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	 Volume 17
	  Chapter 3 (162)
	   Bikini?

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(Ch. 3) Bikini?

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(Ch. 3) Bikini?

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Sign: 500 yen each

Announcer: In this inning, the leadoff batter Arai gets on board with a safety bunt.

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Announcer: After Hirota struck out,
	Sakamoto's infield hit left one out and runners on first and second.
	Then Suzuki hit a grounder past secondbaseman Yanagi,
	scoring a run and putting runners on the corners.
	And then,
	an outside pitch on an attempted squeeze play was smacked by Ogura for a second run!

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Announcer: Powerhouse Eikyo has found their feet and the ball,
	shifting the course of this game to bring them back into contention in the bottom of the 7th!

Teams: S
	E

Announcer: Well!
	The North Tokyo semifinal is anyone's game now!

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Shiroyama: Who gave the sign to squeeze?

Ogura: Sorry.
	I wasn't confident enough to get a hit from that pitcher on my first at-bat.
	I thought it would be best to make it a one-run game.

Shiroyama: Who is the coach here?!

Hirota: Save your breath.
	He's got nothing to be afraid of, now that he knows this is his last game, and he absolutely can't be replaced.

Shiroyama: There are no absolutes!

Hirota: I think everyone knows
	what will happen to this game if you take him out.

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Hirota: With that run, this is now a close game.
	If you take him out and lose the game, doesn't that call up question of your coaching responsibilities?

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Hirota: Nice catch.

Noda: Thanks.

Hirota: It seems that putting this guy on the bench as a prank was a mistake.

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Haruka: Father.

Koga: Huh?

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Haruka: Kunimi-kun's father.

Dad: Yes?

Haruka: Is it true that Kunimi-kun was really short
	around the time that Tachibana-kun and Amamiya-san began dating?

Dad: Yeah, his growth spurt came laughably late.
	Nobody would have guessed he was actually the same age as Hide-chan and Hikari-chan.

Haruka: I wish I'd met him then.

Dad: Huh?

Haruka: I was the shortest in the class until 7th grade.

Dad: Ahhh.

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Koga: And yet you just HAD to buy yourself a bikini,
	so that when we went to our beach house...

Haruka: Whoa!
	Whoa!

Dad: Bikini?
	What about a bikini?!

Koga: You wore it despite having no chest to speak of,
	and when you jumped in the sea...

Haruka: Whoa!
	Whoa!

Koga: What are you looking for?

Dad: Huh?
	Umm,
	a flashback scene?

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Koga: Are you satisfied?

Dad: Well,
	that certainly uh,
	is from the sea...

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Dad: He's always been a plain old fatty.

Noda: Arrgh!

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Voice: Are you all right?

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Dad: Uh?
	Huh?
	What?

Sign: Infirmary

Haruka: Don't you remember?!
	Noda-kun's foul ball hit you on the head...

Dad: Oh, right.
	Ouch.
	...so,
	what about the game?

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