Ball Games Tournament ①
A sunny cloudless day. The final ball games tournament of our high school life is finally here. Renya is all pumped up beside me.
I who say that also practised until today so that I can put what Shizue-san advised me on into practice. Hence, I feel more motivated today compared to the time during the sports festival.
“Kazu-kun is motivated. How rare”
“It’s because I practised this time. Yae, you are also pretty motivated, aren’t you”
“Of course. I’ll definitely win”
Yae who says that while clenching her fist is participating in the dodge ball. She has some kind of secret plan or something from what I heard previously. I shall definitely go and cheer her on since our timing aren’t overlapped.
“Well then, everybody. Since today and tomorrow will be our final ball games tournament, let’s give it our very best so that we don’t leave any regret! And then what we’re aiming for is a whitewash victory!!”
“””Ohー!!!”””
The classmates respond all at once to Nishikida-san’s holler. The ball games tournament finally, raise its curtains!!
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Now then, it’s the third-year male soccer division, round one qualifier. Luckily, it seems that the opponent we are up against is not the soccer club, so the chances of me holding the team back decreased slightly. I am gonna show off the fruits of my practice!!
Along with the whistle, the match started with the opponent’s ball. Maybe it’s because the opponent specialises at attacking from the other side, the ball doesn’t quite come over here. I don’t have to do anything thanks to that, so it’s a breeze though.
“Kazunari!”
Oops, the ball ended up coming as I was thinking about something like that. Since the opponent is also closing in, let’s quickly send the ball away like I was taught by Shizue-san.
I calmly stop the ball with the inner part of my feet, and I kick it flying with all my strength with my right leg!! That’s right, this is the fruit of my training! I became capable of properly sending the ball flying forward without missing and kicking the air!
The ball I kicked strayed far from where I aimed, but it heads towards somewhere without any friend or foe. In other words, it means it’ll be the ball of whoever makes contact with it first though……
“Nice paーーーss!!!”
The first one to reach was Renya. He carries on to go towards the enemy’s goal. His shot that gives no regard to the defenders, who try to stop him, heads towards the goal. Cheers erupt from the audience seats as well.
“Kazunari, nice pass!”
“No, Renya, you’re the one with the nice shot instead. It sure is impressive that you managed to get that huh”
“Well, I’m the one who went along your training the most after all! Keep up that form after this as well!”
Renya who says that with a bright smile was really cool. He really is reliable at times like these huh.
We have the lead, but the match still goes on. I shall do my best without letting up from here on out as well.
