Editing Rapid Fire King:Volume1 Prologue (section)

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The dirt ground was awash in the evening light.

A large white building dyed in that scarlet light sat next to the flat ground.

It was a school building.

Several shadows were cast on the dirt sports field that looked up at the school.

Those shadows belonged to the white-uniformed people dotting the north end of the field.

They were playing baseball.

A blackboard scoreboard stood at the bench in front of the western net. According to that scoreboard, it was April 21, this was an intrasquad game, the score was 3 to 2, it was the bottom of the 9th, and there were two outs. The only runner was on third.

The batter was lefthanded and #7. The count was 2 strikes and 2 balls.

The average height batter held the bat up by his shoulder and a teammate called out to him from the right side of the bench.

“Takamura-senpai! Hit it! Just hit it!”

The batter, Takamura, did not respond.

Meanwhile, a teammate on the left side of the bench called out to the pitcher.

“Naka-senpai! One more pitch! Just one more pitch!”

The pitcher, Naka, turned his head toward that call for one last pitch.

Takamura responded by raising the bat as if resting it on his shoulder.

Just then, he narrowed his eyes.

He looked off into the distance. He stared past the backstop to the walkway connecting school buildings.