Kato Yusuke's pupils immediately experienced an earthquake.
The left hand that was originally holding Hui was now wrapped around her shoulder, and the right hand with its fingers spread out was placed in front of the girl's eyes, holding the baseball.
The sudden breeze blew the girl's hair around her ears, and also sent a pleasant light fragrance into his nose.
The pink ears and fair skin complement each other.
Staring at the side face in front of him, the boy's obsidian-like eyes were indescribably complicated.
The crowd who witnessed this scene was also in a commotion.
"The ball was aimed at the head just now...?"
"Ah, ah, it seems like..."
"Isn't this too much?"
But when he heard everyone's discussion, Ishikawa, the instigator, frowned and scolded: "I just aimed at the side of the head. If you can't see it, shut up."
Hearing this...
"Eh, but no matter how you look at it, it's..."
A boy in the crowd seemed to want to say something, but was stopped by his companion.
"Hey, the opponent is the famous talented pitcher. He shouldn't make such a mistake, right?"
"is that so……?"
After hearing what his companion said, the boy became less sure.
Either because of his aura or because of his name.
After hearing what Ishikawa said, the students who were watching did not continue to question it.
Seeing this, Ishikawa turned his attention to Kato Yusuke again, and said with some surprise.
"Even if you didn't move just now, the baseball would just wipe your hair and fly past. Although that girl did a lot of unnecessary things, you are still capable of catching my ball."
He looked at Yusuke's face for a while, and then asked: "What's your name? Are you interested in joining the baseball club?"
Throughout the whole process, there was no apology at all on his face, but instead a condescending look on his face.
Kato Yusuke turned a deaf ear to this.
He just let go of the girl in his arms and asked the other party: "Are you injured anywhere, Kato-kun?"
Hui shook her head gently, "Hmm... nothing happened."
Then he lowered his gaze slightly and said, "I'm sorry, I seem to have done something redundant."
The girl stood beside him quietly with a gentle wry smile.
An inexplicable emotion poured into the young man's heart.
Kato Yusuke's eyes fluctuated for a moment, and he moved his lips, but he couldn't speak for a moment. He didn't know whether it was because he was speechless or because the words in his heart were inappropriate.
He just slowly put away the blame in his eyes, wrapping the other person as gently as the vast night sky.
Then he slowly exhaled, raised his lips slightly and said, "No, thank you for coming to save me, Kato-san."
Although the voice was soft, it contained a certain firmness.
As the clear voice entered her ears on the breeze, Hui raised her head and glanced at him, and there seemed to be stars in her eyes.
In the end, it just turned into the word "um".
At the same time, four boys in stand-up collar uniforms stood in front of the two of them and shouted to Ishikawa.
"Hey Ishikawa! You will never be allowed to take action against Brother Kato——!"
"Don't even think about meeting Brother Kato before we fall! You bastard!"
"If you have the guts, just come over here, you despicable bastard!"
"That's right, you idiot!"
The middle-aged and ridiculous words came out of the four people's mouths as if they were free of charge, and Ishikawa on the opposite side couldn't help but frown deeply.
Even the onlookers looked at the young man behind them in surprise.
After careful inspection, someone finally recognized Kato Yusuke's identity.
"Hey, is that person from the first grade the one who ran for the student union?"
"Uh...it seems to be called Kato?"
"Ah, it's true."
"I received a flyer about him a while ago."
The senior students gathered in the front row exchanged words with each other.
After getting the hint, Ishikawa also successfully matched the boy with the person who was a joke a while ago.
"I see, is that you the one who's been playing tricks?"
He commented on Yusuke unceremoniously: "At best, he's just a clown who relies on clumsy ways to impress people... It's really boring."
It seemed that he had completely lost interest in Yusuke. After speaking, Ishikawa turned around and prepared to leave.
Just as he took a step forward, the young man's deep voice reached his ears.
"Are you very good at baseball?"
The sound was not loud, but it rang clearly in everyone's ears.
Ishikawa's footsteps suddenly stopped, turned around and said, "What do you want to say?"
The air is filled with the smell of coming rain.
Facing everyone's gaze, Kato Yusuke pushed aside the four people blocking him and spoke to Ishikawa in a calm tone.
"Want to come and play? Baseball."
The moment the words were spoken,
The crowd of onlookers paused for a moment, then immediately exploded.
"What, what, provocation?"
"Wow, this first grader is really brave."
"It's really exciting now."
Even the foursome said in surprise.
"Brother Kato!?"
"This... that, although Ishikawa has a very bad personality, he is extremely close to the level of a professional player among high school students."
"Isn't this a little too forced?"
"Although Brother Kato is very good at fighting... But when it comes to baseball, he has never lost at all..."
Questions, jokes, ridicule, dissuasion, all kinds of voices surrounded Kato Yusuke.
Faced with all this, the young man just stared at the person opposite him with a calm expression, his eyes unwavering.
It was as if all the disturbances could not enter his heart, and it was so peaceful that it was terrifying.
Seeing this, Ishikawa couldn't help but laugh, with a look of disdain between his eyebrows.
"You just caught a ball from me and became crazy... I feel like I've been underestimated. In this case, it's okay to play with you."
Then he changed his words: "But since we have decided to compete, let's add some more bets."
Kato Yusuke asked briefly and concisely: "What do you want to bet on?"
Ishikawa said with a relaxed face: "Then the loser should publicly apologize in front of all the students in the school and admit that he is not as good as the other person."
His words were full of confidence, and he didn't seem to think he would lose at all.
In response, Yusuke shook his head.
"It's not an apology to me, but an apology to Kato-san."
After hearing Kato Yusuke's words, Ishikawa glanced at the girl not far away.
I just thought it was ordinary, and there was nothing noteworthy about it at all.
"This pairing of you is really strange."
He couldn't help but sneer, "Forget it... Since you said so, then so be it."
First he looked at the crowd, then at the young man.
Ishikawa said: "Anyway, remember to come to the baseball club after school, I will wait for you there."
What responded to him were the young man's calm and low words.