Yakitate!! Japan 218

Ｃｈａｐｔｅｒ　２１８
Umajirou’s wish

P97
He’s living at the bottom of a bit!?
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No…
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No way, right? // we always learned that normally there would be something like a house over a pit dwelling.

P98
This isn’t a living place, it’s just a normal pit.
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Kawachi: But what the heck is it here for?
Umajirou: You there! Who are you!?
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Umajirou: What are you doing over there!?
Kawachi: Oh crap!
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Azuma’s grandpa ended up finding me faster than I could find him…

P99
They say the first impression is the most important when meeting someone…
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Kawachi: In order to get the ancient wheat, I have to be as polite as possible from the start.
Umajirou: Hey! Who are you!? Answer me immediately!
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A… are you Azuma Umajirou-san? My name is Kawachi Kyousuke, I’m a baker.

P100
Umajirou: Oh, a baker huh.
Kawachi: And what are you supposed to be!?
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Umajirou: Is something wrong?
Kawachi: Oh… no… not really. // Is it normal to wear armor as clothes!?
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Umajirou: So you’re the baker Kawachi, what do you want with me?
Kawachi: W… well…

P101
Please! Can you give me some of the ancient wheat you’ve been growing here?
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What?
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These days there is so many things added into bread so it lasts longer, and the taste has suffered.
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But I can’t get a hold of any of the old fashioned wheat that I like.

P102
So… please, if you could… please give me some ancient wheat.
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I, like you, am a person who loves old… uh… “classical” things.
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I want to show today’s Japanese, who prefer only new things, how amazing bread made with ancient wheat is!

P103
Wa… was my act a little too strong?
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If he really is so stubborn that even someone like Azuma can’t get along with him…
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Kawachi: He might not cave this easily…
Umajirou: Alright
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What!? // R… really?
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However… // I have a condition

P104
Kawachi: Condition?
Umajirou: Yes // For now, let’s go to my house.
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Yes sir!
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Kawachi: So… so this hole really is your house…
Umajirou: Yes.
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Umajirou: It used to be a normal pit dwelling, but during of a big storm, the roof and the supports were blown away, and this is all that’s left.
Kawachi: For real?

P105
I couldn’t tell before because I only took a peak, but… the wreckage of what used to be a house is strewn about everywhere
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Kawachi: So if it’s gotten this bad why don’t you fix it?
Umajirou: It won’t be the same
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Being old means is has a feeling of being used before // If I easily just fix it with new things, it will lose that feeling.
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I guess that’s true but…

P106
Even if it has a certain feeling, if it’s completely broken like this, it’s just garbage.
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Umajirou: Did you say something?
Kawachi: Uh so anyway!
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C’mon, what was that condition you mentioned before?
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Kawachi: I, Kawachi Kyousuke, if it’s for ancient wheat, will go through fire, through water…
Umajirou: Well you see Kawachi-kun

P107
UmajiroFor a very long time, I have loved bread. Do you know why?
Kawachi: Huh?
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Well.. that is…
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While bread doesn’t have a long history in Japan, if you look at it from a world perspective, it has 1000’s of years more history than rice, right?
Umajirou: Yes!
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You get it!! What a rare, wonderful youngster you are!
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Oh~, it’s a nothing // What’s with this guy? Sure he’s a little weird, but he seems nice enough

P108
I was worried because he couldn’t get along with Azuma, but he agreed to give me the ancient wheat, and he doesn’t have a bad personality either.
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Umajirou: This is a little old, and has gotten kind of vinegary, but would you like some sake?
Kawachi: Yes please!
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Whoa! sour!
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Kawachi: But still, this is pretty good!
Umajirou: Good, good
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This is strange, but why can’t Azuma get along with such a nice person?
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Umajirou: But you know Kawachi-kun
Kawachi: Hmmm?

P109
Recently someone has deeply hurt me by trying to disgrace that history-filled bread.
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Umajirou: The condition I want to give you is to beat that man.
Kawachi: I see. So that’s it!
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That’s easy! // As a representative of someone who loves classical things, I will make him wish he was never born!
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Oh! You’ll do it?
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Absolutely!!

P110
Alright, if that’s how it is, I will bestow upon you the best ancient wheat I have grown…. “Daruma!”
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Da… Daruma?
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Yes
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Daruma is a wheat that was created by mixing Japanese wheat with Australian wheat, improving it into a bread that can be used for bread.
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Even among the world’s best wheat, it is called the ultimate bread wheat.

P111
Umajirou: If you try using it, I think you will understand it, but it’s so amazing it can’t be explained in words.
Kawachi: It’s that amazing of a thing…
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Umajirou: I’ve got some here actually, would you like to try it?
Kawachi: What? Isn’t that raw flour?
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Umajirou: Don’t worry so much, just try and eat some
Kawachi: Ok…
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Chomp
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This… This is!

P112
I’ve become a daruma! // It’s so delicious can’t even move a step!
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Umajirou: Heh heh heh, you’re too touched you can’t even move right?
Kawachi:Yes.
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Kawachi: I feel like my body got hot, then turned red
Umajirou: That is the power of Daruma

P113
What an amazing wheat Daruma is… // With this, it seems even I can make an unbelievably delicious bread
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Umajirou; So you like it?
Kawachi: Yes!
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If you tell me the name of the man that dare disgrace this bread, I’ll take care of him! // So please, let me have this Daruma!
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Alright!

P114
That man’s name is Azuma Kazuma! // I want you to beat him so badly he’ll never be able to make bread again!
Kawachi: What’d you saaaaay!?