Nononono 44

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Chapter 44: How Can That Happen?
Umi...
This is the first time I've seen cry---

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Does she think---that I'll lose?
...Oi oi.
That's why I hate people who plainly display their emotions.
If they do that---

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Hans(thought): My heart will easily be moved...
A+K: Wh...!?
Yoda: He lowered the gate!?

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Yuuta: D...
Yuuta: Don't joke around!!
Mikage: What!?
Mikage: What's going on!?
Kishitani: He...
Kishitani: He's planning to start from the lower gate!!
Mikage: Yeah, but what does that mean!?
Hans(thought): It's not that I'm jumping because Umi is crying.
Hans(thought): It's just...
Hans(thought): If I don't win today, I probably won't get to eat her lunches anymore.

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Kishitani: He really started from the lower gate!!
What's he thinking!?
Mikage: As I said, what does it mean!?
Kishitani: In ski jumping...the height of the gate can control the flying distance!!
The higher it is, the farther one can jump, and vice versa...
Mikage: Really?
It somehow feels like it should be the opposite...
Mikage: Why do they do something like that?
Kishitani: It's because weather can play a big role in the outcome!!
Kishitani: Depending on the wind, an athlete can either jump too far and get hurt, or jump not far enough---
Kishitani: That's why they need to be able to adjust the height!!
Kishitani: But, even in competitions, the height of the gate doesn't change from start to finish!!
Else it would be unfair, wouldn't it?
Yuuta: ...

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Kishitani: Even so, he started from a different gate!!
Kishitani: This won't be a proper match!!
Kishitani: He's running away!!
Umi(thought): Hans...
Akira: No...
Maybe he's...
Kishitani: Huh?
Hans(thought): ...
Hans(thought): Umi...

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I'll be there soon.

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I'll make you smile the way you always do.

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Akira: So high up!!
Akira(thought): He's going in the same arc as Nonomiya!!
Man #1: Huh!?
Man #2: How did he suddenly!?

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Nothing

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Mikage: Hey!?
What happened!?
Mikage: Did Yuuta win or lose!?

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He beat Nonomiya---
Losing in terms of distance, even with the opponent was using a lowered gate...
Nonomiya---lost completely.

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Umi: Hans!!
Umi: Hans, I love you!!
Hans: Hahaha,
I was trying to make you smile...
Hans: But you're crying again.
Yoda: Schneider,
Yoda: Why did you lower the gate?
Hans: ...
Hans: Well...
Hans: If I went with my all...
Hans: I probably would have gotten hurt.

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Umi: How about it!!
Umi: Did you see that!!
Umi: If Hans is around, there's no way you can win the gold medal!!
Yuuta: ...
Kishitani: No...Nonomiya...there's no need to be that worried.
After all, it's natural that you lose in a match like this.
Yuuta: ...
Kishitani: He's the best in Austria.
And you're only the best high schooler in Nagano.
Kishitani: It's not like you had a chance in the first place.
Kishitani: Although your awesome first jump got our hopes up a bit...
Yuuta: It's alright.

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Yuuta: I'm...
Yuuta: Not really depressed or anything.
Yuuta: Rather...
Yuuta: It's refreshing to lose after giving it my all.
Sora(thought): Nono-chan...
Yuuta: With that jump, I thought I would have won for sure...
The world sure is amazing.
Yuuta: I didn't think...
That I would lose to someone starting at a lower gate...
Akira: ...
Yuuta: Today...
Yuuta: Was really great.
Yuuta: I felt the difference between me and the world...
Mikage: Yuuta...
Mikage: That's enough.

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Yuuta: I, for sure...
Yuuta: In the Olympics...
Umi: !?
Yuuta: I...
Yuuta(thought): They insulted father...
Yuuta(thought): But I couldn't do anything...
Yuuta(thought): If I couldn't realize the dream of a gold medal...
Yuuta(thought): And fulfill the wishes of father and brother...

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Yuuta(thought): Then everything until now would have been for nothing...
Yuuta: Ugh...
Mikage: Yuuta!?
Mikage: Don't cry over just one loss!!
Mikage: Aren't you a guy!?
Yuuta: I'm not crying!!
Mikage: Here!!
Wipe your nose!!
Yuuta: I told you, I'm not crying!!
Umi: ...
Yuuta: Oooh...
Yuuta: Sniff
Umi: What is this?

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I...
Have been thinking of nothing but crushing Yuuta's dream...
But, like this...
I'm not happy at all...