Personal practice

Miyuki and Mio head up to their usual place. Then Mio voice out his opinion.

'Miyuki-senpai I think I want to stop throwing forkball.'

'Hmm, why?'

'My instinct told me'

'...that's a good choice Mio. Splitter and forkball were pretty much similar and by throwing a similar pitch it will only burden you when the outcome is not that different than the other. Exactly why did you learn it in the first place?' Miyuki grumbles by Mio's excellent talent to let him face problem.

'..'

They end their little talk and start their pitching sessions.

*BOOM*

*BOOM*

'..'

'Okay nice pitch, it seems your fastballs have improved. Now show me your change up.'

*Nodded*

Mio always practice to throw his change-up when he finish his routine. This way he can improve it faster and use it for the summer tournament. He cherish every minute and use it with dedication. It took him a month to have a good control over his change-up. Let's see how good he is.

*Fwosh*

*Fwosh*

*Fwosh*

'How is it?'

'It's good! We can use this in a game' Miyuki look excited. He feel that he will die out of happiness. How many time already? Mio keep surprising him again and again. It's not hard to guess seeing Mio's talent for baseball but he can't help but marvel about his awesomeness.

'Ahh! Mio about that cutter of yours, can you explain it?' Miyuki remember his question unanswered by him.

'That? umm I can throw my cutter with both hands. Of course it was completely different from each other though. My left hand's cutter were slightly weak than my right hand'

'Did this apply to all of your pitches?'

'Ermmm, yes. I'm left handed but I can use both hands to throw. Well my right handed pitches are weak compared to my left hand tho'

'Your talent is a cheat!' Miyuki spat out. Oops bulleyes, Miyuki-senpai you're right. Mio laugh internally.

***

Kanto Tournament

'Pitcher change, Fujikawa Mio.'

The coach decided to include Mio in the kanto tournament, he should gain a real experience from a match to familiarize himself. Mio's debut will shake highschool baseball, coach kataoka was sure about this.

'Ehh? They're bringing a tenth grader in?'

'Is seido letting go of the match'

'Has seido finally lost it?'

The Yokohama bench was infuriated when seido seem looking down on them. The coach growl.

'Go! show the the price of looking down on us too much'

However, instead of them dominating seido it was the other way round. Mio pitching was looking good than ever. The audience on the bleachers was shock by the sudden emergence of a monster.

'Did you see?!'

'How fast was that?!'

'I think that's close to 150km/h or even reaching it!'

'What's more he's a southpaw!'

'Hey note down his name!'

'What his name again?'

'Fujikawa something? whatever just write down his name.'

The audience, scouts and student coming to watch the match gave of a different reactions.

'Damn you flower boy! I can't believe he actually came out TT'

'Right?' Kominato and Sawamura on the bleachers also watching the game. Furuya way how Mio dominated the mound.

-I'm not gonna lose Mio-kun.

'But Eijun-kun shouldn't you happy that you made it to the second string?'

'No. That Chris-senpai is not good at all!'

The decided to entrusted Sawamura to Chris but it's seem that they have a bad relationship. Well sawamura will grow thanks to Chris, that's his journey to improve and getting better himself.