A playback video is projected on the monitor.
The numbers floating on the corner of the screen that the video is 23 hours ago.
The early summer sky on the roof of the high school building. The sunlight of the afternoon when the day is sinking. Past 4 o'clock...
It seems that the image is taken with a hidden camera.
A duo who's practicing from baseball club has come.
One is a fat man and the other is a tall man.
The fat one is Sugiyama and the tall one is Koizumi...Both of them are second year students.
They're second year but they're second string players...and in addition, a reserve of reserve.
It seems that they don't have the possibility to have the firepower like the others to be a regular.
The two of them doesn't notice the hidden camera at all.
The fat Sugiyama took a cigarette from his pocket.
The brand is Lucky Strike
Could it be that they're attracted to the word strike because they're baseball club members.
He took one out with his finger soiled with mud then he passed it to tall Koizumi.
The two second years of the baseball club are having cigarette at the same time.
Sugiyama used his fat fingers to light up the cheap oil lighter.
After his own cigarette lit up, he urged Koizumi with his eyes.
Koizumi bends his tall body and placed the cigarette tip on the flame...
The two of them breathed in and exhaled at the same time...
The tobacco smoke goes up on the rooftop...
Suddenly, a voice was heard from outside of the screen!
「Sugiyama-san and Koizumi-san, you were hiding here?」
Another silhouette appears into the screen.
That's Kenji Endou who's wearing baseball's practicewear.
Endou doesn't notice the camera either...
「...What the hell Endou?」
The fat Sugiyama mutters expressionlessly while exhaling smoke.
「Don't be like that! Coach is looking for you. Sugiyama-san and Koizumi-san had disappeared even though it's training. I've been ordered by the captain to look for the two of you...Or rather, it's bad time to smoke」
「...Tsk, shut up」said Koizumi.
「...We sneaked out just to have a short rest for a while」
The two senpai were expressionlessly sucking the cigarette.
On the other side, Endou doesn't look like he has enough composure at all.
「Anyway, please hurry up and return to the ground immediately. It's dangerous. Coach is already on the verge of bursting」
「Is that so? Well fine. We'll return after we finish smoking this cigarette...right, Sugiyama?」
「Right, let's do that Koizumi」
The two breathed in and exhaled smoke again.
They're not seen rushing at all.
Rather, Endou is the only one who's come to call the two in hurry.
「No, you see senpai...please spare me already!!」
「...I told you to wait for us until we finish smoking」
「Isn't smoking dangerous?!!!!」
「Huh? You, why are you so frolic?」
With the two Senpai not shaken at all, Endou lost his temper.
「Please stop this already!! The district meet is already near. Isn't that obvious that it's dangerous for you two to take your time and smoke!? Do you even understand that!?」
Endou strongly denounces the two.
「...That's what Endou-chan said but, what to do Koizumi-chan?」
「...What to do, Sugiyama-chan?」
The two of them exhaled smoke.
「...In other words, Endou...you disagree with the two of us smoking?!」
「...In the first place, isn't it bad for a high school baseball player to smoke?」
「T-That's...not on that level of disagreement...If we're found out that we're smoking at this time, we would be leaving the summer meet. That won't just be the senpai but our whole school would be blacklisted, what would you do? You do know that the whole high school baseball is all in the hands of the upperclassmen!...Please. Stop smoking already!」
「Oh...Isn't that fine if we don't participate anymore?」
「Right, right...It might not be bad for us to take a rest from an official game for a year」
