"Ace of the Diamond" is the title of this chapter, and it's a reference to a baseball game between the yakushi team and the seido team. It's not clear whether the score reflects the condition of the two teams or whether the power players on each team would be playing in the game. The narrator says that the problem facing every school right now is how to shape up a team during the summer break. The problem is that the national meet is coming up in September, which means that the school has to put together a team before then. They're already two weeks late, according to the narrator, because they've had to hire a new coach for the second year in a row. The new coach, Kento Fukui, is a second-year player, and he doesn't have a lot of experience on the team. He's been pitching to prepare for the fall, and the coach wants him to use only three years of experience in the meet, which is too low for a second year player. Kento's going to be the new coach of the new team, the narrator says, because he can do whatever he wants with the team, and that's the way he's always wanted to be. This is the first time that the narrator has seen Kento in action, so he can't help but be impressed. He says that he'll shake Kento off his