Hinomaru-Zumou 48

Reserved

Round 48: the “real thing” and the fake\\
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inserted: the curtain opens on the inter high tournament!!\\
box: last ten days of June\\
?: well… Let’s continue\\ we will have here to represent all the schools present in this tournament\\
on the board: national high school athletics tournament\ sumo tournament, chiba prefecture preliminaries\\
?: the captain of the school that won the chiba prefecture preliminaries last year\\ captain kanamori tsuyoshi of the ishigami high school\\
?: perform the athlete's oath of fair play\\
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kana: I pledge!!\\
kana: that all the athletes gathered here\\ will show all of the “spirit-technique-body” that they have nurtured until today\\
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kana: and that we will fight until our power is exhausted\\ inside of that circle with 4.55 meters of diameter!\\
kana: this is the the athlete's oath of fair play of kanamori tsuyoshi!!\\
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?: ah! Reina-san!\\
?: this way!\\
rei: so loud!\\
rei: why are they so excited…\\ this tournament is totally different from the other one\\
text over the people: fight!\\ push, push!\\
?: well the other tournament was for newcomers after all\\
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?: for those in the third year this will be the last chance after all\\ so the enthusiasm is on a totally different level\\
rei: third years… yuuma…\\
rei: … is this a group match?\\
?: that’s right, it seems that they first perform the group matches and then move to the individual fights\\
rei: what about dachi high?\\
?: they are next, so I think that they will show up soon…\\
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?: it’s dachi high…\\ those guys…?\\
rei: …what is this atmosphere…?\\
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rei: the match in going on that side\\ and yet everyone looks at dachi high…\\
?: so that’s the wrestling national title holder, kunisaka, huh…\\
?: then there is gojou the pusher… now that I see them with my eyes, they are taller than I thought…\\
??: this time they are not just focusing on the midget…\\
??: probably it is because of what happened in the newcomers tournament…\\
???: … it is so strange\\ they have all lost against that guy called kuze, and yet…\\
girl: kuze’ sousuke overwhelming \\ strength is in some way ironic\\
girl: in a certain sense it made their existence stand out\\
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girl: right now dachi high is not an unknown school which you can underestimate anymore!\\ it is one of the schools who could win the championship!\\
girl: that’s why I told them to write an article on dachi high!!\\
miya: … but maybe it was better that…\\
miya: they would underestimate dachi high right now…\\
?: 4 wins and one lose, iwane high school wins\\
?: fifth match of the first round of the tournament\\ in the eastern corner Kashiwa vocative high school, western corner oodachi high school\\
?: is it the so rumoured dachi high?\\ will they be able to do something against their opponent?\\
??: they are against kashiwa\\ to be honest the are a really bad opponent to deal with\\
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tera: ah! Here he is!\\
tera: hey hinomaru! We came here to cheer for you!!\\
boss: stop, tera-chan!\\
tera: ouch!\\
boss: right now he is here as one of the members of dachi high team\\ it would boorish if we try to interact with him\\
tera: … I see…\\
boss: furthermore I came here in incognito\\ we don’t have to stand out at all\\
tera: well… I think that you stand out quite a lot… with that disguise of yours\\
tera: speaking of people standing out, it seems that dachi high is at the centre of the attention here\\ they are the hot topic of this tournament\\
boss: indeed…\\ but that also means…\\
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boss: that they are keeping an eye on them\\
boss: therefore they are investigating them\\ in order to create a counterplan\\
boss: depending on the cases, a debut fight would be much easier\\ you can show your distinctive characteristic against your opponent without no one keeping an eye on you\\
boss: instead your true value will be tested on the “second round”\\
boss: you will have drawn attention on you, and your skills will be laid out in front of the people around you\\ I have seen countless newcomers to be crushed in that way in professional sumo\\
boss: and those who are able to obtain results even in such a situation, are considered for the first time to be “the real thing”\\
miya: Kashiwa vocational high school… in the last years it fell behind ishi high but\\ it is a strong school that in the past was able to appear several times in the national tournaments…\\
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miya: they analyse thoroughly their opponents and hit at their weak points\\ they don’t have a star wrestlers that stands out from the others, but they change their techniques freely according to the opponent they meet. This is a clear proof that all its members have an high proficiency in the basic techniques\\
miya: I wonder how they will act against dachi high, after it obtained several unexpected results against ishi high, the highest ranked school in this prefecture\\... they could eat you up if you are not careful, dachi high…!\\
?: first fight\\ eastern corner itou-kun, western corner ushio-kun\\
it: … onimaru is in the first fight…\\ the coach was right on the mark\\
co: we have chances…\\ to win!!\\
co: it’s true that onimaru’s charge is low and sharp, but it is also messy!\\ charge before he does!\\ he doesn’t ever change direction during his initial charge! If you go with a powerful charge like kuze did, the rest will be done by your difference in body weight!\\
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co: at the end everything depends in the difference in physique… that’s what his battle against kuze has shown! An heavyweight class like itou has more of enough chances of winning if he hits onimaru with his best initial charge!\\
ito: yes!\\
ito: I have reviewed onimaru’s charge several times on the TV!\\ and researched everything about his techniques, starting from his elementary school years!\\
ito: my striking the face is the best in my team…\\
ito: it’s alright! I have to image myself winning!\\ believe it!\\ we know more things on dachi high than they even know about themselves!!\\
?: put your hands on the ground!\\
rei: uh… already?\\ are they starting already…?\\
ito: perfect… onimaru was the first to put his hands on the ground…!\\ now I just need to get my timing right and…\\
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ito: go!!\\
?: begin!!\\
girl: onimaru’s charge is late!?\\
ito: perfect!!\\
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?: wha!?\\
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girl: … he wasn’t late in his charge…?\\
girl: he was just aiming to slightly change the trajectory of the striking the face charge\\ with the least movement possible!?\\
tera: he…\\ used saenoyama-zeki’s initial charge…\\
?: you are on the edge of the ring!!\\ endure it, itou!!\\
?: you still can do it against onimaru!!\\
ito: it’s alright! This was my set up!\\ onimaru will be unable to throw me from now on!\\
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oni: underarm grappling throw\\
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oni: oniguruma’s black gate\\
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girl: both his initial charge…\\ and the power of his underarm throw…\\ he is not he onimaru we knew anymore…!\\
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boss: … you came to us in order to become the real thing, right…\\ hinomaru-chan?\\
?: … good fight!\\ it’s alright! This is a team match!\\
?: we will have our comeback!\\
ki: well then…\\ now that onimaru-sensei showed that we are back to business\\
ki: what about teaching to the others\\
ki: the new dachi high they don’t know anything about?\\
everyone: yeah!!\\
side: he showed that he has both the strength and the self confidence to be called “the real thing”!!\\