Kuriki Satoshi is a 30 year old former pitcher and currently a batting practice pitcher and scorer for the Spiders. Bonda believes if Kuriki hadn't been so obsessed with ball speed his career could have gone a lot further. Kuriki approaches Bonda and wants to give him advice. Bonda has mixed feeling about this because Kuriki's advices haven't worked well for him in the past. Following Kuriki's lesson Bonda changes his pitching form, which gives him more speed, but Bonda worries about losing control of the ball.