[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-tokyo-you-call-this-normal-equipment":3,"chapter-tokyo-you-call-this-normal-equipment-tokyo-you-call-this-normal-equipment-chapter-563":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Tokyo: You Call This Normal Equipment?",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},1952538,2739,"Chapter 563","tokyo-you-call-this-normal-equipment-chapter-563",563,"\u003Cp>With Natsume Chikage’s failing grades, he simply isn't worthy!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>At the very least, someone like Vice President Hanyu would be about right!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Hanyu Masaki witnessed the end of this duel and was silent for a moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>His slender fingers slowly straightened his glasses, and complex wrinkles gathered between his brows.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>He completely did not expect that the final result would be Natsume Chikage winning completely with such an absolute posture.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Eight pitches, eight fastballs.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>No breaking balls, no tactical deception.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Purely relying on the crushing of physical function to completely shut out the school baseball club’s ace hitter.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>This Natsume Chikage... actually achieved this point under the premise of almost no systematic training.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>His physical fitness is probably an extraordinary existence; he’s afraid he has natural divine strength.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Otherwise, it is absolutely impossible to crush technology purely relying on talent in this overbearing way of \"great power creates miracles.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Hanyu Masaki sighed secretly in his heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Possessing such excellent athletic talent, yet never joining any club, never revealing his edge.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>This person Natsume Chikage... is really hard to see through.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>At this moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Natsume Chikage confirmed that the outcome of the match was settled and swept his eyes over the layers of onlookers around him.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The unfamiliar or familiar faces under the sun were full of shock, fanaticism, and incredulity.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>He was not used to being the focus of such attention.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>So he turned and walked toward the position where Konoe Hitomi and Hanyu Masaki were.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"The outcome is decided.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Regarding Shinohara Shingo, as well as the baseball club members who went to the student council to provoke earlier... I will leave the follow-up to Hitomi and the Vice President.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Konoe Hitomi nodded slightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Rest assured.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Her voice was as calm as ever, without any emotional fluctuation.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"You and the people around you will not see them again in the future.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Natsume Chikage heard this and always felt there was some subtle meaning in these words, but he couldn't put his finger on it.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>He paused, then nodded.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Yeah.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Hanyu Masaki was silent for a few seconds on the side, his gaze lingering on Natsume Chikage’s calm face for a long time.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"To be honest—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"I didn't expect your strength in baseball to be so solid.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"But regardless, congratulations on your victory.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Natsume Chikage met his gaze and nodded slightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Thank you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Shinohara Shingo was still kneeling in the dirt of the batter’s box.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>He seemed to have lost the strength to stand up.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>He lost.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Lost completely, without any power to fight back.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>He lowered his head, staring fixedly at the small patch of dirt on the ground soaked by his own sweat.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Impossible... how is this possible...\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>He roared repeatedly in his heart, but his throat couldn't make any sound.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Unless it was a prodigy descending to the world.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Otherwise, how could someone reach this professional-level pitching standard in just two days?\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>But he also understood.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Whether Natsume Chikage was a true genius or had hidden his strength in the past—\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The result would not change at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Lost... is lost.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>According to the bet, he and the other few members who participated in the provocation must immediately apply for expulsion.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Not only that, they would also be prohibited from continuing to engage in their beloved baseball sport.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Even... not allowed to approach Natsume Chikage and those around him in any form.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Among which what pained him most was never being able to see Yukimura Suzune again.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The girl he had secretly looked up to since junior high school and carefully hidden in the bottom of his heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>But what made him even more unable to bear was another thing—\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>His professional baseball path.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>That path he had firmly believed in since elementary school, leading straight to a glorious future—\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>At this moment, was cut off by his own hands.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Damn it...\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Damn it, ahhhhh!!!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>He clenched his fists suddenly and smashed them into the dirt beside him.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>His nails sank into the wet, soft soil, embedded with gravel, but he didn't feel the pain at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>He should have been a star player shining on the professional field.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Should have been receiving cheers from thousands on the pitcher’s mound at Koshien.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Should have...\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Tears gushed out of his eyes uncontrollably, mixed with the sweat on his forehead, and dripped into the dust.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>But... no one cared about him.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Those few baseball club members who looked like lackeys earlier couldn't care about comforting him at this moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Their faces were pale, pointing at each other’s noses, arguing emotionally.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"It’s all you! At the beginning, you were the one who insisted on dragging us to the student council to provoke!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Fart! It was clearly Shinohara Shingo who instigated us, and now you’re blaming me?!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"It’s over, it’s all over... expulsion, and banned from competition... what will I do in the future!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"If I had known this, even if I died, I wouldn't have gotten involved in this damn thing!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Shinohara Shingo listened to the mutual accusations and shirking of responsibility of his former \"partners,\" and the indignation in his heart almost exploded his chest.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>He turned his head sharply, his eyes red, and cursed back hoarsely.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Shut up!! What qualifications do you have to blame me?! Didn't you all clap and cheer at the time, thinking victory was certain?!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The few people instantly tangled together, but were separated by the student council members who quickly stepped forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Hanyu Masaki paced in front of them, looking down at this group of miserable losers.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>There was no mockery in his eyes, nor was there any sympathy.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Only a kind of calmness that things had reached this point.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"According to the bet, you have lost.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>His voice was steady, but carried an irresistible weight.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Please submit your expulsion applications yourself within today.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Of course, you can also choose not to write them.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>He turned sideways, his gaze sweeping over the few men in black standing quietly behind him.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"But the consequences—I think you understand.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Shinohara Shingo and his group completely lost their last trace of will to resist the moment they saw those men in black.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>They went limp on the spot, as if all their strength had been drained.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The Mido family... that was an existence they absolutely could not defy.\u003C\u002Fp>",1058,"2026-06-15T07:10:31.195Z","2026-06-17T08:41:32.805Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","925d368313c568b1190f028d1d545ba75a29deffc9fb2f7c3c87546cca335b09","tokyo-you-call-this-normal-equipment-chapter-564","tokyo-you-call-this-normal-equipment-chapter-562",624,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Ftokyo-you-call-this-normal-equipment-cover.jpg"]