Chapter 5 – I found I couldn’t help myself, however, now it’ll probably be the end of the week before I can write the next one. ;-; Hopefully, it’s alright. This one focuses a bit more on character building so –
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“Well,” Niko sighed, slumping down on the changing room bench, devastated, “that was a disaster of a match.”
The rest of the cheerleading squad followed suit, crumpling into the various benches, annoyed and exhausted, fanning themselves with whatever they could find and letting out long sighs. It wasn’t even summer, it was Autumn now – October. But the summer heat seemed to linger, and today was particularly hot and humid, despite there being a warning about a potential typhoon over the Kansai region last week.
So against all odds, the baseball match went on. And Osaka City University lost spectacularly 2:5. It had been a long-anticipated match – In fact, Niko reminisced, it was one of the biggest sports events in the region – almost 20,000 people turned up to cheer on the two teams, but no amount of cheering from the crowd or the cheerleaders seemed to change the outcome and, reluctantly, Osaka City walked off unvictorious. Niko had no idea what happened now – unsure of how baseball leagues worked – but hoped their team got to play again, hoping she got to cheerlead again before next year. But she didn’t know and had to watch enviously as the opposing team’s cheerleaders made out with the winning team.