Gamble Fish 50

Chapter 50

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Title: Fight 50 The Secret Garden

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SFX: Crash

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All: Tomuuuu!!!!

Crowd: H-how could this happen!?
Crowd: Abidani really crushed them!!
Crowd: An ambulance! Somebody call an ambulance!!
Crowd: My cell phone doesn't have a signal!!

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Yuka: A-Abidani!! How could you...?
SFX: Grab!!
Yuka: How could you do this to Tomu!!?

Abidani: Heh hehn. I knew it!!
SFX: Sniff sniff

Yuka: Wh-what!?

Abidani: I don't smell burning flesh!!

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SFX: Glaring Light

SFX: Thoom thoom

Tomu: Uuh...
Tomu: Gh...

Mayo: ...Are you awake?
SFX: Open...

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Tomu: ...Hanasaki!!
Mayo: Don't worry. I just used a medicinal plant on your burns.

Tomu: Where are we?
Mayo: We fell from up there.
Mayo: The iron pot is sealing the entrance.

Tomu: We're underground!! This is right below the playing area.
Mayo: Yes. I put your seat on top of the vent.

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Mayo: This is my secret garden.
Mayo: It used to just be part of the old mine, but with the electricity, the air conditioning, and a few other modifications, I was able to use it.

Tomu: Is this yellow flower Gelsemium elegans!?
Tomu: The strongest poison flower that Abidani was talking about?
Tomu: Why is it down here?

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Mayo: Gelsemium is a tropical plant.
Mayo: Thanks to the flaming peat, this underground area is warm even in the winter. It makes an excellent greenhouse.
Mayo: And, to tell the truth, this high-temperature atmosphere was necessary for tonight's game.

Tomu: ...What do you mean?
Mayo: As you discovered, the center of gravity of the witch dice can be changed at a temperature of 45 degrees.

Mayo: But the normal air temperature is too low so it takes time for the heavy alloy to fuse.
Mayo: So not only did the game have to take place in a warm area, but the table had to be heated by the coke too.

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Mayo: I didn't really want to burn you to death.
Mayo: But the heat from those iron pots ended up giving you the chance of turning it all around.
Mayo: It's ironic really.

Tomu: The result is always based on your luck at the time.
Tomu: You were my greatest opponent.

Text: Heh...
Mayo: ...I'm kind of glad I lost.

Mayo: Even if I had graduated from the Seminar, I had nowhere to go back to.
Mayo: My drunkard of a father just tortured me and died. When my mother who had abandoned me gained custody of me, she sent me to this academy and refuses to contact me.

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Mayo: I'm no different from a poisonous flower.
Mayo: No one loves me. I am doomed to be neglected and wither away.

Tomu: How pessimistic of you.
Tomu: It's too soon for you to wither away.

Mayo: Don't be so quick to say that. I do not have much life left.
Tomu: What!?

Mayo: I have a great curiosity as to the composition and effects of poisonous flowers. I have even done experiments using myself as the test subject.
Mayo: My ability to freely control my body's temperature is a side-effect of that.

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Mayo: But the toxins that have accumulated little by little in my body have continued to eat into my body little by little.
Mayo: My organs, my immune system, my endocrine system. None of them are doing very well. A doctor diagnosed me saying that, if I wasn't treated soon, there would be no way of saving me.

Tomu: !!! Then you need to go to the hospital right away...
Mayo: No, thanks.
Mayo: I don't want to go that far to live any longer.

Mayo: Wouldn't you be more interested...
Mayo: in the well-being of someone you care about a lot more?
Tomu: What?

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Mayo: Shirasagi, your father really is in this academy!!

Tomu: ...How do you know that!?
SFX: Stand!!
Mayo: That isn't something that a normal student would know...
Mayo: but in the Seminar you learn of a lot of the school's secrets.

Mayo: During the summer of last year, the academy held its annual "Alumni Reunion".
Mayo: A certain man was invited as a guest...
Mayo: and he cornered Abidani down to the very last step!! That man's name was...

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Mayo: Shirasagi Yumeichirou!!!

Mayo: I don't know what the deal with the Shirasagi family is...
Mayo: but I'm sure that was your father.

Tomu: So Yumeichirou is...my father is here!!

Mayo: Heh heh. Well, now my role is over.

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SFX: Take out

SFX: Pop...

SFX: Gulp
Tomu: Hanasaki...what is that?

Mayo: I really should have done this sooner.
Mayo: Without me, no one would have had to suffer.

Mayo: But once I heard about you from Abidani...
Mayo: I was overcome with curiosity.

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Mayo: In the end...I'd like to thank you, Shirasagi.
Tomu: Hanasaki...

Mayo: This time I spent fighting for my life against you...
SFX: Smile...
Mayo: is the only time m soul has been released from its loneliness.

SFX: Tip

SFX: Dash!!
Tomu: Hanasakiiii!!!

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Mayo: Shira...
Mayo: sagi...

SFX: Spit!!

Tomu: Hanasaki, you felt it, too!?
Tomu: During that game, our hearts were one!!

Tomu: Just like those iron pots, our souls were bound by a single chain.
Tomu: In that instantaneous illusion of the gamble, we shared our fates with each other!!

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Tomu: You are no longer alone.
Tomu: I won't let my precious companion die!!

Mayo: ...Shirasagi...

Mayo: Hold me, Gambler...
Mayo: Hold me, heart and all...

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Natsumi: Hey, Mushroom-senpai!! Are you actually trying!?
SFX: Strain strain
Mizuhara: Y-yes, I am!!

Mizuhara: I'm so glad that Abidani was right about there being an escape route!!
SFX: Chatter chatter
Mizuhara: I really thought Tomu had been squashed flat.

Yuka: You idiot!! Shirasagi wouldn't bite the bullet so easily!! He's the man who defeated me after all.
Natsumi: What are you saying? You're the one who was crying the loudest!

Mizuhara: Well, this really was an extreme match...
Mizuhara: but Tomu won it in the end!!!

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Text: Team Shirasagi vs. The Abidani Seminar - Three Game Dice Match Final Game
Text: Winner - Shirasagi Tomu!!!!

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Text: United States of America - Manhattan, New York

SFX: Bang bang bang

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Man: Miss Emily, we have a message from Mr. Abidani in Japan.
Emily: Oh, from Mr. Abidani?

Man: As you predicted...
Man: the gambler boy won.

Emily: Ha ha ha!!
SFX: Pull out
Emily: I can just imagine the look on Mr. Abidani's face when that happened!!

Emily: Arrange me a trip to Shishidou Academy!!
Emily: I want to meet this last descendant of the Shirasagi family, Tom Shirasagi!!

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Emily: I hope he has time to have some fun with me, Emily Dawn.