Nya-nyaw :3

IM CRYING!!!!

Can we hug and jump together pls?

Oh sweet little crumb, I was waiting for so long.

It’s after Shouto’s outburst, right?

Bakugou, I dare you to say you’re still not friends with this boy. Staying close to each other, arms touching…

SPOILER ALERT❗❗❗

9th inning

Eijun got 1 out when facing the first batter. For the second batter, it is a dead ball (the pitch hit the batter),the momories from the Inashiro's game came in Eijun's mind, he became unstable.

THEN our wifeyyy aka Miyuki Kazuya asked for time out and went to the mound 🤭

He gave advice to calm Eijun down😍😍

Then he said this to Eijun👇🏼👇🏼

Miyuki really know how to lift up Eijun's spirit.. This is the definition of soulmate🥰🥰

It’s interesting how even before Inajitsu vs Teito match started, Miyuki was already looking for Sawamura in the bleachers at the corner of his eye.

We have got to understand that this was unusual behavior coming from Sawamura. I looked back at the previous episodes and noticed that Sawamura was always in the center of the main roster flock, and usually on Miyuki’s side.

example1, when the first years were introduced

example2, in the canteen (he’s sitting directly across Miyuki here)

example3, in the bleachers after Seido vs Kasuga-ichi match, while they were watching Ichidai vs Niogakusha

Therefore Sawamura sitting far from the core of the team after Seido vs Ichidai was downright WEIRD by Sawamura and Seido standards.

I know that Kuramochi kept implying that Sawamura was angry at the team for not being able to back him up with more runs.

However I think Sawamura wasn’t really angry at the team but he just wanted time for himself to reflect on what he learned about the Seido vs. Sankou match. Maybe he wanted to reflect on his frustration about the difference of the team and Kataoka’s treatment of him and Furuya as reliever and ace respectively.

This is why he let Haruichi and the rest of the main team go on ahead without him. It wouldn’t be too far off to say he wanted to avoid them for a bit.

I think though one of Sawamura’s  reasons for sitting far away was to be able to watch the match without Miyuki’s input.

If you recall, Miyuki had started explaining in-game strategy to Sawamura and Furuya while watching Ichidai vs Niogakusha match.

Sawamura was impressed by how Miyuki could predict gameplay by watching a game. He wanted to try doing it on his own like how he got sanada’s cutter & shuuto, shunshin’s precision and narumiya’s changeup for himself.

Because this is what Sawamura is really about. He never wallows in defeat for too long but he looks for concrete and practical ways to improve himself. While the rest of the team were still regretful, Sawamura was already one, two, ten steps ahead.

He’s an inspiration to them all.

and apparently, eijun too lol

bonus:

IM SORRY DID SOMEONE ORDER SOME MOCHI-MIYUKI ACTION (not pictured is the maddest lad to ever baseball, my true love Shirasu (´༎ຶོρ༎ຶོ`) )

They really did that to me huh

THEY PLAYED TETSU’S WALK UP SONG FOR OUR BOI MIYUKI BC THEYRE NOW EQUAL POWERHOUSES AND THE SHIVERS THAT WENT DOWN MY SPINE LOOK HOW FUCKING HYPED TETSU IS JUST FROM HEARING HIS SONG AND KNOWING ITS BEING PLAYED FOR THE GUY HE PERSONALLY VOUCHED FOR TO BE CAPTAIN, AND LOOK AT MIYUKI BEING SO FUCKING HONOURED THAT THEY WOULD PLAY HIS CAPTAIN’S SONG FOR HIM I CANNOT I ADORE THIS, THIS IS MY EVERYTHING

AND NOW THE MIYUSAWA

What’s this? SAWAMURA teasing Miyuki from afar but really he’s just conveying how much he believes in him and chooses to warm up his arm bc he knows Miyuki’s not gonna let this end here and wants to also be visible and cheering him on?

MIYUKI CALLING SAWA HIS PARTNER?!?!

Him knowing that Sawa’s been the one holding down the fort with his pitching and now it’s on him as the captain, clean-up and his catcher to get the team ahead and hit that damn pitch like he promised Sawa before...

AND THEN WHATEVER THE FUCK THIS IS

Excuse me?!

EXCUSE ME

LOOK AT MIYUKI TURNING TO SAWA AND THEM BOTH HAVING A MOMENT WHERE MIYUKI HAS FULFILLED HIS PROMISE AND SAWA IS SAYING HES ALWAYS BELIEVED IN HIM AND THEYRE JUST SMILING AT EACH OTHER AND THEN SAWA, COMPLETELY SATISFIED, TURNS AROUND AND HYPES UP MIYUKI TO THE CROWD

Look I’m not ordinarily this crazy a MiyuSawa shipper... I’ve come to appreciate the ship bc I love the friendship and genuine partnership Miyuki and Sawa have formed, and how much it has evolved over time... but they’re just straight up shoving it in our faces this past lil bit huh? Like fuckin how else am I supposed to interpret this except as a super intimate moment of recognition between two close partners?!?!?! BUT GAYER.

I've never actually understood why being ace is such a big thing, but this panel alone hits you where it wants lmao. Mei being such a smol bean yet having this huge responsibility he's been carrying and that Eijun now has that same duty he has to fill. my ass will be a mess during the finals, i just know it

this manga pays so close attention to details, it's eerily scary. like the fact that Miyuki talks a lot when he's happy or the fact that Sawamura hates natto, all of those being shown in the anime/manga and it makes you just love the characters as if they were real because the author make them feel real. just look at the way Kuramochi glares at the runner 😭

then the scene with ochiai and the way Miyuki was unexpectedly bad at janken and his third years teammates know it and tease him for it !!! i honestly fell in love with this third years dynamics because they treat Miyuki more than just an asset to the team, but also just a friend even if his personality could use some heavy improvement

i find this panel hilarious BECAUSE I'm a huge miyusawa shipper and this is too funny because there's a number of fics where Amahisa is one of the second lead where Miyuki was jealous. and it makes it funny in my head bc miyuki not being able to stand amahisa's closeness to Sawamura in those fanfictions and then Amahisa feeling the same disdain in canon makes it so entertaining because then we see from amahisa what Miyuki sees in the fanfictions ahaha

oh nothing, just the fact that MIYUKI AND OKUMURA are both actively looking and paying attention to whatever Sawamura is doing during meetings and have no qualms in calling him out 😭 boys if you want your crush to pay attention to you, pls don't bully them (though it wouldn't be miyuki or okumura if they dont at least make eijun aware he's adorably stupid)

“Eijun stops rambling and stands frozen midstep of the stairs as he heard Miyuki’s words.”

(Miyuki then expounds his thoughts.)

(And then BAM, his real thoughts.)

“Eijun doesn’t know what to think when he hears that, really. Eyes wide, as he stares at those backs he’d been chasing since the start and somehow had shorten the distance over time with blood and sweat, feels as though as it never shrunk in the first place.”

“With the clench in his chest, thoughts unable to form inside his head, words suddenly swallowed and had never had the chance to be uttered …”

“… at last, Eijun’ s body makes a move to turn around.”

(Eijun not hearing the next words being uttered.)

“Eijun sits at the bottom of the dorm’s staircase, mulling over his thoughts.”

“He remembers that time at the cafeteria where Miyuki was asked about his thoughts on the pros …

Head hanging, eyes shadowed by the darkness and this bangs, he thinks back to the time he sees Miyuki practicing hard and still tries to accomodate his requests.”

“And then …”

“…”

🙂 😐 😔 🙁 ☹️ 😢 😭

Because I had to 💕

no matter how much of a team based sport is baseball, pitchers are always the only people standing on the mound where Sawamura is here, sitting all alone by himself and thinking about the same person who's essentially the reason how he became who he is today

we've seen him struggle all throughout the series, thrive for acknowledgment he now believes he deserves, the fact that the one person he wants the most to get acknowledged from, can't ever verbally tell him even though we've all seen Miyuki's thoughts and actions

and here, the part that really broke me because Sawamura's end goal has always been Miyuki and yet, over and over, he's never truly tasted it, Miyuki's approval, Miyuki's trust, just Miyuki. he got the ace number and yet, the one thing he wants the most apart from it, seems to always just cut short where he can't get it... not yet, at least. im really hoping lol, for a scene so similar to what Chris said after the Ichidai vs Seido p2 ended

just look at how happy he is?? hearing the same thing if not more from Miyuki himself, tell him exactly what Sawamura is in Miyuki's eyes as his battery partner, as his ace, as his pitcher before he graduates, i feel like id be at peace if it ever happens because i think apart from everyone, Sawamura deserves to know how the team is how it is now because they have him, how reassuring and reliable to have him, from the captain's mouth, from his catcher's own words. Furuya always had Miyuki's trust and he's shown him, but never Sawamura and it breaks my heart lmaoo because what makes them so different?

Sawamura's always looking forward, thinking of things he lacks and tries to better himself each time, and i feel like, his efforts were always set aside. i feel like if i was in his shoes and constantly get toss aside even if they didn't mean it, i would have held a grudge. granted it's fictional, but still, my heart cries for this boy.

earlier in the previous chapters, Miyuki told Sawamura he'll gradually get the acknowledgement he wants and he did, through the ace number and yet he's shown again that even with all of that, he still can't get Miyuki's, "there's just no goddamn end in sight, huh" and i just about teared up, i really really want the Inashiro vs Seido match now 😔 maybe then, Miyuki will finally tell Sawamura he's always acknowledged him from the start ☹️

im honestly so in tears when the first years came into the picture because they've put Sawamura in a pedestal where he deserves to be, not just Furuya's shadow, not just Seido's only southpaw, but Sawamura Eijun