Chapter 2: Fujio Mine

'Eijun-kun is amazing!'

Kominato Haruichi looked at Sawamura with bright eyes.

It's not surprising that Kanemaru is in a hurry, he should know about the assessment. After all, the Matsutaka Junior High baseball team is one of the talent bases of Seidou High School. Almost every year, Matsutaka players join Seidou.

Among the seniors in the second and third grades, many are from Matsutaka Junior High. They will also take care of their juniors to some extent, such as the information disclosed to them in advance.

As a pure rookie and a high-profile pure rookie at that, Sawamura was immediately promoted to the first string as soon as he joined Seidou High School. Unexpectedly, he would still pay attention to the promotion system of the Second String and the Third String.

'Not only his performance on the field is eye-catching, but Eijun-kun's intelligence collection ability is also at the expert level.' (LOL)

If Sawamura knew that Haruichi thought of him that way, he would definitely have laughed at his big imagination.

He is not as diligent and smart as Haruichi imagined. The reason why Sawamura is aware of all the promotion systems of Seidou High School is only because he stayed at Seidou High School for a long time.

In his previous life, he spent three full years in Seidou.

In terms of time alone, he stayed longer than the current batch of third-year seniors.

"You have to prepare well! Although you may have joined the Second String now, the players in the Second String can also work hard to climb to the First String. As long as you can appeal and show your sense of existence, you can get a seat with the First String."

"I will definitely join the First String."

For Sawamura, it may be casual encouragement. But for the young Kominato, he is very serious.

No matter what, he had to climb into the string and enter Koshien with his brother in the uniform of Seidou High School.

This is the dream of Kominato Haruichi, and it is for this dream that he came to Seidou.

Kominato Haruichi is the second baseman of the second string, the main second baseman, and the little brother of Kominato Ryosuke.

Leaving aside the stories of the brothers. Sawamura, after chatting with Haruichi, was ready to go to class after eating.

With the advantage of rebirth, Sawamura's grades were not top-notch, but they didn't fall too far and belonged to the middle ranks.

"Very sleepy!"

During class, the teacher's earnest teaching voice became a lullaby, and Sawamura fell drowsy on the table.

Not far from him, Kanemaru's eyes were full of fighting spirit.

In this selection, he will be promoted to the Second String no matter what. Then in one go, squeeze into the first string before summer.

This first year is called the harvest year.

After the Orientation match, there were only two people who were directly selected into the first string, Sawamura Eijun, and Furuya Satoru.

In addition to them, Kominato Haruichi was also directly promoted to the Second String.

In the past few years of Seidou High School, like them, it can't be said that no one has been promoted this fast, but at most, there is only one. For example, in the current third-year players, it is said that no one has been promoted in the spring competition and the Kanto Tournament. It was not until the summer that Yuuki Tetsuya the Captain was promoted to the first string.

The real situation was somewhat different from what Kanemaru had learned. For example, the first year that was promoted that summer was not just Tetsuya, but also Chris, who was a catcher at the time. During this time, Chris's fame was much bigger than right now.

In the second grade, Miyuki was promoted to the first string in the spring. During the summer, Kuramochi was promoted as a substitute.

But this time, Sawamura and Furuya were directly promoted to the first string, and Kominato Haruichi was promoted to the second string.

It is unprecedented to promote three people at once.

"I can't fall behind!"

Kanemaru Shinji's fist clenched, ambition is overflowing from his heart.

Sawamura Eijun is the famous Demon King from middle school. It is only natural for a star player like him to join Seidou and be used immediately.

It is said that if he hadn't made a mistake, he might have started training with the First String from the first day he joined Seidou High School.

What kind of treatment is this?

He is directly treated as combat power.

When Sawamura Eijun just entered school, he was already determined by the coaching staff of Seidou High School as their summer combat power.

But what about Furuya Satoru, what about Kominato Haruichi?

Although they can scare people with one pitch and achieve results with one hit.

But regardless of fame or overall strength, Kanemaru didn't think he would lose to them.

Why can't he do it too?

Kanemaru struggled to prove himself.

At this time, some of the more powerful members of the freshman team had this idea. For example, Toujou, Takatsu, and Kaneda.

But the old students are not to be outdone, especially the third-year students, who have not even joined the Second String until now, and there are very few practice games.

How could they easily give up their places to their Kohais in their last term?

Promotion!

The best of the third string is promoted to the second string, and the best of the second string will train with the first string. Before the camp, the last-place elimination system is adopted, and the excess places are kicked out.

This is the selection system of Seidou, cruel and ruthless.

At the same time, in the Superintendent's Office of the Baseball Club of Seidou High School.

Coach Kataoka welcomed his guest, Fujio Mine, a senior reporter from Baseball Kingdom Magazine.

To be honest, since Seidou High School won the championship in the Kanto Tournament, the reporters who were trying to interview Seidou High School and interview Sawamura could line up from the school gate of Seidou High School to the end of the street.

But these reporters were rejected by Kataoka. With two months away from the summer games, he really didn't want his students to be disturbed by any unnecessary distractions.

He doesn't want the players to think of themselves as stars and overestimate themselves.

But in this world, no one can live in a vacuum.

People always have their own social circle.

Just like now, Kataoka can reject others, but it is difficult for him to reject Fujio Mine.

Before, during Seidou High School's silent and harsh years. Seidou High School was questioned because they never made it to Koshien.

That isn't all, the harshest thing is that your players will have a difficult time becoming famous due to team performance.

Without fame, you are not eligible to enter the draft of the Pro. Without the gold plating of the draft, the players of Seidou High School would have to go through many twists and turns to enter professional baseball.

During that time, all Seidou High School could rely on was magazines. Increase the fame of players through magazines!

Not to mention other players, just the two most recent players who became famous through magazines, the Monster Batter Azuma Kiyokuni and the Savior of Seidou Miyuki Kazuya all came from the hands of Fujio Mine.

Without the help of others, as Azuma has no experience of playing in Koshien, is it possible to be nominated for fourth place in the draft?

When you were in trouble, they helped you, but now they are asking for your help, aren't you too embarrassed to turn them away?

Kataoka couldn't do something so unprofessional.

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T/N: The First Chapter!