[Comprehensive] Kazuya's happy life

After entering November, the weather gradually began to turn cold.

The baseball department has newly changed a batch of winter sports uniforms, which are warm and light to wear, which not only keeps warm but also ensures that it will not affect the usual training to the greatest extent.

However, due to the cold weather, their training menu has undergone considerable changes. The batting and pitching training on the court has been shortened by one-third. Correspondingly, the daily long-distance running task has increased by three kilometers. Tatsuya had to lean on Kazuya for a long time to "scratch his strength"—although he was no longer out of breath and exhausted from running the extra three kilometers.

But today Tatsuya seems to be a little out of shape. When he was doing stretching exercises on the sidelines, he saw him throw several bad balls in a row. He was protested loudly by Kotaro on the opposite side, but he didn't choke back as usual, but slightly He kicked the pitcher irritably, with a full "I have something on my mind" look.

Kazuya touched his chin thoughtfully.

In the recent period, except for rest days, he has been inseparable from Tatsuya almost every day. Except for Xiaonan who is in the same class as Tatsuya and lives next door, he can be said to be the person who spends the most time with Tatsuya.

But Tatsuya didn't find anything troublesome either.

So what's the fuss about.Didn't even concentrate on training.

Kazuya walked over and put an arm around Tatsuya's shoulder.

"Excuse me, Kotaro, let me borrow this person first."

He waved to Kotaro in the catcher's zone, said something loudly, then turned around, wrapped his arms around Tatsuya's neck and led him to the edge of the court——

"What's the matter, brother." Even when he was asking Tatsuya why he made too many mistakes just now, Kazuya, who is still nominally the head of the baseball department, had a calm and gentle tone, even with a hint of comfort, not at all. Gives an aggressive feeling, "The shots just now were too careless, are you thinking about something?"

"I didn't think about anything..." Tatsuya also knew that he was not in the right state, and he couldn't help but feel a little embarrassing on his face-when facing Kotaro Matsudaira, he could still ignore the other party impatiently or simply pretend that he didn't hear the other party's protest, but Instead, his younger brother came to ask him softly with crooked eyebrows...

Tatsuya couldn't just ignore him or choke people back with a vicious voice.

The elder brother of the pet brother (Tatsuya: What the hell is that! >///<) looked at the sky in silence.

Kazuya saw that he himself was a little confused about what he was struggling with and sighed slightly.

"Are you thinking about what Qianli said on the phone yesterday?"

he asked with a sigh.

Tatsuya couldn't help but startled when he heard this.

"You guessed it." He raised his hand uncomfortably and scratched his cheek, "I didn't think about anything else, I just felt a little emotional..."

Kazuya looked at him who seemed a little shy, and couldn't help smiling.

"If you feel emotional, I am the same." He let go of the hand on Tatsuya's shoulder, and looked straight ahead, "I didn't expect Qianli and the others to encounter so many strict and cruel things at u-17. It's a test."

——The brothers were talking about a call they received last night from their cousin Qianli, who was notified not long ago to be drafted into the tennis junior national team (u-17).

On the phone, besides discussing with the two brothers what they have been doing since the beginning, discussing recent events and each other's lives, Qianli also described what he saw and heard in the u-17 joint camp.

Whether it is to visually divide the strength levels of the players by the number of the court, the daily individual substitution match and the weekly team substitution match, or the cruel and simple absolute rule of "the winner is king", let The two brothers were shocked.

What moved the two of them even more was what Qianli described. On the third day after their group of middle school student representatives entered the camp, they carried out the brutal killing of their companions—the middle school student representatives were asked to choose freely, and fight together in pairs. In the group, everyone who originally thought it was a doubles match naturally chose their close companions. However, after making a choice, they were asked to play a singles duel with each other. The loser was defeated and lost the u-17 alternate qualification... …

Although in competitive competitions, it is often unavoidable for peers to fight each other, whether it is as small as the usual practice games of teammates on the same team, or as large as the school qualifying matches that determine the main list for each competition, but whether it is the two None of them can compare with this cruel game that not only requires peers to fight, but also fights for only one chance to stay in the u-17 if they seize it.

Not to mention that the national competitions played by middle school students have been in the form of team battles for decades. The players in each school have always been close teammates from before. They are used to fighting, Those who tried their best to defeat and eliminate were all contestants from other schools. When did you encounter such a situation where you wanted to eliminate your teammates, or even the companions of your best friends?

At that scene, even a casual person like Qianli mentioned it with a low and depressed tone.

To be honest, Kazuya and Tatsuya couldn't understand Chisato's mood.

Baseball is different from tennis in that it has always been played on a team basis.So naturally, it will not be like tennis, where players can fight alone to determine the outcome of a game.

——In other words, baseball is a real team game. Although the competition between teammates on the same team is fierce, it is rare to see such a cruel scene as Chisato described, where you have to beat your teammates to stand on a higher ground .

Thinking that Qianli is training in such an environment every day, and thinking that the competition between peers can be so cruel, even Kazuya, who has always been calm and calm, can't help but feel an indescribable strangeness in his heart. mood.

He thought Tatsuya must be the same as himself.

However, Kazuya is extremely good at controlling his emotions because he has an extremely unique experience in his previous life that existed in the form of a soul for nearly ten years. affect mood.

But Da is different.

No matter how wise and foolish he looks, he is free and easy, but he is only 15 years old. Hearing such a thing from Qianli's mouth will inevitably cause some thinking and entanglement, so that his mood will be affected, and even feedback to training and life comes.

Kazuya turned his head to look at Tatsuya: "My brother thinks that I finally understand how cruel competition can be. This makes you really realize that there is actually a belligerent side in your bones, right?"

"……Eh?"

"My brother was originally peace-loving. Although I didn't know why he was always provoked since he was a child, he rarely fought back, and he basically never provoked others on his own initiative."

"How should I put it, my brother has never been a belligerent person."

"But, brother." As the brother said, he looked deeply into the eyes of Shinobu Tatsuya, where his handsome face, which was almost exactly the same as the other's outline, was reflected——

"That's because the provocations they made to you didn't involve what you really care about."

"You don't care what they say about you, so no matter how badly you are said, you never take it to heart."

"So, every time you fought with others when you were young, it was for me and Xiaonan."

"—Brother can tolerate others saying bad things about you, but he will never allow them to say bad things about me or Xiao Nan."

"You have been such a gentle person since you were a child, brother."

And also smile.

Tatsuya's cheeks were slightly red, "...What are you doing! You suddenly said such nasty things..."

Didn't you just talk about being warlike and not warlike before? How did you turn the topic in this direction!

He Ye smiled with a good temper, "I'm sorry, I accidentally remembered the fights my brother fought for me when I was young, so..."

"That's why I told you not to think about such boring things..." Tatsuya looked at him with dead eyes.

And also smiling. "It's not boring to me. Well... I'll just leave it alone."

Seeing that Tatsuya was about to blow his hair again, he obediently returned to the topic:

"So, I just want to say that my brother finally realized how much he likes baseball."

"I want to win, and I will try my best to defeat my opponent during the game."

"In between winning and losing, I don't think about how lost and sad the opponent will be if they are eliminated."

"The so-called belligerence of a man is nothing more than this kind of thing."

"My brother always thought that he was not aggressive."

"But the truth is, you have."

——It has always been there, but it has always been unable to be stimulated because it is not used for what I really want to pursue.

"That phone call from Qianli made you vaguely aware of this."

So, I feel a little confused.

I seem to be a little different from the self I know. (← slightly around)

It sounds a bit literary and philosophical, but in fact, Kazuya understands Tatsuya's feelings very well.

Because he once felt confused and doubted about similar things at the same age.

This is a problem that teenagers of this age are easy to encounter. There are things that they think about or are reminded by others. Of course, I have been unable to figure it out and finally I didn’t understand it. I just spent the whole youth in such a ignorant way There are many people.

The reason why Kazuya said such words to Tatsuya was actually just to let Tatsuya understand that he likes baseball much more than he thinks.

Kazuya wanted to get back all the time he had missed, the time he could have stood on the field with Tatsuya.

This was exactly the original purpose of "tricking" Tatsuya into the baseball club a year ago by making a bet with Tatsuya.

Tatsuya's gaze gradually became transparent.

"How can I say whether I like it or not..."

He raised his hand and pressed the brim of his hat.

"We have already won the national championship. If you don't like it, who would work so hard?"

He muttered softly, and at the same time turned his head and gave Kazuya a sideways look:

"If this is what you want to tell me, then you must be thinking too much, Kazuya-san."

"My lord, am I such a dull person?"

——I like this kind of mood, it's not so hard to notice, idiot.

He also pursed his lips and smiled.

"Well, that's true. So I underestimated my brother?"

He looked at Tatsuya with a smile.

You are the idiot, bro.

The difficult thing is not to perceive it, but to admit one's "like" and put it into action, to work hard to realize it...

idiot brother.

Tatsuya moved his lips under his gaze, as if he wanted to say something, but at this moment, from a distance, his teammates called loudly from across the field——

"Uesugi~"

Kazuya and Tatsuya subconsciously looked up at the same time, and saw Kuroki in a thick baseball uniform standing on the opposite side of the field. Seeing the two brothers looking up, he waved to them...

Kazuya: ...

Tatsuya: ...

——Senior Kuroki, you came here... at the wrong time!