Chapter 135

Short Summary
The team are convinced they can’t beat the Mariners new line-up but Tokuchi claims they’re not as strong as they seem.

Long Summary
Kurimizawa shows everyone a tape of the Mariners’ last game, in which they overwhelmingly won. They broke the record set by the Lycaons only days previously with 37 safe hits in one game. With their two new batters, their team contain the top five best hitters in the P-league. Their morale gone, the Lycaons say nothing, looking defeated.

Tokuchi asks for the remote and plays the video back. He laughs and says their team is ‘brittle’. The others vehemently disagree, saying he doesn’t understand. They got a landslide win and didn’t even use one of their newly-acquired pitchers. Ideguchi says the Mariners’ already ‘invincible’ line up has gotten even heavier and they’re a ‘perfect’ team. No one on the Lycaons thinks they can win.

Tokuchi insists they’re full of holes. He compares their team to building a stone wall- you need big ones and little ones to make it strong. The current Mariners are a wall made only of big stones, thus full of holes and brittle. He says even if it’s low, the Lyacons have a stubborn wall. Kojima asks him if he has a plan to deal with the Mariners then. Tokuchi confirms he does but he’ll need the Lycaons to win their next two games.

The Lycaons play well and successfully do as Tokuchi asked, but the Mariners win their games as well and their gap remains at seven games. Their next three matches will be against each other.

Characters

 * Tokuchi Toua
 * Kojima
 * Ideguchi
 * Kurimizawa