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	 Volume 17
	  Chapter 4 (163)
	   How Will This One End?!

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(Ch. 4) How Will This One End?!

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Hideo: Hikari.

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Announcer: Despite both pitchers allowing runners on base, fine fielding keeps the 8th inning scoreless.
	4-3.
	We enter the 9th with a one-run margin!

Teams: S
	E

Announcer: Will the game end at this score?!
	However, the team on the bottom is Eikyo Academy, chasing their second straight championship.
	It would be hard to imagine them rolling over now.
	So!

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Hikari: How will this one end?!  (bong)

Hideo: Who's batting for Eikyo in the 9th?

Hikari: #4, Hirota...  (bong)

Hideo: 9th inning, one-run game.
	Eikyo's the home team...
	Starting with Hirota, batting fourth...
	Everything's ready for a dramatic ending.

Hikari: Don't worry!
	No problem!  (bong)
	Right?

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Hideo: A game without worries is no game to speak of.
	Enjoy it, tension and all.
	Well, off to sweat again.

Hikari: You can't watch the last inning?

Hideo: It won't be very funny if we start watching every game and end up losing our own.
	Just two more.
	We're gonna play at this year's Koshien with Hiro.

Hikari: He acts like it's an amusement park.

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Noda: They've done their homework on our later batters, too.

Hiro: Eikyo's the greatest thing since sliced bread.  They're not supposed to care about our batters.

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Koga: All those great players, and look how they've been wasted.

<<Koga: We're high schoolers.  We're still searching out our abilities and possibilities.

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<<Koga: If we're going to break the frame and expand our world, sometimes we need a good strikeout!
	What you're doing is making pawns, stealing our freedom to make your game easier to control.
	You might be a first-rate coach, but you're a third-rate student instructor!

Shiroyama: Shut up!

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Kine: KABOOM!
	DUWAGEESH!

Koga: Shut up!

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Nezu: This is the inning, Amamiya-kun.

Takaaki: Of course.  It's the bottom of the 9th.

Nezu: There's always extra innings.

Takaaki: If that happens?

Nezu: Then Senkawa doesn't stand a chance.

Takaaki: Will Hirota-kun pitch again, then?

Nezu: I wouldn't put him in, but then again, I'm a worthless coach.

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Yanagi: What's wrong?

Hiro: Erm.
	Nope,
	nothing.
	No wonder they scored three runs.

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PA: Leading off for Eikyo Academy in the bottom of the 9th,
	batting fourth, the centerfielder, Hirota-kun.

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Hideo: Hikari.

Hikari: It's still 4-3.  Eikyo's about to start batting in the bottom of the 9th.

Hideo: OK.
	Humph!
	One more sweat.

Hikari: Maybe...
	he just can't sit still enough to watch it.

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Announcer: So, how WILL it end?!

Teams: S
	E

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