Diamond Ace: Monster Slayer

Chapter 163 Big Stars
After two days of rest, Koshien welcomed the match against Seidou High School again.

In the past two days, the players of Qingdao High School did not do too much intense training, and most of them were resting and recuperating.

Of course, Zhou Hui will not sit idle.

He will do additional training after the training arranged by Coach Kataoka is completed, but of course the intensity will not be too high.

After all, this is a critical period for Qingdao High School to prepare for the game, and consuming too much physical energy is not a good thing for them.

On the first day after the competition, Zhou Hui knew his opponent for the third round.

Yokohama Kohoku!

So after the training, he kept watching video tapes of Yokohama Kohoku.

Yokohama Kohoku is a school from Yokohama. As a national powerhouse and a famous school in Kanto, Yokohama Kohoku has never been a "soft persimmon".

In the Kanto Conference matches, Yokohama Kohoku often puts pressure on Seidou High School.

They are not someone that Qingdao High School can easily defeat.

This time, they met at Koshien.

At the hotel entrance, the students from Qingdao High School were already standing in a row with their backpacks on.

This time they have to go to the stadium three hours in advance.

This meant that at just six o'clock, when the sun had just come out, they were already standing and ready to set off for Hanshin Tigers Stadium.

The original time was not so early.

Why so early suddenly?

Director Kataoka received a message from the Koshien Organizing Committee yesterday.

They set up a pre-match press conference for Seidou High School, so several outstanding players from Seidou High School needed to be interviewed before the game.

Pre-match press conferences at Koshien are not common, most of them are post-match press conferences after the game.

Seidou High School is naturally one of the outstanding ones because they were invited to attend the pre-match press conference.

This time the media interviewed five people.

Zhou Hui is one of them.

Akira Fōgaya and Sawamura are also within this range.

The only ones left are Toru Masuko and Yuki.

There were five interview spots, and three were occupied by freshmen from Qingdao High School.

The gains made by Qingdao High School's first-year students this time were quite good.

There are quite a few big stars in Qingdao High School now.

"I'm so sleepy. Do we have to go to the stadium so early?"

Kuramochi yawned and said with great dissatisfaction.

This pre-match press conference had nothing to do with him and he didn't want to go at all.

In addition, he had the opportunity to be interviewed by Sawamura, which made him feel uneasy and he didn't want to go anymore.

Why can this guy get the opportunity to be interviewed but I don’t?

Sawamura has been very excited since he learned that he would be interviewed early in the morning.

"Xiao Huihui, Xiao Huihui, listen to the words I recited, are they correct?"

Sawamura handed a piece of paper to Sawamura, on which were densely written interview words and the content of the answers.

This guy even thought of his answers for the interview.

"Are you kidding me? The main purpose of an interview is improvisation. What's the point of using these words?"

Zhou Hui looked at the paper in front of him with a somewhat amusing and helpless look.

Sawamura came from the countryside and had never experienced any formal interviews.

This time, when he heard about the interview, he didn’t even sleep yesterday.

It really feels like a country person moving to the city.

But this is not a mockery of Sawamura, it just means that he has some freshness about unknown things.

"You kid, you're showing off so early in the morning, are you going to stop?"

Kuramochi obviously couldn't help it.

He is very envious of Sawamura's popularity, but there is nothing he can do. He can only use his "special status" as a senior to give Sawamura some "love and care". Kuramochi goes up and locks his throat with an "invincible scissor kick" to control Sawamura, making Sawamura groan.

Since coming to Seidou High School, Kuramochi has been one of the people who bullied Sawamura the most.

"Ahem, ahem, Kuramochi-senpai, please let me go quickly. I can't breathe."

"So what? Look at me as I continue to increase my strength!"

Kuramochi grinned and continued to increase his strength.

Kuramochi's anger had been building up for the entire morning, and he definitely wanted to let it out.

Shortly after Qingdao High School came out, the hotel security also came out.

There were about twenty security guards, and they stood in groups of ten on both sides of Qingdao High School.

It looks like a celebrity traveling, surrounded by bodyguards.

“Isn’t that a bit too exaggerated?”

Seeing the posture of this group of security guards, Zhou Hui scratched his head.

Are they really that famous?
Maybe the players in the major leagues don’t receive such treatment.

They are just a team in the second round of Koshien. If they really make it to the finals, will all the top bodyguards in the world come?

Of course, this is a bit of an exaggeration.

Zhou Hui underestimated his own popularity, and also underestimated the popularity of Qingdao High School.

As soon as they stood here, the fans seemed to smell their scent, and many fans came from different corners at six o'clock in the morning.

This is not the treatment a high school team should receive at all.

Seidou High School is now one of the most popular teams in Koshien, they are the "darlings" of Koshien.

There are very few people who don't like Qingdao High School.

The reason is that their games are really entertaining to watch.

Whether it is Zhou Hui or Fōgō Akira, they are the most eye-catching parts of Qingdao High School.

Fōgatsu Akira's heroic ball speed made it difficult for his opponent to catch his breath.

Not to mention Zhou Hui.

He was the monster of the first grade and the one who led the Koshien Strike Storm.

As the strongest player in Koshien, he received endless cheers when he took the court, as if the whole world liked Zhou Hui.

His batting average is still 100%, and many viewers are waiting for the birth of the Koshien miracle.

That is, Qingdao High School won the championship, and Zhou Hui always had a 10% batting average!
This is also the goal that Zhou Hui has been working towards.

The second reason is the geographical location of Qingdao High School.

Located in western Tokyo, a large city on the island nation.

West Tokyo is so big and its economy is so developed, so naturally there are a lot of fans.

In addition, the story of Qingdao High School is so inspiring that it has accumulated a lot of fans.

Many people rushed to Hyogo from West Tokyo just to witness the style of Seidou High School.

"Qingdao! Qingdao! Qingdao!"

"Zhou Hui, hit another home run in the next game!"

"Qingdao is with us!"

“I must win this time!”

"Furiya, let's continue the strikeout feast!"

"Coach Kataoka, thank you for your help this time. You must lead Qingdao to the top of the country!"

There are more and more fans of Qingdao High School, and the security guards can hardly stop them.

The players of Qingdao High School also felt a feeling they had never experienced before.

They have many fans, but not so crazy.

This time, they truly felt like big stars!
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(End of this chapter)