After waving goodbye to Kondo Kensuke, the players from Waseda Jitsugyo, guided by the staff, walked into Koshien Stadium.
Counting this summer, it was already Lin Guanglai's third visit to Koshien Stadium—the Holy Land that others dream of, yet he has never missed a single time.
Perhaps having visited too many times, Lin Guanglai wasn't as excited about this field visit as he was when he first came here last summer; he just symbolically pitched a few balls on the mound under the coach's arrangement.
Compared to him, Ogata Kazuyoshi, who just made it onto the team's main roster this year, and Tanaka Justice, experiencing Koshien for the first time as a player, seemed far more excited:
Usually talkative, Ogata Kazuyoshi fell silent, simply gazing around the stands as if trying to engrave the entire scene in his mind; Tanaka Justice, the team's third/fourth pitcher, even trembled with excitement while pitching on the mound.
