＜Infinite Dendrogram＞

□ Third Arena

Love Fight Festival open throughout Gideon.

In line with this festival, the Masters are opening their own stores.

[Cooks] and craftsmen, not to mention, open various ceremonies outside the production system.

For example, an event with a duel ranker taking place in the Third Arena is one of them.

This third arena, the ground is not cobblestone, it's a special environment called dirt, but some events were opened to take advantage of it.

It took on a duel ranker - a one-seat baseball showdown.

"Whoever thinks I am, please stand in the batter box! The rules are exactly as they say on the sign!

A pitcher standing on the mount says so and raises his voice.

Some sports, such as baseball, are slightly deformed, but they also exist in this < Infinite Dendrogram > world.

Baseball on this continent was made hundreds of years ago by then-[ Cat God] Team Cat.

Team Cat is the founder of mass sports and a great man who spread various competitions on this continent by demonstrating and showing them separately.

Neither Tian nor Tian have any reason to know, but not just the sport. Historical [Cat God]...... Management AI XIII. Chesha's avatar was in charge of spreading culture.

The aim is to prevent large-scale breakthroughs in technology by visiting later and to improve the living environment of the masters.

With this < Infinite Dendrogram >, where the five senses are similar to real ones, any discomfort or inconvenience will stand out. That's why Cheshire avatars were spreading the culture of infrastructure and entertainment in advance.

And Cheshire, who was responsible for cultural distribution, turned to supporting other management AIs as a chore manager after those tasks were completed.

Let's get back to a one-seat showdown in the third arena.

In this competition, the challenger becomes a batter and wins if he hits before being struck three times.

There are two criteria for hits: 'Not Caught Inside First, Second and Third Base' and 'Not Caught Unbound in the Field'.

In other words, it takes the form of 'hit if you fall to the ground on the outside of first, second and third bases', 'hit if you roll as you were inside and go outside'.

Foul balls don't hit even on the outside. Also, there's no infield hitting.

The home run is an unconditional victory, of course, as well as an unconditional victory at foreball.

Hitting a hit will return ten times the amount you bet on the challenge if it ranges up to 100,000 lil.

And what a ring worth 5 million lil if you achieve it after betting 200,000 lil for a special challenge.

But "This is delicious. What a favorable condition for the challenger" … and so on. The same goes for losing at that point.

This battle has only one disadvantage for the challenger.

It's called 'challengers should not use their skills'.

It is a mechanism that is perceived when skills are used and needs to be challenged without skills.

Well, if that's about it... don't think about it.

Specifying that the challenger is… means that the organizer is free to use his skills.

First of all, the second. The pirate hat girl is letting the waterfall blow up. The ball that flew in that direction would be bounced into the infield without a leak.

Then center side. There were eight centers even though it was baseball for some reason. And as a matter of course, he said, "I'm one, but what?" and so on.

On the light side. A super position in a Gothic outfit with wings on his back is flying around with supersonic manoeuvres. There are no balls I can't catch that one.

Left side. Masked riders on motorcycles run endlessly around.

And the pitcher. A hot man who turned his whole body into a punch was throwing a literal burning demon ball.

As you can see, it is a lineup called [Great Pirate] Chelsea, [Cat God] Tom Cat, [Fallen Heavenly Knight] Juliet, [Wind Cavalry] Masked Riser, and [Mighty Man] Bishmal.

The other positions are in the hands of the unavailable in the rankers below ninth place, but they are still too much of a formation.

If there were a positive element on the batter side, it would be something like, "I still have no figaro, cashmere and wolf cherry blossoms".

"What ton of demo baseball comics..."

"I don't think you're willing to let anyone win."

It is also impossible for the voice to zero out of the audience's mouth watching the event.

By the way, the prize money for the event is out of Gideon's city, but only the ring is separate.

That was provided by Bishmal, who serves as a pitcher.

Before attending this event, Bishmal said this while retrieving the ring.

"This ring is the crystal of my sorrow. It's the remnants of my Probos shaken by Mimika!

The other rankers who heard that looked "wow......" all the same.

And he thought, "I guess I offered it as a prize because it was hard to have my own ring of a failed proposal and I felt like selling it just as well".

In fact, he said, "All the couples in reward, they'll crush me with this one ball!," he was just trying to clear up his heartbreak worries by breaking other couples.

It should be noted that naturally, if it is crushed (deadball), it is a loss.

Now, both the fusion and the prize background are terrible events, but still there are plenty of challengers due to the luxury of returns.

Next to the entrance the number of previous challengers had been counted, reaching a triple digit margin.

And it also showed that more than three digits in number had not been able to challenge and complete one.

This is also a defensive formation, but Pitcher's Bishmal skill is also significant.

Bishmal was the first to name it when it came to talking about who would do the pitcher.

He said this in front of the Rankers.

"I went to Koshien once when I was a real student!

"It's your first ear, Bishmal!?"

"Hey!? Is that true!?"

"Of course it's true! I was playing catcher!

"'I'm not a pitcher!?'"

But in any case, a ball thrown by a human skilled in baseball with physical abilities and odd skills specific to Dendro that are not comparable to real life.

That's not what I can hit.

Gradually, more and more people have abandoned the challenge, and the interval between one-hit battles is beginning to be vacant.

One of Tom's at the center shrugged as he watched the challenger count stacked up over time.

"Is there anyone who can clear this?

"With the unmatched power of destruction and bear incarnation Child Mountain, can it be a glimmer of hope?

"Um,... oh, yeah. Maybe [Destroyer King] can do it, right? It's out of digit."

That's what Tom said as he managed to decipher Juliette's words, which answered his whine.

At the same time, he said, "Imagine where he had the bat... it would be like you saw it somewhere, wouldn't it? Yes, he seems to be doing even a homeland derby in a 100-acre forest... no, let's not do this any more," he thought.

"... hmm?

That's when I heard the blurring coming from around the challenger entrance.

It was a surrounding surprise to a person lined up in a line of challengers, who... looked unforgettable once they saw it.

"Huffle. Bear Like Quite a Difficult"

It is the Bear's Dress - [Destroyer King] Shu Sterling.

Rumors kept telling me it was a shadow, but there was Shu's appearance there.

But he is not alone.

"Is it baseball? That sounds interesting."

- I was walking alongside a beautiful woman with a yamah seal.

Surrounded by Shu's appearance and the presence of his companions.

"Spring is here for Mr. Kid Mountain!?

"You're lying!? With such a cool looking beauty!?"

"No, maybe the pet yamah seal that beauty is taking with her is your opponent!

"I see!"

It is this content even though it is well known that there are people inside.

"Oops! Is that the [Destroyer King] there! And you're a couple...... I'm gonna crush you, so don't stand in the batter box!

Bishmal holds the ball and points his right hand toward Shu.

Against that challenge, Shu said,

"All right, bear."

I gave the receptionist 200,000 lil of the challenge fee and took that challenge.

The ambient stiffness turns to urgency.

A one-seat showdown between Super and Duel Ranker, with the greatest power that was set to take place quickly.

The voltage of the venue rises at once, and the spectators await the moment.

... but.

"Ho Bear"

"Huh?"

Shu handed the bat... to whoever was next door.

It was not the woman who came here with Shu who received it... but the Yamaa seal in its arms.

"KK (OK)"

Yamaalashi, who nodded somewhat, stood in the batter box with his bat cleverly.

In a way, it's a more surreal sight than Shu does.

But the audience and the rankers think. "I can't go beyond that formation in the end with this," he said.

I don't even look like I can shake a bat in the first place.

Bishmal also had a bewildered look, but he fights more than his opponent stood in the batter box.

That's how Bishmal tried to get into the throwing form.

"Ah."

... stopped the move.

The whole venue wonders about its suspension.

Bishmal sweats from his face with a bitter look and evaporates with his own flame.

The people at the venue thought about what the hell was going on, and from those familiar with baseball came to the answer in turn.

Shu begins to say the words with an inclusive laugh with 'huffle' to meet such an air.

"Just - Foreball, too, an unconditional victory bear?

In that statement, the whole venue understood his intentions.

Authorized baseball rules stipulate that the strike zone is "a space on the main base with a maximum horizontal line drawn to the midpoint between the hitter's upper shoulder and the top of the uniform trousers and a lower line on the knee head".

A strike zone is, in short, the extent to which it will not be a strike if it does not go in there.

If you don't get in there, it's all going to be a ball, and it's going to be a foreball in four.

That's the same with this Infinite Dendrogram baseball.

In other words, in the case of yamaa seals...... it becomes a strike zone of whether or not there is one ball for the ground sleigh.

That's what Shu was after.

If we try to take a strike from a yamah seal, we need a divine service that passes through the space to see if we have one ball of ground criticality to keep us out of contact with the ground.

Even professional baseball pitchers would be a tough business (professional baseball pitchers don't throw balls to ground criticals in the first place).

The audience was stunned by "Mr. Kids Mountain Seriously Yabe".

"Humpty said it, but I really don't pick the means to win," Tom said, pulling in his heart. Plus, "it's doubly awkward to let her do it in the first place," he said.

Bishmal makes throws, but the burning demon ball becomes a ball for two balls in a row.

But...

"Lick it!!"

Have you begun to get used to the act of throwing balls on the ground, or due to obsession?

Bishmal's burning fast ball accurately captured the strike zone of the ground sleigh.

It is divine. It is the will of a Koshien ball child (* catcher).

His demon ball definitely shoots through the strike zone.

"... ah"

But at that moment he realized.

Again, the Yamaa seal strike zone is narrow in scope with or without one ball, and it's a tough business to get through there.

Let's put it the other way.

All the balls that become strikes - converge to the height of one ball.

So if you wave the bat at the right time - it's bound to hit.

"GG (Good Game)"

Yamaarashi swung a bat bigger than himself, at a roaring speed.

Shortly afterwards, the third arena sounds the pleasant sound of a bat that captures the true core.

Bullet liner. Horizontally flying hitting ball at super low altitude & supersonic speed rubbing the ground lightly broke through the space between first and second bases...... a hit.

After the settlement, there was the appearance of Yamaalashi, who was happy to get the ring, and Mr. Bishmal, who started picking up dirt on his knees and crying on the ground.

To be continued