"What?"

Ohmae couldn't believe what he heard.

The senior of the junior high school baseball team in his city actually asked him seriously if he had ever seen the bat elf?

At what stage of late-stage secondary disease can this question be asked?

At least from Ohmae's point of view, he didn't think that a normal person would ask his junior classmate like this at that time.

"I……"

Ohmae looked like he was hesitating to speak.

In fact, he didn't know how to answer at all.

The senior who asked him the question had a trace of loneliness in his eyes.

"Can't you even see a little monster like you?"

The senior said it seriously, and Ohmae was embarrassed to look suspicious like before.

he asked with some uncertainty.

“Is there really a genie on a bat?”

"I believe there is. There is a legend that has been circulating in our team. If a hitter does not slack off for three years in high school and swings the bat 1,000 times with high quality every day, by the time they swing the bat a million times, some of them are extremely talented.

The hitter will be able to see the elf on the bat landing on his bat. At that time, no matter what kind of ball flies from the pitcher's mound, the hitter will be able to hit it? Do you believe it?"

Being stared at and asked by the senior.

Ohmae's original movement of shaking his head stopped instantly.

He said with some uncertainty.

"Maybe…"

Although he himself could not understand it, generation after generation, the seniors of the City University's junior high baseball team had passed down this saying.

Then maybe there was a certain senior who was on the city's junior high school baseball team who actually saw it a long time ago.

At first Ohmae didn't believe a word of this statement. But as he stayed on the city's junior high school baseball team, he stayed longer and longer.

When he heard many of his seniors say that.

Ohmae also became dubious.

If you include the swings he practiced before entering high school, the number of times he has swung the bat as a power forward has already exceeded a million times.

Even if we only count his practice as a junior at City University, he may have reached the level of one million swings.

But until now, Ohmae has not noticed that the legendary baseball spirit appears on his bat.

So much so that Ohmae began to wonder, was he deceived by his senior?

After all, how could there be a real baseball and bat elf in this world?

Although Ohmae has never seen the legendary baseball spirit from beginning to end.

But with continuous and serious practice, he himself has gained a lot.

Ohmae's striking power is getting stronger and stronger.

So much so that even now, Ohmae can be called the three strongest players in Nishi Tokyo along with Tetsuya Yuki and Masako Harada.

This name is not just for fun.

That needs to be recognized by many people, even professional teams.

Not to mention that Ohmae has participated in Koshien games, even if Ohmae has never participated in a Koshien game, just being one of the three strongest baseball players in Nishi-Tokyo is enough to make him famous in the baseball circle.

a place.

Now a professional team has extended an invitation to him.

Is it possible for people to gain something in the summer of their last year as a junior high school student in the city?

It can be said that I have no interest at all.

It was Ohmae that people were interested in.

Ohmae originally thought that he was already strong enough, whether he was in a wealthy club of the same level or among players of the same age group.

He belongs to that outstanding type.

But even so, he had never seen the baseball elf that his seniors had told him about, so Ohmae thought for a long time that the so-called baseball elf was just a legend among his seniors.

How could something like that exist?

Until today.

Before, Ohmae never believed that a first-year rookie player could force them to such an extent on the court?

But Li Lei did it.

He was really on the field, suppressing the players of the city's junior high school baseball team until they lost their temper at all.

Even compared to Ohmae.

Li Lei seems to be even better.

Don't talk about other people on the team, even the power forward is the team's fourth hitter.

After seeing Li Lei's pitching ability, I also had a very strange idea.

He even thought that they had no hope in today's game.

But actually calm down and think carefully.

Their thinking seems a little too pessimistic.

Are things really that serious?

It seems not.

The problems existing in the Yakushima High School baseball team have not been solved, otherwise Miyagawa would not have scored a hit before.

The reason why the opponent seemed so invulnerable was just because of Li Lei's pitching.

Li Lei's pitching is obviously superior.

He was able to suppress all the players on the city's junior high school baseball team.

This is the fundamental reason for the current situation on the court.

Ohmae originally thought that his high school baseball career had come to an end.

But after witnessing Li Lei's pitching with my own eyes.

A different idea suddenly came to Omae's mind.

Maybe his previous thinking was wrong. He thought he had reached the top of the high school pyramid.

But in fact, compared with Li Lei, a first-year freshman.

Not only does he have no advantage, but he is suppressed everywhere.

What does this mean?

This shows that there must be a road ahead of Omae, but it’s just that there was no road ahead of Omae.

When this idea appeared in Da Mae's mind, he suddenly felt a sense of enlightenment.

He seemed to see that the world in front of him began to become different.

The world has become extremely clear, and he can grasp all the rules.

For example, right now, Li Leila throws an open ball.

These actions appeared in Da Mae's eyes, and they were no longer as unpredictable as before.

"coming!"

The white baseball roared towards him, and he took a big step forward and struck decisively.

"Ping!"

The bat hit the white baseball and fell out of bounds.

This result seemed to be exactly what Li Lei had imagined before, and the smile on his face became brighter.

"Two more good shots!"

Li Lei, who got a foul ball, was unreasonable and unforgiving.

He took another step forward, and as his body's center of gravity shifted, the baseball in his hand whizzed out.

"Ping!"

"The outside world!

"

The appearance of two foul balls in succession made everyone in the stands obediently shut their mouths.
To be continued...