Chapter 182: The Baseball(?) Match
Hey, Shun here!
I don't know much about baseball. In fact, I probably know as much as what any layman like me would know about the sport.
You know? Things like, someone will throw the ball and you need to hit it hard, thing.
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(Third Person's POV)
"Yaa, I'm really quite surprised that you girls managed to defeat those school athletes rather easily." Irina said while looking at her students.
She was actually with them when they went to the basketball match. However, since she doesn't know anything about the sport, she didn't interfere with their methods and just quietly watched from the side.
"Uh-huh. You're right, Irina-sensei. Though I got a little worried when Kayano-san suddenly went berserk when she got targeted during the first half. Was it because you got mad because the ones you're defending is much bigger?" Mutsuko asked.
"A-Ah, well… How to explain it… I got so mad seeing those big boobs bounce in front of me so… I couldn't help it."
"Couldn't help it, not! How huge is your animosity against big boobs, you!" Fuwa retorted.
All of the girls laughed at the two's interaction, except for the three clueless ones. Pochi, Tama, and Rokuko were feeling a little left out on their conversation so they decided to have their own conversation.
Just as they were approaching the baseball field, they heard the panicked shout of the announcer.
『I-It's a fair ball! It came to a dead stop right before the line!!!』
"Ah? What's that nodesu?"
"It looks like someone's panicking…" Rokuko commented.
"Panicking~? Waku waku~?"
"Panicking and excited is different, Shirayuki-chan…" Hayami replied to Tama's question.
『Batter number three Isogai Yuuma is safe! Th-The bases are now loaded! It's now loaded!!! No outs and all of the bases are now loaded!!!』
After catching his breath for a few seconds, the announcer continued.
『No matter how I look at it, it seems like the Class 3-E are just lucky. It looks like Shindo's not in his prime condition right now. He must be feeling unwell!』
After the barrage of words that the male announcer threw out, a female announcer interjected.
『Batter number four, pitcher, Shirakami Shun…』 said the female announcer with a rather monotonous voice.
The moment the girls heard the name of the next batter, they immediately became curious so they hastened their steps, going to a position where they can watch the game from the sidelines.
"It's Master [Admin-sensei] nodesu! Is Master [Admin-sensei] going to fight the enemies with that tree trunk nodesu? He can't use sword nanodesu?" Pochi asked while looking at the match with her eyes brimming in curiosity.
Next to her, Tama is also posing the same questions.
"Sword, more deadly than club, nyadesu~?"
"Ah, I heard about why they can't use the sword. It's apparently because you wouldn't be able to swat away the ball that way. It's such a shame…" Rokuko explained to the two kids.
""Ooooh…!!!""
Upon hearing the three girl's conversation, even Irina was a bit surprised. However, then again, these little girls were like her, hired assassins.
She just couldn't get used to how they were talking about deadly weapons so casually. She's used to the older junior high schoolers talking about that sort of thing but, for these three, she just couldn't associate them to an assassin like her no matter how she thinks about it.
Even Pochi, Tama, and Rokuko's classmates couldn't help but show a wry smile at their pretty nonchalant conversation about dangerous weapons.
While they were listening in on the three's conversation though, they didn't take their eyes off of the now rattled pitcher of the enemy team, Shindo. They watched as Shindo got ready to throw his signature pitch, a four seam.
While Shindo was hiding the ball behind him, he looked at Shun who is now ready to bat.
'W-What's with that look!? What's with this Class!? Am I really playing baseball right now!?' Shindo thought as he looked at Shun who is currently smiling slightly at him.
'I will wipe that smile of yours away from your face!'
A few moments later, he threw the ball with all of his might towards Shun. Unfortunately for Shindo, Shun managed to perfectly hit is fastball that was thrown at a speed of 140 kmph, around 87 mph.
*peng*
A sharp noise echoed as the ball began to fly upwards. What's more, this ball didn't just fly far away from the home base but it directly flew out of the field, signifying a home run.
『Ot-to! HOME RUN!!! Batter number five Shirakami Shun just dropped a bomb on his enemy team, scoring a home run! It's an upper decker!』 as if noticing that he was supporting the wrong team, the announcer immediately coughed to clear his throat before trying to continue speaking in a more relaxed and neutral manner.
『Ku-hum. I mean, that was some pretty dog luck coming from Class 3-E. To think that they'd manage to do this. What is happening? The Class 3-E managed to score four points during this first half of the first inning…』
While it was already infuriating to those students who came from the main campus — the so called higher beings — to see Class 3-E get such huge points during the first three batting phases, it was even more infuriating when you see the one who did the home run leisurely walk towards the home plate with the bat resting on his shoulders. The guys felt further insulted when it was a pretty boy who did it.
"Ama-ziing~!" Tama said while looking at the number 4 that appeared on the scoreboard.
"That's my partner for you." Rokuko said while nodding her head sagely, expecting nothing less from her partner.
Meanwhile, Pochi was excitedly flailing her arms everywhere as she shouted.
"Ah!? Did everyone see that nodesu!? Master [Admin-sensei] made the ball disappear nanodesu! So ama-ziing!"
"As expected of Shun-kun."
"W-Well, I guess it is to be expected for someone who could blow away someone who has the same powers as Koro-sensei?" Yada commented.
At her words, her classmates just nodded in agreement, including Okuda and the others.
"Un, un!"
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(Shun's POV)
I wanted to hit that ball farther but I decided to hold back. I might just accidentally break some kind of world record or something and it might go in the way of our assassination, that's why I decided to hold back.
As I was walking back to our stand, I saw a tall, redheaded, gloomy looking adult guy enter inside the coaching stand of the other team.
"This guy…"
As I walked towards our own stand, I came across our next batter, Maehara-san.
"Hey, Maehara-san. Watch out. I think someone just came to interfere at our game." Our players have been bunting the ball for a while and Maehara-san is one of those guys who used and will be using this technique.
The only player who could reliably hit the ball other than me is probably Sugino-san. All of the people here are our enemies so I'm pretty sure they'll rely on some underhanded means to stop us from winning.
If our main strategy is bunting, I have a pretty good idea as to what they will be doing…
"Eh? A-Ah, sure dude."
"Oh, right. Are you gonna practice hitting the ball using a normal hitting technique? Our luck with the bunting might run out soon so I think it will be good if you could get the feel for it now."
Aside from the bunting technique that Koro-sensei taught them, we also taught them the normal hitting technique. The reason why the first three guys didn't use it is because we wanted to use it while we can.
"Ou, got it man." Maehara-san said before waving his hands at me and proceeding to walk towards the home plate.
『Batter number five, second baseman, Maehara Hiroto…』 after the female voice announced that, the male announcer resumed talking once again.
『Now, the game resumes! What will we be witnessing this time! W-What in the world is this!? All of the defending players are on the infield! I've never seen a defense be done like this!』
The moment before Maehara-san started to bat, something very weird happened. The players from the Baseball Club closed in on Maehara-san, a bit too close actually, with all of them now positioned on the infield.
I thought so…
They're bending the rules a bit now, huh. Well, the umpire is on their side, after all.
Though, I wonder what would happen if someone hit the ball and they somehow get hit by it on the face or something?
As the game resumed, Maehara-san went out with a Fly Out after missing the mark three times. Well, he did hit the ball one time but it was his last hit and he just managed to kind of scrape the bottom of the ball, making it fly upwards with a weak forward momentum.
After that, our right fielder(RF) Okajima-san came out next, then our third baseman(3B) Sugaya Sousuke, who both got out because they are yet to nail that timing on hitting the fastball of Shindo-san.
"Strike three! Batter out!" The umpire shouted.
"Three outs! Switch!"
『Three outs! Pitcher Shindo is now back to his usual form! Is this the start of their comeback!?』
With our third batter going out, it was time for us to go on the defensive side. Eh, I will be pitching now.
At first, it was decided that Sugino-san will be pitching but, Koro-sensei suggested that I should go as the pitcher first before switching with Sugino-san halfway through so that he could get his turn. I understand what he's trying to do.
The Baseball Club only knew that Sugino-san always throws a fastball but now, I think he's pretty good with the curve balls. I will primarily be throwing fastballs myself so having Sugino-san switch in for me would be a good play in my opinion if we want to throw off the enemy.
It's like when you throw a fastball constantly and then you would throw a 77 mph change up in between.
『Batter number one, left fielder, Hashimoto…』
Looking at this guy in front of me, I went into a throwing position before releasing a 95 mph four seam. With a swoosh, the ball flew on a straight line, straight towards the hand of Nagisa-san.
"Strike one!" The umpire shouted.
Seeing the surprised expression of the batter, I couldn't help but smile at him in a condescending manner. I couldn't help it.
Even the teachers and the principal are ganging up on us just because they wanted to stroke the ego of their students. This kind of teaching method is really rubbing me the wrong way.
"You guys think you could make a comeback after blatantly cheating in front of me? I'll show you what a real fast ball is like…"
What? You're actually getting frustrated because you can't hit my pitch? Or is it because you're getting frustrated at yourself for not hitting it? Or… Is it both?
Wonder what these higher than thou people would feel when they lose with a score of zero… I'm looking forward to it.
"Well, here's another pitch for you!" I said while throwing a 105 mph
*swoosh*
*swish*
Yet another miss for the batter.
『Wh-What in the world… Pitcher Shirakami he… He's pitching fastballs that are far beyond the speed that Pitcher Shindo could throw! Unbelievable!』
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※~To be continued~※
Author's Remarks:
※ I had to rewatch Episode 12 of Season 1 for like 6 times to get the name of the players down, as well as the line up XD. By the way, I essentially know nothing about baseball until this day so, yeah. You get what I mean?
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