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	 Volume 9
	  Chapter 4 (83)
	   Start!

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(Ch. 4) Start!

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[The champion of the tournament was Eikyo Academy...]
[The national star of the tournament was Tachibana Hideo...]

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[Here's a guy who watched the tournament on TV...]
[Friend A.]

Hiro: Uruse.  (shut up)

Teacher: <What?>

Hiro: <Wool say...>

[Koga Haruka.]
[Noda Atsushi.]
[Kine Ryutaro.]
[Yanagi Morimichi.]

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[A convenient class change that put them all together...]
[...and,]
[the sports teams doing their best to attract new first-years.]

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Koga: Kunimi.

Hiro: Yeah?

Koga: Who's he?

Hiro: A new guy, Sagawa.

Koga: Really?
	He's not a spy from another team, is he?

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Hiro: Don't worry, he's on our team, all right.

Koga: Sagawa.

Shuji: Yes?

Koga: Let's try that one again!

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Kine: (keh)

Captain: Start!
	Okay,
	next!

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Captain: Start!

[Sports teams doing their best to attract new first-years...]

Captain: Next!

Hiro: You never thought about going to Meiwa?

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Shuji: Hide-chan would get distracted with me hanging around.

Hiro: Cause he'd feel like an older brother.

Shuji: Plus, I think you need my help here much more than Meiwa does.

Hiro: Hmph.

Shuji: I need to pay Hirota back.

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Shuji: If there's any pitcher in this block who can meet Hirota head-on,
	it's you.

Hiro: Me?

Shuji: I'm counting on you,
	Kunimi-san.

Hiro: Oops.

Guys: S,
	sorry!
	My hand slipped!

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Hiro: Be careful.

Guy: I,
	I will.

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Paper: Tachibana Hideo  (Meiwa Ichi - 3B)

Amamiya: Oh, you're still awake?

Hikari: I've got too many magazine and newspaper articles of Hide-chan.
	I'm putting them in scrapbooks.

Amamiya: That'll be tough.
	You'll need hundreds of books.

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Hikari: That's nothing.
	To be a sportswriter, I need to keep plenty of materials.

Book: Tachibana Hideo Part I

Amamiya: Good job, then.

Hikari: Oh, Father.

Amamiya: Mm?

Hikari: Knock before you come into your daughter's room.

Amamiya: Nothin' wrong with letting me accidentally catch you changing.
	Gahaha!

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Paper: Friend A, a former teammate from Seinan MS (currently at Senkawa HS)

Book: Kunimi Hiro Part I

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Hideo: Let's go somewhere else.

Guys: Why?
	Is it full?

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Hideo: There were empty seats, but I saw someone I didn't like in there.

Guys: Who?

Hideo: Just someone I don't want to be next to.

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