Ch.81 Event Stream "Brutality! Buster Ball!" ⑧

The game continued smoothly (?) despite the constant roaring noise.

『The next batter is Kugui Rei. She usually plays only otome games and wears shining glasses saying, 'There is no man I can't win over,' but will she be able to do this?』

As my announcement echoed through the stadium, Rei-senpai adjusted her glasses and took up her bat.

I thought she was a true indoor person, but she has a pretty confident attitude.

Her intelligent eyes fixed straight on the pitcher, Ouka.

"Wh, wh, wh... why me?"

Ouka is holding the white ball with a completely hesitant look on her face.

Well, Yuuna-senpai, who was the pitcher until just now, has become a star.

So they played rock-paper-scissors to see who would throw, and she ended up losing.

"Give me more projects, you old hag!" she yelled at Sanka, the president of our Prisma Ark, and the pitch was returned to her and she attacked.

As she was flipped over, her genmates, Ellis-senpai and Chariot-senpai, immediately took advantage of the situation and pursued her, defeating her before she could even be caught.

The stadium erupts.

I think the three members of "MahoMikoId" are so popular because it has become a style that the more they get carried away, the more they suffer.

Truly loved by the god of laughter.

Maybe the other two will follow suit soon.

Even though it's become a regular occurrence, it's amazing how they can always convince themselves that they're different.

Since she was defeated, she was given a rest period, and now she was heckling from the bench, saying, "The pitcher is scared! Hey hey hey!" She was a woman who didn't waver.

"I-if it has comes to this...Eyy!"

Ouka throws the ball with her eyes tightly closed.

Spin spin spin spin...pomf.

"Ball!"

『Ouka's first pitch was a ball. To be honest, I'm amazed it reached the mid-range. Don't just throw with your arm! Use your whole body!』

"Even if you say that..."

When I give advice while commentating, I get complaints like that in return.

『Raise your legs! Twist your hips! Focus your attention on your fingertips, return your twisted hips, and swing your arms through! Repeat after me!』

"I-I'm going back home! I'm going to turn on the air conditioner! I'm going to turn on my laptop and lie down under the covers!"

『You...』

What's wrong with you...?

"Ugh. I-I was just joking."

Ouka goes into pitching motion while whining.

She says all sorts of things, but she's still trying to throw slowly but exactly as I told her to.

『That commentary was very personal, huh.』

Kaguya-senpai's sullen gaze.

Because I'm worried.

『The pitcher threw the second ball.』

This time the ball goes straight into the catcher's mitt.

"Strike!"

Ouka breathes a sigh of relief as she receives the ball returned by the catcher.

After that, with two balls and one strike, the count was full and the final pitch was thrown.

Rei-senpai's glasses lit up.

It was as if she had been waiting for that ball.

"We've got all the data. The probability of hitting the inside straight is 100%!!!"

Bang!

Plop.

"Strike! Batter's out!"

"That's not logical...!"

Rei-senpai collapses and falls to one knee.

She looks like a literature person, but she seems to be having fun.

『Her reading was correct though.』

『She was swinging over the ball with all her might.』

There's no point in reading it if you can't hit it with the bat.

In other words, what kind of data can be gathered from just one turn at bat?

I think the only thing that matters is that she only has one pitch, the straight, and she has no control.

"I, I did it... I did it...!"

Ouka was stunned, but gradually realized that she had made her opponent struck out.

She bloomed in joyous colors, like a bud blossoming.

"Well done, Ouka! Keep it up and kill the remaining two! I don't mind if you kill them! I'm talking about the "kill" part!"

Even the captain, Yuuna-senpai, smiled at this.

Next, she faced off against her genmate, Momiji, who looked like a big shot, but she struck her out on three pitches.

How could she swing so hard even though they were all shitty balls?

I'm sure I'm not the only one who wanted to tilt my head in agreement as dhe returned to the bench with her head tilted.

"Momiji is really useless except for singing."

Kikyo-senpai said to Momiji-senpai who had returned to the bench.

One of the great things about VR space is that you can hear conversations far away by simply moving the camera's viewpoint.

"I'm not a loser. The ball just went right through my bat."

"In the first place, your bat never even got within striking distance."

"I really wonder what kind of sanity the developers have to leave such a bug unfixed."

"I want to tell that to your parents."

That's aside from the hilarious exchange between the two of them.

Ouka was letting her foolish fantasies of professional baseball... scouting... triple crown... Sawasawa Award... major league... etc. take flight, but it seems she was woken up by the next batter's easy home run. Also, it's not the Sawasawa Award, it's the Sawamura Award.

Well, it would be enough if an amateur could limit it to one point.

Putting aside the fact that they are all amateurs.

When Ouka returned trembling, Yuuna-senpai lightly patted her on the shoulder and said, "Well done."

Perhaps, from a composition perspective, you might think that a scary senior is yelling at someone, but it's actually a junior receiving a compliment.

Or a picture of a delinquent offering an umbrella to a cat on a rainy day.

Or the chorus of Smile Bomb.

Ouka was taken aback by the reaction, which was the complete opposite of what she had expected, but gradually a sparkle began to form in her eyes.

『I wonder if that child is okay?』

Kaguya-senpai says.

She does clearly look like an easy target.

What's more, it's the kind of reaction that would get her caught up in an abusive relationship.

『Well, I think it'll be fine. If there's a day—hmm, no, even half a day—without any conversation, the relationship value with her is reset.』

『How does that even work?』

This is a tendency that is often seen in shy people.

『CEO and I are both worried.』

When I looked at the CEO, who is also her mother, I saw her sigh with a troubled look on her face.

That's just her quality - 3 steps forward and 2.7 steps back.

I guess I should consider it better that she didn't take 3 steps back.

There's also an awkward atmosphere between her and Shizuku-senpai due to the previous exchange.

I wish there was something that could bring them a little closer.

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Author's note :

I apologize for the incredibly late update.

I am especially grateful to those who have given me gifts despite the long period of no updates.

The next chapter will be posted tomorrow at 11am, completing this story and the second arc.