Tokyo Girlfriend Guide

Chapter 889: Flame Ball Hojo Kyosuke

The subordinates burned fully, but Hojo Kyosuke did not burn at all.

In addition to spending half an hour every afternoon beating up all the kendo club members one by one, he would also spend another half an hour letting the players from Sobu High School and Shikamiya High School try to use his ball.

The baseball players who train hard every day and even start to think about their acting skills to get on base with hit balls have no objection to this, because at this moment, their ticket king's speed has stabilized at more than 160. As long as he doesn't want to, no one can catch his ball. If the opponent wants to act like them and cheat with hit balls, in addition to considering the umpire, they also have to consider whether their parents at home are ready to face the news of their death.

Hojo Kyosuke was not idle during the rest of the time. He even took two leaves and went to the animation company responsible for the production of "Neighbors Neighbors Neighbors" to take on his tasks. He served as the original artist for the third episode, along with Eriri.

As for the paintings for the Tokyo Youth Exhibition, they were also preparing for them. For people like them, when they get tired of drawing comics, they switch to oil painting. When they get tired of oil painting, they start drawing animation. This is a break. The two of them can even stay in the studio all day long.

Nishimiya Glass has also become busy recently. Although the dubbing work has not officially started yet, as the original artists started working, the scripts were also sent to the agency.

The script is different from the original comics and the original drawings. If you have to say, it is similar to a play, but there are no storyboards, only text descriptions of the scenes, so it still tests the imagination of the voice actors.

Of course, the habits of each animation company are different. Some companies will only use the line clips when dubbing officially (せんどり)

Some companies give voice actors scripts that are close to this in the beginning, and some even dub completed animations.

However, the animation production company of "Neighbors, Neighbors, Neighbors" obviously did not have such capabilities, and Nishimiya Shoko received a script that only contained scene descriptions and lines.

The girl had been reading the comics non-stop even after class, but even though the script tried to describe the scenes as best as possible and used professional terms to describe the sounds, it was still very abstract. She consulted seniors in the office and re-read the comics to understand them.

When the holiday just ended, Miyamizu Mitsuha wanted to take someone to the school to be a kendo coach, but seeing how he was doing so well, she couldn't bear it and even offered to help train the female swordsmen of Sobu High School. Hojo Kyousuke was so happy that he danced with joy, but the veteran kendo expert Kasumigaoka Utaha pointed out bluntly that the miko just wanted to find an excuse to date someone, and date in school.

However, her wise words were not recognized by others, because Eriri wanted to become invisible so that her and Kyousuke's happy painting time would not be disturbed. Yukino said that she played role-playing games with Hojo every day, and everyone else had their own happiness.

Time passed slowly, and with the lead of "Nikkan Sports", many sports news also focused on Sobu High School, a school that had basically never won a preliminary round.

The love that Japanese people have for card games is something that people from other countries find hard to understand. Not only are they loyal, but they also have great paying capabilities.

Sports news also caters to their tastes, collecting all the famous players in the college world, calculating the corresponding data attributes, giving ratings, and dividing the strength levels to see who is the hexagonal warrior (laughs).

While other sports news were still waiting and watching, Nikkan Sports brazenly published its evaluation of Hojo Kyosuke - "Special Grade"

Other media outlets were so angry when they saw this review. It's not even good enough to get an A, but they had to give it a special grade, right? Even the "Dangsito" which is always very lenient when it comes to player ratings shook their heads. But after reading the entire introduction in the review, everyone fell into a strange silence.

Area: East Tokyo

School name: Sobu High School

Player of interest: Hojo Kyosuke, pitcher, 160+ speed

No, it's over.

The name Hojo Kyosuke is too unfamiliar to the baseball world. No one knows what position he plays, what pitch he is good at, how many home runs he has hit... All we know is that the Nikkan Sports said that his pitching speed was "160+".

Several other newspapers that were very active during the Koshien period, such as "Specialty", "Chunichi Special", and "Hochi", all sent out intelligence agents to inquire about the situation. However, someone's training time was no more than half an hour a day, and the only people watching were the yellow-haired guy from Kagamiya High School and the personal fans of Hojo Kyosuke from Sobu High School. The information they collected was even more outrageous than that of "Nikkan Sports".

"Flame ball! The baseball that Hojo throws is burning with flames! Do you know why? It's friction! Hojo uses friction! The fast-spinning baseball rubs against the air and burns directly. Even if you are lucky enough to hit the ball by accident, the bat will be burned up in an instant.

What? You don't believe it? Come on, come on, see this glove? It's made entirely of professional fireproof materials. Even with this level of quality, the catcher at Sobu High School has to use quick-freeze spray to cool his hands every time he catches a ball from Hojo-kun! "

"Ball speed? Huh? I don't know. I only saw Hojo standing there waving his hands. I couldn't see any ball at all. Oh, I see. It's an invisible ball! He increased the speed of the ball, making it faster than the human eye can detect, thus making the ball invisible!"

"Baseball? What is that? Hojo-kun is so handsome! I applied for the position of manager of the baseball club and wanted to help with their laundry, but that idiot Tsuchiya said they had a washing machine so he rejected me. He also slandered me, saying that I would steal Hojo-kun's clothes. That's outrageous. I'm just kindhearted and can't bear to see Hojo-kun wearing dirty and old clothes, so I want to buy him a new jersey every day. Is that wrong?"

Ah?! You are a reporter, right? You should be able to understand me, right? Please don’t leave, you must help me judge…”

"Don't ask me such sensitive questions. There are many things that outsiders don't understand, and I can't reveal them. Knowing too much will be harmful to both you and me. The only thing I can tell you is that those who are opponents of Hojo-kun are blessed. They are about to witness Hojo-kun's terrifying swift sword-drawing and slashing.

Hmm? This is baseball, not kendo? Hahaha, you see, you are shallow, aren't you? Haven't you heard what the general said, "Kendo is actually such an inconvenient thing?" Baseball and kendo are similar in nature, and everyone will soon see this. The only thing I am worried about now is that the protection of baseball players is too poor, just helmets and groins... How can these things help them walk off the field alive..."

"You should have heard that three players from the Sobu High School baseball team went to the hospital within half a month and will never be able to play baseball again. Bullying? I never said such a thing. I warned you not to slander me! What's going on? Haha, go ahead and do it yourself."

"..."

A lot of information from the Internet and real-life interviews was summarized on the desks of several newspaper editors. The editors were silent for a while and then overturned the desks.

"Bakayaloo! What a mess!"

The roar came from the editor-in-chief's office.

But the next day, "Supernitti", "Chunichi Super", "Hochi", "Tokusai"... all published news about Hojo Kyosuke. Not only did they reproduce those outrageous interviews word for word in the newspapers, they also added extremely funny pictures.

Others just said "fire ball", but in their accompanying pictures, Hojo Kyosuke directly turned into a Super Saiyan burning with flames, leaving charred footprints on the ground wherever he walked.

The more light-hearted online news also joked that they didn't know if there would be a "frozen ball" to stop Hojo Kyosuke this year.

The most outstanding report on the "invisible ball" was by Nikkan Sports. Due to the good relationship between the parent company Asahi Shimbun and Hojo Kyosuke, they directly found the cartoonist who had ridiculed Hojo Kyosuke in the newspaper before about the small black room incident and asked him to draw a four-frame cartoon.

In the first frame, a batter keeps swinging his bat, but he hits nothing. The second frame is very simple, showing the scoreboard, and in the other row besides Sobu High School, all the scores are zero. In the third frame, a girl asks her father, "Dad, why is the guy swinging his bat when there is no pitch on the other side?" In the last frame, the father answers with a mysterious look on his face, "The blind man is swinging his bat."

"Blind man swinging" became a hot word, and the Internet trend instantly soared. People who saw it said it was too arrogant, actually treating the opponent as a blind man.

In any case, the match between Sobu High School and Komatsugawa High School, which was originally only a hot topic in the surrounding areas, has now become a focus game that has attracted much attention.

Apart from those highly-regarded elite schools, no other school had ever received such treatment. The preliminaries hadn't even started yet, it was just an ordinary practice match, yet it had attracted several sports magazines and many scouts.

The baseball giants in the two divisions of Tokyo also saw the news, but they all thought it was nonsense. Do those people really know what a 160-speed pitch is? In the past thousand years, Japan has only produced Shohei Ohtani. If Hojo Kyosuke really has a 160-speed pitch, why would we play against him? We'll just give in and let you become the champion!

Although the students thought so, the teachers of their school's baseball club thought it should not be underestimated. After all, newspapers would not dare to publish such obviously fake news...right? So the coaches actively inquired about the news and wanted to watch the Sobu High School game on Saturday. After all, even if it was fake news, it would be a good pastime to see the famous Hojo Kyosuke playing baseball, right?

The popularity of Koshien itself, coupled with the popularity of Hojo Kyosuke himself, caused the attention to explode directly, and a wave of carnival was set off again.

After reading the information on his subordinate's phone, Tsuchiya Ryota's uncle praised his good nephew at home. Isn't this a hundred times better than some underground lovelive? Can that kind of underground performance have one ten-thousandth of the popularity it has now? This is just a practice match. As long as Hojo Kyosuke proves his strength, each match will attract the attention of no less than 20 media outlets.

In a good mood, Hyodo Yukino called his nephew home and generously said that all the expenses for Sobu High School's future competitions would be sponsored by the Hyodo family.

But our Lord Tsuchiya Ryo was embarrassed and implied that the bus sponsored by his uncle was enough.

But the people in the ice hall were unwilling to do so. They counted on their fingers, "Clothes, tickets, accommodation... I can sponsor all of these!"

The two of them argued for a long time before Ryota Tsuchiya finally revealed the truth. He said that because the popularity is so high now, the board members of Sobu High School have donated generously. They also complained that he is the baseball team of his school, so why does he have to seek help from outside the school to buy a car?

The directors of Sobu High School were invited by the principal to accompany the reporter of Nikkan Sports to enjoy the performance of Hojo Kyosuke. It is impossible for these people not to understand baseball, because they must have cheered for Koshien in high school. When the number 165 appeared on the speed gun, everyone was excited.

Isn't this a free reputation? Besides being a high school for college entrance exams, is Sobu High School also going to become a baseball powerhouse?

Having Hojo Kyosuke means at least two years of winning the Koshien. In the second year, they can rely on this super ace, Hojo Kyosuke, to attract baseball-loving talents from all over the country and use this as the foundation to build their own strong baseball school.

Not only Hyodou Yukito was happy, but his daughter Hyodou Michiru was also happy.

This girl has a character that doesn't know what nervousness is. She is good at almost everything except studying.

The other members of the band heard that there would be cameras, reporters, and so many spectators watching the game, and they made mistakes during the intense practice. It's true that rockers love to be in the spotlight, but this scene is too big! They imagined that there was only a few beautiful girls cheering for Hojo Kyosuke in the empty audience seats. In such a difficult situation, they and Hojo formed an invincible bond and burned their fighting spirit to win the game.

This is the logical plot development!

What's going on now? They've become the focus before the competition even started. Their band, which is not well-known in the school, has people talking to them when they walk around the school. "Hey, Himekawa, I heard that your band is going to support Hojo-sensei? Are you still short of people? I can play the trumpet, but you don't have a trumpet player, right?"

Himekawa Tokino was devastated. We are a rock band, why are we short of a trumpet player? And the guy with the saxophone, get out of our activity room! We don't need a cello either!

Unlike the other members, Michiru Hyodo accepted everyone who wanted to join the fan club.

"It's more lively this way, isn't it? Aren't everyone happy?"

She said this, and then she revised the song again. With her unimaginable talent, she revised the song that had just been changed, and she accepted all those who wanted to cheer for Hojo Kyousuke.

Just like she said, the important thing is to be happy. (End of this chapter)