“4321,4322,4323,,,,,,”

"After swinging the racket 5,000 times, switch hands and swing the racket another 5,000 times. You should complete three sets in total."

Sitting on the roof of the cabin, Mifune Nyudo looked at the people below who were practicing swinging their shot put rackets.

The sweat on the boys' faces fell in large drops, but they were not affected at all.

Although he didn't show it on his face, he was actually very satisfied deep down.

In particular,

Junior high school students.

And those three guys.

Mifune Nyudo's gaze inconspicuously passed over the boy with purple-gray hair and the boy with violet hair, and then fell on the boy in the white baseball cap.

A silent person who would rather take action than speak is a troublemaker, while a smiling person who acts as a moderator is a hidden person.

Compared to the two cunning guys over there, he prefers this guy who shows all his thoughts on his face and in his eyes.

After three sets of practice, everyone was picked up again and played with all their strength, five hundred times back and forth, using that super heavy racket.

In the following days,

Everyone went through a hellish and cruel devil training.

For example, in a fast-flowing river, stepping on smooth stones to return various shots,

Three times a day, rain or shine, we climbed the extremely difficult lonely peak to hit the ball and catch the ball.

Not only that, everyone also formed their own teams to conduct additional training at night or dusk.

Gradually, everyone has begun to adapt to the heavy lead-filled racket.

Yukimura Seiichi quickly mastered the technique of returning 10 balls at the same time. With his reminder, Jingguang also successfully found the trick, but he could only return 9 balls.

The tenth one has only a 50 percent success rate.

Echizen Ryoma's current best result is hitting 8 balls at the same time.

Early that morning, Mifune Nyudo gathered all the junior high school students in a forest.

"All in single file."

He ordered.

Although the middle school students were confused, they quickly lined up and did as they were told.

Toyama Kintaro stood excitedly in the first position. Behind him was Echizen Ryoma, who found it hard to understand Toyama's excitement so early in the morning. Yukimura Seiichi was the second to last, and Kagemitsu was at the end.

"From now on, run as hard as you can on this road. Don't slack off or stop for even a moment. A ball may fly over and hinder your progress, so the person at the front of the line must hit the ball back. After hitting it back, the first person will be at the end of the line, and the second person will become the first person in charge of hitting the ball."

Mifune Nyudo looked at Yukimura and Kagemitsu and said, "As long as one of you stops or one of you misses a ball, you have to come back here. Start from the beginning. Do you understand?"

ah?

Momoshiro Takeshi was incredulous: Is this the reward for completing the last training?

Is this really a reward rather than a punishment?

QAQ

I want to rest and eat delicious food...

Yukimura Seiichi nodded. "To put it simply, all you have to do is hit back all the balls that come at you and run the entire course without stopping."

"On your marks, get ready—"

"Hello."

As Jingguang walked past him, Mifune Nyudo suddenly called him in a low voice.

"If by some chance you complete the entire course in one go, you won't have to come back here."

Jingguang raised his hand to catch the unknown object he threw to him, and when he opened his hand, he saw that it was a bronze key.

He nodded without any questions and turned to leave.

Mifunerudo nodded in satisfaction, then raised his voice and shouted, "Let's go! Run quickly!!"

Kintaro Toyama, who was standing in the front, quickly took a step and started running.

Having grown up in the mountains and forests, he likes and is most adapted to them, so he runs very fast.

In the early morning on the mountain, the thick fog had not yet dissipated and visibility was very low. Everyone could only barely see two or three people nearby.

No one knows how long this road is, or what unknown traps are waiting for them ahead.

It's not that everyone is questioning the coach's words, but the devil has been doing too many things that the coach doesn't do. Everyone is now used to only listening to half of the coach's words and believing half, and the rest depends on luck.