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	 Volume 24
	  Chapter 5 (233)
	   That's Old Friends For You

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(Ch. 5) That's Old Friends For You

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[The typhoon passes.]

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[We observe the masses.]

Dad: Wata
	ta
	ta
	ta!

[Being kung-fu asses.]

Dad: Ouchie!
	Ouchie!

Punch: (ON)

[Geez man,]
[just take some classes...]

Hiro: Lame.

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[The Autumn High School Baseball Tournament Tokyo Preliminaries are to be held on Saturdays and Sundays in October.]
[In recognition of the typhoon's destruction to local baseball fields,]
[and the effect it has on schools no longer able to hold meaningful practice, the schedule...]
[...has not changed a bit.]

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Hiro: First!
	Second!

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Hiro: Third!
	Short!

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Scoreboard: Senkawa
	Fujio

Hiro: Right!
	Left!

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Hiro: Center!

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Koga: Kunimi's making sure they hit to every position...

Haruka: To help make up for the practice the typhoon knocked out.

Koga: It's fielding and batting with an extra dose of tension.
	If you think of it as practice, you'll never find a better workout.

Haruka: And we won, too.

Koga: What,
	the victory's just an extra?

Haruka: Well, you've always liked collecting extras,
	haven't you?

Koga: I guess.

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[Speaking of extras...]
[There was one little incident...]
[In which Kine got hit by a car and hospitalized on the night of the typhoon.]

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[So, with that out of the way...]

Kine: Hey!
	Hang on!
	What do you mean, extra!
	This is a serious problem!
	Without me on the Senkawa baseball team,
	they'll never ever get to the Koshien!
	Don't let them convince you otherwise!!
	Hey!

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Cat: (mew)

Kishitani: I can see your panties.

Hikari: Kishitani-sensei.

Kishitani: The cat couldn't get out of the tree?

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Kishitani: And you couldn't just ask a boy to do it?
	I'm sure you could get at least 10 or 20 lined up to help.

Hikari: I'm good at climbing trees.

Cat: (mew)

Hikari: Plus, I want to do everything that I can on my own.

Kishitani: That's a good philosophy.
	Once a pretty girl learns how to take it easy, she never looks back.

Hikari: Oh, and by the way,
	congratulations on your engagement.

Kishitani: Oh.
	Huh?
	So you found out.

Hikari: Only that you're engaged.
	I don't know anything about whoever you're engaged to...

Kishitani: ...nobody special.
	Just a regular guy who hates women who smoke.

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Hikari: Where did you meet him?

Kishitani: Dunno.

Sign: Stay Out

Kishitani: It was before I could remember.
	That's "old friends" for you.

Hikari: Oh,
	right.

Kishitani: Whoops.

Hikari: Was it always him?

Kishitani: Huh?

Hikari: Did you never fall in love with anyone else?

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Kishitani: Oh, don't be ridiculous.
	I'll have you know the boys were all out to get me.

Hikari: So then...

Hideo: Hikari!
	Senkawa won.
	Oh, Kishitani-sensei.

Kishitani: Yo.

Hideo: Congratulations on your engagement.

Kishitani: Looks like everyone and their mom knows about it.

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Hideo: So,
	who's the lucky guy?

Hikari: Oh, Hide-chan.
	I think Osanai-san is calling for you.

Hideo: Visit to the hospital?
	Is one of your friends sick?

Miho: The hell if I know.
	My sisters just told me to drop something off, since the hospital is close to our school.

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Hideo: So it's your sisters' friend?

Miho: Actually,
	it was some bike-rider they hit with their car.

Hideo: Wha?
	So it's someone they hospitalized in a traffic accident?!
	Why don't they go visit themselves?!
	That's so rude!

Miho: Is there a problem with that?

Hideo: Yes, there is!
	And what's with this cheap-looking bag of fruit?!

Miho: He flew into them,
	while they were waiting at a light.

Hideo: Huh?

Miho: It was the night of that typhoon.
	Some total moron was trying to cross the street on his bike while holding an umbrella with both hands...

Bike: (vroom!)

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Miho: And then he started raising such a fuss about being the victim.  The police just ignored him.
	So this is as much as he deserves.
	Plus, if we start being too kind to him, he might try to take even more advantage of us.

Hideo: Hold on a second, Osanai!
	OK, now it's enough.
	Huh?
	So who's Kishitani-sensei's fiance?

Hikari: She left.

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