Diamond no Ace 71

Daiya no A Chapter 71

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Chapter 71: Cross the Sea

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O- OHH
So fast!!
And that sound! There’s quite some power behind it!!
The ball got power.
Looks like usual, his switch gets turned on as soon as you pitches..

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Okay! That’s enough for today.
Eh?
I can still pitch!
Just listen to me.
Go cool down!
Huh… they’re done already? // He only threw like 10 pitches…
Yeah… Well, they’re in the middle of the tournament. Guess checking up his condition.
Haa..
(OKAY!!)
But the boy on the side is appealing for some time now.
(The next for sure!)
(Here I go!)

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Tokyo - Nerima
Akikawa Academy----
Hey, don’t run away!
Shut up!
Who’s running away! Bring it on!!

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Here it comes~

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O-
Ohhh…
S- So scary~ So that’s 160km/h.
You’ll really die, // if that hits you!!

Page 08

I’m next!
Don’t stand so close!
Batting practice with the machine set to maximun.
So this is a countermeasure against Furuya-kun?
Rather // the main goal is to have the eyes get used to it.
Akikawa Academy’s Coach // Ogata Kazunari
There’s no way one can suddenly hit such a pitch.
All the opponent’s batter tried their luck at Furuya-kun’s high balls.
If one just becomes capable of calmly observing his pitches…
Or rather
No matter how fast, 160km/h is impossible for a Japanese pitcher. (Fufu)
The coach’s favourite phrase “Rather”.
That won’t make an article.

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Next…Outside and low.

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Sorry… That got a bit inside.
Next will be in course.
Gah~~ Damn!! I screwed up!!
Don’t take it to heart! The next one will be the same spot!
Eh!? The Ace himself is a batting pitcher?
Or rather
Shunshin can’t pitch at a normal bull pen.
“Only with a real match, I can polish my control”
This is the pitching practice he came up himself.

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He’s throwing close to 200 pitches a day.
EH!?
..Next is…
All courses.
Okay, bring it on!!
Inside or outside?
What will it be?

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Gah~ Damnit!!
Right in the middle~
(Fufu)
Don’t laugh---!!
A real contest with the batter during free batting!?
Our school mainly focuses on advancing to uni, so we don’t get much training.
Or rather, // Until two years ago, it was a given that we would lose at the first round.
Effective training in the limited time, huh?
(Over here!!)

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Shunshin polishes his control in free batting,
He pitches in course the batter is weak at.
Just because of a single pitcher
Our weak team was reborn…
Glasses…
I see…

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His so called machine-like precise pitching
Was born from these circumstances…
Yan Shunshin (2nd year) [Ehm yeah I know in 69 it said “You” but there the furigana certainly was“You” but now its “Yan”.. The Kanji is the same and it can be read both, so no clue…you decide]

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Even in his homeland, Taiwan
Japanese baseball is broadcasted.
The play of the players he say on TV,
The sparkling and lucent world,
And what moved his heart the most
The appearance of a Taiwanese playing Japanese Pro Baseball.

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….But
Aw~ He struck out~~
What’s wrong with Lin? That’s his fifth continuous strike out!!
This is nothing like his performance until last year.
He’s having trouble with his weakness the in course.
The Japanese player…
Analyzing the opponent, grabbing his weakness and exploiting it without mercy.

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These complicated feelings of him
Someday changed into admiration of Japanese Baseball----
Our school as a long tradition, so we have a partner school in Taiwan.
But Shunshin came here for a Language exchange.
So all members, me included, were stuck in awe when we saw how serious he is towards baseball.
Or rather
Next, in course.
He wanted use whatever chance possible to him, if it allows him to play baseball here.

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This pitch
Is for his parents, who send him here----
This pitch
Is for his host father that provided him with the baseball tools
Food and other things----

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And this pitch…
Is for his team mates
That are fighting together with him---

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Gah~~ The outside, huh~~
(Fufufu)
I told you not to laugh!!
Wow…
It’s just free batting, but every single pitch is so precise…
One first glance, it might look as a one-man team of You-kun…. [there it’s back to “You” lol…]
But the other players are also enjoying themselves…
A team running on such a drive is terrific strong.
Even if the opponent is Seidou, we have plenty of chances against them----