics against Sankou and Inashiro. The other teams simply don’t have time to do such a thing.

“Furuya, Furuya!!!”

When Furuya scored the last strikeout, the audience was still cheering him on.

Such consecutive Flaming Fastball Strikes are so exciting!

The audience couldn’t help but begin to incarnate as a supporter of Furuya, shouting slogans and singing praises to him.

The members of the Brotherhood of Red Heart and the Demon-King’s Guard also watched with enthusiasm.

They weren’t upset that he took the limelight from Sawamura or anything.

What’s the big deal?

Back then in middle school, their Demon King had 17 Strikeouts.

And the opponent was not a mashed potato team like Maimon, but the super overlord of the entire middle school softball league at that time.

Comparing the current Maimon with the super-overlord of the softball league back then, Maimon West High School is simply cute.

The same thing, or even more powerful thing, the Demon King did it two years ago.

Furuya’s eleven Strikeouts now don’t seem like a big deal.

Despite this, there are still many members who are excited and even envious of Furuya’s pitching.

Like no way man, 154 km/h pitching is every child’s dream! (95 mph)

They didn’t think that Sawamura’s pitching was slow before, and the ball speed of the Demon-King used to be very high.

But compared with Furuya, it doesn’t seem to be very fast.

“In the second round of the West Tokyo preliminaries, Seidou High School played against Maimon High School. winner: Seidou High School!!!”

Announce the results with the commentator.

Seidou’s first battle is also over.

“Thank you for the opportunity!”

“Thank you for the opportunity!!!”

When saluting each other, Maimon’s players burst into tears.

Three years of hard work is over!

Of course, they will be sad.

In the rest area, Coach Chiba, who was in his 50s cried like a child.

When shaking hands, Maimon’s players sent their blessings to Seidou.

“You guys have to win!”

“You must go to Koshien this year.”

“Don’t lose to anyone.”

“Good luck!”

Minamidaira held Sawamura’s hand tightly and said sincerely.

His eyes were all red, and it was obvious that he had just cried a lot.

Sawamura can understand the feelings of these people, although he has not experienced too many failures in this life. But in his previous life, he also followed the team's ups and downs…

Especially with these third-year seniors, in this tournament.

“I will! You can go back with your head held high, Minamidaira-senpai.”

‘What?’

Minamidaira looked at Sawamura in amazement.

Is he making fun of him?

“You lost to the team that was about to dominate the Nation. There’s nothing to regret…”

This guy!

Minamidaira stared blankly at Sawamura.

“It’s too frustrating, you are saying that now but didn’t you underestimate us? Take us as a training dummy for freshmen?”

The catcher of Maimon said fiercely.

If they are abused, they will be abused. The hateful thing is that Seidou specially sent new students to ‘insult’ them.

Although they have been cleaned up badly, they still hope that in the final game, they can play against the strongest lineup of Seidou.

“We looked down on you?”

Sawamura’s voice was a little annoyed.

“Who really looks down on who? Let me ask Miyata-senpai, do you know the names of all our players?”

Maimon’s catcher, Miyata, looked at Sawamura in confusion.

He was curious, how did Sawamura know his name?

Sawamura shook his head: “Do you know who we will send as pitchers today? Do you have any tactics for our pitchers? Do you even know my pitching courses? Did you know about the fastballs of Furuya? Do you know the habits of our batters? Do you know what kind of team we are?”

“Such things, how do I know?”

Miyata said hesitantly.

“Faced with the champion of the Kanto Tournament, you really see it in your eyes. You don’t even have to look for the videos of the Kanto Tournament, they are available on the Internet. Shouldn’t you watch them too? If you watched and analyzed them, would you be taken down by Furuya’s Fastball and be suppressed like this?”

Sawamura said angrily.

Maimon really works hard!

It can be seen that their players have trained very hard.

Players in public schools don’t have as much practice time as private schools like Seidou do. It is very rare to have such skills now.

To Sawamura’s surprise, Maimon High School didn’t know anything about Seidou’s team.

Barely anything, almost nothing.

How long has it been since the battle table was posted?

Could it be that Maimon only thought about dealing with their opponent in the first match, and forgot that their opponent in the second match was Seidou?

Without even this awareness, why would they compete with Seidou?

This is not the era of the 1980s and 1990s when things can be achieved just by hiding cards and training hard. (I don’t think it was the same back then too.)

In this day and age, information battle is a big part of baseball, if players can’t go all out and prepare, they can’t face their opponents at all.

For a school like Maimon, this result is natural.

Miyata was speechless by Sawamura.

“What about you, how much do you know about us?”

Miyata said stubbornly.

“I know the senior’s name is Miyata, and I know the No. 10 senior’s name is Minamidaira. Although I can’t remember the other senpai’s first name but I remember their last names, and I knew their batting habits and weaknesses before the game…” Sawamura said sullenly.

Maimon’s players are very similar to the previous Akagi.

Just talking about the will and effort.

It was also because of this that Sawamura wasted his words to Miyata.

“Senpai, the competition is not won by hard training alone.”

After Sawamura finished speaking, he was too lazy to talk nonsense with Miyata.

He turned around and went back to the team, and joined the players of Seidou to thank all the fans who came to cheer them on.

“Well done guys!”

“It’s definitely possible this year.”

“Go to Koshien!”

“We’ll be back in the next game.”

In the team of Maimon High School.

Miyata was stunned.

He was taught by a Kohai like this?

Minamidaira looked at Sawamura’s back and suddenly laughed lightly.

National Hegemon!

It looks like it’s really possible.

After thanking the audience, Chris looked at Sawamura strangely and asked, “Did you have to do that?”

Why help Maimon High School?

“It’s nothing, those guys remind me of my friends a little. I just pointed out one thing. As for whether they listen or not, it depends on their Management.”

Chiba Junichi is already fifty years old. People of this age tend to be very stubborn.

‘Remind you of your friends.’

‘Do you mean Akagi?’

Chris nodded and didn’t ask any more questions.

Akagi is also a public school, and like Maimon, they all came from nowhere.

Chris thought that Sawamura probably saw the former Akagi from Maimon’s team.

The talents are mediocre, but aggressive in the hard work, and they are really similar.

It’s just that there isn’t a single Sawamura in Maimon.

‘Looks like my Kohai has a soft spot for public schools.’

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