Chapter 365

"I want to let him understand that the sacred sport of baseball is absolutely not something that an outsider like him can randomly desecrate!"

Hanyu Shoki looked at Natsume Chikage and confirmed for the last time:

"Natsume-kun, if you have no objection, the match officially starts now?"

Natsume Chikage was not someone who liked to waste words before the match, he nodded calmly:

"Mm."

Seeing that he still had that indifferent expression, the anger in Zhongdao Satoshi's heart couldn't help but burn even more!

His gaze swept across the edge of the baseball field, over the large crowd of students who had gathered at some unknown point, and a cold arc curled at the corner of his mouth.

Just right.

In a moment, he would smash this guy's ridiculous confidence in front of so many people!

Let him understand clearly what the gap in strength is!

And Konoe Hitomi also spoke at this time:

"Since both sides agree, then I will re-announce the rules again."

"Zhongdao-kun pitches ten times, as long as Natsume-kun can hit three times, it counts as Natsume-kun winning, and vice versa."

Hanyu Shoki added:

"The hit Konoe-san mentioned here is as long as it grazes a little bit, it counts as a hit."

"It's not like those situations in the real rules of baseball that require a hit."

"Zhongdao-kun, do you have any opinion on this?"

Zhongdao Satoshi shook his head:

"No."

"Rather, I was thinking that way myself."

Hanyu Shoki nodded:

"Very good, since that's the case, both sides please take your positions."

Natsume Chikage found that he didn't have a bat, so he asked:

"Zhongdao-senior, please give me a bat."

Zhongdao Satoshi naturally knew that Natsume Chikage didn't bring his own equipment, and casually ordered two members of the baseball club beside him:

"You two, go to the clubroom and get a spare bat for Natsume-kun!"

"By the way, get more baseballs, at least ten!"

The two members immediately responded:

"Yes!"

"Understood!"

The two ran toward the baseball clubroom not far away.

On the way, they couldn't help but complain in a low voice:

"That Natsume Chikage is too arrogant! Only practiced for one day and wants to beat our Zhongdao-senior? What does he take our beloved baseball for?!"

"That is! Really annoying! He doesn't take our baseball club seriously at all!"

There were many pieces of equipment in the clubroom, and the two soon found the bat and a whole box of baseballs.

However, one of them's gaze suddenly fell on a metal alloy bat in the corner that looked a bit old.

He had an idea, lowered his voice and said to his companion:

"Hey, I say... why don't we give him that 'problematic' bat?"

"This... this isn't very good, right?" The companion hesitated.

"What's not good about it! He's just a pure novice, where can he tell the quality of the bat! And what if... I mean what if, if he really wins by luck? Where will our baseball club's face go? You don't want our club to become the laughingstock of the whole school, right?"

"... That's also true. Our baseball club is one of the school's signature clubs, if we lose to an outsider who only learned for one day, wouldn't we be laughed at by other schools if it spreads out?"

"You think so too, right!"

"But... if this is discovered..."

"Rest assured! A novice like him can't detect it at all! We are maintaining the honor of the baseball club, we are helping Zhongdao-senior! Besides, that guy is so arrogant, if we don't give him a lesson, can you swallow this breath in your heart?"

"... Indeed! Can't let him be so proud!"

So.

The two brought that problematic old bat, along with fifteen baseballs, out of the clubroom.

Smiles piled up on their faces, and they handed the bat to Natsume Chikage:

"Natsume-kun, here, the bat."

Natsume Chikage took the bat and thanked them politely:

"Thank you."

"Haha, you're welcome, you're welcome." The two waved their hands with a smile and ran away quickly.

After running a distance, the two looked at each other and smiled, whispering:

"Hehe, he even thanked us!"