Chapter 137 - Sports Festival and Reward (2/2)

“Hiiragi-chan came to watch?”

“Really…? Just for our match…?”

Beyond the net, Hiiragi-chan waved her hand.

“Did she come to watch me…?”

“No, she came to watch me.”

“You mean me.”

“Nono.”

All of a sudden, everybody started fiddling with themselves, brushing aside their bangs, or tweaking their gym clothes or jersey.

She probably came to take pictures of me. She did say before that she could get drunk just off of my videos.

“Good luck!”

Everyone waved back at her. The upperclassmen that had taken their positions suddenly put on serious expressions.

“Well well, senpai—”

“Hiiragi-chan”

“Came to see”

“Us.”

Other than me, everyone on my team had their bat resting against their shoulder and a serious expression. Everyone is super conscious of her.

Within the high tensioned atmosphere, the match began.

“Kouhai! Hiiragi-chan is still too early for you guys!”

Zudooon. Unlike the supposedly friendly match that it was supposed to be, the sound of something hitting the mitt rang out.

W-what was that just now? That was super-fast! Last time, it was just casual slow balls that followed a parabolic trajectory! I could at least somewhat hit the ball with the bat last time.

T-they’ve all awakened… Thanks to Hiiragi-chan coming to watch. That’s the difference between last time and this time.

My team got depressed for a moment. We were all in funeral mode.

Even before thinking of taking points off of our awakened upperclassmen, we couldn’t even get a runner out onto a base. However, it seems that there weren’t any good upperclassmen on the team, we were somehow able to overcome the situation.

Then, on the last round—

Just as I was thinking that it would be okay for this to be a scoreless draw, we were able to get one runner on base, and then another—and now it was my turn to bat.

Why!? Why couldn’t it have just ended before it got to me!?

It seems that the first upperclassman overdid it. The balls were now the parabolic slower ones.

It was the first time our team had a chance. Uwaah… so much pressure…

“Sanada-kun, you can do this.”

“You can hit it!”

I didn’t notice it before, but there were actually girls that came to cheer us on.

Seeing the girls from our class cheer for me, Hiiragi-chan’s eyes became empty, pitch-black like the abyss.

“Of course… he’s cool after all… from a girl’s perspective, you would want to support him…”

While holding the camera, she was muttering something, reminding me of a Buddhist monk.

Amidst the nervousness, I stepped up to the plate, and the referee started the play.

“Hey hey, the batter is scared!”

Fujimoto, whose ally are you?

“H-Hiiragi-chan is still, too early for you…!”

Saying the same thing as before, the upperclassman threw the ball.

Hiiragi-chan is my girlfriend, so talking about whether it’s too early or too late—

“Don’t grip it too hard with your left hand!”

That’s the only sports advice you know!?

“““Sensei…”””

Because of the strange retort that was added in, everything was one tempo off—However, it worked.

The bat I swung hit the ball. The impact was felt by my hand. The ball flew off at an angle.

The ball headed left of the middle, and held a long trajectory.

R-really? While running, I was the most surprised.

“Amazing, amazing!”

Hiiragi-chan expressed huge excitement as she jumped up and down while clapping her hands from behind the net. Her camera is bouncing around everywhere. Is that okay?

Off the back of those two scores, the team was able to keep the other team to a score of zero and earned a splendid victory.

“Nice bat!”

I exchanged some high-fives with my teammates.

“Sanada-kun, you’re pretty good.”

“That was amazing, Sanada-kun! I was super surprised!”

I even gave high fives to the girls that came over.

My friend, Fujimoto, sat on the corner of the bench.

“If I played… would the girls be all over me like that…?”

With his heart 100% full of tears, he watched with distant eyes.

“Well, there may have been a chance.”

“I-I’m playing the next match!”

Nice! And so, I ended up being a substitute in the next match. However, it wasn’t that anyone was bad, but that the other team was too good. So it ended in an uneventful loss, ending the sports festival.

With this, I’ll be able to get my reward from Hiiragi-chan. I did ask for that… In the first place, being able to see her panties like that was…