Hinomaru-Zumou 44

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round 44: even if I’m small\\
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inserted: the stable master’s suggestion!!\\
hi: eh!?\\ stay here!?\\
boss: yeah, it’s probably better than going home and then coming back here\\
hi: no… it is just that I do not want to impose myself so much…\\
boss: there’s no need to hold back\\ or maybe it would feel too awkward to eat with us?\\
boss: in that case, hurry up and work\\
boss: I will make you taste the life of a new sumo disciple today\\
boss: hey tera-chan, teach to this boy everything he needs to know\\
tera: ok!\\
hi: eh!? Eeeh!?\\
2
side: he cooks, cleans and trains with all of his might\\ in a sumo stable you build both the wrestler and the man\\
3
hi: wow!\\ this is chanko!!\\
hi: this is the true and original sumo stable chanko pot!!\\
boss: hey hinomaru-chan, good work!\\ come here and eat with us\\
hi: eh!?\\ hinomaru-chan…?\\
hi: i-is this really fine?\\ the sekitori* is still…\\
TLN: that is saenoyama, the highest ranked wrestler is also referred to “sekitori”\\
tera: saki-chan will feel lonely if she eats those noodles all by herself\\ we will do an exception for today, go!\\
saki: heheheh, in a normal situation a new disciple would eat last\\
box: professional sumo is a “society built on the assigned rank”\\ eating and any other task in the stable is performed such that the one with the highest rank does it first\\
4
box: in the past they would say:\ “just one rank of difference makes you a servant”\ “just one class of difference makes you like an insect”\\ actually, when one becomes a ranked wrestler, on the surface he receives a favourable treatment no matter how many years he is practicing sumo, or if he is a senior or a junior\\
box: something like seeing the oldest wrestler here, kaori fuji-san serving the highest ranked wrestler while waiting for him to finish, is a peculiar scene of professional sumo\\
TLN: in japan there is a great respect for the elders, therefore you would see an elder serve a younger one like this only in sumo\\
boss: when I was young I was in a stable with more of 40 wrestlers\\ when the high ranked people would have finished eating, the only thing left were vegetables\\
boss: those feelings of frustration are closely related to your desire to become stronger\\
box: … however to eat before the older wrestlers who are exhausted after an entire day of training without eating anything, while I already had 2 meals is a little…\\
hi: I really cannot relax like this…\\
sae: by the way\\ there is something I wanted to discuss with everyone since a while ago\\
5
sae: I head that you are a “national treasure”*\\ national treasure “onimaru”\\
TLN: yup, I have translated “kokuhou” as king, while instead it was national treasure, sorry the kanji for king and treasure are really similar both in shape and pronunciation\\
sae: I asked to saki-chan\\
hi: eh!?\\
saki: I just searched a bit about you, and I immediately found out\\ you are not a normal person after all\\
tera: n-national treasure!?\\
hi: well… I just never had the occasion to tell you that until now, you know!?\\
sae: … for pro like us to disregard a candidate to become yokozuna and making light of him was a little disagreeable, but\\ now that I have seen your real strength I understand\\
sae: there must be many good wrestlers in high school sumo right now\\
tera: hey wait a minute… then why did you rank only in the best 16 during the newcomer’s tournament…?
Sae: I’m not able to understand such a thing as well\\
Sae: who is the person capable of… winning against someone of your level?\\
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hi: … kuze sousuke\\ national treasure “kusanagi”\\
hi: he is the son of the former yokozuna, yamato kuni\\
tera: I see! In that tournament\\ he was the one who won!\\
hi: eh?\\
sae: right now many people are talking about him in the world of sumo\\ they call him yamato kuni jr.\\
sae: the high school student against which high ranked wrestlers have only the 50% of chance of winning…\\ if he enters in professional sumo he would rise in the ranking immediately…\\
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boss: … I see, so you have the same age of his son, huh…\\
boss: he must be difficult to deal with…\\
sae: … so?\\ is he stronger than me?\\
hi: eh…!?\\
hi: w-well…\\
hi: I fared better against him than against you!\\
tera: hahaha, I see\\
?: hey!\\ don’t stop the chop sticks!\\ three bowls is the normal quota for anyone here!\\
hi: y-yes!\\
8
saki: a-are you sure that it is fine for me to stay as well…?\\
?: the private room is empty today, so you can use it\\
saki: thank you very much!\\ I was worried because the return ticket could be bought only in the morning\\
box: the wrestlers under the makushita rank live in the common large room…\\
box: only saenoyama-seki has a private room\\ and only people with his rank have the special privilege of leaving the stable and have an house of their own\\
?: I want a private room as soon as possible\\
??: you don’t have any other choice than becoming stronger then\\
box: then, once the wrester had their fill of food, the next part of their job is…\\
9
box: a nap in the afternoon\\
box: eat a lot and sleep a lot\\ to make their body grow bigger is another part of a sumo wrestler’s job\\
box: then wake up at 3 pm\\
box: and after doing the cleaning and other routine tasks, they can enjoy their free time\\
box: there are also people who use this time to go to the gym\\
saki: shibaki yama stable has few training tools after all…\\
tera: ok! I’m going to buy the stuff to make today’s dinner!\\
box: those in the lower positions are really busy because they have many routine jobs to do…\\
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?: ok!\\
box: but…\\
hi: this is so enjoyable…\\
hi: I already know that… not everything is fun in life\\
hi: I know that everyone is supposed to hold troubles in their hearts…\\
hi: I already know that but… this is like…\\
saki: I have also made something for you all\\
?: wow! Marry me!!\\
hi: this is the sumo world I have yearned for many years…\\
hi: it is like I’m part of it now…\\
11
hi: I didn’t come here to play around…\\ I still didn’t accomplish anything…\\ but… at least for a little bit…\\
hi: let me be immersed\\ in this feeling\\
12
hi: !\\ oh… did I wake you up…? Sorry about that\\
hi: I couldn’t sleep…\\
hi: I couldn’t just stand still\\ and I thought of reviewing the sensations I had yesterday while I still didn’t forget about them\\
saki: … I guess you are really excited about this…\\
hi: … I want to become a pro\\ and now that I am here, those feelings became even stronger\\
saki: heheh\\
13
saki: lately I go around many sumo stable during the holydays\\
saki: but this place has in incredibly good atmosphere about it\\
saki: my brother is aiming to become a pro\\ so I’m going around the stables to scout out them in his place\\
saki: hey, ushio-kun…\\
saki: who is really the strongest…\\
saki: between saenoyama-zeki and national treasure “kusanagi”?\\
14
hi: … clearly saenoyama-zeki is superior both in terms of power and technique\\ I couldn’t do anything against him from the beginning to the end…\\
hi: … yet…\\
hi: I’m not even able to imagine who would won…\\
hi: if the two of them fight each other…\\
hi: maybe I think too much of kuze inside of me…\\but I’m sure that next time we will face each other he will have become even stronger\\
hi: the both of them are close both in terms of physique and technique\\ I’m sure that kuze would never be able to easily throw someone like saenoyama-zeki… yet…\\
?: … I see\\
?: in other words your friend chose saenoyama\\ as perfect training partner to fight kuze sousuke\\
15
hi: s-…\\ stable master!?\\
boss: … I understand what you are trying to do\\ but it is clear that after your fight against saenoyama yesterday\\
boss: you still have a long road in front of you, right?\\
boss: hey… what about a match against me\\
hi: eh!?\\
boss: there is a limit to the things you can do alone\\
boss: furthermore…\\ I heard that the son’s sumo exactly resembles that of the father\\
boss: in that case…\\
16
boss: I took a “kinboshi” in the later years of \\ yamatokuni’s career \\
note: it denotes that a ranked wrestlers earned a victory against the yokozuna\\
boss: so I’m sure that my experience will surely be useful to you!\\
boss: hey, what’s wrong!?\\ it doesn’t happen too often that I train with someone, you know?\\
hi: … why…\\
hi: why are you so good with someone like me…?\\ I would understand if I was an athlete with good prospects to become a pro\\
hi: but I… you know…\\
boss: I saw my past self in you\\
boss: I would say…\\ that it is a bad habit you take when you get older\\
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boss: … you said that\\ you want to become the yokozuna of professional sumo…\\
boss: those aren’t words you used in order to provoke saenoyama, right?\\
boss: when I was on active duty they continued to tell me that it was useless and that I was too small\\ yet I continued to chase after the dream of becoming the yokozuna\\
boss: at the end my highest rank was the “sekiwake”*\\ people would praise me, but I wasn’t able to reach the place I wanted to\\
note: the third rank after the yokozuna and the oozeki\\
boss: … and I have entrusted my dream to saenoyama\\ who is way taller than me\\
boss: … but at the same time there was one thing I did not want to acknowledge\\
boss: show me that you can become a yokozuna…\\ even if you are short…\\
boss: show me my dream…!!\\
18
boss: you probably already know about it, but\\
boss: there is only one way to become a pro with that height of yours\\
boss: and in order to do that\\ you have to reach the summit of high school sumo!\
boss: that’s the first step to become a pro!\\
boss: I used too many words, so to sum it up\\ I like you, boy!!\\
boss: so come to my stable when you want to become a pro!!\\ I will be waiting for you, ok?\\
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hi: yes…!!\\
?: … what? I noticed that someone was training so early in the morning. So it was you, hinomaru, huh?\\
tera: ah! The master wants to practice with you!\\ he still didn’t do that with me!\\
boss: ah, you are all wide awake, huh\\
tera: dammit! I want to become stronger too! Let’s begin to train immediately!!\\
?; me too!!\\
saki: … even pros are influenced by this high school student…\\
saki: ushio hinomaru-kun, huh…\\
inserted: people don’t want to become stronger only because of painful things…\\