81 Diver 6

Now, dive...

[81 Diver 6 Translation by Kewl0210]
Page 177:
Title: Chapter 6 Hachi One Diver

Page 178:
Title: 81 Diver

Page 179:
[There's a building.]

Page 180:
Sugata: This is the address...
SFX: KOH
KOH
KOH
Sugata: !?
!

Page 181:
Guy: Yo.
I heard from Ukeshi-san.
Sugata: H...uh?
The guy from before...
SFX: TAN
Guy: I'm the guard for this place.
Go in.
Sugata: ......
SFX: GAAAAAAH
Guy: You've got a weak lookin' face.
Sugata: .........
SFX: CHIN
GAAAAAH

Page 182-183:
Sugata: Wh... What?
We're gonna play Shogi
at a place like this...?
Guy: Come on.
Sugata: Um...
Thanks for before.
Guy: That ain't something to say "thanks" for.
I lost 200 grand to you.
Even if you've been introduced by Ukeshi, you've gotta have guys to be playing here all of a sudden.
You've seriously got a weak looking face.
Sugata: He doesn't let up.
SFX: GACHA
Sugata: In Shogi, looks mean absolutely nothing.
SFX: GII

Page 184-185:
SFX: BATAN
Guy: He's Ukeshi's replacement?
Sugata: Yakuza...san.
What is this?
Seriously.
This...
Guy: Sit down.

Page 186-187:
Sugata: I feel like I'm just put on my seatbelt to ride in a hyper roller coaster...
............
Guy: The time controls are 20 minutes.
A time limit of 20 minutes.
Sugata: Okay.
SFX: HYOI
HYOI
HYOI
Guy: I'm rolling them.
SFX: KARA
KARA
KARA
Sugata: Okay.
Am I ready emotionally?
Whoever my opponent is,
shogi is shogi!

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Guy: You're sente.
The money.
200 thou.
Sugata: Here.
Guy: Okay.
My name is "Mamushi". [quote in weird font.]
If you win, you can forget that name.

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Mamushi: Shall we get started?
Sugata: O...kay.
Onegaishimasu.
Mamushi: Yeah.
SFX: SU
TAN
SU
TAN
Sugata: He's probably pretty strong.

Page 190:
Sugata: My shogi is opening-attack type. ["opening-attack type" in bold.]
In terms of soccer, that would be like getting 1 point early in the first half, and not letting the opponents get any after.
The kind of Shogi where I try to gain even a small advantage in the opening, and then push through with that.
SFX: SU
TAN
SU
TAN
Sugata: And given that, I...
SFX: SU
TAN
SU
TAN
Sugata: N
GUH

Page 191:
Sugata: gave up the lead in the opening.
Mamushi: ..........
SFX: SU
TAN
Sugata: ..............................
If I'm an amature, I'm a meijin-class amateur,
and I'm having a hard fight?
T/N: Meijin is a shogi title indicating being of highest rank, similar to "master". Though in modern shogi, it means the winner of the Meijin Championship. Literally it means "excellent person".

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Sugata: He's slowly getting away from me.
SFX: SU
TAN
SU
TAN
Mamushi: There're seriously guys like this besides Ukeshi-san around?!
Guy: What's wrong, bro?
That all you got?
SFX: SU
TAN
Sugata: Whaat...?
Mamushi: You'll be in big trouble if you lose.
Sugata: ..........

Page 193:
Guy: You're not fit to be Ukeshi's replacement.
Sugata: .........
If I lose...
What? What am I saying?
E...
Even I
am a Shinkenshi!!!!
I've got...
6 minutes left...

Page 194-195:
Sugata: Okay, calm down...
Get your pace back.
First,
take a deep breath!
SFX: SUUU
HAAA
SUUU
Mamushi: ......
Sugata: HAAA
SUUU
HAAA
SUUU
HAAA
SUUU
HAAA
SUUU
HAAA
SUUUU
HAAAA
SUUUU
HAAAA
Remember what your master told you...
when you were aiming to be a pro.
Master: Your Shogi is shallow.
It's shogi that splashes around in the shallows.
Sugata: What do you mean?
Master: You need to dive more. Here!
SFX: TON
TON

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Master: Into this 9 by 9 board, the 81 squares,
dive!
Sugata: But, sensei?
Master: That confidence is bought.
Keep diving, deeper and deeper.
Endlessly,
deep!!!
Diving into this board is playing shogi!

Page 197:
Sugata: .........
But, sensei, my shogi is "winning shogi"! [quote bold.]
Master: Like I said, that confidence is bought.
At this rate, you won't reach the pro level.
Sugata: He was right that I couldn't become a pro.
SFX: SUUU
HAAA
Sugata: That's why I'm playing Shogi at a place like this...

Page 198:
Sugata: But, no matter what happens
I won't stop.
SFX: SUUU
Sugata: Because this game is all I have.
SFX: HAAAA
Sugata: This time
Su...
I'll dive!!!!

Page 199:
SFX: BACHIH
Mamushi: Oh...
SFX: SU
TAN
Sugata: When I started playing "shinken",
there was a change in my shogi.
My shogi became composed.
SFX: SU
TAN
SU
TAN
Sugata: Even if the situation got bad, I wouldn't get pessimistic
I would just endure...
waiting for the opponent to make a mistake.
SFX: SU
TAN

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Sugata: And in the endgame,
Like I were screwing into a small wound, I would sink my teeth in
putting pressure on a vital point.
and all at once
make a comeback!!!!
SFX: BACHII
Mamushi: Zuh
SFX: SU
TAN
SFX: BACHII
I
I
I

Page 202:
[Checkmate.]

Page 203:
Mamushi: You. What's your name?
I lost.
Guy: This guy really did it.
Sugata: I won...
This feeling...

Page 204:
Sugata: I dove!!!
Into the 81 squares!!!!
Mamushi: I asked your name!
I'll remember it!
Sugata: ..........

Page 205:
Sugata: Even I don't know...
why I said it...
Mamushi: Your name!!!!

Page 206:
Sugata: Hachi One Diver.
And the legend began.
T/N: This name is made up of the Japanese pronunciation of "eight" and the English pronunciation of "one". The pronunciation is specific, so I'm writing it out.
Bottom: 81 Diver (1) (End)

Page 207:
Newly Written Extra Manga
"Ukeshi Transforms!"
Ukeshi: Transform...

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[I like it so far.]

Page 209:
[Awesome.]

Page 210:
SFX: KARAN

Page 211:
[Woo...]

Page 212:
Ukeshi: Goshujin-sama [Heart]

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[They always write a list of the assistants and Shogi-reference guy at the end in some creative way like this. It's not really worth translating since it's all just names. If you're wondering, the Shogi supervisor is Suzuki Daisuke, 8-dan.]

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[This page is the copyright information. Once again, very cool, not really worth translating. This manga started in 2006, and I'm the first one to translate this, now, in 2012. I will continue to correct this failure of mankind.]