Summary
Iku Sutou is a sixteen-year-old Capricorn born on January 9. She is a first-year student in Class 1-3 at Ohananomitsu High School and an active member of the school’s baseball club. Additionally, she holds the status of being Rentarou Aijou's ninth girlfriend. Iku is the sole remaining member of the Girls' Baseball Team, a position she maintains with great dedication. The team was once fully populated until the other eight members departed for America to study baseball, leaving Iku behind. She persisted in holding her spot even as the club faced imminent disbandment, eventually launching tireless recruitment efforts that yielded no results. Her dedication is matched by her intense training regimen; she possesses an extraordinarily high pain tolerance, capable of enduring hours of agony to reach her physical limits. She has been known to train throughout the entire night until school starts the following day and can execute over 101,000 bat swings without collapsing. Despite her resilience, Iku is wildly masochistic, deriving pleasure from the physical pain she inflicts upon herself during training. Her surname, Sutou, is a phonetic pun on the Japanese pronunciation of "stoic," reflecting her high threshold for pain. Furthermore, her birthday, January 9, serves as a Goroawase wordplay on her first name, with "I" representing one and "ku" representing nine.
