Chapter 350

In terms of guiding students, Sano Sho considers himself experienced and has quite a few insights.

Thinking about it, that mysterious client finding them is precisely because they value their qualifications in elite training.

But... why did they make such a big fuss?

Just to train an ordinary high school student, is it really worth investing such amazing resources?

He couldn't figure it out.

But thinking about it, that client can easily rent a venue like the national stadium, just for one person's training, probably doesn't care about this little expense at all.

Otherwise, to be honest, with his standards and vision, he usually wouldn't take on the guidance of a high school student who has no baseball foundation and lacks systematic physical training.

The time and energy cost required to teach such students is far higher than those seedlings with solid foundations and outstanding talents.

In his long coaching career, he has indeed seen many talented teenagers.

Among them, there is no lack of children like "A-kun" in front of him, whose body coordination and learning ability are outstanding, and can quickly master swinging posture and hitting skills.

But after all, these are just the basics of getting started.

As long as there is enough time, most people can do it.

The real difficulty lies in "how to hit the ball stably".

And among the many high school students Sano Sho has cultivated, almost no one can stably hit three balls out of ten when facing continuous ten balls at 140 km/h in the first month.

He is not exaggerating, there really isn't one!

Even the student who progressed the fastest and had the highest talent in his memory—Nishimura Kazuhiko, took a full half a year to reach this level.

Although Nishimura Kazuhiko hadn't played baseball before high school, he was a sports student and had laid a solid body foundation early on.

So after learning baseball, he could immediately show extreme talent!

And now—Nishimura Kazuhiko, who is in his second year of high school, is the well-deserved chief batter of the school baseball team.

If there are no accidents, this Koshien tournament will be his stage to shine.

That child's talent is indeed terrifying.

In just half a year, his hitting level has surpassed most so-called "geniuses" in Sano Sho's cognition.

He can be called a genius among geniuses!

After more than a year of targeted reinforcement training.

Today's Nishimura Kazuhiko can stably deal with a ball speed of not just 140 km/h, but an astonishing 155 km/h, and can maintain a high success rate of hitting three out of ten balls!

This kind of strength, in the future, is a star embryo destined to enter the professional arena.

It is said that scouts from American Major League Baseball are already paying attention to him.

Presumably after graduation, he will receive an olive branch.

You have to know, the starting salary for a baseball player who can enter the major leagues is at least at the level of 100 million yen!

However, even a super genius like Nishimura Kazuhiko, on the premise of having a good body foundation, plus extreme talent, took half a year to reach the level of stably hitting a 140 km/h fast ball.

Let alone, wanting to let this "A-kun" who has almost no sports foundation reach a professional hitting rate in one month?

This is simply... an impossible mission.

And because of this.

At this moment, Sano Sho standing on the pitcher's mound has no confidence in his heart at all.

If he had known from the beginning that the mission was of such hellish difficulty, he might...

Whatever, it seems there was no room for refusal at that time.

Now, it's even more difficult to get off the tiger, and he can only bite the bullet and teach.

As for the end, if it really fails because this "A-kun" has limited ability, then it can't be blamed on them, right?

If you want to blame, you can only blame the time for being too short, and blame this teenager for having too poor a foundation and insufficient talent.

These objective factors are all "reasonable" reasons for failure.

At this moment.

Sano Sho shook off the chaotic thoughts in his mind and concentrated.

He stood on the pitcher's mound, habitually grinding the red soil under his feet with his feet, feeling the hardness and friction of the ground.

Subsequently, he gripped the baseball in his hand tightly, his gaze locked on Natsume Chikage at the home plate in front, and began to control the muscle force of his arm.

For the first ball, he only prepared to use about 60% of his strength.

Target ball speed—110 km/h.

The baseball flew out of his hand, drawing a low and flat straight line, galloping towards the home plate where Natsume Chikage was!

Although this speed can only be considered a "slow ball" in the professional baseball world.

But 110 km/h is definitely not slow for ordinary people.

As long as you have ridden in a car at 110 km/h, you can intuitively feel what kind of speed that is.

An object flying towards you at this speed, the first reaction of most people will be panic, or even subconsciously closing their eyes and dodging.

Therefore, Sano Sho had no expectations for the first ball.

He only hoped that this "A-kun" would not be afraid to the point of closing his eyes or retreating when facing the pressure of a high-speed incoming ball, and could muster the courage to complete a swing with a fairly standard posture, which would be enough.

Natsume Chikage's pupils contracted slightly, his gaze locked firmly on the white ball that was rotating at high speed and breaking through the air.

In his field of vision, the flight trajectory of the ball seemed to be slowed down, marked, and extended along a clear predictive path.

The next second.

He sank his shoulders and turned his waist, his arms drove the bat to draw a clean and neat arc, accurately meeting the inevitable point of that trajectory.

Bang—

A crisp collision sound echoed in the venue.

The bat did hit the baseball!

But because it was the first actual hitting, Natsume Chikage was not yet familiar with the "sweet spot" (best hitting point) of the bat.

This ball hit the position slightly below the front end of the bat.

Causing the baseball, although hit, to fail to gain enough upward force and flight distance, just bouncing low towards the ground.

Finally, it rolled weakly onto the soil not far in front of the pitcher's mound.

Sano Sho looked at the ball he pitched, rolling slowly to his feet like this, and couldn't help but be stunned.

Huh?

What's the situation?

This "A-kun"... actually touched it on the first ball?

Novice protection period? Luck is so good?

Kuroda Keisuke, who was standing beside Natsume Chikage, staring at every move of his, was also stunned.

But he thought about it and felt that this was just common novice luck.

Just like fishing or card games, novices always seem to be favored once or twice.

Once the freshness passes, it will always return to normal.

However, touching the ball on the first ball still made him feel a little relieved.

He clapped his hands and encouraged:

"Not bad, not bad, A-kun, maybe you really have talent in this area."

"The posture and swinging action just now were very standard, kept very well, no need to adjust."

"Next, keep up the good work, must keep this posture, absolutely cannot deform!"

"Let's try to conquer the 110 km/h speed barrier in one go today!"

Natsume Chikage nodded, gripped the bat tightly with both hands, and looked sharply towards the pitcher's mound.

Kuroda Keisuke, seeing this, shouted to Sano Sho on the opposite side:

"Sano coach, continue!"

Sano Sho nodded slightly and set up a standard pitching posture again.

The next moment.

Another baseball at 110 km/h broke through the air and shot straight towards the home plate.

However, a surprising scene happened again.

Under the implicit blessing of 【Sword Dao Talent 1000%】, Natsume Chikage's body seemed to possess some kind of coordination and predictive power that transcended common sense.

He adjusted the angle and timing of the swing very slightly, meeting the small ball with a clear "trajectory" in a more precise and efficient way.

Bang—

The collision sound this time was more solid!