Chapter 118

Short Summary
Tokuchi reveals his injury to be fake. The battle between him the the Owner finally ends.

Long Summary
Tokuchi gets a three-pitch strikeout on the next Blue Mars batter. The commentators look on in surprise and state them to be the pitches of a fully-recovered Tokuchi. The batter looks confused and asks how he did that, and Tokuchi wipes his finger on his clothes. The black comes off and he says it was pencil graphite that he drew on before the game started.

Saikawa demands what the meaning of this is to the Secretary. He checks the injury footage again, which clearly shows Tokuchi’s index finger being crushed by the ball and doesn’t understand what’s happening. Tokuchi says to the other team that, trick or not, they should have tried taken advantage of his poor throws when they had the chance; instead they took it easy and lost three innings, and now they’ll regret it. Tokuchi easily shuts down the next two batters.

Saikawa is in disbelief. The Secretary says Tokuchi must be bluffing to stun his opponents into letting their guard down; he will definitely be ‘destroyed’ next inning.

Tokuchi strikes out Rodrigo in the fifth. Saikawa watches on, convinced it must be a bluff because there’s no way he could recover this quickly from such an injury. Oikawa says he’s not bluffing and shows him the trick glove Tokuchi used the day before. He’d told Oikawa about it earlier on the phone. He sensed the pitcher would try to hit him and took advantage, tempting Saikawa into raising the One Outs rate.

Tokuchi continues pitching for all nine innings, putting out all 27 batters. This is his second perfect game. With the 200x rate, Tokuchi’s winnings now sum up to over 27 billion yen. Saikawa screams it’s not over and he’ll put it up to 500 next time, but the Secretary asks him to stop and tells him they’ve lost. Saikawa continues shouting, yelling he’ll never admit defeat.

Some time later, Oikawa thinks of Tokuchi’s words about the ship sinking and wonders if he knew this is what would happen. He throws his newspaper to the ground, the headline of which reads, ‘Lycaons annihilated.’

Characters

 * Tokuchi Toua
 * Oikawa
 * The Secretary
 * Saikawa: Owner of the Lycaons