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Diamond no Ace : The Pitcher Returns

Major league relief pitcher Sawamura returns to his boyhood, makes up for his regrets, finds his dreams, and recreates a glorious story. The story is long, take it slow… Not my story just posting the MTL.

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On the strike area, Nanami stood there as steady as Mount Tai.

Needless to say, just looking at the momentum is enough to make people look sideways.

Some people are born to be jealous. As long as he's standing there, it's the centre of attention.

Nanami is such a person, although his appearance is not very outstanding, he can only be regarded as ordinary. But it is this man who is ordinary in appearance but has an amazing talent. If it weren't for him, Nagano Metropolitan would not have been able to make it all the way to the national final.

National runner-up! (primary school)

National top four! (last year)

These names, before Nanami Haruna appeared, had nothing to do with Nagano Prefecture.

It is because of his appearance that the golden generation of Nagano was born.

If there is no Sawamura, Nanami Haruna is definitely the first person in Nagano Prefecture, and he will be the pride of Nagano for the next ten or twenty years.

But that all changed when Sawamura appeared.

The speed of the ball is on par with Nanami Haruna, and although the change in the ball path is not as great as Nanami Haruna, he has several tricky straight balls in his hands.

If it's just that his strength is higher than Nanami Haruna, the most terrifying thing is that Sawamura is still good-looking. Whether it is from a man's standpoint or a woman's standpoint, Sawamura has to admit that he is a handsome guy.

Beauty is justice!

Since the duel between Sawamura and Nanami Haruna, the two have been evenly matched. Nagano fans abandoned their former little prince Nanami Haruna without hesitation and began to chase after Sawamura.

Who made Sawamura's appearance more capable?

From Nanami Haruna's standpoint, Sawamura is definitely his enemy. It was Sawamura's appearance that took everything that belonged to him.

Fortunately, the guy has a pure and pure nature, and he didn't have a grudge against Sawamura because of this.

Although there is no enmity, there is still a sense of competition.

Nanami Haruna, who is now standing on the opposite side of Sawamura, shows his determination not to back down.

Even at this moment, the Great Demon King Sawamura has already spread his fame far and wide, and he is so red that he turns purple.

When Nanami Haruna was standing on the opposite side of Sawamura, he still showed his uncompromising bearing.

Sawamura once felt the bearing of a top hitter from Nanami Haruna, this is no joke. Nanami Haruna does have the potential to become a top hitter!

Facing such an opponent, Sawamura couldn't help but start to get serious.

The small white ball in his hand kept circling in Sawamura's palm and finally settled on a position.

Holding the baseball firmly in his hand, Sawamura stepped out, and as his centre of gravity shifted, Sawamura's arm threw out like a whip.

Two fingers firmly hooked on the white ball, giving the ball the last push.

"Whoosh!"

The white ball shot, like a rocket, constantly breaking through the barriers of space.

In the strike area, Nanami Haruna's expression became serious.

So fast, faster than he imagined.

This is the legendary speeding straight ball!

Well done!

Because he was mentally prepared, Nanami Haruna was not caught off guard. He seized the right moment and calmly waved his bat.

As soon as the bat was released, the small white ball appeared in the strike zone as if teleporting, breaking through Nanami Haruna's bat and into Ren's open glove.

"Bang!"

There was a crisp sound, and the whole place was silent.

"strike!"

Nanami Haruna's swing was still too late.

On the hitting area, Sawamura sorted out his bat. Instead of looking back at Ren, he stared at Sawamura firmly, replaying the shot just now in his mind.

The ball, faster than he just imagined!

He was not halfway through his swing when the ball went into the strike zone.

The ball speed display is 131 km!

But Nanami Haruna knew that if he swung the bat at a 131-kilometre rhythm, he probably wouldn't be able to hit the bat in time.

One hundred and thirty-five, or even higher.

You have to swing at this rhythm to catch up.

On the pitcher's mound, Sawamura's expression was also not relaxed.

Although he knew that Nanami's swing failed, Nanami's swing was a little faster than before!

"He knew I was going to shoot a speeding straight ball?"

Intuition or eyesight?

Sawamura didn't know, but no matter what it was, it wouldn't make it easy. Hits depend on feel, and hitters with good ball feel are naturally difficult to deal with. Of course, the eyes can see the difference in the speed of the batter, which is even more difficult to deal with.

That means that the hitter has a dynamic vision far beyond ordinary people.

Need to try it!

After making up his mind, Sawamura threw a change-up for the second pitch.

"Clang!"

The ball was aimed at by Nanami Haruna, and it flew out of bounds.

"Foul!"

The speeding straight ball and the change-up ball were fast and slow, and Sawamura would not believe that Nanami Haruna had caught up with his intuition.

This kid has a dynamic vision that makes people jealous.

Sawamura complained in a mentally unbalanced manner, but this did not affect his resolution of Nanami.

"Whoosh!"

After taking the lead with two strikes, Sawamura hit the third.

On the strike zone, Nanami was in a strict lineup, waiting for the ball to arrive.

coming!

Looking at the path of the ball, Nanami Haruna decisively swings the bat.

"Buzz!"

The low swing is mixed with extremely powerful power.

But Sawamura's ball disappeared in front of the bat.

"Bang!"

"Strike, strike out!"

Nanami's face turned serious, knowing that he had been fooled.

Sawamura's last shot is a floating ball that can deceive the batter's sight!

The floating ball, even if the hitter has dynamic vision, looks no different from a normal straight ball.

"The tenth!"

At the end of the second half of the fourth inning, Sawamura scored his tenth strikeout of the game.

In the first half of the fifth inning, Nanami Haruna easily scored three outs.

In the second half of the fifth inning, Sawamura faced Tenryuji's fourth bat, Hirata. After two straight balls, he struck out the opponent with a change-up.

At the end of the game, Sawamura's strikeouts rose to thirteen.

In the first half of the sixth inning, Nanami Haruna also seemed to be stimulated.

Nine strikes Yamazaki, one Oda and second Renya.

In the second half of the sixth inning, Sawamura raised his strikeouts to 16 with tit-for-tat!

That leaves him just one short of his record of 17 strikeouts in a single game.

The game has one last round!

It seems that Sawamura is close to tying or even surpassing his own record.

By the way, Nanami Haruna has a lot of strikeouts in this game, and now he has eleven.

In the first half of the seventh inning, Akagi Middle School attacked.

"The third batter, catcher, Ren."

In the Akagi dugout.

"Better get another point."

Sawamura whispered softly to Ren.

So far, it looks like Tenryuji has lost. The strange thing is that the players of Tenryuji still have no intention of giving up the game.

Being crushed so badly, he still doesn't give up.

To say that there is no ghost in Tenryuji's heart, Sawamura would definitely not believe it.

"I know!"

Ren nodded and looked at Nanami on the pitcher's mound, with high fighting spirit flashing in his eyes.

Judging from the current situation, Nanami Haruna probably won't evade the confrontation between him and Sawamura.

"Then let me see how much strength you have, the proud son of the sky!"