Chapter 335: First Battle: Teito

"Line up!"

"Salute!"

"Please treat us well!"

First Base side, Seido High School, first to bat.

Third Base side, Sanya High School, last to bat.

From the start of this game, Seido's storm-like offense left Sanya High School completely unable to defend; in the top of the first inning, Miyuki and Huangqian hit consecutive Home Runs.

After the first inning ended, the score was 7:0!

The powerful batting lineup made Sanya High School's defense as soft as paste, allowing them to come and go at will.

In the bottom of the first inning, Furuya Satoru's power pitching was also too much for Sanya High School; a Fastball with an average speed exceeding 150 km/h was simply too excessive for a team like theirs.

It was another 5-inning mercy rule game, with a score of 28:0, an even larger margin than the previous match.

In the first three rounds of the preliminary tournament, Seido crushed everything in their path with an invincible momentum; such opponents were simply unable to effectively test the quality of the new team.

September 26th, another Saturday; that afternoon, Huangqian Yangyi and Miyuki Kazuya left the school together.

"Captain, you'd better draw a good lot later," Miyuki said while chewing bubblegum.

Huangqian Yangyi shrugged: "A good lot? Drawing Inashiro Industrial or Ichidai Sanko in the first round?"

"Heh." Miyuki was speechless.

The two chatted and laughed as they soon boarded the bus at the school gate to head to the venue for the Autumn Tournament main draw ceremony.

It was a half-hour drive; when Miyuki and Huangqian Yangyi entered the venue, it was already bustling with noise. The people sent to draw lots for the sixty-four teams that had entered the main tournament from the entire Tokyo region were gathered together, along with a large number of staff and reporters.

The arrival of the two also attracted everyone's attention: the Seido Twins, the ace battery!

The publicly recognized strongest Pitcher and strongest Catcher!

"They're here!"

"We've been waiting a long time; can't believe they came so late."

"Well, they are the kings; they always appear last."

"Look at their presence; calm, composed, and at ease."

"Yeah, that's the confidence that comes from strength; we can't compare at all."

The commotion caused by the arrival of Huangqian and Miyuki lasted for quite a while. After the two found their seats, Huangqian Yangyi looked left and right.

Teito High School Baseball Club Captain, Inui Kengo.

Inashiro Industrial High School Captain, Fukui Kento.

Ichidai Sanko High School Captain, Hoshida Shou.

Yakushi High School's Sanada Shunpei, Seiko High School's Masu Shinichiro.

There were many old acquaintances, and also many new faces.

What they had in common was that the gazes these people directed at Huangqian Yangyi and Miyuki were all equally filled with hostility or wariness.

"Tsk, the two of us look just like the villains in a shonen manga who are destined to be defeated," Huangqian Yangyi joked to himself.

Miyuki smiled upon hearing this: "Well, let's just pretend we don't see it."

"Why? I think glaring back is more imposing," Huangqian Yangyi said.

"Then you glare."

Soon, everyone was present, and after the organizers finished their routine speeches, the drawing ceremony officially began.

As team after team drew their lots, the results were revealed bit by bit.

Sensen High School, B Zone.

Yakushi High School, C Zone.

Ichidai Sanko High School, D Zone.

Seiko High School, A Zone.

Inashiro Industrial High School, B Zone.

Teito High School, A Zone.

"Next, Seido High School, please have a representative come to the stage to draw."

As the staff member's words fell, Huangqian Yangyi straightened his clothes and stood up to walk toward the stage.

Draw, display.

The moment Huangqian Yangyi revealed the result of the draw, the entire venue erupted in a chorus of gasps and a chaotic sound of camera shutters.

Seido High School, A Zone!

The first-round opponent is the East Tokyo overlord and perennial powerhouse, the Tokyo Representative Team that also advanced to the Summer Koshien this year! Teito High School!

Aside from Huangqian Yangyi and Miyuki, the person most shocked by this result was Teito High School's Captain, Inui Kengo.

The two locked eyes, and Huangqian Yangyi saw intense fighting spirit in the other's eyes.

Sure enough, Teito High School, having long held the position of overlord in East Tokyo, would not shrink back in the slightest just because their opponent was Seido.

As the main tournament drawing ceremony came to an end.

The drawing results and schedule for the sixty-four teams were also published online immediately.

The news that Seido High School and Teito High School would face off in the first round of the main tournament shook the entire Tokyo high school baseball world.

The kings of West Tokyo and the overlords of East Tokyo, two Koshien-participating teams, were actually meeting in the first round; this meant one team was destined to face the embarrassment of a first-round exit.

Of course, more people still favored Seido High School to win.

And for teams like Inashiro, Ichidai Sanko, and Yakushi, this matchup was a piece of good news they were happy to see.

Even if Teito High School couldn't defeat Seido, with Teito's strength, they were definitely not a team Seido could easily beat; they believed this game would be enough to see many things about Seido.

That day, after the two returned to school following the end of the draw, they were surrounded by their teammates, each of whom had a very strange look in their eyes.

"Hey, hey, Captain Huangqian, your luck is just too terrible."

"You must have gone to the bathroom before leaving."

"You didn't wash your hands before drawing the lots!"

Upon seeing the bracket, the teammates all looked at Huangqian Yangyi strangely.

"The first match is against Teito High School."

"The perennial powerhouse of East Tokyo, after all."

The companions discussed among themselves, with the Second Years merely teasing Huangqian Yangyi about his luck.

Meanwhile, the First Years like Tojo and Kanemaru felt some inner concern; as players from the youth baseball system, their understanding of Teito High School was much deeper than that of those two idiots, Sawamura and Furuya.

"What's with those expressions? Is Teito that strong?" Sawamura asked curiously upon seeing his companions' worried faces.

"Very strong!" Tojo nodded.

"Are they stronger than Big Brother Huangqian and that bastard Miyuki?"

Uh...

Tojo was speechless.

The others were also left speechless.

"But baseball is a team sport. Our new team was only formed recently; although we've gone through training matches and three preliminary rounds, it's still not enough. By comparison, Teito, who were eliminated in the first round of Koshien, has had more time to gel." Kanemaru expressed his opinion in all seriousness.

After hearing Kanemaru's words, many had the same concerns; although they had won their three preliminary matches by large margins, the new team's defensive capabilities had yet to be truly tested.

"What's with those expressions? Even though our first-round opponent is Teito, don't forget, we are the Koshien champions, while they are just poor guys who were knocked out in the first round," Huangqian Yangyi suddenly spoke up loudly.

"I, too, am very curious about the true strength of this new team. If the opponent is Teito, they are the perfect subject to test our own strength."

"Regardless of whether the opponent is weak or strong, our goal remains the championship. As long as the goal doesn't change, does it matter who the opponent is?!"

After Huangqian Yangyi finished his speech, the Second Years smiled, and the First Years were also filled with confidence.

That's right, with an ace on the team, what else did they have to worry about?