Ace of Diamonds: The Last Piece of the Puzzle

The sky that had been gloomy for a few days finally cleared up today. The air in the morning was particularly fresh and the sun was shining brightly!

Everyone on Qingdao's training ground has finished warm-up training and started daily training programs. The players on the court are in full swing.

The third-year seniors have also regained their energy. Because they received a letter of challenge from their juniors yesterday, they were particularly energetic during batting training today, which led the entire Qingdao players to train even harder!

On the training ground, Chunsang yelled: "Okay, come over here!"

The pitcher who fed the ball sighed helplessly: "Senior Ah Chun's fighting spirit is too high!"

"Yo Xi!" Chun Sang thought to herself, I'll hit, I'll hit, I'll fight as hard as I can, but my juniors actually questioned our ability to attack! Bastard Kurosawa, I will definitely beat you to death this afternoon...

"Look at me!" he yelled and hit the ball hard.

"Fly! Fly to that far away place!" Khan! It's just a fly ball from third base! ~(ˉ▽ˉ~)

"Ah Philosopher's striking posture has been in place for ten minutes!" Yuuki was practicing meditation and striking, exuding amazing momentum!

"Woooo!"

He swung the bat fiercely, and the sound of the wind caused by the bat frightened the two people watching and also attracted cheers.

"Hey! What is this?!"

"The aura of captain and senior Ah Chun is just different!"

"Yes! Let's cheer up and shout out!"

At this time, there were warm cheers from the other side of the stadium!

"Wow w(°o°)w Kurosawa hit the ball over the wall again!"

"Yeah! He's in great shape today! He's always hitting either home runs or long hits!"

"That's right! Whether it's 140 or 150 ball speed, I just saw him adjust the ball speed to 160!"

"Yes, that's right! But by the way, he was extra active today! He also worked extra hard on defense!"

"I also want to say that today he is completely different from usual. In the past, he should have finished training and rested!"

"Eh?! Haven't you heard about it? I heard that yesterday he asked the supervisor to feed the seniors balls, and today he is going to have a pitching contact with the members of the first army!" the player next to him broke the news.

"Hey! What time, what time!"

"It seems to be quite late in the afternoon! Let's take a look together then!"

"Okay, okay, I must come and watch in the afternoon. Now let's go to practice quickly! My blood is boiling when I see it!"

"Let's go!"

...

By the time Sawamura and Fangtani completed the training tasks on the menu, the sun was almost setting. However, in order to avoid leaking the information about Kurosawa's pitching, Coach Kataoka arranged this pitching practice relatively late, and the location was also at the B court where outsiders cannot visit!

As soon as the two of them finished training, they immediately followed Chris to the B playground. Furigu, Kurosawa's fanboy, had already flown there, and he was walking very fast at this time!

"Fang Gu is so anxious! Hahaha, it seems you are looking forward to it!" Sawamura laughed as he looked at Fang Gu who kept speeding up.

"Humph!"

"Sawamura, don't you want to see it! Don't you want to see Kurosawa's true strength?!" Chris next to him joked, causing the two of them to speed up again.

"We can still catch up with the second half now, so we don't have to be in such a hurry!" Chris said helplessly as he watched the two people speeding up again and again, and continued walking leisurely.

Although Chris was very curious about the results of the pitching, he had never seen Kurosawa feeding the first army before. He really couldn't imagine any big changes for Kurosawa, who only knew how to throw straight balls.

"We are coming to Haru Market!" Sawamura found the pink-haired classmate from all the way in the crowd, "Isn't it over yet? How did Kurosawa-senpai's vote go?!"

Kominato Haruichi was completely immersed in this shooting confrontation, and it wasn't until Sawamura came up behind him and patted his shoulder that he came back to his senses.

"Ah! Sawamura, you're here!" Haruichi said a perfunctory greeting and then turned his attention to the game.

"Ah! It's so exciting! How's Kurosawa-senpai doing!" Sawamura looked at Koharu and asked curiously.

"Kurosawa-senpai is really strong! So far, none of the seniors from the First Army have scored a hit! And all of them have been determined by strikes!" Kominato said with excitement, "Although it's not the seniors. They didn’t hit the ball, but Kurosawa-senpai asked them to hit it on purpose!”

"No way! What do you mean?! Σ(っ°Д°;)っ" Both cast the same shocked expression.

"Because the ball magically returned to the senior's hands! You see it looks like this!" Kominato Haruichi pointed to the court.

The flying ball that Isashiki-kun hit was flying into the sky. After flying for a certain distance, it fell straight down as if it had encountered some resistance. Kurosawa raised his arm slightly and easily confiscated it.

"Ah! Kurosawa, you are so good! You always use this trick against me!" Isashiki-kun said unhappily.

"Ah! What's wrong?" Sawamura looked at Senior Achun's darkened face curiously.

"This! Because this is the third time that Ashun-senpai has been dealt with like this. Kurosawa-senpai does not always use this method to deal with his opponents. Some seniors also use strikeouts! Such a one-goal solution will be solved immediately. Out! Of course the senior is not happy!"?(ˊwˋ*)?

"Wow⊙w⊙" Shuang Tiao looked at Kurosawa with envy, if only he could control the ball like this!

"Zhe, hit this kid's ball hard!" Isashiki-kun said in displeasure.

Kurosawa looked at Yuuki in front of him who was in a striking position and felt a lot of pressure. After all, this was already the third round. With his current strength, he must have used all his strength to deal with the seniors. Although the physical exertion was okay, his brain power and fingers were not. It has been a bit overused. Although I only threw one ball a few times, it was nearly seventy balls.

Different from the official game where the catcher gives signals to the pitcher, this time it is just a pitching practice without a catcher, so Kurosawa himself thinks about the ball distribution and chooses the appropriate spin speed to solve the first team players.

"call out"

"bang"

On the first pitch, Kurosawa directly threw a 150-speed fastball, but the speed seemed to be 155. After swinging the baseball, Zhezuo belatedly entered the glove.

"call out"

"bang"

On the second pitch, Kurosawa threw a fastball of 155 for the first time. It was not an illusion ball, but because the impression of the ball just now was still in his mind, Zheyu didn't have time to swing the bat.

"call out"

"bang"

I saw the ball flying over, but as it approached home plate, it accelerated twice as if it had an accelerator installed. The team's swing had already entered home plate before it passed the halfway point.

The audience was silent for a moment, and then cheered instantly!

"Wow! What kind of speed ball was that just now? It accelerated twice! Σ(っ°Д°;)っ"

"Hey, Miyuki, why didn't you tell us that Kurosawa guy knows this kind of ball!" Isashiki bared his teeth.

"Hahaha! You couldn't control the ball when you pitched it to me last time, so I didn't say anything! Who knew I could control it so quickly╮(╯▽╰)╭" Miyuki was also shocked. How long has passed! Obviously it was completely unusable last time! This ball-handling talent is a bit too much!

"Miyuki, you are really good as a catcher! Your pitcher has evolved so much that you don't even know it!" Liangsang said with a smile beside him.

"Hahaha!" Miyuki could only laugh.

"Yuki is three out, replace Masuko!" Coach Kataoka said.

...

The third game will be over soon! Coach Kataoka looked at Kurosawa who was going down to drink water and the Ichijun players who were still eager to try out, and said: "It's okay Kurosawa, I think your ability and determination have been fully demonstrated in the shooting practice just now. It’s out! Now focus on feeding them balls! Don’t let their burning interest be suppressed by you!”

"Yes!" Kurosawa responded calmly.

Coach Kataoka took Rei Takashima and Chris back to the office. On the way, Chris asked: "Supervisor, how could you think of letting Kurosawa and Ichijun practice shooting at this time?! Although it seems to be working well now!"

"Well! The summer competition is coming soon, but everyone in the first army can't cheer up because of the Tanba incident. I asked Isashiki and Yuuki to go into the bullpen to practice pitching to help them calm down as soon as possible! I didn't expect Kurosawa to be the first Come over here and make this request to me!" Kataoka said calmly.

After hearing this, Chris immediately guessed the whole story, and complained in his heart that this was definitely because that guy Miyuki led Kurosawa to think wrong. Kurosawa is not an impulsive person at all.

Takashima Rei was shocked and said: "But this time Kurosawa-san gave us a perfect answer. Although Kurosawa-san also defeated Inami's second army before, there was still a clear gap between him and the first army. . We also don’t have a reference object for Kurosawa-san’s true strength, and this shooting practice has made up for this very well.”

"In this way, we can make up for the impact of Tanba's absence. We can also better prepare our troops for the next summer competition and be more confident in dealing with other schools!" Rei Takashima thought.

"Well! Chris, you have worked hard during this period. We need to step up the training of the two first-year pitchers!" Kataoka said to Chris with a slight tilt of his head.

"I understand the supervision, and I will do my best to help them!" Chris agreed with a smile, thinking of the training they just had, the two of them were like sponges, absorbing baseball knowledge quickly and progressing very quickly!

After that day, the Qingdao Baseball Club fell into a moment of involution again. The players' training time continued to lengthen, and everyone worked harder and continued to improve.