Free! Eternal Swim Chronicle - Complete Diary Collections
フリー！エターナルスイムクロニクル – 完全なダイアリーコレクション
セイヴァーのエース– Ace of the Savior
Featuring: Eijun Sawamura
Note: The first set of entire take place before Book 5 and eventually summarizes the Black Dragon Arc (in his POV) and leads up to the events in the upcoming finale fanfiction: The Last World
~First Pitch
Hi guys, I am Eijun Sawamura…a newly graduated baseball player from El Dorado High. I can't believe after many years of going through school and all this mess, I've finally left with success and now I can make my way into becoming a full-time baseball pitcher for our golden city!
I played baseball for as long as I can remember…probably since when I was about 5 years old I was learning how to throw the ball gently and learning how to hit the ball on a stand. Many of my neighbors were also classmates of mine from Elementary, Junior High, and High schools.
Now here I am preparing myself to becoming a university student of Seidou State where a few of my older friends are waiting for me; Takigawa Chris Yuu, Miyuki Kazuya, Furuya Satoru, and Okumura Koushuu. We had such a rocky-relationships with each other but they are all happy to reunite together as we called ourselves the "Ace of the Savior".
Although I will miss Kanemaru for helping me with my assignments, I know he and I will still be in touch.
Now then, I guess I got too many memories to share as well as my personal wishes that I hope to accomplish.
~Second Pitch
Our great city of El Dorado is divided in two major divisions: Old and New. Most of us live in the newer side of the town built from equipment that was left behind during the dark war.
We do have some sort of a parliamentary ruling body but most of the laws in our town were taken care of by our notorious ruler King Tak. Rumors have spoken that he and his Pupununu tribe lived for over thousands of years yet they never aged.
But that didn't stop us from living our lives. When I started my baseball era, I was given the glove and a hat and a friend (whom I later would learn his name as Chris Yuu) who initially taught me.
When I began my elementary school, I was on the team with Miyuki and Furuya along with a few others. We were mostly cordial with each other but I was a bit closer to Miyuki for some strange reason.
We eventually had our first match against the Camelback Raiders but lost. However, the second match we did won and we even had a pizza night too. Hahaha, we were such dorks. But I guess things got more intense by middle school though. Discipline played a huge part as competitions were becoming our new reality.
~Third Pitch
As we grew up, so did the city…I remember hearing a group of travelers coming to town and asked Tak to set up the arena with ice. Well…that went quite…interesting. It turned out that they have set up trade to the northern lands where the kingdom of ice stood. But it was later revealed that the kingdom entered a thawed state and the residents had an uprising to the king.
No one knew where those people went to nor that I bothered to care as I had to focus on my dream.
Our middle school years gave us access to the great Mirage Diamond Baseball Field. Before that we were in the kiddie sections (which weren't as great until they added new turf after we graduated). We got to play more often and trained further as well. I began to develop some of my own talents finally such as the "Cutter" and "idiosyncratic pitches". Other teammates began to develop their own traits.
Then one day, I came home and saw my grandfather praying at his little shrine. My father kept saying that he was seeing the gods known as Juju. I speculated if these Juju were the same ones from Tak's kingdom and if so…were we descendants to the pupununu people?
That thought burned my mind a little as I have heard that Juju magic had very powerful attributes. The people from the old village had set up numerous shrines all over the forest. I wanted to try and find one but I'm worried if there will be dangers involved.