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Baseball Journey

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Kai Klein doesn't love baseball. Baseball doesn't care. At 210cm tall with an arm that can shatter radar guns, the sixteen-year-old German is the kind of pitcher coaches dream about. There's just one problem: he'd rather be doing literally anything else. He only started playing because his best friend Daiki saw what he could do in PE, put a baseball in his hand, and told his father. Kai didn't care enough to say no. But when Daiki's father moves the family back to Japan to rebuild a fading high school baseball program in coastal Miyazaki, Kai follows. Saying no to Daiki has never been something he's good at. Now he's the tallest person in every room, struggling with kanji, and surrounded by teammates who've sacrificed their childhoods for a sport he plays on a whim. Japanese high school baseball isn't a hobby. It's a religion. And Kai just walked into the temple with a cannon arm and no faith. His catcher has a plan for both of them. His coach sees a once-in-a-generation talent. The scouts are already circling. Everyone can see what Kai could become. Everyone except Kai. Between the grueling summer tournaments, a coastal town that's slowly becoming home, and an ocean that offers the only peace he can find, one question keeps surfacing: Can you learn to love something you never chose? --------------------------------------------------------------------- Genre: Sports / Slice of Life / Coming of Age Updates: 1 chapter every Mon,Wed,Fri Content: No harems. No systems. No supernatural elements. Just baseball, friendship, and figuring out who you are when everyone already decided for you.
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