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	 Volume 18
	  Chapter 5 (174)
	   Tachibana Hideo

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(Ch. 5) Tachibana Hideo

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Teams: T
	M

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Announcer: Here we are!
	Things are heating up!
	Meiwa Ichi has runners on first and second base with one out in the bottom of the 1st!
	Which means...
	Up at the plate is the cleanup hitter...
	And Meiwa Ichi's cleanup hitter is of course,
	none other than...

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Announcer: Tachibana Hideo.

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Noda: Man,
	Hideo's pumped, today.

Haruka: Of course.  He'll be in the Koshien if they win this game.

Noda: That's not the only reason.

Hikari: Huh?

Ump: Ball.

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Noda: That guy looks familiar.
	Form,
	attitude,
	pitching style.

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Announcers: Double play!
	That will end the inning!
	Meiwa Ichi fails to score in the bottom of the 1st!
	Tachibana really lost his timing there.
	Not something you'll see often.

Noda: I guess he doesn't pitch as fast, though.

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Haruka: And he doesn't look anything like him.
	I think Kunimi-kun is a lot cooler.
	Right, Amamiya-san?

Hikari: You just didn't know Hiro when he was a little dweeb.

Noda: Yep,
	A midget thiiis big with a runny nose.
	Oh man,
	you should have seen it.

Haruka: Some boys are cool in grade school,
	some men aren't cool until their reach their 30's.

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Haruka: But nobody is cool from the moment they're born.
	When you're a baby,
	you whine and cry,
	pee your diapers,
	and drool everywhere.
	You didn't know Tachibana-kun when he was like that, did you?

Hikari: ...no.

Noda: Haruka-chan,
	what's the problem?

Haruka: Just feeling frustrated.

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Hiro: That's bad luck.

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Bugs: (bzz)(bzz)(bzzzz)
	(bzz...)

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Hiro: Yeah!
	What's the big ideal?

Cat: (ffmeow!)

Hiro: You just HAVE to make Meiwa lose, don't you?
	Are you saying that something bad is going to happen if Hideo and I are both in the Koshien?
	Huh?
	Out with it.

Cat: (meoww)

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