The night after the game against Kantou Number One.
After dinner and a bath, the exhausted players returned to their rooms to rest—following a gruelling battle with Kantou Number One, as the adrenaline faded away, the fatigue both physically and mentally started to surface, with many falling asleep the moment their heads touched the pillows.
The routine workout of swinging by the Mukogawa Riverbank after a bath had been strictly forbidden by Coach Izumi Minoru and Manager Sasaki—given the context of one game a day, this kind of ordinarily harmless or even beneficial exercise would only further harm the players now.
For the players of Waseda Jitsugyo, what they needed most right now was rest.
Lying on the tatami with energy still to spare, Lin Guanglai, having nothing to do, took out his NDS game console from his backpack—this is the handheld product currently promoted by Nintendo Company and is Lin Guanglai's favorite pastime besides baseball.
