Gamble Fish 52

Chapter 52

01

Mizuhara: Wow!! Snow!! It's snowing, Tomu!
Tomu: No wonder it's so cold.
Title: Fight 52 Hell Bridges

Mizuhara: I can't believe it's been 2 months since those dice games...
Mizuhara: I wonder how Hanasaki's doing since you convinced her to go to the hospital.

Tomu: Just believe in her.
Tomu: I'm sure we'll see her healthy again.

Mizuhara: Agh, it really is cold, isn't it!?
SFX: Slam!!
Mizuhara: And this dorm is old and drafty...

02

Title: Fight 52 Hell Bridges
Text on window: I'll be waiting for you at the amphitheatre at midnight tonight. -Abidani
Tomu: ...Abidani!!!

03

Mizuhara: You can't go, Tomu!!
Mizuhara: The amphitheatre is at the edge of the forest and no one goes there this time of year.
Mizuhara: And he's calling you there in the middle of the night! It has to be a trap!!
Mizuhara: If you insist on going, at least let me go with you...

Tomu: Don't worry, Mizuhara. I'll head back as soon as I sense danger.
Tomu: Get some nice warm coffee ready and wait for me.

04

Tomu: If he's planning something, it actually plays right into my hands.
SFX: Wind
Tomu: I'll end this tonight with a direct confrontation.

SFX: Appear...

05

Abidani: I've been waiting for you, Shirasagi...
Abidani: Come down next to the stage.

Tomu: Abidani!! Show yourself!!
Tomu: You still haven't held up your end of the bargain from the dice games!!

SFX: Flash!!

Tomu: Uuh...!?

06

07

Tomu: Da...d...!!!

Abidani: Ha ha ha!!! What a moving reunion between father and son!!
SFX: Whack!!
Abidani: Even if he's too drugged up to hear you!!

08

Abidani: Now then...I've let you meet your father as promised.
Abidani: And if you win a little game I'll let you take him home with you.

Tomu: A game...!?

Abidani: I call it "Hell Bridges"!!!
Abidani: Look down at your feet!!

09

Abidani: A ditch three meters deep has been dug out in front of the stage.
Abidani: And there are sharp bamboo spears embedded in the ground with barely a gap between them at the bottom.
Abidani: If you want to save your father, you have no choice but to cross one of the bridges!!

Abidani: Both of the bridges are held up by a rope.
Abidani: One of the two ropes is rigged to snap when you try to cross its bridge and the rope will fall into the ditch along with its burden.

Tomu: Its burden?

Abidani: Heh heh heh...
Abidani: Look up!!
SFX: Point

10

SFX: Wind
Tomu: ...Gokijima!!?

Gokijima: T-
Gokijima: T-T-Tomu-chan, help me...
SFX: Tremble tremble
SFX: Freeze freeze

Tomu: Why is Gokijima here!?
Abidani: Heh. This is his punishment for illegally entering the academy during that billiards match!!

11

Abidani: You have 3 options!!!
Abidani: Choose the correct bridge and you will save both your father and Gokijima!! Choose the wrong bridge and both you and Gokijima will be skewered!!
Abidani: Choose neither bridge and Gokijima will be released but you can't have your father!!

Tomu: I figured you would have something set up...
Tomu: but you really are a crazy bastard of a teacher.

Abidani: Let's begin!! You have 1 minute!!
SFX: Place
Abidani: Start!!!

Gokijima: H-hey hey!! Jus' give up already!!
Gokijima: You should jus' give up, you damn kid!!
SFX: Kneel!!
Gokijima: If you screw up, we're both done for!!!

12

Tomu: Damn. It's too dark to tell how it's all rigged up!!
Tomu: And with him I can't even be sure there IS a safe bridge.

Tomu: Should I risk it all and try it? But then I'd wrap Gokijima up in this!!

Abidani: It's been 15 seconds!!

Gokijima: Please!! Jus' give up, Tomu-chaaaan!!!

Tomu: ...I know what I have to do!!
SFX: Stand up!!
Tomu: Gokijima!! If you want to live, do exactly as I say!!

13

Tomu: Swing back and forth!!
Tomu: Swing like a pendulum!!
Gokijima: ...Swing?

Tomu: If we match our timing up right, you'll make it past the ditch even if the rope breaks!!
Tomu: That way, even if I choose wrong, I won't be taking you with me!!

Abidani: Ha ha ha!! You seem confident, Shirasagi!!
Abidani: Are you more worried about Mr. Cockroach's life than your own!?

Gokijima: That's crazy!!
Gokijima: Fallin' from this height'll still hurt me pretty bad...
SFX: Tremble tremble

Tomu: But it's better than being skewered, right!?
Tomu: Swing, Gokijima!!!

14

Gokijima: Damn kid...Why does this hafta happen to me 'cause of you?
SFX: Creak creak creak
SFX: Fhn!!
Gokijima: If I die, I'm gonna haunt you good!!

Tomu: Yes!! Like that...

Abidani: Nn?

Tomu: N-no!! Not left to right!
SFX: Creak creak
SFX: Swing swing
Tomu: You won't make it past the ditch like that!! Do it front to back!!!

15

Gokijima: B-but that's hard to do with a body like mine...
SFX: Swing swing

Abidani: Wah ha ha ha. Now this was worth seeing!!
Text: Keh keh
Abidani: 30 seconds left!!

Tomu: Hurry!! We don't have time!!

Gokijima: I can't...I can't just stop swinging this way!!

Tomu: Gh...!!
Tomu: ...Dad!!

16

Tomu: If I let this chance go...
Tomu: I may never see him again.

Tomu: I have a 1/2 chance of making it across the bridge. And the odds may be even lower.
Tomu: And if I choose wrong, I'll be taking Gokijima with me!!

Abidani: 10 seconds left!!

Tomu: No!! I can't hesitate like this!!
SFX: Dig in!!

17

Tomu: As a bearer of the name Shirasagi...As a gambler...
SFX: Heartbeat heartbeat
Tomu: There was only one option I could choose from the very beginning!!

SFX: Heartbeat
Abidani: 5 seconds!!!

Gokijima: P-please, Tomu-chan...
Gokijima: I...have a grandkid.
SFX: Tremble tremble
Abidani: 4!!
Abidani: 3!!

Gokijima: He's real good at crawlin' around with his mouth open.
Gokijima: And he's just so cute...
SFX: Crying
Abidani: 2!!

SFX: Falling sand...
Abidani: 1...!!

18

Abidani: Time's up!! That's it!!!

Abidani: Ha!!! You're a coward with no sense of filial piety!!
Abidani: Were your legs frozen with fear of being skewered!?

Tomu: Shut it. Betting my own life is one thing...
Tomu: but I couldn't bet Gokijima's life on a gamble!!

19

Tomu: I won't gamble if it means sacrificing someone else.
Tomu: That's my pride as a gambler!!

Abidani: I knew you'd say that, you hypocrite.

Abidani: The ropes weren't rigged!!
Gokijima: Wha-!?
Abidani: Whichever rope you chose, you and Gokijima would have been fine. Heh heh heh...

Abidani: Anyone who doesn't throw away their emotions while fighting will eventually lose.
SFX: Rumble...
Abidani: You couldn't defeat me in your wildest dreams.
Abidani: After all, your gambling is nothing more than the games of a sentimental child. Heh heh heh...

20

Abidani: Don't get so conceited just because you defeated some students from my seminar, Shirasagi!!!
SFX: Rumble
Abidani: You have yet to experience the true hell of gambling!!!

Abidani: And with that, good night!!
Abidani: Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!

Text: Hyah ha ha ha ha...
Text: Ha ha ha ha...