Diamond No Ace: The Strongest Hitter Has Arrived

Chapter 454: Miyuki's Special Power

"Ball..."

"Ball!"

"Ball!!"

"Ball!!!"

"Four balls, take your base!"

Yuuki Tetsuya let go of his bat and jogged to First Base.

In the stands, the Yakushi High School Baseball Team players sneered.

"That's too gutless!"

"Why run away? Just fight."

"So cowardly, and they still think they can beat Seido? That's a pipe dream."

They had little respect for Hongmo High School. For a well-known strong school in Tokyo, the performance was too poor.

Todoroki Raizo rested his chin in his hand and said nothing.

He was watching the Hongmo catcher and pitcher carefully.

They weren't rattled. They hadn't been derailed by the Homerun.

They had remained completely composed in the face of Zhang Han's terrifying hit, yet now, facing this player named Yuuki, they had chosen to walk him without a fight.

What did that tell you?

It meant that somewhere in their thinking, they considered this player named Yuuki even harder to deal with than Zhang Han.

More troublesome.

There were an unexpectedly large number of players on the Seido High School Baseball Team that deserved attention.

"Fifth Batter, center fielder, Isashiki Jun."

Next up was Isashiki Jun, with his small beard.

Although he looked every bit the delinquent, he carried himself with surprising politeness.

After stepping up to the plate, Isashiki Jun removed his cap and bowed to the umpire and the opposing catcher.

"Please guide me!"

This caught the umpire off guard.

Looking at the opponent's appearance, he had braced for someone difficult.

There was no helping it. This player looked too much like a delinquent. If he hadn't seen him in the game and known he was a Seido player, the umpire might have assumed he belonged to some kind of gang.

The umpire had just started to relax when Isashiki Jun swung his bat.

"Bring it on!"

He roared.

Both the umpire and the Hongmo catcher jumped.

In the Seido dugout, the teammates hung their heads.

Their senior was only polite when greeting people.

Every other moment, he was like this.

Looking at this intimidating opponent, Mogami Takeshi, playing in his first official game, was completely thrown.

Was this really an ordinary high school student?

Any more experienced pitcher wouldn't have entertained such a thought. If something like that were true, Seido would have been disqualified long ago.

A prestigious school like Seido would never recruit someone genuinely problematic.

But Mogami didn't know that yet.

This was his first official game. That he hadn't fled in panic upon seeing Isashiki Jun already said something about his composure.

That he could still throw the ball at all under those circumstances was genuinely impressive.

Of course, the pitch he threw had no real force behind it whatsoever.

"Ping!"

The baseball was struck away without mercy.

"So delicate, like a girl."

Isashiki Jun grumbled unhappily.

Because the pitch had so little behind it, his swing had been thrown off entirely.

Otherwise, he could have hit it much farther.

But it was enough. The baseball landed in the outfield.

Yuuki, who had been walked, took the opportunity to round Second Base and go all the way to Third Base.

Isashiki Jun himself reached First Base safely.

Two outs, runners on First and Third Base.

Although Hongmo High School had managed to take the initiative at the start, getting two quick outs, Seido quickly found its rhythm.

From Zhang Han's Homerun onward, their batters were either walked or got hits.

The Fifth Batter and Sixth Batter had both reached base in succession.

The offensive momentum was building.

And the young man about to step up to the plate was so eager he could barely contain himself.

Even batting sixth, he didn't often get an opportunity like this.

"Sixth Batter, catcher, Miyuki Kazuya."

When Miyuki stepped up to the plate, Takashima Rei in the stands adjusted her glasses.

"At this moment, there's no more reliable batter than him."

In terms of overall batting average, Miyuki trailed Zhang Han and Yuuki by a considerable margin.

But with runners on base, especially with runners on Second and Third, his success rate was among the top three on the entire Seido High School Baseball Team.

Zhang Han, Yuuki, Miyuki.

The other players weren't quite on the same level as those three.

Miyuki hummed quietly to himself, eyes fixed on his opponent.

The cheerleaders in the stands were playing and singing with full energy.

Miyuki hummed softly along with the rhythm.

This nearly drove the Hongmo catcher to distraction.

"How arrogant!"

Who did this second-year think he was?

Humming along while stepping up to bat.

Did he think this was a practice session?

The Hongmo catcher had already called a timeout once specifically to encourage Mogami.

Now Mogami needed to pitch with everything he had.

"Believe in yourself. Your pitching will shine."

"Swish!"

On the mound, Mogami felt a flash of irritation at his earlier hesitation.

So for this pitch, he put everything into it, throwing the fastest pitch of the game so far.

After seeing so many of his slow pitches, the Seido batters must have gotten used to them.

A sudden fastball now would catch the batter off guard.

Mogami felt an unusual surge of confidence.

But he had clearly underestimated Miyuki.

Miyuki didn't pause or take a moment to read the pitch. He saw the ball coming, stepped forward, and swung.

This kind of slow-fast combination only worked when it had already disrupted the batter's rhythm.

As long as a batter stepped in without preconceptions and swung at the first pitch, the slow pitch was stripped of its effect.

What was left was simply an ordinary fastball.

"Ping!"

The ball flew high, caught the spring breeze, and came down in the left-field stands.

Miyuki Kazuya had hit a three-run Homerun.

The stadium went quiet for a moment before erupting.

Even Zhang Han in the dugout felt a small pang of envy.

As the Third Batter, he was walked more often than not, which meant his Homeruns tended to come with no runners on base.

He had already hit several solo Homeruns in a row, which, compared to a three-run shot, felt like a completely different thing.

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