Mix 42

Mix 42



p1: ===================================
[scoreboard] {
[top row]: Team / 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6
[second row]: H
[third row]: M
}

p2-3: ===================================
[insert]: Everyone at the tournament has their eyes on his right arm. / Hurry to the mound!
Chapter 42: Jealous?

p4: ===================================
[sfx]: Ding!

[sfx]: Wobbly

Fair!

p5: ===================================
[sfx]: Cheers

So what’s this supposed to mean?

Every borderline pitch gets called a ball,
/ and every shoddy hit gets called in.

Did I go and blow all my luck on the no-hitter from last time?

Now, now.
/ Who actually has no luck?

p6: ===================================
You, who’s been doing nothing but grumbling all game,
/ or the team that has four hits, three walks and zero runs?

He sure looks pissed…
[sfx]: Cheers

Regardless, they’re a team without any big hitters.
/ Their plan is to keep going one single at a time.
We won’t be punished even if you pitch straight down the middle.

Overpower them!
Isn’t that what Haruka-chan said,
/ back at the meeting?

p7: ===================================
Huh?
Don’t “huh” me.
/ Weren’t you listening?

Don’t you remember how one the buttons on her blouse popped off as she stood,
/ and how she held it together with her hand while she spoke?!

…

Ah-choo!

A cold?
--No,
/ that doesn’t sound…
[small bubble]: *Sniff*

[sfx]: Cheers

p8: ===================================
[sfx]: Cheers

p9: ===================================
[sfx]: Cheers

Just like that, Touma.

Been thinking from the start, I have.
/ This lineup’s not hitting anything out of the park, so let’s simply overwhelm them.
Oh.
/ You too?

Huh?

Nah, nothing.
/ No wonder you were the captain back in middle school.
Right?

p10: ===================================
[sign]: Exit / Concessions

[sign to the right of the first one]: Smoking Section

p11: ===================================
[sfx]: Cheering

p12: ===================================
Whatever sport you chose, you would’ve been an ace at it,
/ Akai-kun.

---Nah.
/ Baseball was the one thing I never had a shred of confidence in.

Oh~?
[sign]: Register
Natsuno Ichiban (Baseball Team). Having lost the match, he has to pay.

I did grow up right getting to watch a bona-fide genius play.
Wouldn’t that be the ideal environment?

Screw being compared to him.

What’s so bad about that?
/ You’re brothers, and he’s older than you any—

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--Yeah.
/ He’s my brother.

A brother who showed up out of the blue when I was four, anyways.

My parents, they both had been married before.
Oh, really?

Then you’re the same as us!
I can’t believe it!

Huh?

The same?
/ Huh?
You’re kidding!

I mean, your brothers are so—
/ Huh?
They’re not just twins who look nothing like each other?

p14: ===================================
Hey, hey.
/ What’re you talking about now?
It’s hard, trying to find someone in the neighborhood who doesn’t know.

[sfx]: Cheers

*Zoom!*

p15: ===================================
Out!

[sfx]: Cheers

p16: ===================================
[sfx]: Cheers

Hey, hey.
/ These guys, are they really Meisei Academy?

p17: ===================================
I thought the no-hit no-run game had been a fluke, and came here half on a lark,
/ but that freshman—he’s not given up a proper hit this game, either.
Yeah.
[sign]: Meisei Alumnus

The strongarmed catcher who bats third picked off all three attempts to steal, too.
/ Damn, those brothers are good.

--Hey, did you hear?
/ Those two perfectly-in-sync brothers? They’re not related by blood.

You idiot.
/ Sure I know that.
[upper left]: --Yeah. They live a stone’s throw from the school,
/ and both parents are in their second marriage.
[lower right]: That’s common sense.
/ There’s not a person in the neighborhood who doesn’t know.
[sfx]: Hah hah

…

p18: ===================================
[scoreboard] {
[top row]: Team / 1 / 2 / … / 8
[second row]: H
[third row]: M
}
[sfx]: Cheers

Look out there all you want, you ain’t finding her.

p19: ===================================
Otomi-chan’s over there.

[sfx]: Cheers

Those brass band guys scouted her, and now she’s performing.

p20: ===================================
[sfx]: Cheers

p21: ===================================
Well?
/ Is Mr. Soccer Team jealous?

In today’s Japan, there’s nothing bigger in summer than high school ball.

p22: ===================================
Yeah.

[sfx]: Cheers

…I’m jealous.

Don’t go telling me this’s making you finally start wanting to play baseball.

Not once in my life have I been confident about baseball.

Yeah,
/ I heard.

--But.

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Recently, I managed to beat our middle school’s ace and fourth batter in a batting contest.

*Spurt*

Y-You idiot!
/ Mine was at 130km/hr; yours, 100km/hr. You had a handicap!

--But.
/ That did give me confidence.

Dude,
/ don’t tell me you’re—?!

p24: ===================================
I’m kidding.

[sfx]: Cheers

p25: ===================================
[sfx]: Cheers

[sfx]: Pitter-patter

p26: ===================================
[scoreboard] {
[top row]: Team / 1 / 2 / … / 9
[second row]: H
third row]: M
[final row]: m / 1 / 2 / … / 9

p27: ===================================
[sfx]: Whoosh

p28: ===================================
[sfx]: *Gasp*!

Whoa,
whoa.

Stop wasting so many panels…
OUT!

[sfx]: Cheers!

p29: ===================================
A no-hitter followed up by a shutout…
/ Nice pitching, and nice game!
[sfx]: Cheers

What game were you watching?

With how Touma was doing today, the fact that he didn’t get scored on was basically a miracle.

Well, to be fair,
/ that every instruction their manager gave them backfired really helped us out.

p30: ===================================
Souichirou took the lead and made it so everything backfired.
[sfx]: Cheers

--However, there was only one worrisome error…

Along with five more mistakes on offense and defense that won’t show up on the books.

--Good.

You’re seeing everything there is to see, aren’t you?

Good boy.
Hey,
/ umm…

p31: ===================================
[sfx]: Cheering

p32: ===================================
[sfx]: Cheering

Truly…

I’m jealous.
[sfx]: Cheering