CHAPTER 6 : 14 years old

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I was currently doing my batting practice in our backyard, I do this every night before washing up and going to sleep. My ideal player in mind that I'm chasing to become is an Ace pitcher who dominates both the mound and batter box, it has always been like that in my past life and I never see that changing in this life.

*SWISHHHHH

It's the sound of my weighted wooden bat being swing by me. I started using this weighted bat of mine when I was 12, it really helps increasing my swinging speed and power.

It has been 3 years since that day dad and I played catch in the park. I'm now 14 years old in this life, currently in my last grade of middle school.

I closed my eyes, steady my batting stance, firmly holding the bat at the same time relaxing my body muscles and imagining a fastball coming at me then swinging my bat when it's the perfect time.

*SWISHHHHH

"Hah okay, that's my 400th swing for tonight. Time to wash up and rest" I said to myself, I am doing 400 batting swings every night here in our backyard. It might look that I'm overdoing it since I'm doing physical exercises and my pitching exercise during the day but I could handle all of that work. I already said this but my body really is peculiar in this life, I once jammed my finger while practicing my batting in pitching machines in Old man goro batting cages and it's supposed to fully recover after a couple of days but within the next day when I wake up my fingers is all healed up which shock me that day.

I already notice my fast recovery rate when I was a kid but it still amazes me with how fast it actually is that day. Is this because I've reincarnated? When I'm concentrating too I could always go beyond what I could do but I'm still working on improving that since it took too much mental strength every time I enter in a hyper focus state, I can only do it a couple of times before feeling it taking a toll on my brain.' I need to work harder' I thought to myself.

I made my way back inside the house and lock the sliding door in our backyard. I've look in our wall clock and it's already 9 pm, I think mom is already sleeping. So I quietly go upstairs in the bathroom to wash up myself so I could rest.

When I'm done with it, I get inside my room stopping at a full body mirror looking at myself being reflected on it.

There it reflected a 181cm teenage boy with just a balance proportion in muscles. Not too big and also not too lean. I have long arms and legs, black hair still wet that almost covered my eyes 'ahh I need to get a haircut' I thought, my Heterochromia eyes that is bright brown and bright blue shining.

I'm really handsome ehh? I think to myself smiling. I'm really glad since I've been blessed in my physical attributes and appearance in this life but sometimes it's getting annoying being this handsome. I chuckled at that boastful remark of mine.

I have always attracted unwanted attention since I was a kid, considering my appearance and my unique eye always on display. Girls always trying to get my attention at my middle school on which sometimes brings me troubles, nothing that I couldn't take care of though.

I don't have any interest in dating kids you know what I mean? I'm an old man inside hahah. I died being single in my last life and at the moment I don't see myself dating not until I've achieved my goals in life.

I could say I'm currently married to Baseball.

I made myself comfortable at my bed while watching baseball games in my phone since I'm still waiting for my hair to dry up before sleeping.

"There's really a lot of monsters out there huh?" I said to myself as I continued watching MLB games on my phone. My goal is to dominate that place and to do that I need to beat these monsters so I have no choice but to become a monster among monsters.

"I really need to work hard" I mumbled softly.

Work harder than anyone else. I need to pushed myself to my limits every time since I have too big of an ambition and slacking off wasn't an option.

I continued watching MLB players play on my phone and as time passed I fell asleep in that condition without myself knowing.

~The next day.~

I'm currently here at my middle school walking towards my classroom and as usual I always notice people looking at my direction especially girls.

When I've arrived Infront of my classroom, my classmates look at me on which I pay no mind and walk towards my seat, it's in the last row beside the window.

I can't help but overhear what they're talking about as I made myself comfortable at my seat. They're talking about on which highschool they're entering. I don't really have someone I could call my friends here since I don't talk much, there's no one who shares the same interest as me here.

"I'm going to Tokyo for highschool"

"Really!? What school in Tokyo?"

"I also decided to go study at Tokyo after middle school"

"Wow you guys are lucky, I'll be staying here kanagawa"

"Me too, I'll be staying in kanagawa for highschool but go to Tokyo for university in the future"

They're all talking about there plans for highschool, it makes sense since we're graduating middle school in about 6 months.

"What about you Tsubayoshi?" My girl classmate said which I don't know her name since I forgot about it.

"Huh? What do you mean?" I replied surprised since I didn't expect someone to talk to me.

"Where do you plan to go for highschool?" She replied back.

'ohh, highschool' I thought about it, I haven't really look for a highschool yet at this point since I've been too caught up with my daily practice lately.

I really need to seriously think about it huh? Highschool is where I'll mark the start of my baseball career I have been laying the foundation for it these past few years.

'I need to do a thorough research on which highschool would be suitable for me to go' I said to myself. I'm an unknown baseball player in this life, no one at school knows I played the game as I haven't really joined any baseball game yet so I'm still a nobody.

I just look my classmate who I still don't remember the name and replied to her.

"I still don't know"