Happy! Volume 2 : Never Give Up! Set.17 I Like Her - Page 113 - Set.17 : I Like Her - Page 114 - Sign: Ryugasaki Ryugasaki: Ohh, look how beautiful this picture is!! My little girl is so CHARMING!! That's a good one, too!! - Page 115 - Ryugasaki: She looks just like me at that age!! Reporter: (bloosh!!) Ryugasaki: Oh my! What happened, Mr. "Sports Tokyo"?! Reporter: Er... well... our Choko-san special issue is raising quite a fuss!! And we're planning a second one for her pro debut in the Tokyo Cinderella Cup in six months!! Ryugasaki: Well, a second one's fine and all, but... (flip flip) Reporter: Huh? Ryugasaki: Don'tcha think this is a little lacking without any articles about me? It needs some nice color photos of me!! Reporter: Err... Ryugasaki: What's wrong? Is that tea a little bitter? Reporter: Err, no... no, it's delicious... - Page 116 - Reporter: W... well... regardless of Choko-san's well-selling issue, we don't have to print just any attention-grabbing articles... When you've already got the momentum to take down a flying bird... or no, a flying phoenix... (Note: "Enough momentum to take down a flying bird" is a figure of speech that refers to something or someone who is on a hot streak or a roll. The phoenix refers to Ohtori, which indeed means "phoenix".) Ryugasaki: What was that? Reporter: Er... um... a photo shoot with you!! GREAT idea!! Ryugasaki: Did you just say enough momentum to take down a flying phoenix? Reporter: Um... well... Ryugasaki: Oh, that thing stopped flying LONG ago!! The Ohtori phoenix is just a chicken, now. Ohtori Super Tennis, indeed! Just disgusting how they plaster their name over everything. Reporter: Yes, as rumor says, it seems like it was nothing more than an excuse to show off Sabrina Nicolik's power, and nothing else. Ryugasaki: It's so hard to watch their frantic floundering with no heir to the throne. - Page 117 - Reporter: Yes, her son Keiichiro may be the student champion, but he shows no ambition or hunger for success. And her pupil Kaku Kikuko won the national tournament, but she didn't have an easy time of it... Ryugasaki: Speaking of which... My Choko is entirely different!! She is a genius, and it's a rare thing when geniuses give birth to geniuses!! HO HO HO HO!! Reporter: Hmm, indeed!! The age-old battle between Ryugasaki and Ohtori may finally be coming to an end with Ryugasaki planning its victory. Choko: I'm a genius? Both: OH. - Page 118 - Choko: Aha, so I'm a genius. I just knew it!! Ryugasaki: Choko!! What happened to your training? You aren't running out again, I hope. Choko: I'm a genius, so I'm going shopping!! Ryugasaki: Now, I know she doesn't have any decent opponents, but isn't there ANYONE who can fire her up for her debut match...? Reporter: Indeed... Choko: Bye-bye!! Reporter: Well, there was that one odd girl, but she won't amount to anything. Ryugasaki: What do you mean? Reporter: Do you remember Umino Miyuki? Ryugasaki: Umino... Why, no. Reporter: She won the All Japan Junior Tournament three years ago, but that was it. Not a peep out of her, until just recently when she showed up with Ohtori. - Page 119 - Ryugasaki: The All Japan Junior Tournament three years ago was when my Choko didn't like her tennis wear and threw a tantrum, so she didn't enter. Choko: OH! That girl who was practicing with Keiichiro-san at night!! Ryugasaki: What's that? Choko: Ah... n-nothing... Ryugasaki: What could Ohtori be thinking? That girl won only because Choko didn't enter, and she hasn't played in three years. Reporter: Yes... it's so silly, nobody's willing to even bother writing an article about it. Ryugasaki: So Ohtori's hit rock bottom. Hey, Choko!! Come back!! You need to practice!! - Page 120 - Choko: She steals the All Japan Jr. Cup away from me when I didn't play... And now she's trying to steal Keiichiro-san... Umino Miyuki? What an eyesore!! WHAT AN UGLY EYESORE!! - Page 121 - Miyuki: (hahh)(hahh) Keiichiro: So, her six month training has begun!! Shisaki: Sigh... Keiichiro: So how is Umino? She's great, isn't she?! Shisaki: Well... we saw her play a bit on the court, so we can understand why you and the Madam are taken with her... Keiichiro: Right?! Man, it's such a shame that she hasn't been around playing tennis until now!! Shisaki: B-but... even with her excellent talents... Kuniryo: Winning a pro cup in half a year is simply impossible... Keiichiro: You can do it!! Hang in there!! You coaches are the ones to raise her up!! - Page 122 - Shisaki: W... we know that!! Kuniryo: If we can't do it, we're fired!! Shisaki: And I just signed for a twenty-year housing loan... Kuniryo: My wife wants to put our son in a private elementary school... those cost so much money... Both: WE CAN'T AFFORD TO BE FIRED!! Kuniryo: I thought that being a coach at the Ohtori Tennis Club would grant me a stable life!! Shisaki: And our future could be ruined because of this strange girl named Umino Miyuki?! Keiichiro: No... it's not her fault. It's just my overbearing mother setting up a crazy plan... Coaches: Please, sir, you must make her re-think this idea...!! Kuniryo-san!! Shisaki-san!! - Page 123 - Fuda: L... look at this!! The Madam created her own training menu for Umino Miyuki to follow...!! Coaches: Huh...?! Shisaki: Mon/Wed/Fri, 20 km running, 5 hours of court time and 2 hours of weight training... that's too much, even every other day!! Kuniryo: It's not just every other day!! Her Tue/Thu menu is 20 km running, 5 hours of court time and 3 sets of circuit training. And on the weekend... All: WHAT THE HELL IS ALL THIS?! This isn't training, it's torture!! Keiichiro: If Umino does all of that, she won't get to pro level... She'll fall apart... She'll fall apart after six months of that... no, just ONE month!! - Page 124 - Keiichiro: I'm going to have to make Mother withdraw these terms!! (za) Coaches: And don't let her fire us, please!! Shisaki: Ah... Umino's already done ten laps or so. Kuniryo: No, wasn't it more like fifteen?! We have to leave for a bit!! Take a rest after twenty laps!! Miyuki: Okay!! The next is my twenty-fifth!! (hahh)(hahh) Kaku: Good job. Miyuki: Ah... Okiku-san, congratulations on winning the National Championship!! Kaku: Congratulations to you, too. It looks like the Madam has finally seen to letting you join. - Page 125 - Miyuki: Yes. She told me to quit my other jobs and she's giving me an allowance equal to my monthly salaries from the other places... I really have so much to thank her for. Kaku: I see, that's great!! Let's run together. But you've been too long without practice, so if you can't keep up, just take a rest!! Miyuki: Okay! Both: (hahh)(hahh)(hahh) Ohtori: If she falls apart, then that's all she was!! - Page 126 - Keiichiro: B... but Mother... if she can't play for the tournament, then the whole thing was for nothing!! Ohtori: Keiichiro-san, you seem to be talking back to your Mother quite a lot recently. What has happened to you? Keiichiro: Um, well... it's not like I'm trying to... Ohtori: You said "it will all be for nothing", but she is nothing to begin with. Keiichiro: Huh? Ohtori: Of course there's no way she can win the Tokyo Cinderella Cup. If we're to make her win it, then she'll need that amount of training. And if she can't take it, then that's all she was worth to begin with. - Page 127 - Keiichiro: But if you look at her potential history in the long run... Ohtori: I couldn't care less about that. All I want is for her to win the Tokyo Cinderella Cup. All I want is for her to ruin Ryugasaki Choko's debut!! Door: (batan) Coaches: H-how did it go? Keiichiro: I'm sorry, I could barely get a word in... Coaches: Awwwwwww... - Page 128 - Keiichiro: I know it's tough, but hang in there!! Give your best and turn Umino Miyuki into a fabulous pro!! Fuda: B... but... Shisaki: Master Keiichiro!! Keiichiro: {Umino's got it the toughest, herself... Keep at it!! Make it through this, Umino!!} Kaku: AH! Gwah!! U... Umino-san!! Y... you... (hahh) (hahh) You can't go so all-out from the start!! Are you trying to destroy yourself before your first match?! - Page 129 - Miyuki: (hahh)(hahh) Wanibuchi: So that's Umino Miyuki... Junji: Yes, sir. Wanibuchi: Heheh... (click) I like her. - Page 130 - Saegusa: Well, that girl's caught the eye of one dangerous man... Junji: Huh? Saegusa: If Chairman Wanibuchi Kyohei wants her, then she'd have been much better off going to that soapland. Miyuki: (hahh) {Just wait, Ieyasu!!} (hahh) (hahh) {Just a little more hardship!!} {A little more hardship, and then I'll begin paying off the debt!!} (hahh)(hahh) {5 million yen for winning the Tokyo Cinderella Cup!!} (hahh) - Set.17 Owari -