"Mina-san, the game has entered the second half of the ninth inning. The leading team now is Chiyoda High School. Just now, Chiyoda High School miraculously won three points, leaving behind its opponent who had been leading. Waseda Industrial

There are still three final eliminations, which team will go to Osaka, the answer will be revealed soon..."

On the TV, the host was enthusiastically introducing the scores on the field, while Shizuka and her younger sister Kana were watching Arata in the field anxiously.

"Ouchi-chan! Do you think Arata can win?"

"Yes, absolutely no problem! Hold on to this round..."

Shizuka nervously held her hands in front of her chest and stood on tiptoes to look at the situation on the field. He saw Arata discussing with the team supervisor on the sidelines for a long time, then picked up his gloves and hurriedly ran to the pitcher's mound. In front of him.

All this made her feel a strange feeling that she had never felt before.

Growing up in a wealthy family, Shizuka never seemed to have much expectations for anything. Because as long as she liked it, everything seemed to be within easy reach. However, until she sat in the stands of Koshien and watched that thing with her own eyes

The young man who once saved the lives of his family used his own hard work to get out of trouble time and time again. Shizuka felt an unprecedented sense of satisfaction. Even as a bystander, she could feel that feeling.

That is a sense of honor that money and status cannot give.

"Come on, Arata!"

Miki, who was sitting in the corner, and her juniors Yui and Minako, who she had just met, were trying their best to cheer up Arata. At the same time, in another corner of the stand, Sanji, his sister Rina, and fellow schoolmate Koike-kun were sitting there.

In conjunction with the Chiyoda support group shouting various cheering slogans.

"Sanji, I'm so envious of Arata! I wish Horikoshi had such a great field club!"

"Chiyoda, Saigo! Arata, Saigo!"

…

Although he didn’t know how many of his close friends came to the scene today, Arata’s determination to win this game never wavered. When he could only get on the pitcher’s mound, he first watched Ono cautiously.

instructions, and then guess the possible reaction of the opponent.

"Whoa!"

"Whoa!"

Two consecutive bad balls, one of which deceived the opponent into making a swing, and this also made Shinta assess his confidence, indicating that the opponent in front of him was not completely sure of judging his own ball path. So Shinta

Tai sent a diagonal straight ball without hesitation!

"Whoa!"

"nice shot!"

"yes!"

…

"Two strikes, one more!"

Seeing that his opponent had lost another opportunity to strike, Arata couldn't help but clenched his fists, which even lifted the spirits of his teammates.

"Whoa!"

When Arata took action again, his opponent no longer cared about judging the path of the ball. He hurriedly swung the bat with all his strength, and the wild ball hit the ground smoothly and bounced into Ono's glove.

"Good ball! The batter strikes out!"

…

A burst of crazy shouts came from the sidelines. In the studio, the host excitedly announced the result to the audience. In that ball, Arata deceived the batter with a bad ball, and it was this ball.

The ball consumed Waseda's precious outs and pushed them one step closer to the abyss of failure.

Unlike Chiyoda's excited shouting, his opponent Waseda seemed surprisingly calm at this time. I saw Waseda's supervisor constantly giving instructions to the players, and then confidently patted his team members and sent him to the

onto the playing field.

"See you on the 4th Izu!"

Seeing the number of the new batter, Arata immediately became excited. Because he remembered that this guy was one of the sluggers that Director Ushijima asked him to pay attention to in the previous game.

, Izumi once hit Arata's pitch, so Arata had to deal with it carefully.

"Whoa!"

To ask for directions, Arata first threw a bad ball! Unfortunately, Izumi was not fooled, so Arata continued to test, but Izumi still had no reaction. It seemed that Arata was sure that Arata's ball was a bad ball.

Arata, who had already thrown two bad shots in succession, did not dare to continue playing with fire at this time. He had to risk throwing a diagonal straight ball. Compared with the float ball, this kind of ball has a lower landing point and is harder to hit.

After making up his mind to play long game, Arata communicated with Ono with his eyes, and Nishijima, who was on first base, suddenly became nervous.

"Whoa!"

"Crack!"

…

"Ah, Arata's pitch was hit as a grounder to third base! Waseda's Izumi started running the bases and passed... ah... Izumi successfully reached base and put one foot into the abyss.

Waseda has brought back some more!”

"safe!"

As the umpire made a safe call, the entire Waseda bullpen was excited.

Standing on first base, Izu saw his foot on the base of the mountain and shouted to his teammates, encouraging those who came after him to keep working hard. At this time, Arata subconsciously wiped the sweat from his cheeks.

"The next opponent is Yajima, who is also a difficult hitter. Under the current circumstances, as long as the opponent hits a home run, Chiyoda will say goodbye to Koshien forever. Therefore, now Arata

Apart from bad balls with extremely low angles, I only dare to use diagonal straight balls as an offensive method!"

"Whoa!"

Arata took the risk and threw a diagonal straight ball. Unexpectedly, this time his opponent actually made a swing... At this moment, when Yajima dropped the bat and ran to first base, Izumi also quickly

ran to second base...

I saw the hit wild ball rolling forward quickly along the third base line. Ah Qian stumbled all the way to pick up the ball from the ground and passed it to second base with all his strength.

"Crack!"

Almost at the same time that Izumi started to slide, his teammates on the second level jumped high on the base bag, and then steadily caught the pass from Ken.

"out!"

…

"Block! Chiyoda's second baseman Inoue shut out Waseda's Izumi... What a wonderful shutout! Now Chiyoda gets two outs!"

…

"Saigao!"

There was another burst of joy in Chiyoda's seat. Kato Aya dropped the towel and jumped up happily. Even Supervisor Ushijima clenched his fists and waved them to the sky with great force.

With a wonderful block, Waseda was now closer to death! However, his opponent obviously hadn't given up yet. While Chiyoda was bursting with joy, Shintaro Kiyomiya, who had been practicing his swing since I don't know when, suddenly

He has already arrived at the supervisor's side, waiting for the final instructions before going on stage.
Chapter completed!