I couldn't write a chapter yesterday because of college work.
To apologize for the inconvenience I wrote 2 chapters today.
Hope you enjoy ;)
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It had been a week since school started.
Rei was assigned to the 1-A class because he was a student who had gotten a scholarship based on his scores.
Previously, when Rei arrived in the class, he didn't find anyone familiar he had seen on the baseball field.
Currently, Rei was sitting in one of the seats at the back of the classroom. He was sighing because he couldn't believe he had to relive his high school days. The worse part was studying but thankfully with his predecessor's intellect, he could easily pass.
"Therefore, we can narrow down the possible answers to A and D for the first multiple choice questions", said the teacher while scribbling on the board.
Rei had his head down on the table because he didn't want to hear the stupid lecture. He was thinking of several ways he could improve his baseball and how he could execute his old skills.
The teacher scanned the classroom to find students who aren't paying attention.
Just then he saw a young man with his head down on the table.
The teacher approached the young man and yelled, "GET UP REI"
Rei looked up after hearing his name to find a teacher with a serious expression looking at him.
Rei scoffed at the teacher and put his head back down on the table.
"H-Hey don't just ignore me when I'm standing right next to you?", said the teacher.
One of the random kids who was sitting beside Rei in the classroom said, "It's no use, Teach. He's apparently on the baseball team".
"Nani", said the teacher surprisingly. He hadn't heard of this before.
Hearing that Rei was on the baseball team made all the other kids look at him with admiration.
"Really? That's amazing".
"Our baseball team is famous".
"I hear practice is really tough".
These were the comments his classmates said.
"You moron! That's exactly why I can't let it slide! Why would you even be eligible to join class A when you can't even fully pay attention in this class".
Rei ignored the teacher's comment and had his head down. Eventually, after some minutes he fell asleep.
When the teacher heard Rei's snores coming from the table he was dumbfounded.
Sighing he returned to his position and started teaching the other students.
In the baseball ground after school.
All the team members of the 1st string were sitting and listening to what Kataoka was explaining.
"I'm sure you guys all understand well", said Kataoka as he used the sand on the ground to draw with a stick which would make the players understand better.
"Compared to the biggest summer tournaments and the final individual, the spring prefectural tournament isn't very important. However, today we're up against the team we lost to in the fall, Ichidaisan High. We'll pay back the humiliation we reached tenfold!", said Kataoka menacingly.
"YESS", said all the 1st string members simultaneously.
"Yuki, do the usual.", said Kataoka.
After getting the order from the coach, Yuki did a cheer with the team to raise their focus and unite them before the match started.
"Our only goal is the national championships! Let's go.", said Yuki raising his arm.
As the Yuki did the final cheer all the team members raised their arms in the air along with him.
As the 1st string team was getting ready to leave for the spring tournament, the dugout near them had all the first years gathered.
All kinds of admiration were spread throughout the crowd. Some were envious and some decided to work even harder except Rei well you couldn't call him normal in many circumstances.
Sitting in the dugout, Rei smirked looking at the 1st string team that was leaving for their match.
Seeing this Rei had a sudden epiphany about something and started running with a tire attached to himself.
While Rei was running, he saw a scene from the anime playing out. He slowed down to watch it.
This scene in the anime was where Sawamura found his long-lost love, his tire. The same could be said for Rei since he uses his own special tire.
He passed Sawamura while he was talking to Haruno.
Rei had a lot of thoughts on his mind as he was running. Today when the 1st string members left for the tournament, he felt disappointed that he couldn't join them for now.
Well, he knew sooner or later he will be on the 1st string team.
As previously mentioned, Rei's goal, for now, was that he wanted to carry the team to Koshien and let them experience it.
Obviously, the 1st step toward reaching this goal would be that he becomes an ace.
"Watch out Sawamura and Furuya another person is aiming to become the ace", thought Rei while smirking.
Meanwhile in the spring tournament. A match was ongoing on the field.
Ichidaisan High Vs. Seido High
"Count is 1 ball, 2 strikes. We threw 2 in a row outside to bore the batter. Now, pitch a fast slider inside! Strike him out with your best pitch!", said the catcher from Ichidaisan High while using signs to converse with the pitcher.
The catcher moved and held the mitt to the side where he wanted the pitcher to pitch the ball.
The pitcher pitched as soon as he received a sign from his catcher.
"Yes! The perfect pitch!", said the catcher thinking that it was a strike.
Before the ball hit the mitt, Miyuki Kazuya, #2 swung his bat hitting the ball towards the fence.
"So that's the famous Miyuki Kazuya"
"Wow! He can turn an inside slider into a home run?!"
The audience was riled up and excited especially Seido's fans.
"Oops, it went out", thought Miyuki playfully as he ran touching all 4 bases.
The Ichidaisan High catcher's face was in shock.
"Yaahaa…you anticipated that pitch and swung for it! You made Manak speechless by hitting his best pitch right off the bat", said Kuramochi when he saw Miyuki in the dugout as he came back from touching the home plate.
Miyuki had a smug face as he heard the praises from Kuromochi.
"Pure Luck. It won't go the same next time as well", said Miyuki.
"Luck alone can't hit that pitch out of the park. Even you don't think it was luck!", said Kuromchi raising his leg to hit Miyuki's butt.
"Now, he'll be more reluctant to throw the slider. Aim for his fastballs", ordered Kataoka from the dugout.
Over the next few innings, Kuramochi batted and went on the base showing off his speed.
Kominato (Haruichi's brother) and Ishiki batted helping Kuromachi reach the home plate. They successfully got themselves a run.
Yuki also batted.
At Rei's side.
"I'm....so…...exhausted", said Rei panting while laying on the ground of the field. He kept thinking and running because of that he forgot to pace himself and got a cramp in his leg.
He stopped and rested only because of the cramp.
Speaking of running, now Rei could run with 2 tires attached. Which didn't make him feel proud of himself in fact it was the opposite because he was aiming to complete the daily quest which could raise his speed stat more.
The daily quest required a truck tire for it to be completed. 5 car tires equal 1 truck tire. So, he was far off for now.
This didn't mean that he didn't earn any stats at all. He earned around 0.1 after exercising the whole week. He only wanted to complete daily quests because he would earn more stats through them.
Rei stood up and tried putting pressure on his left leg where he had a cramp. He had been massaging it for a while now so he thought it would be fine.
He didn't feel any pain when he tried walking on it.
He shrugged thinking it was for the best that his cramp was gone now.
Since Rei had no cramps in his leg now, he thought of going back to running. He stopped until he saw something interesting that is.
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Currently, Rei was witnessing the moment where Furuya meets Sawamura.
"Things are certainly different when seen in real life", thought Rei because he was feeling excited.
Rei surely witnessed a lot of iconic scenes already.
Meanwhile in the spring tournament.
Ichidaisan High Vs. Seido High.
Tanba was feeling nervous while warming up his arm to pitch. Thankfully, he had his teammates to cheer him up and support him from the back.
He was having problems with pitching since he kept pitching balls.
Miyuki showed off his strong shoulder by throwing the ball to base quickly in time. He was trying to show Tanba that he got his back.
The Ichidaisan High coach was jealous of seeing 'The Genius Miyuki boy' on Seido's team and not his.
"Why didn't you come to me, Miyuki boy?", thought the Ichidaisan high coach.
"You got yourself in a jam with a walk, and then you gave up a hit with that weak pitch. Tanba, what have you been doing these past 2 years?", questioned Kataoka as Tanba came back to the dugout.
This question left Tanba in a trance. Looking at Tanba's expression you could tell that he was disappointed in himself too.
"Kawakami, you're pitching, starting next inning", ordered Kataoka.
"Y-Yes", said Kawakami hesitantly.
"Go all out while their pitcher's feeling weak. Let's end the game this inning", said Kataoka.
"YES", said the team simultaneously except Tanba as he was still in a trance.
"They need a real ace", said Mine Fujio after analyzing today's game.
Mine Fujio is a journalist for the monthly baseball kingdom.
At Rei's side.
Furuya and Sawamura started preparing to play catch-ball.
Rei was watching this show in amusement. He was disappointed that he didn't have popcorn though.
Seeing the fun Furuya and Sawamura were having while playing Catch-ball, Rei decided to head there to join them.
Meanwhile in the spring tournament.
Ichidaisan High – 9 and Seido High- 13, the final scores of the match.
Mine Fujio and his fellow journalist discussed how Seido barely won and how luck was on their side.
Both teams lined up.
"Thank you for a great game", said the players while bowing to each other in respect.
Kataoka, Takashima, and Oota were discussing the game while walking with each other.
"Our ace, Tanba, is just coming back from an injury, so he should be fine once he gets his feelings back", said Takashima.
"But if he continues to play like he did today….", said Director Oota worryingly.
"I understand your worries, Director Oota. However, we only have 3 months before the summer tournament. Coach, I believe this calls for an immediate bullpen restricting taking the 1st years into consideration as well", said Takashima.
At Rei's side.
Rei grabbed both Furuya and Sawamura's attention when he approached them.
"Ohh… it's you!!", said Sawamura in surprise as he didn't expect that someone was in the field right now.
Almost all the players left to go watch the tournament on the bus.
Furuya had a questioning look on his face as he didn't know who Rei was.
"Can I join you guys?", asked Rei.
"Sure", said Furuya as he couldn't care less.
"Yeah, we'll love it if there is another person we can play with", said Sawamura excitedly.
Rei nodded and grabbed a glove from the storage room close by.
It had been a few minutes since they had been playing catch-ball and Rei finally got to know the pain the catcher feels while catching Sawamura's pitching.
Honestly, Rei was even surprised Miyuki and Ono were able to catch those pitches.
"Sawamura, you pitch weirdly", said Rei.
"That's what Furuya said too. I thought he was just lying but it looks like I do pitch weird", said Sawamura in a disappointed tone.
"Don't worry about this. I think you'll be a great pitcher one day in the future", said Rei which brought a smile to Sawamura's face.
"I see…I see", said Sawamura blushing.
"Who are you, and what string team are you on?", asked Furuya curiously.
Before Rei introduced himself, Sawamura said, "He's Reiii and did you know he was offered a position on the 1st string but because of some disagreements he wasn't able to go there".
Hearing this Furuya nodded with a stoic expression, even though inwardly he was shocked.
He had heard of Rei before because the team player's kept gossiping about this incident.
When Furuya heard this news, his competitive side was brought out, and wanted to know if Rei was better than him.
"How about we all pitch using our top speeds?", asked Furuya. He was curious about what kind of pitches Rei throws.
"Why, though", asked Rei.
"No reason, it just seems more fun than playing catch-ball", said Furuya. For some reason, his instincts were telling him not to compete with Rei.
Sawamura and Rei nodded agreeing to Furuya's suggestion.
As soon as they agreed a ball came towards Sawamura at a fast speed, he didn't even have the time to react and he somehow managed to catch the ball.
Sawamura was in shock after catching Furuya's pitch because he could hear his heartbeats.
"Not bad", said Rei.
Sawamura glared at Rei after hearing his comment.
"My turn, so get ready", said Rei.
"Hahaha… I'm ready", said Sawamura getting out of his daze.
Rei took his pitching form, swung back his arm with force, and released the ball aiming towards the glove.
It went 140 KM towards the glove.
Sawamura's eyes widened and he stepped away from the ball not taking the risk to catch it.
"What…what was that", said Sawamura amazed.
"My fastball", said Rei with twinkles in his eyes.
"Monster…", thought both Furuya and Sawamura looking at Rei.
Now they knew why the coach was so adamant about Rei joining the 1st string.
"I have never been on a baseball team before and always practiced home alone. I came here seeking the environment and the resources to be the best pitcher", said Rei grabbing the ball from the ground.
Sawamura and Furuya realized after seeing Rei that if they wanted to become an ace on this team, they had to surpass this monster.
(Author's note: Furuya's pitch speed in the starting was around 12-130 and right now Rei's speed is around 140)
At night in the dorms.
"Hey, did you hear that Tanba's no longer the ace?"
"Seriously?"
"Even though we won?"
"We only won because Kawakami replaced him".
"We only have 3 months until summer. If Tanba's not the ace, then who's going to be our pitcher?".
Discussed a group of concerned players on the team.
Morning Practice, In the bullpen.
*Thud**thud* echoed the sound of the ball hitting the mitt at a high speed.
"What was that sound? Is he seriously a 1st year?", said a random player looking at Rei in the bullpen.
Kataoka, Takashima, and Director Oota were keeping their eyes on various players.
Kataoka and Takashima nodded looking at Rei pitch with pride in their eyes.
*Thud**thud* echoed the sound of another ball hitting the mitt at a high speed.
The crisp sound got the attention of Takashima and Kataoka.
"Furuya Satoru from Hokkaido Tomakomai junior high school. He went as far as to test into our school to play here", said Takashima introducing Furuya.
Kataoka nodded and analyzed Furuya with interest in his eyes. He still thought that Rei was ahead of him in many other terms.
Sawamura peeked in the bullpen and found Rei and Furuya pitching.
"Damn it! They're already throwing in the bullpen! I can't just stand here!", said Sawamura.
He took 3 tires and ran with them.
"Can't wait for the intrasquad game", said Kataoka.
Takashima and Oota nodded agreeing with him.
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