[Comprehensive] Kazuya's happy life

Kuroki and Nishio left the middle school baseball field in a daze.

At that time, the crowd on the sidelines was discussing heatedly.

"Unexpectedly, I couldn't win a single goal from the hands of the Uesugi brothers. The legendary ace player Kuroki Takeshi, who is valued by the supervisor of the high school, is not very good."

"Haha, that's right! Uesugi is really strong!"

"You can't say that. It's not that Kuroki is not strong enough, but our ace is too strong-have you seen Uesugi's last shot? That's not what a middle school student should be!"

"Which Uesugi are you talking about?"

"Which... to be correct, it should be both."

"Although, one of them is still a little weaker now."

Tatsuya, who was evaluated as "still a little weak", took off his gloves and wiped his sweat carelessly:

"As expected of the trump card of the high school, really strong."

He almost hit it, the last ball.

Sitting next to him, Kazuya, who was arranging his jersey, stopped when he heard this:

"Brother felt it too?"

That guy, Kuroki, was good at not just pitching, but hitting too.

"I'm looking forward to next year's spring more and more." Tatsuya stretched his waist, his tone eager to try.

"Me too." Kazuya nodded, but then changed the subject: "But before that, it's better to think about this year's National High School Competition? In front of sister, won't brother feel short of breath?"

"Hey, why are you talking about Nishio-senpai again? I'm not interested in girls who already have a date."

"Oh, then who said just now that 'If I want to, it's not impossible to win love with a knife'?"

"...That's a joke, a joke! Why are you so serious, Kazuya..."

"It's my brother who is usually too frivolous. No wonder Xiao Nan hates him."

"...Why are you talking about this topic again, can you still be brothers happily?!"

"Obviously it does for me."

"……Hey!"

The two brothers laughed and chatted and left the court.

The setting sun stretched their distant figures very long.

The summer belonging to the Uesugi brothers has just begun, with... the upcoming national competition.

***

The baseball club of Mingqing Middle School played quite well at the beginning of this year's national competition.

With pitcher Uesugi Kazuya as the core trump card, supplemented by a catcher and a few hitters who are not outstanding, but at least above the standard, the rest, such as outfielders, can be used together. The overall strength of the team can only be said to be above average, but it is the same as the previous two years. With only the strength of the ace pitcher Uesugi, they swept the entire region in the initial stage of the regional preliminaries.

"It's a pity that only the regional competitions can do this."

During the battle between Mingqing and Beigong, Ryoya Asayama, a reporter from "Monthly Baseball" who came to watch the game and collected information by the way, sighed casually while making records in his notebook.

Hideyuki Kanno, who just joined the company this year and was assigned as an assistant under Chaoshan, put down the camera after hearing this:

"Eh? Senior, what does it mean that you can only do this in the regional arena? I think Mingqing is very strong?"

As he said that, he turned his gaze to the scoreboard not far away, which clearly showed the fact that Ming Qing was far ahead with an absolute advantage of 5 to 0.

The game is in the bottom half of the ninth inning.

It is basically impossible for Beigong to reverse the situation under such circumstances.

Although it is not uncommon for Mingqing to score 8-0 or even 10-0 in the regional preliminaries of the National Middle School Baseball Tournament over the years, today Ming Qing had taken a 3-0 lead at the end of the fourth inning. The main pitcher Uesugi was replaced, and the backup pitcher was replaced. In Kanno's view, the current results are enough to show that Mingqing is a very strong team.

After listening to the younger generation's similar analysis, Chaoshan first gave a very positive comment on his eyesight and professional ability. Looking at this humble and polite young man who was generally well-reviewed in the editorial department, he showed a shy and shy expression. With a smile, he changed the topic and talked about some information that was missing in the opponent's analysis——

"Ming Qing just looks strong."

His tone was a little heavy. Obviously, he had followed Ming Qing's head pitcher Uesugi Kazuya for more than two years, so that he, a magazine reporter who should have been absolutely neutral, also expressed respect for that talented and hardworking young man. With a great degree of goodwill and anticipation.

Therefore, regarding Mingqing's future, he has extraordinary worries and worries like he does now.

"Facing a relatively average team like Kitamiya, even without relying on Uesugi, he can still play a decent game like now."

"However, once the opponent's strength is raised a little bit, it will be impossible to gain an advantage without Uesugi not playing."

"As you can see, Uesugi is the kind of player who is very stable and very strong."

"It is said that baseball is not a sport in which a single player can change the entire game. The overall strength of the team is often greater than the individual abilities of the players."

"However, for Ming Qing, this 'law' does not fully apply."

"Mingqing's outstanding and stable performance in the national competitions in the past two years is largely dependent on Uesugi's ability alone. Without Uesugi, it is unknown whether they can pass the regional preliminaries and enter the national finals. "

"And this also led to a result-Uesugi has to play the whole game every time since the regional preliminaries entered the second half."

"If it's Uesugi who has grown up now, it's okay to say, the him in the past two years..."

It's just a twelve or thirteen-year-old child, so what if he is strong?The young man's physical strength is not enough to support him to play the entire game in the most perfect state, so Mingqing unfortunately stopped in the top [-] and top [-] of the country for two consecutive years.

"It's not only because the overall strength of the team itself can't keep up, but Uesugi's upper limit of physical fitness also restricts Mingqing's progress in the national competition."

"If this problem can't be solved, this year's Mingqing will still struggle in the national competition just like the previous two years."

——This is Chaoshan's worry, and it is also his prediction of the future prospects of Mingqing, a newly promoted team that many people are optimistic about.

If there were no accidents, this prediction would still be quite accurate.

Chaoshan's every word and every sentence hit the key point of Ming Qing's shortcomings. When his article was published in "Baseball Monthly", even some of Ming Qing's supporters believed that his analysis was well-founded, and indeed Point out Mingqing's shortcomings.

However, Tatsuya's appearance became the "accident" that broke the rules.

When Mingqing successfully entered the finals, the opponents he encountered began to become stronger and stronger. Finally, one day, in the game, besides Kazuya Uesugi, another pitcher appeared on Mingqing's side.

He has almost exactly the same body shape and face as Uesugi, and even his pitching posture is exactly the same as Uesugi.

It's just that, compared with Uesugi's unpredictable, straight and changing ball path, he seems to be a player who prefers to solve everything with a straight ball.

This point can be seen from the fact that the two have played alternately in the last few games, but the ball paths are not the same.

And after a few games, many people knew the name of this new Mingqing pitcher——

Uesugi Tatsuya.

Uesugi Kazuya's twin brother, who only joined the baseball club last summer, is another talented pitcher of Ming Qing.

Although there is still a gap with his younger brother Kazuya in terms of current strength, but considering the time when he started formal baseball training...

No one could fail to marvel at the natural talent Tatsuya displayed.

The appearance of Tatsuya also completely made up for Ming Qing's hidden shortcomings of "the only pitcher that can be relied on or fear of lack of physical fitness", and has become a strong team that is strong enough to win the national championship.

As a result, this year's National Middle School Baseball Tournament was in full swing under the attention of all parties far beyond the past. The force of the police was also dispatched to maintain order, so there were no accidents.

The result of the final, after nine innings of stalemate and fierce competition, in the end, Ming Qing relied on a beautiful straight ball from the head pitcher Kazuya Uesugi to strike out the opponent's four-bats and won with difficulty 3-2. won the final victory.

The moment he held the championship trophy, the smile on Kazuya's face was particularly relaxed and joyful.

For him, this is not only the championship trophy that he once missed due to an accidental injury and now "lost and regained", but also represents the so-called "general trend". It seems that it can indeed be changed. It needs to be proven feasible to the greatest extent possible.

The possibility of future survival has increased a little bit, and Kazuya is of course happy.

And when the team returned to school with the trophy, the whole community erupted!

In Xiaonan's Nanfeng coffee shop alone, there have been countless celebration banquets.

Some organized by the team themselves, some schools generously paid for the second organization, some Xiaonan’s father Nanfeng’s boss Uncle Junfu paid for it, the participants were uncles and aunts from various families on the street, and there were relatives on both sides of Uesugi’s parents , Xinwu's father's friends and colleagues...

In short, the people rushing to celebrate for Kazuya and Tatsuya have already scheduled the celebration banquet until the end of the summer vacation.

During this period of time, Kazuya and Tatsuya were so celebrated that they almost didn't have time to practice. Every day, the two brothers were in pain and happy together.

This made Kazuya temporarily forget to keep in touch with his friends.

So, when he received Kise's sudden call for help, he was still a little unclear for a while, so——

"What? You said Heizi quit the basketball club?!"

He also frowned deeply on the phone.