[Comprehensive] Kazuya's happy life

"Student Uesugi? Kazuya Uesugi, Tatsuya Uesugi, please come to the stage to receive the award."

After waiting on the podium for a long time, the two parties did not see any action. The chubby senior who seemed to be the president of the Survey Fans Association couldn't help urging.

Kazuya and Tatsuya were still stiff and did not move, and even the entire classroom of Senior One A was silent, without any response such as enthusiastic cheers as expected, which made the five elated questionnaire enthusiasts on the stage The members of the association finally noticed this anomaly slowly.

Seeing the faces of the juniors below, "What the hell did you just say?! Are you sure you're not kidding me?", the five of them realized that there seemed to be some things they hadn't explained yet...

The chubby senior smiled awkwardly.

"Uh... Don't get me wrong, the 'best couple' mentioned in the survey launched by our association this time does not just mean 'couple', but also the interpretation of the best partner. Kazuya Uesugi and Everyone knows that Tatsuya Uesugi is the two ace pitchers in the baseball club. In the previous practice match with Kita Hills Commercial, the two of them cooperated tacitly and presented a very exciting game for us all, so I think this is probably them. The reason why the two of them won the 'Best Couple' ranking with a high number of votes this time."

Having said that, he took the lead in applauding.

The expressions of the boys and girls in the audience eased slightly.

And after getting a reasonable explanation, they also felt very honored as the classmates of the Uesugi brothers, so the originally stagnant atmosphere became enthusiastic again, and applause and cheers sounded belatedly.

Kazuya was also secretly relieved until this time.

He was so scared that he held his breath just now.

Of course it would be nice not to be selected as the best couple with Konan, but what's the matter with Tatsuya!

Without that senior's later explanation, Kazuya would have started to reflect on whether his recent relationship with Tatsuya was too close.

He stood up amid the cheers and urging of his classmates, walked up to the podium with Tatsuya who was also being urged on the other side, and received the prizes and certificates from the fat senior.

These two reward items were prepared by the members of the Questionnaire Fan Association. The certificate looked quite formal - it was stamped with the words "Mingqing Academy High School Questionnaire Association", and the prize was a Stack five notebooks of good quality.

Tatsuya smiled immediately after receiving the prize, because his notebook just ran out, and he planned to buy a new one after school today, but now that he has this prize, he can save a lot of money.

And Kazuya and Tatsuya received the prizes and certificates, and this little episode passed so naturally. It didn't cause a sensation in the school like when Kazuya and Xiaonan were selected as the best couple.

This is probably the difference between a gossip-worthy campus romance and a pure, mindless brotherhood.

In any case, Kazuya was finally relieved that he didn't have to worry about being forced to have any strange influence on the relationship between the two of them.

The heavy rain gradually stopped in the early morning of the next day. When Kazuya got up and went for a morning run, he could only see some small puddles on the side of the road that had not completely evaporated.

As a matter of course, the baseball team resumed intense training after a short day's rest—after all, it's not long before the regional preliminaries start, and as soon as the midterm exams are over, they will be ready to compete in the country.

After devoting wholeheartedly to the next practice, the flow of time seems to have unknowingly accelerated a lot. When I realized it, the school uniform on my body had been changed into a summer style, and the regional preliminaries countdown clock was posted on the wall , the above time has also changed from double digits to single digits, and the team's practice is getting harder and harder. However, after practice, Kazuya still insists on dragging Tatsuya to train himself together.

"As the trump card that bears the hopes of the entire team, I don't strictly demand myself how to do it."

Faced with Tatsuya's "protest" that was not very serious, Kazuya panted while running around the court in the scorching sun with him.

Like Tatsuya, his cheeks were already covered with sweat, and the baseball uniform on his body was also soaked in sweat, sticking to his body sticky. After being exposed to the scorching sun in the summer afternoon, he felt more uncomfortable than ever before. Comfortable.

But the pace under Kazuya's feet was not disturbed at all.

Tatsuya adjusted his breathing, trying to keep pace with him.

"People who are too self-denying tend to live unrestrainedly, Kazuya classmate."

He obviously followed He Ye seriously and worked hard to train more, but he always said something to show his disapproval and He Ye's "collusion". (…)

He also smiled and didn't speak.

In fact, he didn't have the extra physical strength to say some witty remarks that didn't have any practical meaning.

The two brothers ran round and round the field under the scorching sun, and when they finally reached the set goal and stopped, both of them were already sweating profusely, panting and messy with their knees propped up.

Xiao Nan ran out from the department room, and covered the heads of the two with two wet towels, and waited for them to calm down for a while, before handing them sports drinks to replenish their strength and water in due course.

She pursed her lips and looked at the brothers with distress and admiration in her eyes.

Although I really don't want them to work so hard, I want to say that Kazuya and Tatsuya have worked hard enough, please don't be so strict with yourself, but seeing the twin brothers' eyes shining brightly, she can't say a word come out.

——This is the dream of Kazuya and Tatsuya.

Also hers.

Today, the two of them are working hard to realize their dreams, and they have never been closer to their dreams than they are now.

So Xiaonan can't dissuade them from working hard.

What she can do is to stand silently behind them, watching them push their limits again and again, and then, when they need it, do all the power she can to do a good job in supporting them, so that they can get rid of Practice and don't worry about any other trivial things.

This is what Uesugi Kazuya and Uesugi Tatsuya's childhood sweetheart Asakura Minami and the team manager behind the two ace pitchers of the Ming Qing High School baseball club should do most.

During Kazuya and Tatsuya's day-to-day extra training, the first match of the summer Koshien regional qualifiers finally officially opened on the first sunny day after the end of the consecutive rainy days.

Mingqing's opponent in this game is Qinghua Academy, one of the many unknown schools in the Tokyo area.

But it was the team that hit a home run on Kazuya's first pitch in the previous life.

Although it was because it was the first time he really stood on the field of a high school competition, and he was so excited that he shot the ball too carelessly, but this incident has always been a small regret in his heart, and this Once, he got a precious opportunity to wash away his regrets.

"nice shot!"

"nice shot!"

"nice shot!"

"Three strikes! Batter out!"

—Three strikes!

Beautiful, crisp, and unsloppy three-ball.

The Mingqing ace pitcher who has played since the first inning has played the most stable strength. The wonderful straight strike with three balls will not stop until the referee announces the result of his out. Qinghua's batter, who came back to his senses, "shocked" and fainted.

The cheers in the stadium erupted suddenly, and the audience shouted "Uesugi" thunderously.

Kazuya raised his hand and pressed the brim of his baseball cap, the corners of his mouth slightly raised, as if he had fulfilled a small wish.

"Wow~ Kazuya boy, he's so sharp today that he doesn't look like him at all!"

Sitting on the sidelines waiting for his rotation, Tatsuya looked at the twin brothers standing upright on the pitcher, as if there was an invisible aura floating around him, and he was keenly aware of the difference in Kazuya's state.

"Really..." Xiao Nan who was sitting next to him blinked, "I think Kazuya is no different from usual."

For the seniors in the team, they never let go of water during practice, and often teamed up with Tatsuya to strike out the whole team one by one...

Xiaonan, who has seen Kazuya striking out her seniors almost every day in recent club activities, said that she really doesn't think there is anything different about Kazuya today.

Tatsuya shook his head and didn't answer.

He wasn't surprised that Xiao Nan couldn't see the difference in Kazuya.

He even knew very well that except himself, probably no one in the audience would notice that Kazuya today is different from usual.

"No matter how fierce the fighting spirit is, it can't be seen from the outside..." Tatsuya thought to himself, and the eyes that looked at Kazuya were unconsciously full of eager fighting spirit——

I really want to have a good fight with Kazuya like this.

Why is today's opponent so good!

Watching Kazuya strike out the opponent's second and third hitters without any effort, Tatsuya clenched his hands tightly. All the tension, excitement and anticipation before the game all settled down at this moment and melted away. A flame of fighting spirit that burns quietly.

——The first day of the regional preliminaries of the Summer Koshien Competition.

Mingqing High School beat Qinghua Academy 9-0.