My girlfriend is a bad lady

"…The one who was out was the batter from before! You bastard!" Kunii Osamu yelled, "As long as I'm here, they can't even get to first base!"

"I see." Toru Watanabe turned and walked back to the pitcher's mound.

"The place where Kunii is standing is called first base. Just now the batter hit the ball and ran there immediately... Will he score when he reaches first base? Or... forget it."

There's no need to think about the rules when it comes to just this one game.

"What we should do now..." Watanabe Toru looked at the second batter of Aoyama High School.

Make the opponent miss the ball.

The second batter is in position, the catcher is crouching, and the umpire behind the catcher is paying full attention.

"How can I make the opponent miss the target?" Watanabe Toru glanced at the audience again, thinking idly.

"For the first pitch, the batter didn't swing on purpose to observe the path of the ball. For the second pitch, he hit it directly and almost got a single. Watanabe-kun is very dangerous." Mrs. Kujo, Toru Watanabe's first baseball fan, said happily.

"Shame on you." Kujo Miki was unhappy and decided to punish him at night.

Kiyono Rin yawned gracefully.

The temperature was neither hot nor cold, there was no wind, and the cheerleaders on both sides kept shouting.

"You missed the target... because the ball was too slow? Then try hitting it faster." Watanabe Toru raised his legs and assumed a standard stance.

The second batter, Aoyama, held the bat with both hands and stared at Toru Watanabe.

The first batter told him that the pitcher who came from nowhere just threw two fastballs in the middle of the strike zone.

There is no better ball to play.

The question is, the opposing defense is very strong, can he get to first base?

No, I run very fast. If I hit the ball well enough, I might even get to second base...

"Strike!" the referee shouted.

Qingshan's second batter: "..."

Is the ball speed normal? Was it 140 km/h just now? It must be!

"Beautiful!" The catcher threw the ball back.

Toru Watanabe caught the ball thrown back by the catcher.

"The speed of the ball just now should be fine... No, the previous batter didn't take the first swing either, and his expression was just as calm."

'Considering the possibility that not swinging the first bat was a tactic, it would be safer to hit the second pitch a little harder.'

Toru Watanabe raised his legs, swung his arms, and threw the ball.

The sound of harsh wind.

At that moment, the catcher, who had been facing high-speed pitches for many years, had no courage or not. The ball rushing towards him like a cannonball made him instinctively close his eyes.

"It's over! Mistake!"

As the catcher had the thought, he felt a drilling force coming from the baseball glove in his left hand that seemed to pierce through his palm!

"Two strike!" the referee shouted.

"Nice Ball!" With his left hand slightly numb, the catcher shouted excitedly and threw the ball back to Toru Watanabe with all his might.

Qingshan's second batter: "..."

Toru Watanabe caught the ball easily, feeling the same confusion as the batter.

The catcher suddenly spoke English? Baseball rules?

So it seems that baseball originated in the United States.

"This pitch speed seems to be enough to deal with Aoyama." Looking at the nervous expression of the second batter, Watanabe Toru confirmed.

Lift your legs and throw the ball.

"Strikeout! Batter out!"

Following the referee's voice, the second batter walked back to the Qingshan High School coaching booth with his bat and a look of doubt on his face.

Toru Watanabe caught the ball thrown by the catcher, found a comfortable foothold on the pitcher's mound, and looked towards the audience.

The two young ladies are safe, Madam...

"Watanabe! Watanabe!" When did she join Kamikawa's cheerleading team?

Cheerleading?

Watanabe Toru finally remembered that there was such a group of people. He looked over there, then immediately looked away.

Although the skirt is short, it is all safety pants like shorts.

"If this continues, baseball will lose its charm sooner or later." Watanabe Toru looked at the third batter of Aoyama High School.

As he was about to get in position to throw the ball, the catcher's gloved hand suddenly began making meaningless movements in his crotch.

Watanabe Toru: “…”

One can guess that it's a secret code, but secret codes are something that are not meant to be easily understood by outsiders.

"Do you understand?" The catcher gave him a simple and understandable look and shifted his position slightly.

“……” Watanabe Toru shook his head.

The catcher paused in his movement, then quickly made another movement to his crotch.

Without waiting for him to finish his gesture, Watanabe Toru just shook his head.

If you don’t understand, you don’t understand.

Even if he is number one in the country, he cannot understand what the other party is expressing.

“…”The catcher returned to the starting position and placed his glove right in the middle of the strike zone.

Toru Watanabe raised his leg and threw the ball.

The ear-piercing wind sounded again.

Because of the experience just now, although the catcher didn't know how good Watanabe Toru was at controlling the ball, he was at least sure that he had a certain ability to control the ball and didn't have to worry about it hitting him.

He opened his eyes and watched the ball, which, based on his years of catching ball experience, was estimated to be at a speed of almost 160km/h, fall into the holster like a cannonball.

The slight numbness in the palms increased.

"Strike!" the referee shouted.

'The speed of the two balls is almost the same...' The catcher threw the ball back into the holster.

"Baseball seems a bit boring." Thinking this, Watanabe Toru mechanically threw the second pitch.

"Two strikes!"

The catcher threw the ball back, and it was Toru Watanabe's third pitch with the same speed.

"Strike out! Three outs! Attack and defense switch!"

"Watanabe! Watanabe!"

After shouting, they sang the school song happily in unison.

"The Yotsuya hills, the school building where crows fly over, our alma mater, Kamikawa!"

On the large scoreboard in the distance, Aoyama Gakuin's score in the second half was zero.

"The game ends when three batters are out." Watanabe Toru thought about the baseball rules, which he was not sure if they were right or wrong, and walked towards the coaching booth.

"Watanabe!" Kunii Osamu trotted over, "You know how powerful I am, right? During training, I hit all your balls away!"

"Aoyama High School is too weak." Toru Watanabe took off his gloves.

"That's also the reason. I can hit a straight ball like yours no matter how fast it is!"

"I only play straight balls."

The catcher, who was about to come up to talk, closed his open mouth when he heard these words.

After the Kamikawa cheerleaders finished singing the school song, they started shouting again: "Watanabe! Come on! Kamikawa! First!"

The other school was not to be outdone: "Qingshan! Come on!"

During the short break, the cheerleading teams of both teams cheered for each other across the fan-shaped stadium.

The cheering was so loud that the empty stadium that could seat 30,000 people was filled with their voices.

"Watanabe-kun!" The female manager came over with a towel and water. "Great! We completely suppressed the opponent's batting line!"

"Good luck." said Toru Watanabe.

"It's not luck! The ball was going really, really fast! Oh, here, a towel and some water!"

"Thank you. I'm not thirsty and I'm not sweating."

"Then I'll give you a massage! Your arms need to be relaxed in time after continuous high-speed throwing!"

"Thank you, I'm not tired at all."

"You're welcome..."

"Yukiko," Kunii Shuu-shu rubbed his arm, "Give me a massage, it hurts."

Kobayashi Yukiko glared at him with her hands on her hips: "You didn't do anything! Watanabe-kun struck out three batters by himself!"

"I... the second ball was clearly hit out..."

"Was it harder than Watanabe? He only caught one ball! But Watanabe threw three balls!" Yukiko Kobayashi looked down at Kunii Osamu.

"……No."

When the second row was arguing, Kamikawa's first batter had already walked onto the field.

The coach looked at the batter's box and asked the catcher, "How's it going?"

"It's going very fast," the catcher replied.

“Can he play?”

The catcher glanced at the batter on the field, and it was Kamikawa's ace pitcher Uchida.

Uchida's pitching speed is not as good as Watanabe's, but it is not slow either. The highest record is 150km/h. In Koshien, he may not be the fastest, but he is definitely the top pitcher and has the ability to win the championship.

In addition, with a batting line-up consisting of strong hitters such as Kunii Osamu, everyone's goal this year is to win the championship.

This is also the reason why the baseball team dared to promise that "if we fail to make it to the finals of Koshien, we will kick everyone out of their seats at the school gate."

Watanabe Toru is the school's star figure. His club is the legendary Human Observation Club, which belongs to the cultural club. He has only been seen a few times on the playground.

Even if the ball is very fast, it will only go straight... After all, is the ball really 160km/h?

With that kind of monster-level pitching speed, he could definitely dominate the major leagues in the United States!

Now that he has calmed down and thought about it carefully, perhaps it was simply because he was facing a very fast high-speed ball that he had an illusion.

He himself has never caught a ball at 160km/h.

Not to mention Kamikawa's pitching speed, such a pitching speed only appeared a few times in Koshien.

Every time it would draw thunderous applause, make the commentators spit, and have an entire page of the newspaper printed with the pitcher's photo.

Watanabe Toru, who had never trained before, could throw a ball like this? Impossible!

As long as nothing unexpected happens this year, their team will have no problem reaching the semi-finals.

The finals require a little bit of luck, and the championship requires a little bit of luck. In this case, there is no need to take the risk of letting Toru Watanabe, who never trains, play.

And even if Uchida is very good, he must cooperate with his catcher, who is of the same mind as him, to bring out his true strength.

Toru Watanabe is a guy who can only throw straight balls, and only in the middle of the strike zone... This makes him, as a catcher, almost like a robot. No, a robot.

What’s the point of winning like that?

However, the numbness in my left hand still remains...

In order to win and for the honor of Shenchuan, he is willing to squat and not move!

Everything for Kamikawa! Everything for dominating Koshien!

"Coach, I think he..."

“Watanabe! Watanabe! Ah——!!!”