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	 Volume 10
	  Chapter 5 (94)
	   That's a Lotta Love

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(Ch. 5) That's a Lotta Love

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Teams: Red
	White

Noda: No more perfect game,
	no more no-hitter,
	no more shutout!
	So what's left?

Kine: All you can eat yakiniku!

Noda: That's right!

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[White Team #1, Sagawa (1st yr)]

Hiro: A fly ball to center,
	and a line drive to second so far.

Shuji: If I get a hit right now, I'll be batting over .300.

Hiro: How long has it been since the last time you played in a game?

Shuji: About three years.

Hiro: Have fun.

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Kine: (loin)

<<Brother: Listen, Shu.
	Don't copy Hideo.
	He's a pure genius, you won't learn anything.
	You should follow the basics.
	Batting 4th or 9th, you're still one out of nine players.
	Your legs and arm are just as good as Hideo's.
	You'll be a good 1/9th.
	Got that, Shu?

Kine: (ribs!)

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Kine: (liver?!)

<<Shuji: That was a double, for me.

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<<Hiro: Now you have to graduate into Senkawa and prove it to me.

Koga: Safe!

Hiro: Heh.

Yanagi: Nice running.

Shuji: A little too close.

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Shima: He's got good legs.

Ohtake: Who's faster, you or him?

Shima: In a hundred meter race, I would-

[White Team bench, Shima (1st yr), Cousin of Eikyo Academy's Hirota]

Shima: win.
	But I'm not good enough for a national tournament.

Koga: (foul ball!)

Ohtake: We were too half-assed.
	Me with my boxing, you with your track and field.

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Shima: It's okay, we've still got a relative who's the best in Japan.

Ohtake: True.

[Actually, this boy is also...]

Arikawa: Don't worry, Shima.
	Every player's gonna get a chance to play in this game.

Shima: Oh,
	really?
	Wow,
	that's great!

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Hiro: The upperclassmen are getting better.

Haruka: Yep,
	they've been working hard this past year.

Hiro: For all that they were unfamiliar with baseball, it's great that they didn't pick up any weird habits.
	They're straightforward players.
	And they've kept level heads, even after being told what to do by their younger teammates.

Haruka: Because they all loved baseball enough to get together without a field or a team.

Hiro: It's a shame.

Haruka: Why?

Hiro: They seemed to be having fun when they were doing that.

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Hiro: They're going to have more troubles than they ever did before.

Haruka: It's more fun when you're just friends.
	The more you love something with all your heart, the harder and more painful things get.
	But people still fall in love.

Hiro: I see.
	That makes sense.
	There are four thousand schools all over the country, trying to get a date with the Koshien.

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Sign: Koshien Stadium

Hiro: That's a lotta love.

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[So during all this discussion...]

Teams: Red
	White

Kine: Bottom of the ninth, two out!
	One more batter!
	(beef tongue!)

[White Team #4, Captain Arikawa (3rd yr)]

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Player: Good luck, Captain!

Arikawa: Oh.
	Sorry, sorry,
	I forgot!

[White Team pinch hitter, Shima (1st yr)]
[Cousin of Eikyo Academy's]

Arikawa: It was pretty close, in the end.
	There are worse ways of losing than a one-run game.

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Arikawa: Oh well.
	Ten laps and clean-up, here we come.

Firstbaseman: Huh?

Kine: What the?

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[White Team #5, Kunimi (2nd yr)]

Hiro: Quit wasting time!  We only have two pages left.

Kine: Don't worry!  I'll finish this up in one panel.

<<Hikari: Hide-chan told me,

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<<Hikari: Even though he had better numbers in batting average, hits and homeruns in middle school,
	Hiro always had more game-winning hits.
	He's the most reliable in the 9th.

Teams: Red
	White

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