CH 48

Wednesday, it was the beginning of the tournament.

There weren’t any classes scheduled today. It was just going to be the tourney from morning till the afternoon.

Our grade divides us into 8 separate classes, so it would take quite some time to go for a round-robin style tournament. [TLN: A tournament-style where each class would meet the other class at least once and eliminate them accordingly.] 

Which is why we have no classes today and dedicate the entire day to the tournament instead.

For students who dislike classes and love sports. It’s like a dream come true.

In other words, it would be heaven for someone like Yuuichi. Who is… not the brightest generally but pretty good at sports.

“Hmm? Tsukasa. Did you just make fun of me?”

“Did you and Tojoin-san learn telepathy together when you were young?”

“No, we didn’t, and you practically admitted that you made fun of me just now didn’t you?!”

“Oh look, it’s our turn now, we better get ready for the exercise.”

“You’re too good at deception.”

We had already changed into our gym clothes at school and were out on the field.

The boys will play baseball, so the game is held outside on the school grounds.

The schoolyard is quite large, so two games were being held simultaneously.

Now that the previous game is over, it’s our turn.

In a real baseball game, you’d probably play until the bottom of the ninth inning, but if you spent that much time on one ball game, it would take an awful lot of time to progress. [TLN: Spynine I’m baseball illiterate help!]

That’s why it seemed to take about thirty minutes to finish a whole game here.

“Tsukasa, we’re going to win this!”

“Yeah, well, I think we’ll be okay with you alone.”

“What? Are you not motivated?”

“No, you’re just too strong.”

We’ve already finished a game a while ago.

It was total domination from our side.

Most of it was because of Yuuichi Shigemoto.

He was the one pitching. His pitching speed is around a high 140 kilometers.

Which is much higher than the high school aces present here.

He can’t even seem to throw a curveball properly but his speed is more than enough for an amateur.

If you were an amateur who had never played baseball before in your life, you would absolutely hate standing near the batter’s box.

He was throwing the ball with his all at a match with tons of amateurs.

A ball speed in the high 140s would be just barely hittable even for a professional baseball player.

Especially since our high school doesn’t even have a strong baseball team, there are really not many people who can hit his throw.

The level of pity I have for the people on the other team who have to hit his balls is a bit much…

“Shigemoto! Hisamura!”

As I was waiting for the next match to start, I heard a voice calling us from behind.

We turned to see Fujise approaching us whilst waving her hand. Next to her was Sei-chan.

It was the tournament day so of course, they would be in gym clothes too.

“Are you guys about to start soon?”

Fujise asked, to which Yuuichi answered.

“Ahh, we’re about to start in a bit. Have the girls finished their basketball game yet?”

“Yeah, we’re done with ours.”

“Did you win?”

“We won! Well, it was mostly thanks to Sei-chan though.”

Fujise then turned to Sei-chan.

Sei turned away, looking embarrassed at being praised.

“No, well, I just did my best.”

“Fufu, that’s right. Sei-chan shot quite a lot of the shots.”

Sei-chan was a little embarrassed but she had given it her all, her cheeks were blushing, it was very cute.

I mean, this is the first time I’ve seen Sei-chan in her gym clothes from such a close distance.

It was a white gym uniform with short sleeves and short pants, an unpretentious outfit to say the least, but why did I think it was so cute when Sei-chan was the one wearing it?

Also… it’s bothering me a little that the clothes emphasize the breasts so much. It was bothering me as a man.

Since the gym clothes are pretty thin, it would be noticeable if you were pretty big over… there.

In contrast… yeah. I mean, I knew it from the original novel, but her ‘that’ part is pretty modest. [ED: did we go from a manga to a novel…?]

“Hisamura-kun, don’t you think you’re being pretty rude?”

“No, not at all, Fujise-sama.” [TLN: For those unaware the -sama honorific is extremely respectful and used to address people of higher status than you ]

Wait a minute, can they all use telepathy or something?

I don’t think there was a setting where everyone could use telepathy according to the original series.

But that was my fault, so I should be sorry.

“Yuuichi, isn’t your match next?”

“Ah, Kaori.”

As we were talking, Tojoin-san also arrived.

“I came here to support Yuuichi rather than his class.”

“Thank you, but are you sure? We will be facing your class in the next match.”

“I don’t hold enough feelings for the boys in my class to keep me from supporting the one I love.”

“Y-Yeah…”

Yuuichi was a little embarrassed to hear that straightforwardly but it seems that the boys in Tojoin-san also heard her comment just now and got demoralized. 

Yeah, I know, it’s depressing to have such a beautiful woman tell you that you’re not worthy of her support.

“Muu… Shi-Shigemoto-kun, I’m rooting for you too!”

“A-Ahh, thank you, Fujise.”

As if she was trying to counter her, Fujise also sent some words of support to Shigemoto.

“Curses, That bastard was not only cheered on by our class madonna but also by Fujise-san.”

“I won’t forgive you. I WON’T FORGIVE YOU!”

“I’m gonna beat the shit out of you!”

The morale of the opposing team has gone up in the opposite direction due to Fujise-san.

Well, as a high school boy, if a guy had some cute girls cheering for him this much, he would definitely be resented a lot.

“Whoa, looks like the game is about to start.”

As Yuuichi had said, the student who was refereeing blew his whistle and shouted, “The class for the next game must assemble quickly.”

“I’m off then! Give me some support!”

“On the contrary, I’ll cheer for you. I won’t allow you to lose, Yuuichi.”

“Good luck, Shigemoto-kun!”

Yuichi seemed to get into the spirit and said, “Okay!” and ran towards the person who was calling the assembly.

I don’t think I’ll lose with him around, so I’ll just go with the flow.

“Hisamura.”

“Hmm? What’s up, Sei-cha-”

I nearly called her Sei-chan out loud but thankfully no one else was around, but I didn’t really stop because I was suddenly aware of something else entirely.

When I turned around, I saw Sei’s face up close to mine, and I stopped speaking because it immediately took my breath away.

We were so close that if I were to move just a little closer our noses would have touched.

I could sense that she was a little confused, as she probably didn’t expect to be this close to me, but at that distance, Sei-chan continued her words.

“I’m rooting for you… Good luck.”

She whispers these words to me while we are looking at each other very closely.

Then, Sei-chan instantly pulled her face away from mine at a great speed, with her face turning bright red.

I looked over at her, feeling my body heat rise up as I wobbled my way over to where Yuuichi and the others were gathered.

Luckily, none of the boys seemed to see me and Sei-chan face to face just now, so they didn’t know why I was wobbling around so weirdly.

“Tsukasa! Something bad happened! I got banned for pitching because I was too strong.”

“Yuuichi…”

“What? What’s wrong with you? And why is your face red? What happened?”

“I’ll pitch.”

“Eh? You can pitch?”

“I used to do it in elementary school. I think my ball speed is much slower than yours, though.”

“Ohh, Yeah! I was wondering who will pitch! Tsukasa! Go for it!”

“YEAHHHHHHHHHHH! WE’LL WIN THIS THINGGGGGGG!!”

“W-Whoaa! You’re suddenly fired up!”

“Of course, you idiot! I’ll do it for all of us!”

“Wait a minute Tsukasa, are you really that kind of a character?”

I’m not staying in character? I don’t care about that!

There’s no way I’m not going to get serious after hearing something like that from Sei-chan!

I’LL GIVE IT EVERYTHING I GOT!