60 Seido High Vs. Komadai Fujimaki

In Rei's Dorm, the day before Seido left for Koshien.

Rei layed on his bed exploring his system's shop. He gasped every single time he saw a ridiculous price.

'If this goes on, I don't think I'll ever be able to use these cool skills', thought Rei sighing. He had no coins in his bank balance.

"AHHH!", yelled Rei as he suddenly remembered something.

Kanemaru who was trying to sleep gave Rei a deathly glare.

Laughing awkwardly Rei apologized and continued thinking about his System shop.

Rei couldn't stop smiling as he finally figured out the solution. "I almost forgot about the new update the system had recently".

To earn more coins Rei had to strike out batters.

Remembering this feature Rei decided to experiment with it.

Since this feature was related to batting, Rei looked toward Kanemaru to see if it would work.

A window popped up above Kanemaru's head as Rei glared at him.

[COINS:20]

'Wooah…it does work. Cool!', thought Rei excited.

Just to be sure, Rei looked toward Chris senpai who was at his study table working.

[COINS: 500]

Rei's eyes widened looking at the number of coins. The image of gold coins sparkled in Rei's eyes.

'On second thought, why is it showing only 20 coins for Kanemaru? Does it differentiate between players based on their batting skills? That's why Chris senpai has 500', thought Rei.

"HAHAHA…", Rei broke out laughing thinking how Kanemaru sucks at batting and was only worth 20 puny coins.

Kanemaru who was reading a manga felt a shiver up his spine.

Rei thought of exploring the system shop for skills and seeing what kind of skills are available.

[Skill Experience: While continuously using one skill. The Host can gain double experience to level the skill up.

Duration: 2 hours a day.

Cost: 10,000 coins]

Rei thought the skill was useful but changed his mind looking at the cost.

Scrolling through the shop, Rei saw many other skills he liked.

[Stamina Boost

Duration: 2 hours a day

Costs: 5000]

[Training Manual: Consists of various training plans designed by MLB players.

Costs: 50,000]

[Image Training: During sleep, you can practice your skills and raise your attributes.

Activated when the Host is asleep

Cost:50,000]

Rei was in love with the skill, of 'Image Training'. I mean who wouldn't like it? unless, of course, you hated training.

'Ahhhh…I'm going crazy for real. Why are all these skills so expensive? I'll have to save up for these skills but knowing myself I will probably spend them on miscellaneous things in the store', thought Rei feeling hopeless.

'I thought I escaped capitalism but even the system I'm bound with, is using it', thought Rei sighing.

"You coming to the cafeteria, everyone's gathered there", said Chris breaking Rei out of his thoughts.

Rei nodded and went to the lobby.

In the Cafetaria. Everyone was sitting around a table and discussing about Koshien.

Rei realized that if he got to play during the match, he would gain a lot of coins striking out batters at the national level.

'I can't wait to pitch', thought Rei. He was thinking of Koshien as a coin machine now.

Present Time.

Seido walked to the Koshien Field.

All the players heard cheering as soon as they entered. They were psyched that they were going to play in such a stadium.

Seeing all the people cheering for them really motivated them. 47,757 that's the stadium's capacity. You could just imagine how many people were in the audience.

After a few minutes, In the Field.

Both teams lined up.

"Attention! Bow!".

Both teams bowed toward each other and went to their dugouts.

In Seido's Dugout.

"We made it to our Dream stage", said Yuki.

All the 3rd years smiled and nodded. They couldn't believe they made it.

"Good luck", said Ryosuke approaching Tanba.

Tanba nodded his arm trembling in nervousness.

Everyone could see how nervous he was.

"Don't worry if you mess up. I'm still here", said Rei provoking him.

All nervousness left Tanba instead he was motivated to show everyone how much of an ace he is.

Seido will be batting first since this was decided by Komadai Fujimaki and Seido's captains.

The Koshien field had been cleaned up and readied for the pitcher.

"MASAMUNE HONGO!"

"THE BASEBALL GOD!"

Cheered the audience seeing Masamune walk towards the mound.

There were even some scouts that came to observe him even though he was only a 1st year. They clicked pictures of him and took out their notepads.

Hearing half of the audience cheer for Masamune really intimidated Seido's Dugout.

Kuramochi gulped nervously as he walked to the batter's box.

After a few minutes, a siren was heard signaling the start of the match.

The second Kuramochi looked towards the pitcher; Masamune had thrown his pitch already.

"STRIKE!", yelled the umpire.

'A-are you serious? A Fastball? At that speed!', thought Kuramochi in disbelief.

"MASAMUNE THROWS A PITCH AT 160 KM RIGHT OFF THE BAT! AS EXPECTED OF THE ACE OF KOMADAI FUJIMAKI!", announced the announcer.