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	 Volume 23
	  Chapter 4 (222)
	   At the Beach, With You

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(Ch. 4) At the Beach, With You

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Sign: Rental Boats and Parasols

Hikari: Summer's almost over.

Hiro: Summer vacation, too.

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Hikari: And you'll be back to everyday baseball.

Hiro: I'd be drowning in it, if it wasn't for class.

Hikari: Your grades aren't dropping, are they?

Hiro: It's not like I haven't been up to my eyeballs in baseball until now.

Hikari: Oh, right,
	they weren't high enough to be able to drop in the first place.

Hiro: That, too.

Hikari: Gonna go to college?

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Hikari: Or will you go pro, assuming someone drafts you?

Hiro: Hmmmm.
	What's Hideo gonna do?

Hikari: If you consider total career length, pro all the way.
	He wants to set all new Japanese records for batting.

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Hiro: I assume you're going to college.

Hikari: Unlike you two, I don't have the skills to get myself an instant job.
	After four years, I'll have the discipline to be a professional.

Hiro: College was originally designed to be the place
	for people like you to go to.

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Hiro: So?
	Why is it that we're here,
	at the beach?

Hikari: Ever get that feeling?
	Where you just really want to see the ocean.

Hiro: Why'd you ask me to come?

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Hikari: Hide-chan's in America.

Hiro: That's even worse.
	Now we've been alone together while he's gone.

Hikari: Aren't you happy,
	getting to go on a date with your first crush?

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Hiro: I told you already.
	I'm not gonna fight him in anything other than baseball.

Hikari: That's why I invited you.
	I told you, too.
	Amamiya Hikari's first crush was Tachibana Hideo, without a doubt.

Hiro: Right.

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Hikari: A lifelong friend to Hiro, and the perfect rival...
	And,
	the most important person in my life...

Hiro: So you brought me out here to listen to your sappy talk.

Hikari: No.
	I'm just making sure.

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Hikari: I'm not as stable as most people think I am.
	I get lost, I get nervous,
	I agonize over my problems when I'm alone.

Hiro: Well, sorry,
	maybe I shouldn't have been stupid bringing it up.

Hikari: Ah.
	The rain stopped.

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Hikari: Sometimes,
	I get the feeling that I just really want to see your face.
	Being with you cheers me up.
	It makes me feel confident about myself.  Always has.
	You're just like the ocean.

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Hiro: Uhh...
	That seems just a bit off to me.

Hikari: I wanted to get together one time before school began.
	At the beach, with you.

Hiro: Well,
	...whatever.

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Girls: Yahooo!
	It's all sunny!
	C'mon, let's go swimming!
	Daaa!
	Woooo!
	Yayyy!

Hiro: Those are some excitable girls.

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Hikari: Want to spend some time ogling them?
	In their bikinis.

Hiro: Sheesh.

Girls: Hey,
	you two over there.
	Can we ask a favor?
	Take some pictures of us?

Camera: (click)(click)(click)

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Hiro: You three look, uh,
	very alike.

Girl: Of course.
	We're sisters.

Hikari: Wow, I'm jealous.
	Three sisters.

Girl: Nope,
	we actually have another little sister, in high school.

Hiro: Wow,
	four sisters.

Camera: (click)

Hiro: Well,
	here's your camera.

Girl: Oh,
	here, we'll take a picture of you two, for you.

Hiro: Nah, it's cool.

Girl: Go on, don't be shy.
	Here you go,
	closer now.
	You're a couple, aren't you?

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Girls: Write down your address,
	and we'll mail them to you.
	Thanks.
	Bye!

Hiro: What's up?

Hikari: Oh,
	I was just thinking, they reminded me of someone.

Hiro: Who?

Hikari: Nah,
	it must be my imagination.

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