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	 Volume 9
	  Chapter 3 (82)
	   Well, Whatever

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(Ch. 3) Well, Whatever

Teams: Yoko
	Meiwa Ichi

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Teams: Yoko
	Meiwa Ichi

Announcer: The game ends after 13 innings,
	4-3!
	Tough!  Meiwa Ichi is left out of the Final Four!
	Left standing on deck is their greatest weapon, Tachibana!

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Announcer: And look, both teams only had 8 hits, and no errors!
	It was an incredibly tense, well-played game!
	Yoko's key to victory was a hit that just barely dropped into fair territory in the top of the 13th.
	A few centimeters left or right would have made all the difference in the world!

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Hikari: It might take a while to assemble my thoughts on this game.

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Hikari: Don't worry.
	In an hour, I'll be back to normal.  (sniff)

Takaaki: You can worry about fighting deadlines when you're a pro.
	And don't try to "fix" your feelings.
	You should write out the fiery emotions that you won't be able to summon later.

Hikari: Roger.

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Takaaki: Say hello to Hideo for me.
	Oh, and Friend A, too.

Hikari: He was really mad.  Poor guy.

Takaaki: They were going to put his name in at first, but I had it changed to Friend A.

Hikari: Why?

Takaaki: When his name makes it into the paper, I want it to be in much larger letters.

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Yanagi: Aah!
	C'mon, this is BATTING practice!

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Hiro: {Well, whatever...
	We'll have some fun this summer, Hideo...
	The air's still a little bit too cheery...}

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Koga: Huh.
	You guys are here early.

Hiro: Ohh!
	That's who he is.  It's our coach, man.

Noda: Ohh!

Koga: Hey.

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Newspaper: Day 9, Semifinals
	Yoko Academy - Ikeyamada
	(Osaka) 11:00 (Tokushima)
	Ochisho - Eikyo Academy
	(Hiroshima) 13:00 (Tokyo)

Sign: Baseball Team

Teams: Ochisho
	Eikyo

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Noda: If he managed to calculate all that, rather than ad-lib it,
	I'm impressed.

Hiro: He hits a grounder in a place that requires the pitcher to cover first base.
	Gets the timing exactly right so that the pitcher's foot is on the base when he lands on it.
	Otherwise, he wouldn't be able to spike his foot like that.
	I'm impressed.

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Hiro: ...but,
	I'm not letting him back into the Koshien.

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[We are 16...]

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[And on our short spring break...]

Sign: Senkawa Private Senior High School 

[Before our junior year...]

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Paper(small): Championship

Paper(h): EIKYO

Paper(v): Yoko Academy fails to win second straight title

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[After this calm, gentle season,]
[what kind of drama awaits our characters in the heat of summer?]

Sign: Library

Hiro: You HAVE thought about it, right?

Adachi: Huh?

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