Hinomaru-Zumou 39

Reserved

Round 39: as long we follow him\\
1
inserted: the only thing on the road to become the best in japan is… training!!\\
rei: …?\\ what are you doing so early in the morning, yuuma…?\\
yuu: what kind of question is that…? I’m going to the morning training\\
rei: wha?\\ it’s still the 5 in the morning, is the school even open?\\
yuu: from now on we will train outside in the morning\\
yuu: we are aiming to become the best in japan\\
yuu: so we are supposed to go to a trip to hell after all\\
2
side: is this only training…!?\\
yuu: what!?\\
yuu: … we are fishing wakame!?\\
TLN: species of edible brown seaweed, Undaria pinnatifida\\
Hi: hey yuuma don’t just stand there, do your job!\\
3
hi: look, we have caught many of them\\
yuu: hey wait a minute\\
hot: urgh… I feel sick\\
oz: me too…\\
yuu: … what is the relation between this and sumo…?\\ no one told you about this as well, right?\\
hi: well, no…\\
yuu: he said that we were supposed to have some morning training and he deceived us instead…\\
ki: ok, we will begin soon\\
4
ki: stomp your legs 50 times!\\ and after that we will proceed to the next phase\\
oz: h-here!? I never heard about doing the stomping on a boat…\\
yuu: and more importantly this thing is rolling like crazy…\\
oz: uwah\\ this is really difficult!\\
yuu: hey! What’s the meaning of this!\\ explain!\\
5
ki: hum… is that really necessary? You should be able to understand it easily\\
yuu: hurry up and explain!\\
ki: … according to the artist Jean Cocteau, sumo is…\\
ki: the “art of balance”\\
ki: in a few words sumo consists in “make the balance of your opponent crumble”\\
ki: you must become able to maintain your sense of balance even if you are standing on an unstable surface like the deck of a boat\\
hi: I see…\\
6
hi: in this situation the stomping will be more intense than normal \\
hi: and we will be able to uniformly train the muscles necessary to keep our balance\\
yuu: kuh… this guy is already doing it…\\
ki: well, what he said\\
ki: the stomping is like “talking with your flesh”\\
ki: every time you stomp focus your consciousness on your muscles \\
kuni: ha ha ha I have understood what your are aiming for!\\ and there is also a secret related to fishing wakame!\\
ki: eh?\\
kuni: I’m sure that the feeling of holding this thing\\
kuni: is the same of holding our opponent’s loincloth\\ am I right!?\\
ki: no, fishing wakame doesn’t have anything to do with your training\\
kuni: ah… I see\\
ki: it only served for us to borrow the ship\\
ki: we will also earn some money, that will help us with the club’s budget, two bird with one stone\\
ki: we are completely broken because of that chanko stand during the school festival\\ don’t lose focus both when you train and when you fish\\
kuni: ok!\\
hot: haa\\haa\\
oz: mitsuhashi!!\\
8
oz: oh man my legs are trembling\\ I feel like I have used muscles I didn’t even know the existence of…\\
ki: we will do this every morning for the entire month\\
oz: … anyway captain\\it is strange that you accepted such an unusual request\\
yuu: well the old man is also fine because he got some young helpers after all, right?\\
cap: eh? Stop saying bulshit\\ some amateurs like your are more like a burden than real help\\
9
yuu: …?\\ then why are you helping us?\\
cap: eh? Well…\\
box: after school…\\
rei: what the hell is this…\\
10
ki: too slow\\
ki: you have to follow the sudden changes in direction of the goldfish!\\ focus!\\
ki: be sure that the fingers of your foot don’t leave the ring!\\
ki: slide your feet along all the directions!\\
11
ki: ok mitsubashi, another 10 seconds left\\
hot: guh\\ hih\\
ki: 2… 1… ok stop\\
hot: buhah!!\\
ki: ok move fast\\ put the water in your mouth\\ and don’t drink\\
?: begin!\\
rei: … what the hell are you doing? This is all so strange…\\ … and\\
12
rei: the strangest one is yuuma…\\
yuu: wha?\\
yuu: slash quickly and strongly by using your loin and legs while you are in a raised position\\
yuu: this is the trusts training in order to not fall for the “pulling techniques” in sumo…\\ or so he said…\\
13
rei: so he said…?\\ will you really become stronger with that?\\
rei: and more importantly why is everyone going along with this frolic training?\\
rei: if it was me, I would at least complain a little, but\\ it seems that everyone is forced to do an unreasonable training\\
rei: while he just sits there with an arrogant look on his face\\
yuu: … well, that’s how it seems from the outside\\
yuu: to be honest I cannot stand him as well\\
yuu: … there is something that I really cannot stand\\ about that bastard…\\
14
yuu: he does reckless things while the others are not looking\\
cap: well…\\ that four eyes friend of yours\\
cap: came here every morning\\ that’s not something a normal young man would do\\
cap: even if he did it for his friends\\
cap: he did a lot of things for you\\
yuu: … it is just that he is doing his best undersurface\\
yuu: clearly we cannot obey to the things we cannot accept…\\
15
yuu: and yet we still do what he says…\\
kuni: the right way to exploit my variegated number of moves\\ lies in my foothold after all!\\
kuni: the goldfish bowl resembles the sumo ring\\ it is different from the matt or a normal ring…\\
kuni: I have to memorize with my body\\ the sensation and the size of the sumo ring!\\
oz: … a training that consists in keeping your breath with water in your mouth while trying to finish a duel as fast as possible\\ I see…\\
oz: I feel like it makes sense after all…\\
yuu: … everyone vaguely thought that\\ we are still all beginners at sumo\\
yuu: and it will be impossible for us to aim to become the best in japan like the sumo clubs in the other schools\\
yuu: therefore maybe his… original ways of training\\ will be able to shake off our insecurity and impatience\\
16
yuu: … his explanations are always not 100% clear but\\ that’s fine\\
yuu: because we are getting feedback\\ from our body… and instinct\\
yuu: we know that as long as we will follow him\\
yuu: we will become strong…!\\
17
rei: …\\ is it the same for him as well…?\\
ki: that’s wrong!\\ your movements were all over the place!\\
hi: hah\\hah\\
ki: there isn’t any shortcut to get your moves right\\ you have to find the right timing with your body during a real battle\\
rei: he… even lost to your captain…\\ don’t he feel bad about that?\\
yuu: … just\\ look at his face\\
18
hi: dammit\\ let’s do it again!\\
yuu: … it is something I have already seen in the past\\ the things that an athlete can do and that he understands\\
yuu: by following a superior coach are on a totally different level\\
yuu: … in that case he is really capable\\
yuu: and I will follow his lead\\ I will do anything in order to become stronger…!\\
19
yuu: … we have personal training today\\he said to go to train our individual traits alone, huh…\\
yuu: … my individual skills in sumo…\\
yuu: … well\\
yuu: that bastard told me to do…\\ whenever I wanted…\\
yuu: a lot of time passed since I have ignored my responsibilities, huh…\\
yuu: I wonder with what face I should enter there…\\
on the sign: karate gym, nakashin kan\\
side: they have to polish their fangs in order to win!!\\