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	 Volume 10
	  Chapter 2 (91)
	   Izzat So

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(Ch. 2) Izzat So

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[Last summer,]
[the Senkawa baseball team was created with the permission of our principal.]
[The principal also hired us our coach,]
[assembled a team of supporting cheerleaders,]
[prayed for victory at a shrine,]
[penned the team cheer song,]
[etc., etc...]

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[Once he took off the mantle of a ten-year-long high school baseball hatred,]
[he was just a good old baseball fanatic.]

Sign: Principal's Office

[And we didn't even have to ask him for all those favors.]
[...anyways, we have 22 players now.]

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[22 players split up into the Red Team and White Team, now playing each other.]

Kine: HIYAAH!

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Hiro: If you hit every pitch in that location with that kind of swing, you'll never hit a fair ball.

Kine: Less talk, more pitching.
	Commentator Kunimi-san.

Koga: Strike three!  Batter out!

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Kine: That was outside.

Koga: Nope, right in the corner.
	Perfect pitch.

Hiro: Yanagi...
	I'm going to have to pitch a bit harder now, Captain.
	Don't worry about catching it.

Arikawa: Huh?

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Arikawa: Aaah!

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Hiro: That hit's gonna be...
	a double.
	Crap.
	Is it just me, or does the Red Team have more starting players than us?

Koga: Not true.
	I carefully considered the balance in teams.

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Hiro: Izzat so.

Noda: {My perfect location!
	But...
	one ball's width outside.}

Hiro: Don't worry!  This runner's slow.
	Take your time, throw to first.

Noda: Ugh.
	Ugh.

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Inoue: Huh?

[White Team 2B, Inoue (1st Year)]

Hiro: No questions now.
	The runner is slow, so...
	Look, just throw to first!

Inoue: Oh,
	Uh,
	Okay!

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Hiro: Sorry.
	Bit too much talking, huh.

Inoue: Uh,
	no,
	I...

Koga: Did you get reservations, Haruka?

Haruka: Oh,
	yes.

Koga: Good luck, gentlemen!
	The winning team gets all the barbeque they can eat!

Hiro: Huh?

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Koga: I told you, yakiniku feast for the winning team, all on me.
	Don't worry, I requested the right number of reservations.
	The losing team has to take ten laps around the field and then clean up.

Player: Yikes.

Hiro: Next time, tell us that before we let up any runs!

Koga: Now,
	play ball!

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Ball: (pong)
	(pong)
	(pong)

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Hikari: Urya!
	Yes!
	That juice is mine.
	Bring it, sucka!

Hideo: Sheesh,
	you always get so serious when we play these games.

Hikari: It's because of you, Hide-chan.
	You never let a girl win a game.
	Normally you'd ease up a bit and let her win once in a while.

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Hideo: Would you be happy with a win like that?

Hikari: Nope!

Hideo: Sheesh.

Miho: SENPAI!
	Some weird old man is poking around outside the clubhouse.
	Will you come take a look?!

Hideo: Everyone else will be here in a minute.

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Miho: I understand.
	Oh, don't worry about me.
	I won't come back from the dead to haunt you if some creepy old man murders me while I'm changing clothes.

Hideo: FINE!

Miho: Oh, I'm sorry.
	I seem to have interrupted your game.

Hikari: Oh,
	not at all.
	I hear you always wear your bloomers outside, Osanai-san?

Miho: Yes,
	the easier to move around in.

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Hikari: Don't you get embarrassed?

Miho: Why?
	I mean, sure, if someone spotted me stark raving nude in the bath,
	yeah, I'd feel embarrassed.
	Oh, but,
	maybe not, if I liked the guy.
	Right?

Hikari: I don't know...

Hideo: What are you doing, Osanai?
	C'mon.

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Front Signs: Yakiniku Restaurant
	10 Ten 10-ten
	[Open]

Table Sign: Reserved

[Now, back to the scrimmage game.]

Teams: Red
	White

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